Author: Trent
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Banksy Revealed? – LA Weekly
Link: The Zorro of street art talks about his new film, Los Angeles and, of course, Mr. Brainwash
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Back In My Wheelhouse » THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS
Link: Thank all that is good for San Francisco, home of the 10th annual BYOBW (Bring Your Own Big Wheel) race.
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Iranian Memoir | Magnum In Motion
Link: In this essay by Paolo Pellegrin, young Iranian-Americans whose parents fled the Iranian revolution in 1979 and started a new life in the USA remember Iran and imagine how their life would have been if they had never left their country.
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How do you sequence photos? – Mike Davis
Link: It’s one thing to pick your strongest pictures. It’s another to sequence them. The two actions are either side of a coin. If both aren’t done well the result sucks. Ok. Maybe it doesn’t suck, but the result won’t be what it could be if you pick lesser pictures or don’t put them in…
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l e n s c r a t c h: Eliza French and Jeff Charbonneau
Link: Eliza French and Jeff Charbonneau’s exhibition of their new series, Playground, was the must-see exhibition on the opening night of The Month of Photography in Los Angeles, at the Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station. The exhibition is on view until May 5, 2010.
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New York Times' photography blog launches social experiment – 1854
Link: The New York Times’ photography blog lens is launching a global project called A Moment in Time. The goal is for thousands of photographers – amateurs and professionals – to capture the same moment on Sunday 02 May at 15:00 UTC.
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Idurre Alonso (Curator, MoLAA): In Conversation – The New York Photo Festival
Link: IA: Since photography in Latin America encompasses all types of aesthetics including documentary, conceptual and experimental formats, among others, heterogeneity is probably its only unifying element. What is clear to me is that Latin American photography moves in multiple ways; in some instances the works reflect the contextual realities of their site production while…
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Danny Ghitis: A Thin Line | Pangea Photo Blog
Link: From the day he died until his burial on April 18th, Poland was enraptured with mourning ceremonies. In the end the Kaczynskis were entombed at Wawel Castle, where kings and national heroes have been traditionally buried. No other modern figure lies in its catacombs. This decision went largely uncontested aside from a few protests.…
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Clint Grant, longtime Dallas Morning News photographer, dies at 93
Link: Donald C. “Clint” Grant developed a national reputation for the humorous feature photos he took of animals during his long career with The Dallas Morning News.
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Banksy Puzzles With ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’ – NYTimes.com
Riddle? Yes. Enigma? Sure. Documentary? (Published 2010) Banksy, the pseudonymous British street artist, is laboring in a new documentary to convince audiences that he’s playing it straight. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/movies/14banksy.html The thing is, both Banksy and Mr. Guetta are pretty unreliable narrators. The immediate scuttlebutt was that Mr. Guetta either didn’t exist at all, that he…
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What's your Plan B? – Mike Davis
Link: There’s a parallel to what’s happening in the publishing world. You can stay put and keep doing things as you have in the hopes that your newspaper won’t eliminate you. You can assume that the clients you had before the economy tanked will come back when the economy returns. You can keep making and…
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Dead Eagle Trail
Link: In Jane Hilton’s intimate portraits, these 21st century cowboys are removed from these competing narratives, and from their beloved outdoors, and we encounter them in that most surprising location: the bedroom. Ever since she was first invited to supper by Johnny Green, a veteran cowboy who sold horses to John Wayne (every cowboy worth…
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Scanning Old Photos with ScanCafe – A Picture's Worth
Link: It’s hard to believe but my 20th high school reunion is only a few months away. I was an avid photographer starting in junior high, and in fact, sitting on one of my bookshelves is a bunch of albums filled with pictures from the 1980s — literally, a veritable hot tub time machine.
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Rob Galbraith DPI: Accessories we like: three products to better manage your lighting
Link: There are three accessories for managing lighting we wouldn’t want to live without: the Manfrotto QSS 1004BAC light stand, the Horizontal Flash Mounting Bracket from Michael Bass and the Hoodman HoodLoupe 3.0. Here’s why.
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::: The Travel Photographer :::: Matjaž Krivic: Mali (& Baaba Maal!)
Matjaž Krivic: Mali (& Baaba Maal!) travel photographer Link: https://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/04/matjaz-krivic-mali-baaba-maal.html Here’s another post on Matjaž Krivic’s work. This time, it’s Mali that he shares with us in this lovely audio-slideshow-movie (he calls it multivision…not a bad name.).
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Picturing the devastation in Haiti and more inspiring projects – MultimediaShooter
Link: View the destruction along a quarter-mile stretch of Boulevard Jean-Jacques Dessalines, one of the main commercial arteries in the heart of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. By DAMIEN CAVE with photographs by MAGGIE STEBER for The New York Times.