Every Hasselblad Ever Made and a Camera Work reproduction!

Pictorialism: A Movement to Establish Photography as a Legitimate Art Form

Pictorialism was a significant movement in photography that emerged early on, with photographers striving to improve their skills and establish photography as a legitimate art form. At this time, photography galleries and museums often shunned it because it was considered a new and unusual medium, unlike traditional art forms like painting or sculpture. To combat this, the pictorialist movement focused on showcasing the artistic potential of photography and challenging these perceptions.

As photography continued to evolve, the pictorialism movement eventually fell out of favor and was replaced by other styles, such as Ansel Adams' group f/64 and the concept of straight photography, which diverged from the more experimental approach of pictorialism. However, the work of early photographers in this movement remains an interesting and significant part of the history of photography.

Supporting Pictorialism: A Tribute to a Fellow Artist

A small independent audio-visual channel called Radio Blog Tirana reached out to Ted for support, expressing their admiration for his work. The channel's creators, led by Ulshi, had been inspired by Ted's art and decided to pay tribute through a zine titled "net TOEIC I send you doctor no Genesis". This project served as a recognition of Ted's influence on the Tirana community and demonstrated the power of art to bring people together.

The zine itself is a testament to the impact that Ted's work has had, with contributions from artists who have been inspired by him. The creators of Radio Blog Tirana hope that this tribute will encourage others to explore their own creative potential and preserve their personal histories through photography.

Reaching Out: A Connection Between Artists

Matt Canosa, an artist based in Argentina, reached out to Ted after discovering his channel and expressing gratitude for the inspiration he had provided. Matt's work, which includes a series of minimalist prints, was sent to Ted as a gift and a symbol of their connection. The prints themselves are beautiful and evoke a sense of calm, showcasing Matt's unique perspective and skill as an artist.

Matt's letter to Ted revealed that the channel had played a significant role in helping him break out of a creative rut and find new inspiration for his work. This is a testament to the power of art to connect people across distances and foster creativity.

A Gift from Steve: A Poetic Journalist's Work

Steve, an artist living in Wexford, Ireland, reached out to Ted with a gift – a book titled "66 hours". The book itself is a beautifully crafted work of poetic journalism that tells the story of a personal experience. The writing and photography within evoke a sense of longing and introspection, inviting the reader to reflect on their own experiences.

Steve's letter expressed his admiration for Ted's work and offered this gift as a symbol of their connection. The book itself is a tribute to the power of art to convey emotions and tell stories in a way that transcends words.

A Personal Project: Jeremy Adams' "A Life Well-Lived"

Jeremy Adams, an artist with a strong online presence, reached out to Ted after discovering his work through Twitter. Jeremy shared his latest project, titled "A Life Well-Lived", which is a photographic timeline of his grandmother's life. The book consists of nearly 4,500 images that were digitized from family photographs and film negatives.

