About Us

Gallery

Contests

News

Links

Members' Zone - Newsletters, etc.

Coppemine Albums - Coming soon!

Back to the beginning!

L I N K S . . .
updated 21 September, 2007


What!? You're not out making photos? Well then — you might as well be reading about photography....
and/or snooping 'round the Worldwide Web.
These links are a start and should do more than just whet your appetite.


Beware - legal notice:
The UN Photo Club accepts absolutely no responsibility whatsoever for the content
of these links. We don't check for broken links. You find any, tell us!
And we may do something about it!
Thanks.


United Nations

United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV)
United Nations Homepage
International Atomic Energy Agency


Museums/Galleries

museum of art vienna
Vienna's premier art history museum. Remember the Saliera theft — that's what put this institute in the news not so long ago.

monatderfotografiewien
A month's worth of photographic exhibits in Vienna — at the end of 2006.

KUNSTHALLE wien
Worth a visit. Modern venue with comtemporary shows.

WienStation
Seems a modern site. Local "colorit". In a Stadbahn arcade along the Lerchenfeldergürtel.


Commercial

Lotus View Camera
Very fine and beautiful 4x5" to 20x24" large format (LF) kit, made in Austria, as well as photographic and digital materials. Alternative process needs catered for. Palladium, platinum, kalliotype kits available. Pyro developers also in stock. Worth a visit.

Knips!
Schneider&Tischer - Pro Analog and Digital equipment and services. 7th Wiener Bezirk - not far from the Mariahilferstrasse. Digital fans can see what the market offers these days.

Monochrom
Photo supplies. Presentation supplies. Light Impression products. Have comprehensive and interesting catalog.

Halbe Picture Frames
Magentic picture exhibition frames. Offer comprehensive catalog.

Salon Iris
Fine art digital printers. Here in Vienna.

ACE
Means All Camera Equipment. Portal for finding what you want/need worldwide.

Linhof
Highest quality LF/MF kit. Venerable camera manufacturer producing the famous Technika (drop dead beautiful) drop bed camera.

Sinar
High quality Swiss LF/MF kit.

Hasselblad
High quality Swedish MF kit. The Rolls Royce of middle format. Complete system and now with digital possibilities that are truly mind boggling - price-wise, too.

Leica
Highest quality 35mm viewfinder/SLR kit. For afficianados with very deep pockets. M8 for digital photography, too.

Nikon
High quality 35mm SLR kit. Defined pro 35mm SLR photography for decades.

Canon, Inc.
35mm Kit. Has its adherants. New top-of-the-line Eos digital camera is impressive and ever so expensive.

Stephen Gandy's Camera Quest
Cosina Voigtlaender Bessa Viewfinder Cameras.

Digital Light and Color
Picture Window Photo Editing Software for those who edit photos and not primarily graphics. Very priceworthy.

Hans Mahn
Maco products. Chemstry and papers for photographers.

infotoshop milchram kg
Cameras, films, accessories at good prices. Right across the Westbahnstrasse from WestLicht and the Leica Shop.

Adobe Photoshop
Graphics Editing Software for those who edit primarliy graphics and not photos. Suffers terminal bloat and is prohibitively expensive. But does just about everything a graphic designer could want.

Better Light Scan Backs
Ffor highest quality digital work. See what the pros use!

Foto-Riegler
Austrian mail order for chemistry, cameras, etc.

Silverprint
London based photographic supplier. Some products less expensive than at Berlin's Monochrom

View Camera Store
Lots of LF stuff. See what's available.

Gordy's Camera Straps
Wrist straps for various camera models.

J and C Photo
Fine art black and white films and papers including Kodak, Ilford, Adox, Foma and JandC Classic
. Printing papers, too.

Bergger
High quality film and papers made in France. Successor to the Guillemot & Bospflug company, earliest industrial manufacturer of light sensitive materials.

Beck Kamera Service
Service and repairs for all brands of film and digital cameras. Not too far from the Mariahilferstrasse.

