Author: Trent
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AFP v Morel case to be judged in September
AFP v Morel case to be judged in September – 1854 Photography Three years after Daniel Morel entered litigation against Agence France-Presse and Getty Images over the unauthorised distribution of some of his images, a trial date has been set. On 16 September, a jury will be asked to rule on some of the outstanding…
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Crazy Comparison – Leica M, Sony RX1 and Fuji X100s
Crazy Comparison – Leica M, Sony RX1 and Fuji X100s | Steve Huff Hi-Fi and Photo Crazy Comparison – Leica M, Sony RX1 and Fuji X100s You all asked for this so here you go. I have three sets of images here, all full size direct from RAW from each camera without any PP, just…
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In-Depth: The New Fujifilm X100s
Link: My prediction: this will be the personal, auxiliary camera of many a working photographer and photojournalist. Heck, it’ll be the prime body for many, as this is a camera you could build a career on
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Frédéric Huijbregts: Show must go on!
Link: On March 24 or 25, 2012, Frédéric Huijbregts took his own life, “aware that his illness would gradually rob him of his sight,” according to the Nogent Citoyen newspaper.
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Christian Cravo
Link: Judges Nancy Andrews, Zach Wise, and Jonathan Quilter said “Memphis Poverty masterfully tells an important American story in a non-traditional way, bypassing the literal translation of poverty to strike the soul. The artful blend of documentary moments, poetry, music, cinematic shooting and editing craftsmanship moves our art of storytelling forward in a dramatic way.…
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Hi, In The Past 2 Years, You Have Allowed Me To Kill 70,000 People (by Bashar al-Assad)
Link: As a side note: I do think it’s actually interesting that everyone knows how many people I’ve murdered, and yet nothing has happened to me. Don’t you think that’s interesting? In the 21st century? Anyway, I think it’s interesting.
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Aurélien Chauvaud Journeys
Link: Aurelien’s work is about projecting imagination upon existing situations. He’s interested in producing images at the boundary of documentary photography and a world of his own
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Photo Journal: Rich Clarkson
via NPPA: one of the media coordinators came over to me saying, “Your strobe exploded and this stuff is falling on all those people behind you! What should we do?” Everyone in those stands was watching us, and I said, “Don’t look up!” I think he had come to tell me to stop using the…
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Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive
Distance & Desire: Encounters with the African Archive via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/distance-desire-encounters-with-the-african-archive The “Distance and Desire” series juxtaposes historical photography from southern and eastern Africa with the work of African and African-American artists who engage with the ethnographic archive
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NYT’s front-page Instagram: Maybe not the end of photography
Link: So yes. That was me in the locker room bathroom shooting portraits of the New York Yankees players with my iPhone.
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Ackerman Gruber
Link: Limiting the edition size does help you sell a few more photographs—except in the case of your most popular photographs. Which are the ones that will make the lion’s share of whatever money you’ll ever earn from print sales
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Dominic Nahr: Recording History for Posterity
Link: When covering a news event, I think the goal is always to give an account of what is going on in a way that gives the viewers a sense of being there. I did not have access to the front line fighting I tried to capture everyday life in the towns and cities I…
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The Ethics of Street Photography
Link: If you take a photograph of someone and that person confronts you about it, how do you react? The most common response from photographers appears to be that provided you’re in a public space you can take any picture you want. That’s true, at least in a legal sense. But it does not really…
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Why I Terminated My Contract With Getty
Link: Getty is allowing CafePress to choose from their thousands of Royalty-Free* images and authorizing them to sell those photographs on mouse-pads, coffee mugs, and other products all around the world, free of commitment. CafePress only owes Getty money on every individual item sold, essentially putting these photographs on consignment, thus allowing CafePress to increase their…
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Collection 101
Link: Leica M Monochrom is ideally suited to explore the relationship between light and shadow
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Syria in Ruins
Syria in Ruins via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/04/syria-in-ruins/100488/ The following photographs come from across Syria, taken over the past six weeks, showing just some of the devastation in Aleppo, Deir al-Zor, Homs, Deraa, Idlib, and Damascus
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Live Through This by Tony Fouhse & Stephanie MacDonald
Lån med betalingsanmerkning – Slik blir du kredittverdig – lpvmagazine.com Lån med betalingsanmerkning – Slik blir du kredittverdig En betalingsanmerkningRead More via lpvmagazine.com: http://lpvmagazine.com/2013/04/live-through-this-by-tony-fouhse-stephanie-macdonald/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LaPuraVida+%28LPV+Magazine%29 We had many, many talks about whether what we were doing should be made public in a serialized way. I was much more worried about it that she was. I didn’t…
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CENTER AWARDS: Gallerist’s Choice Awards: 1st Place Winner: Bryan Schutmaat
CENTER AWARDS: Gallerist’s Choice Awards: 1st Place Winner: Bryan Schutmaat – LENSCRATCH CENTER’s Gallerist’s Choice Juror, Lauren Panzo is the Director at Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York. Lauren selected Bryan Schtmaat to recieved the 1st place Award for his evocative project, Grays the Mountain Sends. Tomorrow we will feature 2nd and 3rd place winners Brandon Thibodeaux and Donna…
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Michele Palazzi wins Environmental Photographer of the Year Award
Link: Italian photographer Michele Palazzi has been named the 2013 winner of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management’s Environmental Photographer of the Year Award for an image shot in the Gob desert of Mongolia