Author: Trent
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Daniel Milnor: Photographing On His Own Terms
Link: When I look at the best documentary photographers in the world they are very selective about the information they put out. I don’t see Sebastiao Salgado on social media seven days a week. I don’t hear from Salgado every eight minutes. I know when I see something from him it has been well-planned, well…
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Parts 6 and 7: Stephen Crowley’s Smoke-Filled Rooms
Looking Back on the Party Conventions In his sixth and seventh installments of the continuing series “Smoke-Filled Rooms,” the Times staff photographer Stephen Crowley examines the recent presidential nominating conventions. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/an-eye-on-the-party-conventions/ In the sixth and seventh installments of the “Smoke-Filled Rooms” series, Stephen Crowley, a staff photographer at The New York Times,…
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The Ethics of the dying/dead Ambassador Stevens photo
Link: Thursday September 13, many news organizations published a photo of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens either dead or dying after a terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. The ethics Committee would like to add some thoughts to the discussion on the use of this image
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Revisiting The Desert Cantos (5 Photos)
Link: The Robert Mann Gallery in New York City recently moved to a new location and to inaugurate the space, they are hanging a retrospective of Richard Misrach’s landscape and fine-art photography
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All your images are belong to us
Link: In a nutshell, it works like this. Social media platform ( think Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter) install an API on their site that allows to automatically recognize if an image posted belongs to a photo agency (Getty Images only for now). Upon recognition, the usage is either approved or denied. If approve, a license fee…
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Peter DiCampo’s iPhone Photos of Africa
Picturing Everyday Life in Africa Too often the subjects of images of Africa seem to be reduced to symbols — viewers do not encounter them as fully rounded human beings, rarely seeing journalistic images of the middle class, artists or the cultural heritage of African countries. Peter DiC via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/picturing-everyday-life-in-africa/ I realized that…
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If Google yanks “Innocence of Muslims,” will it lose its DMCA Safe Harbor?
Link: The New York Times has assembled a “Convention Storybook,” an online archive of the conventions. It is a look inside the two parties as they sought to articulate their platforms and positions as clearly as possible, without interference. The “Convention Storybook” presents photographs by Stephen Crowley, Josh Haner, Todd Heisler, Doug Mills, Damon Winter,…
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Photokina 2012: Canon takes to the cloud with Project 1709
Link: Canon has announced the launch of the public beta of its Project 1709, a cloud service that will allow users to store, share and organise their images from any device, anywhere in the world
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Photaumnales 2012 : Guillaume Herbaut
Link: “Before me a snow-covered bridge, the bluish evening light and wolf tracks, I have spent the past two days in the forbidden zone of Chernobyl. I didn’t want to come back here. I had spent too much time here between 2009 and 2011. Four months losing myself in this forbidden place that has fascinated…
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Kaunas Photo 2012 : Andreas Meichsner
Link: A silent observer, Andreas Meichsner documents in his photographs how the vacation we’ve been waiting for so long has a way of plunging us into an agonizing tug-of-war between the contradictory need for freedom on the one hand and security on the other
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Make Videos, Get Money: Vimeo’s CEO on Why Creators Should Get Paid
Link: “Tip Jar,” is exactly what it sounds like. Vimeo users can invite viewers to make donations and get 85 percent of the cash (Vimeo takes 15 percent, in part to cover transaction costs. In comparison, Kickstarter takes five percent). The second and more exciting feature is a “pay-to-view” setup which will allow users to charge…
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Hasselblad defends Lunar’s concept and pricing
Link: Hasselblad has gone on the defensive, answering the criticism the firm’s compact interchangeable lens camera system has received since its introduction at Photokina yesterday. Olivier Laurent speaks with Hasselblad’s Luca Alessandrini and Peter Stig-Nielsen
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Towards the 21st Century: The full collection
Link: This past week, bloggers have explored “photographers who have demonstrated an openness to use new ideas in photography, who have taken chances with their photography and have shown an unwillingness to play it safe.” As could be expected, the proposed artists were as diverse as the nominators themselves, essentially demonstrating that just into the…
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Mathias Depardon: Black Sea Postcards
Link: After a turbulent year spent covering uprisings in the Middle East, Mathias Depardon traveled to the Black Sea to reconnect with a more lyrical strain of photography
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Why I’m okay with photos of the dead.
Link: I’m not sure what we gain by keeping these deaths obscured from view. If anything, it can leave us with the unreal sense that life is somehow free of fatal consequence.
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Alejandro Cartagena Interview
Alejandro Cartagena Interview by Jonathan Blaustein I recently spoke with Mexican photographer Alejandro Cartagena, who’s based in the battle-torn city of Monterrey. His work has been awarded and honored like crazy the la… via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2012/09/26/alejandro-cartagena-interview/ I recently spoke with Mexican photographer Alejandro Cartagena, who’s based in the battle-torn city of Monterrey. His…
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Edouard Boubat, icônes et inédits
Link: The Parisian Galerie In Camera will exhibit through November 3, 2012, twenty prints by Édouard Boubat. Entitled Icônes et inédits, the exhibition brings some of Boubat’s most famous photographs together with lesser known work.
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Poulomi Basu’s Photos of Women Serving the Border Security Patrol
On India’s Border, a Changing of the Guards In 2009, Poulomi Basu learned that India was recruiting women for its patrol of the border with Pakistan. Inspired, she followed this new paramilitary force through training and after, resulting in the project, “To Conquer Her Land.” via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/on-indias-border-a-changing-of-the-guards/ Photographer Poulomi Basu said she got…
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TSA Confiscates Camera, Deletes Footage of Checkpoint
Link: Despite the TSA admitting on its own website that there is no law which prevents people from filming TSA checkpoints, a man traveling through San Juan airport in Puerto Rico had his camera confiscated and footage deleted.