Iwan Baan Architectural Photography & Bush in Mongolia

Iwan Baan the influential Dutch photographer has over the last couple of years been documenting the construction of both OMA's CCTV building and Herzog & de Meuron's birds nest. His background in documentary photography is apparent in the work. In his photographs he considers the relationship between the building and it's surroundings and many times the architecture becomes just the backdrop in the photograph. His photographs from the CCTV building shows the workers living on the site and ordinary families living in the shadow of these monumental building. See for more ...

Iwan Baan Architectural Photography & Bush in Mongolia

Iwan Baan the influential Dutch photographer has over the last couple of years been documenting the construction of both OMA's CCTV building and Herzog & de Meuron's birds nest. His background in documentary photography is apparent in the work. In his photographs he considers the relationship between the building and it's surroundings and many times the architecture becomes just the backdrop in the photograph. His photographs from the CCTV building shows the workers living on the site and ordinary families living in the shadow of these monumental building. See for more ...

Advice Alec Soth Wear Good Shoes Photography

Austria. 1948. © David Seymour/Magnum Photos.

Wear Good Shoes: Advice to young photographers by Alec Soth

Today I’m in San Francisco giving a lecture to the Society for Photographic Education. After presenting my pictures and the story of how I became a photographer, I’ll likely be asked if I have any advice for young photographers. Instead of giving just my two cents, I thought it would be cool if I could also offer some advice from my fellow photographers at Magnum. I emailed my colleagues and received 35 different responses. Download and print the full article as a PDF.

Advice Alec Soth Wear Good Shoes Photography

Austria. 1948. © David Seymour/Magnum Photos.

Wear Good Shoes: Advice to young photographers by Alec Soth

Today I’m in San Francisco giving a lecture to the Society for Photographic Education. After presenting my pictures and the story of how I became a photographer, I’ll likely be asked if I have any advice for young photographers. Instead of giving just my two cents, I thought it would be cool if I could also offer some advice from my fellow photographers at Magnum. I emailed my colleagues and received 35 different responses. Download and print the full article as a PDF.

the LIFE Photo Archive on Google Online Collection Photography

Over 10 Million Images from the LIFE Photo Archive to be Made Available on Google

NEW YORK, NY.- Access to LIFE's Photo Archive -- over 10 million images in total -- will soon be available on a new hosted image service from Google, Time Inc. has announced. Ninety-seven percent of the photographs have never been seen by the public. The collection contains some of the most iconic images of the 20th century, including works from great photojournalists Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks, and W. Eugene Smith.

These images can be found when conducting a search on Google.com or on Google Image Search. Users can also search through the LIFE Collection directly by visiting http://images.google.com/hosted/life.

The LIFE Photo Archive featured on Google will be among the largest professional photography collections on the Web and one of the largest scanning projects ever undertaken. Millions of images have been scanned and made available on Google Image Search today with all 10 million images to be available in the coming months.

"For 70 years, LIFE has been about one thing, and that's the power of photography to tell a story," says Andy Blau, LIFE's President. "LIFE will now reach a broader audience and engage them online with the incredible depth and breadth of the LIFE Photo Archive from serious world events, to Hollywood celebrities to whimsical photographs." Time Inc. EVP, John Squires adds: "We're delighted Google recognized the rich value of our photo archive and worked with us to bring it to millions of consumers. Consistent with the launch of the TIME Archive, PEOPLE Archive and the SI Vault, this initiative continues our efforts to build valuable new revenue opportunities from our rich heritage."

All keywords are translated into 16 different languages. LIFE's Photo Archive will be scanned and available on Google Image Search free for personal and research purposes. Copyright and ownership of all images will remain with Time Inc.

"Bringing millions of never-before-seen offline images online aligns with Google's mission to organize all the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," said R.J. Pittman, Director of Product Management at Google. "The LIFE Photo Archive captures some of the most compelling events, people and places of the past two hundred years. We have enhanced Google Image Search to provide our users with a rich search and browse experience to explore these high quality historical images."

