HELLO ALL…
i am having the most amazing afternoon…the sun is setting over
lower Manhattan..such a cliché…Mike and Marie are here and we are having a
rollicking good time….i asked them to do a "screening" of the self
portraits you submitted, none of which i had seen before….as you know,
i have been pretty busy since setting up this lighthearted judging..
i
always have more going on than i can possibly do, but that leads me to get
done more than i would do if i did not take on just a bit more than i
can actually do…get it?? probably not..well , in fact ,i am a lazy procrastinator by nature….so, i have to "trick myself" in many ways to "get motivated"..can any of you relate to this????
anyway, what fun!!!! you guys really did it..each and every picture is a treasure one way or the other…YOU ALL GET FIRST PRIZE!!! (metaphorically).. but, i have no clue how this can be judged…hmmmm, time to "pass the buck" i reckon…
but i promised a judging , so i guess i (and others)have to do it…but i want to publish a bunch…
so thanks to all of you for giving me so many inner smiles this
afternoon and, more importantly, no small amount of inspiration….this is my ultimate compliment to you as, in this case, a spontaneous collaborative "whole"….
ok, i gotta get back to seeing all of your work….i want to narrow the whole set down to about 35-40 for the curators…i just cannot lean on my friends to take the time to judge from 175 photogaphs!!! so i will make the "first cut"….
so so sweet the light right now….
cheers, hugs et al…david
David, “trying to edit without the use of an editing program makes me crazy…i gotta be able to move things around…if i could do that, i could “fix” your overall presentation in minutes..”
I’ve not tried it yet but Aperture’s Light Table looks interesting. The tutorials show how to move, resize etc. But you probably know that don’t you?
Totally off topic: if anyone out there knows anyone at Nikon please say D3 great D700 wonderful – now how about some updated prime lenses? Like 35 1.4 of 50 1.2 soon, PLEASE!
hi all,
did i heard/read perpignan in this threat..? i already bought my airplain ticket! it will be a great pleasure to drink some beers with you guys and girls with photography on the table.
cheers,
nelson
hi all,
did i heard/read perpignan in this threat..? i already bought my airplain ticket! it will be a great pleasure to drink some beers with you guys and girls with photography on the table.
cheers,
nelson
hi all,
did i heard/read perpignan in this threat..? i already bought my airplain ticket! it will be a great pleasure to drink some beers with you guys and girls with photography on the table.
cheers,
nelson
hi all,
did i heard/read perpignan in this threat..? i already bought my airplain ticket! it will be a great pleasure to drink some beers with you guys and girls with photography on the table.
cheers,
nelson
hi all,
did i heard/read perpignan in this threat..? i already bought my airplain ticket! it will be a great pleasure to drink some beers with you guys and girls with photography on the table.
cheers,
nelson
hi all,
did i heard/read perpignan in this threat..? i already bought my airplain ticket! it will be a great pleasure to drink some beers with you guys and girls with photography on the table.
cheers,
nelson
hi all,
did i heard/read perpignan in this threat..? i already bought my airplain ticket! it will be a great pleasure to drink some beers with you guys and girls with photography on the table.
cheers,
nelson
DAVID
This is really, really sad to hear that you have the same basic problems like we have. Because WHO IF NOT YOU should have not problems with lack of films. YOU ARE FAMES PHOTOGRAPHER!!
But on the other hand… we all have our stuggles… it sounds close… and somehow attractive…
Life with passion…. hmmm and witout money :)
NICK,
Ebay this is great idea, but velivia is always expensive :(
guys… I have one more stupid problem, long time I serched laboratory for my velvia scans, and I found only one, sole… only one laboratory give me good quality of scans first of all they give me good colors identical like on film. the rest guys from other laboratory are totally idiots!!
When I bought my used mamiya I was sure I will work on it like on leica. I will lookin for the same colors, view, mood ect… Thats why I decided working also on velvia, but this my sole laboratory don’t want to scanning my medium format films!!!! they have too much work.
I have not my own good scanner, and even I will have nice works on films I will have it only on films… no printing, no publish…
shit…
I will work on negatives, but this is not the same quality.
shit and one more shit!….
take care all
peace (and independent Tibet)
marcin
Marcin,
Get yourself an Epson V700 or V750 for your medium format scans. If you’re scanning at resolutions around 1600-2400 dpi you’ll get large files and quality will be more than good enough.
Dear David…. I add more photos to my Istanbul’s Girls and Female Islambul.. if you will find some time you are more than welcome to take a look
http://www.agaluczakowska.com/
Martin
I need Dmax 4.8 or higher epson have 4.0, its mean I will choose nikon’s scanners. I work hard to have right color I can’t loose it by scanner.
step by step I will buy everything I need. I am patient…
hmmmm… am I? ;)
Marcin,
The more expensive coolscans probably have better dmax but I don’t think they really are 4.8. You’ll probably have to look for an Imacon or Hasselblad scanner for that and then we’re talking a horrible amount of money. If you’re seeing that a lot of photographers needs high quality scanning in your area it might be worth getting a Hasselblad maybe? and offer a scanning service..
