Author: Trent
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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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Getty's John Moore On Covering "Epic" Battles In Libya, Arab World
Link: Yet despite his relative comfort with being on the frontlines, Moore told the NewsHour from his hotel room in Cairo that his latest assignment -a six-week trip that took him to the uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain and Libya – might have been his most dangerous. Moore recorded the interview for us after sneaking out…
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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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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.
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Sygma Archive Update: Kiss Those Images Goodbye
Link: “I inform you that rights of photographers to make claims for their pictures and slides has expired,” a spokesman for the trustee, Stéphane Gorrias, told PDN in an e-mail last week.
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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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Sundance winner Danfung Dennis previews Condition ONE – a DSLR based virtual reality system for news
Link: Fresh from his documentary win at Sundance, cinematic journalist Danfung Dennis has announced some early details of his next project called Condition ONE. It looks to be a highly immersive virtual reality video project which Danfung hopes will allow viewers to experience news events more fully.
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Square Magazine
Link: It’s no secret that I am drawn to the square format. I shoot with a Hassleblad, a twin lens Rolleiflex, a Holga and Diana. I recently purchased a Mamiya 7ii but haven’t fully welcomed it into the fold. So when I see square images, especially stunning ones, it makes me very happy. The other…
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Federal Courts Worry Your Smartphone Might Be a Bomb
Federal Courts Worry Your Smartphone Might Be a Bomb Smartphones could offer journalists and the public an easy and cost-effective method to provide online updates of court proceedings — which is why it’s always been frustrating that many federal jurisdictions don’t allow the devices into courthouses. Now, thanks to a newly issued document, we know…
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The Press Benghazi gang club
Link: It’s a slice of the lives of the war correspondants in Libya that we are publishing execptionally in spite of the weak definition of the photographs. It’s Patrick Baz, special correspondant photographer for the Agence France Presse (AFP/Getty Images) who gave us his log book in images.
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Beth Dow Looking for paradise
Link: Beth Dow is an american photographer who uses historical references and traditional processes to address contemporary issues of land use and our experience of time.
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D*Face Comes to L.A.: British Street Artist Talks Advertising, Skating and Punk Rock
Link: It’s not so much important that you don’t know who I am. I don’t find that it’s necessarily relevant that you know who I am regarding my work. The work speaks for itself and if it doesn’t speak for itself, then I like people to reinterpret it for their own views. I don’t know…
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2011 Houston Center for Photography Fellowship
Link: I was ecstatic to find out that I am the recipient of the Houston Center for Photography’s 2011 Juried Fellowship for my ongoing Sun City: Life After Life essay. My talented colleague Matt Eich won the same honor in 2010 for his “Carry Me Ohio” essay.
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Photographer #264: Paul D'Amato
Photographer #264: Paul D’Amato Paul D’Amato, 1956, USA, could be called a “creative non-fiction” photographer. His photographic practice has always inhabited a space betwe… Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/04/photographer-264-paul-damato.html Paul D’Amato, 1956, USA, could be called a “creative non-fiction” photographer. His photographic practice has always inhabited a space between two contradictory truths.
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Competition: The photographs of the year
Link: The APPPF (Agency for the Promotion of Professional Photography in France) has organized the third edition of the photographic prize called “Photographs of the Year”. A competition reserved for European professional photographers meant to promote their know-how.
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finally…the finals
Link: After photographing the Chicago Golden Gloves for what seems like months, the first of three nights of finals finally arrived Thursday night.
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Mule Design Studio’s Blog: Getting Comfortable With Contracts
Link: When Erika Hall and I started Mule 10 years ago, we were excited to be able to take on our own clients, make our own decisions, and most of all, to do what we loved to do. One task that didn’t break our top ten was negotiating contracts. And while it still isn’t our…
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Conversations about Photobooks: Lesley Martin
Link: Aperture has long been a – maybe the – beacon of American photobook publishing. It’s pretty much impossible to talk about photobooks without at some stage running into a book that was done by Aperture. Lesley Martin, Publisher of the Aperture Book Program, has worked on a huge number of those books, often pushing…
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A Few Thoughts on Black & White Conversion… Past and Present
Link: As I was working through scripting for the Black & White segment of my new Adobe Camera Raw series, it just kept getting longer, and longer and longer. Which, uhhhh…. might be a problem. But as I dug into it, it also just kept getting more and more interesting! So I decided to spin…
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Associated Press photographer found "unharmed" in Libya
Link: Altaf Qadri, an award-winning Associated Press photographer who had gone missing in Libya on Saturday, has been found “unharmed”