Blog entries tagged portraits

Goodbye Roy DeCarava

Emily K Williams — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:50:58 +0100

The sad news came through today that Roy DeCarava has passed away. Roy died of natural causes in Manhattan on Tuesday at the age of 89.

Roy spent his life documenting black America. Born in Harlem, he armed his self with a 35mm camera and took to the streets of New York and captured over four decades of struggl...

Annie Leibovitz and the Obamas

Emily K Williams — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:41:47 +0100

The White House released the official portrait of the presidential family today, and guess who the photographer was... None other than our favorite down-on-her-luck pro, Annie Leibovitz.

If you haven't been following along with the blog, you can get the back story here, and here. When the deadline came to pay the $24 mil...

RIP Irving Penn

Emily K Williams — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:14:01 +0100

Irving Penn, longtime photographer and inspiration to many, died yesterday at the impressive age of 92. He will always be remembered for teaching the world that clarity and simplicity are sometimes the most striking qualities in a photograph.

Irving started his long career as a fashion photogra...

From Rocket Science to Photography and Back

Emily K Williams — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:24:23 +0100

This economy is brutal for the photography business. No arguments there. The New York Times recently told the story of a Massachusetts man who left engineering to pursue professional photography, and was forced to return to science when his studio was hit by the recession.

Mark Spencer...

Photo Center Trashes Dresses by the Dozens

Emily K Williams — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:23:43 +0100

You may have heard of Trash the Dress, a growing trend in wedding photography where a model or a bride will destroy a wedding dress in a photo shoot, often following the ceremony. Well, the Worcester Photography Center here in Massachusetts has made a yearly get together of it.

On Saturday, 35 photographers gathered at Oakland Beach in Rhode Island, and...

Stop blinding people with your flash

Emily K Williams — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:02:28 +0100

We've all been there. The subjects of your photos are blinded and peeved. Not to mention all those covert spy ops where a flash compromises your position. Well a pair of researchers at NYU have the solution: an invisible flash!

The inventors have dubbed it a dark light flash. It uses Ultra Violet and Infra-red lights, which ...

Economic Woes Slam Annie Leibovitz

Emily K Williams — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:41:16 +0100

It seems that even the most successful among us are not exempt from the recession. NPR reported this morning that famed portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz is drowning in debt.

Leibovitz is being sued by a New York company that loaned her $24 million dollars. And how, you might ask, is a photographer with an ongoing contract with ...