a forum for photographs?

[Pherdinand]

i went through all the forum sections here but i could not find any where one could discuss details on ... photographs!

OK, i'll be more specific. Lately i got interested in press photographs, i get a kick out of looking at them and checking the typewritten notes to editor or whatever you call them, glued on the backside, usually.
But i have no idea where to bring up questions, topics on this subject, within RFF.

Shall we create a section on e.g. "vintage prints" or even more specifically "press photography" or such? or is there no interest (other than my own)?

i would like to have a place where i could learn some stuff from hopefully visiting more knowledgeable folks here.

 

[Pherdinand]

hmm. An overwhelming reaction 🙂)

ok, i'll look swhere else i guess.

 

[lynnb]

Hi Pherdinand, I like the idea, I'm interested in old photographs and their provenance.. I think this topic would get lost in the Photography General Interest forum (that's the most likely place I would think to look for a thread on prints).

Maybe this thread needs to bump around a bit until it gets seen by more members.

Cheers,

 

[dave lackey]

Hi Pherdinand, I like the idea, I'm interested in old photographs and their provenance.. I think this topic would get lost in the Photography General Interest forum (that's the most likely place I would think to look for a thread on prints).

Maybe this thread needs to bump around a bit until it gets seen by more members.

Cheers,

I'm interested myself!😀

Keith seems to have a knack for finding vintage photographs and it would be a pity to not have a place for them to be shared.

I learned a lot from his previous postings of vintage photos from Australia.

Put me down for a separate forum for that!

 

[Texsport]

There are very active press photo sellers on eBay.

Find 'em and go to their websites for more press photos than you can believe.

I buy them regularly, because many are 4X5 and good quality, capable of being scanned and enlarged.

I recently bought a 1960 presser of Jack Nicklaus, the great golfer, as a teenager. I scanned, enlarged to 16X20, and was fortunate enough to get Mr. Nicklaus to very kindly autograph it for me. Now I have a one-of-a-kind photo (Well, except for the scan I gave Mr. Nicklaus' secretary).

Texsport

 

[dave lackey]

I find it odd that street photography shows how things are today supposedly for future generations but vintage photos are not really considered by many even though it shows similar things in the past. Oh well.., by the way, how do we define vintage? Am I old enough to qualify? LOL...

That autographed photo of Jack Nicklaus was cool! Well done!

 

[robert blu]

Interesting, to read in order to learn a little bit about...I sometimes buy old simple pictures from the past when I find them in some markets.
robert

 

[f16sunshine]

i went through all the forum sections here but i could not find any where one could discuss details on ... photographs! OK, i'll be more specific. Lately i got interested in press photographs, i get a kick out of looking at them and checking the typewritten notes to editor or whatever you call them, glued on the backside, usually. But i have no idea where to bring up questions, topics on this subject, within RFF. Shall we create a section on e.g. "vintage prints" or even more specifically "press photography" or such? or is there no interest (other than my own)? i would like to have a place where i could learn some stuff from hopefully visiting more knowledgeable folks here.

It's a nice idea and interesting subject for sure.
Please make a thread in the "Photography general interest" forum
Let's see how the response is and what direction the dialog goes.
Depending on response we could make the thread a sticky in that forum or possibly another.
Cheers!

 

[Out to Lunch]

On Flickr look for ''manhhai'' who posts a lot of pictures of the pre-1975 period in Vietnam. Often with the the AP and other agency wire photo comments attached.

 

[MCTuomey]

good lawd, pherdinand, this is a gear-site. discussing photographs is just so ... gear-agnostic. what indeed are you thinking? 😉

 

[Pherdinand]

ok nice i see some interest indeed. I started to feel like a weirdo 😀

yeah ebay is full of'em 😀 the choice is overwhelming... Most often the photographers are not identified/identifiable. I am readin up a lot on it but i'd love to understand a bit more of the acronyms printed on the little notes on the backsides esp. from WWii era press photos. Would be nice also to know which front had which photographers covering the action, for what agency... info like this is available somewhat on the Net but really scattered, takes a lot of sniffing.

Mike, yea i'm a gearhead too, plenty of comments on gear-threads i have made, but this time i try something else 😀

thx for the advices, so far.

 

[Pherdinand]

dave, by "vintage" i'd refer to a print that was made when the news was still news 🙂not a scan and reprint 50 years later and not even a reprint off the original neg for an exhibition many years later. Though this latter can also be interesting.

If you are not a reprint then yes, you are a vintage 😉

 

[dave lackey]

"If you are not a reprint then yes, you are a vintage "

Ah, like fine wine... I like that term "vintage". Sure beats the term "old"!!!

Pherdinand you have an excellent idea for those of us who visit forums to learn. This forum has an amazing amount of resources in its people and there are many vintage folks (that term again!) who have insights, experiences, knowledge and yes, vintage photos that would be great to see.

I wonder how many retrospective style photographers measure up to actually producing images that are very close to the vintage ones? Interesting indeed.

 

[CameraQuest]

i went through all the forum sections here but i could not find any where one could discuss details on ... photographs!

OK, i'll be more specific. Lately i got interested in press photographs, i get a kick out of looking at them and checking the typewritten notes to editor or whatever you call them, glued on the backside, usually.
But i have no idea where to bring up questions, topics on this subject, within RFF.

Shall we create a section on e.g. "vintage prints" or even more specifically "press photography" or such? or is there no interest (other than my own)?

i would like to have a place where i could learn some stuff from hopefully visiting more knowledgeable folks here.

I don't see the need for a new dedicated forum to discuss photographs, as that subject is easy to discuss at RFF now. Probably the general discussion forum, the how to forum if something special about the technque, or the photog forum if the print is the work of a well known photographer.

Just start a few threads on the subject Pherdinand, and lets see how the discussion works out.

Stephen