Daniel Spehr Photography Blog

D*Face, LA Freewalls, Los Angeles

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:25:00 +0100

This is the first wall of the LA Freewalls project, which aims to bring the world's best street artists to downtown LA to paint 50,000 sq. ft. of permission walls.

http://vimeo.com/7465153

City of Lost Carts

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:43:00 +0100

A touching portrait of photographer Shawn Nee and his journey of transformation made possible only by his connection to shopping carts.

http://blip.tv/file/1486231/

Tales from the island

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:40:00 +0200

Jiri Makoves is EXCELENTE!

http://www.jirimakovec.com/

Cool Travel

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:23:00 +0200

Gaming blog UK Resistence just posted rare photos of an arcade in Pyongyang.

Fading Heritage Worldday

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:55:00 +0200

Dodeca 2360

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:17:00 +0200

�Dodeca 2360″, which uses an 11-lens system in a 25-pound package suitable for mounting on a bicycle, backpack, or surfboard. ImmersiveMedia first came on the scene with Google�s �Street View� which they helped launch back in 2007.A 11-lens equirectangular camera system for $45000

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Frank Buchser

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:21:00 +0200

John Inskip: Segelschiffe im Hafen von Scarborough, Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinet, geboren 1828 in Feldbrunnen im Kanton Solothurn, war einer jener K�nstler, die das Abenteuer suchten, um schaffen zu k�nnen. Sein ganzes Leben war eine lange Reise

Er nahm Zeichenunterricht in Bern, reiste nach Paris und Florenz, studierte in Rom Malerei, sp�ter in Paris und Antwerpen. Dann arbeitete er in Spanien als Maler und Zeichner, dann in England, in Marokko, in Griechenland, in den USA und erst ganz zum Schluss, an seinem Lebensende, kehrte Buchser ins heimische Feldbrunnen zur�ck.

Dazwischen: fruchtbare Jahre der Kunst und des Lebens, in denen etwa 1000 Gem�lde und �lskizzen entstanden, doch nicht nur dies: Im Laufe der Jahre ersammelte sich Buchser auch ein bedeutendes Konvolut fr�her Fotografien, die jetzt � gemeinsam mit Zeichnungen aus eigener Hand � in der Ausstellung �Von Arkadien bis Atlanta� im Kunstmuseum in Basel zu sehen sind: Fotografien, die dem Maler als Vorlage dienten, die er aber auch aus einem ureigenen Interesse an der Fotografie erworben hatte.

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Monat der Fotografie

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:16:00 +0100

Unz�hlige Fotoausstellungen gibt es im November in Berlin, Bratislava, Luxeumburg, Moskau, Paris, Rom und Wien anl��lich des 3. Europ�ischen Monats der Fotografie. �ber 130 Aussteller sind in Berlin beteiligt, zentrale Locations sind aber die Berlinische Galerie in Kreuzberg sowie die neuen Uferhallen in Wedding, wo auch viele Rahmenveranstaltungen stattfinden. In Wien stehen K�nstlerhaus und Museum auf Abruf (MUSA) im Mittelpunkt � und es gibt Busfahrten zum Monat der Fotografie nach Bratislava.
www.europeanmonthofphotography.eu

Tabula rasa

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:53:00 +0200

�(?)Banksy in Soho !The main Italian news agency reported yesterday that the 2009 Rome's International Festival of Photography was canceled, due to huge financial problems.
This means that Rome loses its one and only festival of photography, merits and faults of the past editions aside.

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William Claxton, 1928-2008

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:31:00 +0200

Clax, as he is known to friends created the iconic images that helped launch Chet Baker's career. One of the most admired, published and imitated still photographers in the world.Legendary Jazz photographer William Claxton died.
Always an inspiration for me, he documented the world of jazz like nobody else.
Leaving us with an enormous legacy of his incredible images.

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Edgar Lissel

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:43:00 +0200

Die Bakterienkulturen, in runden Petrischalen gez�chtet und zu einer Agar-Emulsion gegossen, werden im Kontakt mit den Bildobjekten dem Licht ausgesetzt.arbeitet weder digital noch chemisch-analog, sondern biologisch.

Er setzt lichtsensible Bakterien zur Produktion seiner Bilder ein und beschreitet sozusagen einen �dritten Weg�.

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Black Bird Fly

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:23:00 +0200

This is definitely something from the brain of some very inspired retro-heads. By way of Japan (of course) comes "The Blackbird" a great little plastic reflex camera. Soon to be in hip stores everywhere from Anchorige to Zanzibar ...

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Toronto�s First Scramble Intersection

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0200

at the corner of Yonge and Dundas

shot by Sam Javanrouh

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Old Photographs

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:02:00 +0200

Calvin: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn�t
they have color film back then?
Dad: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It�s
just the world was black and white then.
Calvin: Really?
Dad: Yep. The world didn�t turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and
it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.
Calvin: But then why are old PAINTINGS in color?! If the world was black
and white, wouldn�t artists have painted it that way?
Dad: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.

