Author: Trent

  • Play It Again, Sam (Re-enactments, Part One) – Errol Morris

    “So, how is it that you managed to be on the roadway that night?” The question was posed by a reporter from the Dallas Morning News. This was in 1988, during an interview about my recently released film, “The Thin Blue Line.” I had decided for the first time as a documentary filmmaker to use slow-motion re-enactments in my account of the wrongful conviction of Randall Dale Adams for the murder of Dallas Police Officer Robert Wood.

    The question seemed insane. The film was released in 1988. The crime occurred in 1976. Was this reporter suggesting that I had been out on the roadway with a 35-millimeter film crew the night of the murder, and just happened to be at the right place, at the right time to film the crime – over a decade earlier? Indeed, he was.

    Just so there is no doubt about this: I wasn’t there.

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  • Blek Le Rat Interview – Fecal Face

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    Think back to the year 1981, some of us were still pissing ourselves, or not even born. Rick Springfield was singing Jesse’s Girl, Blonde was rapping to Rapture, Regan was doing some acting in the White House and Blek Le Rat was painting the streets of Paris. Unknowingly becoming one of the first pioneer stencil artist of the modern street art movement. Often overlooked by more well known media savvy stencil artists, Blek Le Rat was clearly behind many of the styles we see in the streets today. Although much of Blek’s early work was in the streets of Paris, It was not long before he was traveling the globe and leaving street pieces at every stop, and he still is today. -Manuel Bello

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  • Space Invader : ekosystem.org

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    INVASION IN THE UK / INVASION BOOK #3

    160 PAGES
    8 X 10,5 Inch – 21 X 27CM
    2000 COPIES
    FRENCH / ENGLISH

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  • Toilet Paper Rolls and Pipe Cleaners – APAD

    This is great storytelling on so many levels. And it rocked me to the core this morning.

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  • Shoot! Interview: George Pitts

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    George Pitts is an industry mainstay, and a classy, classy gent. I mean, look at him!
    He was kind enough to answer some questions I had for him about this crazy photosphere we live in. Listen to him, he knows some stuff.

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  • A 3-D Viewfinder for a Shoebox of Digital Photos

    In contrast, Viewfinder, which is not yet a commercial service, is intended to make it simpler for users to manually “pose” photos in services like Google Earth — to place them in the proper location and at the original angle at which they were taken. It is already possible to insert photos into Google Earth, but the researchers said their goal was to make the process an order of magnitude simpler.

    “We specify that a 10-year-old should be able to find the pose of a photo in less than a minute, and we are convinced that this goal is achievable,” the researchers noted in a progress report today.

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  • SportsShooter.com – Grayson West

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    Here’s selection of Portraits from The Canyons Resort 11th annual pond skimming in Park City

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  • foto8 – Through the Rift

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    J Carrier

    Kenya’s Election Aftermath.

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  • Top Knots: The New School of Wedding Photography Contest 2008 Gallery

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  • The Year in Pictures: We Love the 90s!

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    Andrew Bush’s “Vector Portraits” – a series of pictures taken while driving alongside his subjects on the freeways of California – was one of the signature photographic series of the 90s. Original, perceptive, and with a fresh conceptual twist, it explored the culture of Los Angeles as well as issues of privacy, danger, and the American dream

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  • China photojournalist Tom Carter gives first exclusive interview.

    I’m out pounding the pavement from 6am to 6pm every day, learning about the culture through observation and interaction. Many photojournalists cover their assignments as quickly as possible so they can remove themselves from the elements, but I revel in the elements. I don’t have any technical or artistic preconceptions to my photos. The whole idea of spending an hour setting up a shot and then photoshopping it to death afterwards is not what I’m about. I just capture life as it is, then move on. If the picture turns out crooked, so what! Life is crooked!
    I have no desire to make something palatable, even if it means not getting on Getty. On the other hand, any of my photos that are considered beautiful I credit entirely to my subjects. They are the ones who deserve the compliments.

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  • Jenn Ackerman » Trapped: Questions Answered.

