Fred Greissing wrote:
Always liked his work.
Shoots film with the good old Mamiya RZ.

If I remember correctly he shot a Sony digital screen ad with Portra film... kind of ironic...

i had a feeling it was film....

Mark Laubenheimer wrote:
just visited his site....again.....

truly amazing work....again....

reminds me of your work - the emma shot

Karl Johnston wrote:

reminds me of your work - the emma shot

thanks! he is truly one of my inspirations.

Karl Johnston wrote:
his recent work reminds me of some of crewsden's recent stuff too.

that cinematic look: does it come from the way it's cleanly processed, the make up and the use of continuous lights mixed with natural lighting ?

what impresses me is the interaction with his subjects, i want to know how to master that. i think that's an art on to its own in photo

agreed.

In 2011, photographer Giles Duley stepped on a land mine while working in Afghanistan. Originally a celebrity portrait photographer who had been turned off to celebrity culture by the people he was photographing, he had always hoped to return to portraiture.

Amazing story + amazing work.



http://petapixel.com/2013/07/29/photogr … ore-118905


Photographers who pursue the real and true and honorable  interest me far more:
http://petapixel.com/2013/07/27/fashion … -soldiers/

Jay says in his introduction to the project that his purpose is three-fold: “[To] raise public consciousness of the thousands of young and wounded veterans, to honor their lives, their stories and their sacrifice, and to help them see their scars, faces and experiences through a new and ultimately empowering lens.”

Jay started the project in April and has done about a dozen sessions so far, traveling to hospital and homes around the country to capture the veterans as they go about their daily lives. He ultimately plans to compile the work into a traveling exhibition and photo book, and a documentary on the project is in the works.

“I am amazed and humbled at every encounter I have had with these men,” Jay writes on the project’s Facebook page. “It is so important that they are given a platform in which to share their story and continue to receive the honor and recognition they deserve.”

Remarkable, amazing, humbling work that reminds us of all the true, higher, heroic celebrities in this world.

Vincent Van Gogh: "Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come. "

Vincent Van Gogh: "I detest writing or talking about technique in general . . . That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from man's soul, while much of the proficiency and technical expertise associated with art reminds me of what would be called self-righteousness in religion. . . My strongest sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are with those artists in whom I see the soul at work most strongly."

HJM Photography wrote:
I've never been all that impressed by celebrity photographers (whose work is often fairly indistinguishable with generally competent textbook lighting/processing/retouching/assistants/etc. with that derivative blurry shallow-depth-of-field and requisite hipstagram filter finishing), except for perhaps Terry Richardson who is creative, different, rebellious, and free with a trademark style all his own.

Photographers who pursue the real and true interest me far more:

http://petapixel.com/2013/07/29/photogr … ore-118905


Amazing story + amazing work.



http://petapixel.com/2013/07/29/photogr … ore-118905


Photographers who pursue the real and true and honorable  interest me far more:
http://petapixel.com/2013/07/27/fashion … -soldiers/


Remarkable, amazing, humbling work that reminds us of all the true, higher, heroic celebrities in this world.

Vincent Van Gogh: "Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come. "

Vincent Van Gogh: "I detest writing or talking about technique in general . . . That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from man's soul, while much of the proficiency and technical expertise associated with art reminds me of what would be called self-righteousness in religion. . . My strongest sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are with those artists in whom I see the soul at work most strongly."

if stepping on a land mine is the ticket to a great photograph then why aren't you first in line?

m_s_photo wrote:
You shared someone else's work here recently as well.

Just wanted to say thanks. As a new photographer there's a lot of stuff out there I'm unfamiliar with so it's nice to have my attention drawn to it.

Gives me a whole new headful of ideas.

i shared the work of ryan mcginley. he's quite interesting.

on saturday i have a photoshoot planned where i will be drawing inspiration from gregory crewdson and kelli connell. i'm hoping to somehow meld the two together and then knead everything into a nice laubenheimer photograph.

looking at art you feel is better than your own is very important. it gives you inspiration and it also shows you the need for improvement with your own work.

L A U B E N H E I M E R wrote:
a nice interview:

http://www.hypemeanseverything.com/2011 … rs-part-1/

Read that a while ago myself. Great stuff.

L A U B E N H E I M E R wrote:
looking at art you feel is better than your own is very important. it gives you inspiration and it also shows you the need for improvement with your own work.

Or it depresses the hell out of you and you wonder how much you would clear if you sold off everything.