Jeremy's work is a poignant exploration of the importance of preserving personal histories through photography. By sharing this project with Ted, Jeremy demonstrated the potential for art to connect people across generations and cultures.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhappy Friday everyone and of course Friday means male time and if you're new to this channel basically Friday is the day that I showcase your work you might notice that my address is in the description of every video that I do and people send me some amazing stuff got quite a stack of it this week as usual there's a lot of books and prints that I'm going to share with you today and I often get asked a tad where do I get my work made into a book or where do I get my work printed I have a resource for you and this is probably a good time to mention our sponsor today who are the awesome folks over at adoramapix you probably already know that editing your images isn't the last step in the process you want to get them printed and adoramapix offers an excellent service delivering beautiful prints and photo books just upload your image files you control the output quality and finished product on an absolutely gorgeous selection of paper types prints are a way to separate you as a great photographer by going the extra mile and using photo books to WoW clients you can even expand the services that you can charge foreign prints always look better than images on a screen so check out adoramapix and see how beautiful your images can look use the offer code Ted 15 off at checkout and I can save you an additional 15% on your entire order once again that offer code is Ted 15 off and I want to thank the folks at adoramapix for sponsoring another episode of the arts of photography so without further ado let's get moving so first up is this package which is from Hasselblad and I kind of thought it might be a big telephoto lens it's a little light for that though okay this is cool let me show this to you guys this is a poster this is every Hasselblad ever made from the HK 7 and 1941 and by the way any variant of these super wides are my absolute favor the x1 D and the h6 so I've actually seen this before I did a workshop about a month ago with Hugh brownstone and we used the Hasselblad space in New York City and I made a comment to my friend Dan who works there that I really like this poster was up on the wall and so he has sent me one for mail time thank you Dan this is awesome next up is this book this comes to us from Rick Albertson who writes dear Ted I recently published the enclosed coffee table book documentary portraits as a retrospective of the 15 years I spent as a freelance documentary photographer covering assignments in Asia Africa Central and North America for large nonprofit religious organizations the book features 50 plus black and white environmental portraits each accompanied by a story behind the image what was taking place in the field and in my mind the book was produced in conjunction with the gallery exhibition children in need of hope for which there will be a book signing and open reception in right word California on May 26th at 2 p.m. it was like three days ago I'm really sorry man anyway he says thanks for the hard work and many hours you spend serving the global photography community hope you enjoy the book Rick Rick this book is beautiful I hope your book signing went well and thanks for sharing so this comes to us from Pierre of rien and this is a reproduction of a magazine that was produced over a hundred years ago by Alfred Stieglitz this is very famous called camerawork you've probably heard of it I don't think I've ever actually seen one of these I've seen prints of photos that were in this magazine but I've never actually seen the magazine this is pretty awesome he writes in here dear mr. Forbes I writing to let you know of the completion of a project that I've been working on for over two years it all started when a friend told me that he had wished he had an electronic version of camera work so he could admire its content without handling any of its very fragile and expensive original issues from its full set ie yearly volunteered to help it took countless hours of work both in the studio to photograph the pages and on the computer to put it all together and in the end I made PDF files for him and he was delighted with the result I also decided to print it all and offer it for sale and as mostly you know camera work as an exceptional magazine is also extremely rare fragile and expensive in its original form most people are institutions that own copies are reluctant to have them manipulated too much but one cannot study the history of photography without being mentioned and it's so rare that it's hard to see its content I'm sending you a copy of issue number 1 with this letter for you to keep I will also include a copy the press release should you wish to know more about this please do not hesitate or get in contact with me or go to my website I will put a link in the show description if you want to get a copy this is pretty amazing says for your information of so complete sets of the specs Emily publication of camera work to the Cleveland Museum of Art National Library of Scotland Museum of Modern Art in New York Princeton University the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston all the big players here so just to put this into a little bit of context I've done videos on Alfred Stieglitz before he was a very important figure in the history of photography I've also done a bunch of videos on pictorialism so I will link up to a playlist here if you're interested in learning more but essentially pictorialism is a very interesting movement early on in photography where photographers were not only trying to get better at their skill and hone their craft but they were also trying to get photography accepted as a legitimate art form and when you have the introduction of photography galleries and museums would shun it because it was this weird technical medium and it wasn't legit like painting or sculpture and so a lot of this early movement dealt around this acceptance of photography as a legitimate medium of art and it's really interesting later on it fell out of fashion was replaced by Ansel Adams in the whole group f/64 and this whole notion of straight photography which was a divorce from pictorialism but it's a very interesting segment in the history of photography so I'll link up to some videos if you want to know more also look in the show description yeah thanks for sending this is absolutely amazing so from pictorialism to modern minimalism we have a little zine that comes to us from albania and this is from ulsi who writes hi Ted we run a small independent audio-visual channel called radio blog Tirana we started it with guest