Multiple Exposures: LIFE Photographer Bob Gomel Looks Back at the 1960s in Dallas Exhibition

Afterimage Gallery owner/director Ben Breard opens a “major exhibit of historical imagery” that is of interest to collectors, news organizations, historians, and galleries and museums.

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) January 12, 2011

The triumphs and tragedies of the 1960s provided photographer Bob Gomel and his LIFE magazine colleagues extraordinary opportunities to advance American photojournalism.

Gomel said, “LIFE was the world’s best forum for photojournalists. We were encouraged to push creative and technical boundaries. There was no better place to work. Each time I raised a camera to my eye, I wondered how to make a viewer say, ‘Wow.’”

Beginning Friday, Jan. 21, 40 of Gomel’s LIFE images from the 1960s will be exhibited at Dallas’ Afterimage Gallery, one of the oldest art galleries devoted to photography.

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The TORONTO Show is a group exhibition featuring work by Scott Conarroe, Joseph Hartman, Josef Hoflehner, Volker Seding, Dario Zini, as well as historical photographs by renowned and unknown photographers.

Exhibition Dates: January 20 – February 26
Reception for the Artists: Saturday, January 22, 2-5pm

The gallery is pleased to present contemporary and historical photographs of Toronto.

Although Toronto has been seen as Canada’s centre of the photographic industry for the past 100 years, images of the city are not as prevalent as one might suspect.

This exhibition offers a salon-style hanging of historical photographs spanning the late 19th Century through the 1970s by such makers as: Charles Gooch; Arthur Goss; William, Henry Jackson; Albert Kish; Ian MacEachern; Vincenzo Pietropaolo; C.D. Woodley and others. It will also feature contemporary photographs taken by Scott Conarroe, Joseph Hartman, Josef Hoflehner, Volker Seding and Dario Zini, each of which offer unique perspectives on today’s Toronto.

Read more info at: Stephen Bulger Gallery.

Invitation to submit entries for the ‘Leica Oskar Barnack Award’ photographic competition

Solms, Germany (January 12, 2011) – Leica Camera AG invites professional photographers to submit entries to the ‘Leica Oskar Barnack Award,’ an international photography competition. Photographers wishing to take part may submit their entries online from January 15, 2011 to March 1, 2011 at www.leica-oskar-barnack-preis.de. This year, the value of the competition prizes has significantly increased, with the award winner receiving their own piece of Leica history.

For the first time, the winner of the ‘Leica Oskar Barnack Award’ will receive a Leica M9 camera and a lens worth 9,500 euros (approximately $12,300) in addition to a cash prize of 5,000 euros (approximately $6,500). For the ‘Newcomer Award,’ open to all (aspiring) professional photographers aged 25 and under, the award has also been increased. The winner will receive a Leica M9 camera and a lens.

Competition entry conditions: An international jury awards the ‘Leica Oskar Barnack Award’ / ‘Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award’ to photographers whose unerring powers of observation capture and express the relationship between humans and the environment in graphic form in a sequence of up to 12 images. Entry submissions must be a self-contained series of images in which the photographer perceives and documents the interaction between humans and the environment with acute vision and contemporary visual style – creative, unobtrusive and groundbreaking.

The competition is a memorial to Oskar Barnack (1879–1936), the inventor of the Leica. From 1914 on, he increasingly used the prototype camera he developed, today known as the Ur-Leica, for photography. The history of photojournalism is closely tied to his invention, as, beginning in 1925, the compact and easily carried Leica cameras were instrumental in enabling entirely new and expressive forms of photography.

The terms and conditions of entry can be downloaded at www.leica-oskar-barnack-preis.de.

From bryanwongification

So it turns out that using a full frame sensor in a compact body is not a big deal after all. This company put one in the lens!

And it turns out that tethering a digital camera to a LCD screen is also not that big a deal. Same company tethered that lens/sensor combo to an iPhone size screen… wirelessly!

Pheww! All this talk about technological impossibilities we used to have has been shattered with every new introduction. This WVIL (Wireless Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens) camera removes all excuses from the major camera manufacturers for not using a full frame sensor in a compact mirrorless body. It can be done. There’s no more technical difficulty. And it can even be wireless.

BUT WAIT… it’s just a concept! Envisioned by Artefact‘s award-winning design team. It answers the question: “what’s next for camera design?”

Wireless Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens

Read more about this intriguing camera concept and view more images of the WVIL at: artefact.

From marcsilber

Marc Silber interviews Patagonia staff photographer Jeff Johnson on how he captures outstanding travel images.

source silberstudios.tv

Like the proverbial fish that got away, your photography clients may also get away after you deliver the goods to them if you are not careful about who you accept as clients. This may seem counterintuitive to turn clients away, especially in a bad economy, but the horror stories are real. In “Client Horror Stories: Runaway Bosses, Back Stories and Blue Socks,” there is a happy ending: the photographer did get paid and one of the customer retained for future work. It’s also a good story on how to handle difficult customers.

Read the stories at: Black Star.

When I first looked at these portraits, I did not see anything amiss, except that they did look oddly familiar and a bit [OK, a lot] puffed up. Turn out, these people had their pictures taken while hanging upside down, which explains the funny faces they’re making. Quite original, don’t you think?

View the pictures at: divine caroline.

Way back in August 2010, we showed you how to do your own transparent photo trick. I used my MacBook Pro to simulate a transparent screen that allowed you to see what was behind it.

Now, Dave Polette has ratcheted it all up one notch with a double transparent photo trick using an iPad and an iPhone! Read how he does it using 8 simple steps at: DIY Photography. It’s pretty amazing!

For more transparent photo inspiration: Flickr Picture in iPad.