Author: Trent
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AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: "Interview with Joel Meyerowitz – Creating A Sense of Place" (1990)
An Interview with Joel Meyerowitz – Creating A Sense of Place “There is a dawning awareness that you feel good in this place. Something here makes you attentive, brings you to an awakened state. But you can’t know that beforehand.” Interview by Constance Sullivan, from Creating A Sense of Place, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990 CS: Why…
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Canon Professional Network – The state of web documentaries
Link: Press is dead. Photojournalism is dying. TV is boring. No future? Well, not yet, maybe… Let’s think again and try a few solutions to improve our ways to inform people and communicate…
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How Will The End Of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers?
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/themes/common/assets/onn_embed/embedded_player.swf?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2FDEATH_OF_NEWSPAPERS_ARTICLE_2_26.jpg&videoid=101088&title=How%20Will%20The%20End%20Of%20Print%20Journalism%
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Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere
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/themes/common/assets/onn_embed/embedded_player.swf?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2FBULLSHIT_STORY_ARTICLE_3_5_10.jpg&videoid=101180&title=Breaking%20News%3A%20Some%20Bullshit%20Happening%20S Under the terms of the debt takeover, Colony Capital will help Leibovitz market her photographs, the Financial Times reported.
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A Photo Student › Visura Magazine Issue 8
Intro Website of visual Artist James Pomerantz Link: http://www.aphotostudent.com/2010/03/08/visura-magazine-issue-8/ Lots of nice work on display in the new issue of Visura Magazine from Institute for Artist Management photographers including Joshua Lutz, Simon Norfolk, Paul Shambroom, Jodi Bieber and Rob Hornstra:
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PDNPulse: New Creditor Takes Over Leibovitz's Debt
Link: Under the terms of the debt takeover, Colony Capital will help Leibovitz market her photographs, the Financial Times reported.
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Tatiana Plotnikova | 100Eyes
Link: “The Bathers” Photographs by Tatiana Plotnikova Balbuki is a very ordinary village in Pskov Region, one of many small regions in western part of Russia. The local farmers who have lived and worked this land are being gradually being replaced with summer residents from nearest towns, and a lot of customary traditons are…
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War photographer: a dangerous idolatry « PhotoPhilanthropy
Link: Recently, I’ve been thinking about war photography, and the moral arguments that commonly support it. I’ve been seeing people use those arguments to advocate for certain practices in photography in general, and I think there are problems with that.
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World Press Photo 2010 – soundscapes
Link: The winner of the World Press Photo Award 2010 was Pietro Masturzo’s photograph of a group of women shouting from a Tehran rooftop in protest at the Iranian presidential results. To be sure, this is not what the photo shows (how could shouting be shown anyway?), this is what we are told that it…
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Vanishing China | PDN Photo of the Day
Link: On a 2006 trip, Ryan Pyle decided to focus his camera on the disappearing culture of China’s remote western Xinjiang province. He says, “The culture is vanishing before my eyes. Each time I return something is missing—a market, an old shop full of blacksmiths, a local mosque. This cultural fabric will be lost forever.”…
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PDNPulse: Whitney Biennial Artist Copies Harry Benson’s Michael Jackson Pic
Link: Benson contacted O’Grady, who lives in New York, to question her unauthorized use of his image. According to Benson, she told him she is “a conceptual artist.” “What it is,” says Benson, “is conceptual plagiarism.”
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Photography – Top Ten of 2009 – National Geographic
Link: Editor Chris Johns picks his favorite photos published in 2009.
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PDN: What Makes A Good Mentor?
Link: Who was your mentor? Many responded with stories of experienced photographers who had generously shared their knowledge and thoughts about photography, creativity, how to run a business or simply how to make a life as a freelance photographer. We learned that in taking the time to teach a fellow photographer, they not only helped…
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AMERICAN SUBURB X: INTERVIEW: "Extending the Frame: An Interview with Susan Meiselas" (2006)
Link: As for “new documentary,” I find some of these approaches of interest, particularly the focus on a more distanced “aftermath,” rather than “decisive” moments of engagement. I still feel the dividing line is when photographers re-enact, which is closer to the tradition of docudrama than reportage. Sometimes it is very effective but defining the…