Nien Cheng, Memoirist, Is Dead at 94
Ms. Cheng’s memoir, “Life and Death in Shanghai,” offered a harrowing account of the Cultural Revolution in China.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/books/07cheng.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Ms. Cheng’s memoir, “Life and Death in Shanghai,” offered a harrowing account of the Cultural Revolution in China.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/books/07cheng.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Jonathan Scott on the less glamorous aspects of life as a photographer
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/nov/07/jonathan-scott-photographer
David Y. Lee is the Creative Director for The Waiting List, an online multimedia storytelling project introducing the stories of people waiting for an organ transplant. Lee covered the 2004 Presidential campaign for Time and Newsweek. In October 2007, the U.S. Department of State contracted Lee as Secretary Condoleezza Rice’s official photographer to document her international legacy during her final fifteen months in office.
Link: The Visual Student » Visual Journalism for a Cause: The Waiting List
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/06/AR2009110602462.html?wprss=rss_world
We at McSweeney’s love newspapers. We love the internet, too. But we believe that print newspapers are an invaluable part of the journalistic landscape. So we’ve spent five months collaborating with dozens of reporters, designers, photographers, and authors on a 21st-century newspaper prototype.
Link: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The San Francisco Panorama Press Release.
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NPPA has partnered with PhotoShelter to bring its members and exclusive series of five free Webinars for visual journalists, and the second Webinar is coming up on November 18.
Link: Next Free NPPA-PhotoShelter Webinar Set For November 18
Over the past thirty years, I have taken hundreds of thousands of pictures. Many of them have been published in my books, in exhibitions, and in magazines, but a majority have never been seen. Here are a few of those unseen pictures.
Link: The Price of Sex: Women Speak | The Price of Sex
Mimi Chakarova and the Center for Investigative Reporting’s recent project, The Price of Sex, is a harrowing account of human sex trafficking told by those who have lived to tell their story. Combining still photography, video, and nearly six years of investigation, the piece explores the sex trade from the villages where women are abducted or tricked into being trafficked
via: dvafoto
[slidepress gallery=’edoardopasero_halflife’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Edoardo Pasero Half Life play this essay  …
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/11/edoardo-pasero-half-life/
When the Clinch Game finally comes around in the World Series it means there are more meetings, more thought put into your coverage and generally speaking, things turn a bit more serious than in the earlier games.
The main topic: How to cover the jubo.
Link: The Clinch Game: It’s All About The Jubo « Sports Shooter Academy
A Nikon gathering in New York recently proved to be a fantastic opportunity to test out the high ISO capabilities of the upcoming Nikon D3S digital SLR, as well as try the new AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II for the first time
Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: A first look at Nikon D3S high ISO image quality, plus the new 70-200mm f/2.8
Klavdij Sluban won the European Publishers Award for Photography 2009, for his book Transsibériades.
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/05/AR2009110501015.html?wprss=rss_world
Congratulations to this year’s Critical Mass Top 50! in alphabetical order: Jenn Ackerman Jody Ake Leslie Alsheimer Jane Fulton Alt Carl …
Link: http://photolucidapdx.blogspot.com/2009/11/and-drumroll-please.html
Toyota U.S.A. has removed a photo feature from one of its Web sites and apologized to Flickr photographers whose images appeared on the site without their permission.
Link: PDNPulse: Toyota Apologizes For Using Flickr Photos In SUV Ad
Common Ground is a visual commentary on life in our community. Every 12 weeks a new Virginian-Pilot photographer will begin his or her series of photographs based on a topic of their choosing.
The current series, Greetings from Ocean View is a photo column aimed at exploring life in “OV,” a Norfolk neighborhood full of pride yet seemingly always teetering on the edge of change. Photojournalist Preston Gannaway hopes to tell some of the stories that make this community so unique
Link: Common Ground | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
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Newspapers are certainly in a state of flux, I’m not sure if they’re on their way out quite yet, but things are definitely not looking good. The Telegraaf Media Groep from the Netherlands has something new they want to try with newspapers. It’s a vertical newspaper, which unlike traditional newspapers you turn the page from bottom to top and vice versa.
Past and present ruminations about what is and isn’t a photograph have been a source of frustration for me. For one, people can draw whatever lines they wish to determine the point at which m…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/redacting-violence-the-photo-manipulations-of-josh-azzarella/