The New York Times, Todd Heisler and Damon Winter

[jagarch]

I really enjoy the photography in the New York Times, particularly their staff photographers Todd Heisler and Damon Winter.
Recently the nytimes website has run a great feature called "One in 8 Million" featuring Todd Heisler's black and white photography. I find it to be very creative and inspiring.

http://nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html

Although all the Times staff are issued Canon digitals, something about this makes me think that Heisler is using a Leica film camera for this project.
I've also seen stuff in Damon Winter's output that I think is film. He did a feature on the construction of the Highline park which looked to me like a Holga.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/01/01/nyregion/0102-HIGHLINE_index.html

He also did an excellent series of Large Format multiple exposure pics recently.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/nyregion/18lenstext.html

The times also has the excellent octaganarian fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, the man on the street with a Nikon film camera. In a recent interview he said his first camera was an Olympus Pen D!
Does anyone else look at the photography in the Times?

 

[afineman]

fyi, nytimes staff photographer ANGEL FRANCO still shoots with LEICA M cameras - M8's
and as far as i know, he is the only staffer who still shoots with LEICA.

 

[35mmdelux]

I read the Times and study the fotos often, especially the front page fotos. Avail light, full frame. good stuff.

 

[jagarch]

fyi, nytimes staff photographer ANGEL FRANCO still shoots with LEICA M cameras - M8's
and as far as i know, he is the only staffer who still shoots with LEICA.

That's interesting. Is it possible that other staffers use them not on a regular basis, but occasionally?

I find it interesting that at one of the major news organizations in the wolrd, most regular photojournalism and reportage is done with digital cameras but film is still exploited for unique, mostly local reporting. In these cases developing time is not an issue and the creative side of the photographers is more on display.

 

[Benjamin Marks]

I ran into Angel Franco once in the lobby of the Chrysler building. He had Leicas around his neck -- I'm pretty sure that what led me to comment on them. Nice fella.

Ben Marks

 

[robklurfield]

I took a photography course from Angel at the New School about 27 or 28 years ago. Just after college and grad school.

He was shooting with Leicas then. A couple of nicely beat-up and brassy black M4s. He liked to use Rokkor C 40's. Don't know what he shoots now. One of the nicest guys you could ever meet. Ever since then, I always read the photo credits in the Times.

I was in the class back then with a woman I knew from high school. She and Angel ended up married and still are. I guess his tutelage had effects on several us.

Angel has recently been working on a running, once-a-week series in the Times with the columist Dan Barry. They travel all over the US, focusing each week on a particular town and a single very offbeat story. The column seems to be on hiatus lately. It ran for many months. Angel also was part of the team from the Times that one Pulitzer for their coverage of 9/11.

ALWAYS CHECK THOSE CREDITS!

 

[afineman]

robklurfield,

yeah he's got much nicer glass these days.

that's funny that you took the class with his wife... he introduced me to my wife ;-)

 

[ishpop]

Wow, I love the intersection of the audio interview and the photo-set. Really great format.

 

[35mmdelux]

I took a photography course from Angel at the New School about 27 or 28 years ago. Just after college and grad school.

He was shooting with Leicas then. A couple of nicely beat-up and brassy black M4s. He liked to use Rokkor C 40's. Don't know what he shoots now. One of the nicest guys you could ever meet. Ever since then, I always read the photo credits in the Times.

I was in the class back then with a woman I knew from high school. She and Angel ended up married and still are. I guess his tutelage had effects on several us.

Angel has recently been working on a running, once-a-week series in the Times with the columist Dan Barry. They travel all over the US, focusing each week on a particular town and a single very offbeat story. The column seems to be on hiatus lately. It ran for many months. Angel also was part of the team from the Times that one Pulitzer for their coverage of 9/11.

ALWAYS CHECK THOSE CREDITS!

Interesting. TKS for sharing the story.

 

[robklurfield]

BTW, Angel may be using an Xpan, as some of the shots in these Dan Barry pieces are panoramically framed and Angel is not a guy who typically crops anything.

 

[robklurfield]

Some nice work on the front page, above the fold, of this morning's Sunday Times by Angel.

 

[jagarch]

Damon Winter won the Pulitzer prize last week for his coverage of Barack Obama's campaign.

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/politics/2009-damon-pulitzer/index.html

 

[martin s]

Hey guys, I know it does not matter and all that but does one of you know what focal length Todd Heisler is using in his 1 In 8 Million essays? The wide angle shots in the one with the shop owner for example (3rd from the right / beginning)? I really, really like the perspective and feel of those cramped images, an educated guess on the focal length would be good enough 😉

martin

 

[Pablito]

Some nice work on the front page, above the fold, of this morning's Sunday Times by Angel.

Franco shoots all kinds of cameras including 8x10 and cellphone! That front page shot was part of a great mulimedia story he did with David Gonzalez. Franco is a great person & funny too.

 

[P. Lynn Miller]

I really enjoy the photography in the New York Times, particularly their staff photographers Todd Heisler and Damon Winter.
Recently the nytimes website has run a great feature called "One in 8 Million" featuring Todd Heisler's black and white photography. I find it to be very creative and inspiring.

http://nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html

Thanks so much for sharing this link... I have just spent too much time browsing the collection of essays. Wonderful photography.

Thanks,

 

[amateriat]

Film shots show up in the Times more often than you might think (including a series shot with an XPan). Overall, photos in the Times are more worthwhile than in the next two or three papers combined (and, here in NYC, you know which "two or three" I'm talking about).


- Barrett