The story of this nanny who has now wowed the world with her photography, and who incidentally recorded some of the most interesting marvels and peculiarities of Urban America in the second half of the twentieth century is seemingly beyond belief. Vivian Maier’s body of work is being archived and cataloged for the enjoyment of others and for future generations. A great initiative!
No further words needed. Photo by: Axoo
This is a beautiful car and a beautiful black and white video, with great photography. Only, what a dumb man! Enjoy it!
According to Mercedes Benz: Symbiosis between sportiness, style, comfort and innovation — That is the new SL. This film lets you experience the roadster’s highlights. The famous abbreviation “SL” stands for super light. And can be taken literally on this model. Thanks to its aluminum structure it weighs up to 140 kg less than its predecessor. This provides more dynamic handling combined with lower fuel consumption — and absolute driving pleasure.
Is this the beginning of the end for analog photography? Kodak bankruptcy: Photographers mourn – Arts Post – The Washington Post.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 34.000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 13 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
This time of the year it’s winter in the northern part of the Earth. I live there so it’s time for a winter photo. Who else than Ansel Adams is the photographer of beautiful landscapes. Here’s a great photo of a winter landscape in the wilderniss of Yosemite National park. It’s called El Captain and is available at the Ansel Adams Gallery.
New York, the Big Apple! I found a whole bunch of black and white photo’s on Wired Newyork. It’s fantastic to see how the industrial revolution developed in this great city. An example of economic growth. Will it still be the Big Apple after the crisis? Anyway the photo’s remain and some are really beautiful!
Dutch Photographer and filmmaker Anton Corbijn received last night the “Prins Bernhard Culturefund prize” from Dutch Princess Maxima. U2 singer Bono and Coldplay singer Chris Martin attended the festivities with song and a poem for Anton.
Read the article in Dutch here.
Diana Walker was TIME’s White House photographer for 20 years, where she captured intimate moments with five Presidents. But she also captures a series of great photo’s from Steve Jobs who passed away yesterday.
Apple – Remembering Steve Jobs.
It’s an irony of the Digital Age that, at a time when photography is more popular than ever, it’s often difficult to find anyone who can explain why certain pictures and photographers are, quite simply, great. LIFE.com offers insights from professional shooters, passionate aficionados, and LIFE editors on what, exactly, makes photos memorable and moving, and why particular photographers, past and present, really matter — and always will. Read it on Life.com
A great set of black and white photo’s of steelworkers reaching the heights of New York City.
AppleInsider | On resignation day, Steve Jobs worked a full day at Apple HQ.
I am looking forward to his biography released in November.
photo: Dutch Photo Museum
Dutch photographer Charles Breijer passed away this morning (The Hague on November 26, 1914 – Hilversum, 18 August 2011). Breijer was especially known for his photographs of the armed resistance, he made as part of the so called Submerged camera, a group of Amsterdam photographers who captured the last year of the German occupation. From 1947 to 1953 as a filmmaker Charles Breijer lived in Indonesia, and he witnessed the decolonization and development of the young republic. In addition, he used his camera primarily for taking personal shots. Back in The Netherlands Breijer worked from 1954 until his retirement in 1979 as a filmmaker for Multi Film. His photo library is managed by the Dutch Photo Museum.
Today is the 5th anniversary of this weblog. 5 years ago we started with this weblog about black and white photography with this post. Our mission was and is to share as much as interesting photo’s and articles about B&W photography with the rest of the world. This mission is not yet completed and we will of course continue to share great articles and photo’s with you. To celebrate the 5th anniversary we completely changed the design of the blog. With a new look and feel that fits in the current blog fashion. We hope you like it as much as we do.
If you have any new idea’s to improve this weblog’s content in the future, please leave a comment or send us an e-mail.
Happy Anniversary!
photo: Pedro Meyer
Do you want to view some examples of beautiful black and white Photo’s? A post on Smashing Magazine last june 2011 is an exception to the normal posts from the Monday Inspiration series because they are pretty colorful and eye-catching posts as they say. Compared to colorful designs where catchy colors help the design to stand out, in black-and-white the ability to stand out depends only on its ability to communicate rather than on its appealing visual presentation. Indeed, beautiful black and white photography doesn’t attract with its play of colors. Here close attention to composition, lighting, perspective and the context it is shot in are important. And we all know that’s true. Beautiful Black and White Photography can be seen through Smashing Magazine.
In a photobook, recently issued by the Dutch Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, several until now unknown photo’s of the famous photographer Robert Capa are published. The photo’s were taken by Capa in 1938 in China. The photographer travelled with Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens and cameraman John Fernhout.
Het gaat om foto’s die de Hongaars-Amerikaanse oorlogsfotograaf Robert Capa (1913-1954) in 1938 in China maakte. De fotograaf maakte deze reis samen met de Nederlandse filmmaker Joris Ivens en cameraman John Fernhout.
Today I went for a walk in the Dutch Dunes close to The Hague. Wonderful landscapes in the wind. I shot some photo’s there. One of them I would like to share with you here at “Black & White Photography blog”
This is a very nice example of a toothpaste commercial photo. Starring Prince William and Kate Middleton. Oh and by the way, they are going to be married just today. What a coincidence. If you like you can view more photo’s here.
