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>>2715178
this is your most favourisited photo of all time? .. poor guy .. I can click randomly in my photo folder and have a better one.
>>2715217
Is the mood and the colours bro.
>>2715217
>criticizes others choice of aesthetic
>posts a shitty over pp'd shot
okay
>>2715217
The pic in the OP is eons beyond this tumblr shit.
Comparison:
OP's Picture
>expressive
>tells a story
>captured by the eye of a seasoned pro
Tumblr Shit
>lel just bought a wide angle lens
>HDR TO TEH MAXXX
>what's composition?
>>2715240
You had me going for a second there. 3/10 bait
>>2715248
he told the truth. retard
>>2715248
>posted the tumblr shit
>>2715248
Hahahahahahahaha
>>2715249
>>2715250
>>2715251
You faggots are so easy
>>2715178
if this weren't already known by people here and some anon posted it for c&c i'd love the reactions it would receive: most would ignore it because they think it's shit and those that critiqued it would shit all over it.
you know it's true.
>>2715261
Not even close to true.
I've never seen it before, because I'm new to photography. I have an MFA in painting, though, and it's really good.
>>2715267
sure whatever you say
>>2715261
You think that pic its only liked cause its from Tarkovsky?
>>2715267
You must be new to /p/ aswell because anon is completely right. It gets done all the time, someone posts professional work in RPT pretending as though it's their own, nignogs shit all over professional photograph, nignogs then find out it's a well known photo by a well known pro and try to save face.
>>2715267
>Not even close to true.
Welcome to 4chan!
Some du posted a couple of well known ansel adams pics in a 'recent photo' thread and people shit all over them. One person said "This is literally a picture of nothing"
People do this shit all the time. They always get trashed. Google "Mario's Bike" on flickr.
>>2715281
From what I've seen they always say shit like the only reason people like it because it's famous, rather than A) They should know something at all about the history of photography and B) clearly they chose the photo because of its critical acclaim, otherwise there would be no point
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Found somewhere on imgur.
No clue who took it.
I just love it for some reason.
I like this one. Forgot who took it.
I just like the comfy and carefree murica feeling it delivers:
Spending your summer's friday night with your bud, your beer, your muscle-car and your fat-chick in front of the greatest city.
>>2715462
thats a pretty good picture.
>>2715462
it was made by Thomas Hoepker in 1983:
"I took the picture in the fall of 1983, at sunset at the old docks in New Jersey with a view towards the World Trade towers in New York City. I had heard that there was a traditional Lovers' Lane, a meeting place of young people in their cars, bringing booze and sometimes drugs. The sun was setting and the towers across the river were glowing before it became too dark to take more pictures."
>>2715462
Would I be right in saying there's a lot a telecompression going on in this shot
![rodczenko-muzeum-narodowe-krakow-013[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Suy46Om.jpg "rodczenko-muzeum-narodowe-krakow-013[1].jpg")
rodchenko is goat
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I would love to have enough money to get into this type of photography
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I see what's going on here. Once you realize your actual niveau of photography you can reach at maximum, you start to like photography on that niveau. As long as you are not sure what you can reach you orientate on the best possible. But once you know you settle down with that and from then onwards, this stuff is the best shit ever because of [random argument].
Actually you're just defending you own bad photography.
Not my fav one, but a very powerful picture.
I can look at it for a lot of time and always wonder what the man and tiger were thinking at that moment.
R.I.P. in peace photojournalism
>>2715178
This one of favorites too. Tarkovsky was a genius.
>>2715518
1/10 troll
>>2715519
what
pictures quality is terrible, I didn't notice it, but it do like it a lot, it was taken by Yamamoto masao, I think there's the whole set in better resolution on his page.
>>2715523
dont bother to answer, they are national geographic wannabe retards.
>>2715529
wannabe-Cocteau arsty hipster detected.
>>2715531
>>2715533
>Post your favorite photos from your favorite photographers.
posting your own shit. retard.
>>2715542
Was probably just some narcissistic cunt
>>2715538
oh my, you called me gay? dont you dare.
>>2715217
OP here, that's a crappy photo for a cool location.
I like the photo in my OP because first of all I didn't know tarkosvsky also liked photography, he's one of the greatest directors of all time and a huge inspiration to me. Also, I really like that specific photo because of it's tonality. It's very dark and sad looking, but the tones of shade and darkness are just separate enough to make out of the silhouette of a person in the fog.
Heres another one by Andrei. Some of his photos are crappy and kind of out of focus because I think they are mostly just snapshots, but you can tell he has a very natural eye for things.
>>2715476
Damn that is really nice.
