via: A worthy list (and video recap): Videogum’s Best Viral Videos of 2010 – Boing Boing
Category: Editor’s Choice
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Best of 2010 – Our Favorite Photo Blog Posts of the Year – A Picture's Worth
To assemble a well-rounded “best-of” list, I asked the PhotoShelter staff (all 17 of us) and many of our favorite bloggers to contribute suggestions from stories that captured their attention during the year. The result, a list broken down into 9 different categories, is a collection of useful, inspirational, funny, smart, creative and simply brilliant posts that make us all a little bit smarter, and a lot more motivated to keep seeing, shooting, and sharing.
Link: Best of 2010 – Our Favorite Photo Blog Posts of the Year – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
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This Christmas Duckrabbit Does Not Want Your Donations | duckrabbit
This Christmas Duckrabbit Does Not Want Your Donations — duckrabbit
Is this what photography on the web is going to come down to? Nearly every week we see a new…
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2010/12/this-christmas-duckrabbit-does-not-want-your-donations/
I am being asked to to support photographers who message me on FACEBOOK to ask for contacts in Ethiopia because they want to ‘photograph malnutrition’. Wankers.
To support photographers who have their cameras stolen whilst grave digging for awards in Africa. Mentalists.
To support photographers who will end up offering their pictures to charities for free. Charities that won’t be able to use them anyway because the fetishization of suffering through aesthetic is a turn off to audiences.
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Mongolian Diptychs Tell of Profound Change: A Yin and Sim Chi Yin Talk About His Work – NYTimes.com
Mongolian Diptychs Tell of Profound Change
A Yin’s reward for living in a village of gers has been the chance to record a vanishing way of life in China. Sim Chi Yin interviews him.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/mongolian-diptychs-tell-of-profound-change/
A Yin is documenting his home province of Inner Mongolia. He is a self-taught anthropologist-photographer who has made it his mission to record the last of the nomads there. The phenomenal changes he captures tell the broader story of China’s transformation. Mr. Yin was cited by the National Geographic All Roads Film Project in 2007. Sim Chi Yin, a photographer and writer based in Beijing, interviewed Mr. Yin for Lens.
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my 2010 favorites…part 4 – Shooting from the Hip
Each year, I try to work on something different.
One year was a photo column, another year I worked on portraits and last year I actually used my strobe while doing on a story.
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Art & Photography: Nathan Harger | Feature Shoot
Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1976, Nathan Harger received his B.F.A. in photography from the Cleveland Institute of Art. He completed his M.F.A. in photography at Parsons the New School for Design in 2008.
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2010 in photos (part 2 of 3) – The Big Picture
2010 in photos (part 2 of 3)
As the year 2010 approaches its last few days, it’s time to look back on the previous 12 months. In the second third of 2010, a nearly unpronounceable Icelandic volcano wreaked havoc on European travel, South Africa hosted the World Cup, and while Russia
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12/2010_in_photos_part_2_of_3.html
The Massive Dev Chart app combines the world’s largest film development database from Digitaltruth Photo with an advanced multi-step timer, creating what is probably the best tool ever made for film development.
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Netflix: Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop
Streaming Today…Filmmaker Thierry Guetta had been casually documenting the underground world of street art for years, but when he encounters Banksy, an elusive British stencil artist, his project takes a fascinating twist. Unimpressed with Guetta’s footage, Banksy takes over filmmaking duties and Guetta reinvents himself as a street artist named Mr. Brainwash — and, much to Banksy’s surprise, immediately becomes a darling of the Los Angeles art scene.
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danny wilcox frazier – detroit | burn magazine
danny wilcox frazier – detroit
[slidepress gallery=’dannywilcoxfrazier_detroit’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Danny Wilcox Frazier A Detroit Requiem pla…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/12/danny-wilcox-frazier-detroit/
While I was in Detroit, 17-year-old Chaise Sherrors was shot and killed while giving a haircut on a porch. We met his mother, Britta McNeal. Britta was broken, often lost in memory while her eyes filled and sometimes tears flowed. From her porch, she stared across the street that ran in front of her humble one-story on the East Side. She stared at a half-burnt skeleton of a house, gutted inside and out, and a constant reminder of her misery. Britta’s grandson played in broken glass and garbage that littered the driveway of the abandoned house next door. Gang graffiti added the only touch of color to the black and gray left behind by a fire. Britta showed us the urn containing the remains of her 14-year-old son, De’Erion. He too was shot on Detroit’s East Side, killed a year before his older brother. After Chaise’s funeral, Britta will have two urns to decorate her mantel.
“I know society looks at a person like me and wants me to go away,” Britta said. “‘Go ahead, walk in the Detroit River and disappear.’ But I can’t. I’m alive. I need help. But when you call for help, it seems like no one’s there.”
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Crunks 2010: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections | Regret the Error
Regret the Error Archives – Poynter
Craig Silverman reports on trends and issues regarding media accuracy and the discipline of verification.Stories about errors, corrections, fact checking and verification
via Poynter: http://www.regrettheerror.com/2010/12/08/crunks-2010-the-year-in-media-errors-and-corrections/
This blog post originally stated that one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive. In fact, the statistic applies to black men who have sex with men.
