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Portraits from the Summer of Love, and four other photo book picks

Shenandoah Jordan, Super Adaptoid, Lady Glorious, Matthew, and Steve Culligan in a Convertible, Haight Street, August 13, 1968. From Elaine Mayes’ “The Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967–1968”. © Elaine Mayes In this season’s photo book selection, we look at early color photographs by urban street photographer, Mitch Epstein; Elaine Mayes’s portraits of hippies and oddballs at the… Continue reading Portraits from the Summer of Love, and four other photo book picks

NFT trends: Poetry’s resurgence through NFTs

Late last year, the poet Arch Hades joined forces with the digital artist Andrés Reisinger and the musician RAC to create Arcadia. The nine-minute video sold as an NFT for $525,000 at Christie’s, and it also revealed the ways in which NFTs (non-fungible tokens) could foster a new way of consuming poetry beyond the page.… Continue reading NFT trends: Poetry’s resurgence through NFTs

Here’s your chance to own a 1988 Kodak NASCAR & pit crew uniforms

Bring a Trailer Show your enthusiasm for film photography with this legit 1988 Oldsmobile Delta Kodak Nascar. It comes ready to roll, decked out in bold Kodak yellow paint and decals. You also get a whole bunch of vintage Kodak memorabilia and swag, including pit crew uniforms—just imagine showing up to your local photo walk… Continue reading Here’s your chance to own a 1988 Kodak NASCAR & pit crew uniforms

Best printers for Cricut of 2022

Stan Horaczek Best overall HP ENVY 6055e Check Price Best inkjet Canon Pixma iX6820 Check Price Best for stickers Epson EcoTank ET-2720 Wireless All-in-One Supertank Printer Check Price In order to take full advantage of your Cricut’s creative opportunities, you’ll need to invest in a printer for Cricut. Whether you are creating just for fun… Continue reading Best printers for Cricut of 2022

How to Photograph With Makeup: Understanding Skin Type

Understanding skin type is important when deciding what makeup to use and how to prep the skin for makeup. In this tutorial, you will learn how to approach the four different skin types. To understand makeup, it’s very important that you first understand the skin. The skin is a blank canvas that your makeup is… Continue reading How to Photograph With Makeup: Understanding Skin Type

Photograph With Makeup: How to Pick the Right Type of Makeup to Use

When you’re getting into makeup for portrait photography, you’ll see a lot of terms like primer, concealer, foundation powder, and more. In this tutorial, you’ll find out what these types are and what they’re typically used for. Let’s talk through the products to use in the order that you might use them in a typical… Continue reading Photograph With Makeup: How to Pick the Right Type of Makeup to Use

Martha Cooper revisits the chaotic, gritty & enchanting world of graffiti in 1980s NYC

Women on train, 1981. Martha Cooper A playful, illicit urgency under a harsh camera flash. Art on the cusp of creation and the artist on the cusp of being caught. Such was the life documentary photographer Martha Cooper chased as she captured the emerging graffiti scene in 1980s New York City.  Now, nearly 40 years… Continue reading Martha Cooper revisits the chaotic, gritty & enchanting world of graffiti in 1980s NYC

Film photography’s popularity is driving a noticeable uptick in silver demand

Silver is a crucial ingredient for film photography production and processing. Stan Horaczek The demand for silver increased 19 percent last year, according to the World Silver Survey 2022. Part of this increase is due to a 3 percent uptick in demand for silver from the broader photography industry. While a big driver is medical… Continue reading Film photography’s popularity is driving a noticeable uptick in silver demand

Minding-reading AI creates images from human brainwaves

Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images In a paper published in Scientific Reports earlier this year, researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands, led by PHD candidate Thirza Dado, combined non-invasive brain imaging and AI-learning models in an attempt to read peoples’ minds—or at least recreate the image they’re looking at. It’s a fascinating experiment, though it’s easy… Continue reading Minding-reading AI creates images from human brainwaves