Mark Power/Magnum Photos
In late September I made my latest visit to Poland, to finally bring some closure to ‘The Sound of Two Songs’, which began way back in 2004. These are some of those recent pictures.
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One of my favorite stories is when he got his hands on an old-school stun-gun, the kind that shoots a bolt of electrical current across two contact points. He was so thrilled about his new toy, he went down to The Lift that night and you just knew he was gonna find an excuse to use it. He starts talking s**t to some turtleneck-wearing douchebag at the club, they get about ready to box, and Dwid pulls the stungun on the dude and it was either low on batteries or just a cheap bootleg knockoff cause the guy he stunned just kinda stepped back, looked at him like ‘check out this motherF***R’ and broke his nose with one punch. Classic.
in Punk Rock
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Shutting down the DRR online storage site – and giving all of your customers less than 24 hours notice to retrieve their data – is ABSOLUTELY INEXCUSABLE.
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With the 2008 election only days away, we asked four photographers who have spent years working both in and around the White House to offer their advice for the next president. Here photographers Pete Souza, Diana Walker, David Hume Kennerly, and Robert McNeely reflect upon the role the White House photographer plays in creating an historic record, how the White House press office and the next First Family might work with media photographers, and the value that photographers with access to the White House can have in shaping the public’s understanding of both the President and the workings of government.
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South African photographer Mikhael Subotzky has been awarded the 2008 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. Subotzky received the grant, worth $30,000, for his project “Crime, Punishment and Security in Post-Apartheid South Africa.”
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Nikon and Canon are traditional rivals, like the Hatfields and the McCoys. They compete in just about ever segment of the market. But, in recent years Canon has, with its G series, had one small niche to itself, that of the pocketable digicam that shoots raw and has an optical viewfinder (pathetic though the latter may be).
Now, with the introduction by Nikon of the Coolpix P6000, and Canon’s upgrade to the G10, we have what appear at first blush to be competitive products in this category. Let’s see how they initially stack up.
in Equipment
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To our valued Members:
We’re sorry to inform you that Digital Railroad (DRR) has shut down.
in Photography
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Let’s instead talk about just the photography. I think it’s not too daring to say that after more than fifty years of grainy b/w photojournalism (with its sometimes blurry, sometimes crooked shots) the visual tool has become blunt.
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E&P announced today the winners in its 9th annual Newspaper Photos of the Year competition. The grand prizerwinner is freelancer Shiho Fukada, who is based in New York City and China, for her remarkable series of photographs following last spring’s tragic earthquake in China.
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Guardian photographer Denis Thorpe and northern editor Martin Wainwright discuss an exhibition of pictures taken by the paper’s Manchester photographers. The exhibition, curated by Thorpe, includes striking work taken since the paper appointed its first staff photographer, Walter Doughty, in 1908. A Long Exposure: 100 Years of Guardian Photography runs until March 1 2009 at The Lowry in Salford, Greater Manchester
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On the eve of the election, a number of Magnum photographers have been venturing into American to capture what they can of this historic moment in time. The project is called InSight America. But rather than publish this work as a book a year after the fact, Magnum is posting the work online and on the fly.
I caught up with Alex Webb after his recent journey to Ohio
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in Art & Design
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My old friend Michael P. King sent me a link to this preposterous tv show on ‘war photographers’ yesterday.
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Ashley Franscell worked the past couple of months following a woman who is dying of breast cancer. Here is her story
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Bruce Gilden photographed and interviewed scores of people in South Florida who have lost their homes and are already suffering through hard times. Later this week, Magnum in Motion will present a multimedia package of Gilden’s work.
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A good friend of mine just gave me the DVD: Brilliant Fever: W. Eugene Smith and Pittsburgh and while I knew Smith’s work, I fell in love with it all over again watching it.
in Film & TV
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Elliott Erwitt and Alec Soth, two great photographers widely separated by their vision, style, and generations–but sharing a sense of irony, self-effacing wit, and a photo agency (Magnum)—took the stage at New York’s Javits Center last night to talk to a packed audience about their work and careers.
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Shooting live performance either in the rehearsal studio or on stage is where many photographers cut their teeth with dance and then attempt to pursue a career in dance photography. It’s usually a dead-end.
in Photography
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Welcome to the flagship “episode” of Saturday’s For Suckers. Vids, vids, vids will be forced down your throats on all of my last posts each month. Most of ’em will be themed but this month’s video buffet is an ADHD-worst-nightmare free-for-all. Peep:
