Author: Trent
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Don McCullin at War – The New York Times
Don McCullin at War The legendary photographer counsels those seeking conflict: look close to home at the social wars being waged every day. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/don-mccullin-at-war/ The documentary film “McCullin” by Jacqui Morris had its American debut at the Museum of Modern Art this week, and an updated version of the book “Don McCullin”…
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Alice Wheeler’s Outcasts & Innocents: Three decades of music and culture in the Pacific Northwest (PHOTOS).
The Pacific Northwest in the ’90s Was More Than Just Nirvana When Alice Wheeler first came onto the Seattle scene in the early 1980s, most male photographers told her that her style of photography, especially the… via Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/culture/2015/11/alice-wheelers-outcasts-innocents-three-decades-of-music-and-culture-in-the-pacific-northwest-photos.html When Alice Wheeler first came onto the Seattle scene in the early 1980s, most male…
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The Secret Behind Anton Corbijn’s Signature Look | TIME
The Secret Behind Anton Corbijn’s Signature Photography Look A respected photographer and filmmaker, Anton Corbijn’s work goes on show in Berlin via Time: https://time.com/4103961/the-secret-behind-anton-corbijns-signature-look/ “I feel the imperfection is much closer to how life is than perfection,” Dutch photographer and filmmaker Anton Corbijn tells TIME in recent interview as a massive retrospective went on show…
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Facebook Photo Magic Can Send Your Pictures to the People Seen in Them
Facebook Photo Magic Can Send Your Pictures to the People Seen in Them Facebook is in the process of rolling out a new feature in its Messenger app called Photo Magic. Using facial recognition, it scans through your new via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/11/10/facebook-photo-magic-can-send-your-pictures-to-the-people-seen-in-them/ Facebook is in the process of rolling out a new feature in its…
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Bruce Hall: Immersed: Our Experience with Autism | LENSCRATCH
Bruce Hall: Immersed: Our Experience with Autism – LENSCRATCH Autism is not subtle. It is not vague. It pervades everything, surfaces everywhere. It blends into the woven strands of life, of reality, attaching itself so swiftly and completely that the entire world seems recast, reformed, reimagined, rewritten. No space, no concept is left untouched. Like…
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A Young Journalist Setting an Example for the Rest of Us – The Atlantic
A Young Journalist Setting an Example for the Rest of Us None via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/11/a-young-journalist-setting-an-example-for-the-rest-of-us/625865/ The point the photographer (Tim Tai) makes is that they’re all standing on public property, and just as they have a First Amendment right to protest, he has a First Amendment right to record what is going on. And,…
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Photojournalist Exits Prestigious Contest After Cloned Straw Discovered
Photojournalist Exits Prestigious Contest After Cloned Straw Discovered A photojournalist has withdrawn his entry from Australia’s most prestigious press photography contest after it was discovered that he had cloned out a via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/11/10/photojournalist-exits-prestigious-contest-after-cloned-straw-discovered/ The Walkley Foundation announced this week that News Corp photographer David Caird has voluntarily pulled out of the 2015 Nikon-Walkley Awards…
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Melissa Click: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com
Melissa Click: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Melissa Click, a communications professor at the University of Missouri, is facing criticism after confronting a student journalist covering protests there. via Heavy.com: https://heavy.com/news/2015/11/melissa-click-janna-basler-missouri-communications-professor-video-block-student-journalists-facebook-salary-photos-tim-tai-mark-schierbecker/ The professor, Melissa Click, is seen in the video telling a student photographer, Mark Schierbecker, he “needs to get out” of the…
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How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Video Views
How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Video Views In a Nutshell created this 5-minute video that offers a simple explanation of the problem of “freebooting” on Facebook, when copyrighted videos are ripped via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/11/11/how-facebook-is-stealing-billions-of-video-views/ “This number is made out of lies, cheating and worst of all: theft,” writes In a Nutshell. “All of this…
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#Mizzou: Media professor demands “muscle” to block student reporter from reporting protests / Boing Boing
Link: Melissa Click, an assistant professor of mass media, blocked Mr. Tai and yelled, “Who wants to help me get this reporter out of here? I need some muscle over here.”
