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Saul Leiter - Vertical and AbstractAs you know, I normally don't do (features) Journals.
The exception goes to those photographers that had some historical importance in the photography World, those that influence(d) me, those that I believe can move others like they moved me, humanitarian photographers, and that normally live in the "shadow" of the same old Features and references.
This one is not the case, because I'm talking about Saul Leiter.
He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, his father was a well known Talmud scholar and Saul studied to become a Rabbi. At age 23, he left theology school and moved to New York City to become an artist. He had developed an early interest in painting, like so many photographers. His mother gave him his first camera, a Detrola camera, when he was 12 years old.
He was soon taking black and white pictures with a 35 mm Leica, which he acquired by exchanging a few Eugene Smith (exceptional photographer from Life magazine, among others) prints for it. By 1948 he began to ex

EXCEPTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS ON deviantART. Ed. APRILSunny greetings from Greece everyone!

For this month's feature I chose someone I admire for his talent, his mediterranean temperament and his emotional generosity, Doug Richards :iconDougNZ:

- Tell us a little about yourself.
- I’m the youngest of 14 children – 7 brothers and 7 sisters
I was born and still live in Auckland, New Zealand, though I spent years travelling and living abroad in the UK, Europe, Australia, Philippines and USA.
Last year I made a huge career change after decades of selling new houses to working as an Employment Broker helping to get the unemployed back into work – less than half the income for me but ten times the satisfaction.
Two kids – a boy and a girl. Two grandkids – a boy and a girl.
- How did your relationship with Photography begin and how has it developed through the years?
- I’m so old that I can remember taking photos of my brother with a Kodak Box Brownie. I

Rinzi RuizBack!... in Black.

Hopping you entered 2013 the best way possible, and wishing you all a Happy New Year, let's get down to pixels.
Today I bring you Rinzi Ruiz.
He is a Los Angeles based photographer who picked up a camera only 2 years ago (I can relate

) Known to find beauty in humanity and in capturing the emotion, the mundane, and the art in reality that is found everywhere, without ignoring the fact that he has a background in fine arts and graphic design (but photography is "much more fun and rewarding").
He is a phenomenal black & white street photographer, a light painter and a user of profound dark shadows and light reflections.
He is currently shooting with his first DSLR, a Nikon D90, and a Fujifilm X100 (because he got physically tired of carrying the bag), and shoots mostly at about F/5.6 to F/8.
Go check him out.
Note: Do you know what is "Chimping"? It's a syndrome, a bad addiction that runs in the digital photography community, and the ma

Matt WeberMatt Weber shots his way through life.
Started out as a taxi driver and saw so many things on the streets that he kept saying "If only I had a camera…" A camera seemed like the only way to capture the crazy stuff which was happening almost every night.
Claims that the 70's were more interesting than the 80's, but in December 1984 bought a competitive camera, an AE-1 and a 50mm lens.
Started out in color film, but one year after he turned to b/w, because color was tricky to develop.
Thinks that failure is important, and that failing over 99% of the time and not giving up is something to be proud of. Takes "awful pictures on a daily basis and always will. There aren't too many other types of photography where that's the expected result."
Suffered from the photographic equivalent of "Writer's Block" for many years and it would be the crazy decision to spend most of my savings on a pair of M6′s and a few lenses that helped him to comeback. "The 28mm & 35mm lenses are the perfec

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EXCEPTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS ON deviantART. Edit. nov:iconThePeopleAvenue: presents a new series of features.
Talented photographers are interviewed and talk about themselves and their relationship with Photography.
The first one is Marius, a photographer from Romania, a.k.a. :iconmarius1956:
TPA: Tell us a few things about yourself.
Marius: My name is Marius Georgescu, I live in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. Next January, I will be 57. I'm in a long-term relationship with a beautiful and smart woman, Sorina - 42 years old.
TPA: How did your relationship with Photography begin and how has it developed through the years?
Marius: My first encounter with Photography was 35 years ago, when an old friend and mentor taught me the basics of photographic art. After 5 years of self-study, I was admitted to the National Academy of Cinematography. Five years later, I graduated as a director of photography but I didn't get any assignment in the field of the film image since the Romanian Revolution , in1990. I was employed in the Romanian Public

Golden cape made with silk from a million spidersSource: The Guardian, see the full story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/24/spider-silk-cape-show Photo gallery: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/jan/23/golden-silk-cape-spiders-in-pictures?intcmp=239
STORY BY: Maev Kennedy PHOTOGRAPHY: David Levene
It has taken eight years and more than a million Madagascar Golden Orb spiders to create a work of art "with the quality of a fairy story".
Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley, a textile artist and a designer-entrepreneur respectively, have created a shimmering golden cape from spider silk, a fabric not woven in more than a century.
They stress that the spiders, big enough to cover the palm of a hand, were only "borrowed" from the forest, and returned there after a day. Peers says the spiders are "only mildly venomous", but Godley has an impressive scar on his neck. "They do have quite a strong bite," Peers admitted, "enough that you would feel like shaking them off quite quickly."
Peers learned about

Elliott Erwitt - L'instant crucialNé à Paris en 1928, fils d'émigrés russes, Elliott Erwitt a grandi en Italie et en France. Sa famille émigre aux Etats-Unis en 1939, s'installant d'abord à New York puis à Los Angeles.

