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Great Reads in Photography: November 14, 2021

Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!

' People Arrived for Work and Got Vaporised': How Kikuji Kawada Captured the Trauma of Hiroshima – The Guardian

The ruins of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall reflected in the Ohta river. © Kikuji Kawada. Image from Chizu (Maquette Edition) (MACK, 2021). Courtesy the artist, The New York Public Library, and MACK.

Photographer Kikuji Kawada was 25 when he visited Hiroshima in 1958 for the first time. He was drawn to the ruined shell of a once decorative steel-framed building that was still standing despite being severely damaged when America dropped the first atomic bomb on the city at 8.15 am on 6 August 1945, obliterating everything else within a mile radius.

"Haunted by what he had seen, Kawada later returned to Hiroshima with a large format 4×5 plate camera and, using only the natural light coming through the shattered dome overhead, photographed the eerie shapes on what is now known as the Genbaku (A-Bomb) Dome, a memorial to the victims of the bombing," writes The Guardian. "The 'stain' photographs , as they have come to be known, are the emotional and conceptual dark heart of Kawada's book, Chizu (The Map), which was first published in an edition of 500 in 1965.

"It is," says the British photographer Martin Parr, "the holy grail of Japanese photobooks.

"When the place was destroyed," he told Aperture magazine in 2015, "there were about 30 people (who) had arrived for work and ended up vaporized."

Everyday objects … Coca-Cola bottles embedded in the ground. © Kikuji Kawada. Image from Chizu (Maquette Edition) (MACK, 2021). Courtesy the artist, The New York Public Library, and MACK.

Kawada's Chizu took five years to create and has resold for up to £25,000 (~$33,500) a copy. Now a new edition revisits his personal archeology of a nation's pain.

Chizu (Maquette Edition) is published by Mack.

Also, Kikuji Kawada on the Traumas of History and the Skies above Japan -- Aperture

The Stories Behind 5 of David Hume Kennerly 's Iconic Images – Digital Photo Pro

Embed from Getty Images Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and Canon Explorer of Light David Hume Kennerly shares the stories behind five of his powerful photos.

Kennerly writes in DPP :

The Hug (above) was taken at the dedication of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2016 when First Lady Michelle Obama hugged former President George W. Bush.

I immediately knew that the embrace was important. If I had taken it a fraction of a second before, after, or standing a foot in either direction, I would have missed the moment. Another key element was Bush having his eyes closed for that magic instant, and it helped make the photo something special. The picture went viral as soon as I posted it online…

Here you see an African American woman hugging a white man. A Democrat hugging a Republican…

This image is the non-political and bi-partisan manifestation of people of all colors, sizes, shapes, and political parties getting together to celebrate the opening of the NMAAHC…I made this frame with the Canon EOS 5DS R using the Canon EF 100-400mm lens at 400mm.

Also, on Kennerly 's blog Uncropped: The Story Behind "The Hug" Photo

**Announcing the Winners of the 2021 PhotoBook Awards **- - Aperture

Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation have announced the 2021 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards winners. From the thirty-five shortlisted, a final jury in Paris selected this year's winners.

8 Wedding Photography Trends That Will Come into Focus in 2022 -- Vogue

Wedding clients are no longer interested in the overly formal photos of the past and campy studio shots that were preferred in the '80s. Today's couples are more interested in bridal imagery that's thoughtfully composed and authentic.

Click on the link above to discover what wedding photographers will be capturing as we head into 2022, from portrait styles and lighting to popular props and color schemes.

Forced From Home: the Humans and Animals Under Threat – in Pictures – The Guardian

James and Fatu, Kenya, 2020 © Nick Brandt 2021

Nick Brandt visited five animal sanctuaries in Africa to portray the people displaced by droughts and the creatures whose very existence is under threat.

The Making of The Day May Break © Nick Brandt 2021

Brandt writes in the introduction:

The animals there are almost all long-term rescues because of everything from poaching of their parents, to habitat destruction, to poisoning.

These animals can never be released back into the wild, as they would not survive. With their lives now spent within the sanctuaries, they have become habituated to humans. As a result, it was safe for human strangers to be close to the animals, photographed, crucially, in the same frame at the same time.

The fog [which was created by water-based non-toxic fog machines on location] is the unifying visual, symbolically causing a once-recognizable world to fade from view…

I'm stating the obvious, but it needs to keep being repeated: that in destroying nature, we will also ultimately destroy ourselves. A healthy natural world is essential for the well-being of all humanity.

Richard and Sky, Zimbabwe, 2020 © Nick Brandt 2021

The Day May Break by Nick Brandt is published by Hatje Cantz

The Surprising True Story of Kodak Aerochrome and Photographer Richard Mosse 's Images and Film of the Congolese War

Picasso, Afghanistan and Me: the Wild Adventures of Fred Baldwin – in Pictures – The Guardian

A car being decorated for a Knights of the KKK meeting. Baldwin recalls: “Driving through rural Georgia in 1966, I found, to my amazement, cars being decorated to go to a Knights of the Ku Klux Klan meeting. I stopped, overcame my fear, and got permission to follow them to the meeting and a cross rising on the steps of the County Courthouse in Reidsville, Georgia, where I completed the photography that night.” © Fred Baldwin, photo courtesy Schilt Publishing.

"At 90, photographer Fred Baldwin still has 'so much work left to do'," writes James Estrin in The New York Times.

Fred Baldwin (b 1928), the celebrated American photographer and co-founder of FotoFest (Houston), took a turn in the direction of the extraordinary when during his last year of college in 1955, he decided to photograph Pablo Picasso. After a three-day siege outside Picasso's house in Cannes, France, the artist finally opened the door to Baldwin, who was allowed to take pictures freely in his studio.