In addition to housing some of the most important images taken by LIFE photographers, the LIFE Photo Archive also includes: The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination; The Mansell Collection from London; Dahlstrom glass plates of New York and environs from the 1880's; Hugo Jaeger Nazi-era Germany 1937-1944; DMI red-carpet celebrity shots; Pix Inc. personalities; the entire works left to the Collection from LIFE photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gjon Mili, and Nina Leen.

LIFE also announces the most comprehensive offering to date to purchase fine art photographic prints online. The general public will now have access to buy LIFE's famous photography through QOOP.com, a leader in online art sales.

Updates Japanese Photobooks Photography

Kiyoshi Suzuki Soul and Soul 1969-1999 second edition ...

Kiyoshi Suzuki (Japan, 1943-2000) began photographing in the late 1960s in Iwaki City, his birthplace. He then worked for thirty years in relative isolation. Suzuki's way of putting books together, layer upon layer upon layer, has become his unique approach. It stands at the heart of the retrospective book and exhibition, which show the enormous wealth of unrivalled photographs that he left behind.

Machiel Botman about Suzuki in Soul and Soul 1969-1999: The work of Kiyoshi Suzuki is about two things. The first is the photographs: magisterial images that demand their right to exist, in and of themselves. But for Suzuki that was not enough. The world also had to be a partner in the process that led to the image and to how he put everything in a broader context. He began with this in a quiet, minimal manner and developed it into an explosion of pictures and book dummies. Between these two termini lay a life full of twists and turns, that all had to do with photography.

'These are intriguing photographs. Rich in contrast and sometimes almost surreal. Suzuki knew how to be dramatic and theatrical without giving up the simplicity of the image or seeming affected.But the best thing about the exhibition by far is the book. [...] a publication that does justice to an artist both in form and content - one would wish that all photobooks were made with the same care and dedication.' Merel Bem, De Volkskrant, 12 March 2008

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The Japanese Photography Book ... &


Why Japan as guest of honour at Paris Photo? ...

Vogel Anna, Untitled, 2006, C-Print, 40 x 50 cm, © Courtesy Galerie Claud Delank, Cologne


Kojima Ichiro, Tsugaru, 1961-64© Hiroko Kojima, Courtesy Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo

Updates Japanese Photobooks Photography

Kiyoshi Suzuki Soul and Soul 1969-1999 second edition ...

Kiyoshi Suzuki (Japan, 1943-2000) began photographing in the late 1960s in Iwaki City, his birthplace. He then worked for thirty years in relative isolation. Suzuki's way of putting books together, layer upon layer upon layer, has become his unique approach. It stands at the heart of the retrospective book and exhibition, which show the enormous wealth of unrivalled photographs that he left behind.

Machiel Botman about Suzuki in Soul and Soul 1969-1999: The work of Kiyoshi Suzuki is about two things. The first is the photographs: magisterial images that demand their right to exist, in and of themselves. But for Suzuki that was not enough. The world also had to be a partner in the process that led to the image and to how he put everything in a broader context. He began with this in a quiet, minimal manner and developed it into an explosion of pictures and book dummies. Between these two termini lay a life full of twists and turns, that all had to do with photography.

'These are intriguing photographs. Rich in contrast and sometimes almost surreal. Suzuki knew how to be dramatic and theatrical without giving up the simplicity of the image or seeming affected.But the best thing about the exhibition by far is the book. [...] a publication that does justice to an artist both in form and content - one would wish that all photobooks were made with the same care and dedication.' Merel Bem, De Volkskrant, 12 March 2008

See also Overview of new Work and Trends at Paris Photo 2008 ... &


The Japanese Photography Book ... &


Why Japan as guest of honour at Paris Photo? ...

Vogel Anna, Untitled, 2006, C-Print, 40 x 50 cm, © Courtesy Galerie Claud Delank, Cologne


Kojima Ichiro, Tsugaru, 1961-64© Hiroko Kojima, Courtesy Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo