So many sites, so little time...
It's a daunting task, maintaining a list of links and these days it seems the least appropriate way of broadcasting sites that I like. I add new things to my del.icio.us tags, so take a look at those as well.
So what's listed here?
- sites that I return to reularly or occasionally, to explore and
admire the commitment of the artist (often nowadays these are photoblogs);
sites that I visit in order to find more of the former, usually maintained
by dedicated image-sleuths; sites where I can find general photographic information;
sites that provide a showcase for photographers I admire; and
sites that I find interesting for any reason other than those already stated.
Photoblogs
- Here is a list of my current regular reading list, blogs that I find consistently interesting and valuable:
- The following are other blogs that I keep an eye on:
- These are a few that I visit from time to time:
- curiously incongruous - perhaps the best documentation of London you're ever likely to find
- Daily Dose of Imagery - I've grown to like this site more over time, but I still sometimes wonder at its mass appeal given the number of equally competent sites out there. Sam Javanrouh's pictures from Canada
- Your Waitress - sometimes you can tell when a person's approach to -and use of - photography is exactly as it should be.
- The Narrative - Matt O'Sullivan consistently produces interesting material
- Mine Is No Disgrace - intriguing but somewhat frustrating navigation, worth the effort
- Limited Exposure - if you like a clean and crisp graphical colour style, Bob's your guy.
Photo-Aggregators
- The Online Photographer (TOP) - one of the very best places to find out what's going down in the pixel (and film) world. From Mike Johnston.
- Muse-ings - Tim Atherton's "Thoughts on Photography and What Inspires It"
- Conscientious - 'a web log about fine-art photography', by Joerg Colberg. A great place to discover work by new photographers and updates on those not-so-new.
- Mrs Deane - named after a spiritualist medium in Victorian times, don't let that put you off!
- The F Blog - another mix of pictures from various sources, collected and served by Gruppo F.
- Luminous Lint - Extremely well presented and content-rich. A site that aims "to create the world‘s leading collaborative knowledge-base for significant vintage and contemporary photography".
- deFocused - an eclectic collection of images from all over
- iN-PUBLiC.com - dedicated to street photography; not an area I work in but probably the best collection of this genre around
Magazines
- Ag Magazine - one of the best UK journals on contemporary photography, both art and technique - also has a very useful e-print download feature for individual articles from back issues.
- AgENDA - weblog from the UK mag Ag
- Lens Culture - photography and shared territories, portfolios and interviews
- Seesaw - 'observation full and felt'
- File - a collection of unexpected photography
- The Digital Journalist - A Multimedia Magazine for Photojournalism in the Digital Age
- MakingRoom - a magazine about the process, intention and results of image-making
- Portfolio - contemporary photography in Britain
- Creative Camera - virtually back with us, but not updated for a while now
- ZoneZero - over ten years in the business of photography on the web
Photographers
- Take a look at who I've recently added to my del.icio.us
photography tags or grab an
feed
from http://del.icio.us/tag/photographers and
keep up with everyone's picks - Graham Flint - Gigapxl Project - nice to see that film still has the edge.
- Bob McClelland - work I was familiar with from the 1980s. Good to see it lives on, as wonderful as ever.
- Fay Godwin: 1931-2005 - A great photographer and land activist that left us in 2005. You can read an obituary here. She is positioned in the line of succession that contains other photographers featured here - Edwin Smith & Ray Moore, and like them she produced a unique style that was peculiarly 'English'.
- Martin Parr - Magnum member and fast becoming a British institution in documentary photography
- Brian Griffin - Martin's old mate from college days, proving that commercial photography need not be dull
- Michael Kenna - some superb imagery, now a long way from Widnes, Lancashire
- Frank Horvat - a master of the craft
- Mary Ellen Mark - another of the above
- Alec Soth - 'Sleeping by the Mississippi', 'Niagara' and other works from this important US photographer
- Chris Jordan - American consumerism
- Mihai Mangiulea - intriguing and evocative pictures using a primarily non-digital approach
- Markus Pfeffer - a wide variety of good stuff on this German site
- Bob Kolb - some crisp and beautifully rendered work in the great American tradition of large-format photography
- Rob Gray - some of Australia's finest landscapes
- Bruce Barnbaum - Instructor Motivator Photographer Writer Environmentalist
- Jeff T Alu - I used to link to Jeff's work a while ago as I like it a lot. When I found this YouTube offering from him I thought I'd bring him back.
Not Just Photography
- Photographic Memorabilia - Maurice Fisher's fascinating archive and history of Ilford, Paterson, Johnsons, Photopia, Gratispool, etc.
- D'log - photography and other interesting stuff, from Stoke, UK.
- Alfred's Camera Page - Alf knows his cameras, odd ones for sure
- Photos Leave Home - Archived esearch notes from a 1-year ESRC study about personal photography and the web completed in 2004.
- UNphotographable - 'This is the picture I did not take...' - wonderful descriptions of untaken photographs
- The Jargon Society - Jonathan WIlliams, dedicated to finding, bringing together, and focusing upon overlooked and underrated aspects of American and British culture.
- Lorraine Shemesh - a US photorealist producing some astonishing imagery through painting and drawing
- eyestorm - fancy investing in some Britart? - photography too...
- pretty serendipities - Elena Karo's occasional blog, not updated since Feb 2005, but a good archive to flip through
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