Baldwin (center) with Pablo Picasso, at the painter's home in Cannes, July 1955. "I was a college student. He was my imaginary father. I delivered an illustrated letter to his doorstep in Cannes explaining why I had to see him…I spent the day with him. It changed my life. After this experience, I felt that I could do anything I set out to do."

After graduating from college, he would spend the next 20 years making remarkable picture stories about people and places, taking him to extreme adventure, and at times, great personal risk. His camera would become his passport to the world and provide the material and inspiration for Dear Mr. Picasso: An Illustrated Love Affair with Freedom, from Schilt Publishing, Netherlands.

The Klan work was a complete accident. He was setting out to try to do his first documentary project by photographing a tobacco auction in rural Georgia. However, he never got there because, on the way, he found a line of cars parked on the side of the highway being decorated with KKK slogans.

How to Use Diagonal Lines in Photography -- ShotKit

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You've probably heard that a diagonal line can give a sense of action or lead the viewer to different points in the image – while this is true, it's not always easy to implement this rule.

1.) Avoid connecting opposite corners
2.) Create depth with diagonal lines
3.) Use the Dutch angle

Check out the above link for eight more tips and full details.

**These Photos Show the Timeless Appeal of Travel And Tourism **-- BuzzFeed

Tourists at cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, Aug.1939, from 35 mm nitrate negative, photo by Russell Lee (1903-1986), Library of Congress.

Under lockdown, travel photography fueled our jealousy, longing, and admiration. For travelers back in the 1800s, photographs were important in another way: "You might have gone to that place, but you couldn't take a picture of it, so you buy one to show people back home," said Jamie Allen, an associate curator at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, to BuzzFeed.

**The Photo-Lab to Close After 107 Years in Downtown Schenectady, NY **– Daily Gazette

**Using a Teleconverter in Lunar Photography **-- Space

Embed from Getty Images"All budding astrophotographers should consider using teleconverters in their camera set-up," recommends photographer Jason Parnell-Brookes in the article above.

How Architecture Depends on Photography

Stewart Hicks, an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, discusses the work of famous architectural photographers.

___19 Awesome Books on the Long History of Photography _– My Modern Met

Photo from A History of Photography. From 1839 to the Present published by Taschen

Check out this curated list of 20 titles that walk you through a photographic tour from daguerreotype to digital.

Joke of the Week

The old lady was walking to her local grocery store when she spots a youngster walking her dog.

"That's a cute puppy," she compliments the 12-year-old.

"That's nothing," says the young lady, "let me show you his photo on my iPhone."

Photo of the Week

Embed from Getty ImagesRusty wipes out during the annual Surf City Surf Dog event at Huntington Beach, California.

Quiz of the Week

1.) Which are the first and only two professional mirrorless cameras to have an integrated grip for vertical shooting.

2.) Which camera has a built-in flash trigger for firing Profoto flashes?

3.) For photos created in the United States, the copyright generally expires
a.) With the death of the person
b.) 70 years after the death
c.) It never expires, provided it is created after 1925 and registered with the US Copyright Office only during the lifetime of the photographer
d) 25 years after death for unregistered works

Answers

1.) Nikon Z9 and Canon EOS R3

2.) PhaseOne. Nikon has announced a partnership with lighting brands Nissin and Profoto, but no technical details are currently available.

3.) (b.) 70 years after the death.

Why I Like This Photo -- Steve Jessmore

Fish Flip. Great Blue Heron successful at Arcadia Marsh in northern Michigan, 8/2021 © Steve Jessmore Photography

I came across this Great Blue Heron while walking on a boardwalk at Arcadia Marsh in northern Michigan. It was a midsummer afternoon in August of 2021. We had had a long day of travel, getting up before sunrise, and it was now 9 hours later. I watched the bird through my Sony a1 and Sony FE 600mm f4 GM OSS plus 1.4 converter, giving me a focal length of 840 mm. Patience paid off, and it wasn't 20-minutes later that it grabbed and flipped back and swallowed this fish.

My favorite wildlife photos tell stories and show behavior. I love this photo because of the moment and the story. The tight crop emphasizes a graphic composition with the s-curve neck and the beak. The circle of life contest between the hungry predator and prey freezes the moment of the fish perfectly centered as it is flipped in midair between the beak and swallowed whole. The gaze of both bird and fish makes the photo for me. One can see the almost "sad" look on the fish's face as if it realizes the inevitable.

There's an old saying about "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." My thought is to work with what you see and not go looking for something else you may find. Wait for something special to happen. I know a lot of photographers that I've shot with who just get a couple of shots quickly of whatever we come across and don't stop to try to tell a story. I love moments that give an insight into their behavior and life's pursuits.

Steve Jessmore is a five-time Michigan Press Photographer Association, Photographer of the Year. Jessmore left newspapers in 2013 for a new challenge-to be the photographer/photo editor for Central Michigan University. He is currently a freelance photographer in Grand Rapids, Michigan, using his 30-years of experience and focusing on storytelling, collaboration, branding and community journalism.

**Quote of the Week -- **Nick Brandt

Harriet and People in Fog, Zimbabwe, 2020 © Nick Brandt 2021

I want my images to achieve two things in this regard - to be an elegy to a world that is tragically vanishing, to make people see what beauty is disappearing. Also, to try and show that animals are sentient creatures equally as worthy of life as humans.* -- Nick Brandt ****

*Nick Brandt’s Love Of Africa

Nick Brandt (b. 1964) is an English photographer. Brandt's work generally focuses on the rapidly disappearing natural world because of environmental destruction, climate change and man's actions. While directing Earth Song, a music video for Michael Jackson in Tanzania in 1995, Brandt fell in love with the animals and land of East Africa.

