At the White House today, news photographers streamed into the Oval Office for what’s known as a “pool spray,” a very brief photo opportunity. This one, in fact, lasted 30 seconds. About 12 seconds inside, President Obama glanced at our gaggle of photographers and said, “I hope one of these works.”
Author: Trent
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The White House Spray
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Smile! Polaroid is saved
When Polaroid announced last February that it would stop production of its instant film, it seemed the much-loved camera was gone forever. But within weeks, a group of users had started a global campaign for the format to return. And now, thanks to an unlikely saviour, their pleas have been heard.
Check it out here. Via Jason
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Photoshop for 70 basketball portraits in in two days
For the last few months, people have been asking me about the post-production involved in the photos on my blog post “70 basketball portraits I did in two days.”
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A Photo Editor – Mark Seliger Rip Off
It appears that Mexico has its very own Mark Seliger… well, they have a photographer who bought Mark’s Physiognomy book and tried to knock-off many of the setups for Mexican television company Televisa’s book featuring their on-air talent. The photos were taken by Gabriel Saavedra.
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Sounds Cooler if you Call it the Pre-After After Party
Sundance is over,…within minutes after the awards are given, the chairs disappear, the lights dim and DJ’s, caterers, and a wide range of dance moves, both awful, haunting and beautiful begin to appear.
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In Praise of Leica | Clarkfoto Blog
Over my career, so far, I guess I have bought, or been supplied from my employers , about 30 cameras. Some I remember well, some I don’t. One camera I do clearly remember was my first Leica M series. I bought an M3 with a 28mm Elmarit lens in a small hole in the wall camera store on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong in 1975 for what I thought was a king’s ransom of $550-usd.
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Contemporary city photoshopped with war-scenes from history
Sergei Larenkov has photoshopped together modern images of St Petersburg with photos taken during the brutal Siege of Leningrad during WWII
Check it out here. Via BoingBoing.
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Prisoners as Waste: The Photography of Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan has spent his time making larger and larger photographic constructions to communicate the scale at which American society wastes its resources, its environmental future and its grasp on logic. In his effort to catalogue the linear and thoughtless waste of the US, he has progressed from crushed automobiles, to cell phone chargers, to polystyrene cups to American prisoners.
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1981 TV Report On Birth Of Internet News
“Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to see the day’s newspaper. Well, it’s not as far-fetched as it may seem.”
Check it out here. Via TechCrunch.
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BB Video: Glen E. Friedman, Skate + Hardcore Punk Photo-History
TODAY: we bring you part 3 of this conversation. This episode’s all about Glen E. Friedman’s early work documenting skateboarder culture, and the beginnings of American hardcore. Below, an image from the very first roll of color 35mm film Friedman ever shot, which he discusses in this video. Also in today’s episode: Glen shares the story behind the Circle Jerks “Golden Shower of Hits” album cover, which he also shot. His work was so much a part of these subcultures, which were in turn so much a part of my own formative years — so this episode means a lot to me. I hope you dig it.
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Archive of home recordings accidentally released to Napster – Boing Boing
Joshuah Bearman alerted me to David Dixon’s amazing audio archive website, which has links to audio files that people recorded at home and unwittingly sent to Napster.
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Last Testimony Of A Teen Age Dope Addict (MP3s)
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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Post-Punk’s Visual Chronicler: Interview with Laura Levine
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: From newspapers, to the White House, and beyond
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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The Day the Music Died: The End of Indie 103.1
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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seeing eye to eye – bookforum
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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In The Bag: How McDonough & Murph Roll
Covering a basketball game for Sports Illustrated takes a lot of planning, coordination, teamwork, and yes, equipment.
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The Inauguration: A Tale of Two Photos
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.
