Author: Trent
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Music Photographer Jim McCrary Dies at 72
Link: Jim McCrary, the former A&M Records staff photographer who shot the cover of Carole King’s Tapestry and other rock-and-roll albums, died on April 29, 2012, “of complications from a chronic nervous system disorder,” the Los Angeles Times reports. He was 72 years old.
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3ème tour, musique d’une campagne
Link: The Galerie Duboys knows how to take risks, and it shows in their new exhibition, 3ème tour, musique d’une campagne. The gallery has given five artists carte blanche to express their feelings about this season’s French presidential campaign, which came to a close last Sunday
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Horst Faas, War Photographer, Is Dead at 79
Parting Glance: Horst Faas Horst Faas, a prizewinning combat photographer with The Associated Press for nearly a half-century, died on Thursday. He was 79. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/a-parting-glance-horst-faas/?pagewanted=all Mr. Faas was a brilliant planner, able to score journalistic scoops by anticipating “not just what happens next, but what happens after that,” as one colleague put…
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LEICA APO-SUMMICRON-M 50 MM F/2 ASPH: THE NEW MILESTONE IN LENS CONSTRUCTION
LEICA APO-SUMMICRON-M 50 MM F/2 ASPH: THE NEW MILESTONE IN LENS CONSTRUCTION – Leica Rumors Solms, Germany (May 10, 2012) – Leica Camera AG presents a new milestone in the history of lens construction: the Leica APO-Summicron-M 50 mm f/2 ASPH. With the goal of creating a lens that fully achieves the opportunities offered by…
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Leica M9 Monochrom
Link: M Leicas are a niche product. Ignoring collectors for the moment, these cameras are for people who understand and appreciate the gestalt of rangefinder shooting. A digital M Leica is also old school, though having digital and old school in the same sentance may at first seem an oxymoron. Prime lenses, manual aperture ring…
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Horst Faas by Richard Pyle
Link: As chief of photo operations for The Associated Press in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Horst Faas didn’t just cover the fighting — he also recruited and trained new talent from among foreign and Vietnamese freelancers.
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Baby Riley
the life of m via Tumblr: https://thelifeofm.com/?og=1 Trisomy 18, the doctor said, is “incompatible with life.” The baby would likely die before birth. If she did live, odds were a coin toss that she would die in the first weeks and less than 1 in 10 she would live a year. She would not cry…
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Michael Von Graffenried à la Leica Gallery, NY
Link: The Leica gallery presents a must-see retrospective of the black-and-white and color work of the Swiss photographer, whose insolence is reflected in his attitude as much as in his images.
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Photography and Place
Link: In that sense, no photographic treatment of any place will ever be truthful. Too much will be excluded, and our brains would never be able to even process the infinity of images and information a truthful portrayal would provide.
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Tokyo-Ga : Ensemble c’est tout
Link: In solidarity with the recent events that have shaken Japan, the curator Naoko Ohta has conceived a large-scale photography project. One hundred photographers roamed the streets of Tokyo to take the pulse of this bustling metropolis turned gathering place.
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Tokyo-Ga : Invisible existences
Link: The second chapter of the project Tokyo-Ga is entitled Invisible Existences. Whereas the first chapter preferred distance, this chapter prefers closeness and black-and-white. In solidarity with the recent events that have shaken Japan, the curator Naoko Ohta has conceived a large-scale photography project.
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Anatomy of an iconic photograph
Chicago Tribune: Chicago news, sports, weather, entertainment – Chicago Tribune via Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/videogallery/70064061/Community/Anatomy-of-an-iconic-photograph#pl-70054208 James Janega interviews the Tribune’s Brian Cassella, who is the photographer behind the photo of a Chicago police officer punching a protester during the NATO summit.
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50,000 new visitors to cartoonist’s site results in an extra 23 books sold
Link: Cartoonist Lars Martinson submitted the first installment of the Kameoka Diaries to Reddit. As a result, his website, which gets about 100 visitors a day, had 48,342 visitors in a single day. He thought he might sell a couple hundred more ebooks than usual because of the new influx of visitors. That was a…
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Scott Scheidly’s “Portraits”
Link: Spoke Art Gallery is proud to announce the debut of Scott Scheidly’s “Portraits : a series of “fabulous” depictions of tyrants, dictators and popes” debuting this weekend at the fine art fair, ArtPadSF in San Francisco, CA.
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Sète 2012 : Christopher Anderson
Link: Christopher Anderson arrived in Sete during a Saint Louis celebration evening. He immediately mingled amongst the jousters, became one of them, became a “Knight of the Tintaine”
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Sète 2012 : Gilles Caron
Link: Born in 1939 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (France), Gilles Caron died at the age of 30 in April, 1970 on the N 1 road connecting Phnom Pen to Saigon. Just like Robert Capa, he is a legend in journalism and in photography
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Arrivals and Departures with Jacob Aue Sobol: Episode 3 – The Train
Link: Even though I am a photographer, I try to avoid being a voyeur. It has always been my ambition not only to look, but also take part in life, which can be quite frustrating, especially if you have a tight deadline. If I meet someone playing soccer in the street, I immediately feel like…
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Nine pros talk about the present and future economics of a photography career
Link: The photographers interviewed include photojournalists such as Ed Kashi of the VII Agency and Peter Van Agtmael of Magnum, fashion photographer Peter Stigter, Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian, and others
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Live Webinar with National Geographic: Electrifying Photography From Around the World
Live Webinar with National Geographic: Electrifying Photography From Around the World – PhotoShelter Blog What Photo Buyers Want: National Geographic’s Senior Photo Editor, Elizabeth Krist Tuesday June 5th, 2012 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT Simply put, National Geographic has the kind of photography that makes your jaw drop. This award-winning magazine is revered for its…