Work in progress, Ideas & stuff

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#architecture #ferrierestate #modernist #brutalist #brutalisim #housingestate #demolition #nightphotography #largeformatcamera #5x4film #kodak

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The Ferrier Estate 

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I had a weird dream that I went to Tokyo and didn’t leave my hotel. Or was it a dream? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Check out my pictures this Sunday in the New York Times Magazine and right now online (link in bio).

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Park Hill and Hyde Park Flats, Sheffield, 1983

(Photograph: Alan Burnett)

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Seen: White Album

Who: Fumikiyo Nagamachi

Where: Photographers’ Gallery, Shinjuku

When: January 16 - 18, 2015 / 12 - 8pm

What: Handheld 8x10 street photography.

Nagamachi and I have been friends for ten years now- but this was the first show he’s had since I’ve been in town. I had known for a while that he took photographs on the street with an 8x10 camera- but other than a single promotional postcard from 2001 I had not seen any other examples of his work.  So it was with excitement that I headed over to Photographers’ Gallery in Shinjuku to check out his latest show.

The gallery itself is in an older narrow building with an exhibition space half as wide- and rendered impeccably white.  This arrangement makes for an impressive way to experience Nagamachi’s massive prints- no matter where you turn the subjects in the pictures are larger than life.  The extremely narrow depth of field of his 8x10 lens creates an interesting distortion that your eyes can’t quite make sense of at this scale.  

Nagamachi told me that he uses a Tachikawa filed camera loaded with 8x10 sheets of Fuji NS160 color reversal film. The kind of control which a normal camera allows is limited with this setup- he sets the shutter speed and focus, and then cradles the rig in his arms for a hip-shot. Once a subject is within range, he snaps the shutter.  In terms of picture form there’s an interesting amount of chance involved- focus, framing, and  subject matter are be approximated. Control? He’s focusing the game down to the exploration a temporal element. In this way the pictures have their own quietness-  decisive moments which are all found and not precisely created.  

I asked if he scanned the negs for the prints- he said no, these are C-prints done in a professional darkroom in Tokyo.  Apparently the newest image in the show was taken just a few weeks ago. It’s quite impressive how this entire enterprise is completed through personal time outside of a day job. Dedication towards working out an unexplainable desire (and energy) to feed a particular photographic curiosity is always something to respect.  

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This recent commercial promoting tourism to the Tohoku region of Japan features a humorously sweet (and accurate) take on Japanese camera culture as a group of older male digital shooters enjoy the unexpected appearance of a young woman with a vintage Leica M4 and a 90mm f2.8 Elmarit lens.  Indeed, this 30 second short story needs no subtitles. Enjoy!

Note: Japanese commercials traditonally end with a punchline called an ochi- the ochi of this film is the woman exclaiming “His head got in the frame.” after snapping the shutter.

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Hey @Amazon. Amazingly, you can ship products anywhere within 24 hours, but now it’s been 72 hours and you haven’t fully complied with my request to remove products from your site which are infringing on my copyright. Are you trying to eek out an extra profit from commerce in stolen goods before the end of the holiday shopping season?

Since you aren’t fully complying with my requests by email, here’s a format you know how to react to quickly:

My Amazon “Wishlist”

• I want you to stop profiting from the sale of stolen goods

• I want you to fully comply with your legal duty to take down products infringing on my copyright

• I want you to quit covering up for your authorized third-party vendors who are making and selling the illegal products

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Background

On December 8th, one of my photos was selected as one of TIME’s Top 10 Photos of 2014. A week later, there were 50+ unauthorized cell phone and iPad cases for sale on Amazon.com decorated with my image. The picture appears to have been stolen straight off the TIME website.

On Dec. 19 I asked Amazon to remove the items and give me the contact information of their third-party authorized vendors who are making and selling these illegal cases.

Today several cell phone cases with my image are still for sale, and Amazon has refused to give me the contact information of their illegal vendors. They had the gall to write me and say:

"We trust this will bring this matter to a close."

No Amazon, it won’t.

#copyrightinfrindgement #copyrightheist #amazonfrown #amazonspoilsxmas #boycottamazon #amazonfencing #amazoncommerceinstolengoods #amazonprime #amazonprimerheft

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Dear Instagram community, Please help me by reposting this. @Amazon is selling products on their site which use my photo without permission. Several days after I contacted them to report the copyright infringement, there are still illegal phone and iPad cases decorated with my photograph for sale on Amazon.com.

The background:

On December 8th, one of Tomas van Houtryve’s photos was selected as one of TIME’s Top 10 Photos of 2014. A week later, there were multiple unauthorized cell phone and iPad cases for sale on Amazon.com decorated with the image.

On Dec. 19, Amazon was formally requested to remove the items and provide contact information for Amazon’s third-party authorized vendors who are making and selling the illegal cases.

Today, several cell phone cases with the image are still for sale, and Amazon has refused outright to give Tomas the contact information of the vendors infringing on his copyright. On Dec. 21, Amazon wrote to Tomas saying:

“We trust this will bring this matter to a close.”

No Amazon, it won’t. Please repost this to pressure Amazon to quit profiting from stolen goods and to respect the rights of independent artists.

#copyrightinfrindgement #copyrightheist #amazonfrown #amazonspoilsxmas #boycottamazon #amazonfencing #amazoncommerceinstolengoods #amazonprime #amazonprimetheft @NatGeo @VIIPhoto @ThePhotoSociety

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Limited edition of 150 copies, the “ferrier estate” book comes with a fragment of the estate, cut down from large reinforced fibreglass panels used in the walkways and stairwell. As featured on http://failedarchitecture.com/

£20 a copy £3.11 postage in the UK, international postage available.

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Fridhemsplan - Stockholm

by Alex Penfornis

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Rådhuset metro station - Stockholm

by Alex Penfornis 

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Swiss photographer Rene Burri dies at 81

Pictures: Rene Burri / Magnum, Sandro Campardo/AP (last)