Month: April 2009

  • Elizabeth Avedon

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    From A Photo Editor:

    I was corresponding with Elizabeth Avedon after I posted several pages from Rolling Stone Magazine’s seminal political photo essay “The Family” shot by Richard Avedon, because as it turns out Elizabeth was working in the photographer’s studio at the time designing the cover of the book “Portraits.” She was telling me some fascinating stories about working with Richard Avedon along with revealing the fact that she designed that issue of RS and so I asked her a few question. The first obviously was if she’s related to Richard to which she replied that at one time she was married to his son.

    Check it out here

  • James Balog’s Big Chill

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    From PDN:

    Beginning in December 2006, Balog and a group of scientists, photographers and cinematographers positioned a total of 27 Nikon D-200 cameras at 18 locations in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, the Rocky Mountains and British Columbia. Carefully boxed and sealed to withstand the elements, the cameras are powered by a combination of solar panels, batteries and other forms of electronics and are programmed to photograph once an hour as long as there is available daylight.

    Check it out here.

  • Backstage at Galliano

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    From PDN Photo of the Day:

    Today we present seven psychedelic fashion photos from photographer Mark Leibowitz’s current “Backstage at Galliano” exhibit, which opened as a private event April 25 in downtown Manhattan. The show includes 17 limited-edition prints created backstage at John Galliano’s fall-winter ’08 and spring-summer ’09 ready-to-wear shows in Paris.

    Check it out here.

  • WHNPA Eyes of History 2009 – Winners Gallery

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    Check it out here.

  • Voigtländer’s New Folding Medium Format Bessa Due Soon | GadgetLab

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    Check it out here.

  • on a roll…. | burn magazine

    From burn magazine:

    i thought: why not turn the Kibbutz loft into a BURN gallery for the photographers here??…sell your prints from selected work….

    Check it out here.

  • The Godfather: Steven Meisel

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    From Style.com:

    The other quality that characterizes Steven Meisel’s work is a strange kind of precision. “The thing that looks like Steven is an obsessiveness with an almost chilly perfection,” says Koda. “Even if the models are meant to look tousled, they are perfectly tousled,” he says. “There’s never a moment where there isn’t this intrusion of the photographer into a very controlled image.”

    Check it out here.

    via Andrew Hetherington.

  • Saddened By The Death of Ian Talty

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    From Wooster Collective:

    We’re extremely saddened to learn this morning of the death of Ian Talty, a photographer known for shooting amazing photographs of graffiti in and around St. Paul, Minnesota.

    Check it out here.

  • Wooster Collective: Fresh Stuff Frm JR in RIo

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    Check it out here.

  • PixSylated

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    Check it out here.

  • The Fast Food Job Application Prank

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    From The Fast Food Job Application Prank:

    In the winter of 2008, I started noticing that all of the fast food places near work had these little acrylic application holders out in the open. So, I got to work designing a new job application, with much more entertaining questions. All I had to do was remove the spaces for “the last ten places you  worked” and there was more than enough room for every question I could dream up.

    To blend into any setting, I invented the fast-food conglomerate Serv-Joy. With this logo, a better name would be “GoatSe.rv-Joy”.

    It was an application best described as absurd. My goal was to create questions that were ridiculous, contradictory and just a little seedy.

    Check it out here.

    via Urban Prankster.

  • PHOTOGRAPHER’S Q&A – RYAN ENN HUGHES

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    From NPAC – News Photographers Association of Canada:

    The Photographer’s Q&A focuses on Canadian photographers and visual journalists. This is an ongoing series posted every Monday.
    This week’s Q&A is with Ryan Enn Hughes, who will be joining The Globe and Mail as its summer intern.

    Check it out here.

  • How ABC Interview Shaped a Torture Debate

    From NYTimes.com:

    Mr. Zubaydah started to cooperate after being waterboarded for “probably 30, 35 seconds,” Mr. Kiriakou told the ABC reporter Brian Ross. “From that day on he answered every question.”

    His claims — unverified at the time, but repeated by dozens of broadcasts, blogs and newspapers — have been sharply contradicted by a newly declassified Justice Department memo that said waterboarding had been used on Mr. Zubaydah “at least 83 times.”

    Check it out here.

  • last dance?

    From shooting from the hip:

    I have been and will always be an optimist.

    I don’t stress about things and have tried to roll with the punches but this past week the punches have seemed to come in bunches.

    Check it out here.

  • Calanan Photography: Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day

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    Check it out here.

  • Level & Tap

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    From Level & Tap:

    Level & Tap is a site dedicated to selling curated photography prints. The work is selected by a small group of editors, including me, Tom Watson. I love photography, especially printed, and want to provide a place for people to find and buy great quality work on the Internet.

    Check it out here.

  • PDNPulse: Megan Fox Gets the Red One Treatment for Esquire Cover

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    Check it out here.

  • 2008 PHOTOJOURNALIST OF THE YEAR / PHOTO OF THE YEAR AWARDS

    From NPAC – News Photographers Association of Canada:

    News Photographers Association of Canadaʼs Award Recipients Canadian photojournalist Louie Palu received the highest honour, fittingly atop of the highest building in the country, during the 2008 News Photographerʼs Association of Canada Photo of the Year awards ceremony. Palu, was named Photographer of the Year by the association for his work in Afghanistan and Cuba for Zuma Press.

    Full list of winners by category is here.

  • 8BitFM

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    From Josh Spear, Trendspotting:

    Do you find that tune from Tetris twisting and turning in your brain all day? Does the music of Metroid make you want to move your feet? Sure you’re probably a video game addict, but there’s nothing wrong with getting those sweet sounds of Super Street Fighter stuck in your head. The only issue you face is trying to find a place that will let you relive the soundtrack of your gaming life. Luckily, there’s now 8bitFM, an internet radio station dedicated to devotees of Double Dragon ditties and Super Mario melodies.

    Check it out here.

  • Jude Buffum

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    From COMRADE Magazine:

    I had always wanted to be an illustrator until the day my idol, Joe Sorren, was a guest speaker in my illustration class. He stuck around for our class critiques and when he got to my painting, he said, I shit you not this is exactly what he said: “I’m personally offended to have to talk about this piece, it’s THAT BAD.” I went home practically in tears, didn’t leave my room for a week, and almost dropped out of school. But I realized at that point I was a better designer than illustrator, so I stuck with graphic design.

    Check it out here.