What whale is that? Blue Whale?
That's absolutely beautiful and terrifying at the same time, really puts into perspective just how huge those things are.
>>2715567
Humpback whale my man.
>>2715502
is this that dude in India that commit suicide a few years ago by jumping in the cage? I think there was a video too.
>>2715217
lol plz be bait
immediate family is brilliant, but I'm scared to buy my own copy for fear of the FBI breaking down my door
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>>2715356
Here you go >^.==.^< https://www.flickr.com/photos/mcalister570/
>>2715922
>I'm scared to buy my own copy for fear of the FBI breaking down my door
what the fuck
>The tingle in your crotch and the flutter in your heart are revolutionary acts. They are the first shots fired at the Bastille. They are the match that burns the flag. They are levers that can be used to control you, or levers you can use to control the world.
>In some places and times, like right now, you could be stoned to death for loving the wrong person.
>In some places and times, like right now, if you enjoy pleasure with the wrong gender, or with the right gender but the wrong pleasure center, you can be imprisoned for life. Or executed.
>In some places and times, like right now, if you love a person of the wrong color or religion, you will be shunned.
>In some places and times, like right now, you can be sent to prison for recording an image of the natural form of your children.
>Sex, love, the human form, the state of nature in all its variety and mess and passion. Each nude photograph you make is a gunshot assassinating a king. Each orgasm you create is a Declaration of Independence. Each person you love is a tyrant’s statue toppled.
>So love, cum, photograph. Harder, faster, longer. –Black Irish Girl Manifesto, 2007
No other photographers work speaks to me like his
you have been vsited by the martin parr of last resort
good fill flash and pretty highlights will cum 2 u but only if u poast:
"thnak u martin parr"
thnak u martin parr
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air force one after LBJ was sworn in, the famous 'wink' photograph. Jackie's face and everything about this photo just really gets me I think this is one of the most powerful images in history. taken by Cecil W. Stoughton.
>>2715509
>tfw I will never be the next McCullin
>>2715288
Daido - my nigga
>>2715933
the book theme is naked children posing
Sally Mann is both the photographer and mother of the children portrayed, yet it the book put her through some trouble
>>2717213
oh you were referring to Sally "its not pimping if theyre my child" Mann?
now srs. theres this woman photographer who indeed pimped her daughter, she made a whole career out of photographing her young daughter in very provocative and other times plain lewd photos. she whored her daughter too, with a count, baron or something. anyone knows what am i talking about?
>>2717250
oh got it, it was Irina Ionesco, pretty weird story. pic related, the child.
i think this photo is pretty hilarious, and that it depicts 80s office with mastery. its by Martin Parr.
This one is by Andre Kertesz.
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>>2715469
Really like the composition and feel of this photo. Do you have any idea who the photographer is?
>>2717250
though she exploited her children, I think that's different from pimping her daughter...
a bit off topic, but I guess there aren't any documentary photographers who doesn't take advantage of its subjects to make it's own name. from sally mann, exhibiting her children, to sebastião salgado, photographing the poor but giving its sales revenue to paramilitary organizations who deprives them. I think the ones who did not intended to do it, such as don mcculin, would rather not photograph more when perceive that either way, liking or not, this is what happens...
>>2717277
It says it in the file name. It's Josef Koudelka. His photobooks are incredible. I own Exiles and I'm looking to get Gypsies which is where this photo is from. One of my favorite photographers ever
>>2717282
>Josef Koudelka
Oh, I've seen his work before, didn't know his name is all. Thank you though, Yeah, he is astounding, He's one of my role-models
>>2717281
but what would constitute to you "not taking advantage"? what would you do in their place? not becoming rich by hiding your powerful work? what would you do?
>>2717292
well, yes.
first things first, making your work public has nothing to do with making yourself, and even less with making yourself rich.
then, what I criticize as taking advantage, in the case of sally mann, is that her oeuvre is, allegedly, of personal importance, of a intimate beauty. I guess this does not necessarily incurs in self promotion, as by art galleries, art museums and such. in his book, tarkovsky wrote some beautiful words on the matter of humbleness and anonymity of the artist; that the sense of beauty we perceive in gothic cathedrals are not linked with its author persona, as we link today, afterwards modernism, but with something both deeper and higher. but in anyway I'm condemn her work or her persona, I'm rather trying to answer you according to the question.
when the matter is exploitation by photodocumentarist, one got to be a bit more sensible and a bit more critical. of course sebastião salgado done a great work of presenting the state of hunger and misery in many regions of the earth. but, on his own region, he didn't even keep the revenues from his pictures to himself, rather publicized and donated to an organization (MST) directly linked to the greatest paramilitary organization on latin america, which is highly envolved in drug traffic etc (FARC). one might say this question barely touches his photography, and its true; but having he publicized himself as foreman of social and political questions of our time, especially on the third world, one can't help but notice this contradiction, in the way that by his pictures he advocates attention, but by his presentations and seminars, he acts in the reverse direction. this is an example of why I'm suspicious when the matter is big photodocumentarism.
there's a whole lot that could be said about the ethics of photodocumentarism, and there's also a documentary where don mcculin himself talks briefly on the matter -- highly recommended.
>>2716032
thank u martin parr
>>2717303
yeah i get what are you pointing at. i dont know, i never liked salgado too much, i always got this "national geographic" vibe, that voyeuristic, colonial vibe. then i learned a bit more about him and saw his bombastic ways of presenting all of that humanitarian stuff, kind of a Bono of photography, maybe im wrong but i get that vibe.
the concept of author is very important nowadays, you make a "name", also you dont find the spiritual in cathedrals anymore. spiritual things became equalized with feelings, or pathetism, so you get drug addicts, fat or scarred nude people. one could argue intimacy or revealed intimacy is the new spirituality. mann just acted on the top of the general zeitgeist.
ive seen some alec soth interviews, the guy can get legit close to the subjects, or at least thats what you see in the pictures. theres akwardness, but theres closeness too. afaik he talks a lot with people before making the pictures, he explains why is he doing all that, maybe that would be a less exploitative way to work when documenting?
>>2717145
My favorite photo. I really like that candid determination in the eyes of these (i think Greek?) militiamen. You just cant emulate emotion like this in a controlled / studio environment.
I actually saw an original print of this on ebay for $400, didn't have the disposable income for it, but would be damn cool on the wall
Don McCullin is a fucking lad. If you guys dig him, read his autobiography, unexpectedly well written for a photographer and holy shit has be been through the wringer and back.
Munkasci
Klein
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>>2717366
eggleston is such a mememaster. you can even see that on his hilarious drunk videos.
>>2717307
You should seriously consider watching the The Salt of the Earth, the movie made about Salgado, if you haven't already (It's on Netflix).
At least while he was working on Other Americas, he seems deeply involved with his subjects, and lived with the people he was making pictures of. I understand the notion of it seeming voyeuristic, but I would like to believe that his heart is in the right place.
Similarly, Martin Parr for much of his early work black and white stuff, he was living with the people he was photographing in Hampden Bridge. His stuff shot in Liverpool like >>2716032, was also accused of a similar claim of it being voyeuristic and exploitative, so much so that it was apparently contentious within Magnum when he was applying for membership.
In Salgado's case however, I think it's important to remember that the work he was doing whether it was in South America, or Rwanda or Iraq was documentation, and I think that that is where that "vibe" comes from. Maybe more to the point it is a conflation between voyeurism and exploitation that is seemingly rubbing you the wrong way about his work.
In my opinion, he's preserving moments that show the pain that humans are capable of causing one another, and if by nature that is exploitative in the present, perhaps the lessons that can be gleaned from viewing his work will be of greater future value if it can teach empathy, or greater global awareness to other generations.
>>2717356
the photo that inspired Henri Cartier-Bresson to take up photography If I'm not mistaken?
nice shot...
here's a shot of Trent Parke.
>>2715561
I really like this although I think he has too much foreground.
>>2717469
woah thats cool
how was this accomplished.
I wonder if pictures like this could even be shot nowadays without PETA launching a mass suicide attack on your studio
>>2717516
from Magnums' site :
AUSTRALIA. Sydney. A man walks past a bus shelter in which the glass has been smashed in Oxford street. The face of the young girl is on a poster reflected in the glass. From Dream/Life series. 1999.
>>2717522
just using film is enough for them now
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>>2716032
thank u martin parr
I appreciate this thread
>>2718135
u smart
u loyal
i appreciate that
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>>2716032
thank u martin parr
>>2716032
based parr is pretty cool guy, fuck bitches, and doesnt afraid of anything.
>>2717370
Link?
this guy is total bro. his photos are top stuff.
>>2718243
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc9FRB0WuGU
Honest opinions incoming.
>>2715178
Really nice mood.
>>2715182
Absolutely fucking retarded whilst also being completely unpleasing to the eye.
>>2715217
Nice "movement" in the image.
Pretty sure it could've looked a lot better with some vibrant colors, though.
>>2715288
Failed snapshit trash.
>>2715356
Tryhard fail. Terrible colors.
>>2715462
Very good. Really captures the "movie 80's"-feel.
