Barry Tanenbaum

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Natural Selections; Gil Lopez-Espina’s Brand-New Blank Canvas
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Mar 01, 2005

Photos © 2004, Gil Lopez-Espina, All Rights Reserved

No matter how far we get from the starting point, there's always something that calls us back. Early influences, first goals, original career choices--they all have a way of hanging around at the edges, only to show up strong somewhere down the line.

That happened recently...

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Book Reviews
New Found Land; James Kay Documents The Return Of Glen Canyon
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jan 01, 2010

Eventually the upper basin states of Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming, to hold back water from the lower basin states of Nevada, Arizona, and California, began in 1956 to build the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River.

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No Limits
The Reality Of Black And White
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Feb 01, 1999

Judah S. Harris tells this story about one of his photos: "I had just bought a new Bogen tripod, and I went out in the Olympic National Forest area in Washington to photograph with it. I left my rented car down on the road. I wanted to photograph...

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Odd Couplings
Lou Jones' Surreal Moments
Barry Tanenbaum  |  May 01, 1999

About a year ago I was talking to commercial and industrial photographer Lou Jones about the "personality" of a photograph, and how the photographer's point of view is absolutely necessary in order to make images that are more than merely record...

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Outdoor/TravelPro Techniques
On The Waterfront; AJ Neste’s Pro Surf Shot Strategies
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Apr 01, 2008

Here are a few things AJ Neste's learned about photographing surfers:
One, it's the singer, not the song. "The most important part of being successful at this," he says, "is knowing the surfer. It's not just showing up somewhere and taking photos of random surfers. You won't know their personal style."

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Paul Edmonson on How to Capture Fine Art Landscape Images in "Heavily Photographed" Areas
Barry Tanenbaum  |  May 30, 2017

You don’t start off talking about photography when you talk to Paul Edmondson about how he creates his striking fine art landscape images. You talk about what he notices and what he chooses from all that the landscape offers. 

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Perfect Storm: How an Intrepid Storm Chasing Photographer Captured a Spectacular Shot
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jun 23, 2017

It’s not Photoshopped. She’s standing there.

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Personal History: Facing Loss, a Photographer Creates a Tribute to Life and Memory
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Oct 25, 2016

Russell Hart wasn’t surprised by the collections he found in his mother’s home as he prepared it for sale. “She had a hard time letting go of things,” he says. “She saw practical value in some, sentimental value in others.”

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Photographer ProfilesPro Techniques
Personal History: Hometown
Barry Tanenbaum  |  May 28, 2013  |  First Published: Apr 01, 2013

A phone call from a friend woke Chris Fulcher at his home in Newtown, Connecticut, around 10:30am on December 14th last year. “I’d slept late and didn’t know what was going on,” Chris says. “My buddy told me to check the news, and then I rushed to the school because my 6-year-old cousin goes to that school.”

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Personal History: This Old House: Private Investigations
Barry Tanenbaum  |  May 23, 2012  |  First Published: Apr 01, 2012

In 1987, my friends Julie and Jim bought the 12-room, three-story Victorian in which they’ve raised their daughters, Megan and Emily. Early on they researched the house and the Connecticut mill town in which it’s located. They found maps that indicated the house had been built between 1870 and 1875; town records revealed much of the chronology of ownership. Over the years they renovated the kitchen and one of the bathrooms, stripped layers of paint from woodwork and doors, replaced wallpaper and made restorations and repairs. They came to realize that the original floor plan of the house was pretty much intact, though there seemed to be some changes they couldn’t quite figure out. And Julie, Jim, Megan, and Emily—they like to figure things out. Often they thought, if only there were photographs of the old house.

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