ELIZABETH AVEDON: On TIME Magazines 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2014 List

  

TIME Magazines 'Best Twitter Feeds of 2014' list

And thanks for the pretty fine compliments from TIME's Mia Tramz!  

 

"Choosing TIME’s Annual List of the 140 Most Influential Twitter Feeds is never easy, with tens of thousands of contenders, but it’s especially difficult as a greater volume of people, organizations and even bots find innovative ways to stand out. This list contains a wide range of personalities, all chosen by TIME editors from diverse subjects like politics, sports, culture and technology."(TIME.com)

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LIFE MAGAZINE: 2011 PhotoBlog Winners

Congratulations to Jean Jacques Naudet,

Alex Kummerman, Magnus Naddermier, Sophie Hedtmann,
and all the Correspondents for La Lettre de la Photographie!

...and to Rob Haggert at APhotoEditor.com,
James Estrin & Josh Haner for NY Times Lens Blog

LIFE 2011 Photo Blog Winners

MELANIE MCWHORTER: Interview with PhotoBook Designer Elizabeth Avedon

Interview with Photobook Designer Elizabeth Avedon

I first met Elizabeth Avedon when she was the Gallery Director at photo-eye. Since the time Elizabeth departed Santa Fe, she established her own blog which has become a recognized voice in the photography community featuring portfolios and interviews, including my first interview about my photography. I am delighted to turn the tables on Ms. Avedon and allow her to discuss her profession: Book, Exhibition and Web Design + Curatorial Consultant. Here she discusses the photobook, print-on-demand, and some of her favorite projects.

Melanie McWhorter: At what point is it important to involve a designer in your project?

Elizabeth Avedon: There are different stages for a designer to step in for every project. It really depends on the artist/photographer. Some photographers will start talking to me years before they actually are ready to begin the layouts, others hand me a complete, finished edit when I first meet them. I can easily begin to sequence the work for them from that, but I think it's an important step in the overall process for the designer to be involved in the edit of the work from the start, to get a feel for the point of view of the photographer. Many times the designer will see an interesting "book" the artist hadn't imagined for themselves. Other times the photographer will be overly critical in their edit, second guessing themselves and their audience, leaving out images that may show important steps in the evolution of their work. Other photographers may not be critical enough with their work, unable to edit out images because of the people, place or action going on which may not actually come across so well in the image as they think. They are still visualizing the moment, but we don't see it in the frame. It's important for everyone to have an outside eye.

MM: Are most of your clients individuals and do you consult with them one-on-one or are most publishers?

EA: I'm not really a trade book designer, although I love the work I've done for them in the past. (Favorite was An Open Heart by The Dalai Lama for Little, Brown & Co). Almost all of my clients have been individuals or at least the projects start out as someone approaching me and then suggesting to their publisher they would like to work with me. I'm mostly asked to work on special projects. I recently had lunch with the son of a late great photographer to discuss a book of his father's iconic images. Fortunately I knew his father and many of these images are part of my own history, so it could work out well for both of us. We discussed whether to bring in a publisher at this juncture or design the completed book and package it to a publisher. Other times I'll design and print a 20-page dummy for someone to shop around to publishers.

MM: What do you feel is the role of a designer in a creating a photobook?

EA: I think a designer is there to organize the work, whether through a timeline, chapters, subcategories or just by the sequencing into a narrative. The way the works flows from one image to the next, one spread to another, should intuitively guide the viewer through the photographer's world - his or her intention with their work. It's really fun to do a very creative design, with crazy fabulous typography and collage the images and show off as a designer, but that isn't going to showcase a photographer's work. I try to let the work dictate what kind of book it wants to be and stay out of the way. Let the work speak for itself. I've worked on several long-term projects that began as one kind of book and when they were completed, I could see they wanted to be an entirely different kind of book. The work needed to be organized into its first incarnation, to see it was meant to be as an entirely different kind of entity...read more here

Melanie McWhorter Photo Blog

Photographer Melanie McWhorter has managed photo-eye BookStore, the best online Photography Bookstore in the world, for over 13 years. She is a regular contributor to the photo-eye Magazine, co-founder of FiniteFoto Magazine, curator and lecturer.

LENSCRATCH: The Family

VIEW THE FAMILY EXHIBITION

Lenscratch created an opportunity for photographers to exhibit one image that best represents their idea of FAMILY, which were published today. (Guidelines for future submissions here)

SHERI LYNN BEHR: Rock and Roll Archive

Bono, NYC, 2005
Photograph (c) Sheri Lynn Behr /All Rights Reserved

The Ramones, CBGB's, 1977
Photograph (c) Sheri Lynn Behr /All Rights Reserved

Neil Giraldo and Pat Benatar, The Bottom Line, 1979
Photograph (c) Sheri Lynn Behr /All Rights Reserved

Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Madison Square Garden, 1977
Photograph (c) Sheri Lynn Behr /All Rights Reserved

Sheri Lynn Behr grew up in the Bronx, and studied photography and digital imaging in New York City at the New School, ICP, and Pratt Manhattan. Her photographs of musicians in the 1970s appeared in most music publications of the time, including Rolling Stone, Creem, and Billboard, and she often shot on assignment for major recording companies such as RCA and Arista and Atlantic Records. These images are now considered fine art photographs and have been included in several photography exhibitions.