>>2715469
Amazingly dynamic scene. Love it.
>>2715474
Eh, okay, I guess.
>>2715476
Very good. Again, I assume it would look a lot better with some very deep and dynamic blues/greens.
>>2715502
Snapshit.
>>2715509
Perfect composition. Too bad about that grit.
>>2715518
Nice.
>>2715561
Over-edited meh.
>>2715870
Nice and snappy creepshot.
>>2715922
Excellent composition, light and quality.
>>2715986
"Art" trash.
>>2716032
Good scene, but not the best shot, technically.
>>2716058
Snapshit with an interesting expression.
>>2718272
>>2717251
Pretty.
>>2717254
Stock photo.
>>2717255
Excellent.
>>2717354
Looks a bit staged, but extremely good composition.
>>2717356
Good movement.
>>2717358
Silly shot of your own kids.
>>2717360
Great. Too much grain, though.
>>2717366
Trash. Literally.
>>2717367
Facebook.
Facebook.
Look.
Look, I got fed again.
>>2717368
Okay.
>>2717372
Perfect.
>>2717469
What the fuck is this blurry clipart trash?
>>2717522
Like a painting. Love it.
>>2717796
Beautiful.
>>2718135
Ugly and pointless.
>>2718139
Very good. Reminds me of that painting of the French revolution.
>>2718244
Nice contrast and light grading.
>>2718245
thanks family, love this guy
>>2718279
>you have to know the history of something to dislike it on the basis of aesthetics
Okay, man. I hope you don't regret that degree in art history.
>>2718272
>>2718274
for the love of god, please be b8
>>2718272
>>2718274
>>2718272
>>2718274
>>2718287
>>2718324
I support you. Your opinion goes 99% with mine, but
>>2715518
>Nice.
I don't agree. It's just stupid. But nevertheless. A pity everybody who says something sane in here gets shit-stormed by wannabe artists, who cannot admit that they don't have an own opinion and just repeating the blabla some other clueless idiot told them who got told again by some third moron and so on ... it's a shame how people are like sheeps.
>>2718324
>Is anything "art" to you from the moment an authority figure tells you so? Have you no integrity?
this is such a standard response that it must come printed on a card included with every new DSLR
it's the photographically illiterate version of "WAKE UP SHEEPLE"
>>2718324
no, but you're "critique" is retarded. It's mostly just a single adjective describing some of the most famous pictures of the past, by some of the most prolific photographers. If you think that you are in any state able to judge pictures of others (which I don't think you are), you should be able to get deeper than "okay I guess" or "Snapshit trash".
Not to mention my favorite retarded comments "Silly shot of your own kids" in regards to that William Klein shot and "Too much grain" on a early 19th century shot by Vivian Maier
>>2718352
he is baiting mate, you cant be that retard.
>>2718352
>"critique"
I wrote OPINION, not critique, my dear Anon.
>>2718346
>standard response so there can't possibly be anything to it
I'm just saying, man. If you like something because someone told you it is "good", you lack integrity. If you learned about the specific circumstances which brought the piece about, and from that draw the conclusion that it was interesting, you ought to have enough objectivity to be able to understand that that alone doesn't make it "good". That sort of thinking can often be attributed to confirmation bias based on education. It's very human to be subject to such feelings, but they betray your true feelings brought about by the aesthetics of a piece.
The only way to judge art is by use of your internal and personal feelings, which for most people are surprisingly similar when it comes to visuals - be that the result of evolution or whatever. The fact remains that art isn't immune to dislike, just because it's established as art by authority figures.
>>2718352
this is one of my problems with C&C on /p/
these comments aren't well founded, they're just uninformed knee jerk responses
and when called on, the person always goes edgelord about how they just tell it like it is, and everyone else is a spoonfed art school ass kiss, when in reality the c&cer is just bitter, closed minded, and inept
it's totally possible to not like classic photos for whatever reason, but to be phrase it in such a crude and arrogant fashion, why would anyone take them serious?
protip: they don't
>>2718362
But that's just how all c&c on /p/ looks like.
Why should it be more profound just because the shots are famous?
Also, there is a huge amount of shots here. Who would bother writing a full review of each one just for the sake of it?
It would make more sense to make a separate thread for a single shot for that purpose.
holy fucking christ /p/. youre so easily baited.
and thats because youre all insecure and angry fucks. any post that looks like bait, you ignore it, you dont argue to it, retards.
>>2718369
Ignoring trolls does nothing. Proven by science.
yet another reason to support forced IDs on /p/ for filtering of trolls and assholes!
>INB4 reddit
this arrangement is from a photobook that is said to be the first one dealing with a more complex concept behind the editing. the dyptich order makes it very powerful.
