Thought it'd be nice to have a thread where we could post links or images or little tributes to photographers and photographs out there that we really like - or even go on rants against those we really think over-rated. (Martin Parr, I'm looking at you.) This way we can see true awesome without feeling guilty for dropping it in the Pics Wot I Took thread.
I've got this months BJP in, and it has some good stuff. Zardoz, I can assure you that aside from the (tastefully captured, I assure you) nether-regions of a Japanese lady being approached by an iguana there's no real nudity. Apart from on the letters page, where they've printed another photo of naked man and his clackers on piano in response to a letter complaining about it. So avoid that one. But yes, good stuff again in BJP. Certainly better than Amateur Photographer, which recycles the same bloody articles and keeps having 'we edit your pics' showcases which frequently ruin the off-kilter charm of the original. Idiots.
Where was I? Oh yeah, 'good stuff'. This link is from one I got in BJP and it contains a nice little photo journal of a trucker's life, and another little project called 'Pillow Talk'. Worth checking out...
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Nathaniel “Shorty” Baker, Rising Fawn, GA 2009James Frank Tribblehttp://www.tribblemancenido.comAnother great photographer is Suzanne Opton. Check out her 'Vermont' section for some eye-popping old B&W shots of rural Vermont. The two brothers who look like hill-billy Isaac Asmiovs. The man snoozing next to the fainly monstrous Christmas tree that towers over him in his cabin, looking like some ghastly parasite. The old scowling fellow with the shotgun in front of his dilapidated shack, on high over the photographer harshly lit in the bright sunlight. Great stuff.
http://www.suzanneopton.com/#/vermont