mixes and podcast three years ago and now we have a small internet radio a place where we are doing events and the last of them we have a zine called net TOEIC I send you doctor no Genesis and it's a tribute for our bee the other numbers will be too like an urban anthology you've been my inspiration to start this scene so thank you for all you do in the art of photography we'll see thank you for the little zine it's pretty awesome so next up is he set of minimalist prints and these come to us from Matt Canosa who lives in Argentina who wrote me a very long and very personal letter which I'm not gonna share the whole thing but in here he talks about how this channel actually kind of inspired him to start producing the work that he's doing now and got him out of a pretty serious rut and he's a big fan of John free and wanted me to share his inspiration with John next time I talk to him which I will definitely do it's really nice these are these minimal prints they're really beautiful so excellent job Matt and thanks for sending me your work this is 66 hours which comes to us from Steve who lives in Wexford Ireland who writes hello Ted I hope this brief epistle finds you in fine fettle I love that please accept the book accompanying this letter is a gift there's no need to pop it into your Friday fight with parcels and that terrifying knife too late for that buddy I'm sure you have an enormous backlog of work to get through on that one if you have time grab a coffee and have a read of the poetic journalism from 1914 describing the incredible story Steve thanks for the book this is absolutely gorgeous okay this is cool this is a book that comes from Jeremy Adams and I say that because I followed Jeremy on Twitter and I've seen him do a lot of posting on this over the last year too and it's a project I know he's been working on a long time and I pulled it out I thought a life well-lived this looks familiar and sure enough that's it he writes what's up Ted I hope this finds you well I've sent a copy of my latest project a life well-lived the book is took nearly a year to put together it is a photographic timeline of my grandmother's life through photos it started out as me just collecting all the photos and film negatives of my grandmother's home to digitize before something happened to them after months of work in nearly 4,500 images scanned I began to realize how important this work was is a photographic representation of my family's history I know this book is mostly a personal project that will probably only resonate with my family but a project which I didn't even take a single photo though I'm in quite a few but I feel it may be a project that will encourage others to seek out and save their own families photographic history Jeremy don't apologize for this this is outstanding and I think that personal projects sometimes we're behind the camera sometimes we're curating which is clearly what you're doing here and I think these types of projects are very important if not just for you and your family but just in the grand scheme of things everybody's got a story and photographs tell that story and I think this is absolutely gorgeous so thank you for sharing this for me this is amazing so Jeremy I will put links to his stuff down in the show description below go check him out he's a really cool guy and I will put links to all the other awesome work in the show description as well if you have something here that his move do you leave a comment I have a big mess to clean up so I'll see you in the next video until then latehappy Friday everyone and of course Friday means male time and if you're new to this channel basically Friday is the day that I showcase your work you might notice that my address is in the description of every video that I do and people send me some amazing stuff got quite a stack of it this week as usual there's a lot of books and prints that I'm going to share with you today and I often get asked a tad where do I get my work made into a book or where do I get my work printed I have a resource for you and this is probably a good time to mention our sponsor today who are the awesome folks over at adoramapix you probably already know that editing your images isn't the last step in the process you want to get them printed and adoramapix offers an excellent service delivering beautiful prints and photo books just upload your image files you control the output quality and finished product on an absolutely gorgeous selection of paper types prints are a way to separate you as a great photographer by going the extra mile and using photo books to WoW clients you can even expand the services that you can charge foreign prints always look better than images on a screen so check out adoramapix and see how beautiful your images can look use the offer code Ted 15 off at checkout and I can save you an additional 15% on your entire order once again that offer code is Ted 15 off and I want to thank the folks at adoramapix for sponsoring another episode of the arts of photography so without further ado let's get moving so first up is this package which is from Hasselblad and I kind of thought it might be a big telephoto lens it's a little light for that though okay this is cool let me show this to you guys this is a poster this is every Hasselblad ever made from the HK 7 and 1941 and by the way any variant of these super wides are my absolute favor the x1 D and the h6 so I've actually seen this before I did a workshop about a month ago with Hugh brownstone and we used the Hasselblad space in New York City and I made a comment to my friend Dan who works there that I really like this poster was up on the wall and so he has sent me one for mail time thank you Dan this is awesome next up is this book this comes to us from Rick Albertson who writes dear Ted I recently published the enclosed coffee table book documentary portraits as a retrospective of the 15 years I spent as a freelance documentary photographer covering assignments in Asia Africa Central and North America for large nonprofit religious organizations the book features 50 plus black and white environmental portraits each accompanied by a story behind the image what was taking place in the field and in my mind the book was produced in conjunction with the gallery exhibition children in need of hope for which there will be a book signing and open reception in right word California on May 26th at 2 p.m. it was like three days ago I'm really sorry man anyway he says thanks for the hard work and many hours you spend serving the global photography community hope you enjoy the book Rick Rick this book is beautiful I hope your book signing went well and thanks for sharing so this comes to us from Pierre of rien and this is a reproduction of a magazine that was produced over a hundred years ago by