L’artiste Amy Woodside, basée à New York, a fait une série de visuels qui confrontent peinture abstraite et typographie. Elle a donc imaginé quelques imprimés de sweatshirts pour une collection de la marque de vêtements AYR. Une collaboration colorée à découvrir en images.
Voici une étonnante série de photographies réalisée par le photographe new-yorkais Bing Wright. Intitulée « Broken Mirror », cette série représente les réflexions colorées des couchers de soleil sur des miroirs brisés. Le photographe obtient un rendu original et très esthétique.
Basé en Australie, à Brisbane, le photographe Jared Fowler voit des espèces d’oiseaux beaux et rares quotidiennement. Il a décidé d’en faire une série qu’il a intitulée « Studies Of Australian Feathers » : cela donne des plumes de toutes formes, de toutes couleurs, dégradées ou bicolores, satinées ou mouchetées.
Crimson Rosella, Platycercus elegans.
Eastern Rosella, Platycerus eximius.
Golden-shouldered Parrot, Psephotus chrycopterygius.
King Parrot, Alisterus scapularis.
Koel, Eudynamys orientalis.
Kori Bustard, Ardeotis kori.
Mulga Parrot, Psephotus varius.
Red-winged Parrot, Aprosmictus erythropterus.
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynuchus funereus.
Collared Sparrowhawk, Accipiter cirrocephalus.
Helmeted Friarbird, Philemon buceroides.
King Parrot, Alisterus scapularis.
Kori Bustard, Ardeotis kori.
White-faced Heron, Ergetta novaehollandiae.
Edwige Massart et Xavier Wynn ont fait la série « Heads » dans laquelle ils confrontent sculpture et médecine avec des schémas scientifiques de têtes humaines. Réalisés avec des assortiments d’objets aléatoires, ces sculptures représentent des portraits faits à partir de souvenirs considérés comme des objets trouvés.
The versatile new pocket-sized Olympus TG-3 makes it very easy to take great photos on fly—whether on land or in the water. We tested the soon-to-be-released camera in and around New Orleans and found that a…
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While SF-based photographer Michael Jang has taken famous black-and-white shots of Jimi Hendrix, Ronald Reagan and David Bowie, he’s become well-known for doing what people do everyday all over the world: taking photos of their family….
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I recently had a bit of a meltdown regarding the state of my digital photo management. Fortunately, a photographer friend set me straight with advice so obvious I never saw it. First, let me describe my meltdown.
I became unhappy when a photo management service that I loved, that I went all-in on, shut its doors. When I retrieved the 14,000 photos I had uploaded to it, I found that all of the EXIF data had been stripped (EXIF data includes metadata and tags that make images searchable), and I had been left with the digital equivalent of a box full of 14,000 photos in random order.
Like I said, I was not happy.
But really, the problem wasn’t with someone’s failed business. The issue was (and continues to be) the sheer number of photos we take. When I was younger, we had up to 32 opportunities to get a decent picture with a single roll of film. I emphasize decent because that dictated the care with which we shot photos. We didn’t want to waste a single frame.
Today, I’ll take the kids to the park and shoot 150 pictures in less than three hours.
This behavior spawns two problems. The first problem is digital clutter. How many of those 150 photos are worth keeping? Maybe a dozen, if I’m lucky. The second problem is backups. What is the best way to preserve the photographs worth keeping? These are modern problems with, I’ve learned, an old-school solution.
My friend CJ Chilvers is a very talented photographer and, I must say, an insightful guy. He responded to my rant (warning: there’s one mildly not-safe-for-work word in my rant) with a brilliant solution: books.
“The best solution I’ve found for all this is the humble book. Making a collection of photos into a book (even if it’s just a year book of miscellaneous shots) solves several problems,” he said. He went on to list the benefits of the good old photo book:
It’s archival. Nothing digital is archival. Even some photographic prints are not archival. But a well-made book will last for as long as anyone could possibly care about your photos and then some … It tells a better story. Instead of relying on fleeting metadata, in a book, you can actually write about what’s going on in the picture … A book doesn’t care if you took your photos with a phone or a DSLR. The resolution of the photo need only be enough for the size you’d like it printed in the book.
Photo books also solve our problem of backing up the keepers, as they’re the ones that make the cut into the photo book.
There are several companies that let you make great-looking, inexpensive photo books. A handful:
Also, books aren’t going to crash, go out of business, run out of battery life, or otherwise be inaccessible. CJ’s final point is probably my favorite: “Fun. It’s more fun holding a book of your own art, than opening a database. That should be enough reason alone.”
Printing books isn’t for everyone, but it’s the organized and archival solution that we have found works for us. I also like handing someone a book of pictures instead of seating them in front of my computer to share in our experiences.
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Proposant sur Instagram ses créations, le photographe et directeur artistique allemand Robert Jahns plus connu sous le pseudo Nois7 invente des situations surréalistes à l’aide de manipulations du plus bel effet. Voici une sélection de ses œuvres, proposant une baleine à Venise ou encore des manèges entre deux gratte-ciels.
Le photographe David A. Evans capture des images étonnantes de carrosseries de voitures, de camions, d’hélicoptères ou encore de bus dans différents lieux abandonnés à travers les États-Unis. L’artiste met en valeur ses créations par des couleurs et des effets étonnants. Plus de détails dans la suite de l’article.
For the third interview of Creative Minds, I would like to introduce Giorgio Giussani. I’ve been following him and his love for analog photography for quite a few years. His way of experimenting with analog cameras and traditional films is refreshing in these days of photoshop and Instagram. Born and raised in Italy, Giorgio lived and studied in London for ten years, traveled the world and is now based in the tropical island of La Reunion.
You can follow him and his adventures with the camera on Flickr, Facebook and Twitter
Core77: You have been in the creative field for a long time, what was it that first awoke your interest?
Giorgio Giussani: I believe people are born creative. Personally, I have always loved “making” things from when I was a kid. I grew interested in graphic design and photography later on, probably around when I was a teenager. I still remember having an old Kodak compact film camera that I loved using. Somewhere along the way, I abandoned the use of film cameras, until nine years ago, when I stumbled upon a bright red Holga camera in a market in Stockholm. I’ve been using film ever since—I believe that it was that Holga camera that more awoke my interest for analog photography.
You say you used to make things when you were young, can you give us some examples?
A little bit of everything. I remember taking kids magazines and drawing a copy of the cover on a piece of paper. This was definitely one of the things I loved the most. Sometimes I was simply tracing over the magazine to copy a character or a picture; other times I was just trying to make my own characters… Not always successfully, but remember that it definitely was fun!
I’ve always loved bright colours and today you can see how this translates into my photography… I experimented with paint and colored pencils but never took this any further. You can definitely say that making things with my hands has been a constant pattern ever since I was young.
Does this streak of creativity run in your family?
I am the only creative one in my immediate family, at least when it comes to a 9-to-5 job. I believe that each individual is creative, but some show it and nurture it, others do not. Some members of my family can be creative on some tasks—my mom when she is cooking, for example—but they don’t make creativity their way of life. Perhaps some people have a need to always be creative, to experiment with their creativity, while others can be creative on occasional tasks but without having this constant urge to create.
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