Over the past few years, I’ve gotten very into photography, and even though I currently live in a city with an endless supply of interesting photographic material (New York City), I get completely mentally recharged when I travel. Amsterdam inspires me like few other places. I took over 4000 photos when I visited. Although I am a hobbyist, I am…
I spent the month of August, 2021, in Amsterdam, and I got very lucky with the museum exhibits. I love photography, and I always visit FOAM and Huis Marseille, the two photography museums in Amsterdam. This time, in addition to these two museums, I got to see two great photography exhibits at other museums – the Fred Stein exhibit at…
Beatrixpark is one of the oldest parks in Amsterdam, dating from the 1930s. It’s in the southern part of Amsterdam, south of The Pijp neighborhood. The park has lots of landscaped paths, a pool, a playground, and a really lovely pond. Although I’ve been to Amsterdam many times, I somehow managed to miss getting to this park. I finally visited…
Regular readers of my blog know that I like street photography, and that last year I purchased a camera that was designed for the street: the Ricoh GR III. Street photographers rave about this camera for several reasons, the main ones being the small size, the super sharp images it produces, and the image settings (particularly the black and white…
This is an informative little book photographic forensics, namely, how to tell whether a photograph has been altered. The book is published by MIT Press, so it’s no surprise that the book goes into a lot of technical details. The details are complicated, and it practically turns the book into a technical manual. The author does describe several court cases…
When I’m in Amsterdam, I tend to spend most of my time in the Centrum. When I decide to go to a park, I usually hit the parks that are relatively close to the Centrum, like Westerpark and Vondelpark. But every now and then, I’ll go out a little further, especially when the weather is beautiful and my plans consist…
Not surprisingly, I loved this book. I love photography, and I’ve been enthralled by the Haight-Ashbury era and the music coming out of that scene for years. Jim Marshall was a spectacular photographer who not only took iconic photos of musicians (he’s the guy responsible for the photo of Hendrix setting his guitar ablaze at Monterey Pop, Johnny Cash famously…
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The role of photography in the world today has gotten tougher to assess, given that everybody has a camera with them at all times. The author argues that photography should be reassessed, and be thought of as a visual “language”. To do this, we need to discard the pre-conceived notion that successful photography is defined by a single successful image…
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Ed Van der Elsken is one of the Netherlands’ most famous photographers. In late 2019, the Rijksmuseum and the Netherlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam acquired Van der Elsken’s entire photographic legacy. Among the many obscure and forgotten photographs was the design for a photobook called feest (feast). It was compiled by Van der Elsken himself. He created a ‘dummy’ book around 1960, but…