Showing posts with label Documentary Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Documentary Photography. Show all posts

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Atomic Bomb detonation by Harold Edgerton

Developed by Dr. Harold Edgerton in the 1940s, the Rapatronic photographic technique allowed very early times in a nuclear explosion's fireball growth to be recorded on film. The exposures were often as short as 10 nanoseconds, and each Rapatronic camera would take exactly one photograph.Harold Edgerton's story is one of humble Nebraskan beginnings that sparked a child's curiosity for taking

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Congo Street Style by Francesco Giusti

Francesco Giusti is a freelance documentary photographer oriented toward investigating issues of social realities, communities and identity. His research about the long-standing inmates of a psychiatric hospital in Naples received the honorable mention of Leica Oskar Barnack Award in 1999 and was a finalist of Prix Care du Reportage Humanitair in 2000. In 2002, he was awarded the Canon Award for

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Saturday, November 27, 2010

East Berlin (1972-1996) by Sibylle Bergemann

Sibylle Bergemann was a German photographer. In 1990, she cofounded the Ostkreuz photographers agency. She is remembered for documenting developments in East Berlin during the Communist era and for her international assignments for Stern and later for Geo.Sibylle born in 1941 in Berlin where she was raised and educated, she first worked as a secretary for the East German periodical Das Magazin.