To see an archive of past issues of Great Reads in Photography, click here.

We welcome comments as well as suggestions. As we cannot possibly cover each and every source, if you see something interesting in your reading or local newspaper anywhere in the world, kindly forward the link to us here. ALL messages will be personally acknowledged.

About the author : Phil Mistry is a photographer and teacher based in Atlanta, GA. He started one of the first digital camera classes in New York City at The International Center of Photography in the 90s. He was the director and teacher for Sony/Popular Photography magazine’s Digital Days Workshops. You can reach him via email here.

Image credits: All photographs as credited and used with permission from the photographers or agencies. Portions of header photo via Depositphotos, car in Reidsville, GA, Fred Baldwin, photo courtesy Schilt Publishing, A History of Photography From 1839 to the Present published by Taschen and tourists at cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park from Library of Congress.

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Great Reads in Photography: November 14, 2021

Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make

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petapixel (unofficial)Oct 3, 2021

Great Reads in Photography: October 3, 2021

Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!

Marine Biologist's Blackwater Photos Uncover Hidden Ocean Creatures – My Modern Met

Penaeid head-There are a lot of strange living things in the ocean that don't even look like animals, so it is important to ground the viewer with something they understand. Usually, that means keeping the eyes in sharp focus. © Jeff Milisen

"Originally, blackwater was meant to be photos taken while drifting over pelagic water-deep ocean, not over a continental shelf-at night," Jeff Milisen explains to PetaPixel. "The first blackwaters were conducted in the early '80s and depicted gelatinous plankton. The deeper, the better. Today, blackwater has become synonymous with strange, often smaller, ocean life taken while drifting at night."

(LEFT) Alectis ciliaris reflection- As if blackwater isn't challenging enough, reflections add an extra layer of difficulty. African pompano, Kona Hawaii. (RIGHT) Ancistrocheirus lessueurii- As opposed to larval phases like you see with young fish, cephalopods like this sharp-eared enope squid are born anatomically similar to their parents. They are thus described by a special term, "paralarvae." Even as a young developing animal with many appendages, squids have remarkable control over their tentacles and can strike incredible poses. © Jeff Milisen

There are few advantages to photographing at night. In deep water, the strangest animals are called "vertical migrators." These animals use the cover of darkness to hide during the day by sinking thousands of feet underwater. There isn't a lot for them to eat at those depths, so every evening, they follow the fading light and ascend to the surface to feed off the abundance of life up there. Of course, it doesn't hurt that night sets these animals against a striking black background.

There are a few places that you can do blackwater, but Milisen is biased towards his home at Kona, Hawaii. Here the diver can have access to some of the deepest water, often exceeding 6,000 feet or more. That means one can see a fair slice of every trophic level that the ocean provides, from the tiniest copepod to sharks, swordfish, gamefish, and everything in between. Just last night, he was watching dolphins demolishing schools of squids. You don't get that sort of interaction anywhere else.

Milisen shoots with a Canon 7D MK II with a Canon 60mm macro lens in an Ikelite housing.

What octo and Macrotritopus-Beautiful, graceful, flowing, etc., you can use a lot of adjectives to describe a paralarval long-armed octopus. They sit and move with the current until they run into a giant creature with bright lights. Then they tend to bolt. To find a pose like this, it is important to be patient and wait for the animal to become comfortable. © Jeff Milisen

"Sure, focusing mechanisms on mirrorless cameras have come a long way, but the one place they falter is when shooting low contrast subjects in low light," says Milisen. "In blackwater, everything is in constant motion, so it is critical to have super-fast, super-accurate focusing. You really only get that out of the dedicated phase-detect sensors on DSLRs.

"Someday, mirrorless cameras will get there, but until then, DSLRs are still king of blackwater. The lens is no accident either. One of the big challenges in blackwater is finding the animals and then finding the animals again in your viewfinder. Often the animal may be swimming toward you, or at least it may be really close.

"When shooting just about anything else, there is some substrate that gives clues as to what depth the subject is going to be from the camera, but on blackwater, there is nothing, so you need every advantage you can get. The 60mm has a good focal length, but it also has a tiny minimal focusing distance which goes a long way toward helping find the animal through the camera.

Sthenoteuthis-Squids have a year to be born, grow, mate, and die, and they eat an incredible amount just to maintain such a metabolism. In the open ocean, squids are almost as common as fishes and their fast, brutal lifestyle makes them an integral part of the food chain. They eat primarily small fishes like lanternfishes, but they are eaten by just about anything in the ocean that can eat a squid: gamefish, sharks, dolphins, whales, and other squids. © Jeff Milisen

"Finally, we have to talk about lighting. To expose the subjects for the images, I use two Ikelite strobes. However, I use a mix of a wrist-mounted Big Blue 4800 lumen spotting light and two on-camera 2000 lumen Sola focusing lights set to flood to find the animals. Light is king when trying to create enough contrast for your camera to work."

Jeff Milisen's A Field Guide to Blackwater Diving in Hawai 'i is available here.

Sony Cameras Accounted for 20-30% at the Tokyo Olympics – sonyalpharumors

The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reports that at the Tokyo Olympics 2020, " Sony has opened a hole in the two strongest systems of Canon and Nikon in the professional market (news camera). It seems that the usage rate of Sony machines at the Tokyo Olympics was 20 to 30%. "

Black in White America 1963-1965 – Magnum

WEST GERMANY. West Berlin. 1965. An American soldier stands guard in front of the Berlin Wall. © Leonard Freed | Magnum Photos

In 1962, white photojournalist Leonard Freed was on assignment in Berlin. He photographed (above) an African American soldier standing in front of the wall. The irony of this soldier defending the USA on foreign soil while African Americans at home were fighting for their civil rights resonated with Freed.

