Behind the Scenes: Edgar Martins Speaks – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
Edgar Martins is a freelance photographer whose picture essay in The Times Magazine on July 5 and an accompanying slide show on NYTimes.com, “Ruins of the Second Gilded Age,” were found to include digital alterations — contrary to the stipulations of his contract and his stated, repeated assertions to the writer, editors and fact checker at the magazine. This week, Mr. Martins released an essay, “How Can I See What I See, Until I Know What I Know?” It constitutes his response to the controversy that has arisen.
He also annotated five photographs from the “Ruins” series, which encompasses more work than appeared in The Times. (Of those seen here, only the picture from Greenwich, Conn., was published.) In the quoted descriptions below, Mr. Martins discusses publicly — and more specifically than he has before — some methods he used and why he employed them.
Q&A: Tim and Eric on Child Abuse, Diarrhea, and Yerba-Mate Tea: Eric Spitznagel | Vanity Fair:
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is one of those rare TV shows that can alienate some viewers with nothing more than the opening credits. Even for long-time viewers and hardcore fans, it’s kinda confusing. It begins with stars Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, dressed in matching red jumpsuits, dancing on their own tongues. Then there are flashing images of a fax machine, a hot dog and two kittens tongue-kissing. Tim and Eric’s respective heads explode, sending their viscera and dozens of tiny kitty heads spiraling towards the screen. If you don’t enjoy those 20 seconds of rapid-fire absurdity—which, for the record, tells you absolutely nothing about the show itself—then you need to keep on tappin’ that remote, brother, ’cause you ain’t gonna like what comes next.
a lost shot is just that — lost. | PICTURES | STLtoday:
I never want to miss a good photograph, so myself and many other photographers carry a camera everywhere — Call it paranoia, or maybe it is a shadow of the phase kids go through when they carry a security blanket everywhere? Who knows. While I do not particularly need a security blanket — I am an adult (right?), I carry a camera because more often than not, the best photos come when you are least prepared. Moreover, nothing is worse than seeing a great photo and losing it because you did not have your camera handy.
I’m asking them: “hey, why you’re sitting?” Why you don’t use it? They keep philosophying on photography instead. “C’mon guys! Move the ass now! Make some pictures!” And they sit, they criticise other photographers! I mean” “who are you man?!” And it’s common within young photographers, I can’t understand that!
What is the role of the blog words on photography:
What really got my hackles up was rather sophomoric post by Mr. Colberg today about what a photograph is as it compares to a photo-illustration. This post showed me that he is swimming in unfamiliar waters. He could have easily referenced the Reuters handbook on what is accepted digital processing. It is very clear, probably too clear for Mr. Colberg.
The lack of an ability to comment on this post directly, save for emailing him, also gets to me. How is this really a discussion in this day and age in the blogosphere? I am not always a fan of comments, but in this case, I wish they were there.
We could explain (for the hundredth time) how police investigations of photographers are very unlikely to expose terrorists, and far more likely to waste everybody’s time. But instead we’ll borrow some of Napolitano’s own words: Her advice “doesn’t seem to make any sense.”
Delighted to have another first here today on WTJ? An interview with a Creative Director. That glorious honor falls to the incredibly talented Mr Scott Dadich of Wired magazine. Scott has been at Wired since 2006, joining ship after an award winning six year stint at Texas Monthly. Yes awards this man has quite a few. He also designed Dan Winters new book ‘Periodical Photographs‘ and the 2009 American Photography Annual. Scott is on the board of the Society of Publication Designers and regularly posts lots of cool shizz on their blog.
Iran Claims Two Detained Photographers “Confessed”:
Iran’s official news agency says detained photojournalists Majid Saeedi and Satyar Emami have confessed to enemy behavior, a claim immediately rejected by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Powerful multimedia from a methodical photojournalist | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
Joseph Rodriguez launched his extensive career as a documentary photographer with East Side Stories, a project examining the cultures of violence in East Los Angeles. He returned to L.A. recently to document the importance and difficulty of helping people re-enter society after incarceration. I spoke with Joe about his first foray into multimedia, and how he applied his still photography skills to a new medium.
When do photographs become photo illustrations? – Conscientious:
It has become fairly obvious that lately that our understanding of what photography is and does has not quite caught up with, well, what it is and does. A wonderful case in point is the attempt to differentiate between “photographs” and “photo illustrations”. What is the difference? When does a photograph become a “photo illustration”? If you think the answer is so simple keep reading. I don’t think it is.
Nikon introduces D300S with HD video recording: Digital Photography Review:
In a move that won’t surprise anyone that has been listening out for rumors, Nikon has launched the D300S, a refreshed version of its successful mid-level DSLR. Compared to the D300, It offers full 720p HD video recording, a faster 7 fps continuous shooting and Dual CF and SD card slots. It also sees an addition of a new Quiet drive mode and a dedicated Live View and Info button.
Showcase: A Story, Waiting to Happen – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
Katie Orlinsky stood by herself in an enormous train yard on the outskirts of Mexico City, looking for the perfect photograph. A picture editor had told her she needed a dramatic image to embody her story about illegal Central American immigrants on their way by rail to the United States border: she had to stand on top of a moving train with one of the people she’d been following.
Associated Press claims to have discovered magic anti-news-copying beans – Boing Boing:
A lot of copyfighters were mystified by the Associated Press’s recent announcement (complete with a bonkers diagram straight off a bottle of Dr. Bronner’s) that they had spent millions of dollars on a DRM system for news that would limit how you could paste the text you copied from your browser window.
This is a seeming impossibility, and while there will always be DRM vendors with impossible magic beans to sell to any panicked goofball media dinosaur who’ll buy them, it just seemed too weird to think that no one at the AP had said, “Wait, what? This is dumb.”
Death In The Making … For The Last Damned Time – News Photographer Magazine:
And so why do we care so? For one thing, this is the photograph that made Robert Capa, more even than in the usual figurative sense, because Robert Capa had only just been created by the young Hungarian photographer André Friedmann shortly before. From then on, Friedmann would be gone, to the point, as his Life editor John G. Morris told me, of being called Capa by his friends and even his mother in later years.
Greenpeace Activists Vandalize HP Headquarters | Gadget Lab | Wired.com:
HP employees at the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto were in for a shock Tuesday morning as they found the message “Hazardous Products” painted on the roof of their office and Greenpeace activists squatting on top.
