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Crowdsourced Instagram short films are all the rage

 

Love this - a crowd sourced short film from Thomas Jullien made up of 852 instagram photos.

Instagram Is

Instagram Is from technopaul productions on Vimeo.

 

Six photographs by Rene Burri

"Six Photographs": René Burri from PORT on Vimeo.

 

Punk as Fuck

 

Those were the days! Brilliant short film about Steve Gullick and his time shooting musicians from the early 90's. 

Inspired photography journal by Lisa Congdon

Loving this. 

San Francisco-based artist and illustrator Lisa Congdon has just released a new photography-themed journal that's filled with inspiring quotes by the great masters of photography.

Want one. 

The New Aesthetic

It has been around for a while, but The New Aesthetic is a nascent art movement that warrants observation.

It covers a wide range of genres and aspects to it, but ultimately it is about how the 'hand of technology' is a creating a truly modern reality. And nothing captures this best than photography.  

The best definition of what its all about is a brief visit to James Bridle's blog - one of leading curators of the movement.

However, Matthew Battles, a contributor to Metalab, a project of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, also gives a good definition:

New Aesthetic is a collaborative attempt to draw a circle around several species of aesthetic activity—including but not limited to drone photography, ubiquitous surveillance, glitch imagery, Streetview photography, 8-bit net nostalgia. Central to the New Aesthetic is a sense that we’re learning to “wave at machines”—and that perhaps in their glitchy, buzzy, algorithmic ways, they’re beginning to wave back in earnest.

Some of the best photography examples of this aesthetic is Google surveillance genre by Jon Rafman at 9-eyes:

 

 

 

 

_{(Photo credit: Jon Rafman at 9-eyes)} 

Rare Ansel Adams documentary footage

 

Incredible footage of Ansel Adams preparing for a shoot. Check out the amount of kit he has!

Imagine Ansel with just an iphone...

More footage below:

 

_{(Credit: found via PetaPixel)}

The Making of the Leica M9-P Edition Hermè

Watch the making of the Leica M9-P Edition Hermes. This is bind boggingly glorious stuff. Beautiful. 

Inspired Photographs Not Taken

Loving the book 'Photographs Not Taken' edited by Will Steacy.

It is a wonderfully moving account of the photos of that could have been.

It really makes you think about how photography contributes to memory and what it actually means to capture a decisive moment. Or not. And the consequences of the moment fading into history unrealised.

The Guardian has a good review here.