The Fall by Denis Darzacq

Film about the making of Denis Darzacq’s ‘The Fall’
And here is a link to his Website

Platon’s portraits of world leaders

Another article from the New Yorker this time discovered by Andrew. An amazing set of pictures and if you click on a picture you get a short commentary. An ex world leader not in this set is Alexander Putin, here is a Guardian article about Platon’s experience photographing him.

Don’t do this at home kids

Thank you again Julian for this picture which according to the credit and caption is a self portrait. I hope he got the shot in the first take.

Two photographers from the New Yorker talk about their work

Thank you Julian for this link to an interesting audio slideshow by a couple of photographers from the New Yorker magazine. In the show they talk about their approach to their subjects

Julian’s Flickr site

Thank you Julian for this link to your Flickr site, not so many portraits but lots of great landscapes and travel shots.

Ian’s Flickr site

Thanks for this link to your Flickr site, the self portraiture experiments look interesting.

Richard Avedon’s website

This site is much better than it used to be with lots of examples of his portraits including some from the ‘American West‘ series along with a good range of his other work.

Jamie Livingston’s Polaroid diary

Thank you Tim for this link to Jamie Livingston’s collection of Polaroid photographs which record the ups and downs in his life over an 18 year period ending with pictures taken as he was dying of cancer. A very moving ’self portrait’ series. There is a little about him on Wikipedia

Photography’s debt to Caravaggio

Well spotted Margarita following the discussion during last weeks class over one of Andrew’s photographs. This blog posting compares Carravaggio’s use of light to that of comtempary photographers

Andrew’s Flickr site link

Here is a link to Andrew’s Flickr site, with more shots of Morocco.