Here are both sides of a grimly disturbing 45 made by Dexter Gardner, a deeply troubled teenaged (and self-identified) LSD addict from Kearns, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City.
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Laura Levine’s work is too varied and voluminous to be hemmed in to one particular time, scene, or discipline — the bio on her website rightfully describes her as a “cross-disciplinary visual artist” — but I’m assuming many readers of this site discovered her work the same way I did: via her photography in the pages of several music publications during the ’80s, including the Village Voice, Trouser Press, Musician, Rolling Stone, and especially New York Rocker, where she served as chief photographer before becoming Photo Editor. Levine’s photography resumé reads like a Who’s Who of those loopy years following punk and disco: from early snaps of Prince and Madonna (pre-world domination) to photogenic weirdos like Captain Beefheart, August Darnell (a.k.a. Kid Creole), and Bow Wow Wow’s Annabella Lwin to No Wave shit disturbers D.N.A. and Glenn Branca to “new romantic” mop-fops Yazoo to rap icons Run-D.M.C. and Afrika Bambaata to hardcore visionaries Black Flag and X to… well, you get the picure.
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Paul Morse, nicknamed “Pablo” by President George W. Bush, is a Washington, D.C. based photographer. He worked at the White House as Deputy Director of Photography from 2001 until 2007. Prior to the White House, Paul worked at the Los Angeles Times as a staff photographer for six years, covering sports, news, and the entertainment industry.
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Every diehard loyal to Indie 103.1 FM over its improbable five-year run as Los Angeles’ most consistently surprising rock radio station has had similar Eureka moments. This being L.A., these no-way-did-they-just-play-that-song epiphanies usually occurred in the car, when something joyous would erupt from the speakers as if from the stars above. Maybe a Modern Lovers groover, or the Minutemen, the Melvins, Postal Service, or No Age, Joy Division, the Cure, or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. If you were a rock fan, the surprises kept coming.
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BY WILLIAM T. VOLLMANNBECAUSE IT’S THE PRODUCT OF THREE INDEPENDENT PARTIES—PHOTOGRAPHER, CAMERA, SUBJECT—THE PHOTOGRAPH CANNOT BE OWNED. INDEED, IT CAN AFFECT US IN WAYS THE PHOTOGRAPHER MIGHT NEVER HAVE FORESEEN OR DESIRED.
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Covering a basketball game for Sports Illustrated takes a lot of planning, coordination, teamwork, and yes, equipment.
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By Scott Strazzante, Chicago TribuneOf the 8000 photos I took during my six day stay in Washington DC for the Inauguration of Barack Obama, I made two images that I believe resonate. Two images that rise above the type of photos that I normally take.
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The traveling pool of press photographers that follows presidents includes representatives from three wire services — AP (The Associated Press), AFP (Agence-France Press) and Thompson Reuters. During the last week of the George W. Bush administration, I asked the head photo editors of these news services — Vincent Amalvy (AFP), Santiago Lyon (AP) and Jim Bourg (Reuters) — to pick the photographs of the president that they believe captured the character of the man and of his administration. There are overlapping pictures — of the president with a bullhorn at Ground Zero, of the president looking out the window of Air Force One over New Orleans, of the president receiving the news on the morning of 9/11. It is interesting that these pictures are different. They may be of the same scene, but they have different content. They speak in a different way. (The photos are reproduced here with their original captions, unedited.)
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Members of the Philadelphia photojournalism community will gather this Wednesday at 8pm – for the first time since last spring – for a meeting of the Philadelphia Conference of photojournalists at the Pen & Pencil Club – the nation’s oldest press club – located in Center City Philadelphia. We will screen a multimedia presentation of the members’ best work of 2008.
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Photos by Chris DetrickHere are my favorite sport-related pictures from 2008. The first ten pictures are what I included in my sports portfolio for various contests this year.
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The Inauguration of Barack Obama photographed by Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal on 01/20/09
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Since I can’t easily link directly to the two slideshows, you can go to the linked article and pop the up.After Israel’s three-week air, sea and land assault in Gaza, aimed at halting Hamas rocket fire, it is worth pausing to note how difficult it has been to narrate this war in a fashion others view as neutral, and to contemplate what that means for any attempt by the new Obama administration to try to end it.
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If you are a believer of the prophecies in the Christians holy writ, then we are indeed in the end time. Barely two months ago, Sunday Sun exclusively reported the story of a man in Lagos, who claims to be Christ’s only viceroy on earth, revealing the unpleasant happenings in his enclave. Yet, before our very eyes, another one has emerged, brazenly proclaiming himself the Jesus Christ that true believers are earnestly expecting.
Amazingly, unlike Jesus of Nazareth, the Enugu State-born ThankGod Chukwuma (his earthly name) is married (for the third time) and has children.
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Marsea Goldberg is the owner of New Image Art gallery in Los Angeles. For 15 years she has been showing the work of some very notable artists and is an important part of the history of this as-of-yet-unnamed art movement. I met her in 2000 and New Image Art became one of the first galleries I showed at. Over the years I have seen some beautiful shows at her gallery- Swoon, Herbert Baglione, The Date Farmers, Alex Kopps and Ed Templeton come to mind but the list goes on! Here’s to 15 more years!
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Yesterday Adobe released the latest version of Lightroom, Lightroom 2.3, as well as Camera Raw 5.3.
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Eric Draper spent the last eight years alongside George W. Bush as the chief White House photographer. Draper, 44, who had covered the 2000 campaign for The Associated Press, took the White House from film to digital as he met world leaders and mixed it up with Britian’s Prince Philip. He also received an unexpected farewell gesture from No. 43 earlier this week. Here are excerpts from a telephone interview with Draper, who spoke from his home in Alexandria, Va.
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What’s the biggest scam in photography? Judging purely on angry comments I get and see when the topic is raised, it’s photo contests with portfolio reviews running a close second.
It’s only fair to link to PDN’s response, “Rob Haggart Writes a Poor Headline.”
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Now that the source material for the iconic Barack Obama campaign image, produced by Shepard Fairey, has been identified, the fair use fun can begin. The photographer says that he doesn’t want to make trouble. But some in the art world have been gunning for Fairey, arguing that he’s not just a bad artist, but not an artist at all.
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