Written alongside the above photograph:
We, he and I, two Americans. We meet silently and part silently. Between us, impregnable and as deadly as the wall behind him, is another wall. It is there on the trolley tracks, it crawls along the cobblestones, across frontiers and oceans, reaching back home, back into our lives and deep into our hearts: dividing us, wherever we meet. I am White, and he is Black. – Leonard Freed (1929-2006)

USA. Washington, DC. August 28, 1963. The March on Washington. © Leonard Freed | Magnum Photos

On his return to the States in 1963, he photographed the March on Washington and began a journey across the United States to document black communities in the North and South. From 1963 to 1965, he captured the plight of African Americans, the great struggle for racial equality within a deeply segregated, racist society.

USA. Washington, D.C. August 28, 1963. The March on Washington. © Leonard Freed | Magnum Photos USA. Baltimore, MD. October 31, 1964. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. being greeted on his return to the US after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. © Leonard Freed | Magnum Photos

A fresh and expanded edition, Black in White America, 1963-1965, is the definitive collection of Leonard Freed's seminal and timely Civil Rights photo essay first published in 1968. It is printed with a foreword from fellow Magnum photographer Eli Reed.

What Is a Green Screen and How Does It Work? -- MUO

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It's not always possible to shoot photos or videos in exciting locations with unique backgrounds. They could be far away or inaccessible. Or worse, nonexistent, like fantasy or science fiction settings.

Check out the link above how the green screen solves that problem by putting in a kind of placeholder for the background.

These Unclaimed Afghan Studio Portraits Bear Witness to Decades of History _ -- NPR_

Today, treasured away in the back rooms of Kabul's photo studios is a colorful mix from over the years of charming portraits, never collected or paid for. They're photographs of Afghans left behind — soldiers and their generals, nervous children captivated by the camera, popular singers, female police officers, poets, scientists, and artists.

Photography was banned before, and whether these studios will survive another period of Taliban rule remains to be seen.

Photographer George Kalinsky 's Work Is Hall of Fame Worthy. But Even At 85, He Says He Isn't Finished Yet – Forbes

Embed from Getty Images George Kalinsky's fame as a photographer at age 85 has come from his skill at capturing the greats in sport and summing up their essence in a single frame. And although his career has spanned decades, Kalinsky is best known for his photographs from the 1960s and 1970s, a time when 24-hour sports media and social media did not exist.

Thus, as Madison Square Garden's official photographer since the 1960s, Kalinsky was able to preserve for future generations a window into the 1969-70 and 1972-73 New York Knicks NBA championship teams, a view that looms even more important considering the Knicks lost in The Finals twice in the 1990s but haven't won the whole thing since then.

This Ghanaian Photographer Has Raised $1m to Build Africa 's Largest Photo Library After Several Rejections – Face2FaceAfrica

"I filled up my entire apartment with books, then I rented a storage unit," Ghanaian photographer Paul Ninson tells Face2Face Africa. "Then another. Then another. I've collected 30,000 books so far. Enough to build the largest photo library in Africa. The books are currently in a shipping container en route to Ghana. But as my collection has grown, so has my dream. I want to build more than just a library. I want to build an entire learning center. A home for photography in Ghana."

With the help of Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York (who also helped him study at ICP in New York) Ninson has raised over $1 million in crowdfunding toward the project. He has also received a land pledge from a Ghanaian legislator.

Photographer Provides Insight on Legal Issues Photographers May Encounter – Legal Reader

The Beginning of Photography: The Drama of 1839 – DPreview

The Open Door, William Henry Fox Talbot. About 1843. Print from paper negative. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Dr. Roger Cicala writes:
So, who was the real Father of Photography? … Niepce created the first permanent images using a camera. Daguerre perfected the technique that allowed it to become mainstream (and was the only one to benefit financially). Talbot's different technique allowed multiple copies of images to be mass-produced, and the negative-image to positive-print is the basis for all photography from the 1800s until digital.

Inner visions: a Dreamlike Trip Through New Mexico – in Pictures – The Guardian

Shirin Neshat has been crowned a Photo London Master of Photography thanks to her black and white portraits of people from the American southwest.

Royal Photographer Shares ' Snap Judgments' from Working with Harry, William, the Queen and More -- People

Embed from Getty ImagesFrom touring with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to capturing Prince William leaving home with Prince George on his first school day, Chris Jackson's job for Getty Images has provided him with a view of royal life close-up for nearly two decades.

30 Astonishing Pictures from the Nat Geo Archives – National Geographic

Nine African-American women posed, standing, full length, with Nannie Helen Burroughs holding a banner reading, "Banner State Woman's National Baptist Convention. This group of women, photographed circa 1910, were active in campaigning for women's right to vote. Photo courtesy Library of Congress.

See some of the unforgettable images an editor discovered in Nat Geo 's historic photography collection.

