Shashasha Brings The Works Of Asian Photographers To The World
Shashasha (free download with in-app purchase) is an iPad app that's making it possible to look at highly sought-after photobooks for just $0.99 per copy. According their website Shashasha starts with a capital of roughly $100,000 to reproduce classic photobooks that are no longer in print in digital form. If you consider that for example …
Miniature Camera Shoots Still Images At 2560×1920 Resolution
Ultra-small is beautiful for Japanese camera lovers. Thanko is selling this really Tiny Camera (roughly $59), which is capable of shooting still images at 2560 × 1920 resolution and can record video at 1280 x 720 at 30p. It looks like a single-lens reflex camera and even has an strobe flash that will help to …
Imitation Of Christ By William E. Jones
"My Jesus was a real person who did not perform miracles and was not resurrected after death. He was a political revolutionary who, in the face of circumstances that appeared hopeless, succeeded revolutionising the spirit.” William E. Jones Inspired by a powerful and disturbing photograph of a wounded guerrilla fighter in Nicaragua in the early …
Ondu Wooden Pinhole Cameras
If you already know a thing or two about pinhole and large format photography, this is the perfect camera for you! It uses a standard 4" x 5" film holder that is secured snugly on the back with strong magnets. The camera has a 0.30 mm pinhole, a focal length of 60 mm and a …
Interview: Patrick Rochon, Light Painting As Art Form
To Patrick Rochon, light painting is an expression of our true self. "I have reasons to believe that our bodies emits light and that we've been, in a subtle way, light painting all along," Rochon says. Light painting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source or by …
The Afronauts On iPad
The Afronauts, by Cristina De Middel, is a documentary-fiction book about a Zambia’s space programme launched in 1964 led by Edward Makuka. Makuka’s aim was to send astronauts to Mars trying to beat both Russia and United States in the space race. The project failed and all this became an anecdote. Cristina De Middel’s book …
I’m Google By Dina Kelberman
I’m Google is an ongoing tumblr blog by Baltimore based artist Dina Kelberman in which batches of images and videos that Kelberman cull from the internet are compiled into a long stream-of-consciousness. "My work comes out of my natural tendency to spend long hours collecting and organizing imagery from the internet, television, and other commonplace …
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 realms 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 …
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 …
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 …
