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Tyler Mitchell: visions of an American utopia

The young guy walks through the arched opening of the café in West Chelsea, and glances about. He’s tall and elegantly lean, wearing Bode designer shorts with an exquisitely crafted navy-blue boxy Bode button-down shirt with white zigzag strains. He could very easily be a model, in its place of the just one ordinarily behind the digital camera.

He catches my eye and a big genuine smile spills over his youthful deal with. There is a sweet familiarity about 26-yr-outdated photographer and film-maker Tyler Mitchell that catches you off guard.

We are meeting for tea suitable around the corner from the 20th Street Jack Shainman Gallery, where Mitchell’s initial US solo gallery exhibition, Dreaming in True Time, will open in September. It’s a display with some 20 photos focusing on visible storytelling in a series of tableaux that includes relatives and close friends in his residence point out of

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What your July 2021 looked like

i-D closed out 2020 with My Year in a Photo, a 12-month retrospective that brought in hundreds of incredible submissions from all over the world. We enjoyed it so much that from now on, we’ll be running it as a regular feature. At the end of each month, we’ll open our inbox to photographs from anyone and everyone — just email photography@i-d.co

Once again, this month, we received thousands of submissions, making the process of editing this story even harder. For anyone whose images did not make the cut, please do keep sending us your photography, as we’ve been overwhelmed by the quality of the submissions and want to keep sharing as much of it as possible.

a young girl and her mum sit and look out the window. She wear a tie-dye top and her mum wears a black patterned blouse.

Sera Oh, 30, Samcheok, South Korea

“I went to the sea with my mom and my younger sister. It was still a bit awkward to be somewhere far from home even with our

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How Dance And Photography Motivated This Museum Curator’s Occupation

Isolde Brielmaier is a curator-at-significant at the Intercontinental Centre of Pictures, and as of past 7 days, the new deputy director of the New Museum in Manhattan. A citizen of the planet and a design icon, Brielmaier, originally from Seattle, was a ballet dancer who performed in both equally Germany and New York City when attending Columbia College. Just after receiving her PhD from Columbia, she labored at the SCAD Museum of Art and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, but her very first huge museum position was as system supervisor at the Guggenheim. In addition to her get the job done with the ICP, she also teaches at Division of Pictures and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch University of the Arts.

“Photography is a medium, a visible type that nearly most people understands. We can all recognize a photographic impression,” Brielmaier reported. “I have a genuine belief in

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10 essential steps to better macro images

Introduction

Macro photography is a fascinating area of the medium. It has the power to reveal details we would never have known were there had we not looked closer, through a macro lens. This applies even to mundane household objects – the type we walk past every day without a second glance, and would certainly not have considered worthy of image material. 

With the extreme close-up compositions of macro photography however comes some niche challenges we need to understand and overcome. From mastering focus to dealing with camera shake and dealing with distracting backgrounds, it is essential that we know how the photo workflow can differ from the usual, when working at extreme magnifications.  

Here we have put together a rundown of some quick tips which have the power to transform your macro images right off the bat, enabling you to capture sharper, more consistently useable images. 

10 steps to

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Famed Photographer Matthew Rolston Explores a SoCal Tradition

Back in the ’80s and ’90s, a triumvirate of L.A. celeb photographers snagged most of the covers of American glossies. This celebrated trio shot key celebs, album covers, and key tour pictures: Greg Gorman, Herb Ritts, and Matthew Rolston. But after years of taking pictures Madonna, Janet Jackson, and the rest of the common suspects a number of moments, L.A. indigenous Rolston made a decision to diversify his portfolio, so to discuss. With a restless mind and unlimited thirst for lifestyle, Rolston jumped to directing, capturing music videos for Bryan Adams and Christina Aguilera, carrying out online video promos for Intercourse and the Town, and functioning on a plethora of commercials (the Gap’s popular “Khakis Swing,” Revlon, Visa, Guess, to name a few). Reinvention became a organic component of his process. Rolston’s upcoming shift was to morph into a resourceful director who took on a variety of main lodge

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Light-Field Photography Revolutionizes Imaging – IEEE Spectrum

Photos: Eric Cheng/Lytro

Single Snapshot: With light-field photography, an image can be focused
after it is taken, as shown here with one of Lytro’s “living pictures.” Just click on a part of the image you want to bring into focus.

Leonardo da Vinci sketched out tanks, helicopters, and mechanical calculators centuries before the first examples were built. Now another of his flights of imagination has finally been realized—an imaging device capable of capturing every optical aspect of the scene before it.


Lytro, a Silicon Valley start‑up, has just launched the world’s first consumer light-field camera, which shoots pictures that can be focused long after they’re captured, either on the camera itself or online. Lytro promises no more blurry subjects, and no shutter lag waiting for the camera’s lens to focus. A software update to the camera, coming soon, will even let you produce 3-D images.


Light-field technology heralds one

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