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India’s Rising Tides and Temperatures – The New York Times
India’s Rising Tides and Temperatures Ghoramara and its sister islands in the Bay of Bengal are vanishing, their shoreline borders shifting, shrinking and sinking with rising temperatures and tides. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/indias-rising-tides-and-temperatures/ Jordi Pizarro had hardly reached the muddy banks of Ghoramara Island when he stumbled across a family struggling to hold up the…
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Life Along the Mosquito Coast – The New Yorker
Life Along the Mosquito Coast Like an archeologist, Guillaume Bonn has the urge to seek out and preserve whatever amounts to a legacy of the past in East Africa. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/guillaume-bonn-life-along-the-mosquito-coast Guillaume Bonn has called that eastern African coast the Mosquito Coast, because of the malarial curse shared by the four countries—Mozambique,…
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Perfect and Unrehearsed – The New York Times
Perfect and Unrehearsed (Published 2015) The ‘‘decisive moment,’’ in the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson and his stylistic followers, is a mysteriously precise collaboration with the world. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/magazine/perfect-and-unrehearsed.html Martin Munkacsi’s image, Cartier-Bresson said, inspired his own approach, showing him that ‘‘photography could reach eternity through the moment.’’
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Protester vs Photographer Rights: On That U. of Missouri VideoReading The Pictures
Protester vs Photographer Rights: On That U. of Missouri Video I offer these screen shots for the way they speak to the complicated mess surrounding visual access and photo coverage of news events today. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2015/11/protester-vs-photographer/ Knowing they, as well as the lay citizen, can do their own documentation and distribution, states, extra-state actors as…
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The Unsettling Future of Facial Recognition | PhotoShelter Blog
The Unsettling Future of Facial Recognition – PhotoShelter Blog The first time I witnessed a camera detect a face to aid the autofocus system, I was amazed. In part because the technology seemed magical and the highlighted rectangle tracking faces seemed like science fiction; in part because I seem to possess a talent for taking out-of-focus…
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Gordon Parks’s Harlem Argument – The New York Times
Gordon Parks’s Harlem Argument A look at Gordon Parks’s first photo essay for Life shows how editors’ choices of words and pictures can manipulate meaning. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/gordon-parkss-harlem-argument/ Fresh from assignments at Vogue and Glamour in 1948, Gordon Parks appeared one morning at Life’s New York headquarters, determined to show his portfolio to Wilson…
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Missouri student files complaint against Melissa “Muscle” Click / Boing Boing
Link: Professor Melissa Click says she can’t recall pushing University of Missouri student Mark Schierbecker, who recorded her calling for “muscle” to remove him from a campus protest. But Schierbecker says she did push him and he has filed a complaint with the with campus police
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9 Things to See at Paris Photo 2015 | TIME
9 Things to See at Paris Photo 2015 TIME selects the best of the annual French photo fair and festival via Time: https://time.com/4104732/9-things-to-see-at-paris-photo-2015/ Fresh from assignments at Vogue and Glamour in 1948, Gordon Parks appeared one morning at Life’s New York headquarters, determined to show his portfolio to Wilson Hicks, the magazine’s esteemed picture editor.…
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Why does real photography matter? – Kaptur
Why does real photography matter? – Kaptur The impact of selfies and computational photography on professional photography today. via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/why-does-real-photography-matter/ As the technology we use to make images changes, the way we make, use, interpret, and value images changes. What’s “real” today may not be “real” tomorrow; the debate over what’s “real photography” is…
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Death by a thousand likes: How Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web – Quartz
Death by a thousand likes: How Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web What do we lose when we get our news via social media? via Quartz: https://qz.com/545048/death-by-a-thousand-likes-how-facebook-and-twitter-are-killing-the-open-web “Go where the readers are” is what publications whistle to themselves as they slink by the graveyard of their inflexible or unlucky brethren. “Go where the…