Sheri Lynn Behr

Rock and Roll Photography Archive

Sheri's Blog includes a look back on shooting Iggy Pop, The Clash, Ian Dury, David Johansen, Meat Loaf, Hot Tuna, U2, Lou Reed, Garland Jeffries - I'm looking forward to more posts! Also view Behr's Lucky Cats

LENSCRATCH: An On-line Exhibition Opportunity

Family by Aline Smithson

Lenscratch will be creating exposure opportunities for photographers with group on-line exhibitions. Photographers will be allowed ONE entry per exhibition and all photographs will be published.

Submission Guidelines:
Image size: 72dpi at 1000px on the long side. Send name, title, location, and link to your work (website or other). In the subject of your e-mail, type the name of the exhibition (FAMILY, etc) and e-mail to: alinesmithson@yahoo.com. If your images are sized incorrectly or the submission is incomplete, they will not be posted.

Due Date: November 14th
Send one image that best represents your idea of FAMILY. Post will run on Thanksgiving

Due Date: December 27th
Send your FAVORITE image that you took in 2010. Post will run on New Year's Day

Due Date: March 17th
Send one image that best represents LUCK. Post will run on St. Patrick's Day

Due Date: April 25th
Send your favorite SELF PORTRAIT. Post will run on May 1st

ASMPNY: Join Me for Conversations on Fine Art Photography Bloggers

INFLUENTIAL FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY BLOGGERS PANEL

Join ASMP-NY's Panel: Elizabeth Avedon, A.D. Coleman, Stella Kramer, and Rubin Natal-San Miguel

Fine art photography blogs have changed the landscape for sharing and reviewing work. Blogs are more personal and idiosyncratic while attracting a wide audience, and doing so more quickly and inexpensively. Photographers no longer have to wait for a review of a bricks-and-mortar exhibition by a very small group of print publications. The objective of this night is to inform photographers about fine art photography blogging and how to get your work noticed.

Nov 3rd 7-9 pm Soho Photo 15 White St NYC

Register Here

KEVIN J. MIYAZAKI: 567 Photography Interviews

from Camp Home
A series on former Japanese-American Internment Barracks
Photograph (c)Kevin Mitazaki /All Rights Reserved

from Camp Home
A series on former Japanese-American Internment Barracks
Photograph (c)Kevin Mitazaki /All Rights Reserved

from Camp Home
A series on former Japanese-American Internment Barracks
Photograph (c)Kevin Mitazaki /All Rights Reserved

from Camp Home
A series on former Japanese-American Internment Barracks
Photograph (c)Kevin Mitazaki /All Rights Reserved

from Camp Home
A series on former Japanese-American Internment Barracks
Photograph (c)Kevin Mitazaki /All Rights Reserved

from Camp Home
A series on former Japanese-American Internment Barracks
Photograph (c)Kevin Mitazaki /All Rights Reserved

Photographer and part-time educator, Kevin Miyazaki, has created THE BIG LIST [567 & GROWING] OF PHOTOGRAPHER AND PHOTO INDUSTRY INTERVIEWS on MIAD-FA382. It's a fantastic Resource - a must-see-and-read for anyone interested in Photography!

You can read HOME: KNOWN AND UNKNOWN by curator Karin Higa, Japanese American National Museum, about Miyazaki's series Camp Home (on his website under Personal/Camp Home). He has been documenting the reuse of buildings from the * Tule Lake Internment Camp, where his father's family was placed during World War II. Because photography was forbidden by internees, very few photographs of the home-life were made by the families. "My pictures act as evidence, though many years later, of a domestication rarely recorded during the initial life of the structures."

Kevin Miyazaki: Website
The Big List: MIAD-FA382

* Tule Lake was the largest and most controversial of the ten War Relocation Authority WRA camps used to carry out the government’s system of exclusion and detention of persons of Japanese descent, mandated by Executive Order 9066. Two-thirds of the 120,000 persons of Japanese descent incarcerated in American concentration camps were American citizens, an act that culminated decades of anti-Japanese violence, discrimination and propaganda. Read more...

MIKAEL KENNEDY: 500 Polaroids

Austin, Randolph, VT 2006
Photograph (c) Mikael Kennedy /All Rights Reserved

Oregon Coast 2007
Photograph (c) Mikael Kennedy /All Rights Reserved

Kennedy Blog: Passport To Trespass

Shoot The Moon 500 Polaroids by Mikael Kennedy
April 14 - May 2, 2010 • Suite 524 of The Chelsea Hotel
video

LARRY FINK: Be Seen

Be Seen
Photograph (c) Larry Fink /All Rights Reserved

Be Seen
Photograph (c) Larry Fink /All Rights Reserved

Mingle
Photograph (c) Larry Fink /All Rights Reserved

Mingle
Photograph (c) Larry Fink /All Rights Reserved

BOOKS
LARRY FINK WEBSITE
And BLOG

GINA KELLY: Behind The Curtain

Denali Behind The Curtain 2
Photograph (c) Gina Kelly /All Rights Reserved

Box of Horses
Photograph (c) Gina Kelly /All Rights Reserved

Sisters
Photograph (c) Gina Kelly /All Rights Reserved

The Kind of Thing That Brightens My Day
Photograph (c) Gina Kelly /All Rights Reserved

GEENUT BLOGSPOT
GINA KELLY WEBSITE