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Boston cops are using the Massachusetts electronic surveillance laws to arrest and prosecute citizens who use their cellular phones to record abusive arrests. Though they haven’t been success…
Dennis Stock, whose photographs may have done almost as much to create James Dean’s public persona as the actor’s own performances, died Monday in Florida.
Over a spotty and faltering Internet connection, Tequila Minsky transmitted some of the first photographs of the earthquake in Haiti, pictures that instantly conveyed the awful human toll.
With every New Year, digital photographers, (which is pretty much all of us now), face decisions about how to make room for a new years worth of image files.
An example of the kind of thing we would talk about a lot was compostion. During our last talk, without any sense of bragging or ego, Dennis Stock said, “for whatever reason, I was given the ability to frame anything. I can make a great composition instinctively.” He was stating a fact. Just look at his pictures. He also deeply believed in the precepts of HCB in regard to it not being enough to capture the moment, you had to also frame that within a pleasing geometric composition. For Dennis, this is how you catch the eye of the viewer, and this is how you make your pictures memorable.
Tuesday afternoon, January 12th, the worst earthquake in 200 years – 7.0 in magnitude – struck less than ten miles from the Caribbean city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The initial quake was later followed by twelve aftershocks greater than magnitude 5.0. Str
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Brian Duffy’s photographs chronicled the fun and fashion of swinging London. Then, one day in 1979, he decided to burn the lot. He tells Leo Benedictus why
The outlook for photographers is not all bad. In fact, I run into photographers (online) all the time who are doing well and their business is growing. One photographer I spoke with recently said his business was up 20% this year and has been up 30% on av
This summer I’ve had the opportunity to get out of the city on two occasions: a weekend in the Hamptons with a bunch of fellow Hawaiians, and a wedding in upstate Connecticut. As a photographer, I wanted to capture moments from those weekends with no other intention but to share them through my website, but when I reviewed the images, I decided to try to do something a little more permanent.
The Lumix GF1 is Panasonic’s answer to the Olympus Pen, and is the second “rangefinder” style Micro Four Thirds camera on the market. It blows away both the EP-1 Pen and also the new EP-2 Pen, and is — amazingly — good enough to replace all but the best o
In all the coverage of the enormous Three Gorges hydroelectric project on the Yangtze River, and the creation of a vast reservoir that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people around his birthplace in Chongqing, the photographer Muge Huang Rong felt the lack of something very important. And personal.
Madre de Dios is considered Peru’s final frontier. Located in the southeast corner of the country in the jungles of the Amazon, it is the poorest region in terms of economics, but perhaps the richest in natural resources. Gold has been rediscovered and with it, goldmining. Artisinal mining – single person or family base skimming has given way to larger companies, who are devestating the land and exporting both the resources and much of the profits. What is left behind is an ecological mess in terms of deforestation and mercury poisoning.