Announcing: Conscientious Portfolio Competition – Conscientious:
I’m excited to announce the first Conscientious Portfolio Competition, which hopefully will turn into a regular feature (to be held at the end of each Summer). The winner of the competition will have her or his work featured here on this blog, in the form of an extended conversation/interview (which, of course, also showcases the photography). Details below.
IEEE Spectrum: Seeing Is Not Believing:
Just days after Sarah Palin’s selection last August as the Republican vice presidential candidate, a photo of a bikini-clad, gun-toting Palin blitzed across the Internet. Almost as quickly, it was revealed as a hoax—a crude bit of Photoshop manipulation created by splicing an image of the Alaska governor’s head onto someone else’s body. From start to finish, the doctoring probably took no more than 15 minutes.
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How Could Annie Leibovitz Be on the Verge of Financial Collapse? — New York Magazine:
Annie Leibovitz clearly hated what a lifetime-achievement award implied about her—that the best days of her 40-year career were behind her. “Photography is not something you retire from,” the 59-year-old Leibovitz said from the stage, accepting the honor from the International Center of Photography last May at Pier 60. She was turned out in a simple black dress and glasses, her long straight hair a little unruly, as usual. Photographers, she said, “live to a very old age” and “work until the end.” She noted that Lartigue lived to be 92, Steichen 93, and Cartier-Bresson 94. “Irving Penn is going to be 92 next month, and he’s still working.” Then her tone turned rueful. “Seriously, though, this really is a big deal,” she said, hoisting her Infinity Award statuette, her voice quavering to the point where it seemed she might cry. “It means so much to me, you know, especially right now. It’s, it’s a very sweet award to get right now. I’m having some tough times right now, so … ”
Showcase: A Modern Ozymandias – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
When Richard Mosse traveled to Iraq last spring, he was intrigued by paradoxical scenes of U.S. troops living in Saddam Hussein’s former palaces: weight machines in a courtyard, makeshift dorm rooms in a marbled hallway and barbecue grills overlooking an artificial lake that the dictator once stocked with fish.
Human Nature: Doug Fogelson’s Overlapping Exposure Process:
Earlier this year photographer Doug Fogelson released The Time After, a book that considers humanity’s troubled relationship with the natural world through an exploration of lifecycles and time signatures, which he visualizes using overlapping exposures created in-camera. His process yields complex images in which the subjects—people, urban architecture, street scenes, plant life, clouds, deserts and oceans, photographed in different locations around the world—intermingle and interact.
Slightly out of focus:
Slightly out of focus is an on-line shop specialising in vintage, original illustrated magazines featuring the best in 20th century photography and photojournalism.
As collecting original pieces of photography is becoming out of reach for many, collecting the work in context, in it’s original form, is a great alternative. All our magazines are in at least very good condition (most are excellent) and are complete with all articles and advertisements.
We stock LIFE, Vu, Picture Post, Illustrated, Colliers, Saturday Evening Post and others. We currently hold a comprehensive selection of Robert Capa magazines, but are adding other photographers regularly. Please e-mail us if you are looking for the work of a particular photographer- we may not have added their work to our website yet.
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Photojournalists Rally To”Save Steve’s Family”:
The photojournalism community is rallying online to help one of its own, Steve Coddington of the St. Petersburg Times, who for more than a year has been taking care of his wife, Marian, after she suffered a brain aneurysm and four hemorrhages in less than a month.
AFTER STAFF – Bill Owens, the distiller, published a book of art photography once… | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
I usually say, “Man, leave the Eskimos alone; leave the American Indians alone — they’ve been photographed enough.” Photograph what’s right in front of your face.
Sports Shooter Q & A: with Matt Mendelsohn:
I decided that a Q & A would be a good format to discuss Matt Mendelsohn’s story and photographs of Lindsay Ess. This Q & A was conducted via Instant Message and covers a wide range of topics concerning his story, the media, self-image and balancing writing and making photographs while reporting this personal project.
AFTER STAFF – What’s the best thing about what you’re doing now? | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
On a final note of moving on to bigger and better things, we asked our panel of former staff photographers this question. Please share your own stories — as you can see, you’re not alone
Sports Shooter Destination: Antarctica- ‘Hell yeah you go.’:
Two lenses break the first day. MkII quits halfway in. The insurance-provided 50D is blasted to smithereens by water cannons. You think, I should be more careful. But not too careful. I don’t want to miss pictures. You take fewer chances, but the 30D suffers a sticky shutter anyway. A battery charger dies. Card reader fails inexplicably. WTF? You seal up the 30D with duct tape and blow through 120,000+ frames with what you have. And when you arrive home with lighter bags— just a borrowed 20D and one working lens left — you console yourself. Say it’s OK. Cause it was all worth it.
The Lessons of Lindsay:
Teaching comes easy to this fashion major. It’s everything else that’s hard. By Matt Mendelsohn
Q & A: The New York Times’s Damon Winter : CJR:
Splashed across the front page of yesterday’s New York Times was a four-column photo of a man shouting at Sen. Arlen Specter at a town hall held earlier that morning in Lebanon, Pa., taken by photojournalist Damon Winter, who won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. The photograph neatly illustrated the recent trend of angry voters—usually white and usually seniors—confronting their senators and congressmen with practically apoplectic rage over health reform and other matters.
Art Review – ‘New York Photographs’ – Frozen in Time, a City in Flux, at Bonni Benrubi, Yossi Milo, Laurence Miller and More – NYTimes.com:
Last winter, when the art economy was looking especially dark, a group of Manhattan photography dealers got together and decided to put on a spirit-lifting show: “New York Photographs,” a summertime tribute to the greatest city on earth
Jason Andrew – twilight country « burn magazine:
Through a poetic sense of light and color, I find an attraction to the atrocities brought on by Mother Nature and mankind. The contrasting beauty between the savagery of ruin and rebirth of destroyed lives creates a romantic idea of what once was there, conveying a different feeling for each person that witnesses the images. The loneliness and solitude is what drove me to document the apocalyptic scenes of Abkhazia, its people, and how they continue to suffer from the effects of war 15 years later.
The Images take us on a sinister, eerie tour of a country whose only existence centers around their military and patriotism. Alone and stagnant, Abkhazia struggles with the meaning of war and self-declared independence, clutching the ankles of Russia for support while shadowing themselves from the economic and social embargoes imposed on them from Georgia and the rest of the world.
AFTER STAFF – David Leeson, on leaving newspapers and rediscovering old passions | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
David Leeson is known for a lot of things — his Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalism, his trailblazing video storytelling, his photo blog of intimate self-portraits. What he’s never been known for is pulling punches. After 30 years on newspaper photo staffs, his departure from the Dallas Morning News last year was difficult, and he doesn’t pretend otherwise. But he’s also reconnected with old passions through his new endeavors, and thankfully shares that experience with the same intimate honest.
AFTER STAFF A Closer Look – Tips for transitioning from photojournalism to weddings | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
As usual, Rachel went above and beyond when I asked for some helpful tips for photojournalists transitioning from the newsroom to the their own wedding photography business.
