Matera Can a city preserve its history without living in the past? Matera challenges the trends of tourist cities by retaining its local character without compromising its integrity. | WHO OWNS A CITY | Progress and preservation are in a constant battle. We love the things of the past, but want the conveniences of the [more...]
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Inside the Sassi The city of Matera is a hilltop town in Southern Italy. An area known for its agricultural history maintains a culture that predates the Greeks. There is a graceful age to the city, its people and its architecture. Findings The moment I stepped out of the car I could smell that Matera [more...]
Wait for It Patience is a game Cartier-Bresson played all over the world. He must have sat for countless hours waiting for just the right subject to appear. Somedays the pictures came together and other days they remained blank slates. Friday Thoughts On this auspicious Friday 11.11.11, I wanted to give you a few pictures [more...]
Small, Simple, & Pre-ASPH Standing on a balcony outside of the Magnum Office’s in New York, Tina Ruisinger photographed Inge Morath and her Leica M6. The beat up hood of the 35mm Summicron, made me wonder, why the most famous pictures were taken with equipment that looks like it went through a war? I wanted [more...]
-To Ask or Shoot Taking pictures of strangers can be intimidating. If you ask, the moment may be gone, but if you don’t there may be a bigger problem. How do you decide how to photo- graph strangers? It takes some guts to grab a camera, head out in the streets, and start snapping away [more...]
[ Gregory Crewdson ] What if you discovered an abandoned city and had four months to photograph its streets? An American artist had a chance to just this. But what he found was a city that was never real. – Background For those of you who are not familiar with Gregory Crewdson, he is a [more...]
Revisiting A Legend Venice is the perfect backdrop for testing Leica’s classic lens. Often under rated, the Summicron is more than a stepping stone in the Leica line up. Like its Italian counter part, this lens has resisted the test of time, earning its place in the canon of great glass. -The Basics The Venetians [more...]
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