The Marks of Man

http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/related/journeyMaterials.html The haunting photographs of Yosuke Yamahata taken the day after the atom bomb had dropped. This virtual exhibition forms part of the digital library of the Exploratorium, an educational on-line interactive museum of the arts, sciences and humanities.

I started this site in 1997, when I look at the design, I realise how far the web has come in 13 years. Most of the links still work and are quite interesting. Site Description Stedelijk Museum The Stedelijk, Amsterdam, is one of the worlds top museums for contemporary art. It holds a significant collection of photographs, and is host to many of the best touring exhibitions. The recent August Sander exhibition is a case in point, and the Web Site has some useful background information on Sander, if few images. Fotomuseum The excellent Fotomuseum in Winterthur, Switzerland. A very thoroughly presented web site with a few great images and plenty of contextual information. The text, however, is in German. George Eastman House; International Museum of Photography and Film A really good site - Biographical details ...

For the video click below http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11666162 By Colin Grant Producer, Digital Planet Advertisement Artist David Hockney speaks to BBC Click about creating digital artwork for an exhibition in Paris "Who wouldn't want one? Picasso or Van Gogh would have snapped one up," the artist David Hockney tells me at the opening of his latest show in Paris called Fleurs Fraiches, or Fresh Flowers. The boyish grand old man of pop art with silver hair and lambent eyes is well known for his recent conversion to the iPhone and iPad for his work. You can make a drawing of the sunrise at 6am and send it out to people by 7am David Hockney Now, several of the tablet computers have been turned into technological canvases to display his latest work at an ...

photo book review in almost every picture #7 photographs collected & edited by Erik Kessels and Joep Eljkens http://www.lensculture.com/kessels.html In almost every picture #7 tells the story of a Dutch woman whose life is seen from the point of view of a fairground shooting gallery. The chronological series begins in 1936, when a 16-year-old girl from Tilburg in Holland picks up a gun and shoots at the target in a shooting gallery. Every time she hits the target, it triggers the shutter of a camera and a portrait of the girl in firing pose is taken and given as a prize. And so a lifelong love affair with the shooting gallery begins. This series documents almost every year of the woman's life (there is a conspicuous pause from 1939 to 1945) up until present times. At the age of 88 Ria van Dijk still makes her pilgrimage to the Shooting Gallery. In almost every picture #7 is a biography of one woman...

Oh How I don't like Post-production, at least I don't have to stand in a dark room all day. Me after being told I couldn't possibly take good photographs. I just smiled, every one is a photographer.

Scanning back with no filtration, phase one 360 MP 125th of a second x 12000. Nikon 65 mm enlarging lens. I was exposing Polaroids here to, I wonder how they will compare. Its much easier with a scanning back and laptop, then carting around a bucket of water for the 665 Positive Negative film.

Using my Graflex 5x4 field and scanning back with no filtration, makes for a very sharp image with the old Nikon 65mm enlarging lens, but not quite enough coverage.