“It Takes More of a Photographer to use Less of a Camera”
On focusing a rangefinder
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A History of Photographic Constraints
The Keepers of Light: A History & Working Guide to Early Photographic Processes
An Instant Classic: To Photograph is to Learn How to Die
Italo Calvino said that a classic is a book that has “never finished saying what it has to say.” And so it goes with Tim Carpenter's book-length essay To Photograph is to Learn How to Die. Heavily steeped in literature—most notably Wallace Stevens, but also many thinkers
Start Here: On Bruce Barnbaum's The Art of Photography
There's a saying that those who can…do, and those who can't…teach. That's bullshit. Case in point: Bruce Barnbaum. Barnbaum is what I think of as a classical photographer, by which I mean his images have such great texture and depth that few
THE “The Manual of Photography”
Hemingway spoke of his stories being like icebergs where his knowledge of their characters lie in the vast mass below the surface, and that made his stories (the smaller visible aspect) richer and more meaningful. I believe similarly that it's the experience and knowledge of any craft that
Koudelka Shooting the Holy Land
Koudelka Shooting the Holy Land is very much a photographer’s film. For much of its 72 minutes, we watch Josef Koudelka contemplating and maneuvering for his next shot. If not a master class, certainly a reminder of the intentionality a great photographer puts into his work. He discusses getting
The Purity and the Privilege of Owning a Leica
I have a signed copy of Ken Narula’s Iris and Lens, published by Steidl in Germany. It’s a gorgeous rendering of Narula’s street photography in one book and another with images of his Leica lens collection with which he created the images in the first. I enjoy