BTW. There’s a german scanning service that’s scanning 6×6 negs for 3.70 euro on a Hasselblad X5. Sounds pretty good to me and might be something for you to look into..
David,
The reviews or comments on photographs made here I always find very useful to read… so it’s no wasting of time…always very intersting and rich for all fo us !!
Another interesting read is Abbas’ interview in Magnum Stories where he explains how he looks at his pictures, makes a first edit, then forget about them, looks again, makes a 2nd edit… pretty much what you described here…
Anyway, I’ll be very glad if we could all meet in Perpignan !!
OH, MY GOD, how does one catch up???….;)…
AKAKY: you’ve taken my place as long-comment member…im afraid i might not be able to post long, poetic comments, cause i dont have the time anymore (1 hr thingy) and so so many posts so quickly, it’s impossible to keep up, so let’s switch places…i’ll post something long and rambling every few weeks and you take the daily beat :)))…by the way, DAD, where the hell where you with a letter when i got the $600 tax bill that knock our families plans out for the Charlottesville trip, huh??…always knew you liked Lisa better: who got the Australia gig, who got sent to the behind-the-deli counter gig?…jeeeeezzzzzzzzz-US….
AGA! :))…I spoke to Arantxa on Monday night: write her directly (find her info at LS) and she’ll try to help :))…by the way: I LOVE LOVE THE NEW COLOR-GIRLS ISTANBUL PICS…lovely; in fact, the whole Turkey series is so wonderful and so evocative and so strong that im sad you havent published it…u head back, let me know: i’ve a contact for you: 22 year old filmmaker/woman who will be perfect for you…keep the beautiful stories coming! :))…
ERIC :))…cant wait to see the culmination o f that project (is this for David’s 1st Assignment “Publication”?)…should be…his sage words are, i think, spot on!…ditto with the Fink book and the Mailer book…if i did boxing, i’d ask this question: why to these young boys drift toward boxing…cause the story of boxing is not just in the gym, in fact, it’s a small part ;)))…cant wait to see what you do with this…
LEE: :))…ok, 1 down, 3 more to go (for us to see)…the one pic (shot of river with dog in river) reminds me straight out of Faulkner’s God Down Moses (you read it?)..some sublime water (i love muddy rivers in the south)…and cant wait to see how you deal with this all, visually, thematically :))
JONATHAN: some great pics, especially in the first gallery…im wondering this: is it possible to get closer to the people in this lost and violent and sad part of baltimore…not just with cops, but about the suspects (you’ve got a hard act to follow when you think of, for example, Richards’ sublime and powerful work with cops, which is for me nearly the apotheosis of this kind of reporting, somehow Richards gets inside the lives and heads of both the cops (their job, their pain, their loss) and the people,suspects, victims…i dont have any advice, only that I hungered to see either more about the cops life away from duty or more of the people’s life…but i also cant wait to see what happens…lots of pics there that have lots of “tension” beyond the experiential tension: for me, that’s the key im waiting to see :)))…
PATRICIA: no way in hell im gonna top what David wrote about making decisions which way to go, but i makes a very important point…let me say too, to iterate what Lee wrote, that there are some brilliant and extraordinarily metaphoric, poetic and profound pics…the pics of you and your husband (3683d, 3182d, 3119f) are great…and i also love many many many of the point-of-view shots: the odd view that you offer us from below normal eye level (im a fan too of shooting out of sync, including under over, on floors, in angles, etc) because most folk just dont get that or see the world (unfortunately) that way….there is a great film EDWARD YANG’S YI YI (one of my favorite) and i recommend you rent it IMMEDIATELY! :)))…the son, Yang-Yang, a young boy, who just begins to photograph is asked by his father, NJ, why he photgraphs the backs of people’s heads and he says “because people cant see the back of their head….”….i fucking love this movie…anyway, there are 2 things that i love about this series: either 1) your life lived and what that means or 2) the world, quixotic world you perceive because of this…FOR EXAMPLE, I THINK PHOTO 2526f.j IS PURE GENIUS!…the photo of you in the public bathroom, your beautiful tiny head/face eclipsed by the side of the mirror…like your face is a child, or a sun setting/rising…i’ve almost never seen a portrait like this, and damn, i fucking seen ALOT OF PHOTOGRAPHS!….that’s, to me, the key…as david pointed out, go with 1 or the other, both have brilliance in them and both will be welcomed…for me the question: what means, at this moment, more to you personally: to express the life of your living within your peculiar space or the world as you see it, what others cannot/do not see…i’d say, rent YI YI and spend time with DAvid, and something, the answer for you shall emerge…
DAVID: god, i dont know how you do it…so many pics now to look at…god bless you Mr. Rosewater ;)))…and i hope hope hope at some point in the next year, you let me drive you too, or me and marina can drive you…i really want that too…but you’ll be in good hands (i think) with panos and michael….
ok, pooped…
that’s it for me for the day/night
hugs
running
b
Aga, thanks for your istambul pics…if you have the chance, look at Peter Turnley photo essay on this topic he shot for teh harper magazine.
