panorama planets

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atta kim - new book

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Panographies

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Cool stuff - stand in one place, take a lot of shots - don't leave any holes - get the boring stuff too! - and assemble!

women of the photo league

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From 1936 through 1951, the Photo League offered classes, exhibitions, lectures, and
friendship to New Yorkers united by an interest in photography and, as Erika Stone recalled, an
idealistic desire to “make the world a better place.” Teachers such as Paul Strand, Aaron
Siskind and Sid Grossman insisted that strong documents also had to be excellent pictures, a
philosophy nurtured by lecturers Beaumont Newhall, Ansel Adams, and W. Eugene Smith. At
the Photo League, professionals and amateurs alike joined to use the darkroom and enjoyed
lively discussions at every gathering. Their monthly journal, Photo Notes, was filled with gossip
and jokes along with serious criticism and reviews. The League sponsored exhibitions when no
museum (including MoMA) had galleries devoted to photography.

In 1947, the Photo League appeared on a long list of organizations identified with the
Communist Party. Efforts to counter the allegation included a large exhibition, This Is the Photo
League, with photographs by members and supporters such as Rudy Burckhardt, Nancy
Newhall, and Lisette Model. But in 1949, Angela Calomiris, a League member and F.B.I.
informant, publicly testified that members of the organization were Communist. The League
disbanded in 1951, a casualty of the Red Scare.

wide angle pinhole pics

- from make magazine

diy softbox from instructibles

Alexis Pike at Blue Sky

As a sixth generation Idahoan, the landscape of the West influences Alexis Pike's work. In Claimed: Landscape, Pike explores the way communities and individuals stake claims on the picturesque landscape and place it within the conventional structures of the community. Pike says, "by making a photograph of these claimed territories, I am staking my own claim to my heritage, the landscape.