Author: Trent
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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…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Life flourishes amid political chaos in Central Africa’s Chad – The Washington Post
Life flourishes amid political chaos in Central Africa’s Chad One photographer’s quiet portrait of an African society in the midst of political upheaval. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/11/12/life-flourishes-amid-political-chaos-in-central-africas-chad/ While the Chadian constitution defends the freedom of expression, the government has regularly restricted this right, and at the end of 2006 began to enact a system of…
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Full Bleed: Labyrinth | VICE | United States
Full Bleed: Labyrinth Jason Jaworski’s Labyrinth was created while traveling for 13 days through slums in the Philippines, accompanied by a group of little people. Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wd733w/full-bleed-labyrinth-v22n12 These photos are from Jason Jaworski’s Labyrinth, a collection he created while traveling for 13 days through slums in the Philippines. He was accompanied by a gang of…
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The Photo Collective Makes Its Comeback | TIME
The Photo Collective Makes Its Comeback The collectives Prime and Boreal have respectively added two new members via Time: https://time.com/4131705/photo-collectives-boreal-prime/ After the demise of the photographer-run cooperative agency Luceo in 2012, the collectives Prime and Boreal are moving forward confidently as they add new members.
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The brilliant photos of the first American female war photographer killed in action – The Washington Post
The brilliant photos of the first American female war photographer killed in action Dickey Chapelle, one of the first female war photographers, risked her life to capture history on world stages from Iwo Jima to the Vietnam War. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/12/03/the-brilliant-photos-of-the-first-american-female-war-photographer-killed-in-action/ The woman was Dickey Chapelle, a female photojournalist on assignment for Life magazine.…
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Magnum Photos Blog
Link: This is John Vink’s fourth of a 12 part project about the wide-ranging subject of rice in Cambodia. His comprehensive exploration will address such issues as seasonal growing cycle, religion, research, tradition, commerce, social and economic impact, climate change issues and more.
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A Photographer and a Publisher Talk about Drive-By Shooting — Vantage — Medium
A Photographer and a Publisher Talk about Drive-By Shooting What a photo might mean and what it might do via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/a-photographer-and-a-publisher-talk-about-drive-by-shooting-d5e6ae8d0f62 I guess I could justify what I do by saying I’m photographing people who don’t necessarily want to be photographed to show the world how dysfunctional and needy America is, but that’s kind…
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Fund Your Work: Manuel Ortiz Foundation Seeking Projects for $5,000 Documentary Grant
Link: The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film is accepting proposals for their $5,000 grants for a documentary photo project and a short documentary film. The deadline to enter is March 31, 2016.
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Photographers, Reps Push Back on Time Inc Contract’s Rights Grab (Update)
Link: The new contract, as written, eliminates space rates, grants Time Inc. broad rights to reuse assignment photos in affiliate brands and books, and reduces fees for reuse in related publications, books and foreign editions.
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Soul Boys, Ravers, and Pillheads: Sweaty Photos of Classic British Club Culture | VICE | United States
Soul Boys, Ravers, and Pillheads: Sweaty Photos of Classic British Club Culture We got a special selection of images from Lost in Music, an upcoming photography exhibition that charts the history of dance music and club culture in the UK. Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4wbkqn/40-years-of-uk-club-culture-288 Tomorrow, London’s theprintspace are launching Lost in Music, an exhibition that charts the…
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Ken Light’s What’s Going On? Is a look back at American during the turbulent 1960s and ’70s (PHOTOS).
Powerful Photos From America’s 1960s and ’70s Fourth of July celebrations can honor our nation’s founding while also reflecting on darker periods of history. In 2015, David Rosenberg wrote about… via Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/culture/2016/07/ken-lights-whats-going-on-is-a-look-back-at-american-during-the-turbulent-1960s-and-70s-photos.html Ken Light knew he would become a photojournalist on April 28, 1970. While studying at Ohio University, Light traveled to Ohio…
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TIME Picks the Top 100 Photos of 2015 | TIME
See the Top 100 Photos of 2015 TIME presents an unranked selection of the top 100 images of the year via Time: https://time.com/4124895/top-100-photos-of-2015/ TIME presents an unranked selection of the top 100 images of the year