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    I was happy to see that a number of photographers featured in American Photo’s own Emerging Artists surveys were in the Hearst show. That includes Edith Maybin

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    I missed the shot. I started to think about it. Was I disappointed with myself for turning and running away? The situation turned out fine but it could have been much worse.

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  • Two American journalists detained this month by North Korean soldiers will be put on trial for “hostile acts” and illegal entry, North Korea’s official news agency reported Tuesday.

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    And she talked some about walking around the streets of New York and how she could capture those moments unnoticed.

    “I had attached to my camera — I had a little device that fit on the Leica camera that they called a winkelsucher, which meant that you could look one way and take the picture the other,” she said. “You could turn your camera sideways.”

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  • When I am asked about my work, one of the questions that often comes up is ‘How much difference does it make that I am a woman?’ And I have to agree that it does make a huge difference, that plenty of the situations I have been in would not have been accessible to a man, or if a man had been present the atmosphere would have been very different.

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    Today we present nine images by Canadian photographer Adam Makarenko from his recent Northern Highways & Rockcuts project. Influenced by science and nature, Makarenko creates a vivid tableau vivant through miniatures, which he photographs into poignant visual narratives concerned with human intervention in nature. Makarenko won the Magenta Foundation’s Bright Spark Award in 2008.

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    Ms. Levitt captured instances of a cinematic and delightfully guileless form of street choreography that held at its heart, as William Butler Yeats put it, “the ceremony of innocence.” A man handles garbage-can lids like an exuberant child imitating a master juggler. Even an inanimate object — a broken record — appears to skip and dance on an empty street as a child might, observed by a group of women’s dresses in a shop window.

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  • The critic Adam Gopnik, writing in The New Yorker in 2001, described Ms. Levitt as ”the supreme poet-photographer of the streets and people of New York.”

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    I said a while ago that I was a bit tired of typologies, but for every rule there is an exception.

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    essay by Adam Marcus
    If you drive northeast of the tiny town of Eldorado, Texas (pop. 2,000) on Schleicher County Road 300, there isn’t much to see, save the occasional oil well and the limitless, low-lying brush of the dry landscape. But four miles or so out of town, as the calm monotony of west Texas ranch country begins to set in, you’ll come upon an unmarked, padlocked gate, initially indistinguishable from those found at countless other dusty turnoffs along the road.

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    In 2006, after 14 years photographing and teaching in Cuba, Ernesto Bazan was forced to leave the country. Since then the award-winning Italian photographer has been collecting his huge cache of images from Cuba into a book, BazanCuba, which he published himself in 2008, through the publishing company he founded, BazanPhotos Publishing. He funded the book with donations from his students from his frequent workshops, who also helped with the editing. He’s now distributing it himself and making a documentary about the whole process. I talked with Ernesto when he was in San Francisco recently about the power of collaboration and the lessons he learned by producing a book from start to finish.

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    There’s a rumor afoot suggesting that Canon will be ditching CCD and adopting CMOS chips for a new pro-level camcorder. Digital cameras and camcorders never been so indistinguishable.

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    The paint is barely dry on the new Siem Reap Barnes & Noble, a gleaming, $6 million, 60,000-square-foot book store/coffeehouse that the American bookselling giant boasts is the finest in this rural village of 2,100. But already a serious question is being raised: Can the new bookstore—with its enormous selection, discount prices and chic espresso bar—peacefully co-exist with smaller, independently owned bookstores in the area?

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