Arie
hello david and all?
are you going to perpignan the 2 weeks? or when are you planning to go?
i will love to go to one of your fiestas at least once in the life!
un abrazo!
JONATHAN…
ok, you are doing something quite different than anyone else here with an assignment right now…and doing a pretty good job at it too..
i think you have the right plan…was this work from your links just that first 24 hrs. with the cops??? there are several very nice pictures already…i do not know how many times you want to ride with the police and i do not know how or if you can go back into those same neighborhoods alone…you may have been “branded” undercover or something…but, at some point you do need to cover this from the “other side”…just do it safe….you already mentioned hostpitals etc which is a good idea…you are getting “in there” my friend…good for you….
i would say just keep going…and with as much prudence as possible…i am pushing you to think and to make great work…BUT, i am also wanting you to do it with no negative consequence to you….when in doubt, stay out!! no picture is worth your life…if you stay smart and cautious, you will have an important essay….many thanks for taking this on….
cheers, david
CARLOS MARTINEZ…
IF i go to Perpignan, i will just be there for the last three days or so….there is really only one week of Perpignan as far as most are concerned..make sure you go the RIGHT WEEK!!!
MARCIN…
please please do not feel sad because i have the same “problems” you have…i am not sad…quite the contrary…i did not intend to give you the impression that i had a “problem” anyway…in financing my own project i gave up having a luxurious expense account….but i gain the exhilarating feeling of doing it all on my own and controlling every aspect of my project from the exhibition design to every piece of content that goes into it…i tell you about us having to think about the same stuff so that you will NOT be discouraged and also so that you know i do not live in some kind of “ivory tower”….at some point i may have to take an assignment to pay all of my bills etc etc…but i “stocked up” back in the spring by taking on perhaps too many assignments so that i would have the funding to spend my summer with the families…
i do not mind sleeping on the ground or in the car or whatever….i always keep my mind on the end result….so whatever it takes to get there is what i will do…besides, i am just having so much fun with these families…each one offering insights into life, love and the need to bond….
be of good cheer…david
Martinez,
the professional week is from 1 to 7 September:
http://www.visapourlimage.com/professional.do
so must of us “professionals” (in generally) are in the first week only
all the best,
nelson
Martinez,
the professional week is from 1 to 7 September:
http://www.visapourlimage.com/professional.do
so must of us “professionals” (in generally) are in the first week only
all the best,
nelson
Martinez,
the professional week is from 1 to 7 September:
http://www.visapourlimage.com/professional.do
so must of us “professionals” (in generally) are in the first week only
all the best,
nelson
Martinez,
the professional week is from 1 to 7 September:
http://www.visapourlimage.com/professional.do
so must of us “professionals” (in generally) are in the first week only
all the best,
nelson
Martinez,
the professional week is from 1 to 7 September:
http://www.visapourlimage.com/professional.do
so must of us “professionals” (in generally) are in the first week only
all the best,
nelson
Martinez,
the professional week is from 1 to 7 September:
http://www.visapourlimage.com/professional.do
so must of us “professionals” (in generally) are in the first week only
all the best,
nelson
Martinez,
the professional week is from 1 to 7 September:
http://www.visapourlimage.com/professional.do
so must of us “professionals” (in generally) are in the first week only
all the best,
nelson
Aga,
i also love the new color photos ypu put in your website. i’m anxious to see more developments!
oh by the way, ou have a wrong url in the first image on the Female Istambul work. i think you have to remove one slash just after the img/ in the actual url: http://www.agaluczakowska.com/img//luczakowska_01.jpg
cheers,
nelson
Aga,
i also love the new color photos ypu put in your website. i’m anxious to see more developments!
oh by the way, ou have a wrong url in the first image on the Female Istambul work. i think you have to remove one slash just after the img/ in the actual url: http://www.agaluczakowska.com/img//luczakowska_01.jpg
cheers,
nelson
Aga,
i also love the new color photos ypu put in your website. i’m anxious to see more developments!
oh by the way, ou have a wrong url in the first image on the Female Istambul work. i think you have to remove one slash just after the img/ in the actual url: http://www.agaluczakowska.com/img//luczakowska_01.jpg
cheers,
nelson
Aga,
i also love the new color photos ypu put in your website. i’m anxious to see more developments!
