PORTRAIT EDITION
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH PHOTOGRAPHER JEREMY COWART PG. 3
VOL. 17 ISSUE #5 $7.99
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BLACK+WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE
POSTER SIZES OF FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHS
NOVEMBER 2018
A Nikon to fill the pages of your life.
Super-high shutter speed of 1/8,000 sec. achieved with the development of shutter blades made from an ultra-lightweight compound material (carbon fiber compound) which is lighter and more durable than titanium. Our first use of Focus Tracking with Lock-On, to provide optimum focusing by determining any displacement of the focus point of a moving subject based on the distance measurement data obtained while the shutter release button is half-pressed, and then moving the lens additionally to compensate for the displacement of the focus point. High-speed winding at 5.7 frames per sec., when used with the high-power battery pack MB-21 Adoption of shutter balancer and resultant decreased shutter-shake.
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as the creators of black + white photography magazine our main purpose is to inform and inspire with great photography. we focus on black and white photography as we find it especially powerful and inspirational. in this edition we have exclusively portrait photography, with special interview with photographer jeremy cowart, top photographers opinions on what makes a great photograph, and some poster sized famous black and white photographs.
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interview with jeremy cowart
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what makes a good photograph?
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photography posters
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jeremy C changing the world in your sleep
Jeremy Cowart has done it all: celebrity photographer, app creator, photo teacher, photo book author, lecturer, humanitarian and in the future maybe a hotel owner, where he envisions “changing the world in your sleep.” Starting out as a painter, graphic designer and finally photographer Cowart has captured many a celebrity while continuing to live in Nashville, Tennessee, although he did reside in Los Angeles for a year and half. Over the last 12 years, photography has been a full-time calling. Cowart beat a Hollywood agent to a job, who eventually went on to sign him on and that was the start of a successful celebrity photography career. Photography is his career, Cowart has also found inspiration from his humanitarian projects. His Voices of Haiti photo essay, for which he let the survivors of the earthquake write their own message on found rubble, ended up as a show at the UN, where a meeting assured a huge funding to the rebuilding effort. Haiti led to Rwanda, where the documentary portraits captured survivors of genocide standing shoulder to shoulder with the killers of their dear ones, who they’ve now forgiven. cowart has also developed a photography app called OKDOTHIS and also started See University where he provides training on all aspects of photography. Jeremy Cowart comments on how he started getting into photography: “I was a graphic designer for a few years before being a photographer. I remember sitting down with this guy named Jimmy Abegg. He was a hero and a bit of a mentor to me. He said, “You should buy this thing called a digital camera.”
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Justin Mott “I always teach my workshop students you want someone to feel something, some sort of an emotion when they look at your images. That could be curiosity, anger, sadness, happiness, etc. The most important element of a photo to me is it’s ability to evoke emotion.” Tanveer Badal “You have to really care about whatever you’re shooting. I know it sounds like a cliché but when I first started taking photos, like most amateur photographers, I would shoot everything in sight. Flowers. Doorknobs. Nascar. It didn’t matter that I didn’t care about pretty flowers, doorknobs or cars going in circles, I just took photos of them because I thought that’s what you’re supposed to do when you’re holding a big camera and something ‘cool’ is in front of you.” Colin Roohan “The ability to capture a frame with some element of intrigue is highly important when making a good photograph. This is going to keep your audience captivated. The intriguing element will invite your viewer into your scene allowing them to create their own narrative.”
A GRAPH? Larissa Olenicoff “Good photographs put you in a particular moment in time, they tell a story, or they speak to your emotions. The most important element of a great photograph is that it does all of the above.”
Jon Reid “a good photograph is one that causes some sort of emotional response. We’re bombarded with so much imagery that our most common response to photography is indifference. If an image surprises me through an unusual view, wows me through its sheer beauty or makes me angry by showing injustice, it is a good photograph. It could be technically terrible, poorly composed and horribly exposed, but if it causes an emotional response, it will be memorable and therefore successful.” Mark Timothy “The most important element of a good photograph is to capture the energy of the subject.” Mitchell Kanashkevich “The most important element to me is not necessarily tangible. A good photograph must make the viewer care, engaged. How it makes a viewer engaged can be achieved in different ways, composition, light, the choice of subject – any or all of these.” David Lazar “I think there are many important aspects to make a good photograph but the most important would have to be: interesting and engaging subject matter. Even if certain technical aspects are not well executed such as focus and composition, there can still be a reason for finding the photo meaningful. Ideally, engaging subject matter, lighting, composition and a sharp focal point are the most important aspects, collaboratively. Interesting lighting in photography is most fundamental, composition contributes in giving impact and aesthetic merit, and a part of the photo in good focus to draw our attention to the subject are very important.”
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SALLY MANN CANDY CIGARETTE (1989)
GARYY WINOGRAND NEW YORK (1955)
Alfred Eisenstaedt V-J Day In Times Square (1945)
Dorothea Lange MIGRANT MOTHER (1936)
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