Picture Post: How One British Magazine Blew up Photography – The Guardian

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Picture Post was a photojournalistic magazine published in the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1957. It is considered a pioneering example of photojournalism and was an immediate success, selling 1,700,000 copies a week after only two months. It has been called the UK's equivalent of Life magazine

" Picture Post was the brainchild of Hungarian émigré Stefan Lorant, whose editorship of German magazine Münchner Illustrierte Presse led to Hitler imprisoning him. He brought his anti-fascist, socialist sympathies with him to Britain – as well as a troupe of superb photographers, schooled by the European photojournalist tradition and able to frame these islands with an outsider's eye,” writes The Guardian.

iPhone 13 Pro Camera Review: Tanzania – Austin Mann

Photographer Austin Mann has published an in-depth review of the iPhone 13's camera. He has tested the macro mode, increased telephoto zoom, and Cinematic mode in the picturesque Ruaha National Park, Tanzania.

Magnum announces New Nominees, Associate and Member at its 74th AGM in Paris -- Magnum

Bangladesh. Cox's Bazar. 2017. Shafiullah Khata, an informal camp, was set up at the end of September and numbered more than 100,000 people. At the entrance to the camp, refugees have set up trading points. Camp de réfugiés informel © William Keo, photo courtesy MAGNUM

Magnum Photos has welcomed two new Nominees Myriam Boulos (Lebanon) and William Keo (France), at its 74th Annual General Meeting (AGM).

Additionally, the following motions were passed regarding status changes of photographers already within Magnum:
Nanna Heitmann: Nominee to Associate
Enri Canaj: Associate to Member

A decision was made to take in the Chris Killip archive. Magnum will now represent the archive of the British photographer who passed away in 2020.

Photo of the Week

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Joke of the Week

Attendance at the country circus was going down, so the owner decided to hire a photographer to take publicity photos of the wild animals.

The two people who applied to the ad. were a woman and a man.

The owner asks the woman to enter the lions' cage and show him that she would be comfortable in such a situation. The woman does so and starts speaking softly with the big cats. Soon they are all sitting down around her, and the biggest one is licking her face.

The manager is amazed and turns to the male photographer to ask, "Can you do that?"

"Sure," he replies, fidgeting with the manual focus ring, "but, er, you will have to get the animals out first."

**Quiz of the Week
**1.) Who discovered hypo, which is used in the darkroom after development for fixing prints by dissolving and removing silver salts (halides) that were not affected by light on the printing paper when it was exposed?

2.) There are three main types of flashes on the market:
a.) Speedlights that typically mount on the hot shoe
b.) ___________
c.) Pack-and-head systems

3.) Who recently launched a 40mm Macro f/2.8 APS-C Lens for Multiple Mounts for only $100?

4.) Which camera company celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2021? Hint: a few of their cameras are still sitting on the moon.

5.) Did a photo book published in 1909 show how to remove freckles, open closed eyes and make stout people look slimmer?

**Answers
**1.) Sir John Hershel, an acquaintance of Talbot’s and one of the premier scientists of the day.

2.) Monolights

3.) TTArtisan

4.) Hasselblad, the Swedish company which launched the first Hasselblad camera, the HK-7, in 1941.

5.) Yes, it was published by the American School of Art and Photography in Scranton, PA, and edited by the school's president, James B. Schriever.

Why I Like This Photo – Ami Vitale

Children study at the Qabel Bai School set up by Unicef in Kabul, Afghanistan August 08, 2002. © Ami Vitale

This photo is profoundly moving to me in light of the current situation in Afghanistan. It represents a fleeting moment of hope when girls were finally given the opportunity to have an education after decades of war and brutal repression by the Taliban. It was taken in 2002 in Kabul, a year after the Taliban regime had collapsed.

The Taliban did not let girls go to school or allow many women to work under their rule from 1996 to 2001. Once again, tragically, the emerging government has made clear that it intends to severely restrict these educational freedoms that many women and girls experienced over the past 20 years. Extraordinary gains have been made in the last twenty years, and this image represents the quiet heroism of the students, teachers, and the communities who supported girls' education.

I remember making this photo on a sunny summer day in a room packed with young women listening with rapt attention to their teacher. I was immediately drawn to the young woman in the middle of the frame, whose expression seemed to betray a certain war weariness and yet, at the same time, reveal some hope for the future.

I chose to use a 70-200 mm lens and composed it so that the students were framed diagonally to be able to make the eye jump from one face to the other. The three faces in the foreground and the 3 out-of-focus faces in the background give the effect of a tightly packed class full of students. It's interesting that though I was making photos in color, their clothing and the light in the room created a feeling that this was a black and white photo. The colors and the light had a certain austerity, yet the soft radiance of the young woman's expression brought light and hope to the image. I am again reminded of the power of human resilience in this photo.

Ami Vitale is a Nikon Ambassador and National Geographic magazine photographer, writer, and filmmaker who has photographed in more than 100 countries. Instyle Magazine named Vitale one of 50 Badass Women, a series celebrating women who show up, speak up and get things done. She is a five-time recipient of World Press Photos, including 1st Prize for her 2018 National Geographic magazine story about a community in Kenya protecting elephants. Panda Love on the secret lives of pandas is her best-selling book that has recently been published. She is a founding member of Ripple Effect Images , an organization of renowned female scientists, writers, and photographers working to create powerful stories about the hardships women in developing countries face and the programs that can help them.

Quote of the Week – Myriam Boulos

From What 's Ours © Myriam Boulos, photo courtesy MAGNUM

Photography is really like therapy for me* -- Myriam Boulos

***** From an interview on Art Breadth, Myriam Boulos on Photography, Documenting Lebanon and Social Justice.

Myriam Boulos (b.1992) from Lebanon was inducted as a new Nominee to Magnum this week at its 74th Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Paris.

To see an archive of past issues of Great Reads in Photography, click here.

Image credits: All photographs as credited and used with permission from the photographers or agencies. Portions of header photo via Depositphotos.

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Great Reads in Photography: October 3, 2021

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petapixel (unofficial)Sep 19, 2021

Great Reads in Photography: September 19, 2021

Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!