oh by the way, ou have a wrong url in the first image on the Female Istambul work. i think you have to remove one slash just after the img/ in the actual url: http://www.agaluczakowska.com/img//luczakowska_01.jpg
cheers,
nelson
Aga,
i also love the new color photos ypu put in your website. i’m anxious to see more developments!
oh by the way, ou have a wrong url in the first image on the Female Istambul work. i think you have to remove one slash just after the img/ in the actual url: http://www.agaluczakowska.com/img//luczakowska_01.jpg
cheers,
nelson
Aga,
i also love the new color photos ypu put in your website. i’m anxious to see more developments!
oh by the way, ou have a wrong url in the first image on the Female Istambul work. i think you have to remove one slash just after the img/ in the actual url: http://www.agaluczakowska.com/img//luczakowska_01.jpg
cheers,
nelson
Aga,
i also love the new color photos ypu put in your website. i’m anxious to see more developments!
oh by the way, ou have a wrong url in the first image on the Female Istambul work. i think you have to remove one slash just after the img/ in the actual url: http://www.agaluczakowska.com/img//luczakowska_01.jpg
cheers,
nelson
DAVID…ALL…
I currently have no internet access and checking in here every few days is rough!!! SO many comments…so much great activity. :)))
VENICE, CA with DAH WORKSHOP NEWS…If anyone is planning on taking the November workshop with David in Venice (I AM!) They are currently offering a 10% discount on the workshop if you pay in full before July 11th. Call Julia Dean workshops for info.
Is anyone planning on taking this workshop???
David, I did shoot the Santa Fe Rodeo and as soon as I edit I will have some work to show you. Very soon…
DAVID, ERICA, MIKE AND ALL YOU NEW YORKERS!
HERE’S A TIP FOR YOU:
W. Eugene Smith: The Art of HistorY
EXHIBITION
Silverstein Photography
535 W. 24th Street
http://www.silversteinphotography.com/artist.php?id=165
wish i could see this baby! ;)))
OR
Framing a Century: Master Photographers, 1840–1940′
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={7D1B1F4E-B641-41C5-AB1D-482D3EF78D34}
ENJOY!
ok, NOW that’s it for me…
running
bob
CATHY…
i had totally forgotten about the Venice Beach workshop…but , i think those are just weekend workshops and not the kind i usually do…minimal or no student shooting time…wasn’t that your experience with Alex Webb??? still it will be good and i do occasionally do these more minimalist workshop/seminars…
cheers, david
Bob,
Hi! i didn’t forget your words about Lobo Antunes! and i want to say to you that i might have a surprise to you until the end of the year… just keep tuned ;)
best,
nelson
Bob,
Hi! i didn’t forget your words about Lobo Antunes! and i want to say to you that i might have a surprise to you until the end of the year… just keep tuned ;)
best,
nelson
Bob,
Hi! i didn’t forget your words about Lobo Antunes! and i want to say to you that i might have a surprise to you until the end of the year… just keep tuned ;)
best,
nelson
Bob,
Hi! i didn’t forget your words about Lobo Antunes! and i want to say to you that i might have a surprise to you until the end of the year… just keep tuned ;)
best,
nelson
Bob,
Hi! i didn’t forget your words about Lobo Antunes! and i want to say to you that i might have a surprise to you until the end of the year… just keep tuned ;)
best,
nelson
Bob,
Hi! i didn’t forget your words about Lobo Antunes! and i want to say to you that i might have a surprise to you until the end of the year… just keep tuned ;)
best,
nelson
Bob,
Hi! i didn’t forget your words about Lobo Antunes! and i want to say to you that i might have a surprise to you until the end of the year… just keep tuned ;)
best,
nelson
Marcin,
I could throw you a pro pack of tri x 320 (5 rolls of 120), if you need some film, let me know, I could pop it in the mail tomorow. if you are interested post up your address.
best wishes to all.
Last three days or pro week of Perpignan? Last three days OF pro week at Perpignan?
David;
Thanks for your words a week or so back re the Timor work. If you don’t mind me asking… what images would you pick if you were editing to 6-8?
This is a first rough edit and I’m interested in other’s opinions. Of course I know which ones I favour, but any ideas welcomed!!!
Cheers
Frustrated, broke, depressed…
Seems like everyone feels it sometimes…
Dadakaky your note didn’t work and my phone has just been cut off, this internet link which I am hitch hiking on from god knows where is my only link with the outside world.
Tell me what does everyone else do when the black dog comes a’snapping at their heels?
David,
Do you have any idea who from magnum will be in Seoul doing the workshop you did last year? If I recall correctly, that was almost a year ago so it should be soon.
Lisa,
just sent you an e-mail.
k.