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It has been such a bummer after being able to use small lenses, like the 50/1.8D or the Voightlander 40/2 on my DSLR's, not to have a small prime for my 3 Z bodies.  It cut off one possible ...

My late brother once observed that he had never met anyone as indifferent to hierarchical status as I.   However, curiosity and intellectual energy are increasingly seen as genetic. And it’s quite ...

every photo is a lie. Iconic Labor Day Lie However, being a lie, does not mean it is not art and not resonant and not meaningful. But, if you're going to be aware as a photographer, it is part of ...

I understand that trying to discuss the professional use of news photography in an atmosphere of left wing religious revival is not going to work. I’ve always thought that a photographer should be ...

As serious photographers we must understand communication, since that is what we do. The job of White House communications staff is to avoid reinforcing any negative narratives about the current ...

Andrea Michell on MSNBC: South China Morning Post: Another site said White House officials think the photo was a mistake. My good friend who is a senior editor of the NYPost is a distinguished ...

Wiki: The author of this article thinks thinks this photo, released by the White House, is, in effect, a Kinsey gaffe, showing a truth, or truths, about the president that he has no desire make public.

A charming and straight shooting guy. As might be appropriate for shooting with a Leica SL, his photos are stronger as photography than as poetry, if I might say so.   But they show great ...

I reread Hogan's unenthusiastic review of the 24-200, in which he calls it a good match for the relative mediocrity of the Z5. I have a closet full of professional lenses, bodies, tripods, even ...

A good eye for alienating light.

Not an industrial designer, but I’ve bought a lot of cameras. From my perspective, no one in recent decades has made a camera that looks beautiful.  Perhaps it is impossible.   Perhaps not.   ...

I'm probably a little cranky tonight. I would say that yes, if you look at Magnum founder George Roger, after photographing a Nazi extermination camp, he gave up war and street photography for ...

He's a fine professional photographer, and some of his photos are interesting, of course. No objection of a gallery in Chelsea, but an entire floor of a major national museum? I'm glad he's gotten ...

Great moment.  You captured the joy of the celebration very well. Technical questions:  Did you want the 'tomato skin' color?  and excessive sharpening? I may be wrong, but it looks like you shot ...

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pkahjorjks6y2dq/AADROCJNNAqKySJ-X8J30hZ8a?dl=0 Not much time spent in the city, alas. Comments are always welcome

Flannery O'Connor, applies just as much to humanistic street, as to writing: “The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.” “Fiction is about ...

These statements are, of course, bunk. Googling: "photos black people" yields more than 5 BILLION hits, with photos going back to Fredrick Douglass.  But narratives today, perhaps always, are more ...

He does not very interesting street portraits of black people. Parody and satire are impossible when major museums put this writing on their walls and websites. From web: "Bey chronicles ...

Good spacing.  Of course I like the title.   A variant comes to mind:  Not with a bang, but a photo.

I am a rank beginner in landscape. But my wife bought a house with a spectacular view of the Hudson and to persuade me to leave NYC and its street scenes, she has given me an unlimited budge for ...