With Baby Animals, Patience Pays: Photographer Describes New Book of Intimate Portraits – Mongabay

Koala, Phascolarctos cinereus, eight-month-old baby on mother's back, Queensland, Australia © Suzi Eszterhas

Suzi Eszterhas was recently named Outstanding Nature Photographer of the Year by the North American Nature Photography Association. Her latest book New on Earth: Baby Animals in the Wild, showcases her specialty of photographing wild animal babies.

Eszterhas' images have graced over 100 covers from TIME to Smithsonian, BBC Wildlife, The New York Times, and Ranger Rick. She has 21 books in print, including in French and Japanese, and another three in the works.

Hoffmann's two-toed sloth, Choloepus hoffmanni, mother and two-month-old baby, Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary, Costa Rica © Suzi Eszterhas

She has hugged a baby whale, swam with sloths, fended off curious grizzly bears, had hyenas chew on her engine, had insects lay eggs in her feet, has been chased by a green mamba, and hand-raised and released an orphaned serval, a North African wild cat

5-Minute Sunday Interview

Phil Mistry: What is the secret to getting intimate photos of mothers and babies in the wild?

Suzi Eszterhas : Photography isn't the hard part. It's the respectful connection with an animal that is the real work. Nearly all animals with newborns can be wary and on high alert. You must try and understand what you might do (or not do) to make the mother feel safe.

Lion, Panthera leo, 7-8 week old cub(s) approaching adult male, Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya © Suzi Eszterhas

This cannot be undertaken on a brief holiday safari. It can take weeks or months of working from sunrise to sunset. My goal is to cultivate a presence where the animal is so relaxed around me that they may not even care that I am there. I just become a piece of the landscape—a part of their habitat.

PM: What attracts you to animal babies?

SE: In a word, they are irresistibly cute. Cute has incredible power to arouse compassion and love.

Nothing gives me greater pleasure than knowing that my imagery can inspire someone to love and take action, care for our planet, or help save an endangered species.

(Left) Brown bear, Ursus arctos, 3–4-month-old triplet cubs climbing on mother's back as she cools off in the water, Katmai National Park, AK. (Right) African Elephant, Loxodonta africana, young calf (less than three weeks old), Masai Mara Conservancy, Kenya. © Suzi Eszterhas

PM: In the last 24 years, you are only the second woman named Outstanding Nature Photographer of the Year. Why is there a shortage of women in the field of wildlife photography?

SE: There is actually no smoking gun. There are a number of reasons why there are so few professional female wildlife photographers. Some of the reasons include: sexism in the industry, the lack of female role models, gear being marketed to men, cultural beliefs about parental responsibilities, personal safety issues, and the highly competitive nature of this field. The non-profit that I founded in 2017, Girls Who Click, is working hard to change this.

PM: What were a few of your scary moments?

SE: Sadly, most of them involve humans rather than wild animals. I once was grabbed off the street and thrown into a vehicle but fought my way out of it and managed to get away. And in Africa, I had a group of drunk rangers show up at midnight and try to arrest me for "poaching." As a woman often working alone, I always have to consider personal safety issues.

PM: What is your gear?

SE: I shoot a Canon 1DX Mark III and a variety of different lenses, everything from a fisheye to the Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM. I am also a huge fan of Mindshift's First Light bags.

PM: What is your favorite place (or region) to shoot in?

SE: Africa. When I was little, I literally dreamed of living in Africa in a tent. I did this for years as an adult, and to this day, I go to Africa a few times a year. People say Africa gets in your blood, and I believe this is true. For me, it is a wildlife paradise. Still, I also think this must be tied to our evolutionary connection to the continent because many, many travelers will feel this way even after just one trip to Africa. In the photo tours, I lead to Africa, I see this happen all the time with my clients.

PM: Any other thoughts?

SE: I truly believe that this job is more than collecting pretty pictures and that wildlife photographers have a responsibility to use their imagery to create change. One of the few things that I am truly proud of in my life is the work I have done for conservation. I use my imagery to raise awareness and funds for a handful of non-profits I have chosen to partner with, like the Sloth Conservation Foundation, Sumatran Orangutan Society and Wildlife Conservation Network. Over the years, through direct sales of my books, prints, and photo tours, I have managed to raise over $200,000 for conservation. A large portion of the proceeds of New on Earth published by Insight Editions goes to the Wildlife Conservation Network.

Roger 's Recommended Reading*

*Dr. Roger Cicala is an anesthesiologist (yes, he 's an MD), a photo enthusiast, and the founder of Lens Rentals, but these days you are more likely to find him on a beach.

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Félix Nadar: The World's First Celebrity Photographer -- BBC

A nice presentation of Nadar, who was the first great marketer in photography, and a whole lot more.

The Making of a Daguerreotype -- Daguerreian Society

Warning: Do not use this brochure to actually attempt the making of a daguerreotype. The chemical procedure is far too dangerous for the incomplete information provided here.

And Edgerton Said, "Let There Be Light." – LensRentals

Fun with Color Vision -- LensRentals

Six Optical Aberrations That Could be Impacting Your Vision System -- Teledyne Lumenera

**9/11 Changed Me | Opinion **– NJ.com

Self-portrait of then The Star-Ledger photographer Aristide Economopoulos taken in the bathroom of the Chase Bank located at Fulton and Broadway Streets, where volunteers urged me to wash the ash off my face. I was shocked at my reflection. I dropped the water and decided to document what I saw in a self-portrait. What bothered me was why was I smiling? This was a tragic event and I have this nervous, crazed smile. First, I thought I looked bizarre. Then, after talking with a therapist, family and friends, I realized that I was also smiling because I was happy to be alive. © Aristide Economopoulos / The Star-Ledger

Aristide Economopoulos writes in NJ.com:

When I look at the photos taken that day, they still bother me. Clearly, it's because your brain wants to push out traumatic events to protect you. There's a photo of me running taken by Joe Tabacca, and it's hard to believe it's me. It looks like a movie still from some bad action movie.

