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Showing posts with label photographer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photographer. Show all posts
Sunday, March 01, 2026
Saturday, February 07, 2026
this electric dirt bike rider in New York decided to trek out in the snow storm, and get iconic photos of the landmarks, with his bike
He took video of the adventure if you want to check out 10 minutes of riding around in the snowy city streets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9H2NF92gPU
Saturday, January 17, 2026
Saturday, January 10, 2026
Martin Roemers’ photo book "Homo Mobilis", a remarkable series of photographs of people posed with their cars show you can tell a lot about someone from the vehicle they drive.
Roemers traveled the world armed with a large white backdrop, a camera, and one simple question: “Would you pose with your vehicle for me?”
Homo Mobilis gives the reader the ability to view the relationship between humans and their vehicles, examining how mobility, as a cornerstone of modernity, shapes our identities and societies.
This has resulted in a typology of vehicles with their drivers against a stark white background. This deliberate removal from their usual context invites viewers to contemplate the deeper narratives that these vehicles carry.
Vehicles are more than mere modes of transportation; they are powerful symbols of status, culture, and personal identity. A vehicle can be merely functional for some but for others it so much more: it becomes a crucial part of who they are.
(really interesting interview at https://martinroemers.com/homo-mobilis/about I recommend)
Monday, January 05, 2026
Friday, January 02, 2026
Friday, December 19, 2025
thanks to Robert L for sending me the link to this photojournalists article on motorcyclists!
American Motorcycling Culture by Jack Lueders-Booth
Monday, December 08, 2025
Thursday, November 13, 2025
A veteran music photographer has lost his lawsuit with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame over the museum using a copy of his image of Van Halen
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame used his copyrighted black-and-white photograph of Van Halen as part of an eight-foot-tall display about famous guitars.
Judge Boyko stated that Zlozower’s original photograph was intended “to promote” Van Halen and highlight “the band’s fun-loving nature,” while the museum’s display sought to illustrate the importance of Eddie Van Halen’s guitar in “the history of rock and roll.”
“Looking at plaintiff’s photographs and defendant’s exhibit side-by-side and in light of copyright law, the court finds that defendant’s use adds new meaning and is transformative,” Boyko writes, according to Billboard’s report. “This is true although the copying is nearly exact.”
“The court concludes that defendant’s use of plaintiff’s copyrighted photographs is fair use.”
Judge Boyko’s ruling supported the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s argument that it had “transformed” Zlozower’s work from a promotional band photo into a “historical artifact to underscore the importance of Eddie Van Halen’s musical instruments.” The museum says its use of the image was part of a broader effort to “educate the public about the history of rock and roll music.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, ruled in a 2021 case - Marano v. Metropolitan Museum of Art - that the museum's use of a photograph of Eddie Van Halen was protected by the fair use doctrine.
The Met's use of the photo was transformative because its purpose was to highlight the unique design and historical significance of the guitar itself within the context of rock and roll history, rather than to serve as a concert photograph of the band, which was the photographer's original intent.
The museum neither licensed the photo nor provided credit or a source when exhibiting the photo.
The museum maintained that it had “transformed” Zlozower’s photograph from a promotional band image into a “historical artifact to underscore the importance of Eddie Van Halen’s musical instruments.”
The federal judge ruled that although the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame made a “nearly exact” copy of a portion of Zlozower’s photograph, it qualified as “fair use” under copyright law.
While the judge agreed with Zlozower’s argument, he found that the image had been used for a purpose that was different from the original.
“Looking at plaintiff’s photographs and defendant’s exhibit side-by-side and in light of copyright law, the court finds that defendant’s use adds new meaning and is transformative,” Boyko writes, according to Billboard’s report. “This is true although the copying is nearly exact.”
“The court concludes that defendant’s use of plaintiff’s copyrighted photographs is fair use.”
Judge Boyko’s ruling supported the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s argument that it had “transformed” Zlozower’s work from a promotional band photo into a “historical artifact to underscore the importance of Eddie Van Halen’s musical instruments.” The museum says its use of the image was part of a broader effort to “educate the public about the history of rock and roll music.”