    Thank you all for your support, emails and comments. I have had received a lot of emails about my project, Trapped: Mental Illness in Prison, with similar questions so I decided to answer them here.

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  • The Season – A look at Chicago through lens

    I believe that there are two camps of philosophy when it comes to sports photography.

    One side likes action photos and the other prefers reaction shots.

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  • Living Large – – PopPhotoMarch 2008

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    With his first feature, Dawn of the Dead (a remake of the classic zombie film), on the horizon, Zack Snyder was reading a 2001 story in American Photo about fashion photographer Bruce Weber’s use of the Littman 45 Single, a new camera designed for handheld 4×5 shooting. He bought one of the first Littmans off the line. The camera appealed to him not just because of its parallax-corrected rangefinder focusing — it is fundamentally a re-engineered, rebuilt Polaroid 110 — but by the bigger image it produced. “Shooting individual sheets of film was a bit of a deal, but the transition was really easy for me,” says Snyder. “The camera became second nature.”

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  • Stadium Visitor Told To Hit Delete Button

    Like a number of people without a ticket to the Nationals’ game Sunday, Mark Butler stood outside the left field gate and watched some of the historic event from a distance. The Minnesota man carried a digital camera to capture the memories. For a member of the Uniformed Division of United States Secret Service, Butler captured too much.

    9NEWS NOW photographer Greg Guise was rolling when an officer approached Mark Butler. Butler said the officer demanded he delete any pictures that showed the security checkpoints set up to screen fans for the visit by President George Bush.

    “It’s kind of like not being in America,” Butler said. Butler said he was not interested in the security but in the part of the stadium you could see beyond the gate.

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  • Will Work For Passion

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    Kevin German

    Now I want to preface this graph by saying this is not a slam on newspapers or the photojournalists who work for them. I can name one hundred newspaper photographers who excel at their job and more importantly make incredible contributions to communities all over the world. The fact is that newspapers were a comfort for me.

    I could go years without ever coming up with my own projects. The assignments kept pouring in like clockwork. Then one day it hit me. I didn’t care any more. Didn’t care about the people I was photographing. Didn’t care about the issues that were important to them. I didn’t care. I had sold my soul to be comfortable and I couldn’t look myself in the eyes any more.

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  • Thirty Years Between Dates: Behind The Scenes With Cal State Fullerton's Trip To The Big Dance

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    Matt Brown is the team photographer for Cal State Fullerton. Thirty years ago the Titans were the darling of the NCAA Tournament, making an improbably march to the Sweet 16. He accompanied the team to their 1st Round game against Wisconsin in the Omaha Regional

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  • On the Trail with Shana Wittenwyler… and Hillary, Barack, Ron and John

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    Shana Wittenwyler sort of fell into covering the primary season. That is to say, she started off in Florida shooting Ron Paul at the Republican debates for the Irish rag Mongrel Magazine, and ended up a few months later on assignment for the New York Times in Missouri. In between, she was in Iowa and South Carolina.

    A freelancer, Shana didn’t mean to cover politics in particular. Since her graduation from the Photojournalism program at ICP in 2005, she has shot all sorts of features for Fortune, The Chicago Tribune, Rolling Stone, and others. But she found herself hooked on the excitement of the Ron Paul campaign when in Florida, and didn’t want to stop taking pictures. So, as a photojournalist, and a broke one at that, Shana started to contact politics editors. But you can’t call up the Times and tell them you want to shoot a campaign for them; it’s a hell of a process.

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  • Lightroom 2: The deuce is loose!

    I’m delighted to announce that the beta of the 64-bit-native Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 has been posted to Adobe Labs.  Everyone is free to download the beta build and try it for 30 days, while customers of Lightroom 1.x are free to use it for the duration of the beta program.  (This build expires Aug. 31.)

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  • Ask Sports Shooter: Demystifying Photo Mechanic's Code Replacement

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    At the recent Sports Shooter Academy V, one of the most discussed items during the Digital Workflow Class was the use of Photo Mechanic’s code replacement. Sports Shooter asked Camera Bit’s Kirk Baker to explain this cool, time-saving feature.

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