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From Sebastiao Salgado: A Conversation | Leica Rumors:
Who is Sebastiao Salgado? I will just say that his Leica M7 camera set is currently selling on ebay for US $130,680.00:
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From Photofocus:
Several freelancers as well as some credentialed photojournalists were jailed for days without charge or trial in the days immediately after September 11. New York Mayor at the time, Rudy Giuliani, seemed to declare war on photographers. He had the police block off more than a square mile surrounding the World Trade Center, calling it a crime scene. The Mayor ordered that anyone with a camera who even stopped or stood still near the area should be arrested and jailed.
Why did he do this? Was the former Mayor trying to get back at a press who was not always kind to him? Giuliani likes to think of himself as a serious photographer. Did he want to save the photo opportunities for himself?
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From SuperTouch:
As a director of some of the most acclaimed highbrow B-movies of all time, Supertouch amigo JOHN WATERS needs no further introduction. Quietly working the night shift as a fine artist for years now, the Baltimore-bound obsessive’s hard work has finally landed him a spot in the most hallowed hall of the modern art world, namely, the GAGOSIAN GALLERY, where the artist’s solo “Rear Projection” show opened to a throng of Hollywood players, weirdos, fanboys and girls, and well-wishing lookie-loos on Saturday nite
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From Ovation TV: Make Life Creative:
Ovation is running the Genius of Photography series again this week as well as some other great shows. The Eloquent Nude that tells the story of Charis Wilson and Ed Weston. Photographers at Work: Portraits has profiles of McCurry, Lacombe, Jay Maisel and others..
Submitted by Jason.
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photo by David BurnettFrom We’re Just Sayin: Frank at the National:
We photographers all wish we could get someone to just pay us to wander and shoot great pictures.
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From The Media Equation – Newspapers Begin to Push Back on the Web – NYTimes.com:
Robert Thomson, the editor of The Wall Street Journal, was equally blunt, though in service of the original argument. “There is no doubt that certain Web sites are best described as parasites or tech tapeworms in the intestines of the Internet,” he told the newspaper The Australian last Monday.
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From Adobe and Nikon | Nikon Rumors:
I am not sure what this statement exactly means, but the bottom line is “Nikon intends to cooperate with Adobe”
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From lens culture: Suburban Slovakia by Andrej Balco:
This is the point of departure in this photo-essay by the Slovak photographer Andrej Balco. Who are these people in these prefab buildings? Is there a prevailing type, perhaps even a prefab person? These unavoidable questions, automatic reflexes, are a natural response to something as stereotypical as the prefab high-rises, providing a starting point from which Balco undertakes his photographic exploration of these stalls for everyday Slovakian life.
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From FT.com / Weekend / Reportage – A photographer aims his lens at a Rio prison:
When photographer Gary Knight turned his lens on Brazil’s penal system, he found brutality, overcrowding and a controversial evangelist pastor with a strange power over inmates.
via Travel Photographer.
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From DARIUS HIMES » CENTER announces winners:
This year, the winner of the Santa Fe Prize is Hiroyo Kaneko
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From Reporter, VA clash over patient interview – CNN.com:
The “cops” demanded that he turn over his tape, Schultz said. The public affairs officer, angered when another veteran offered Schultz his phone number, demanded that Schultz hand over all his equipment or “I’m going to get ugly,” he said.
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From Novelties – On the Lookout, With a Digital Security Camera – NYTimes.com:
The camera, the Digital Window D7, uses five 1.3 megapixel sensors just like the ones in camera phones, each aimed at its slice of the total view. Ingenious programs and a controller chip synchronize the five images as they are received, stitching them simultaneously into a panoramic stream that transmits at 15 frames a second.
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From Eric Gregory Powell, Beijing, China:
Raised in Pittsburgh, Eric Gregory Powell completed a BFA in Photojournalism from The Corcoran College of Art, Washington DC, attending the Eddie Adams Workshop during his senior year. Whilst in Washington, he worked in the famous Adamson Editions print studio on projects for Adam Fuss, Chuck Close, Inez van Lamsweerde, Annie Leibovitz, Jack Pierson, Roni Horn, Jenny Holzer, Bruce Weber, and William Christenberry. He was subsequently an assistant to Contact Press Images’ David Burnett during the 2008 Beijing Olympics and has since remained in China.
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From SFGate: Daily Dish : Woody Harrelson likens paparazzo to zombie:
Harrelson says he was “still very much in character” when he was met by the photographer, who, he adds, he mistook for a zombie.
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From Obituary: Peter Goldfield | The Guardian:
Peter Goldfield, who has died of heart failure aged 63, was the godfather of independent photography in Britain, where he and his great friend Paul Hill started the idea of photography workshops.
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From THE ZEN OF FILM vs. DIGITAL GRATIFICATION « doug menuez 2.0: go fast, don’t crash:
“Mulling it over, I couldn’t articulate it fully but definitely, I knew I had become lazy, really lazy. A spectacular sloth by the standards of shooting film. Film is hard. Film is a stone cold unforgiving killing bastard. Film is once in a lifetime, no excuses. F8 and really, really be there: ready, steady, in focus, correct exposure, and pressing the shutter in synch with life.”
