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Who knew?

Andy Coravos on Twitter: “@instagram strategically *withholds* “likes” from users that they believe might disengage hoping they’ll be disappointed and recheck the app“

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Teju Cole knows a thing or two about photography so this list is a good one.

#photobooks #2017 #tejucole

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Fantastic advice from magnum experts on creating a portfolio.

#portfolio review

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While a photograph might appear to record the world, it really is an artificial thing–a picture–made out of the stuff of the world but most emphatically not the world. The simple proof of this is that no two people could ever make the same picture of the same subject. Every photograph is different, and every one is a fictional account of the moment when it was made. The same can be said for writing, even in its most literal or documentary form. No matter how hard the author tries to be dispassionate and factual, any written description or exposition is, ultimately, a work largely formed by the imagination.

Richard Benson.  From “Afterword.” In The Face of Minnesota.  John Szarkowski.  Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 2008.  (via thehalftone)

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Unintentional Sculptures | Vassilis Konstantinou

This series was photographed between 2015 and 2017 within the suburban landscape of Attica, an area which has gone through a great deal of changes due to the economic crisis.

Exploring the landscape, I decided to focus on and highlight the man-made constructions that reveal the economic and building activities of the recent past.

These constructions - some unfinished and some timeworn - have finally transformed the natural landscape with their enigmatic forms in the most permanent way.

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All images and text © Vassilis Konstantinou

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LS 26 | Habitare 

Andreas Tschersich - Peripher 

magazine.landscapestories.net

The eponymous peripher functions in my works as a structural, aesthetic and mental moment. It refers to places of transit and transition that defy unequivocal classification, standardization and demarcation.

I portray cityscapes in which people, upkeep, habits and uses always remain hidden. The tenor remains the same regardless of whether the scene is set in Charleroi, Liverpool, New York or Tokyo. The pictures are universal and never seem foreign or forbidding, but ever familiar in their everyday banality, even to those who’ve never been there before.

I’m always on the lookout for motifs, to be sure, but sometimes they just come to me by serendipity.

As I roam the city, sometimes it’s simply there all of a sudden: that feeling I seek to convey in my photographs. It is the perception of that touch-and-go moment when everything hangs in the balance, the instant before a fateful decision is to be reached: dereliction or gentrification, danger or safety. Anything can happen. I’m averse to calling my pictures architectural photographs or seeing any direct ties to Bernd and Hilla Becher’s work, although my work is clearly in line with the photographic tradition of recording man’s relationship to his (built) environment since the second half of the 20th century.

In order to keep as close as possible to the human gaze, the experience of an instant, I make use of a method of digital montage invisible to the viewer. Putting together several medium-sized negatives I form one big picture in order to portray larger sections without distorting the perspective, which would be inevitable in a mechanically constructed single-shot exposure using a large format camera.

In a word, I make use of technology not to falsify reality, but to cling to it as closely as possible.

All images © courtesy of Andreas Tschersich

www.tschersich.ch

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Photobook titles

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8-pg Zine from a single sheet of paper

via Umami Design Studio.

Feel free to download the instructions shown above (“8-Page Zine Folding Instructions” / 1MB .jpg) or go digital with the templates below.

» InDesign CC “8-page mini zine template“ (480KB – compressed .ind) » Illustrator CC ”8-page mini zine template” (473KB – compressed .ai)

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“Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks”.  – Philip-Lorca di Corcia

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If street photography is your thing...

Learn From the Masters of Photography (Part 1)

Start here:

Cheat Sheet of the Masters of Photography

100 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography

Beginner’s Guide to the Masters of Street Photography

#street

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Interested in visual culture and visual literacy? Then check out this exhibition at ICP.

Get an inside look at #PerpetualRevolution from ICP Curator Carol Squiers! #ICPMuseum http://bit.ly/2lEUYI3

#visualculture #visualliteracy

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Lisette Model was one of the most influential street photographers of the 1940s—she redefined the concept of documentary photography in America. #WomensHistoryMonth 📷 Running Legs series http://bit.ly/2mjAAAb

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An interesting take on the pop up exhibition, digital reproduction technologies and the destruction of the exhibits.

#Robert frank

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Philip Perkis is a wise voice in photography. Listen to these wonderful insights about his own photography and his advice for young photographers.

#philipperkis