Author: Trent
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Whitney Houston: It’s also photojournalism
Link: “The answer, as always is complicated and its a good example of Celebrity and Photojournalism today and how those two pursuits clash, on one hand how do you, as a photographer, pursue your passion and make money in todays harsh reality of what financially drives our industry, celebrities. “
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Snapshots of the Instagram Debate, Through the Lens of Professionals
Snapshots of the Instagram Debate, Through the Lens of Professionals Many bold-name photographers are reflecting on their use of Instagram after the company announced a controversial change in its usage policy. via The 6th Floor Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/snapshots-of-the-instagram-debate-through-the-lens-of-professionals/ “there is ‘less of a barrier’ when it comes to taking pictures with an iPhone, as opposed to…
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Daddy’s Girl
Link: “Definitely his ‘Daddy’s Girl’, Addison has struggled greatly with the loss of her father.”
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Patrick Chauvel : a living legend
Link: “‘You look like you’re dead.’ Those are the opening words of Les pompes de Ricardo Jésus. Pierre Schoendeoerffer utters them upon seeing a photo of Patrick wounded in Cambodia in April 1974. Patrick wrote these lines as he took his first steps on crutches after taking ‘a bullet in the left ankle, a present…
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In Memoriam: Photographers Who Died in 2012
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ In his series of carefully composed black-and-white images that make up “La Famille,” the French photographer Alain Laboile has captured a sense of youthful freedom through the exploits of his six children.
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My Unforgettable Moments from 2012
Link: Here are 20 unforgettable moments I experienced as a photographer for The Salt Lake Tribune in 2012.
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Cultural Study (4 Photos)
Link: The latest exhibition at Los Angeles’s Annenberg Space for Photography presents the work of several photographers who have depicted indigenous cultures throughout the world, from Tibet to Borneo to South Dakota. Called “No Strangers: Ancient Wisdom in a Modern World,” the group exhibition is guest curated by Wade Davis, an anthropologist, author and photographer…
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Inside the Anonymous Hacking File on the Steubenville ‘Rape Crew’
Link: conflicting reports over an already emotional case became that much more complex today when a WikiLeaks-style site dumped new information about team boosters, the town sheriff, and the alleged “Rape Crew” online — information rounded up, of course, by the anonymous hacking collective known as Anonymous.
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Stroll
Link: The photos of North Korea gathered here were taken recently either by official photographers, or by western photographers under government supervision, their subjects and movement restricted
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Photojournalist launches watermark app for iPhone photos
Link: “Photojournalist John D McHugh has released a watermarking app on the iPhone in a bid to root out copyright theft on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram “
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Oliver Weber Social Life at Beach
Link: Oliver Weber’s new and evolving series Social Life at Beach is a wonderful documentary about the touristic life on the Spanish Canary Islands
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Jean-Christian Bourcart Camden
Link: Absurd, all I did was search the web for the most dangerous city in the USA. I wanted to find that strange energy given off by places where rules and social constraints have been abolished or weakened. A sense of freedom mixed with the excitement of danger. Also I wanted to understand and witness…
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These Photos of a Kidnapped FBI Agent in a Gitmo Jumpsuit… Were Sent by Iran?
Link: U.S. officials now believe that individuals working with the government of Iran delivered pictures and video of Robert Levinson — the ex-FBI agent who disappeared in Kish, Iran, in 2007 — to Levinson’s family in 2011
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Ruby Ray :Punk Passage
Link: Punk Passage: A Tragicomic Romp Thru the Hardcore Axis of the SF/LA Punk Scene 1977–1981 is Ruby Ray’s first book, as DIY as anything she has ever done. Produced exclusively as a photographic ebook, Ray has amassed the best of her archive into an explosive volume of style, angst, and art set adrift the…
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Fuji X100s Manual Focus and Auto Focus Demo and Explanation Video
Fuji X100s Manual Focus and Auto Focus Demo and Explanation Video | Steve Huff Hi-Fi and Photo Fuji X100s Manual Focus and Auto Focus Demo and Explanation Video – (keep scrolling for video) The new Fuji X100s has been announced and today I was able to play with one at CES. First off, it looks…
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A Conversation with CPC 2012 Winner Olivia Locher
Link: I think that the first step to a good photograph is the importance that it holds to the creator. I myself find that I am attracted to artists who follow their vision and make work without consideration for an audience
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Video Interview with Master Photo Retoucher Amy Dresser
Video Interview with Master Photo Retoucher Amy Dresser – PhotoShelter Blog Master photo retoucher Amy Dresser may have gotten her start with famed photographer Jill Greenberg, but today she works for a whole host of clients from Playboy to Barbie. And while her talents are in high demand, Amy humbly claims her work is relatively simple: remove…
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Weekly World News erects paywall, ending debate forever
Link: The Weekly World News will move its website behind a paywall, the company announced Wednesday. Listen up, information-needs-to-be-free types: When Bat Boy goes behind a paywall, there’s nothing left to discuss.
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Intriguing Portraits of Town Wanderers
Link: Photographer Allison Sexton earned her MFA in Photography from Yale University and was the 2010 recipient of the Tracey Baran Award. She currently lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts and is an adjunct professor at the Greenfield Community College. She recently talked to us about Striders, a series of intimate portraits connecting photographer and subject.
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How I Learned to Stop Loving the DSLR: Review of the Sony RX1
How I Learned to Stop Loving the DSLR: Review of the Sony RX1 – PhotoShelter Blog Ever since I purchased my first DSLR in 2001, it’s been difficult to go back to a point-and-shoot camera because of the poor image quality. In the film days, there wasn’t as drastic a difference between SLR and point-and-shoot…