Author: Trent
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Leica M9: Extended range – BJP
Link: One year after first testing the Leica M9, Jonathan Eastland finds there’s still room for improvement from this “nearly perfect” digital rangefinder. But short of some adjustments to body shape and JPEG reproduction, the greatest development has been the introduction of the Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 ASPH
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The Dissenting Photographer Or How American Photographers Turn To Intelligence In Times Of Intransigence « The Spinning Head
Link: An European photo editor I met at Visa Pour L’image some years ago pointed out that there was very little in the way of dissident and critical photography in America. Recently the same question came up in a conversation with students at a social science institute in India. I think that this is too…
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Rebuilding Lives in Former Soviet Lands: The Work of Bruce Haley – NYTimes.com
Rebuilding Lives in Former Soviet Lands “Sunder” is a collection of photographs by Bruce Haley documenting the former Soviet republics. Mathew R. Warren describes its origins. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/rebuilding-lives-in-former-soviet-lands/ “Sunder” was released last week. Fifty-five black-and-white photographs depict a people and a landscape in flux. The haunting images, which were taken in various countries…
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Returning to the Leica Rangefinder Fold
Link: The disease progressed quite rapidly. The initial infection, the X1, occurred in August. By September a Leica M9 was on order and the fever was beginning. By October, a 35 mm Summilux ASPH joined the M9 and from then on it was all downhill. The fever only abated after I’d picked up a bunch…
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Elegy to a Small Idaho Town: Steve Davis Photographs His Hometown – NYTimes.com
Elegy for a Small Idaho Town On return visits to American Falls, the small Idaho town where he grew up, Steve Davis found a sadness that he was moved to document, Michael Itkoff reports. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/elegy-to-a-small-idaho-town/ “American Falls seems to be dying a death that is as slow as it is unspectacular.” Steve…
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A Photo Editor – Nina Berman Interview
Nina Berman Interview Jonathan Blaustein interviews Nina Berman for us: JB: I was in New York in June, and I had a meeting at the Whitney with a curator and I had about 15 minutes to kill, so they let me go upstairs to … via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2011/03/07/nina-berman-interview/ Has it made the world…
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Photography is Personal | Luceo Images
Link: While I’ve known it before to some degree, it has become increasingly clear to me that I am creating the family images I make to leave a record for my daughter. To know where we’re headed we have to know where we come from. Hopefully some day these photographs can serve as a foundation…
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12 Must See Stories about Covering Conflict – MultimediaShooter
Link: 12 thoughtful, harsh and heartfelt stories around the subject of war. Stories whose content and multimedia delivery should not be missed.
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Brian Lanker, 64, Loses Brief Battle With Cancer
Link: Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and filmmaker Brian Lanker, a newspaper and Life magazine, National Geographic, and Sports Illustrated photographer whose book “I Dream A World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America” was one of the most successful photography books ever, has died at his home in Eugene after battling pancreatic cancer for less than…
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Amid Japan’s Devastation
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ TIME contract photographer Dominic Nahr is documenting the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Nahr, represented by Magnum, arrived one day after the 8.9-magnitude quake, and spent the first night with several other journalists on the floor of…
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Photographer, journalists deported from Yemen
Link: Yemeni authorities are cracking down on journalists and photographers as Marco Di Lauro, a Reportage by Getty Images photographer, tells BJP he was detained and deported from the Middle-Eastern country
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Tyler Hicks, Lynsey Addario, Two Other NY Times Journalists Missing In Libya
Four New York Times Journalists Are Missing in Libya The Times said Wednesday that editors were last in contact with the missing journalists on Tuesday morning. via Media Decoder Blog: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/four-new-york-times-journalists-are-missing-in-libya/ The missing journalists are Anthony Shadid, the Beirut bureau chief and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting; Stephen Farrell, a reporter…
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Mitch Epstein Wins the Prix Pictet Photography Prize
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ On Thursday, Prix Pictet named Mitch Epstein’s American Power, a stunning series on fossil fuels and renewable energy use in the U.S. this year’s winner of the group’s third photography prize for environmental sustainability. The theme of this year’s competition was growth, which…
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Two weeks to go for Street Photo Awards deadline
Link: The awards are divided into two categories – the Student Award and the International Award.
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How to Sell Prints – A new, free guide from PhotoShelter
Link: Our new guide is aimed at people who want to sell photos. Entitled “How to Sell Prints,” it’s a free 44-page guide that will walk you through different aspects of selling prints from product selection to pricing to fulfillment.
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Three more journalists missing in Libya, four held by Libyan government; four NYT reporters have been freed
Link: AFP journalists Dave Clark and Roberto Schmidt and Getty images photographer Joe Raedle have not been heard from since Saturday morning.
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Google Books Settlement Rejected
Link: Saying the deal goes “too far,” a federal judge Tuesday rejected Google’s proposed legal settlement with book publishers, an accord that would have paved a path toward digitizing the world’s books.
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Three More Missing Journalists Released By Libya
Three missing journalists have been released by the Libyan government in Tripoli and they’re exp
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My Lai massacre photographer admits he destroyed pictures
Link: This story’s a bit old, but it’s the first I’ve encountered it. Ron Haeberle, US Army photographer during the Vietnam War, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 2009 that he took photos of soldiers in the act of killing during the My Lai massacre but destroyed the negatives.