Alfred Stieglitz this is very famous called camerawork you've probably heard of it I don't think I've ever actually seen one of these I've seen prints of photos that were in this magazine but I've never actually seen the magazine this is pretty awesome he writes in here dear mr. Forbes I writing to let you know of the completion of a project that I've been working on for over two years it all started when a friend told me that he had wished he had an electronic version of camera work so he could admire its content without handling any of its very fragile and expensive original issues from its full set ie yearly volunteered to help it took countless hours of work both in the studio to photograph the pages and on the computer to put it all together and in the end I made PDF files for him and he was delighted with the result I also decided to print it all and offer it for sale and as mostly you know camera work as an exceptional magazine is also extremely rare fragile and expensive in its original form most people are institutions that own copies are reluctant to have them manipulated too much but one cannot study the history of photography without being mentioned and it's so rare that it's hard to see its content I'm sending you a copy of issue number 1 with this letter for you to keep I will also include a copy the press release should you wish to know more about this please do not hesitate or get in contact with me or go to my website I will put a link in the show description if you want to get a copy this is pretty amazing says for your information of so complete sets of the specs Emily publication of camera work to the Cleveland Museum of Art National Library of Scotland Museum of Modern Art in New York Princeton University the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston all the big players here so just to put this into a little bit of context I've done videos on Alfred Stieglitz before he was a very important figure in the history of photography I've also done a bunch of videos on pictorialism so I will link up to a playlist here if you're interested in learning more but essentially pictorialism is a very interesting movement early on in photography where photographers were not only trying to get better at their skill and hone their craft but they were also trying to get photography accepted as a legitimate art form and when you have the introduction of photography galleries and museums would shun it because it was this weird technical medium and it wasn't legit like painting or sculpture and so a lot of this early movement dealt around this acceptance of photography as a legitimate medium of art and it's really interesting later on it fell out of fashion was replaced by Ansel Adams in the whole group f/64 and this whole notion of straight photography which was a divorce from pictorialism but it's a very interesting segment in the history of photography so I'll link up to some videos if you want to know more also look in the show description yeah thanks for sending this is absolutely amazing so from pictorialism to modern minimalism we have a little zine that comes to us from albania and this is from ulsi who writes hi Ted we run a small independent audio-visual channel called radio blog Tirana we started it with guest mixes and podcast three years ago and now we have a small internet radio a place where we are doing events and the last of them we have a zine called net TOEIC I send you doctor no Genesis and it's a tribute for our bee the other numbers will be too like an urban anthology you've been my inspiration to start this scene so thank you for all you do in the art of photography we'll see thank you for the little zine it's pretty awesome so next up is he set of minimalist prints and these come to us from Matt Canosa who lives in Argentina who wrote me a very long and very personal letter which I'm not gonna share the whole thing but in here he talks about how this channel actually kind of inspired him to start producing the work that he's doing now and got him out of a pretty serious rut and he's a big fan of John free and wanted me to share his inspiration with John next time I talk to him which I will definitely do it's really nice these are these minimal prints they're really beautiful so excellent job Matt and thanks for sending me your work this is 66 hours which comes to us from Steve who lives in Wexford Ireland who writes hello Ted I hope this brief epistle finds you in fine fettle I love that please accept the book accompanying this letter is a gift there's no need to pop it into your Friday fight with parcels and that terrifying knife too late for that buddy I'm sure you have an enormous backlog of work to get through on that one if you have time grab a coffee and have a read of the poetic journalism from 1914 describing the incredible story Steve thanks for the book this is absolutely gorgeous okay this is cool this is a book that comes from Jeremy Adams and I say that because I followed Jeremy on Twitter and I've seen him do a lot of posting on this over the last year too and it's a project I know he's been working on a long time and I pulled it out I thought a life well-lived this looks familiar and sure enough that's it he writes what's up Ted I hope this finds you well I've sent a copy of my latest project a life well-lived the book is took nearly a year to put together it is a photographic timeline of my grandmother's life through photos it started out as me just collecting all the photos and film negatives of my grandmother's home to digitize before something happened to them after months of work in nearly 4,500 images scanned I began to realize how important this work was is a photographic representation of my family's history I know this book is mostly a personal project that will probably only resonate with my family but a project which I didn't even take a single photo though I'm in quite a few but I feel it may be a project that will encourage others to seek out and save their own families photographic history Jeremy don't apologize for this this is outstanding and I think that personal projects sometimes we're behind the camera sometimes we're curating which is clearly what you're doing here and I think these types of projects are very important if not just for you and your family but just in the grand scheme of things everybody's got a story and photographs tell that story and I think this is absolutely gorgeous so thank you for sharing this for me this is amazing so Jeremy I will put links to his stuff down in the show description below go check him out he's a really cool guy and I will put links to all the other awesome work in the show description as well if you have something here that his move do you leave a comment I have a big mess to clean up so I'll see you in the next video until then late\n"