August 1984
1. Color form: This graphic abstraction of a woman in a swimsuit was made by Japanese photographer Hideki Fujii as part of a series of images for a calendar. He used a 35mm SLR and a 180mm lens. The exposure, lit by electronic flash units, was 1 /100 sec between f/11 and f/16 on Kodachrome 64 film. The printing process rendered the image more abstract-an unaltered version ran in our 1985 Photography Annual.
2. Weimar Berlin: This striking portrait of actress Lotte Lenya (who was also the wife of Kurt Weill) was taken in Berlin by noted German photographer Lotte Jacobi in 1930, a time when pre-Nazi Germany was seething with exciting innovations, particularly in the performing arts. This photo was shown in an exhibition of
Jacobi's work depicting many of the stars who had to leave Germany after 1933.
3. Manhattan landmark: Maybe it takes an out-of-towner to make superb images of New York. In this case, the photographer was Robert Walker, a Canadian who moved to the city in
1978. He spent years shooting street scenes, including this look at Suerken's, a restaurant near City Hall dating back to the Gay Nineties and now gone forever.
4. Night over Seattle: Bryan F. Peterson advised that the best light comes at the end of the day, and this photo of Seattle proves his point. He used a 35mm SLR and slow (ISO 64) color film. His secret was very long exposures, up to several minutes in some cases, with the camera mounted on a tripod, of course.
1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980
1990 2000
Post a comment