Author: Trent
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CNN.com's Attrocious Use of Photography – A Picture's Worth
Link: CNN.com is my browser homepage, and I don’t know why.
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AMERICANSUBURB X: "Mary Ellen Mark with Constance Sullivan (1990)"
Link: To me a documentary photographer and a photojournalist are pretty much the same thing. If I have to make a distinction, I’m more a documentary photographer–I don’t think of myself as a photo-essayist in the sense that I always consider a magazine layout when I’m working. To be honest with you, I always try…
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Free Webinar This Wednesday For NPPA Members
Link: The National Press Photographers Association has partnered with PhotoShelter to bring NPPA members a “Virtual Short Course” in an exclusive series of five free Webinars for visual journalists, and the first Webinar in the series is this Wednesday.
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PhotoPlus Expo 2009: Testing the Leica S2 (Sample Images)
Link: When I received an invitation to shoot with a final version of the elusive 37.5-megapixel Leica S2 at an off-site studio during PhotoPlus Expo last week, it didn’t take me long to juggle my already-packed schedule to make room to test this $23,000 (body only) camera.
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Brooklyn – Valery Rizzo
Link: Valery Rizzo is a New York City based stock, assignment and fine art photographer, specializing in lifestyle, food and travel imagery, with a focus on portraiture and green living.
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U.S. Continues Quagmire-Building Effort In Afghanistan
The Onion | America’s Finest News Source. The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America’s finest news source. via The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/u_s_continues_quagmire_building?utm_source=onion_rss_daily According to sources at the Pentagon, American quagmire-building efforts continued apace in Afghanistan this week, as the geographically rugged, politically unstable region remained ungovernable, death…
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Rob Galbraith DPI: Phase One releases Capture One 5 PRO
Link: Capture One 5’s simple, intuitive interface is designed to achieve superior image quality through easy-to-use tools that match a professional photographer’s daily workflow requirements. Now pros can: – Get an instant view of image focus with the Focus tool and use the Focus Mask for quick selection of images with correct focus;
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They Shoot Porn Stars Don't They – Susannah Breslin
Link: At a certain point during the week that I spend in Los Angeles, interviewing adult performers, visiting adult movie sets, and talking to those who live in the San Fernando Valley and work in the adult movie industry about the recession and how the current state of the economy is affecting their livelihood, I…
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Worth a Look: Fader’s Double Vision, America Now | dvafoto
Link: To coincide with their latest photo special issue the good people over at The Fader magazine have released a new photo website called Double Vision.
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PhotoShelter Friended Facebook – A Picture's Worth
Link: So I’m pleased to announce our new “Post to Facebook” feature that we released today. You might say to yourself, “well, duh!” And I would nod my head in agreement. It’s an obvious piece of functionality. But we’ve done it slightly differently than other implementations that I’ve seen.
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seconds2real | street photography collective
Link: Seconds2real is an international collective of street photographers. Our muses are found predominantly in public spaces. We document every day life on streets and squares, always on the lookout for the special in the usual – the mystery of the moment. For us a good street photographic image encloses the following qualities: – interesting…
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Hidden Dangers of New Technologies « Vincent Laforet’s Blog
Link: I’ve been debating a bit on whether or not to post this one – but I think it’s necessary – so here goes: New technology is great. It allows us to do things we previously thought impossible. It empowers us to “push the envelope” if you will. That being said, one of my favorite…
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Edward Burtynsky: Economies of Scale – PDN
Link: Whether photographing a shoe factory in China, a rock quarry in Portugal or a copper mine in Chile, Edward Burtynsky creates images that use scale to consider the magnitude of human industry and its impact on the landscape. “To me, what’s interesting as art is to begin to define that theater of industry that…
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Magnum / Georgia | dvafoto
Link: Magnum’s Georgian Spring is an incredibly interesting project, and possibly a turning point in photojournalism and agency work. This book, print, web and ‘multimedia’ project is a collaboration with the Georgian state itself, funded by the Ministry of Culture and arranged by photographer Thomas Dworzak with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, and independently curated by…
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Two Way Lens: Tierney Gearon
Tierney Gearon MW What inspired you to start taking photographs, and what is the primary inspiration for you to keep working in this field? TG I used … Link: http://2waylens.blogspot.com/2009/11/tierney-gieron.html I used to model and when I was working I started document everything with my camera ! I am a very visual person . When…
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Celebrity Photographer Dies At Lady Gaga Event
Link: Celebrity shooter A.J. Sokalner, admired by his colleagues for his quiet, passionate commitment to photography, collapsed Monday night
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Interview: Damon Winter
Link: Yes. I can’t imagine any other place to go. As long as I’ve had a camera it has been my dream to work at the New York Times. It seems in the current climate of photojournalism the New York Times is the best place to be right now.
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Bruce Davidson's True Grit – The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast A smart, speedy take on breaking news and opinion in politics, media, entertainment, and more. via The Daily Beast: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-05/bruce-davidsons-true-grit/ From photographs of a Brooklyn gang to civil-rights workers in the South, a powerful new retrospective celebrates 50 years of a groundbreaking social documentarian
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Thoughts of a Bohemian » This ain’t Wal Mart
Link: Like Wal Mart, or Target, Getty works for Getty and no one else. They are not around to help this and that photographer, or collection. They are not around to help the MLB or NHL or Soccer league succeed in their photography needs but the opposite. All images providers to Getty are in to…