Author: Trent
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Elliott Erwitt: My Photographic Home
Link: Elliott Erwitt is one of the most prestigious photographers in the world. His unique collection “Personal Best for Leica by Elliott Erwitt” contains 50 iconic images that have stirred many people
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McCULLIN
Link: The power of both book and film come as much from McCullin’s words as from his photographs. Don expresses his utter disgust, not only with war but with his having to cover it, as a “war junkie.” The film is unforgiving of mankind, most of all of McCullin himself. He loathes the idea of…
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Confusing coverage in breaking news may be SOP, but censoring tweets is new
Link: “It’s not unusual, particularly in a police standoff, for police to ask television in particular to be very careful in their live coverage,” Poynter’s Al Tompkins told me in a phone call. “But this idea of Twitter coverage is a new wrinkle.”
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Extra! Extra! (7 Images)
Link: In 2011 Justin Maxon added the Cliff Edom “New America Award” to a fast growing list of accolades he started accumulating as a student at San Francisco State University. The photographs, made in Chester, Pennsylvania, a small city just south of Philadelphia along the Delaware River, were from an ongoing project exploring a community…
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Sony DSC-RX1 Review
Link: It’s the best lightweight digital camera I’ve ever put my hands on, and has become one of my favorite cameras ever. Period
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Jerome Delay: Photographing Mali’s Invisible War
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ everything was designed from the start to make access virtually impossible. To get to Sevare, I had to bypass five Malian checkpoints, whose instructions were to turn back any and every journalist on the road. Thanks to Land Cruisers and GPS,…
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Photographer Embarks on the Great American Road Trip and Finds a Country “Falling Short”
Link: Traveling the country I repeatedly came across social centers that had shifted into parking lots, main streets that had disappeared in the wake of big-box stores, and a country where soda has become cheaper than water. I encountered figures that walked with their heads hung low past a landscape covered in signs for credit…
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Nikon Announces New 24.1-Megapixel D7100 Digital SLR without Optical Low Pass Filter
Link: “With no optical low-pass filter, the designers have opted for the highest possible resolution we can have,” said Nikon’s Steve Heiner. “I haven’t seen any more moiré with this camera than I’d see in any normal camera.”
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Canteen Magazine’s Naked Judging: Learning from Rejection, Part 2
Canteen Magazine’s Naked Judging: Learning from Rejection, Part 2 – LENSCRATCH End of Day. Valley of Fire. NV © David Gardner Tonight at 7pm in Brooklyn, New York Canteen Magazine’s Naked Judging 2012 Photography Contest moves into the final live round, where three jurors, Arnold Lehman, director of the Brooklyn Museum, Amy Stein, photographer, and Susan Bright, author and curator will discuss…
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Marcus Reichmann: Leaving The Comfort Zone
Link: In the process of shooting a story there is a lot of gut instinct involved. I try not to think about it too much. Of course I do what I do and how I do it for a reason but to deal with that for me happens after the making of a picture and…
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Reports From the Field Death as a companion
Link: What drives photographers to risk their lives reporting on violence on the other side of the world? Their reasons are often complex, a combination of personal and political conviction, a desire to go beyond impersonal abstraction: “War, Battle, Death.”
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A Love Letter from Emilie Blachère to Rémi Ochlik
Link: I loved it when you made lists of things you wanted, and you wanted a Harley Davidson, a loft, a 22,000-euro titanium Leica, and you would say to me, “What? You work at Paris Match, don’t you?”
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Empty Yet Intimidating ‘Corridors of Power’ Photographed by Luca Zanier
Link: Corridors of Power opens together with Richard Ross’ Juvenile in Justice at Anzenberger Gallery in Vienna on March 14 and will remain on view through April 30, 2013.
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What a Journalist Is Obliged to Do
Link: That is a major no-no, and he knows it. Not just in the field of journalism, though it’s especially bad there. You don’t do that. Not ever. Not for internal use or for publication. It is plagiarism, plain and simple.
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Mike Brodie by Elizabeth Avedon
Link: Mike Brodie doesn’t have a telephone, so I asked someone who asked someone who asked Mike Brodie a few questions about how he taught himself to make such well-crafted photos when he had never trained as a photographer
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2013 LUCEO Student Project Award Announced
Link: We are excited to announce the 4th annual LUCEO Student Project Award. We have great things planned for the students entering this year
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Notes from the Field: Camille Lepage in South Sudan
Link: I met Camille Lepage in South Sudan last September when I arrived in the capital Juba on a two-week assignment. She had already been living there for almost two months, and has been there ever since. She was a huge help in getting our story off of the ground and filling my colleague and…
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After Puberty and Before Manhood: A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ Mike Brodie is easy to mythologize. A teenager-turned-supertramp (a term usually used to describe youth eager to travel by whatever means and for as little money as possible) Brodie became a darling of the photography world after carting an old Polaroid…
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a week with wolverines | espn the mag
Link: I love gigs for this client. ESPN the Magazine sent me to follow around the University of Michigan Wolverines for a week as they entered a tough stretch of games in the BIG 10. I travelled with the team on their plane and buses all day with full access to whatever we needed. Quite…