Archive for December, 2011
Wolfgang Sievers lives!
Wolfgang Sievers, Adams bronze foundry, 1968 If you love Wolfgang Sievers as much as I do – both the man and his work – then this will interest you. The National Library of Australia has the complete archive of his work online and you can scroll through it at will from your computer. This is […]
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Tags: bronze foundry, commercial photographer, industrial photography, National Library of Australia, photograph of worker, Picture Australia, Sievers National Library, Wolfgang Sievers
Lyle Fowler – male operator
Lyle Fowler, ‘Male operator standing beside 50 ton winch head manufactured by Marfleet and Weight, ca 1941-42′ Lyle Fowler (1891-1969) was a Melbourne commercial photographer who specialised in industrial and architectural subjects. He worked from the 1920s right through to the 1960s. The State Library has his archive of prints and negatives, a huge collection […]
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Tags: glass negative, Lyle Fowler, Lyle Fowler photographer, man and machine, Marfleet and Weight, Melbourne architectural photographer, Melbourne industrial photography, photography of Melbourne
Beautiful Ugly John Gollings
John Gollings photograph Beautiful Ugly is a major new book on the architectural photography of John Gollings. It covers the span of his work from the exuberant images of the 1980s (see above) to the more functional but still excellent ones of recent years. He is the best professional photographer we have, a very successful […]
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Tags: Australian architectural photography, John Gollings, John Gollings Beautiful Ugly, John Gollings book, O.Winston Link
My Life in Cameras no.20
20. CANON G10 The Canon G10, and it’s later versions the G11 and G12, are for people who like the ways cameras used to operate – as machines. The steel body and external dials give you a feeling of control. It’s chunky and heavy in the hand, not a dainty camera as so many are. […]
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Magnum Contact Sheets
Peter Marlowe, Margaret Thatcher at Conservative Party conference, 1981 Magnum Contact Sheets is a big new photography book that presents 170 contact sheets from the famous picture agency’s files, going back to the 1940s. Magnum Photos was established after World War II in the high summer of photojournalism, when picture magazines and advertisers were hungry […]
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Tags: contact sheets, Magnum Contact Sheets, Magnum Photo book, proof sheets