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Finding Focus

January 30, 2023

THE NEXT STAGE IN MY PHOTOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION, OR: HOW TRYING PURE STREET PHOTOGRAPHY HELPED ME TO FIND MY ROAD AHEAD

While I explored different photographic genres over the years, since moving to the US and being driven by my passion for people, I have come home to my true passion: documentary-style street photography and essays.

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In Art Info, Photography Info, Social Documentary, Street Photography, Project Info Tags decisive moment, documentary photography, documentary photographers you must know, Elliott Erwitt photography, focus, hybrid photography film and digital, z, evolution, photographic evolution
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Book Review: Blood and Champagne, by Alex Kershaw

April 13, 2022

An Unauthorized Biography of Robert Capa

The author provides the background story to Capa's work and insight into the photographers' community from the 1930s to the 1950s. Reading Capa's story made me realize how much happened in the relatively…

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Book Review: Henri Cartier-Bresson - The Modern Century, by Peter Galassi

June 6, 2021

Eight Lessons I Learned From MoMA's Henri Cartier-Bresson Retrospective The Modern Century

Henri Cartier-Bresson. Admiringly called HCB by his followers, almost no documentary photography documentary does not mention him. Loved, imitated, copied: the photographer who defined documentary and street photography.

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Book Review: Hold Still, by Sally Mann

May 2, 2021

Five Lessons I Learned From Sally Mann’s Autobiography Hold Still

Sally Mann's 'Hold Still' is one of my favorite photographer (auto) biographies. It provides a fascinating and intimate view of her family's history and about how that history influences her life and how she photographs…

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Reading, And Learning From Photography Books

January 13, 2021

2021 Photography Book Review Schedule

…I decided to not have a looking-back-looking-forward article at the start of this year. However, this does not mean that I did not set some goals for my photography and this year's blog posts and one of the goals I have set…

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In Book Reviews Tags photography books, photography info, documentary photography, great documentary photographers, documentary photographers you must know, social documentary photography, Sally Mann photography, Noor Ali Rashid photography, military photographers, Robert Capa photography, photographer's biography, Elliott Erwitt photography, Henri Cartier Bresson photography, Vivian Maier photography
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Book Review: Shooter

October 22, 2020

David Hume Kennerly: War Photographer and Photographer Of Presidents

Although it contains several images by Kennerly, it is not a photobook. It is his story in his own words from how he became a photographer …

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