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Called Invision Agency , it is a spinoff of the 150 years old Associated Press. Tired of taking a beating from Getty, loosing photographers, staffers and market share, the financially suffering AP images has decided to fight back and open fire.
And you can imagine how this translates to photography…
Link: 50,000 new visitors to cartoonist’s site results in an extra 23 books sold – Boing Boing
Cartoonist Lars Martinson submitted the first installment of the Kameoka Diaries to Reddit. As a result, his website, which gets about 100 visitors a day, had 48,342 visitors in a single day. He thought he might sell a couple hundred more ebooks than usual because of the new influx of visitors. That was a gross overestimate.
Lynsey Addario, Ernesto Bazan, Camille Seaman, Bruce Gilden, Robin Schwartz, and Hank Willis Thomas, festival organizers have announced.
The festival will take place June 7, 8 and 9 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Here you have it, the behind-the-scene-stories from PhotoShelter members recognized in PDN’s Photo Annual 2012. Each year a panel of judges including photo editors, curators, and creative directors come together to select the best photography in 10 different categories. While each member contributed dramatically different work, they were all recognized in the same high regard. From the streets of Austin to the cross fire in Libya, we’re honored to work with these photographers from all over the world and share their stories behind the acclaimed shot.
Link: [#DIGART] Why Your .JPEGs Aren’t Making You A Millionaire | The Creators Project
The commodification of internet art is not going to happen in the way the art market has traditionally operated or in any way currently being attempted. This all comes down to a simple square-peg-in-a-circular-hole economic dilemma, which is that digital content is infinitely reproducible and free while physical commodities are scarce and expensive. “But wait!” a Sean Parker-esque voice says in the distance, “What about Facebook, Spotify, Kickstarter? They’re making money and they exist online!” Indeed they are making money Mr. Timberlake, but let’s look at some of the business models today’s online companies employ and see if they’re able to provide a sustainable market for internet art.
In that sense, no photographic treatment of any place will ever be truthful. Too much will be excluded, and our brains would never be able to even process the infinity of images and information a truthful portrayal would provide.
Using tiny props, the Carmichael Collective has built a series of small remembrances for dead bugs they found around their office and on the street. The “Bug Memorials” project documents these shrines in photos and a short YouTube video.
