Links for Tuesday

Split Second
Another excellent photography exhibit from The Morning News. Barbara Probst sets up her cameras (sometimes 2, sometimes many more) to fire at the same moment, capturing a scene from different angles.

Photography is like language: It provides us with an interpretation depending on the intentions and abilities of the person that told the story or made the photograph. - Barbara Probst

The mechanics of taking (or making, if you prefer) a photograph fascinate me. From the location, time of day, equipment, people/things being photographed, and the people doing the photographing: it's all part of whatever image you finally see.

Generally, I'm not bothered or disappointed in finding out how much (or how little) work went into a photograph. Lots of prep time and lights and make-up don't necessarily make a photo
any less inspired, so why bother turning your nose up at it? Everything can't always be shot from the hip, so what's the point pretending it should be?

London is Swimming
Photos of abandoned pools in and around London. I like it when such places that are forgotten and untended manage when photographed to say something about their former lives. In Gigi Cifali's collection of pools, I think it's low angles and bright & muted colours that sucked me in. (The photos are also in Polar Inertia's latest issue.)

Incidentally, BLDGBLOG is one of my all-time favourites; if you have any interest in architecture, urban landscapes/planning, then BLDGBLOG might be something want to add to your bookmarks/feed reader. It's not the sort of thing you can just skim -- well, okay, usually there are photos, so you can but why you would is beyond me, the entries are thoughtful and worth your attention.


Snow in July? A mixed blessing in the Rockies
The NYT runs some pretty excellent photos and I'm noticing lately that they're often going with a pretty large photo on the article page for the day's featured articles. Unfortunately, they pull the photos from the stories once they're a few days old, so here's the shot from the story:



Photo credit: Michael Jamison/The Missoulian, via Associated Press