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Slow Photography

Douglas Gayeton’s Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town (Welcome Books) is pornography for the Heat-reading set. It is the Slow Food movement brought to art (it even has its own dinner tour). It is a series of portraits of a rural town in Italy where Gayeton lived, worked, cooked, fell in [...]

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Gross, Creepy, or Cool?

Wayne Martin Belger apparantly decided a human skull would make a great camera. He decorated it, put a stereoscopic camera inside it, named it "Yama", and hey presto he had a working skull camera! Both the eyes are pinholes so it creates 3D photos. Belger has also made a HIV-positive [...]

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Friday Grab Bag

Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo. But wait! There's more: Brian at Epic Edits shares his thoughts on backing up photos to DVD (and then shares even more tips---he's a DVD maniac!) and asks whether you love or hate making DVD backups. There's something about cameras that draws kids like a magnet. Teaching [...]

Reviews

Review: The Art of Black and White Photography

First of all, let me get something off my chest. I'm not picking on this book in particular, but generally, when will photography book authors quit talking about digital photography like it's some crazy new thing that people need to be gently introduced to? Why does every photo book have [...]

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Monday Grab Bag

Some news and interesting photography-related stuff I've stumbled across... First of all, I know I haven't posted much lately. Here are my excuses: end of Summer doldrums, work, and, uh, *mumble* new guitar. I got an email from Zilok.com---we rent anything!---this morning about their renewed enthusiasm for renting lenses and camera equipment. [...]