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The Posograph vs. The Zone System
I've heard tell how difficult Ansel Adams' Zone System can be to understand and absorb. Here's another method for determining the proper exposure of a particular scene: The Posograph. While as it is perfect for amateur and professional photographers alike, it is very clearly intended only for those with exceptional eyesight. Which makes it elitist and therefore, cool--just like the Zone System!, only for the young.
Curiously, it hasn't caught on. I reckon it most likely because it doesn't yet have a celebrity photographer touting it.
Now that we've absorbed that and we're all out making images: Who hasn't had the following problem? And all for the lack of the proper face cream...
A tip of the hat to David for these wonderful photographic artifacts.
Curiously, it hasn't caught on. I reckon it most likely because it doesn't yet have a celebrity photographer touting it.
Now that we've absorbed that and we're all out making images: Who hasn't had the following problem? And all for the lack of the proper face cream...
A tip of the hat to David for these wonderful photographic artifacts.
Categories: News
Advertisements by Elliott Erwitt
Elliot Erwitt has shot advertising images for many years. I believe too, that his work has also been licensed for use in advertising. At any rate, he has been asked in the past to recreate some of his famous images as advertising, say, the kid on the back of the bike with a computer instead of a baguette. What follows are some examples of his advertising work.
Vogue
September 2010
Vanity Fair
April 2010
Vanity Fair
February 2010
The New Yorker
December 15, 1997
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April 1990
Vogue
September 2010
Vanity Fair
April 2010
Vanity Fair
February 2010
The New Yorker
December 15, 1997
M
April 1990
Categories: News
Cindy Sherman Goes Stepping Out
I don't even know if the following sort of thing even qualifies as ephemera. It may be a sub-genre so low on the paper-waste scale of our society that it falls under the fish-wrap rubric. Still, I find it interesting and fun.
I'm not intimate with the details of the woman's life but I recall that in her early days, Cindy Sherman didn't like to be photographed, perhaps having to do with not wanting her image to distract from the imagery she created, which in the early days always included herself. Then there was a period when she was married during which she was somewhat reclusive. And finally, divorced in 1999, she began appearing in public.
Which is where this starts: in public, in 1999. What follows are appearances by Sherman in the society pages of New York City publications.
New York Magazine
August 30, 1999
New York Magazine
August 24-29, 2002
New York Times
October 23, 2004
New York Times
July 29, 2007
New York Magazine
November 5, 2007
I'm not intimate with the details of the woman's life but I recall that in her early days, Cindy Sherman didn't like to be photographed, perhaps having to do with not wanting her image to distract from the imagery she created, which in the early days always included herself. Then there was a period when she was married during which she was somewhat reclusive. And finally, divorced in 1999, she began appearing in public.
Which is where this starts: in public, in 1999. What follows are appearances by Sherman in the society pages of New York City publications.
New York Magazine
August 30, 1999
New York Magazine
August 24-29, 2002
New York Times
October 23, 2004
New York Times
July 29, 2007
New York Magazine
November 5, 2007
Categories: News