Barry Tanenbaum

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Turning Point: 10
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Apr 29, 2014  |  First Published: Mar 01, 2014

“I got to Los Angeles four days before the ’84 Olympic games began, and at the gymnastics pavilion saw Glenn Sundby, the founder and publisher of International Gymnast magazine. I knew Glenn, and he’d been hired as venue chief for photographers. Not knowing he’d get that job, two years earlier he’d bought an arena ticket and had a front row center seat for the events. He gave me that ticket in return for use in his magazine of any photographs USA Gymnastics didn’t choose.

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Turning Point: Breaking The Pattern
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Nov 15, 2013  |  First Published: Oct 01, 2013

Arthur Meyerson is an award-winning commercial, editorial, and fine art photographer celebrated for his control of composition and command of light and color. In 2012 he published The Color of Light, a collection of iconic, classic images that included this photograph.

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Turning Point: Station Man
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Mar 14, 2014  |  First Published: Jan 01, 2014

Currently a lecturer, teacher, and writer, Sam Abell’s celebrated career includes positions as a contract and staff photographer and photographer-in-residence at National Geographic magazine. This 1959 photo of his father at the Painesville, Ohio, train station is the homepage image of his website, samabell-thephotographiclife.com.

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Twilight Time
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Dec 17, 2013  |  First Published: Nov 01, 2013
Rick Sammon’s first comment when I asked about this picture was, “The best time to take a night picture is not at night.” Twilight is a better choice, and that’s when this image was made in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which was the first stop for Rick and his wife, Susan, on their six-day tour last April of selected attractions along Route 66.
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Twister!: Tornado Turns the Tables on Stormchaser and Spectacular Photo Is the Result
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jun 26, 2015

Pro photographer Jim Reed’s specialty is images of severe and unusual weather; in short, he’s a stormchaser.

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Vision Quest
Gary San Pietro Takes TIme To Stop And See
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Aug 01, 2002  |  First Published: Aug 01, 2001

"I'm a strong believer in keeping this as simple as it can be," Gary San Pietro says of the process by which he makes his photographs. "I tell people when they put the camera up to their eye, the key thing is to be clear on what it is that is causing...

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Wait Until Dark: Why Night Time is the Right Time for Outdoor Photography
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Feb 13, 2018

Let’s face it: we’ve all seen, taken, edited, judged, read, or written about so many photographs over so many years, sometimes we get…well, jaded. Then, if we’re lucky, along comes something that delivers a jolting reminder of the surprise and delight photography is capable of delivering.

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Waking Nightmares: How Photographer Nicolas Bruno Captures His Darkly Beautiful Images
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Apr 04, 2018

Nicolas Bruno was 15 years old when everything changed. His restful sleep became something very different, something called sleep paralysis. Conscious, his eyes open, he was unable to move, unable to stop the terrifying dreams and hallucinations in which he was pursued and tormented.

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Want to Create Photo Magic? Think Mirrored Images
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jun 11, 2021

Don't worry—you won't have to carry around a mirror. These images are all about observation and imagination.

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Book Reviews
What It Takes; Moose Peterson’s Works In Progress
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Apr 01, 2011

A few months prior to the publication of Moose Peterson’s new book, Captured: Lessons from Behind the Lens of a Legendary Wildlife Photographer, he told me what to expect—or maybe, what not to expect. “It’s very unconventional,” he said. “I call it a romantic how-to.”

When I got the book I quickly figured out that the romance referred to Moose’s love of...

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