Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
It is an elaborately crafted photographic film, extolled for its sharpness, vivid colors and archival durability. Yet die-hard fan Alex Webb is convinced the digital age soon will take his Kodachrome away.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
It is an elaborately crafted photographic film, extolled for its sharpness, vivid colours and archival durability. Yet die-hard fan Alex Webb is convinced the digital age soon will take his Kodachrome away.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
It is an elaborately crafted photographic film, extolled for its sharpness, vivid colors and archival durability. Yet die-hard fans are...
1913 Intel (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
The search for the mysterious “Afghan Girl,” whose haunting, green-eyed gaze captivated the world in a NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine cover photograph, takes EXPLORER on a world-wide journey in an attempt to solve the case of a missing person. In January 2002, photographer Steve McCurry, who took the 1984 photograph and has been searching for the [...]
Uncertain Times (Free subscription) | 25/04/2008
From the portfolio of National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry
New York Times (Free subscription) | 31/03/2008
Mr. Dith was a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie.
Pebbles From Paradise (Free subscription) | 16/02/2008
Inkilâp Bookshop Window, Before I Bought One Of The Volumes The last time I was at Ümraniye Carrefour I happed past the Inkilâp Bookshop’s window and was seduced by a wonderful image of a Tibetan girl as photographed by Steve McCurry. The dimensions of McCurry's volume, although nowhere near rivalling Helmut Newton's Sumo, are by far [...]
it's what I do... (Free subscription) | 24/01/2008
Steve McCurry is one of my favorite PJ shooter. He is interviewed at PDN. Steve McCurry: An Interview with PDN : "'When shooting Kodachrome rated 64 or pushed to 80, when it got dark you simply couldn't stop action or you had to go to a tripod. In shooting digitally, you can change your ISO and keep on going.' For a shot like this, he recalls, 'I used to do a lot of bracketing, but you never knew exactly...
dvd (Free subscription) | 23/01/2008
New Olympus Stylus 1020 and Stylus 1010 jump to a 7x optical zoom Olympus joins the party of 10mp 1/2.33″ cameras, starting at CES 2008 with Casio and Samsung, and continued by the newly announced Sharp sensor. Jeff Keller of DCresource was informed by Olympus that the new “standard” Stylus models are no longer weather proof! So [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/11/2007
Sixty years ago, a group of like-minded souls ? Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, Robert Capa, David "Chim" Seymour and Bill Vandivert ? met for lunch in New York. By the time the coffee arrived, Magnum photographic agency had been born. The brainchild of these eminent photographers was to be a politically engaged, independent, serious organisation for photojournalists ? but even they can hardly...
Paris Parfait (Free subscription) | 07/11/2007
This 1924 photo of an Egyptian bookseller is part of my collection of Lehnert & Landrock photos and heliogravures. This image was produced from an original L&L plate at the Cairo-based publisher and bookstore. Is there such a thing as...
Tobstv on Life Itself (Free subscription) | 05/10/2007
Those of you who read National Geographic will know what I'm talking about; Steve McCurry 's iconic "Afghan Girl," taken in a refugee camp in Pakistan. 17 years later, an NG team found her again in Afghanistan , married, with children, worn out for looking after a family, and weathering the storms of the Taliban, fundemental beliefs and war. You don't know her? Well, here is a thumbnail of her, the...
Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 28/08/2007
Yesterday when I was looking at a book of portraits taken by photographer Steve McCurry I wondered what lies behind their appeal? Mark Graves wrote in a comment in the blog I wrote about McCurry that his photographs are an art form, and their intention is aesthetic appreciation but is that the compete story? Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall writing in their book Spiritual Intelligence: The Ultimate Intelligence...
Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 27/08/2007
I guess like most proud parents I'm prejudiced and consider my daughters to be the most beautiful girls in the world. Recently, however, when shopping in Ümraniye Carrefour I saw a face on this book by photographer Steve McCurry peering out of a shop window at me. Looking East by Steve McCurry What a delight, I thought feeling connected to the girl by her eyes and expression. I immediately went inside...
