A midlife crisis is usually treated as a joke.The cliché involves an aging man, a sports car, and a vague attempt to outrun time.In my case it turned out to be something quite different, and unexpectedly productive. When people talk about men going through a midlife crisis, the tone is often faintly mocking. We picture … Read more
Photography and its many techniques have always been subject to trends. In the 1970s, when this particular photograph was made, almost every photographer wanted to own a fisheye lens. It was a bit silly, because the lens would use less than half of the already small 135 mm film negatives. Still, there really is no … Read more
For most of my life I have been waiting for something really new and adventurous coming out of photography, and I am nearly 60 now, and it never really happened. Early photography was used as an inspiration for painters to stretch the rules of classical composition conventions. Later, we see photography imitating painting. There were … Read more
Af en toe moet ik aan Irving Klaw denken, de man die in Brooklyn geboren werd waar confectie en maatkleding de belangrijkste bronnen van inkomsten waren. Ook als de naam Irving Klaw u niets zegt, dan heeft u toch vast wel een van zijn werken gezien. Hij was de man die in de jaren vijftig … Read more
While working on this site, I go through my archives a lot. There are quite a few pictures archived. I have been photographing for four decades now. Sometimes I am lucky, and I find a photograph that I thought was lost, like this portrait of one of the best photographers of our time: Ralph Gibson. I am really not sure when it was taken, but I believe it was 1981.
Location: His Soho loft where Lustrum Press resided.
[ Photographer Ralph Gibson on Wikipedia ] – [ His website ]