Interview: Alec Soth:
In this weeks long-overdue interview section, my compadre Daniel Shea interviews Alec Soth. Big ups to Daniel for this excellent and informed interview, check out his site if his name is new to you.
Category: Editor’s Choice
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Radovan Karadzic’s New-Age Adventure
Radovan Karadzic’s New-Age Adventure – NYTimes.com:
After acquiring his own Zapper and visak, Dabic grew professionally close to both Minic and Janjic. He came to spend vast swaths of time holed up in Minic’s office, a humble basement room where a desk was improvised from a bookcase set upon two chairs. Sometimes Dabic would sleep on a cot there. When Minic or Janjic would ask about Dabic’s history or his credentials, he’d be vague. He had lived in New York, he would say, but his marriage to his wife, who remained in New York with his children, had ended on an ugly note. Minic remembered that his friend maintained “four or five” cellphones and that they rang all the time. “He would always arrange to call everyone back,” Minic explained. “That’s why I thought he was a spy.”
But he wasn’t a spy. As Minic and Janjic (along with the rest of the world) were shocked to find out last July, their tall protégé with the eye-catching hairdo was Radovan Karadzic, the most hunted war criminal on the planet.
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Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1973)
AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1973)”:
I’ve been taking pictures when I was very young. I think I don’t remember what age. I started by painting and drawing and for me photography was a mean of drawing and that’s all. Immediate sketch done with intuition and you can’t correct it. If you have to correct it it’s your next picture. But life is very fluid. Well sometimes the pictures disappeared and there is nothing you can do. You can’t tell the person, oh, please smile again do that gesture again. Life is once, forever.
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The Lady GaGa Generation
Mostly True: The Lady GaGa Generation:
Making lasting images is a full-time job. There’s just no way to do great work if you’re a photographer only 40% of the time. You can’t do it if you’re worried about transmitting as soon as you have something that is “good enough”. That’s how standards get set, and now “good enough” is where the photojournalism bar is stuck.
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Readers’ Photos: Call Forwarding
Readers’ Photos: Call Forwarding – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
To judge from the response to our cellphone photo solicitation — 1,524 submissions before we closed the mailbox on July 2 — our readers are doing nothing but taking pictures with their mobile devices.
And what pictures. My colleague Josh Haner, who curated our gallery with an eye toward graphic composition, use of light and unusual moments, found 353 photos that he thought were worth sharing with a larger audience. Many entrants focused on the sky, capturing moody colors and striking cloud forms; exactly those fleeting moments at which one used to say, “I wish I had a camera right now.”
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The Press Photographer's Year 2009
2009 Results | The Press Photographer’s Year 2009:
Even with a reduction in the category totals we were delighted to have received more entries than last year. The jury spent two long days in total, working through the 7,877 photographs, both in slideshow form, and as C-type prints, laid out on the huge Olivier foyer floor at the National Theatre.
A final edit of 146 photographs has been made and 16 prizes have been awarded. What follows is the winners list and a web gallery of the complete edit that will feature in the exhibition at the National Theatre from 4th July until 31st August. This is “The Press Photographer’s Year 2009”. -
Russian Noir by Jason Eskenazi
Showcase: Russian Noir – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
In the last 25 years, you might have run into Jason Eskenazi in Haiti, Afghanistan, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine or Dagestan. He may have been photographing on assignment for Time or The Times, or working on projects financed by a Guggenheim or a Fulbright grant. Today, if you want to see Mr. Eskenazi, you don’t have to go farther than the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He’s the short, middle-aged man in the guard uniform watching the sunlight fall on the statues in the Greek galleries.
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15 Kopeks Amazing: a virtual look inside Moscow's Soviet Arcade Games Museum
15 Kopeks Amazing: a virtual look inside Moscow’s Soviet Arcade Games Museum | Offworld:
This started to make the rounds a few weeks back, but hasn’t gathered nearly as much attention as it should, for as outstandingly wicked as it is: you may have originally heard of Moscow State Technical University ‘Soviet Arcade Games Museum’ from an April 2009 Edge article that told the story quite well, but was accompanied by painfully tiny images.
But now, of all people, Art Lebedev’s design studio — the same creators as the OLED-driven Optimus Maximus keyboard [the same as was featured on, of all things, a 2007 cover of Edge] — has given the museum a full website makeover, complete with a growing collection of its games recreated and playable online. -
Showcase: A Magazine Worth Its Price ($25) – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
Showcase: A Magazine Worth Its Price ($25) – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
Gary Knight can’t help himself. He has to go against common wisdom.
When photo agencies were converging and getting bigger, he helped found VII, a collectively owned boutique agency that produces the finest photojournalism. When experts on popular opinion said that content wanted to be free and that audience attention spans were shrinking, he helped start Dispatches, an intellectual journal, in words and photographs, that costs $25 for each quarterly edition.
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I-Movix SprintCam v3 NAB 2009 showreel
CLICK NOTE: Watch it bigger at the Vimeo link and you’ll be blown away.
I-Movix SprintCam v3 NAB 2009 showreel from David Coiffier on Vimeo.
Here is the first SprintCam v3 showreel, made for NAB 2009 exhibition.
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Lovebryan Site Redesign
CLICK NOTE: Love to see a great photo site improved by design. This one really needed it. The old site was like a maze, though one well worth wandering.
Bryan Derballa:
Welcome to the new Lovebryan. I didn’t realize the site was so sprawling until I tried to redesign everything. It was a exhausting task, but I’m very happy to present the new site.
