Link: dispatches / Beyond Towering Babble: Good Schools, Real News:
“I doubt young Americans would pay for newspapers, no matter the quality,” she replied. “My generation is accustomed to free leisure activities. Many of us download music illegally, watch bootleg movies and read newspapers online because we like cheap entertainment. And why shouldn’t we, since real wages keep falling every decade?”
UPDATE: Nikon Germany and Nikon Sweden websites are/were down today. The “Presse” link has some serious errors on nikon.de & nikon.se. Same on nikon-europe.com. Problems with the new press release(s)? Nikon D3s should be a sure thing. This is a collection
via Nikon Rumors: http://nikonrumors.com/2009/10/10/what-to-expect-from-nikon-next-week.aspx
Nikon D3s should be a sure thing. This is a collection of the rumored Nikon D3s specs
Link: Live Blogs From 22nd Eddie Adams Barnstorm Workshop – NPPA:
Several visual journalists are blogging live from the 22nd Eddie Adams Barnstrorm Workshop that started this weekend at the photojournalist’s old barn in upstate New York. Here are their entries
Link: A look back at rock photography pioneer | Seattle Times:
In 1964, when she was living near Gig Harbor, photographer Jini Dellaccio was asked by a friend if she’d be up for shooting something or someone called The Wailers.
“Living in Gig Harbor with all the fishermen,” she recalls, “I heard ‘whalers’ and I said yes, I’d be happy to do that. I could imagine going out and seeing them in their whaling boats.”
Link: PDN: Epson Stylus Pro 3880 Review:
Let me cut right to the chase. If you’re in the market for a 17-inch inkjet professional photo printer and don’t need a roll feed option, the one you want is the new Epson Stylus Pro 3880. This pigment-based printer, which I’ve had the pleasure of testing for the last several weeks before writing this review, is that good.
The photographer Mitch Epstein routinely came under suspicion while taking pictures of dams and power plants for his new book, “American Power.”
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/arts/design/10epstein.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
The photographer Mitch Epstein, thin and professorial with gray hair and glasses, does not exactly cut a menacing figure. When he ducks beneath the dark cloth of his 8-by-10 view camera, the words that come most readily to mind are late Victorian, not potentially violent.
APE: I talked to you about a year ago right after Canon announced the new 5d markII that shoots video. I called because I wanted to talk with someone who was actually a filmmaker and a photographer to get their opinion on the new product. We got into this
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2009/10/09/sam-jones-interview-part-2/
All of the good ones do. The 6×7 negative, there’s not chip that’s that size and film has it’s own look and color palette. We’re never going to lose that. The retoucher I’m working with now, who has done some of the biggest fashion and advertising work for the last decade, would much rather work from a film negative than a digital file in terms of skin tone and color. In fact, he even still sees photographers who prefer shooting only on 8×10 polaroid and scanning those images. There are cases where he is making a composite with the skin from polaroid and the product from a digital file. So, when money is no object, digital is just another tool.
Marianne Kirby: It’s a sad commentary on the magazine industry when even the most attractive women in the world are retouched in Photoshop
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/09/magazine-industry-retouched-photoshop
It’s a sad commentary on the magazine industry when even the most attractive women in the world are retouched in Photoshop
Celebrating 12 decades of coverage, with images from the magazine on subjects like exploration, science, wildlife and diverse peoples.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/showcase-62/
The newly published National Geographic Image Collection (Focal Point) is a beautifully curated selection of images celebrating 12 decades of coverage of exploration, science, wildlife and diverse peoples. The photographs in this handsomely printed 500-page book were culled from the National Geographic’s archive of almost 11 million images. They include a refreshing mix of classic National Geographic images and quirky and humorous less known photographs.
“The statistics are embarrassing to the state [of Texas]” Mona Reeder, Poynter Online, May. 20, 2008 Damon Winter recommended the work of Mona Reeder, a former colleague of his at The D…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/mona-reeder-the-bottom-line/
Reeder won the ‘Investigative Issue Picture Story’ at the 2008 Best of Photojournalism Awards for The Bottom Line. Through pictures, Reeder explored Texas’ poor rankings in a number of categories including health care, executions, mental health statistics, juvenile incarceration, voter apathy, poverty and environmental protection.
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.