Barry Tanenbaum

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Behind the Photograph: This Image Was a Photographer's Turning Point
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jul 29, 2014  |  First Published: Jun 01, 2014

Natural History
When Steve Gottlieb took this picture in 1985 he’d been practicing law for 10 years. Photography was his hobby, and his hometown, Washington, D.C., was his favorite subject.

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Family Tie
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jun 29, 2014  |  First Published: May 01, 2014
When Nathan Crowder shows his work at the Tennessee Art League’s monthly gallery show in downtown Nashville, he favors the maximum effect of displaying a few large images rather than, say, ten 8x10s. Not too long ago, this photo got an especially strong, emotional, and gratifying reaction.
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The Bridge
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jun 10, 2014  |  First Published: Apr 01, 2014
He didn’t set out to capture an icon in an image that’s instantly classic, but that’s pretty much what happened. “It was a walkabout on a foggy day,” Chris Ford says. “I sometimes like to shoot on foggy days in Manhattan, and I live on the Lower East Side, so getting down to the Brooklyn Bridge was relatively easy.”
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Street Seen: Michael S. Miller’s Classic Moments
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jun 05, 2014  |  First Published: Apr 01, 2014

The camera Michael carries might be his Leica M6, loaded with either Ilford XP-2 or Kodak BW400CN chromogenic film and fitted with either a 35mm f/2 or 50mm f/2 Summicron lens; or his Fuji X10 point-and-shoot with its zoom lens set for the equivalent of 50mm; or his Nikon D200 or D700 with the manual 50mm f/1.4 Nikkor lens he got with his F3 back when he was in college.

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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: 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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Cold Comfort: Layne Kennedy’s Tips For Winter Warmth
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Dec 06, 2013  |  First Published: Nov 01, 2013

Chances are you won’t be photographing in the negative numbers of extreme cold that Layne Kennedy often encounters—we’re talking -15 to -30 degrees Fahrenheit—but his experience with and guidelines for cold-weather shooting can provide you with a considerable degree of comfort no matter what the temperature.

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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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Memories In Red: A Family’s History
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jul 26, 2013  |  First Published: Jun 01, 2013

There are stories we tell to explain ourselves, to clarify who we are, and to account for why we are who we are. And no matter what the apparent subject of these stories, what they are always really about is the past. “The past is never dead,” William Faulkner said. “It’s not even past.”

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