Category: Editor’s Choice
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Oskar Barnack Award 2010 slideshow | Leica News & Rumors
Link: Emerging photographer Claire Martin talks to BJP about her Inge Morath Award win and on making it in documentary photography at a time when funding is rare
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Rob Galbraith DPI: ImageRights adds free visual search, plans compensation recovery program
Link: ImageRights, a visual search firm that assists photographers in identifying unauthorized photo usage online, has added a free service level in addition to the paid tiers they currently offer. At no charge, a photographer can upload up to 10,000 photos to ImageRights. The company will then continuously monitor news sites, popular blogs and other…
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Photography Copyright Protection: Online Resources – A Picture's Worth
Link: There are some amazing resources for photographers to learn more about protecting their copyright. We’ve taken a stab at gathering up *some* of the best resources we’ve found – mostly from industry organizations, government and nonprofits, and a few voices of wisdom in the industry.
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In My Back Yard: In My Grandfather’s House | Luceo Images
Link: I am so happy to have photographs of my grandfather with his first great grandchild. They will serve as the key to Madelyn’s memory of him. Below a journal entry I found from the last time I saw my grandfather and a few photographs from that visit, nearly three years ago. Please forgive this…
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Stanley Greene’s Redemption and Revenge – Lens
Stanley Greene’s Redemption and Revenge In his pictures and his words, Stanley Greene is outspoken. Michael Kamber interviewed this freewheeling figure. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/shoptalk-7/ I wanted to set the record straight. I kept hearing people say, “Chechnya was when you really started to be a photographer.” And that’s not true. I was shooting back…
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Joachim Ladefoged's Albanians – VII The Magazine
Link: With the July 22 decision by the World Court in the Hague that Kosovo’s unilateral secession from Serbia in 2008 did not violate international law, we thought it would be an opportune moment to look back at Joachim Ladefoged’s powerful body of work on the Albanians during the Serbian conflict from 1997 to 2000.…
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An Illicit Whole Earth Catalog at J.F.K. – Lens
An Illicit Whole Earth Catalog at J.F.K. Taryn Simon spent five days photographing the world’s material underbelly as it made its way through a New York airport. Miki Meek explains. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/behind-49/ Passengers, airliners, workers, baggage, cargo, taxis and trains flow ceaselessly through Kennedy International Airport. Taryn Simon recorded another ceaseless flow —…
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50cent on Twitter
Link: Yo I had 5’000 dollars this morning I got 2,300 dollars now and i did even by sh*tWhat the f*ck is going on
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John Loengard on the role of the photo editor
Link: Nothing is more important than the trust of photographers. Since they are not employees, but freelancers, photographers often operate from a disadvantaged position. Remember that: · You are the photographers’ advocate. No one else will be. · You are the photographers’ counselor, explaining the magazine to them and them to the magazine. · You…
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INTERVIEW: "Interview with Bruce Jackson" (2009)
Link: Bruce Jackson was first drawn to work in prisons during the folk revival of the 1960s. Inspired by folk music collectors like the Lomaxes, he set out to capture work songs sung by African-American convicts, going first to Midwestern prisons when he was a graduate student in Indiana, and later to Texas state prisons…
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Q&A: Martin Parr on Brighton Photo Biennial – British Journal of Photography
Link: Martin Parr talks about his latest discoveries, on show in Brighton. In the Q&A with BJP’s editor, he also discusses the international photography scene, and explains why the UK is “handicapped”.
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At Sam Zell’s Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture – NYTimes.com
At Flagging Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture (Published 2010) Under Sam Zell, the Tribune Company was bankrupted by debt, and employees describe a profane and alienating workplace. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/business/media/06tribune.html The new management did transform the work culture, however. Based on interviews with more than 20 employees and former employees of Tribune, Mr. Michaels’s and…
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Picnic With Sergey | Bruce Gilden | Magnum In Motion
Link: Here’s another picture-heavy post from another amazing warehouse party in Brooklyn. The theme this time was The Forbidden City. Most party-goers and art installations kept with the theme, but others loosely interpreted. Either way, there was a lot to see.
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FT Magazine – How Annie got shot
Link: The Annie Leibovitz story, however, is more than a tale of a photographer who got absorbed into the high-spending world of the people she portrays. It is a reflection of something unexpected – that, despite all her celebrity and talent, Leibovitz lacks earning power as an artist.
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open letter to newspaper photographers | Redlights and Redeyes
Link: Dear Newspaper Photographer, If you think you are safe in your job, you aren’t.
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A Dozen Promising Photographers: The World Press Photo Master Class – NYTimes.com
A Dozen Promising Photographers No one told 12 of the world’s most promising photographers that photojournalism was dead, so they gathered to chart their futures. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/a-dozen-promising-photographers/ By editing one another’s work, we become connected. We are all vulnerable. I have to trust people with my images. They have to trust me. We…
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The Photo Follies 2010 Awards » The Russian Photos Blog
Link: Welcome to the Photo Follies 2010 Awards, the Premier Photo Industry Contest In This Universe Or Any Universe Yet To Be Discovered™. Entries were judged by a jury consisting of leading industry figures, including former deputy assistant night picture editors, photo agency interns and Flickr Pro members.
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The Toppling: How the Media Inflated the Fall of Saddam’s Statue in Firdos Square – ProPublica
The Toppling: How the Media Inflated the Fall of Saddam’s Statue in Firdos Square How saturation media coverage of the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Firdos Square fueled the perception that the war had been won and diverted attention from what in reality was just the start of a long and costly conflict. via…
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A Moment With Larry Fink – NYTimes.com
Link: The moment that we have is the only moment we will ever have, insofar as it is fleeting. Every breath counts. So does every moment and perception. It’s a way to be alive. I am involved with the idea of reaching deeply into the pulsing matter of what it means to be alive and…
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Self-Made Men: Building your own cameras – British Journal of Photography
Link: Does the everyday conformity of digital SLR cameras leave you cold? Then take a lead from the four photographers here, for whom off-the-shelf kit is just too conventional. So they decided to make their own…