Archive for February, 2012
My life in cameras no.23
05Feb12
. The Fujifilm X100 is the classiest camera I’ve ever owned. The Age newspaper voted it their camera of the year: “Fujifilm launched the X100 in the first half of the year to general astonishment. The concept of a fixed-lens, fixed focal length, retro-styled digital camera with dual optical/electronic viewfinder and an APS sensor as […]
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Tags: Fujifilm X100, photos of Venice, Terry Lane The Age Green Guide, Venice walls, X100 camera
Vivian Maier – Street Photographer
Vivian Maier – Street Photographer, Powerhouse Books 2011 My book on Vivian Maier’s photographs has arrived and it is a handsome thing. It does great honour to this curious and talented photographer. Maier was an amateur street photographer in Chicago. She died in her 80s in 2009, just as her life’s work was being rescued […]
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Tags: discovery of Eugene Atget, John Maloof, Maloof Design Observer, photography career, Street photographer, Vivian Maier, Vivian Maier Powerhouse Books, Vivian Maier Street Photographer