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The Online Photographer: Cool Cameras from Westlicht
Cool Cameras from Westlicht
From the current Westlicht auction in Vienna, Austria— Zorki “Cut-Modell” counterfeit Leica 1920 Sanderson (English cameras like this come up on Ebay occasionally) Elmo Elmoflex IIIF Kern Sport-kamera 1952 Ilford Witness (best-ever camera name!) One of on
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/12/cool-cameras-from-westlicht.html
From the current Westlicht auction in Vienna, Austria—
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48 Years Up (and Down) at the National Geographic: William Albert Allard and David Alan Harvey – NYTimes.com
48 Years Up (and Down) at the Geographic
William Albert Allard didn’t play by the rules. But he cobbled together a half century with National Geographic. David Alan Harvey explores how.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/48-years-up-and-down-at-the-geographic/
The core of it is that I went out for myself. I went out there to satisfy me. Because I felt if I can satisfy myself, the magazine is going to benefit. I made a lot of mistakes. But I wasn’t afraid to fail. You can’t be afraid to fail and grow and get better. You’ve got to be willing to risk.
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For DecorMyEyes, Bad Publicity Is a Good Thing – NYTimes.com
A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web
Vitaly Borker welcomes customer complaints, saying they vault his business higher in Internet search results.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/business/28borker.html?_r=1
“What the hell am I supposed to do with these glasses?” she recalls Mr. Russo shouting. “I ordered them from France specifically for you!”
“I’m going to contact my credit card company,” she told him, “and dispute the charge.”
Until that moment, Mr. Russo was merely ornery. Now he erupted.
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The Online Photographer: Calcutta
Calcutta
Text and Photographs by Peter Turnley The first foreign trip I ever made as a traveling photojournalist was to India to cover the funeral of Indira Gandhi and the sectarian violence that followed her assassination by two of her Sikh…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/11/calcutta.html
The first foreign trip I ever made as a traveling photojournalist was to India to cover the funeral of Indira Gandhi and the sectarian violence that followed her assassination by two of her Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984. I had moved to Paris in 1978 and this first assignment in India would mark the beginning of a new way of life for me, one of almost constant travel to more than 90 countries these past 26 years.
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A Photo Editor – Clint Clemens Interview
Clint Clemens Interview – A Photo Editor
Clint Clemens is a pioneer in the world of commercial photography. His book is a who’s who of high end automotive and commercial clients containing many memorable campaigns from the 80’s and 90’s. I had the chance to interview him a few weeks back and I t
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/11/12/clint-clemens-interview/
Clint Clemens is a pioneer in the world of commercial photography. His book is a who’s who of high end automotive and commercial clients containing many memorable campaigns from the 80’s and 90’s. I had the chance to interview him a few weeks back and I think you will find his thoughts on the state of the industry fascinating.
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mental_floss » Talking Pictures: Times of Trouble
Found photos with writing on them.Unemployment, wars, terrorism, natural disasters — times are hard, there’s no question. But times have been harder. We’ve been through worse and bounced back. If nothing else, I hope this week’s Talking Pictures helps, in some small way, to put our own problems in perspective.
Link: mental_floss Blog » Talking Pictures: Times of Trouble
via: Boing Boing
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INTERVIEW: "Interview with Glen E. Friedman" (2010)
“If it’s not your life then get the fuck out” – A Chat with Glen E. Friedman (2010)
Jay Adams @ Glen E. Friedman
“So my advice is if you really love (art) keep doing it, and if it’s not your life then get the fuck out of it.”
By Daniel Rolnik, November 2010
D: You are known for using your Pentax k1000 camera, but what fi
via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/11/interview-interview-with-glen-e.html
Wide-angle lenses were kind of a necessity for me and my perspective, for skateboarding photos and then for music it was just the same. I like to be as close to the action and the intensity as possible, but still show some of the background or environment. And if you’re using a tight lens, you don’t see that. So, I like to be close but also show the peripheral vision of what a wide-angle lens does. I use wide-angle lenses most often because that’s the way I see.
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Art & Photography: Alain Delorme | Feature Shoot
Alain Delorme was born in 1979. He graduated from Gobelins in Paris with a degree in Photography. He also has a Master of Science and Technology in Photography from the University of Paris VIII. In this series, ‘Totems’, the composites are recreated on the basis of 6,000 images taken in Shanghai during two art residencies.
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F8 Magazine
Home – [F8]magazine
F8magazine online.
via [F8]magazine: http://www.f8mag.com/
Tara Inanloo has taken a series of self-portraits ‘to represent the different Iranian women inside myself’. Now she is in grave danger if she goes back to her country
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walter astrada – rape, weapon of war in eastern congo | burn magazine
walter astrada – rape, weapon of war in eastern congo
[slidepress gallery=’astrada_anthropographia’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Walter Astrada Rape, weapon of war in Eastern…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/11/walter-astrada-rape-weapon-of-war-in-eastern-congo/
In the eastern of The Democratic Republic of Congo, tens of thousands of women and young girls are being raped with impunity and extreme brutality by all sides in the conflict, civilians, militiamen, armed groups, foreign-armed groups and members of the Congolese Army.