Moo-Moo’s is a corner store and an ice cream shop on Rawlins Cross in St. John’s.
A bunch of photo links today.
I am getting sick and tired of digital photographers pronouncing the film dead. Leave us, film shooters, alone, will ya? I mean why does it matter to you? Why this need to kill analog photography? Let it be…
The Black Snapper is a new on-line photojournalism magazine. The more the merrier, I say.
2andFro is an interesting blog using Through-the-Viewfinder technique to a pretty neat effect. Essentially, using a digital camera you shoot through a TLR viewfinder. Now, I have been drooling after a TLR for some time, but what I really want to use it for is to take pictures on that dead thing called film.
Recently, I stumbled upon interesting work by Xiaomei Chen.
Some thoughts on long form multimedia that I sort of agree with. And, speaking of multimedia done right, you should check out the latest story(ies) in NYT’s fabulous One in 8 Million series.
Stay at NYT (this is why we need serious newspapers – nobody else is going to do this kind of stuff) and read the essay on documentary photography which was written sort of in response to the latest allegations that Capa’s famous Falling Soldier may had indeed been a posed photograph.
Vanity Fair has a collection of Mary Ellen Mark’s photos from movie sets that are worth checking out [h/t Mark Hamilton].
And two fabulous exhibits are coming to Toronto: The Art Gallery of Ontario is featuring Edward Steichen and The Royal Ontario Museum is bringing Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008. And I am very likely going to be in Toronto in November
Croatian word of the day: film film


