For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path
Amateur photographers, happy to accept small checks for snapshots, are underpricing professionals.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/business/media/30photogs.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Amateur photographers, happy to accept small checks for snapshots, are underpricing professionals.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/business/media/30photogs.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Photographer Sean Flynn, who went went missing in 1970, believed to have been captured and killed in Cambodian war
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/29/cambodia-remains-errol-flynn-son
Update: The new Nikon rebates are restricted to either the D300s or D700. Same with the SB-900 – in order to get the $100 rebate on the flash you must buy either a D300s or D700. I will have the full details next week (Adorama and B&H are close for a week
A New Yorker article reports that ABC showed footage of an alleged killing in Zambia in the 1990s — and did not inform Zambian authorities about the shooting.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/business/media/29newyorker.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Along with the letter, I enclose an invoice for the use or uses I have discovered. I tell them that I will grant them a “retroactive license’ upon payment of the fee that they would have paid had they contacted me for a license. However, I also clearly state that they must pay the invoice within 10 days and also disclose any and all other uses of my images they may have made.
Link: Wooster Collective: Contra’s “Interactive Gordon Brown” Installation on the South Bank of London
Line2 takes a big step toward a future when cellphone users won’t need to rely on a cellphone carrier’s service.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/technology/personaltech/25pogue.html?src=me&ref=general
During this period he got his famous photo of Joplin backstage, slouched on a couch with a bottle of Southern Comfort cradled in her hands.
“Some people said I shouldn’t have published that picture of her lying back, with the bottle in her hand, but I’ll defend it to the death,” he once said. “People said her legs looked too fat. But Janis said, ‘Hey, that’s a great shot because it’s how it is sometimes. Lousy.’”
SwankoLab is an image editing app for the iPhone and iPod that features a complete darkroom simulator with chemicals, timers, and the whole shebang.
In the last decade, the photo industry has pivoted from an economy of wealth and abundance to an economy of fear. It is not so much about talent, creativity or effectiveness anymore, as it is about who can scare the other into submission.
Link: Thoughts of a Bohemian » Blog Archive » The only thing we have to fear….
Emilio Morenatti will resume his career at The Associated Press, with a top prize from the National Press Photographers Association.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/behind-41/
The Los Angeles Documentary Project was one of the most ambitious of all the photography surveys supported by the NEA. In addition to including more photographers (eight) than any of the other Greater L.A. surveys, Los Angeles presented a larger subject than any of the other NEA-supported surveys of cities. The application noted that the project would be “a visual examination of the sociological and topographical diversity of one of the most dynamic and unusual cities in the world.” In their application for an NEA Photography Survey Grant, the directors of the survey were aware that Los Angeles signified more than just itself, and called Los Angeles “the ultimate city of our age.” The description goes on to address the importance of understanding what Los Angeles had become by the 1970s:
Link: MARK RICE: “Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s” (2005)
Marty Lederhandler of The Associated Press — “I never want to stop saying that,” he declared on his retirement — was there on June 6, 1944, and on Sept. 11, 2001, and on a remarkable number of occasions in between. (Including Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller’s honeymoon flight to Venezuela.)
Link: Marty Lederhandler Dies; At D-Day and 9/11 – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
RACHEL HULIN: You’re right that I like to photograph moments from my own life; I generally have a camera with me whenever I’m at a family function or away for a weekend with friends, and sort of lie in wait for a moment to capture. There are beautiful and unexpected things happening all the time and I like to try to record some of them. It’s funny how these have sort of created a diary for me now; there’s my roommate in my very first apartment in New York, there’s my mom in the hot tub when she was just getting hair back after chemo.
Link: Rachel Hulin, the “Blog Stewardess,” joins Wonderful Machine / Wonderful Machine Photography Blog
Preface: I don’t think I’ve ever written a purely emotional, purely personal post on my blog. Today is going to be different, and I’m going to fully give in to my ADD and just let…
via PhotoDino: http://photodino.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/out-of-the-dark/
Ray Potes recently took some time to answer some questions about Hamburger Eyes as well as his own photography.
Link: Through Their Lens: Ray Potes of Hamburger Eyes – CALIBER
The former editor of House & Garden describes how she was laid off — and learned to love life again.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/magazine/28fasttrack-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Austin, Texas Portrait Photographer’s Blog about Photography, Art and Writing by Kirk Tuck.