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28 March 2023
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Bernard Plossu, Edward Burtynsky, Nicolas St-Pierre, Cartier-Bresson's New Jersey, cropping, Adobe Firefly and a used gear sale.
- Bonjour Cowboy! presents images of the American West taken by the French photographer Bernard Plossu in the 1970s and 1980s and hidden away in six boxes for years.
- Grace Ebert features Edward Burtynsky's African Studies. "Taken over seven years in ten nations -- these include Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Madagascar and Tanzania -- the aerial photos, which are compiled in a forthcoming book published by Steidl, present a dichotomy between a region irrevocably altered by humanity and one of immense possibility," she writes.
- In Where Have the Birds Gone? Magali Duzant showcases Nicolas St-Pierre's black-and-white photographs of the streets and alleys of Tokyo. "The title naturally imposed itself as the perfect metaphor for how I had felt all those years, living in a country that I liked but that would never be fully home to me," St-Pierre says.
- Jason Kottle links to a New Yorker article earlier this year featuring Henri Cartier-Bresson's Forgotten Photographs of New Jersey. The photos were cropped to match TV's aspect ratio and consequently not included in catalogs of his work.
- In this 6:10 video, Julieanne Kost demonstrates a few Tips and Techniques for Cropping in Photoshop:
- In this hour-long How to Use Adobe Firefly video, Adobe Evangelist Paul Trani demonstrates "how to write effective prompts and use a combination of various effects to create extraordinary imagery."
- BorrowLenses is offering 40 percent off its Used Gear with no code required. Free shipping via UPS is included.
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