Monthly Archives: March 2008

The Quest for the Most Wanted Photo (Conscientious)

Having just started to look at Komar and Melamid’s Most Wanted Paintings – paintings created based on actual polls, where people could say what they liked – I thought finding the photographic equivalent couldn’t possibly be that hard. I went … Continue reading

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Four Photojournalists Killed During Vietnam War Come Home For Burial

Remains from the crash site where four photojournalists were killed when their helicopter went down in Laos during the Vietnam war will be buried on Thursday April 3, 2008, during a ceremony at the Newseum in Washington. On February 10, … Continue reading

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Leica and Rangefinders Forum: Making love…

Shopping carts making love… Check it out here.

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New EDIROL-09HR : MultimediaShooter

The R-09HR is a professional, high-definition recorder that travels light and performs like a heavyweight. Check it out here.

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Strazzante, Ackerman win top honors at Southern

Scott Strazzante of the Chicago Tribune and Jenn Ackerman, a graduate student at Ohio University, won top honors as 2008 Southern Photographer of the Year and 2008 Southern Student Photographer of the Year, respectively, this weekend. Strazzante also won Best … Continue reading

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How I Escaped My Newspaper Job

I have made one of the hardest decisions of my life; I’m leaving the newspaper business — this Thursday, to be exact, when I will work my last day at the Daily Press of Newport News, Va. This is the … Continue reading

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Tim Clayton, Sydney Morning Herald | Raw Take

What has actually happened is many photographers have evolved beyond the wants and needs of the newspaper. We are shooting stories that don’t get published and shooting personal projects to keep our brains stimulated. The ‘cat sat on the mat’ … Continue reading

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A great digital imaging project honors the fallen

Photographer Peter Krogh (author of the excellent The DAM Book, the Rapid Fixer extension for Bridge, and more) recently completed an ambitious & enormous digital imaging project: photographing all 58,256 names listed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, enabling the creation … Continue reading

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Dith Pran, ‘Killing Fields’ Photographer, Dies at 65

Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for his people’s rights, died in … Continue reading

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Artist Vanishes During a Berlin Walk

An artist who was put on trial for her role in a controversial exhibition titled “Caution, Religion!” has disappeared in Berlin, where she had been living since November, German police said. Anna Mikhalchuk, 52, left her home in the Charlottenburg … Continue reading

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In Shiite Slums, Victory Must Be Won in the Alleys – New York Times

Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye That dream, a nightmare, really, flashed through my mind as I stood at the end of a filthy, pothole-riddled alley talking with a small-time deputy commander in the Mahdi Army, the militia that is the armed … Continue reading

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Photography in China: 1934-2008 – lens culture

Photo by WU Jialin, Yibin, Sichuan Province, 1989 The world’s most comprehensive collection and overview of photography from China is currently on display in a mammoth city-wide exhibition in Houston, Texas, as part of FotoFest 2008. This is a tremendously … Continue reading

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talk to allard..

any minute now, William Albert Allard will walk through my door….i have not asked him, but i will put him on the spot with any of you who happen to be “on” right now….he will probably be here for a … Continue reading

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