Russell Lett.

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Links.

This links page is made mainly with my students in mind, but I've added some fun stuff for my friends on the web, feel free to take a peek.

Techniques and tips links.

The basic concepts behind Photography with some great interactivity.http://www.88.com/exposure/index.htm

Photography tips and techniques from Kodak as well as useful technical data.
http://www.kodak.co.uk

Two good sites on the basics of photographic composition.
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/education/programs/composition/photoProgramCompMain.shtml And
http://www.azuswebworks.com/photography/ph_comp.html

That old bugbear depth of field, explained, totally.
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/fototech/htmls/depth.html

How to develop a black & white film.
www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~wjh/teaching/optics-lab/Photo/photographic.pdf

How to make a photographic print.
http://photography.about.com/arts/photography/library/howto/htprnt_process1.htm

Take it further with fine printing controls.
http://photography.about.com/arts/photography/library/weekly/aa082800a.htm#theory

A nice little resource site with how to make your own darkroom.
http://www.xeromag.com/fvresrc.html

An excellent resource for all photographers with up to the minute articles and discussions http://photography.about.com/arts/photography/

TheDarkroomUK,great photo resource site.
http://www.moleweb.co.uk/moleweb/thedarkroom

Solarization demystified.
http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/~wljeme/SOUTLINE.html

Still Life photography
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hatton/programme/2001/LanguageOT.html

Working with Pyro chemistry
http://www.cabbagetownphoto.com

Interested in the Diana and her friends.

If like me you spend most of your week in a darkroom, fingers smelling of fixer, you wont want to spend your free time there as well, a digital darkroom could be your savour. http://www.daylightdarkroom.com/http://www.atmos10.com/http://powerretouche.com/http://www.photo.net/photo/sepia/index


Links to photographers for research and inspiration.

Photographers.

Masters of photography, of course. Great site but starting to get annoying with popup's and redirection
http://masters-of-photography.com/index.html

A fantastic resource, lots of photographers, lots more links.
http://www.artincontext.org/listings/artist/discipl/photogra.htm

Photographer biography's but not always an image from each.
http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory

High quality images from 19th, 20th and contemporary photographers http://www.robertkleingallery.com/index.php

Free directory of art & artists listings, galleries, news & articles http://www.yourartlinks.com

Foto Search Stock Photography

 

Some of my favorite photographers.

Andres Serrano.
http://www.proa.org.ar/exhibicion/serrano

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.Norman Mailer U.S. author.
www.temple.edu/photo/photographers/arbus/arbus.htm

Jerry Uelsmann's site, newly revamped with up to date works and interview.
http://www.uelsmann.net/


Joel - Peter Witkin.
http://zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/witkin/jpwdefault.html

Ralph Gibson.
http://www.ralphgibson.com

Weegee the famous.
http://www.icp.org/weegee/weegee.html

Those consummate artists Gilbert & George & other contemporary british artists,
http://www.whitecube.com/flash.html

Edgar Lissel working with giant pinholes and much weirder things www.edgarlissel.de

UK photographers doing some great work in both Colour and B/W. Peter Bryenton friend Dermot blackburn and Trevor Chaytor who I was at university with

Connect to this BBC site and listen to some masters of photographyhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/voices/artsearch.pl?act=profession&choice=photographers

Skinningrove bonfire site For photographs of fireworks.


Gallery's and magazines.

This is one of the most interesting photography sites I have found on the net and includes some hard to find work by John Blakemore and photographers speaking about there work. www.lensculture.com

Impressions Photography gallery, York.
http://impressions-gallery.com

What's on at the Side gallery, Newcastle.
http://www.amber-online.com/html/side_gallery_current_programme.html

The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television.
http://www.nmpft.org.uk

The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.
http://www.rps.org

Aperture photographic magazine, best photography mag in the world.
http://www.aperture.org/

American museum of photography.
http://www.photographymuseum.com/

LensWork on line magazine with PDF & interview sound files.
http://www.lenswork.com/index.html

If you have trouble getting hold of some of the worlds best photography mags try http://www.falsten.com

Onlinephotography, the journal of fine art photography. http://www.onlinephotography.com/
Online gallery of contemporary photography and art, some up to the minute biographies. http://www.eyestorm.com

A link to my one time local arts group in Saltburn by the Sea.
http://www.saltburnartists.net/


Photographic philosophies

Semiotics for beginners, how to understand the visual world around you.
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/
Two semiotic definitions, denotation and connotation.
http://www.arts.usf.edu/~marcus/hop/barthes.html

Should photographers watch there language, Paul Hill considers the influence of semiotics.
http://www.vision-net.co.uk/Soapbox/watch_language.htm

Psychology and photography.
http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~alex/photography/photo_essay/dynamic.html

None photography links.

Another form of intervention. Take a trip around Paris and more, excellent flash films.http://www.studiocleo.com/entrancehall.html

Collage and assemblage works.
http://www.terra.es/personal2/caicar/home.html

Art minimal and conceptual only.
http://home.sprynet.com/~mindweb/Cornellcover.htm

Robert Rauschenberg the worlds best living artist, in my opinion
http://www6.artnet.com/GalHome/FineArtThumbnails.asp?AID=46&L=R

The work of Mark Dion.
http://www.word.com/place/guyana/artists/markint.htm

Joseph Cornell and his box constructions.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/cornell/

The cave paintings of Lascaux, France.
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/

The International museum of Collage, assemblage & construction.
http://www.ipdg.org/museum/collage/

David Bowie's site.http://www.davidbowie.com/splash/splash2.html

I'm a Soul man.
http://www.motown.com/classicmotown

Funk it up with some bad mothers.
http://www.wddg.com/badd

 

 

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