PDNPulse:
This afternoon Apple announced the latest iPhone, the “3G S,” which features a 3 megapixel, auto-focus still camera and new video capabilities.
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Gadget Lab | Wired.com:
That it follows the Pen’s stylings is significant, if only in nerdy kind of way. The MFT sensor is one half the size of a 35mm frame (and a slightly different shape, too). The Pen eked 72 shots out of a 36 exposure roll of 135 film by using the same trick. I’m pretty excited about this camera. If it can bring DSLR handling and image quality to a tiny package, it could be the Leica M of the 21st century, and as Olympus has a special event in London scheduled for June 25th, we may not have long to wait.
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JONATHAN TAGGART – News Photographers Association of Canada:
I was awarded a scholarship to a Magnum Workshop in Toronto in May of 2008, and while I was there I was fortunate enough to work with the Canadian photographer Larry Towell. I’ve always admired his work, but what I found most insightful was hearing him speak about his experiences in the field and about his working methodology. The best piece of advice he gave his students was we should expect to spend half our time shooting and the other half editing, because it is through the editing process that depth of narrative is created.
Although I might revise that to say, “expect to spend a third of your time gaining access, a third shooting, and a third editing.”
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Fred R. Conrad – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
Since Polaroid no longer makes either film, I often wonder about the photographers whose work was most identified with Type 55 and 665 — how are they doing and with what.
Photo by Bill Burke
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Blaine Harden – washingtonpost.com:
A North Korean court sentenced two U.S. journalists to 12 years in a labor camp Monday
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The Independent:
The seminal German picture magazines of the early Thirties and the invention of a small camera, the Leica, spawned a select group of key photographers: Erich Salomon, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Lucien Aigner is of that vintage, but is one of the least known “pioneers of photojournalism”.
It was the acknowledged “god- father of photojournalism”, Stefan Lorant, who commented of his fellow countryman: “What sets him apart from other ‘picture takers’ is his fervent dedication to his work. He belongs to a minuscule band of camera artists who do not press the button in a mad rush but ponder and think before they let the shutter go.”
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Kees Metselaar and Vaudine England – The Digital Journalist:
When we heard that our best friend, Hugh van Es, had gone to hospital after suffering a huge cerebral hemorrhage, we were in Amsterdam – where Hugh had first worked as a news photographer back in 1959. We promptly went to one of his favorite ‘brown cafés’ to think through what it all meant.
We were not alone.
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NYTimes.com:
Months of labor acrimony at The Boston Globe will come to a head on Monday, when members of the newspaper’s largest union are to vote on deep cuts in wages, benefits and job security, amid growing signs that they could well reject the deal.
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Beverly Spicer – The Digital Journalist:
It is interesting that the president, who taught constitutional law for a decade at the University of Chicago, would concurrently reveal criminal activity and sweep it aside by suggesting the country simply accept the past and move forward. His suggestion, however, was quickly vetoed in the court of public opinion, and the president also found himself in the position of possible legal culpability in the future if he refuses to address alleged infractions of his predecessors. Thus, he left it to the Justice Department to pursue or not pursue accountability for the past.
In the face of a cacophony of criticism, what would Obama do about the some 2,000 additional photographs he promised to declassify—a promise he made when transparency seemed like a good idea? This issue is especially compelling to journalists in war zones who work tirelessly and at great risk to document conflict.
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Marco Improta:
This essay portrays one of the families living in “Sertão do Ceará”, an arid region in the Nordeste of Brasil.
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dispatches / War and Photography – Part 5:
Comments from Gary Knight, Tim Hetherington, and Ashley Gilbertson.
Filmed on 22 May 2009 at VII Gallery, Brooklyn
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Half a Tank: Along Recession Road – A Multimedia Blog About Americans Adapting to the Recession:
Half A Tank is a summer-long quest to find images and stories of people whose lives have been altered by a flattened economy. Starting from home in the D.C. suburbs, Theresa Vargas and Michael Williamson are traveling around the country to experience how people are coping, struggling, even flourishing as we all reconsider how we live.
via APhotoADay
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PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK:
Chicago native Edward Sturr, whose 1960s images of the city are charged with an expressionist power comprised of angular compositions, bold contrasts and beguiling thematic irony. After moving to Kansas in 1974, Sturr taught photography for more than two decades at Kansas State University. While his personal work transitioned from gritty urban images to elegant, hand-colored landscapes, he retains a close emotional attachment to the black-and-white imagery that initially defined him.
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Ellen Barry – NYTimes.com:
After the most recent attack on Sergei Kanev — attempted strangulation with a wire, in his apartment’s stairwell here — his editor visited him and delicately suggested that he take a six-month sabbatical from crime reporting, in America.
Mr. Kanev still chortles with delight recalling this story, as if he had been advised to take up tap dancing. He is the kind of reporter who sleeps with a police scanner beside his bed. Without work, “I would die of boredom,” he said.
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A. J. Liebling – Surviving Without Newspapers – NYTimes.com:
The only complaints I heard came from commuters who lived at such short distances from the city that it was impractical for them to smoke opium during the trip. Some of these people said that now that they had no newspapers they were compelled to look at the scenery, which revolted them.
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duckrabbit:
duckrabbit’s competition is simple. Stan Banos claims PDN’s action is in part an example of ‘passive racism.’ Surely an outrageous slur on the photographic industry? In the absence of PDN feeling the need to respond, duckrabbit are offering $1000 to anyone who can prove Banos wrong.
Simple.
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John H. White PJ Love Celebration from Jon Sall on Vimeo.
Iris PhotoCollective: John H. White:
I’ve been so fortunate to have had incredible teachers in my life. These teachers, from kindergarden (Ms. Lyons), and all the way up to college, have all pushed me to do better. One of these teachers has and still is teaching me about life is, Pulitzer Prize Winner John H. White Staff Photographer for the Chicago Sun-Times, who will be celebrating his 40th anniversary as a staffer in Chicago this summer.
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