lenscratch says:
Austrian photographer, Reiner Riedler was at Photolucida to promote his new body of work, Fake Holidays. The series has been widely exhibited in Europe, and made the Critical Mass top 50.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation says:
In posting the photos, the White House chose the least restrictive license available, a Creative Commons Attribution license — which means the public is free to download, copy, and re-mix freely, so long as the original photographer is credited.
While this is certainly better than releasing the photos under the usual copyright rules (no use without permission, specific license and compensation), the license made us wonder: if these are official photos by the official White House photographer, aren’t they government works? If so, they aren’t copyrightable, which means they needn’t be licensed at all, but should instead be flagged as public domain.
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From Prison Photography:
Yana Payusova’s Russian Prison Series is a complex portrait with embedded cultural memes and fierce visual détournement. It is a strong and commited project. Russian Prisons Series, painted photographs of forgotten incarcerated Russian youth is Payusova’s most extensive use of photogaphy in her many series
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From dvafoto:
There’s been no shortage of coverage of the current economic crisis affecting the US, but John Francis Peters‘ “Just a Dream” project has really drawn me in.
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From ::: The Travel Photographer :::
Here’s an entertaining advert for Canon’s G10 featuring some of the VII Photo agency founding members: John Stanmeyer, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Ron Haviv, Joachin Ladefoged and Marcus Bleasdale (seemingly the only member with no beard).
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From GadgetLab:
Book reviews aren’t something we do a lot of here on Gadget Lab, but we have to call out the quite excellent “Hot Shoe Diaries” by Joe McNally, a bible for anyone thinking about using small strobes in their photography.
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From GadgetLab:
The Steam camera not only shoots images just 440 trillionths of a second in length, it can rack up an astonishing six million of them in a single second.
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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
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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…
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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.
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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.
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From REBEL8:Ever wonder how I make a drawing of a cute tattoo’d girl? Well here’s one way…
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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.
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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.
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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!
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