From Wooster Collective:
Jordan Seiler and Eastern District Gallery’s incredible ambitious “New York Street Advertising Takeover” became a reality yesterday, with over 120 illegal billboards throughout the city white washed by dozens of volunteers.
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From NYTimes.com:
At a time when picture magazines were still a holy grail for young photographers, Danny Lyon, self-taught, began his career as the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. A week after hitchhiking south in 1962 at the age of 20 he was in jail with other protesters in Albany, Ga., next to the cell of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And Mr. Lyon’s first book, the classic “Bikeriders,” made after spending more than two years as a member of the Outlaws motorcycle gang, was not just a pioneering example of New Journalism but, as he later described it, an attempt “to destroy Life magazine” and what he saw as its anodyne vision of American life.
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From dispatches:
Video and multimedia’s meteoric rise is getting the attention of the pro photographic community. ASMP Seattle today hosted Paula Lerner and Gail Mooney to talk about the transition.
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From dvafoto:
Another long wrap-up post of random bits that I’ve been reading or looking at over the last few days. I planned to post this on Thursday, but the list has been growing. So much so that I’ve split this up into two posts. Welcome to part one of Matt’s crazy reading list.
First, I just this update from photographer Ikuru Kuwajima who is living in Ukraine.
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From 5B4:
In the center of the Sacramento Valley two rivers, the Feather and Sacramento, flank several wetlands and marshes called the Sutter and Colusa Sinks. Much of this land has been drained and become some of the richest agricultural land for fruit orchards and various grains and rice. The photographer Lukas Felzmann has been drawn to these marshlands and especially the role water has taken to shape and transform the landscape. His new book from Lars Muller, Waters In Between is an empirical archive or as he describes the collection, “a sort of poetry of ruins.”
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From The 37th Frame:
NPR sent photojournalist Justin Maxon to L.A.’s Skid Row for two days to produce this project to accompany an on-air series on Skid Row. There is a excellent slideshow of the images on NPR’s The Picture Show blog.
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From NYTimes.com:
Someone should be paying more attention, especially since online newspaper commenters as a whole seem to have (at least) the stamina, drive and spare time to become a cogent part of online journalism. But as it is, online commentary is a bête noire for journalists and readers alike. Most journalists hate to read it, because it’s stinging and distracting, and readers rarely plow through long comments sections unless they intend to post something themselves. But perhaps the comments have become so reader-unfriendly, in part, because of the conventions of the Web-comment form.
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From Randy Eli Grothe’s goodbye note as he leaves The Dallas Morning News:
Now, being a writer seemed to be an admirable profession, but being a photographer seemed to be just plain cool. And being a newspaper photojournalist with a Nikon dangling from your neck as well as a press pass opening doors, whoa, that was tres cool.
So that’s the road I took. That road led me here, and from here came all the memorable characters and exciting destinations.
via NPPA.
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From dvafoto:
The Blue Earth Alliance alerted me a couple of days ago, through their blog post, to this video presentation of John Trotter’s project “The Burden of Memory” put together by the The Dart Center at the University of Washington. This is a remarkable project and presentation that brought me close to tears.
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From Prison Photography:
Jürgen Chill’s Zellen photographs are a unique perspective upon prison space. Of all the positions in the cell, this floating light-fixture-eye-view should be the least claustrophobic, and yet, the central (physically impossible) high vantage point is dizzying. How does the camera (let alone cameraman) take up such a position? From here, what is there left to do but fall?
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From Name Your Dream Assignment:
Following four weeks of non-stop voting and discussion, we’re thrilled to announce the Name Your Dream Assignment judges have selected a winner from the contest’s top 20 finalists.
And the winner is:
Picture Hope by Shutter Sisters, Jen Lemen and Stephanie Roberts
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From RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
As a photojournalist I have observed an important thing, that most coverage of world events — especially in places like Afghanistan –- is done by white men between 30 and 40 year old.
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From The Big Picture:
photographs from North Korea are still restricted and hard to come by. One way around that has been for photographers to peer inside from across the border, a pastime that has also spurred a level of curious tourism in both neighboring South Korea and China. Collected here are a some recent photographs, looking into reclusive North Korea from the outside – and some of the reactions these observations induce.
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From A Photo Editor:
Martin Schoeller talks with writer Charlie Fish (read more here) for a piece in Resource Magazine.
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