I must say that I have never lived in a place that has flooded before. After the midwest rains finally stopped coming down, I was amazed at what parts of town looked like.
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I must say that I have never lived in a place that has flooded before. After the midwest rains finally stopped coming down, I was amazed at what parts of town looked like.
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The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization.
By Nicholson Baker.
sometimes it is the simple stark fact that makes you sit up straight for a moment, like this one from early in the book: “The Royal Air Force dropped more than 150 tons of bombs on India. It was 1925.” This, coming soon after an account of the proposed bombing of civilian targets in Iraq in 1920 (with Churchill writing: “I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes”), sets a theme for the book, which Baker will skillfully weave into the fabric of events mainly between 1920 and 1942 — that the bombing of villages and cities from the air represents “the end of civilization.”
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The REAL Photography Award exhibition will be on view at LP II Art Exhibition Centre in Rotterdam from 21 March – 4 May 2008. The exhibition will display the work of the 30 award nominees, including the six finalists. The exhibition is scheduled to travel to other countries later in the year.
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German photographer Hans-Christian Schink has won the first REAL Photography Award, which ING Real Estate presents biannually to an international photographer shooting nature, development or architecture. Schink received the €50,000 (about $77,100) prize at a ceremony in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on March 20.
Schink was awarded the prize for his black-and-white print of water and mountains, which he produced using a technique known as true solarization. The image is part of a series of 12 photographs depicting Earth’s movement.
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i seem to get the most energy going when i pair things down to what may seem like “nothing”…..which is, of course, in a Zen way, “everything”….i felt just like this back in 1989 when i “caught on fire” for what was to become the work in Divided Soul ….this period of work led to being nominated into Magnum by 1993….so, i know THE FEELING.. “the feeling” makes me get out of bed in the morning with the juices flowing KNOWING i am on to something….now is such a time….
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Judging in the Still Photography and Web categories of NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism competition will start Monday at the contest’s host site, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, FL, and it’s NPPA’s biggest Best Of Photojournalism contest to date.
“More than 4,000 people entered the contest, up more than 25 percent over last year,” NPPA executive director Jim Straight said. “There are more than 21,000 entries totaling over 58,000 individual items (photographs, clips, and Web sites). That’s up 3 percent over last year, with a 20 percent shorter entry period.”
Photographers from more than 140 countries entered this year’s Best Of Photojournalism competition, which has remained a free contest with no entry fees since its beginning.
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Alyson Fox likes doing things. In her case, ‘things’ mean drawing, taking pictures, designing clothes, making shop windows pretty – and probably one or two more ‘things’ since we last talked.
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New from director Errol Morris.
Is it possible for a photograph to change the world? Photographs taken by soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison changed the war in Iraq and changed America’s image of itself. Yet, a central mystery remains. Did the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs constitute evidence of systematic abuse by the American military, or were they documenting the aberrant behavior of a few “bad apples”? We set out to examine the context of these photographs. Why were they taken? What was happening outside the frame? We talked directly to the soldiers who took the photographs and who were in the photographs. Who are these people? What were they thinking? Over two years of investigation, we amassed a million and a half words of interview transcript, thousands of pages of unredacted reports, and hundreds of photographs. The story of Abu Ghraib is still shrouded in moral ambiguity, but it is clear what happened there. The Abu Ghraib photographs serve as both an expose and a coverup
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photo by Veronique de Viguerie
The French Association of Women Journalists (AFJ) and Canon France are launching, with Images Evidence, the eighth Canon Female Photojournalist Award.
The Award is open to professional women photojournalists of any age and nationality and is supported by Le Figaro Magazine. It is presented every year during the Visa pour l’Image Festival in Perpignan, France. Canon France grants the winning photographer €8,000 to help her complete a photojournalistic project.
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Sze Tsung Leong’s project Horizons is meditation on the vast and varied landscapes found in disparate parts of the world. His panoramic images, although often geographically dissimilar, are linked through a continuous horizon line that when viewed as a whole creates visual and thematic relationships between differing images.
