She Dances On Jackson By Vanessa Winship
In She Dances On Jackson (Mack, ISBN 978-1907946363, $50) the award-winning British photographer Vanessa Winship travels through the ruins of the American Dream. For over a year Winship travelled across the United States, from California to Virginia, New Mexico to Montana. The illustrated book presents a conversation, a lyrical and lilting interaction between landscape and …
DIY – Skater-Constructed Spaces
DIY is a movement within skateboarding which operates outside civic and societal norms. Through the utilisation of skater-constructed spaces, which are ordinarily, an adaptation of existing, but often abandoned, terrain in both urban and rural settings, the modern skateboarder transcends the need to exist within a more conventional environment. Utilising found materials, these unauthorised and …
The Paper Shredder – A Stop Motion Film
One snowboard shredders adventure in an unusual setting. Stephen Gemignani started with action sequence photos of his brother Paul riding his snowboard. He printed each frame of the sequences on paper and cut out the rider from each one, which he used to re-create the sequences with different backdrops, creating the stop animation effect used …
360 Full Spherical Rig For The GoPro
Never miss a thing by not just shooting a panorama but a complete sphere of everything around you. The Beginners 360 Video Pro Pack (6lbs, $945) plug-n-play video gear is a good start and can be use for indoor and outdoor shoots. If you are just starting out then this is your best option, it …
Car Crash Studies – Between Beauty And Destruction
"After the commonplaces of everyday life, with their muffled dramas, all my organic expertise for dealing with physical injury had long been blunted or forgotten. The crash was the only real experience I had been through for years," says J.G.Ballard. Car Crash Studies by photographer Nicolai Howalt is a thought provoking study of automobiles that …
Automatic Panning With Kessler Parallax
The Kessler Parallax ($400) system provides automatic panning and fixed-point shooting capabilities to the Kessler line of sliders. This piece of photography gear that will make it easier to do repeatable slider movements while panning at the same time — without any additional motors. The Parallax’s non-intrusive design allows you to choose between automatic panning …
Korea – Korea: A Photographic Exploration Of A Divided Country
Capturing Dieter Leistner’s photographic exploration, the new book Korea - Korea (Gestalten, ISBN 978-3-89955-487-8, $30) tells a true story between North and South Korea without making judgments. Until 1989, both Germans and Koreans suffered the same fate of living in a divided land. The historical reasons for the separation of Germany into east and west …
NYLPT – Remixing Our Urban Environments
Jason Evans celebrates happenstance in this stunning app, NYLPT ($5.99) presents a unique viewing, remixing of our urban environments, as he proves every single day on his Daily Nice blog. Randomly generated sequences of Evans's street photographs collected in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo – double exposures made in camera on film – are combined with …
Andy Warhol: Photographic Portraits Displayed For First Time Lost Then Found
A collection of never-before-seen photographs of pop artist Andy Warhol are set to go on display for ten days in New York, beginning on May 3rd. The title of the exhibition, Lost Then Found, alludes to the fact that the photos were forgotten in a storage cabinet for over thirty years before they were discovered. …
Things Come Apart
In Things Come Apart (Thames & Hudson, ISBN 978-0500516768, $29.95) Todd McLellan’s unique photographic vision of the material world fifty design classics—arranged first by size and then by intricacy—are beautifully displayed, piece by piece, exploding in midair and dissected in real-time, frame-by-frame video stills. This teardown manual makes visible the inner workings of some of …
Views On Vegas
In the end of 2012 Daniel Rettig and Hendrik Schneider visited Las Vegas, the glittering metropolis in the Mohave Desert, for seven weeks with the aim to create an unusual portrait of the city and its people. Most visitors only stay for a few days and barely feel the need to leave the Strip and its …
A Life In Pictures – The Douglas Kirkland Monograph
Douglas Kirkland has given us some of culture’s most iconic images. A Life in Pictures (Glitterati, ISBN 978-0-9881745-8-0, $125) is, finally, a comprehensive volume of collected images honoring the photographer who has assiduously recorded and shaped contemporary culture. Kirkland is more than the iconic images of celebrities that have made him so famous. He has …
Solo Folio – An Intimate Collaboration Of Art And Design
Industrial Facility designed an annual limited-edition project for Toluca Editions where they unite an artist, a writer and a designer. The artist prepares six photographs, the writer contributes poetry with a relationship to the art, and the designer proposes a box or case to complete it. It is an intimate collaboration of art and design, …
Out Of Time By Dominique Houyet
The world of books is going through a real upheaval and is undergoing an unprecedented crisis. There are many reasons that change the habits of consumers and photographic books are also in crisis. Editors of glossy books have cold feet and are no longer willing to take risks. Some of them no longer make any …
3D Virtual Tours Around The World
AirPano is a non-commercial project focused on high resolution 3D aerial panoramas. The AirPano team is a group of Russian photographers and panorama enthusiasts. During the next 2-3 years, they plan to shoot a variety of aerial panoramas and create virtual 3D tours of the most interesting places of our planet. ❚…
Pentax MX-1 Digital Camera With 4x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom
The Pentax MX-1 ($499) is a retry-styled compact digital camera with 4x optical image stabilized zoom. The name sounds familiar, because it pays homage to the Pentax MX film camera line, dating from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. The sturdy construction of the compact MX-1 sports a brass top and a impressive image …
Man Is What He Eats
A young woman, bare, just as God has created her, is surrounded by freshly slaughtered warm beef. Death is in the air. Nonetheless the interaction between human and animal bodies discloses an unexpected aesthetics, beauty and perfection in an artistic sense. "Decay and death face life and mysticism. A peculiar combination of aversion and fascination. …
Camera Vest Eliminates Camera Strap Neck Strain
Do you sometimes carry a 400mm lens with you and ever wanted to end the day without the usual neck strain? Traditional camera neck straps won't reduce the strain on the neck and shoulders. The Camera Vest ($149) by Cotton Carrier is engineered to eliminate neck and shoulder pain, as well as the nuisance of …
Performers – Portraits Of Performance Artists
Performers is a photo project by Berlin based Johnny Amore, that is portraying the worldwide active artists in Live Performance. It's a visual profile of the international performance scene of last decades that through his wide spectrum also encloses an artistic photo archive. "The project is not showing a documentation of performances, but a collection …
In The In-Between – Journal Of Digital Imaging Artists
In the In-Between is a web-based platform dedicated to the discovery and discussion of photo-artists working across the wide spectra of contemporary digital media and imaging. It was founded on the idea that computer-based imaging is and will continue to be among the defining characteristics of 21st century photography. In-B is designed to serve as …
This Has Been Photography
"In an age where ‘everyone is considered to be a photographer’ the ambiguous and enigmatic nature of photography, as an ‘ordinary’ and everyday cultural practice alongside its existence as an institutionally sanctioned art form, are magnified and accentuated that much more now photography can exist in digital and networked form," writes Dr. Jane Burton in …
CineVise System – Durable Grips Combined With GorillaPod
The CineVise System ($279.95) is a set of 3 vise durable grips combined with the GorillaPod Focus tripod and Ballhead X that turns your DSLR or digital camcorder into a pro-style rig, allowing you to clamp down securely where a normal tripod just won't do the trick. If you're going to hang your camera off the side …
Fade To Black Photography Magazine
The team behind the award-winning British Journal of Photography launch an international quarterly magazine for the iPad, dedicated to a new generation of image-makers who embrace the convergence of photography, video and multimedia. Fade To Black hits the App Store and the first issue is available free to download. Featuring interviews with image-makers working in …
