Author: Trent
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Celebrating 10 Years Of Digital M Photography – The Leica Camera Blog
Link: A wonderful time, it’s the birthday of digital M photography. We would like to take this significant anniversary to share a small but nice selection of M photographers and their images whom influenced digital M photography with their inspiring pictures: Max Malatesta, Ram Shergill and Alex Webb.
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Girl Power, Sexism and that Viral Hillary Millennial Selfie Swarm – Reading The Pictures
Girl Power, Sexism and that Viral Hillary Millennial Selfie Swarm – Reading The Pictures Where is the passion for Hillary, you ask? It’s there in that selfie swarm, plain as day. Just beyond the sexism. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2016/09/hillary-viral-selfie/ That doesn’t stop the critics, however, in this case C-NET, from using the photo to…
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FotoFirst — Philipp Gallon, a German in the US, Shows Us the Face of Rural America | FotoRoom
FotoFirst — Philipp Gallon, a German in the US, Shows Us the Face of Rural America As a European, Philipp Gallon found that much of America is very different than what the US is typically portrayed like in movies and TV shows. via FotoRoom: http://fotoroom.co/anthology-common-conversation-philipp-gallon/ 37 year-old German photographer Philipp Gallon presents his outsider’s view of…
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Inge Morath’s photographs featured in the book, Inge Morath: On Style.
The Unmistakable Style of Inge Morath, One of Magnum’s First Female Photographers Inge Morath may have frequently photographed well-dressed people and many figures of the fashion world, but to call her a fashion photographer would be… via Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/culture/2016/09/inge-moraths-photographs-featured-in-the-book-inge-morath-on-style.html Rather than “the seasonal changes of attire,” the motif running through Morath’s best work was,…
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Winning the White House – From press prints to selfies – The Eye of Photography
Link: “While professional press photographers continue to cover every campaign stop for major media outlets like their predecessors, they are now joined by thousands of amateur photographers,” adds Susan Carlson, Assistant Curator of ICP and van Dijk’s co-curator for Winning the White House. “With the rise of smart-phone technology and the rapid rate at which…
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Scarlett Coten wins Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2016 | Leica Rumors
Scarlett Coten wins Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2016 – Leica Rumors French photographer Scarlett Coten honoured with Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2016 for series of photos entitled ‘Mectoub’ (© Scarlett Coten): Winner of the Newcomer Award is photographer Clémentine Schneidermann with ‘The Unbearable, the Sadness and the Rest’ project (© Clémentine Schneidermann): The two winners…
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Bill Yates, Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink – The Eye of Photography
Link: The photographer’s iconic series of gelatin silver photographs were shot in 1972-1973 and for nearly 40 years, the project lay untouched in a box. At his family’s urging, Yates began to show the work and was met with immediate success, becoming a top 50 winner 2013 of PhotoLucida Critical Mass Award
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Todd Hido’s “Intimate Distance” – The New Yorker
Todd Hido’s “Intimate Distance” Hido’s images are sumptuous and full of things to look at, but they suggest untold tales and possibility. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/todd-hidos-intimate-distance The photographs gathered in Todd Hido’s new book, “Intimate Distance,” were made over the course of the last twenty-five years. During that time, Hido has worked on several substantial groups…
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On the Ground in Hurricane-Wrecked Haiti | TIME
On the Ground in Hurricane-Wrecked Haiti “Everything is broken and scattered for as far as the eye can see,” says Andrew McConnell via Time: https://time.com/4526988/haiti-hurricane-matthew-andrew-mcconnell/ Irish photographer Andrew McConnell was in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, for an assignment about education when forecasters started to track a powerful hurricane forming off of the coast of the…
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Franck Vogel, Transboundary Rivers : Will war for water happen? – The Eye of Photography
Link: Franck Vogel proposes a photographic itinerary to discover four iconic rivers, from the Brahmaputra to the Nile, the Colorado and the Jordan River. Brahmaputra becomes an economic and energy issues for India and China, which have engaged in a race to the construction of hydroelectric dams
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The Twitter storm by qconlineaudio | Free Listening on SoundCloud
via SoundCloud: It was a week that started with a fatal fire and ended with 6 high school football players taking a knee during the National Anthem. Our photos from both events garnered reaction on Twitter. In this week’s edition of the Talking Pictures Podcast we talk about what makes people react passionately on Social…
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Cops Have a Database of 117M Faces. You’re Probably in It | WIRED
Cops have a database of 117M faces. You’re probably in it A new report catalogues the sweeping scope and shoddy safeguards of U.S. law enforcement’s facial recognition tools. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2016/10/cops-database-117m-faces-youre-probably/ Currently the report finds that at least a quarter of all local and state police departments have access to a facial recognition database—either their…
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Guy Le Querrec, In Brittany – The Eye of Photography
Link: Magnum photographer Guy Le Querrec produced more than five thousand photos in Brittany between 1965 and 1980. This month, three exhibitions in Brest, Lannion, and Lorient and a book are paying tribute to this long-term work.
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FotoFocus, An alternative understanding of the documentary photograph – The Eye of Photography
Link: it might be forgiven if not every last one of the thousands of images presented quite fit the biennial’s theme, “the Undocument,” which is meant to explore, according to biennial literature, “alternative understandings of the documentary photograph—its claims to objective realism and simultaneous potential for pure fantasy.
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Simon Kossoff: The States Project: Kansas | LENSCRATCH
Simon Kossoff: The States Project: Kansas – LENSCRATCH Simon Kossoff is my neighbor. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas: a quaint but progressive college town situated at the base of Mount Oread, home to the University of Kansas. Kossoff lives in the Sunflower state but finds his inspiration on the road. I discovered his work two…
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When Photography Changed the World
When Photography Changed the World The ability of art to influence humanity’s collective consciousness has somewhat been masked in a veil of uncertainty. While it has been widely agreed via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/10/31/photography-changed-world/ With the increasing popularity and accessibility provided by digital photography, can a photograph actually create the sort of change that the masterful pieces…
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Sylvia Plachy: “I look for visceral connections” – The Eye of Photography
Link: I search to photograph people and places that carry some memory of another event and lead me, like stepping stones, back and forth in time and space, between dreams and reality. I look for visceral connections, a chemistry of sorts, an essence or spark, the spirit of the thing.
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Lewis Baltz, Nevada – The Eye of Photography
Link: The Joseph Bellows Gallery, in California, presents the entire portfolio of 15 black and white photographs created for Nevada by Lewis Baltz in 1977
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Attention all journalists: US border patrol agents can search your phones – Columbia Journalism Review
Attention all journalists: US border patrol agents can search your phones Award-winning photojournalist and filmmaker Ed Ou, who has covered the Middle East for over a decade, has worked under threat as a journalist in almost too many countries to count. Authorities in Turkey, Egypt, Somalia, Djibouti, and Bahrain have arrested or detained him at…