• An Oakland Tribune photographer filed a federal civil rights lawsuit today against the city of Oakland, saying police illegally barred him from taking pictures at a freeway crash scene and handcuffed him when he persisted.

    Ray Chavez, 44, said officers had interfered with his right as a member of the press to cover news, specifically a car crash and the emergency response time.

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    Liu Heung Sheng (or HS as he is widely known) is a Pulitzer-prize winner who came to photography by a circuitous route, but one which has helped him produce the new book China: Portrait of a Country (Taschen), a remarkable study of the rich but virtually unknown history of Chinese photography since 1949.

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  • “To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It’s a way of life.”

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  • We’re very happy to announce that an all-new issue of Lens Culture is now online! This issue features wonderful and diverse photography and photo-based art from all over the world.

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    I remember when I used to work at a newspaper in Illinois a few years back, I would always have to go out and find a photo to fill dead space in the paper. This would be so difficult for me. I would drive around for hours and hours and hours. And the minute I saw some kid playing a sprinkler or people in the park I’d pull over. What a bunch of crap. I would only cruise the areas that I was comfortable in. Then of course that 5 pm deadline would always loom down on me.

    But I didn’t get it then.

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    Photo by Chip Litherland

    welcome to the new and improved Redlights and Redeyes.  Prepare for a photo onslaught of oversaturated painted walls, big skies, and silhouetted goodness

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    But that’s ok because Paper Tiger is doing a super limited print run of the 8-Bit Showdown paintings. Only 30 of each set. 2 sets. Signed and all that.

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  • it seems Canon’s Chinese website has leaked specs for a new prosumer camera, the 50D

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  • A YouTube clip from a Magnum meeting.

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  • I know that for a wedding photographer or a local portrait photographer, SEO (Search engine optimization) may be one of the most important things for their business after the images

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  • Moments after Olympic events end, another feat of Olympic proportions begins. An army of Olympic photographers and editors swings into action.

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    eBoy is everywhere. If you’re a geek, you saw their poster for MakerFaire. If you like beats, you picked up the latest issue of BPM. And if you collect toys, you have an opinion on their Peecol figures. Now eBoy has teamed up with JoshSpear favorite ROJO for the production of a limited edition monographic book entitled Schmock.

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  • Next month, a discordant crowd of photographers and editors will squeeze into the small city of Perpignan, France.

    It will be the 20th year of Visa Pour l’Image, an ambitious photo festival that has grown into a huge annual reunion for photojournalists.

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    An exiled teacher of Kim Jong-il has revealed how he first met an ‘ordinary’ student who turned into the monster that rid Pyongyang of the disabled – and ordered his entire family killed.

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  • This gentleman likes to watch videos while he drives at night. He places his iPhone on his car’s dashboard and watches the reflection on the windshield.

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    Her upcoming book, Annie Leibovitz: At Work, looks to be a behind-the-scenes study of some of her more famous shoots, including the royal shoot referenced above.

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  • I see almost no trace of the army which has supposedly regrouped in order to fiercely resist the Russian invasion. Here we see a police station. A little farther on, a handful of soldiers, their uniforms still too new. But no combat units. No anti-aircraft weaponry. Not even the trenches and zigzagging fortifications which, in all the besieged cities of the world, are set up to at least slightly impede the enemy’s advance. A dispatch received while we are driving announces that Russian tanks are now approaching the capital. The information is relayed by various radio stations and then finally denied, creating unspeakable chaos and making the few cars which had ventured outside the city turn back immediately. But the authorities, the powers that be, seem strangely to have given up.

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    Jerry Dantzic (previously reviewed here in April 2003) was a lifelong photojournalist, whose long career documented the arts, music and the vast diversity of New York life.  He freelanced for the New York Times and Life and Look magazines, among other major publications. He also taught photography at Long Island University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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