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Matt Borruso creates stunningly demented portraits of ugly children. The garish candy colors vibrate, making these unfortunate kids equally nauseating and mouth watering.
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German photographer Frank Breuer, a disciple of the Becher’s and propagator of the Düsseldorf aesthetic, captures the sterility of industrial and commercial architecture. Stylistically, his images do not stray far from those of his mentors, choosing to appease rather than challenge the well established German aesthetic
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By MICHAEL KAMBER
Photojournalist Joao Silva and I jumped in a car and searched the streets. We found U.S. soldiers towing a damaged Humvee. It had been struck by a roadside bomb. Days later we were nearly knocked off our feet by the Red Cross bombing, which killed scores. Bodies were scattered across an entire city block.
Joao, myself and Dexter Filkins were set upon by a crowd and nearly killed as we covered the attacks that morning.
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Knowing my love for Black & White imagery, Nack pointed me towards some astonishing in-house talent, right here on W10. Yesterday I enjoyed an hour with Kelly Castro who gave me a glimpse into his very unique workflow. I’m not going to tell you everything about how Kelly gets his shots to jump off the screen, but I will showcase a few very cool steps. If you’re like me, the shots will inspire you far more than my words can.
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In honor of this tenth anniversary, we went back to a few PDN’s 30 photographers and asked them to once again share some advice with the next generation of photographers. We asked each of them: What is one of the most important lessons you’ve learned? How have your career goals changed? And, of course: What have you been doing lately?
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Every quarter we publish a fashion magazine similar to the T Magazine from the New York Times. The shoot consists of several days of shooting, weeks of meetings, editing and production, and the nail-biting time of waiting for the special section to arrive from the printer. The spring edition of LUXE, as it is aptly named, was produced around a theme of travel. Our resident painter created the background “destination” images. I spent a week photographing the models in the studio and edited down the take to a negotiable few. Then we dropped the cutouts on the page and arranged them to create compelling compositions that read well and received excellent feedback from the readers.
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Veteran Journalists Confess To Directing Photos. March 19, 2008.
Li Zhencheng graduated in 1963 from the Department of Photography of the Changchun Academy of Cinematography and later became a photojournalist at Heilongjiang Daily News. In the 1980’s, he went to teach at the Department of Journalism at the China People’s Police University. As a professional photojournalist, he had taken and preserved a large number of Cultural Revolution-era photos with the unique characteristics of those times.
On March 7, Li posted a photograph titled: Yet Another High Quality Well on his personal blog. He stated in very clear terms that this photograph had been directed and modified 35 years ago. “From the viewpoint of composition and lighting, this photo is quite perfect. In reality, there are many places in which modifications and forgery occurred. Back in those days, I was all for reasonably organization and modification. I advocated direction and alteration without giving any hints.” Li challenged his blog visitors to detect the flaws.
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Archie Lieberman roamed the world as a photojournalist. But he found fodder for one of his most memorable books on a farm nestled in the rolling hills of Jo Daviess County, a few hours west of his Evanston home.
Mr. Lieberman, 81, died of a neurological disease similar to Parkinson’s on Thursday, March 13, at Dubuque Nursing and Rehab Center in Iowa, said his wife, Esther. After many years in Evanston, he moved to a small farm near Galena in the mid-1980s.
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Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein, the subject of secret court proceedings in Iraq, still has not been told the charges against him, AP president and CEO Tom Curley said Tuesday.
Hussein has been held by the U.S. military for nearly two years as a security detainee, informally accused of working in collusion with insurgents. At his first hearing in the Iraqi court system on Dec. 9, a judge imposed a gag order on the participants. The AP and the U.S. military have maintained near-silence about the Hussein since then.
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I snapped a photo of this sticker in one of the restrooms at Ritual Coffee Roasters in San Francisco’s Mission District
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