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The online B&W photography magazine All original black-and-white photography content (updated Tues. 6/19/12)
MAIN CONTENT:
NEW:
KODAK SUPPORTS FILM PHOTOGRAPHY
MICHAEL CROUSER’S DARKROOM; BARTOSZ JAWORSKI’S TRAM PROJECT - FROM POLAND
Elliott Erwitt: Slide show, interview
RICHARD SOUTHALL: BRITISH BRUTALISM IN B&W
HERMAN MILLER: DRAMATIC B&W
Our F.A.Q.: How to have your work featured here
R.I.P., Michael Abramson: B&W Master
Pop Photo’s Darkroom Lives On!
Iulian Ignat: B&W - Romania
Bogdal’s Blues & Buildings
CAMERAS & TECH
Brad Pitt’s 4x5” Rangefinder Cameras
OTHER COOL STUFF
B&W Blasts from the Past: Circa 1968
Russia: The Land, by James Hill
Ansel Adams: Why he preferred B&W
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MAJOR BODY OF B&W WORK FOUND AT A FURNITURE AUCTION IN CHICAGO
The work of Vivian Maier, 1926-2009, was discovered when negatives, prints and undeveloped film were purchased at an auction. THIS IS A MAJOR DISCOVERY OF BRILLIANT STREET PHOTOGRAPHY, BY A LITTLE-KNOWN ARTIST. And it is square-format TLR work, which we love. See it in all its glory HERE.
PHOTO GALLERIES & INTERVIEWS
WHAT’S NEW:
Evan Prince, Female Bodybuilders
Kodak Supports Film Photography
The Great Esther Bubley - Wonderful Square-Format B&W
Be sure to view this work in Full-Screen mode
“I took your picture with my trusty Rolleiflex;
And now all I have developed is a complex” -- DESAFINADO -- ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM
CALLING ALL SQUARE-FORMAT B&W PHOTOGRAPHERS... WE WANT TO SEE YOUR WORK! (DON’T DEVELOP ONLY A COMPLEX!)
NEW: Fabio Cremasco is a 29-year-old photographer from Rome, Italy, who switched from digital to film about three years ago. He says he’s “a film enthusiast/envangelist.”
(PHOTO COPYRIGHT FABIO CREMASCO)
NOTE TO READERS: WE’RE BACK TO REGULAR UPDATES (SEE BELOW). Thank you for your patience.
Some major B&W stories: 1.) Supercell storms in B&W - see them here; 2.) Leica opening hundreds of Apple-like boutique stores -- see it here; 3) Leica has a new, B&W-only digital rangefinder M-series camera. Seriously -- See it here. 4.) And The New York Times found an unknown cache of Robert Frank’s work. See it here. Be sure to look at the Frank work in full-screen mode.
And if you sent us work and we said we’d run it, please remind us. It’s been quite a busy time.
