Category: Craft

Rick Norsigian may not be so lucky of a man. Norsigian, you may recall, is the fellow who claimed to have possession of a lost batch of Ansel Adams’ negatives with a purported value of $200 million. Now, Adams’ grandson and others are questioning whether the negatives were actually made by the master photographer. It’s getting ugly …

We celebrate our shooting colleagues all the time, through Pulitzers and Best of Photojournalism awards … but behind almost every great shooter is an editor, a task-master, a coach, a friend. One of the best in the business has been Rich Clarkson and NPR has a short story up on a recent reunion with his proteges. There’s also a web...

Rick Norsigian is a very fortunate man. In 2000, he found a two boxes of glass negative plates at a garage sale, marked for $70. He talked the seller down to $45 and carted them off. Turns out, they were shot by, ahem, Ansel Adams and had been though destroyed in a fire 70 years earlier. Their estimated value now...

As with so many others, I cut my photographic teeth on Kodachrome. It was what my dad shot when I was a kid in the 1970s, so when he started to teach me, it was what I learned on. Little yellow and red boxes of Kodachrome 25 and 64, usually in 36 exposure lengths but occasionally in the shorter 20...