Category: Editor’s Choice
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The Year in Pictures: Garry Winogrand – Part 1
I also came across this uncredited biography of Winogrand on the Temple University website. I thought it was worth copying whole, but if you have to skim, don’t miss out on John Szarkowki’s final quote. As always, he said it better than anyone. Check it out here.
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Storyboard – Wired Blogs
What Is This? An almost-real-time, behind-the-scenes look at the assigning, writing, editing, and designing of a Wired feature. You can see more about the design process on Wired creative director Scott Dadich’s SPD blog, The Process. This is a one-time experiment, tied solely to the Charlie Kaufman profile scheduled to run in our November 08…
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Pee Wee v. David Letterman
David Letterman and Pee-Wee Herman? The two greatest minds of the century coming together. I feel lucky to have lived in their time. Check it out here.
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Look Around You – BBC
I don’t really comment on anything I post here at The Click, but this is important: Why can’t I get a region 1 DVD of the BBC series Look Around You?! I can’t recommend this highly enough.
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Mostly True: Trying to Make an Image
Technically the images were very, very good. In fact, I’d say there has never been an Olympic games photographed at such a consistently high level. Unfortunately, this high level of imagery is due more to the improvements in camera technology, not by any advancement in the vision of the photographers themselves. Check it out here.
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Sean O'Hagan meets photographer Josef Koudelka who captured the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague
Forty years on from the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague, we meet Josef Koudelka, the man who captured the most startling images of that dramatic week, then went on to become one of the greatest photojournalists of our time Check it out here.
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The Times (and I) Have Designs on Ji Lee – Shoot The Blog
Weekend re-discovery: the designer and clearly awesome and brilliant Ji Lee. Here’s how it happened: I was reading The Times. Then I saw this clever image above, illustrating the article “The American Wanderer, in All His Stripes”, about Mr. Obama’s transitory background. I googled Mr. Lee and realized I had written about him previously, not…
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My Long War – Dexter Filkins – NYTimes.com
I pulled on my running shoes and stepped into the sweltering streets. It was a Thursday in July 2003, twilight, and well over 100 degrees. I was feeling a little reckless. If this ended badly, the only thing anyone would remember was how stupid I was. We had set up the New York Times office…
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Henri Cartier – Bresson
“To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It’s a way of life.” Check it out here.
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Redlights and Redeyes
Photo by Chip Litherland welcome to the new and improved Redlights and Redeyes. Prepare for a photo onslaught of oversaturated painted walls, big skies, and silhouetted goodness Check it out here.
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Visions of China: A 2008 Olympics Picture Blog : A Third of the Way Through: Time for a Little Introspection.
Photo by Vincent Laforet/Newsweek We’re about a third of the way through the Olympic Games as of the end of today – and I’ve always found this to be a good point to look back through the images I’ve made so far, and to make adjustments on how I will shoot from here on out.…
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theselby – photos in your space
theselby features photographs by todd selby. it is updated daily so check back for new shoots of people and their possesions in their environment Check it out here.
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Photography as a Weapon – Errol Morris – Zoom – New York Times Blog
As almost everyone knows by now, various major daily newspaper published, on July 10, a photograph of four Iranian missiles streaking heavenward; then Little Green Footballs (significantly, a blog and not a daily newspaper) provided evidence that the photograph had been faked. Later, many of those same papers published a Whitman’s sampler of retractions and…
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Nollywood (Nigerian movie biz) captured in Pieter Hugo's photos – Boing Boing
Photographer Pieter Hugo, whose work I’ve blogged about before, has a spectacular new series of images out about Nigeria’s homegrown movie stars. Check it out here.
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Soundgarden Inadvertently Reunites At Area Cinnabon
Members of the popular 1990s grunge band Soundgarden shocked critics and fans alike Tuesday, appearing together publicly for the first time in more than a decade after accidentally running into one another at the Northgate Mall Cinnabon. Check it out here.
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Poynter Online – Looking Through the "Girl in the Window"
A 7-year-old girl, unable to speak or feed herself, discovered in a filthy, roach-infested room, her diaper overflowing and her body covered with bites. How do you tell a story like this? Poynter’s St. Petersburg Times responded by clearing its Sunday features section and devoting six ad-free pages to a 6,500-word narrative and haunting photographs of the girl…
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the life of m: The Girl in the Window
She was found curled up in a filthy room, unable to speak or make eye contact. They called her a feral child. Could nurturing make up for a lifetime of neglect? The girl in the window is a story about a 9-year-old girl named Dani. Ultimately it’s a story about hope. Check it out here.