Link: lenscratch: Susan Anderson:
Los Angeles photographer, Susan Anderson, has a new project, High Glitz, spotlighting the spectacle of children’s beauty pagents. The series has just been published by powerHouse, and is opening as an exhibition at the Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles on October 24th.
Link: Some remarks about Bert Stabler’s ‘I Don’t Like Photography’ – Conscientious:
Issue #5 of Proximity Magazine contains a piece by Bert Stabler entitled I Don’t Like Photography. It’s a remarkable piece that starts out asking why “fine art photography is so frequently dull and distasteful, so paralyzed by moribund subjects and forms?”
Stabler sees “art photography as hemmed in by three ‘P’s: painting, poverty, and Pentax.” The first ‘P’ I find a bit intellectually lazy (“From its inception, photography established itself as art by trying to move into the space abandoned by painting.” Oh yeah?), but the other two cover areas that I addressed on this blog – albeit not in one place.
Link: APB Interview!! With Troy House. | A Photography Blog:
i’m very excited to have Troy House on board today to delight us all with his photography insights. This man has shot the Snuggle bear, my friends. And he’s going to to tell us about it. Without further ado…
I consider Sam Jones to be one of the top photographers in the country at shooting men. And there are plenty of people who shoot men as people or fashionable or sexy but very few who shoot them “manly,” which is something I love about Sam’s photography. S
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2009/10/08/sam-jones-interview-part-1/
I consider Sam Jones to be one of the top photographers in the country at shooting men. And there are plenty of people who shoot men as people or fashionable or sexy but very few who shoot them “manly,” which is something I love about Sam’s photography. So, that’s a very thin category that I put him in and of course he does a lot of things very well but I’ve worked with him a lot on covers and feature stories because he was at the top of that list.
Link: Ed Kashi: A new book, a new visual perspective | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
In Ed Kashi’s new book, THREE, images from his 30 years as a top documentary photographer are combined into triptychs that consciously abandon the idea of context or traditional narrative. Some of those triptychs will be part of a show opening tomorrow at FiftyCrows gallery in San Francisco (founded by liveBooks CEO Andy Patrick), so I thought this would be a good time to talk to Ed about the project. I love the book (that’s my copy getting flipped through) and find his words inspirational. Hope you do too.
via: HEAVY DISCUSSION
Mr. Penn’s blend of elegance and minimalism made him one of the most influential photographers of the century.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/arts/design/08penn.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Mr. Penn’s talent for picturing his subjects with compositional clarity and economy earned him the widespread admiration of readers of Vogue during his long association with the magazine, beginning in 1943. It also brought him recognition in the art world; his photographs have been exhibited in museums and galleries and are prized by collectors.
Jordan sez, “The IOC, believing that it owns the photos in your shoebox, sent a takedown notice to Richard Giles, AWIA member and rather good photographer. I took notice, as we in Vancouver a…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/07/olympic-commitee-cla.html
In Ed Kashi’s new book, THREE, images from his 30 years as a top documentary photographer are combined into triptychs that consciously abandon the idea of context or traditional narrative. Some of those triptychs will be part of a show opening tomorrow at FiftyCrows gallery in San Francisco (founded by liveBooks CEO Andy Patrick), so I thought this would be a good time to talk to Ed about the project. I love the book (that’s my copy getting flipped through) and find his words inspirational. Hope you do too.
PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from tao chen on Vimeo.
Via: John Nack on Adobe: PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage
Link: NPPA & PhotoShelter Launch Free Virtual Short Course:
The National Press Photographers Association has partnered with PhotoShelter to bring NPPA members an exclusive series of five free Webinars that focus on bringing visual journalists the knowledge and tools needed to succeed in the online photography business.
What’s even worse, it appears that the IOC is trying to argue with Giles that even using the *word* Olympics in his photostream is somehow some sort of violation.
Link: photo-eye | Magazine — Bureaucratics:
Sushma Prasad is an assistant clerk to the Cabinet Secretary of the State of Bihar, India. Her desk is relatively neat, but behind her is a chaotic pile of irretrievable facts buried in hundreds of tattered paper files. Prasad is one of fifty civil servants Jan Banning photographed in Bolivia, France, Yemen, Russia, Liberia, India, China, and Texas. They engage us as individuals, but Jan Banning has titled his series of color portraits after the system in which his subjects labor: Bureaucratics.
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/06/AR2009100603711.html?wprss=rss_world
The assailant was Abdullah Hassan Tali Assiri, and he was No. 40 on a list of 85 terrorists that the Saudi government considered most dangerous. He was a Saudi but was based in Yemen, where al-Qaeda has been gaining strength. Saudi and Western officials said the attack was planned and launched from Yemen.
Al-Qaeda preyed on Mohammed’s “soft approach” to combating terrorism. The prince is widely known to give personal assurances to militants and treat them with dignity if they renounce al-Qaeda. Those who enter an extremist rehabilitation program are given cars, houses and jobs upon graduation. When Saudi security forces kill terrorism suspects in raids, Prince Mohammed has been known to call the families to console them, according to Western diplomats and Saudi officials.
Link: Photojournalist Ami Vitale on the Nikon D300s and top tips for learning video « DSLR News Shooter:
Using the D300s was one of the first experiences I had shooting video, but what struck me is how easy it was to learn. Within one day, I was able to pick up the basics of shooting. It was liberating and exciting to explore the possibilities of story telling with more than just still images and audio. Now I feel as if there is a whole world of opportunities to explore.
Link: stjoenews.net | Lawhon knew how to capture a moment:
Ival Lawhon Jr., a dogged photographer who captured three decades of fires, floods and poignant personal moments, died Saturday night. He was 61.
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Link: Baseball Stock Photography: Mangin Photography Archive:
I am a freelance sports photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area where I regularly shoot assignments for Sports Illustrated and Major League Baseball Photos. My work keeps me busy from the first pitch of Spring Training to the final out of the World Series. When not shooting, I enjoy attending San Francisco Giants games in my season ticket box seats and working on SportsShooter.com, the online resource for sports photography, of which I am a founding owner.
WENN.com Sean Penn is facing the threat of legal action from a paparazzo he allegedly attacked on Friday afternoon. Jordan Dawes filed a police report against the Milk star, who reportedly kicked t…
via Daily Dish: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=48962
Bosses at Flynet Pictures, who employ Dawes, allege he did nothing to offend the star, insisting Penn “emerged from his truck and walked over 50 feet towards the photog and kicked and punched him without provocation”.
Link: A Conversation with CPC 2009 Winner David Wright – Conscientious:
Of course, I had been familiar with David’s work for a while – given Pause, To Begin. But with Alebtong, Uganda he clearly seemed to be upping the ante of his work quite a bit. There is no text on David’s website, so I did not know the background story of Alebtong, Uganda, but I became immediately intrigued – and this, for me, is one of the criteria for good photography: When you want to know more, when the work draws you in and makes you ask questions.
Link: Missouri Photo Workshop | MPW.61 | Photojournalism & Documentary Photography:
During the first stretch of crisp fall weather in 2009, from September 27 through October 3, 31 photographers, 12 faculty and 16 University of Missouri School of Journalism students blanketed Festus and Crystal City to document life in these small towns, fine-tuning their story-telling skills in the tradition of Cliff and Vi Edom and six decades of photographers that came before them. The photographers journeyed to Missouri from Dominican Republic, Canada, India, Romania, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, and all points domestic to explore small-town life in Missouri.
via APAD