>>2718139
Never seen this picture until now, but just from seeing the thumbnail I had a feeling that that it was from the book Prague, by Josef Koudelka.
>>2717368
Saw an exhibition of his stuff last year. Really great overall.
Thomas Struth's Paradise series is pretty great.
>>2718472
>tfw just covered him in lecture today
>>2715217
That Reminds me that area from dark souls before bed of chaos.
>>2718472
overrated imho.
when looking at the dusseldorf school, he is the most lazy (maybe along with Candida Höfer).
Germans (in photography), in general, try far too much to not show that they are trying far too much.
This photo got me into photography in general and medium format specifically. Photographer Espen Lystad
Joel Sternfeld
Wayne Levin
>>2715476
Equipment-wise NIkonos cameras are dirt cheap. Getting out there in those situations would be big $$$ though.
Another shot from Wayne Levin
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>>2715472
Lel'd.
He as out creepin' eh?
>>2718361
Umm... 19th century photo is shit because of the quality.
But, even now that you know it's 19th century... You still think it's shit because of the quality.
The backstory doesn't matter huh?
Fucking moron.
>>2715462
>muscle car
No, that would be a Pinto, and he's banging a fatty because that's the only piece of flange desperate enough to be seen riding around in one.
Rene Burri
>>2715182
So, the lines look okay I guess. Is that all there is to this photo. Doesn't seem very pleasing to the eye.
>>2723008
It's not just about formalism.
bumperino
honsetly, while I like Tarkovsky as much as any other person with gud taste in cinema, his photos wouldn't be treated as anything other than snapshit with some tumblr-tier filters if I didn't tell you he took them.
>>2719233
>when looking at the dusseldorf school, he is the most lazy
I'd definitely give that award to Thomas Ruff. He's fucking awful. He's honestly the only Dusseldorf photographer who I just flat out don't get why people like him. I can appreciate some of the photographers that I don't like that much, but Ruff is just fucking terrible.
I honestly think Struth is one of the most versatile. A lot of the Dusseldorf photographers just rely on a single schtick. Struth's works have gone all over the place over the years.
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>>2723881
Struth was doing the whole stark, minimalist architecture thing long before it was really popular.
>>2723882
>>2723884
And he's probably the only photographer from the Dusseldorf school who really developed a cohesive portraiture style that kept the school's aesthetics but also really gave them feeling.
/struth defense rant
Thomas Ruff, on the other hand, is the embodiment of the word 'gimmick.' His photos are all about fucking with conventions but without actually producing anything of substance.
>blurry porn
>low res jpgs
>negatives
He's all about style over substance. He may be good at thinking outside the box for technique, but there's nothing underneath.
>>2715462
She's a big girl.
>>2717145
Would you want to be though? I watched McCullin, along with as many interviews as I could find and it seems like he's totally scarred by his experiences. He has flashbacks, he's totally haunted. I respect what he put himself through to bring knowledge of awful events to the media, especially given how betrayed he felt by the media past a certain point, but I couldn't do what he did.
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"And there she stood, on the little terrace overlooking the vast sea, playing with her bird as innocent and blissful as a small child."
by Nikos Economopoulos
>>2723925
honestly she looks like an old lady pretending to be playing childishly with a bird
you may say I'm a memer but this pic is great
>>2723929
Oh shit I totally forgot about these. Do you have the one of the woman soaking her feet in milk, surrounded by jars of milk?
I forget what this collection was called, something like Disturbia, but not that. Something about perversion and being caught in the act of something.
>>2723906
For you
>>2718274
>>2718272
when I created this thread I was expecting one of you shitters to pop up and actually do this shit.
Holy fuck I hope this is bait. Why are photography critics so fucking stupid and self-important? You aren't a fucking museum curator. Eat shit, every photo in this thread is 100x better than your talentless arm-chair art expert will ever produce.
>>2723889
>gimmick
his portrait series is pretty good.
I don't really know.
It's hard to pick a single one.
I'm also mostly into architectural photography and landscapes but Klein, Moriyama and stuff like Meyerowitz is also cool. Cliche stuff like Adams and HCB are also what I consider excellent. Some Gursky stuff is pretty good even if I miss the point in some other works of his.
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>>2723889
I always found this one to be my favorite desu senpai.
>>2724126
It's painfully boring.
>well, it's supposed to be emotionless
Yeah, and that makes it painfully boring. They're not even good photos of emotionless people. They've fucking glorified passport photos.
>>2723942
It was called disturbation, the artist is Dany Peschl. He recently took his website offline though for some unknown reason.