In my self-portrait, I don't recognize myself. It is clearly me, but I see someone who is numb, nervous, scared and happy to still be alive at the same time. I was across the street from the North Tower when it started to fall, and if it wasn't for a big bus parked nearby where Joe and I dove next to, we would have been killed.

Amon Carter Museum Acquires Expansive Collection of Finis Welch -- Patron

Edward Steichen (1879–1973), Dana, France, 1923, gelatin silver print, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of Finis Welch, © 2021 The Estate of Edward Steichen / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) has acquired more than 240 photographs from collector Finis Welch, who passed away in 2020. The gift includes prints by Ansel Adams, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, and more, which significantly strengthen the Carter's ability to tell the story of early photographic modernism in America.

Mitch Epstein (b. 1952), BP Carson Refinery, California 2007, 2006-07, chromogenic print, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of Finis Welch, © Black River Productions, Ltd. / Mitch Epstein. Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

The bequest features ten rare vintage works by Paul Outerbridge and a unique 10-print set of Aaron Siskind's heralded series Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation , as well as key works by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and William Eggleston—including some of the rarest and important examples of his photographs, which transform the Carter into a resource for Eggleston scholarship.

Edward Weston (1886–1958), Tina Modotti, 1921, platinum or platinum/palladium, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of Finis Welch, © 1981 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents William Klein (b. 1928), Antonia + Yellow Taxi, New York, 1962, chromogenic print, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of Finis Welch, © William Klein

Conceptual works by Marco Breuer, Chris McCaw, and Alison Rossiter are the first works by these artists to enter the Carter's collection. Works by Edward Burtynsky, Mitch Epstein, and Richard Misrach expand the Carter's premier collection of American landscape photography.

The Awe-Inspiring Drone Photography of Gary Cummins – DroneDJ

Gary Cummins combines milky way photos with abandoned houses.

"We introduce lots of noise in our images in astrophotography shoots, and I've been trying to find new ways of eliminating that," Cummins describes his technical aspects to DroneDJ. "So, I started light painting old houses and barns with my drone. This allowed me to shoot with much lower ISO settings and get cleaner images all around.

"It does come with its hazards, though. Flying at night can be tricky as the drone's sensors cannot see, and it's also tricky flying around trees."

Disclaimer: We are not endorsing these techniques, and please keep your drone flying compliant with local laws.

The Celebrity Photographer Who Refuses to Photoshop Movie Icons -- CNN

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Celebrity British portrait photographer Andy Gotts works with an analog camera and no crew. His portraits are never retouched, unveiling actors' "facescapes" with all their wrinkles, blemishes and smiles. It's a style that has remained essentially unchanged since he first started.

"If you see a pimple on someone's head, or a hair out of place -- that's because that's how they were, sitting in front of me," Gotts tells CNN. "I was capturing that moment when they sat down with me for our conversation."

Black Lives in the American South – in Pictures – The Guardian

Tyler Mitchell's imagery visualizes scenes of peace, solitude and belonging for Black people in the pastoral American South. Mitchell makes images that explore the histories of intimacy and meanings of home within Black communities.

During the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Mitchell could not see his family in his native state of Georgia. The distance and isolation led him to start dreaming of home. When he was able to return, he created new images of subjects in the Atlanta metro area that consider historical and contemporary notions of refuge, repose, and rootedness.

Dreaming in Real Time and I Can Make You Feel Good are on view at Jack Shainman Gallery till Oct. 30.

**Canon EOS R3 vs. Canon EOS R5: 9 Key Differences Between the Mirrorless Beasts **– TechRadar

1.) Sensor: a new stacked chip takes the Canon EOS R3's speed up a notch

2.) Connectivity: the R3 offers super-fast transmission for the professional user

Check the link above for seven more differences and complete details.

Dan Winters (The Most COMPLETE Photographer Since Irving Penn?)

To Remember the Moment, Try Taking Fewer Photos -- NPR

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Snapping too many pictures could actually harm the brain's ability to retain memories, says Elizabeth Loftus, a psychological science professor at the University of California, Irvine. So, you get the photo, but kind of lose the memory.

"When people rely on technology to remember something for them, they're essentially outsourcing their memory," Linda Henkel, a psychology professor at Fairfield University, tells NPR. "They know their camera is capturing that moment for them, so they don't pay full attention to it in a way that might help them remember."

A Photographer Gives an Inside Look at the Fall of Kabul, her Longtime Home – National Geographic

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Photographer Kiana Hayeri has lived in Kabul for the past seven years. For National Geographic, she chronicled the changes across Afghanistan as a generation born under relative freedom faces a future under Taliban control.

Kabul is her home. But on Sunday, August 15, the day the Taliban seized Kabul, and the Afghan government fell, Hayeri had to evacuate as women in the country faced an uncertain future under the Taliban.

**The Fifth Corner: Expanding the Frame **– Magnum

Fred Ritchin, Dean Emeritus of the International Center of Photography , on this era of uncertainty "when the contributions of image-makers may have little impact or serve primarily to confuse and further fracture the social fabric."