Benjamin Katz

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:14:00 +0200

Der Fotograf Benjamin Katz, Dokumentarfilm von J�rgen Heiter, 135 min., 3sat, 6. September 2008, 21.40 Uhr.Der Photograph - Benjamin Katz
Dokumentarfilm von J�rgen Heiter, Deutschland 2006
L�nge: 135 Minuten
Erstausstrahlung 3sat, 6. September 2008, 21.40 Uhr
Kein anderer Fotograf hat seit den 1960er Jahren den nationalen und internationalen Kunstbetrieb und sein Starsystem umfassender dokumentiert als Benjamin Katz. Er fotografierte unter anderem Georg Baselitz, Markus L�pertz und Gerhard Richter sowie deren Werke. - Ein Essayfilm in 19 Kapiteln �ber Benjamin Katz und seine Arbeit.

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The lonely knee

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:44:00 +0200

Homemade Trail Camera

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:12:00 +0200

A motion activated homemade trail cameraby Dan (Hags)

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Homemade Red Eye

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:33:00 +0200

Many small flashes from disposable cameras combined and placed as close as possible to an extremely long focal length lens of a 4x5 camera,by Rebecca Hinden

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Five ways to wear your Leica:

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:13:00 +0200

Five ways to wear your Leica !

Sao Paulo by Boogie

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:40:00 +0200

Born in Belgrade Serbia, street photographer Boogie possesses a rare talent for documenting the human conditionI`m a fan of Boogie's photos. This amazing photo journalist has gotten countless photographs that our contemporaries would never consider trying to get. For example, Boogie would daily go to some of the roughest projects in New York with camera in hand and approach some heavy rough dudes. With his persistence, he slowly became trusted by the gun totting/ drug selling/ pit bull leashed hoods and crack/ heroin addicts who lived there in the projects. As he told years ago, to help gain their trust, he'd bring back prints to give the locals of the photos he shot the day before... The familiar B&W raw style caught your eye but the content propelled Boogie above the rest...

This is a great book and well worth the $20 they're asking. You can buy it right here.

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SX-70

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:13:00 +0200

Ad from the 70�s explains the Polaroid SX-70 | watch the video |

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Wayne Martin Belger

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:26:00 +0200

4�x5� camera made from Aluminium, Copper, Titanium, Acrylic and HIV positive blood. The blood pumps through the camera then in front of the pinhole and becomes my #25 red filter. Designed to shoot a geographic comparison of people suffering from HIV.�With pinhole photography, the same air that touches my subject can pass through the pinhole and touch the photo emulsion on the film. There�s no barrier between the two. There are no lenses changing and manipulating light. There are no chips converting light to binary code. With pinhole what you get is an unmanipulated true representation of a segment of light and time, a pure reflection of what is at that moment.� Check out his website.

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Image Fulgurator

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:47:00 +0200

Aparat zur minimal-invasiven Manipulation von Fotographien.Technically, the Image Fulgurator works like a classical camera, though in reverse. In a normal camera, the light reflected from an object is projected via the lens onto the film. In the Image Fulgurator, this process is exactly the opposite: instead of an unexposed film, an exposed and developed roll of slide film is loaded into the camera and behind it, a flash. When the flash goes off, the image is projected from the film via the lens onto the object.

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Miroslav Tich�

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:20:00 +0200

MT in his courtyard, photo � Roman Buxbaum 1986"...After the communist overthrow in 1948 the young and promising world of the artist begins to tremble. Not willing to subordinate himself to the political system and follow the dicdates of Socialist Realism, he soon becomes an outsider. Noticeably he fails to cope with the repression under the communist system his resistance however never ceases. In opposition to the total integration of the individual into the ideologically tightly structured society he reponds with the negation of their social values. In the 1960s Miroslav Tich�, who is the son of a gentlemen's tailor, begins to neglect his appearance to such an extent, that his clothes fall from his body in rags. In his small home town he is increasingly being avoided as a derelict critic of the system. During this period he begins his photographic expeditions..."

Welcome to the amazing world of Miroslav Tich� .

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Pinhole cameras

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:31:00 +0200

Very cool pinhole cameras by Corbis !Corbis bietet Lochkameras zum freien Download an. Laufend neue Modelle. Guckst Du hier.

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Adam Magyars slit-cam

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:03:00 +0200

urban flow by Adam Magyar

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Buenos Aires: Fuera de serie

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:54:00 +0200

Edited by Guido Indij.

Photographed by Daniel Spehr, Kathrin Schulthess, Guido Indij.

ISBN 978-950-889-165-5

Paperback, 6�6 in./240 pgs.

U.S.$25.00

Myanmar in my mind II

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:09:57 +0200

Myanmar in my mind I

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:21:00 +0200