Category: Photojournalism
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One Minute Left – Real Life – Real News
: Every assignment/subject/event I have ever photographed in my life has taken less than one minute to capture. It takes a lot of frames at 1/250th of a second to add up to a minute, but it’s all the things we do between this time and that, which make all the difference in the world.…
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road trip: incomplete…
: yesterday a brief discussion came up under “student work/workshops” that i thought might be interesting to bring up right here….herve brought it up, after seeing my India student essays, with regard to what he described as a “trend” by workshop students in particular and many photographers in general to photograph what he described as…
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Leading Off: It was cold!
: How cold was it? Cold enough to pop both of the lenses out of my glasses. Cold enough to freeze my breath on the camera viewfinder. Cold enough to wear not one, but two sets of long underwear. (Expedition weight no less!) Cold enough for Peter Miller to go through a whole box of…
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ekathimerini.com | ARTS & LEISURE – NEWS
: A seven-year period may seem short compared to a full-span professional career, but in the case of the independent photojournalist Dimitris Soulas (born 1938) this hardly matters. Soulas worked as a photographer in Germany between 1967 and 1974, a period that coincided with the junta regime in Greece. It was a short but highly…
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Black Star Rising – I Survived Another Layoff; What's Next for Newspaper Photojournalists?
: As I survive my sixth layoff in five years, I question the future of photojournalism and am worried about the path we are headed down. Almost every newspaper in the county has laid off, bought out or done away with positions in the last few years. Everyone is trying to cut back on expenses,…
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From Robert Capa to Ray Charles: What's in your Mexican Suitcase?
: All of this got me instantly thinking (and worrying): What kind of Mexican suitcase will we leave to our future generations to find? A SyQuest cartridge from the early 1990’s? A floppy disk? A Zip drive? I’ve always laughed at the prospect of one of the great ironies of the digital era: In the…
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Is Reuters Publishing Fake Photographs? – mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY
: Something is fishy over at Reuters. The news wire has been caught distributing what appear to be staged photographs of Gaza power outages. Check out the two photographs above, taken by Gaza-based Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem. The captions for the pictures read “Palestinian lawmakers attend a parliament session in candlelight during a power cut…
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PDNPulse – State Of The Union Made Interesting!
: When does photographer/blogger John Harrington sleep? We are not sure. Sometime between last night (when he covered the State of the Union address) and this afternoon, he produced an extremely informative 12-minute video about how photographers cover the president’s annual applause-fest. (Take note of Dennis Brack’s spot-on prediction that the Obama-Clinton cold shoulder would…
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Trinity – Carl de Keyzer
: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris 29 January – 13 April 2008 Photography project on world power inspired by the history of classical painting. Each part refers to painting by its subject and format and tries to explore in a conceptual way the mechanisms of power and history. Most things come in three. A trinity…
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Photo Essay Eastern European Gypsies by Balazs Gardi
: For most people the word gypsy evokes a romantic image of a nomadic lifestyle. Although the traditional gypsy way of life was common all over Europe several decades ago, their number has dwindled during the past century and now they are mostly found in remote areas of Romania. Due to environmental and economic circumstances…
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VII Photo Essay – The Valley – by Balazs Gardi
: Korengal Valley is among the deadliest pieces of terrain in the world for U.S forces. The six-mile long strategic passage is located in northeastern Afghanistan surrounded by treacherous mountain ridges, which are held desperately by the Taleban and al-Qaeda. Nearly one-fifth of all combat in Afghanistan occurs in this valley, and nearly three-quarters of…
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PJStar.com – Journal Star News Story
: No, this dispute is not about high commerce. It is instead about principle. We believe it is within our absolute right to cover, publish and, yes, occasionally even sell, content that we create – particularly from highly public events involving tax-supported institutions and occurring at taxpayer-owned venues. It is unfortunate that we are at…
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Robert Capa – Lost Negatives – Art – New York Times
: TO the small group of photography experts aware of its existence, it was known simply as “the Mexican suitcase.” And in the pantheon of lost modern cultural treasures, it was surrounded by the same mythical aura as Hemingway’s early manuscripts, which vanished from a train station in 1922. The suitcase — actually three flimsy…
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Another country — chicagotribune.com
: Thirteen years ago, Chicago Tribune photographer Scott Strazzante began visiting a family farm. Over the years he took thousand of pictures of the couple and their land and all the creatures that lived there. In 2002 he chronicled the farm’s end. Call it death, if you will. Call it progress, if you must “…I…
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Photo Essay Hillary in Iowa
: VII photographer Christopher Morris is trailing the U.S. presidential candidates as they crisscross America during the state primaries and caucuses. In Iowa, which held its caucus January 3, 2008, he followed the Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, and captured her supporters out in full force. The New York senator came in third in the…
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Golfweek's Bland Rage – Blogs Design and Production @ FolioMag.com via PDN Pulse
: Lots of buzz online about the termination of editor Dave Seanor over this cover, which refers to a thoughtlessly stupid remark by golf anchor Kelly Tighman. It’s worth noting that the controversy over this cover is inextricably wrapped up in its conceptual quality. The insipid stock image brings nothing to the package that isn’t…
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Illinois Battle Continues: After Lawsuits, Now Comes Legislation
: Illinois lawmakers have joined in the fight over whether the Illinois High School Association can prevent newspaper photographers from covering public school academic and sporting championship events games, and whether they can regulate the secondary use of photographs and videos that come from the events. A new state law proposed this week comes in…
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Bernie Boston, 74; Took Iconic 1967 Photograph – washingtonpost.com
Check it out: Bernie Boston, 74; Took Iconic 1967 Photograph – washingtonpost.com Mr. Boston, who retired from the Los Angeles Times, was working for the Washington Star on Oct. 21, 1967, when he took the image he called “Flower Power.” The man with the flowers was later identified as teenage actor George Harris. He was…