So... we can use copywritten images for education, nice!
"transformative use of the Photographs, in furtherance of its non-profit mission to engage, teach, and inspire through the power of rock & roll, was of a limited nature that was reasonably necessary to contextualize the historical musical instruments on display in the Museum Exhibits, had no effect on the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work, and consequently qualifies as permissible fair use for which there can be no liability under 17 U.S.C. § 107."
This really pulls the rug out from under the photographers though... I don't see how they can recover legally from a judge saying that their photos can be used by a museum without permission
By the way, this photographer has been photographing the most famous musicians for decades, and has about 800 magazine covers, he's sued at least 60 businesses for using his photos, and if the precedent is now that they can as long as it's educational? This and all the other paparazzi are going to have no recourse if someone else uses their photos without permission
The use was considered noncommercial since the museum's website was freely accessible to the public, despite the physical museum charging an admission fee.
The court emphasized that the fair use analysis is highly fact-specific and context-dependent, and the ruling did not grant museums unfettered rights to use copyrighted material without permission.
But I can not find the image in question online.
Saturday, November 01, 2025
incredible photos, taken by Alfred Buckham, a daredevil airplane pilot, in 1927 - standing in his plane. His death-defying images are the subject of a major new exhibition, Alfred Buckham: Daredevil Photographer, at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.
There was no holding on: arms, he recommended, needed to be kept clear of the fuselage to prevent the vibrations from spoiling the image. "It's not easy to tumble out of an aeroplane unless you really want to, and on considerably more than a thousand flights I have used a safety belt only once," he pronounced in January 1927.
"I always stand up to make an exposure and, taking the precaution to tie my right leg to the seat [with a scarf or a piece of rope], I am free to move rapidly, and easily, in any desired direction; and loop the loop; and indulge in other such delights, with perfect safety."
Against the odds, he lived to be 76. The challenges he faced along the way – the crashes and close calls – he viewed with a veteran's pragmatism and a dash of nostalgia. "Such unpleasing circumstances are mostly forgotten, or only serve to add spice to the remembrance," he told the New York Times Magazine in 1930. "Ah! One was a rare daredevil in those days!"
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Sunday, September 14, 2025
a metaphor of life... Hard work, and a lot of failures, are required to succeed... Skater: Simon Thorpe, the photographer is Mark Carter
an interview with the photographer about how it was made, https://stoppress.co.nz/news/concept-bone-crushing-reality-how-colensos-mountain-dew-print-ad-came-existence/
Tuesday, September 09, 2025
1942. "Tulsa, Oklahoma. Loading rack at the Mid-Continent refinery, Tulsa station of the Great Lakes pipeline."
Thursday, September 04, 2025
before and after of the famous location where O. Winston Link photographed “Old Maud Bows to the Virginia Creeper”
Old Maude, with her sledge load of oak stove-wood, just happened along as the train was approaching, and Link took advantage of the situation. He asked brothers Gene and Roy Hampton, who were hauling the wood to the family's farm nearby, to wait a few minutes for the train.
The Norfolk &Western filed abandonment papers and railroad operations ceased in March,1977. The track was sold for scrap and the old line is now the Virginia Creeper tracks to trails hiking biking walking trail
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I posted about the Virginia Creeper trail, and this railway station before, https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/08/virginia-travel-writers-and.html
and the hurricane flood damage https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/07/damascus-virginia-iron-bridge-showing.html
and O Winston Link's photography https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2024/01/ogle-winston-link-dalhouse-cleans.html
Wednesday, September 03, 2025
in the Toyota War of the 1987 Chadian-Libyan conflict, troops from Chad in nimble Toyota trucks were able to trounce the Libyan's with their tanks. Over 7 Libyan soldiers were lost for every Chadian.
The truck carries a LSD-1 anti-aircraft machine gun on the base of the Soviet Vladimirov heavy machine gun and a 32-round block of UB-32 which launches S-5 unguided rockets, also from the USSR. Abdul is holding an AKMS automatic rifle and Walid is posing with his baby, the also Soviet RPG07.
