From washingtonpost.com:
the recent release of Justice Department memos authorizing the use of harsh interrogation techniques has given Graner and other soldiers new reason to argue that they were made scapegoats for policies approved at high levels. They also contend that the government’s refusal to acknowledge those polices when Graner and others were tried undermined their legal defenses
From Capture Images:
I have been lucky to get to travel a lot recently. Vacations are on a unlimited supply for those who are unemployed…
From A Photo Editor – SPD Photography Award Nominees Online Now:
I love seeing incredible photography in a well designed page. In the end the design can make or break the impact of the photography. There’s some great designers out there but it usually comes down to whether or not the editor will let them do their thing.
From NYTimes.com:
At the end of May, Panasonic will unleash the second generation of the G1, called the GH1. Wow, what a difference an H makes.
These two Panasonic cameras are the first in a new camera format called Micro Four Thirds, developed in partnership with Olympus. The concept is deliciously simple: shrink an S.L.R. by removing the mirror box.
From REBEL8:
Ever wonder how I make a drawing of a cute tattoo’d girl? Well here’s one way…
From NYTimes.com:
When the three weathered cardboard boxes — known collectively, and cinematically, as the Mexican suitcase — arrived at the International Center of Photography more than a year ago, one of the first things a conservator did was bend down and sniff the film coiled inside, fearful of a telltale acrid odor, a sign of nitrate decay.
But the rolls turned out to be in remarkably good shape despite being almost untouched for 70 years. And so began a painstaking process of unfurling, scanning and trying to make sense of some 4,300 negatives taken by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour during the Spanish Civil War, groundbreaking work that was long thought to be lost but resurfaced several years ago in Mexico City.
From whats the jackanory ?:
I was leafing through the new edition of Fortune magazine the other day, the annual Fortune 500 issue to be specific. Amongst all the facts, figures, graphs and charts I was excited to see a massive photo spread with the directors of some of America’s largest companies from my old mucker Ben Baker.
I asked my favorite graphic designer for some insight and I was startled by what I heard. She said, “It’s faster and easier to get my ideas down on paper. It’s also less sterile. When I try to concept on the computer it seems to me that the machine gets in the way. The presets push you to conform. The screen makes you filter in assumptions about how things will ultimately look on paper. Designing on paper just feels right”.
All this “regression” in the arts mirrors what I hear from more and more photographers. We were so enthusiastic about the promise of “no cost” digital that we swallowed the program “hook, line and sinker.” In retrospect we’ve done one of the stupidest business moves imaginable. We moved from a mature, repeatable and robust system of making images that yielded exquisite quality (and which most practitioners had already paid for the infrastructure and amortized ) into a system that gives us only one advantage: We can do all this stuff quicker than ever before!
From A Picture’s Worth:
Best iPhone photo app ever? CameraBag. Hands down, no question, I can’t get enough of it. Seriously, it might even start causing problems in my relationship because of my new obsession with the camera in my iPhone.
From photo-eye:
In a world inundated by visual imagery, our ability to take in more than one image at a time has become innate. In fact, our attention span demands it. Three, a book of triptychs by acclaimed photographer Ed Kashi, plays on the visual appetite of a hectic world. These triptychs span eras and continents, challenging our notions of perspective and the individual image.
From The New York Times:
Robert Capa’s “Mexican Suitcase,” actually three flimsy cardboard valises containing thousands of negatives of pictures that Capa and others took during the Spanish Civil War before he fled Europe for America in 1939, has now been opened.
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Annie Leibovitz Talks About Her Shoot with Demi Moore from SilberStudios.Tv on Vimeo.
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From The Big Picture:
Photographer Jason Hawkes returns to The Big Picture once more, this time venturing away from London (seen previously here and here). Recently, Hawkes has been carrying his Nikon D3 aboard helicopters around the world, hanging out the doorway and capturing landscapes – most somehow affected by humans – below.
From SuperTouch:
Last weekend saw the DAMIEN HIRST’s first grand spectacle of 2009 when his daunting career retrospective “Requiem” opened at the PINCHUK ART CENTER in the unlikely city of Kiev, Ukraine.
