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    Vice Magazine – THE PHOTO ISSUE 2009


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  • Art – Images of a Camera-Toting Artist Turn a Gallery Into a Chapel – NYTimes.com:

    The memorial exhibition for the New York artist Dash Snow, who died last week of a drug overdose at 27, is a casual, personal thing with no formal title and a simple organizing principle: people who knew Mr. Snow were invited to bring things in to remember him by.


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  • Associated Press Plans Content Registry, Will Include Photos


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  • Photographers speak out on Edgar Martins – Conscientious:

    While I am waiting for further clarifications from Edgar Martins on the NY Times Magazine kerfuffle (don’t worry, they will come), Alan Rapp (a photography and architecture book editor – who, for example, edited the BLDGBLOG book) talked to four architectural photographers about the complex.


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    Mike Berube – hometown « burn magazine:

    “Photography is a personal experience through which i choose to express views on the world. The work I produce reflects my need for uncovering dark places, and further feeds my desire to produce humanistic, palpable photography. I choose to work with photography on the deepest level I can, to produce the best work that I can. I photograph things I feel and see. I try to give voice and meaning to the elements and environment around me.”


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  • A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web – NYTimes.com


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    AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Charles Harbutt – I Don’t Take Pictures; Pictures Take Me (1972)”:

    How is this continuum of photographer, world, and camera achieved? Each person must find it individually, but for me it has flowed from the realization that I don’t take pictures, pictures take me. I can do nothing except have film in the camera and be alert. My adversary, a photograph, stalks the world like a roaring lion. Pictures happen. One can only trust one’s sensitivity, the bounty of the world, and the chemistry of Kodak. This is the photographic method.


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  • Interview: Alec Soth:

    In this weeks long-overdue interview section, my compadre Daniel Shea interviews Alec Soth. Big ups to Daniel for this excellent and informed interview, check out his site if his name is new to you.


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  • Showcase: Crack, Close Up – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:

    When Tony Fouhse first exhibited his stylized photographs of crack addicts made on a street corner in Ottawa, Canada, he was unsure what the reaction of the opening-night audience would be. But he knew that some of those in attendance would approve: the subjects themselves.


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    Q&A: Hugh Kretschmer, Los Angeles:

    Hugh Kretschmer is a photographer based in Los Angeles and specializing in photo-illustration, advertising and editorial photography and design. Of his work, he says: ‘The idea is the most important ingredient. I’ve always appreciated concept because it adds another layer to the photograph and invites participation from the viewer. When I see something that is done well, where the artist really nails it, I find myself just staring. I can’t think of anything else that would be more of a compliment than that’. Kretschmer’s clients include Mastercard, Evian and the New York Times magazine.


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  • lens culture: David Lynch:

    David Lynch is endlessly creative, and his artistic output is usually quite bizarre and surreal. Lynch’s latest project is as a photographer and collaborator with musician, artist and producer Danger Mouse. Together, they’ve created a multimedia installation that is now on display in Los Angeles.  

    Fifty of Lynch’s photographs are mounted on aluminum panels that seem to float on the gallery walls, converging with the moody rhythms of the music from Danger Mouse’s latest album, Dark Night of the Soul.


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  • Metro Collective – Promise & Peril – Michael Robinson Chavez:

    Michael Robinson Chavez has a great multi-media feature on the L.A. Times website, “Promise and Peril in South L.A.”,   an in-depth series of essays documenting how life has and sometimes hasn’t changed in one of America’s most notorious neighborhoods.


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  • ONPA: Bill Kennedy loses his battle with cancer:

    Bill was a man of many talents and I would do him an injustice to refer to him as Plain Dealer photographer Bill Kennedy, for he was far more than that. First and foremost a man devoted to his family who now celebrate his life and mourn their loss.


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  • On Assignment: Afghanistan – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:

    You could call David Guttenfelder the man behind the man in the pink boxers. Mr. Guttenfelder, 40, the chief Asia photographer for The Associated Press, attracted attention two months ago — all the way up to the Commander in Chief — with his photograph of Specialist Zachary Boyd, Specialist Cecil Montgomery and Specialist Jordan Custer returning the Taliban’s fire in Afghanistan. Specialist Boyd was wearing pink boxers and flip-flops at the time. Admirers of this picture saw in it a perfect expression of American readiness and capacity to fight. “Any soldier who goes into battle against the Taliban in pink boxers and flip-flops has a special kind of courage,” Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said.


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  • Rob Galbraith DPI: AP photographer talks about covering NBA:

    Mark J. Terrill describes the process of setting up remotes and covering peak action in National Basketball Association games


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    PDNPulse: Spanish Newspapers Try to Discredit Famous Capa Photo:

    The International Center of Photography recently brought its traveling Robert Capa exhibition to Spain, and the Spanish press is using the occasion to rip one of Capa’s most famous photographs to shreds.


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  • Must See: Surfing, With a Dark Edge – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:

    Chris Bickford’s project about the local surf scene on the Outer Banks of North Carolina was all about firsts: his first time shooting in water, his first time capturing a fast-action sport and his first time conceptualizing completely in black and white.


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  • Radovan Karadzic’s New-Age Adventure – NYTimes.com:

    After acquiring his own Zapper and visak, Dabic grew professionally close to both Minic and Janjic. He came to spend vast swaths of time holed up in Minic’s office, a humble basement room where a desk was improvised from a bookcase set upon two chairs. Sometimes Dabic would sleep on a cot there. When Minic or Janjic would ask about Dabic’s history or his credentials, he’d be vague. He had lived in New York, he would say, but his marriage to his wife, who remained in New York with his children, had ended on an ugly note. Minic remembered that his friend maintained “four or five” cellphones and that they rang all the time. “He would always arrange to call everyone back,” Minic explained. “That’s why I thought he was a spy.”

    But he wasn’t a spy. As Minic and Janjic (along with the rest of the world) were shocked to find out last July, their tall protégé with the eye-catching hairdo was Radovan Karadzic, the most hunted war criminal on the planet.


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  • SFGate: Daily Dish : Fellow parents defend Klum against photographers:

    Fellow parents at the playground were not amused by the paparazzi invasion and asked them to leave, but when they ignored the requests, the angry moms and dads began pelting them with water bombs, forcing Klum to flee the chaos.


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