Bromwell Marketing
Large and medium format supplies in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Ground Glass Specialities
Satin Snow ground glass. Made in Montana, USA. Real good stuff.

ebay
Needs no introduction. Local sites can be visited, too. Caveat emptor.

BookFinder
Looking for a specific book? Try your luck here. Or here (ABE Books).


Photo Clubs/Venues/Various

World Wide Arts Resources / absolutearts.com
The community of Interest of International Exhibition Photographers (IWF-Europe)

Argentina
International Photographic Salon in Internet of C.A.F.

Australia
APS - Australian Photographic Society INC

Austria
Austrian Art Portal (Kunstforum.at) Art in Austria

Galeria auf der Pawlatsche: U.of Vienna venue for Slovak photography. In the old University grounds. Lovely place to visit. And the photography is good, too.

Belgium
Fédération de cercles photographiques(FCP)

Brazil
Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante

Germany
Fotogilde Frankfurt
Fotoclub Ansbach
Fotoforum
Fotografische Gesellschaft Trier

Hong Kong
Photographic Salon Exhibitors Association
The Photographic Society of Hong Kong

Luxemburg
Photo-Club Petange
Photo Club Esch
Federation Internationale de'l Art Photographique 
Fotoforum Luxemburg

Portugal
Racal Clube
Douronet

Singapore
Photo Art Association of Singapore

Slovenia
Amateur Photographers Union of Slovenia
Fotoklub Maribor
Foto Klub Anton Azbe

Switzerland
Swiss Association of Photography

United Kingdom
The Royal Photographic Society

United States of America
The Photographic Society of America


Personal Pages

Ansel Adams: king of the landscape photographers — died in 1984 and still going strong. Site is very commercial. Get an original print for $45,000.00! (Oops — print has been sold!)
Site has a good glossary of photo terms which may prove useful to you.

Andreas H. Bitesnich
Some very nice black and white work - had big show in Vienna in 2004.

Elsa Dorfman - Portrait Photographer
A great place to have a look around. Witty & enlightening.
Check out the giant 20x24inch (50x60cm) Polaroid camera.

Burkhardt Kiegeland's Home Page
Founder of Lotus View Cameras. Holds workshops in LF Photography, Alternative Printing Processes, and Digital Printing.

Philip Greenspun's Home Page
Another great place to have a look around. Read & get an education! Shares Elsa Dorfman's studio.

Norman Koren Photography
Discusses Picture Window Pro Software amongst other items of interest.

John Sexton's Web Site
Large Format work by Ansel Adams' one-time assistant.

Ken Rockwell's Web Site.
Plenty of information here - big on Nikon equipment.

J.B. & Susan Harlin
Large Format work. Fine art B&W photography. Also ULF work. See their 4x10" and 8x20" projects!

Michael Smith & Paula Chamlee
LF and ULF azo contact prints and books. Lovely landscapes.

Arlene Collins's Web Site
Hasselblad travel photography.

Dominique Jules C. Delattre
Astronome Amateur
(excellent photos of the total eclipse on August 11, 1999)

ctein
Photographer and writer. Makes dye transfer prints. Look here for lovely color prints. A fundus of photography information and some quite interesting links.

Dan Burkholder
Photographer and writer. Makes platinum/digitally colored prints. Look here for lovely color prints. Tutorials, too.

Gene Nocon
Photographer and fine printer. Slick web site. Bit slow to load.

Moose Peterson
Wildlife photography. Large site. Plenty to read.

Stephen Johnson
Large format photographer using digital scan backs rather than film. See what digital can do! But what a price....

Gilles Martin
Large format photographer based in France. Very nice web site with good links. Landscapes in black and white.

Radeka
Photography of the American West by Lynn Radeka. Fine-art gallery of limited edition black and whitephotography, color photography and posters by one of America's premiere landscape and ghost town photographers. How to mask tutorial. Interesting links.

