I wanted to buy a flash for my camera for quite some time, with the dollar so low I checked online and found B&H. Knowing that I'll be in New York soon I did not order. But my alacartemap also had B&H on it and since we were on our way from 42th to 4 th Street we thought we pass here.
B&H is not a normal camera shop in fact it's one of the craziest things I have seen in new York so far.
You enter through a rather small door but behind opens up a huge space there's signs everywhere telling you where the telescopes are, the cameras the video stuff the .... On the selling is a railway system with green boxes driving around.
Totally lost I asked one of the jewish men working here where I would find ricoh stuff and he directed me to the second floor where I had to cue at the line for one of the 60 desks. Didn't take long and the light above desk 10 started to flash and a nice lady asked me what I was looking for.
She search her computer found my flash told me the they have a great deal for rechargeable batteries and of course the also have a very good european adaptor... I was asking for the mount and she said I could pre-order it and they would send it to me ... Which I did not do.
Ok then I had to be entered into the system she asked if I was sure that I am a new customer because she has 8 sarah huber in her system.
After she finishe my registration she bend down to pick up a green box with all my stuff in it! Now I was really confused but she told me to check the bottom of the counter - there it was again the conveyor. So while we are talking some one somewhere packed my stuff and sent it here. She checked everything then I got a big paper and said now I could continue shopping and when I'm done I could go down to the cashier with all the papers and pay and collect my stuff. Off went my little green box again.
By the way The flash was 200.- less than in switzerland.
www.bhphotovideo.com/
Sunday:10:00am - 6:00pm
Monday - Thursday:9:00am - 7:00pm
Friday:9:00am - 2:00pm
Saturday:Closed
9th Ave. @ 34th St. New York, NY 10001
Ein grossartige Beitrag. Radio DRS, 8.8.2011
"So wie jeder zuhause einen Wasserhahn hat, so hat auch jeder mittlerweile einen Bilderhahn: Über das Internet haben wir Zugriff auf so viele Bilder wie nie zuvor. Eine Tatsache, die den Beruf des Fotografen verändern wird.
Das Machen, in Umlauf bringen, Sammeln und Verändern von Bildern wurde zur gängigen kulturellen Praxis. Ist das nun das Ende des Fotografenberufs? Nein, ein ganz neues Feld voller Inspiration und Chancen, meinen die Verfasser eines provokativen Manifests.
Was das bedeutet, veranschaulicht zurzeit eine polemische Ausstellung - ausgerechnet am Fotofestival von Arles, dem Bollwerk klassischer Fotografie. Sascha Renner über die neusten Trends in der künstlerischen Fotografie und ihre Zukunft im Internet."
http://www.drs2.ch/www/de/drs2/sendungen/reflexe/2741.sh10188367.html
the world of agnès b. / galerie du jour
If you happen to be in New York ( which I will :-) ) I recommend you go and see this Exhibition In Agnès b. third NYC outpost, Galerie Boutique.
«Certain Young French Photography» focuses on photographers recently recognized by agnès b. through her involvement with the Friends of Paris Beaux-Arts School Association and the Lucien and Rodolphe Hervé Association, whose work agnès b. has long supported.
The 7 photographers, Luna Picoli-Truffaut, Marc Cellier, Claudia Imbert, Nicolas Dhervillers, Claire Adelfang, Matthias Olmeta, and Leonard Bourgois-Beaulieu, all take a singular approach to their surroundings and develop other ‘invented realities’ that manifest their idiosynchrasies. Most of them deal with portrait: celebrities and unknowns are shot with an evident affection for the sitters; a provincial street under the rain brings to mind Atget and Brassai.
In addition, 3 artists using drawing are associated to the show: Lionel Avignon, a new artist introduced by agnès b., Abdelkader Benchamma represented by Galerie du Jour for the last 6 years and Kiki & Loulou Picasso, who have worked and showed at Galerie du Jour since the mid-80s.
In their works, portraits are also featured predominantly, presenting people and issues of contemporary society in a critical or ironical way, as well as aiming to draw the contours a re- invented planet.
In presenting photography and drawing for our second inaugural exhibition, an attempt is made to confront and coalesce the two mediums, discretely hinting at the most eminent figure of French photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson, who in his later years all but abandoned photo- graphy and never stopped drawing.
NICOLAS DHERVILLERS
MATTHIAS OLMETA
agnès b. Boutique Galerie
50 Howard Street
10013 New York NY
+1 212 431 1335
http://www.agnesb.com/newyork/exhibition/index.html
Check these amazing pictures from the Life Magazine's archive.
more can be found
here they also have a nice ipad app.
I love these pictures from ari gabel.
more can be seen on ari's flickr page
I love this picture! don't ask me where it comes from. found it here though.
Ruins of detroit - Amazing Images! more here
One of my favorite ipad apps is eyewitness from the guardian newspaper. The worlds most distinctive and provocative photographs one each day.
Read more and download the app here
Here my two absolute favorites:
Belarussians celebrate the pagan rite called Kolyadki in a house in the village of Pogost, Belarus. It is a pagan winter holiday, which over the centuries has merged with Orthodox Christmas celebrations
Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters
A woman gathers rubbish on a land?ll site, where she lives, in Juba city. Voters in southern Sudan are preparing to vote on Sunday, when a seven-day referendum on separation from Africa’s biggest country begins
Stefano De Luigi/VII Network
Three huge casks of tobacco being guarded by soldiers 
