August 2026 Links

American Urban Life and the Influential Photographers Who Captured It — A documentary photography of urban life in America is hosted at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.

Exhibition Uncovers Historical Photos From a Century of US Deportation Campaigns ­— at the California Museum in Sacramento will be on view through January 10, 2027.

How Nolan used a modified Pentax 67 to make IMAX history with The Odyssey — 6×7 is close to IMAX size so the viewfinder is quite close, and thus makes for a good viewfinder to block shot on set.

Film

Kodak Verita 200: No Consumer Version of This Film Exists But I Shot It Anyway — Interesting. Not sure why Kodak is protecting these motion picture stocks ; even Vision 3 is not available unless you are a movie production which makes it hard for film packagers to resell.

Kodak Ektapan 100 Is a Smooth, Sharp, and Beautifully Detailed Film — aka TMax 100. This is not a new film but it’s good to revisit what make people chose it for Black and White photography.

The Contax G2 Hype is Warranted: This Camera Rocks — A review of that modern classic of a camera, the Contax G2. On the pricey side, not helped by the fact that some pop stars were spotted using one.

DIY

This Photographer Built a Rig that Shoots Trichrome Photos Faster Than You Can Blink — Interesting rig.

How a 20-Year-Old Has Spent 3 Years Building Panoramic Cameras by Hand — Panoramic cameras are specialty, and the most advanced ones are the X-Pan and the rotating lenses model like the WideluxX. The latter is being reinvented and costing a few thousands of euros, while the former commands even more on the used market and is becoming hard to repair.

Linked: “Rant: I love photography”

Allen Murabayashi wrote Rant: I love photography. Allen is CEO and Co-founder of PhotoShelter, originally wrote this on the PhotoShelter blog, and got republished on Wired “rawfile”.

His only reason to write this:

There is a percentage of photographers who hate photography.

And he give special mention to Boston Globe’s Big Picture and later the Atlantic’s In Focus, my favorite photo blogs.

In Focus: All-Request

The regular In-Focus from the Atlantic has a crowd-source topic this time called All Request. You ask it via twitter, you get it, if the editor finds it. He has access to a powerful database of images from press agencies ; and as a last resort, uses Flickr.

This regular In Focus has joined The Big Picture in my list of feeds a while ago.

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Russia in Colour (1910)

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This time it is the Big Picture from the Boston Globe to present an exhibit about Russia in Colour, with these autochromes from the Prokudin-Gorskii collection at the Library of Congress (USA).

General view of the [Nikolaevskii] cathedral from southwest. Mozhaisk – Prokudin-Gorskiï­, Sergeï Mikhaïlovich, 1863-1944, photographer – From Library of Congress

Also I recommend the Big Picture as a regular “reading” for the pictures.

Colour from 1906

Dr. Michael R. Shaughnessy put up a gallery of scanned true colour images from 1906 with geolocalisation added. This is pretty amazing to see various european locations in colour.

1906 True Color Photos scanned from old prints. Part of CAPL project at Washington & Jefferson College http://capl.washjeff.edu/ by Dr. Michael R. Shaughnessy. Please cite if linked or embedded. I am not sure of the copyright holder at this point and hope to place them under CC licensing for non-commercial use. These photos were originally published by the Institute for Color Photography, Carl Weller, Berlin. Verlagsanstalt für Farbenfotographie, 1906. Send any info to capl@washjeff.edu

Here are a few samples – see above for the copyright notice:

Pisa, Italy

Pisa, Italy

Goethe's Gartenhaus, Weimar, Germany

Goethe’s Gartenhaus, Weimar, Germany

Prague, Czech Republic

Prague, Czech Republic

Via Boing Boing.