Photabulous

Walker Evans, Destin, Florida, 1974. When you think about taking photos today with your phone and that you are not making art...or that you are not a real photographer, think no further than the Walker Evans Polaroids. This celebrated film photographer was given one of these new-ish "gismos" to try out. The results set the stage for instant photography, and all that was to follow.

For artists such as Andy Warhol and Ansel Adams, the Polaroid SX-70 was the digital camera of its day.

Arthur Tress’s forays into his archives have already graced Lens with classic views of San Francisco. His latest offering comes from a 1967 trip to Russia, where he chronicled daily life amid Soviet pageantry. Tress calls these long-thought lost images his "from Russia with dust" files. 

Color photography has never been an after-thought for Magnum Photos' Bruce Davidson. His latest book, In Color, compiles some of his best chromatic photos.

The idea of using small cameras to document the world around you led the Columbus Museum of Art to mount an ambitious show of Instagram photos.

Known as "the town of seven hills", the city of Cheboksary, Russia is rolling with ridges and ravines that scatter local landmarks and housing across the uneven landscape. At just under 500,000 cit...

REMEMBER those clickity clack disposable cameras that were rage in the 90’s and early 00’s? A time when Kodak reigned supreme in the photography section of our local supermarkets and retail stores, and there were no such thing as Instagram back then. Shock horror, I know.

Before he became a world- famous film director, 17-year-old Stanley Kubrick took photos for 'Look' magazine.

Exploring California in the dark.

In an exhibition particularly relevant to the Bay Area, Janet Delaney: South of Market relates the complex history of a changing San Francisco neighborhood through a selection of more than 40 photographs from the 1970s and 1980s. Janet Delaney (b. 1952), an internationally recognized photographer and educator based in Berkeley, photographed the people and places in the South of Market district during a period when redevelopment was threatening to transform it irreversibly.

McDonough has been taking photographs for more than forty years now, and a salient feature of the work seen here has to do with refinement, elegance.

My journey to work begins in the dark. I am out the door at 4:30 a.m. on a UCLA van rambling down Highway 60 to Los Angeles. The trip home to Riverside is where my photography begins.

Photos by Stan Paul.

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Instagram has added five new filters for still images, which is the first time they've done such a thing in two years. 

They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky. They’re altogether ooky. Meet the Helnweins - a family of photographers, artists and musicians living in a 19th century castle. 

This post contains nudity. The 1969 Woodstock Festival is a pretty great place for a new photographer to find inspirartion. Arlene Gottfried went to the historic event with her friends and a gift from her father: a small 35 mm camera that once belonged to her uncle. Of course, the festival was...

Three years after Clay Benskin told a photographer friend he could take better pictures with a smartphone, he has produced thousands of images. But he still doesn’t see himself as a street photographer.