I have a thousand questions about The Tablet’s design. What size is it? There’s a big difference between, say, 7- and 10-inch displays. How do you type on it? With all your fingers, like a laptop keyboard? Or like an iPhone, with only your thumbs? If you’re supposed to watch video on it, how do you prop it up? Holding it in your hands?
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When owners of The Washington Times cut their 170-member newsroom staff yesterday, the entire photography department – with the exception of photography director Joseph M. Eddins Jr. and imaging tech Melissa Cannarozzi – lost their jobs.
Link: Washington Times Slashes Newsroom Staff, Wipes Out Photo Department
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Articles of Faith
The existential crisis of magazines online.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/magazine/03FOB-medium-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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2009 Canon Rumors Awards!
Canon Rumors 2009 Awards! Here are my picks for the best and worst of 2009. Stay tuned tomorrow for my predictions for 2010 from Canon. *Note: You may disag
via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2009/12/2009-canon-rumors-awards-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+canonrumors%2Frss+%28Canon+Rumors%29
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Jim Goldberg – Open See
Copyright Jim Goldberg 2009 courtesy Steidl Reviewing Jim Goldberg’s photobook Open See, published this year by Steidl, it may be initially a stretch to think of this body of work coming fro…
via PhotoBook Journal: http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/jim-goldberg-open-see/
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Must See: Last Days for ‘The Americans’
The five-exposure contact strip of 35-millimeter Kodak Plus-X film begins unremarkably enough. But don’t miss Frame 16. And don’t miss this show.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/must-32/
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Superficial Snapshots Zine 4: Can You Hear Me Now?
[ full color, 55 pages, all photographs shot with iPhone]
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Earlier this month The Aftermath Project announced the winners of their two $20,000 grants for 2010, as well as the finalists. Polish-born, Italy-based photographer Monika Bulaj won for her project “Afghanistan: Not Only The War,”
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Jim Denevan transforms the beaches of Northern California into expansive but ephemeral works of land art. Instead of a paintbrush, Denevan prefers a simple piece of wood or a rake.
Link: Juxtapoz Magazine – Jim Denevan Uses Beach and Desert As Canvas | Current
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No further proof is needed that we’re in the era of the “citizen journalist” than the images coming daily from Tehran. But this gallery reminds us that most of the traumas of the last decade — as well as its triumphs — had public witnesses who were as well-equipped to record the moment as many professionals. The Times asked you to help us document the decade and you responded with some astonishing photographs and essays. Thank you.
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I am quite fortunate in having been able to use almost every Leica lens since 1925, but I actually own a very small fraction of all the lenses ever made.
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The Nieman Journalism Lab has recently been publishing an intriguing series of articles exploring the relationship between the media, NGOs, and journalists, especially as more and more international and investigative journalism is produced, funded, and distributed initially or in cooperation with NGOs and charities.
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As we all know – there are a LOT of film contests out there – but I believe this one is DIFFERENT.
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The influence is not limited to photographers. At the opening of the Museum of Modern Art’s 1971 Walker Evans retrospective, Robert Penn Warren spoke of the first time he had seen Evans’s work: “….Staring at the pictures, I knew that my familiar world was a world I had never known. The veil of familiarity prevented my seeing it. Then, thirty years ago, Walker tore aside that veil; he woke me from the torpor of the accustomed.”
Link: AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Walker Evans: Public Photographs (1998)”
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Harry Cock – Omstreken
Copyright Harry Cock 2006, courtesy Stichting Fotografie Noorderlicht Omstreken (Environs) is the title for the twenty-five year retrospective of Dutch photojournalist Harry Cock. The Dutch word is…
via PhotoBook Journal: http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/harry-cock-omstreken/
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LensCulture – Contemporary Photography
Discover and share the best in contemporary photography
via LensCulture: http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/mt_files/archives/2009/12/beauty-of-photobooks.html
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I had the chance to shoot with the Canon EOS-1D Mark IV this past Sunday. Considering all of the focusing problems with their previous top-of-the-line professional camera, I decided to give it a proper test-drive at the Detroit Lions vs. San Francisco 49ers NFL game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
Link: Finally, Canon gets it right with Mark IV – Mangin Photography Archive
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“The Internet may kill newspapers; And that might not matter”
Can a world without newspapers survive? Sure, says The Economist. What matters is the availability and quality of the news, not the medium that delivers it.
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