Jack Dykinga
Pulitzer Prize-winning US landscape photographer.

DP Review
Reviews of things digital.

John Coffer
Wet plate colloidon photographer. Travels in a horse-drawn buggy.
Uses no electricity in his photography....

Clyde Butcher
Landscape photography in the Adams tradition. Lots of swamp pictures!

David Muench
Fine landscape photography. Used to be traditional — site now seems to be an advertisement for epson and roland printers — and not very user friendly.

Christopher Burkett
Large format optical prints. His explanation as to why he doesn't "do" digital is enlightening.

The Online Photographer
Your daily fix of info on subjects photographical by Mike Johnston.

Paul Butzi Photography
Interesting reviews - practical tips. Visit this site. He has a blog which is more up to date.

Mammut
ULF venue with galleries and links.


Club Members' sites ...

Luis Villarroel: Photography and paintings by Luis Villarroel.

David White's Page: Club Member gentleman David White: man of few parts and many web pages.


More items of interest ...

Digital Imaging Guide
Guidlines for digital imaging. PDF dowload.

Large Format (LF) Photography site

Forum for large format photography.

photo.net
Have a look around. See Philip Greenspun's articles - follow the links and get an education.

Westlicht.com.
Site for Leica enthusiasts and Auction House in Vienna.

APUG.ORG
Analog Photography Users Group

VOeAV
Verband Oesterreichischer Amateurfotografen Vereine - The Organization of Austrian Amateur Photographer Clubs.

f32
Analog and Digital Large Format Site

Graflex Org
For Speed Graphic fans

Travelphotographers.net
For those who take pictures on the go.

Photo Techniques Magazine
Offers subscriptions.

Photography blog
Yet more reading material.

George Barr's blog

Yet more reading material.

Thom Hogan's site
Nikon revues and other raves.

Aperture
Organization founded in 1952 by Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Barbara Morgan, Minor White, Beaumont Newhall, and Nancy Newhall. Publishes Aperture magazine. Lately their magazine seems to suffer from a bad case of "style over meaning". So we no longer subscribe, but the site costs nothing to visit.

AG — Photography News & Notes From Agenda Magazine
What's up in photography these days. Great links.

Photo Sites on the Net — Links Page
General Web sites: magazines, etc.

Wilhelm Imaging Research
Tests digital printing materials and reports on findings. Not industry-sponsored.

Bill Jay on Photography

A great many interesting articles written by Mr.Jay who is a photographer and educator. Well worth a read.

Medium format mega site
For links to labs, repair shops, and "other" worldwide! Section on Austria is worth a look.

Gesellschaft für Photographisches Edeldruckverfahren
For those of you interested in alternative printing processes.

Camera Austria
Interesting camera mag from Austria — see what the natives are up to. Since 1980.

Photo Net Austria
What's on in our neighborhood.

Richard T. Ritter
Large format repair — worked with Fred Picker at Zone VI Studios for many years. Modifies, repairs and restores
large format equipment. Based in Vermont, USA.

Nationales Museum für Fotografie in Jindrichuv Hradec
A regional center for photography. In Czech. Definately worth a look to see what's on in our greater neighborhood.

The Nocturnes
You wanna take pictures at night? Go here! Or to their blog, The Nocturnes Night Photography Blog


Troy Paiva's nighttime web site. Colorful. Could it be he has a brother, Tom Piava?

Democracy Now
For the news you won't get via corporate-controlled and censored media. Get a straight view of world affairs. Watch the video streams 5 days a week.

Truthout
More headlines that put the lie to corporate media propaganda. Don't waste your time on the NYTimes, read Truthout.

Enjoy Your World
Travel information for destinations around the globe. Plenty of photos.


Belgian Airline pilot, Henk van Rensbergen, has visited abandoned buildings and places with his Leicas and, more recently, Canon EOS 5D. Interesting site layout. Could be habit forming.

 


© 1998-2008 • UN Photo Club Vienna All Rights Reserved