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Entries from Ultrahyper: Blog tagged with 'photography'

The recording of light rays

When I was more involved in the nitty gritty of making websites, I was a fan of Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing. Now I'm becoming more interested in photography, and Philip Greenspun has another site to answer my...

Playing with Flickr: part 3

Here's a proof of concept experiment to see if I can do anything useful with the RSS feeds from Flickr: a pile of photos from a specified set, which uses a Flickr RSS feed, Movable Type and the FlickrPhotos plugin....

Playing with Flickr

Currently 're-engaging' with Flickr to see if what depth there is to it. Thought I'd start by posting to the Computers Behind Blogs group: My workspace...

The Year in Pictures

Blogwatch: The Year in Pictures The picture above is taken from Don James' Prewar Surfing Photographs, made before David Carson set the style for surf design and photography and unwittingly codified 'edgy' for the next 10, 15 years. (Via The...

Street photography

Episode 4, Genius of Photography series. This one about street photography and the emergence of colour film. On the former: Photography discovered its inherent subject in the street The landscape photographers and the portrait photographers were in some ways more...

Photography and altered mental states

Episode 2 of the BBC's Genius of Photography series; this time focusing on the inter-war period in Europe and two approaches to the medium. One documentary, as typified by the typologies of Karl Blossfeldt and Bernd and Hilla Becher and...

Say 'Cheese'

An approach to a common situation that seems entirely natural now (though not necessarily pleasant, comfortable or in any way a good idea), but was not always the case. Nancy Martha West, talking about the marketing of the first...

Endangered Machinery

Industrial and Industrial Heritage Photography by Haiko Hebig This goes in my 'ideas for record sleeves' pile....