The Battle of Wanat | Inside the Wire
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This week a photograph of a nude 10-year-old Brooke Shields was removed from Tate Modern on police advice. But when the image first appeared in Playboy in the 70s there wasn’t even a ripple of shock
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/oct/03/attitude-to-children-in-seventies
A baby orang-utan in Borneo, a snake preying on a gecko and a black and white lion portrait are among the highly commended images in the 2009 Veolia Environnement wildlife photographer of the year competition
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/oct/03/veolia-wildlife-photographer-2009
Link: Gaters Football » THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS:
Thankfully, Boyd called me Saturday morning and suggested a roadtrip down to Eugene in his rig. While he was covering the Ducks game, I wandered around the Autzen parking lot shooting tailgaters. We (Boyd) left PDX so early, I had 7 hours to do my thing.
Link: Matt Brown: Are you building relationships or only taking photos?:
One of my clients, Cal State University Fullerton, has over 300 student athletes. I will have face time with all them throughout the school year. Like must schools we do posters, schedule cards, programs and media guides just to name a few things. I’m around these student athletes so much that it’s actually like having another set of kids-300 of them. I do my best to build a relationship with everyone of them-from the time I take their first mug shot I start to commute with them.
Link: The Changing Face of Photographer Websites:
In my role at PhotoShelter I have seen a new trend emerging due to how the economy is affecting photographers and what they are doing in response. The current climate is forcing old pros and new freelancers alike to become their own tech-savvy marketing and branding agencies, and they have to take website changes seriously.
Link: Intern Diaries: Provo Daily Herald:
My first order of business after accepting the internship was to look for housing. Searching craigslist I came across a bunch of Brigham Young University housing, but I had no idea what that meant. When I found a place with $95 monthly rent, I couldn’t turn it down. I mean, I could do BYU housing right?
Via: High Definition War Footage Taken with Canon 5D Mark II – Obama’s War – Gizmodo:
I’m amazed by the cinematic qualities of this high definition footage from Frontline’s documentary Obama’s War. The color, the depth, the texture, it all screams film to me. Except it’s just a Canon 5D Mark II rigged by Danfung Dennis.
Link: Pangea Photo Blog:
Photos by Philip Scott Andrews, Noah Rabinowitz, Celia Talbot Tobin, Rush Jagoe, Danny Ghitis, Tim Hussin
In photography, chance is often the overlooked understudy of talent. New Yorker Brett Beyer embraces this philosophy with his New Amsterdam project. Shooting lower Manhattan with a Holga and a Zeiss Nettar, he invites flaws and doubles exposures and then
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2009/10/new-amsterdam/
When Sally Mann released her book At Twelve in the late-1980s the art world was rife with artists concerned with exploring the body polit…
Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2009/10/proud-flesh-by-sally-mann.html
Discover and share the best in contemporary photography
via LensCulture: http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/mt_files/archives/2009/10/conversations-1.html
Wildlife photographer Michael Nichols wanted to photograph a 300-foot-tall redwood in a dense forest with no clear lines of sight. So he built a custom camera rig to take tons of close-ups to stitch together.
via Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/5372201/custom-camera-rig-allows-for-a-stunning-vertical-panorama-of-a-giant-redwood
Link: For Only $5 Per Month, You Can Help Continue Photographing This Child | America’s Finest News Source
Link: Business Reply Mail:
This small, sixteen-page pamphlet is produced to put inside the postage-paid, business-reply envelopes that come with junk mail offers. Every envelope collected is stuffed with the pamphlet and mailed back to its original company.
via BoingBoing
Russell Brown showed off some new “from the labs” painting and warping technology during today’s Photoshop World keynote address, and now he’s posted a recording of the demo…
via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/10/video_sneak_peek_of_new_photoshop_tech.html
The work of a pioneering Kenyan photojournalist is rediscovered by a relative with hopes of finding a broader audience.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/showcase-finding-priya-ramrakha/
Link: +KN | Kitsune Noir » Juan Molinet:
Juan Molinet is an illustrator and designer living in Buenos Aires, Argentina and making some sweet art.
China formally kicked off its mass celebrations of 60 years of communist rule with a 60-gun salute that rung out across Beijing’s historic Tiananmen Square earlier today. Hundreds of thousands of participants marched past Tiananmen Square in costume or un
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/china_celebrates_60_years.html
Link: Commercial & Editorial Photographer | Southern California | Matt Mallams:
new essays, two new journals, and much much more