Here’s the second essay I worked on in David Alan Harvey’s essay class at Look3.
This essay is one that’s all about mood and only mood.
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Author: Trent
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Second Look3 Essay from David Alan Harvey’s class | Waitin' On a Moment – by Tim Gruber
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Was photo a racial stereotype?
“An absolutely disgusting photo,” said Darlene Tye, a transplant from California who is especially sensitive to how Southerners are depicted in the media. The missing teeth and what she described as unkempt attire reinforced a stereotype about people from the South, she said.
Valerie Cox objected to the photo for other reasons. After attending the concert with friends, she went to Jacksonville.com and was disappointed to find only five photos, and nothing like she expected.
“I was shocked to see the main photo representing the festivities was of an older African-American man who was missing most of his teeth,” she said. “There were thousands of other people in attendance who better represented the crowd. As an African-American, myself, I feel insulted,” Cox said.
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Access to Life
In Access to Life, eight Magnum photographers portray people in nine countries around the world before and four months after they began antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Paolo Pellegrin in Mali, Alex Majoli in Russia, Larry Towell in Swaziland and South Africa, Jim Goldberg in India, Gilles Peress in Rwanda, Jonas Bendiksen in Haiti, Steve McCurry in Vietnam and Eli Reed in Peru
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James Nachtwey Opens Up At LOOK3 Festival
“When you see so much pain and so much sadness, do you feel you still have the capacity to love?”
That question drew oooohs as it was asked by Time’s MaryAnne Golon to photographer James Nachtwey. His answer drew a thunderous standing ovation.
“Witnessing pain and sadness is an act of love,” he said.
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Sao Paulo: Art Protest – Josh Spear
During the show, the group went on a rampage using spray paint as artillery, bombing the school with their cryptic-like tags, even spraying officials in the face who tried to stop them. It was chaos and now, after the event, school administrators are thinking about pulling Rafael Augustaitiz’s financial scholarship.
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Adorama Camera sponsors SportsShooter Student Portfolio Contest
I don’t know about you, but I’ve never seen or heard of a student photo contest that has a prize list like this.
Thanks to our newest sponsor, Adorama Camera, the SportsShooter.com Student Portfolio of the Year contest has a suite of impressive prizes. We are calling this list “The Essentials,” and it contains all the tools to have when you’re starting to get serious about photography.
As the Grand Prize awarded to the 2008 Student Photographer of the Year, one talented student member of SportsShooter.com will win the whole list.
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Thomas Malthus Redux – Is Doomsday Upon Us, Again?
And again, Thomas Malthus, a British economist and demographer at the turn of the 19th century, is being recalled to duty. His basic theory was that populations, which grow geometrically, will inevitably outpace food production, which grows arithmetically. Famine would result. The thought has underlain doomsday scenarios both real and imagined, from the Great Irish Famine of 1845 to the Population Bomb of 1968.
But over the last 200 years, with the Industrial Revolution, the Transportation Revolution, the Green Revolution and the Biotech Revolution, Malthus has been largely discredited. The wrenching dislocations of the last few months do not change that, most experts say. But they do show the kinds of problems that can emerge.
The whole world has never come close to outpacing its ability to produce food. Right now, there is enough grain grown on earth to feed 10 billion vegetarians, said Joel E. Cohen, professor of populations at Rockefeller University and the author of “How Many People Can the Earth Support?” But much of it is being fed to cattle, the S.U.V.’s of the protein world, which are in turn guzzled by the world’s wealthy.
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Strobist: A Father's Day Reminder: Shoot Your Kids
Long-time viewers of this site will likely be familiar with San Francisco-based reader Jason Lee’s long-term project photographing his two daughters, Kristin and Kayla.
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PHOTO HISTORIES > The Life and Times of Albert Hardy (1913 -1995)
Bert Hardy was the star troubleshooting photojournalist on Picture Post, Britain’s most influential picture magazine. But a story he shot in 1950 during the Korean war seemingly precipitated its decline and fall. On the eightieth anniversary of the launch of the mass-market weekly Graham Harrison turns back the pages of photographic history and looks forward to a reassessment of Hardy’s career.
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U.N. criticises "excessive" Congo crackdown on sect | Reuters
Released late on Friday, it sharply criticised a campaign in February and March by Democratic Republic of Congo’s security forces against the ethnic-based political and religious movement Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) in western Bas-Congo province.
From bases in the province the BDK has waged a campaign to re-establish the pre-colonial Kongo kingdom in parts of Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Angola and Gabon. Authorities accuse its members of violent protests and killings carried out in the name of popular justice.
The U.N. human rights investigators’ report said police used heavy machineguns, grenades and small arms against BDK members armed mainly with wooden weapons and “magical” talismans. It put the number of people killed at least 100, much higher than the death toll of 27 given by the Congolese government.
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Long-exposure shots in St Petersburg, Russia turn people into ghosts – Boing Boing
Alexey Titarenko’s “City of Shadows” is a series of haunting, gorgeous long-exposure shots of street-scenes in St Petersburg, Russia
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Mr. Brainwash Bombs L.A.
Aficionados of Los Angeles street art might recognize the now-familiar work of one “Mr. Brainwash,” a.k.a. MBW, a.k.a. Thierry Guetta, a French filmmaker turned graffiti provocateur. Over the past few months, Mr. Brainwash images have become ubiquitous in greater Hollywood, evolving from the Banksy-style black-and-white stencils of a guy wielding a movie camera to repurposed reproductions of Elvis, Hendrix, Gandhi and other cultural icons, including the giant spray-paint can rebranded, à la Andy, as Campbell’s Tomato Spray. These MBW specials are wheat-pasted up and down the La Brea corridor, the Miracle Mile, Melrose, Fairfax . . . anyplace with an unadorned utility box or blank wall.
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Washington Post’s “Doctored” Photo is a Non-Scandal / Jossip
It turns out this photo of Tiger Woods in the Washington Post, which Photoshop Disasters fingered for being a doctored image, is actually not a photo editor’s bungled work
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PhotoshopDisasters: Washington Post: Unlikely
Aren’t newspapers supposed to not do things like this? (I mean real newspapers, not National Inquirer or the British tabloids.) Isn’t there some sort of oath of journalistical ethics that they have to swear or something?
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Andy Biggs and Banana Republic Go WIld – Shoot The Blog
PhotoShelter photographer Andy Biggs is passionate about African Safaris and animal imagery, and it shows in his work. Biggs recently landed a big deal with Banana Republic; they’re using his images in stores, on billboards and in window displays as part of their Summer 2008 advertising campaign. The images are all black&white, and are calm and classy; this is a thinking-man’s safari. Biggs was lovely and cooperative and answered all my questions about his work, and gave me the dirt on the Banana Republic deal.
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The Weakerthans: "Tournament of Hearts"
The Weakerthans have posted the new video from their acclaimed 2007 album, Reunion Tour.
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No Wave, a Brief, Noisy New York Moment That Still Echoes – NYTimes.com
Of all the strange and short-lived periods in the history of experimental music in New York, no wave is perhaps the strangest and shortest-lived.
Centered on a handful of late-1970s downtown groups like Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, DNA and James Chance’s Contortions, it was a cacophonous, confrontational subgenre of punk rock, Dadaist in style and nihilistic in attitude. It began around 1976, and within four years most of the original bands had broken up.
But every weird rock scene — and every era of New York bohemia — eventually gets its coffee-table book moment. This month Abrams Image is publishing “No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980,” a visual history by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley.
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