Link: The Leica Camera

“This is where John White preached,” he said. “This is where Alfred Eisenstaedt and Joe Rosenthal stood. This is where Gordon Parks would walk down the halls of the Days Inn with a girl on either side when he was in his 80s. This is where photographers like Bill Frakes would get kids up at 3 in the morning to go out and make pictures so theirs would be better than everyone else’s. This is the place where passion pulses through everyone’s veins 24 hours a day — where sleep is not important.”

Link: La Lettre de la Photographie

The Leica gallery presents a must-see retrospective of the black-and-white and color work of the Swiss photographer, whose insolence is reflected in his attitude as much as in his images.

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.

Link: Raw File

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.

The video files were amazing; a no-brainer. This is what the EPIC does best, and it didn’t disappoint. Stunning resolution, accurate color, and smooth slow motion. Watching the clips at full resolution is actually a bit mesmerizing.

When it came to pulling stills, things weren’t quite as perfect

Link: AMERICAN SUBURB X

Larry Fink is a man who clearly enjoys the physicality and sensuality of the world around him. Passion- ate and outspoken with an impish nature, he enjoys good food and earthly delights. Having come of age in the beat generation, Fink has retained that sensibility. His written correspondence takes the shape of a beat poem or a jazz lick, but the images he creates with the camera are drawn from multi-layered influences

because Gannett’s US Presswire team will be shooting there

Link: the life of m

Trisomy 18, the doctor said, is “incompatible with life.” The baby would likely die before birth. If she did live, odds were a coin toss that she would die in the first weeks and less than 1 in 10 she would live a year. She would not cry or smile, the doctor told them. She would never walk or talk.

via: Feature Shoot

Link: photo-eye

Brian Ulrich’s book is great, and a real downer. If you resisted President Bush’s exhortations to shop America back to health after the events of 9-11-01, you may already be in line with the photographer. His Copia series, dating from 2001–2011, makes up the meat of this book. With mordant glee, the photographs insinuate that a decade of shopping has made us no better off; in fact, the rock we’ve been trying to shoulder up hill is flattening us.

My first thought was, “I hope he means John H. White.”
Several weeks later, he confirmed, that indeed, he was looking for me to hang out with John a bit for a cover story honoring John on the 30th anniversary of his Pulitzer Prize.

Link: Revolution Revisited

Revolution Revisited is a project by 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner photographer Kim Komenich, now a professor at San Jose State University. In 2011, Komenich began relocating the subjects from his spot news winning essay from the People’s Power Revolution which overthrew Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and put Corazon Aquino in power.

The website features then and now image pairs, a longer essay about the revolution, interviews with the photographer, video stories and a database of over 500 outtakes from his coverage, which Komenich hopes will help to relocate more subjects from his coverage in the mid-1980s.

The site was produced by a class of multimedia graduate students in the University of Miami’s School of Communication.

Link: Raw File

We contacted members of various emergent collectives to find out what they’ve learned during their infant years. In a collective of four, is the workload quartered or quadrupled? What sort of assistance do members provide one another? Do collectives advance careers and opportunities? What are the downsides? What are the tangible benefits of collectivism?

Link: NYTimes.com

Damaso Reyes has been photographing the many changes sweeping over the European Union since 2005 as part of his ambitious project, “The Europeans.” Across the Continent, he has been finding moments large and small that strive for nuance and details of everyday life.

As chief of photo operations for The Associated Press in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Horst Faas didn’t just cover the fighting — he also recruited and trained new talent from among foreign and Vietnamese freelancers.

On Tuesday May 15th 2012, the Aday.org (www.aday.org) initiative will invite the entire world to participate in the largest and most comprehensive photographic documentation of a single day in human history

“The paparazzi culture has changed drastically,” he says. “When I did it, you had the great freedom to shoot—no fans, no security, no publicists. And I don’t miss it too much because I have the gold in my files.”

This past Thursday marked the passing of Horst Faas. Probably as much as about anyone since Capa, he was someone whose mere mention of a name — either first OR last, was enough to conjure up that big personality and , yes, talent, that he was