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Here is a short video showing some very rare Edward J. Steichen Autochromes of Charlotte Spaulding that were turned over to the George Eastman House. These are very cool.

Since I’m on the topic of George Eastman House, they also have some really good resources available.

One I like is the Collections Online. Here you can see photographs by such people as Mathew Brady and Alfred Stieglitz.

Another is their podcast. The video above was one of them.

There’s a lot of other information on the eastmanhouse.org web site. Spend some time there.

Cool gift shop too. Now let’s see, do I get the Leica Christmas ornament or the Speed Graphic neck tie? Or both?

Now, I need a trip to New York so I can go check out their theater. For now, I’ll settle for the web site.

I first became acquainted with Harry Callahan when I was in the Friends of Photography back in the 80’s.  I received their quarterly publication called Untitled. Untitled focused on one photographer for each edition. Untitled 36 was called Eleanor.  That issue’s pictures were of Harry Callahan’s wife, Eleanor.   Callahan’s photographic style was nothing like anything I had ever seen.  Maybe that’s why I latched onto it.  That and his obvious love of his wife, Eleanor, really pulled me in. That book is still one of those that I keep in my office for inspiration.

Here is a YouTube video of Harry Callahan showing some of his work.

This video on how to focus a large format camera by Thomas Christopher Moore gives a very good demonstration of focusing a large format camera on a plane. It shows a practical method of utilizing the Scheimpflug principle. You don’t have to understand the complicated math in the wikipedia article to understand the video.

Here is another resource – text based this time. www.largeformatphotography.info has a good article that explains how to focus the view camera.

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