Nicholas Barang

Nicholas Barang

The History Of The Camera

Daguerrotype

Photography has come a long way in the last 3,000 years or so. Mankind’s obsession with capturing the present is enduring and exciting. 500 BCE – The Camera Obscura You probably know it as the “pinhole camera”. The camera osbcura’s…

Subway by Bruce Davidson

Subway by Bruce Davidson

The Subway system of New York sprawls across much of the city and enables nearly everyone to travel far and wide for a reasonable fee. Subway by Bruce Davidson is an exploration of the subway in the 1980s and it’s…

The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson

If there’s one book that nearly every photographer, particularly street photographers, speak of in hushed tones of wonder, it’s The Decisive Moment by Henri-Cartier Bresson.  If you want to join them, be warned, even recent reprints of this work command…

The Suffering of Light by Alex Webb

The Suffering of Light 

If there’s one thing that everyone knows, it’s that great street photography is done in black and white, except no-one told Alex Webb. Alex is a Magnum Photographer with decades of experience under his belt and The Suffering Of Light…

America by Zoe Strauss

America

It takes a certain kind of courage to step off the beaten tracks and delve into the good, the bad and the ugly of your home nation and that’s the courage that Zoe Strauss shows in America. Zoe’s first camera…

Magnum Contact Sheets

Magnum Contact Sheets

Magnum is the world’s best known photographic agency, their photographers are considered to be the greatest talents in commercial photography.  The contact sheets collection holds 139 sheets from 69 of their photographers plus notes, spreads, etc. that help to explain…