Elliott Erwitt fréquente le lycée d'Hollywood, tout en travaillant dans un laboratoire commercial où il développe des tirages "signés" pour les fans de stars de cinéma. En 1949, il retourne en Europe où il voyage et prend des photos en Italie et en France, c'est le début de sa carrière professionnelle.
Conscrit dans l'armée des Etats-Unis en 1951, il continue à photographier pour plusieurs publications – totalement à l'écart de ses fonctions militaires – alors qu'il est en poste au New Jersey, en Allemagne et en France.

Par pure chance, alors qu'il était parti chercher du travail à New York avant son service militaire, il rencontre Edward Steichen, Robert Capa

Josef KoudelkaAs you know, I normally don't do (features) Journals.
The exception goes to those photographers that had some historical importance in the photography World, those that influence(d) me, those that I believe can move others like they moved me, humanitarian photographers, and that normally live in the "shadow" of the same old Features and references.
"The maximum, that is what has always interested me." This is a quote by Josef Koudelka.
He was born in 1938 in Moravia and began photographing with a 6 x 6 Bakelite camera.
He staged his first photographic exhibition in 1961. Changed to a Rolleiflex camera and in 1967 decided to give up his career in engineering for full-time work as a photographer.
Awarded several times, was known for his exceptional photographs, which required an enourmous amount of courage.
Nomad at heart, he wandered around Europe with his camera and little else. In 1987 Koudelka became a French citizen and his work received support and acknowledgment from his friend, "

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5 StepsStep one is to be there. That is the most important thing. I always keep a quote from Andrew Zuckerman in my mind when I'm not shooting, when I'm sitting at home and contemplating whether or not to get out of the house. I'm paraphrasing but it goes something like this: "Creativity is the product of curiosity and rigor." Curiosity gets you out of the house and going to specific places—likely places you have never been to before. Rigor gets you doing this consistently, even when you're shooting bad photos and feel discouraged. To get the good shots, you have to be there.
With that out of the way I do have a few specific techniques and ideas to keep in mind when shooting people in the streets. Since we already covered the first step, we could call this step two. Step two is to know your gear and be comfortable with it. Shooting needs to happen instantly without any fumbling with your camera. It should always be ready to shoot and set in a way that allows you to react instantly. When the c

Larry Louie - Honored to do a small FeatureAs you know, I normally don't do (features) Journals.
The exception goes to those photographers that had some historical importance in the photography World, those that influence(d) me, those that I believe can move others like they moved me, humanitarian photographers, and that normally live in the "shadow" of the same old Features and references.
Today, I bring you one that you might know already, Larry Louie.
When he was a teenager he dreamed of becoming a National Geographic photographer. Larry Louie is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveler, Photo District News (PDN), Black and White Photography Magazine, among others.
He is not a Professional photographer but an optometrist, and that is why he states that having other sources of income takes pressure to produce sensionalist images, directed to the media, but really work on major and important projects, things that really mean something to him and not imposed projects.
Sho

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Much of his work was signed 'Yan'—his Resistance nickname from the Second World War—because he felt that photography might not be a respectable occupation. One of the few photographers to document the liberation of Toulouse in 1944, Dieuzaide soon became a professional photo-reporter, initially specializing in sports, then covering all the actualité.

But he was also a faithful recorder of his native south-western France, where his first book on Gascony was published in 1946, as well as its adjoining regions, especially Catalonia, Spain, and Portugal. His pictures of French and Spanish gitans are romantic evocations of their life and evidence of the admiration in which they were held following the war.

Dieuzaide's work veers between a classic French humanism and a more formal style of highly graphic imagery, particularly in his architectural work and studies of natural forms in the landscape, or in his astonishing book on the sometimes quasi-erotic shapes created by cooling tar. A rigorous craftsman, his pictures are marked by the care and finesse with which they are composed and printed. So alarmed was he by the apparent demise of fibre-based printing paper in the late 1970s that he mounted a successful international campaign to persuade the manufacturers not to drop it in favour of resin-coated materials.

In 1974 he founded the gallery of the Château d'Eau in Toulouse, which rapidly became the chief photography space outside Paris, attracting work by leading photographers throughout the world. Dieuzaide was awarded the Prix Nadar (1961) and the Prix Niépce (1995).

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*batmantoo Feb 20, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

Thank you Patrice for this exposé on Jean Dieuzaide!
I did recognize some of his photos but never knew who did them... thanks to you, now I know and can appreciate much more this grand master.

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You're much welcome

Some more journal entries to come

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Looking forward to them!

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Thank you!

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Great works

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OH! MY........awesome work.

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