An old favorite I’ve been meaning to post.
Hello to rap fans, I am ILL Mitch. I come from Russia to America now I am free to do 3 favorite things. These are rap and ride on my skateboard and hit my boxing bag. But most favorite thing is rap.
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Photojournalist Françoise Demulder, who covered the Vietnam war and in 1977 became the first woman to win the World Press Photo award, has died
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I also came across this uncredited biography of Winogrand on the Temple University website. I thought it was worth copying whole, but if you have to skim, don’t miss out on John Szarkowki’s final quote. As always, he said it better than anyone.
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Needless to say, this type of self publishing seems to require a fair amount of work – but then, the photographer is in full control of the final product (and I’ll take a book produced this way over any on-demand book at any given time – if you’ve ever seen examples of both types you know why); and who says that producing a book should take no time? But how much work exactly? How much does it cost? What does one have to do to create a book like this?
Several photographers/artists were kind enough to send me information about the process etc.
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Anthony Lappe and Dan Goldman’s Shooting War is one of the strongest graphic novels I’ve read in years, a tough anti-war comic that provides trenchant, spot-on commentary about the relationship of the news-media to all sides of modern war.
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Though it’s not exactly earth-shattering news — most people already knew it was coming — Adobe is launching CS4 on Sept. 23rd
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Photographer Matt Rourke of the Associated Press was arrested and detained at the Republican National Convention yesterday
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What Is This?
An almost-real-time, behind-the-scenes look at the assigning, writing, editing, and designing of a Wired feature. You can see more about the design process on Wired creative director Scott Dadich’s SPD blog, The Process. This is a one-time experiment, tied solely to the Charlie Kaufman profile scheduled to run in our November 08 issue.
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Back in the mid-1990s, while on a short college tour, the singer-songwriter Juliana Hatfield found herself looking for windows to jump from if her depression became too much to bear. She didn’t want to kill herself but to “not feel anything anymore,” she said.
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Jean-Jacques and I were also fascinated by two projects on the Congo: Vu photographer Cedric Gerbehaye’s Congo In Limbo and Getty photographer Brent Stirton’s images for Newsweek and National Geographic about Congo’s Virunga National Park.
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I don’t think i’m a “good” photographer anymore. I am constantly looking for pictures that no one cares about. I dig flaws. Here we’re spoon fed visually. Beautiful light, beautiful venues.
Imperfection is reality. Yet, we refuse to embrace it. My pictures are far “worse” than most coming from the event. I don’t have clean backgrounds, people are looking at me and the moments are off. I always imagine that editors role their collective eyes when my files appear on their screens.
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RED Camera’s Jim Jannard has hinted at a new still camera that could do to the DSLR market what the RED ONE movie camera is doing to the movie industry. At RED, Jannard has shown that he can pretty much ignore the industry paradigm and start from scratch: The RED cameras use sensors and file formats developed in house, and they are widely regarded to be better than those of bigger companies.
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David Letterman and Pee-Wee Herman? The two greatest minds of the century coming together. I feel lucky to have lived in their time.
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Travelling through middle America is a lot less bleak than it’s usually made out to be.
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photo by David G. McIntyre
I have never been sure about having a blog or not, but figured after reading some various friends blogs I could give it a shot. Many of the blogs I have read most recently were by fellow photographer friends during the recently completed 2008 Beijing Olympics, so I figured I would ‘Dive Right In’ with two of my favorite photos from the games.
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