The Met Museum Is Deaccessioning $1 Million Worth of Photos and Prints to Fill a Revenue Shortfall Caused by the Pandemic -- ArtNet

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will sell 219 prints and photographs to help plug a $150 million revenue shortfall resulting from the pandemic.

What are the Legal Rights of Deceased Black Americans – The Atlantic

Renty an African slave, subject of Louis Agassiz, 1865, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

This fall, the Massachusetts Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case against Harvard over its ownership of two 1850 daguerreotypes of enslaved people.

Tamara Lanier believes that the two people in the playing card-sized daguerreotypes held by Harvard University are her great-great-great-grandfather and his daughter.

How to Tell If You Have a Good or Bad Copy of a Lens – Photography Life

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The biggest issue that differentiates a good vs. bad copy of a lens is decentering. In other words, one or more elements in the lens are tilted or off-center, which can lead to blurriness in some areas of the frame. The process in this article is designed to figure out whether your lens is decentered. Also, keep in mind that no lens is perfect.

Joke of the Week

A press photographer is assigned to cover wildfires. However, the thick smoke was staying close to the ground, so he could not get any decent photos.

The photographer calls his assignment editor and asks him to rent a plane for just 30 minutes. He soon receives a confirmation that a small Cessna is waiting for him at a rural airport 10 miles away and that he should hurry.

On arriving at the airport, the photographer spots the plane waiting for him with the propeller whirring. He jumps in and tells the pilot to take off immediately in the direction he is pointing. When they are directly above the fires, he tells the pilot to fly first east-west and then north-south and then circle the area for the next 20 minutes.

The pilot seems very confused at this instruction and asks, coughing from the smoke, "Why are we doing this?"

"Cause, I'm a Press Photographer, and I need to get a good cover photo of the damage for tomorrow's paper," replies the photographer while busily looking through the viewfinder.

The pilot is dead silent for five seconds and then stammers, "So, er, you… you are not the flight instructor?"

Photo of the Week

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Great Read from the Past – 2014

**Cartier-Bresson's Classic is Back – but his Decisive Moment has Passed **– The Guardian

It's the book that changed photography forever. But why republish The Decisive Moment after 62 years, when it cements such out-of-date ideas?

Quiz of the Week

1.) Which was the first portable flash to offer HSS (High-speed sync)? Hint: It was way back in 1992 and was made for film cameras by a camera manufacturer.

2.) Canon was the first to use a CMOS sensor in the full frame 1Ds in Sep. 2002. The debut of the Nikon D3 and Sony a700 in mid-2007 firmly cemented CMOS as the dominant technology for photographic cameras — not surprisingly, this same year, CMOS sales surpassed CCD sales. When did the CMOS sensor arrive in the medium format world?

3.) According to Canon: The first full-frame, back-illuminated stacked CMOS image sensor in the EOS R3 will deliver substantially faster read-out speeds and produce much lower __________ distortion than previous EOS models.

4.) Which of the new iPhone 13 models have sensor-shift optical image stabilization (OIS)?

Answers

1.) Nikon SB-25

2.) Hasselblad H5D-50c in 2014

3.) "rolling shutter"

4.) All of them

**Why I Like This Photo -- **Peter Cavanagh

I like this photo because these birds are my neighbors having an unusual day. Over the last several years, I have taken hundreds of images of this pair of bald eagles. In all this time, there has never been a really significant snowfall on Lopez Island, Washington, in the Salish Sea where I live.

On February 13, 2021, enough snow fell to make many local roads impassable on this mid-pandemic day. So, I set off on foot in search of an image. I was carrying a micro four thirds mirrorless Olympus OMD M1X with an Olympus M. Zuiko ED 300mm F/4.0 IS Pro lens — which gave me a full-frame equivalent of 600mm and a published seven stops of image stabilization. I am actually now a Sony Alpha 1 convert.

I found this pair on the top of a large Douglas fir that was heavy from the constant snowfall. They were surveying the bewildering white landscape, surely wondering why their usual green and brown habitat had changed.

Post-processing was in Topaz DeNoise AI and Lightroom. As I viewed the image on the screen, it became clear that the tree was as much a subject as the birds. The entire span of the upper branch needed to be in the final crop, and this determined the composition. The birds seem like sentinels on a ship moving through a sea of grey; one looking east, the other west in reflected symmetry. To escape the sea of grey, the viewer's eye is magnetically drawn to their yellow bills, tools of destruction, symbols of dominance.

The shot was handheld: 1/2500 sec, f/4, ISO 800. The fast shutter speed was in anticipation of a flight shot that didn't materialize as the birds exited the backside of the tree.

_Peter Cavanagh is a Pacific Northwest wildlife photographer and author who can usually be found pointing his lens towards birds. He has been taking photographs since he was a boy of five growing up in England. His recently completed book _100 Flying Birds: A Photographer's Notebook will be published this year. Cavanagh guest-curated the Exhibit How Birds Fly at the Seattle Museum of Flight.

Quote of the Week

William Eggleston (b. 1939), Untitled, ca. 1970, dye transfer print, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of Finis Welch, © Eggleston Artistic Trust, Courtesy Eggleston Artistic Trust and David Zwirner. Beauty and Life: The Finis Welch Collection will be on view at Amon Carter Museum of American Art from Feb 20–May 8, 2022.

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.* – William Eggelston

From an interview in The Guardian, Jul 2004.

" I had an old Canon and a Leica," he says, "but I didn't know the first thing about photography. Never learnt it off anybody either. It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason."

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Image credits: All photographs as credited and used with permission from the photographers or agencies. Portions of header photo via Depositphotos, Renty an African slave, subject of Louis Agassiz, 1865, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Great Reads in Photography: September 19, 2021

Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make