Back in 2011, Libyan's resisted Qaddafi's exhaustive 41-year-old dictatorship regime, resulting in the dictator commandeering attacks on those who protested his rule. Not long after when Qaddafi went into hiding in May of that year, Mollison made his way to Libya to document a central tool that the protestors relied upon to help the insurgence: the "Technical" truck. These civilian-helmed trucks were heavily armed with weapons. Mollison, then on assignment for COLORS Magazine, set up a camera at the final check point and captured these vehicles of war just before they headed into battle. The end result of his time there were a number of photos capturing the valiant civilians riding upon their steel chariots just before battle.
Tuesday, September 02, 2025
From the mock-Tudor fad of the 1920s to drivers refueling on a roundabout, each era produces its own distinctive petrol stations – as photographer Philip Butler documented at the Guardian.com
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The Garage, Isle Brewers, Taunton, circa 1920s
A rare surviving thatched filling station and garage. Concerns over the appearance of garages in the 1920s, which were described as ‘vile’ by influential voices, led to legislation regulating the appearance of newly built filling stations, ensuring design didn’t jar with surroundings.
One result of this was the short-lived rise of ‘rustic’ thatched petrol stations; a health and safety eye-opener, particularly considering how prevalent smoking was at the time
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Former Appleyard’s Filling Station, Leeds, West Yorkshire, 1930s
Neo-Georgian revival was another popular architectural style of the inter-war years. Utilized with particular enthusiasm on municipal buildings, it was also applied to a number of garages.
One surviving though disused example designed in 1932 is Appleyard’s in Leeds, which was constructed on a roundabout, with a central hexagonal hut and a circular forecourt. Motorists would enter through ornate wrought iron gates, circling to a free pump
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BP Pagoda, Brooklands, Surrey, 1922
In the 1920s, the leading fuel companies were keen to have a presence at the Brooklands motor circuit in Surrey, resulting in three separate ‘pagodas’ being built by rival firms – Pratt’s, Shell and British Petroleum.
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Michelin House, Chelsea, London, 1911
One of Britain’s earliest surviving purpose-built garages is also one of the most impressive. Michelin had established a British arm to its business in 1904 and by 1910 the construction of a state-of-the-art motor garage was under way. Designed by in-house engineer François Espinasse, the exterior boasted a tire-inspired British art nouveau appearance. Completed in 1911, it offered the convenience of a covered drive-in fitting bay, where tires could be quickly changed from a stock of more than 30,000 stored in the basement
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Hythe Garage, Kent (Originally a Fire Station, 1925)
With the introduction of the Ministry of Transport (MOT) vehicle test in the 1960s, compulsory for all vehicles over three years old from 1967, increased the need for repair workshops, which explains the late 20th-century rise in the conversion of disused buildings into garages
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St John’s Garage, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, 1947
A diverse array of structures were utilized – churches, cinemas, railway arches, fire stations, shops, factories all proved versatile enough to find second lives as garages.
Perhaps the most unusual garage in Britain, St John’s was built as a Reformed Presbyterian church in 1892. Dwindling attendance led to its closure, and it was converted into a garage and filling station in 1947
BP, Red Hill, Leicestershire 1979
The late 60s gave rise to the illuminated petrol station canopy. In 1964, industrial designer Eliot Noyes designed a series of circular canopy units for Mobil Oil. Today only two sites remain, at Red Hill in Leicestershire and Whetstone, London
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Glendore West End Garage, Turnastone, Herefordshire, 1919 (House circa 1800s)
Many early filling stations were installed outside existing buildings. Until recently, Glendore was the oldest surviving operational example in the UK. Drivers would ring a bell, alerting the owner in the small Victorian cottage that they had a customer.
Manor Road Garage, East Preston, West Sussex, 1934
By the 1930s the modernist movement pioneered in Europe was starting to have an influence on British architecture. Futuristic structures with smooth streamlined forms and flat roofs became calling cards for the trendiest businesses. Manor Road Garage is a prime example of this curvaceous style, which echoed the cruise liners and aeroplanes of the era
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