Two weeks with a master street photographer, and his street photography tips that changed my life. Here’s almost everything Garry Winogrand taught me. All photos © Mason Resnick By Mason Resnick My two-week workshop with street photography pioneer Garry Winogrand began in a third floor classroom above crowded Nassau Street in lower Manhattan in […]
By Joe Gioia; scroll to bottom for portfolio. If the first rule of celebrity photography is to prey heartlessly upon its subjects, and the second is that even the dullest candid photo, all messy hair, sweatpants, sunglasses and boring sidewalk, is enough, then the long-standing photo work of Britain’s Dafydd Jones hardly qualifies as such. […]
First of a series of portfolios profiling photographers from our Facebook page Artist’s statement I studied Drexel University’s College of Media Arts and Design. I was studying a career path that I was never to follow after I left school—fashion. But while I was there, I did take two darkroom photography classes. I found picture […]
John Isaac, former head of the UN Photography Dept., has photographed over 100 countries over an illustrious career, but he never forgot his B&W roots. An award-winning photojournalist, John Isaac worked at the United Nations, first as a darkroom technician, and worked his way up to Photo Editor and eventually Chief of the Photo Unit, retiring […]
Photographer Joe Gioia’s late 80s B&W NYC Polaroid instant street portraits captured the essence of a city on the cusp of change. Joe Gioia and I met as co-workers. We were part of a staff of young, enthusiastic editors at Modern Photography during its glorious, experimental and transitional last years under the direction of […]
While many photographers who prefer black-and-white images will convert their color originals in Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, if you shoot RAW (and you SHOULD shoot RAW) you may want to do it in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. This is especially true if you’re doing portrait or other kinds of photography under consistent lighting conditions. One of […]