I also came across this uncredited biography of Winogrand on the Temple University website. I thought it was worth copying whole, but if you have to skim, don’t miss out on John Szarkowki’s final quote. As always, he said it better than anyone.
Check it out here.
What Is This?
An almost-real-time, behind-the-scenes look at the assigning, writing, editing, and designing of a Wired feature. You can see more about the design process on Wired creative director Scott Dadich’s SPD blog, The Process. This is a one-time experiment, tied solely to the Charlie Kaufman profile scheduled to run in our November 08 issue.
Check it out here.
David Letterman and Pee-Wee Herman? The two greatest minds of the century coming together. I feel lucky to have lived in their time.
Check it out here.
I don’t really comment on anything I post here at The Click, but this is important: Why can’t I get a region 1 DVD of the BBC series Look Around You?!
I can’t recommend this highly enough.
Technically the images were very, very good. In fact, I’d say there has never been an Olympic games photographed at such a consistently high level.
Unfortunately, this high level of imagery is due more to the improvements in camera technology, not by any advancement in the vision of the photographers themselves.
Check it out here.
Forty years on from the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague, we meet Josef Koudelka, the man who captured the most startling images of that dramatic week, then went on to become one of the greatest photojournalists of our time
Check it out here.
Weekend re-discovery: the designer and clearly awesome and brilliant Ji Lee. Here’s how it happened: I was reading The Times. Then I saw this clever image above, illustrating the article “The American Wanderer, in All His Stripes”, about Mr. Obama’s transitory background.
I googled Mr. Lee and realized I had written about him previously, not knowing about his editorial work. Looks like he’s had quite the partnership with this paper; when I went back and looked at these illustrations, I remembered almost all of them.
Check it out here.
I pulled on my running shoes and stepped into the sweltering streets. It was a Thursday in July 2003, twilight, and well over 100 degrees. I was feeling a little reckless. If this ended badly, the only thing anyone would remember was how stupid I was.
We had set up the New York Times office on Abu Nawas Street. We lived and worked there: an Ottoman-style house with a gated yard and a veranda on the second floor that looked out on a boulevard that tracked the eastern bank of the Tigris River. In those first days, we didn’t fortify the place; no razor wire or blast walls, no watchtowers or machine guns mounted on the roof. Cars motored past our front yard on their way to the Jumhuriya Bridge a couple of miles up the road.
Check it out here.
“To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It’s a way of life.”
Check it out here.
Photo by Chip Litherland
welcome to the new and improved Redlights and Redeyes. Prepare for a photo onslaught of oversaturated painted walls, big skies, and silhouetted goodness
Check it out here.
Photo by Vincent Laforet/Newsweek
We’re about a third of the way through the Olympic Games as of the end of today – and I’ve always found this to be a good point to look back through the images I’ve made so far, and to make adjustments on how I will shoot from here on out.
This of course has put me in a very introspective mood. Truth be told I’m not thrilled with any of the images I’ve taken so far, and as a result my head has been in the clouds for most of the day. I’m trying to figure out how I can change my approach from this point on, in an effort to produce images that I will be proud of, and that hopefully this blog’s readers will appreciate throughout the rest of the games.Trying to figure out what to do next has led me to asking one of the most basic questions that most sports photographers ask themselves on a regular basis: How exactly do you define a great sports photograph?
Check it out here.
theselby features photographs by todd selby.
it is updated daily so check back for new shoots of
people and their possesions in their environment
Check it out here.
As almost everyone knows by now, various major daily newspaper published, on July 10, a photograph of four Iranian missiles streaking heavenward; then Little Green Footballs (significantly, a blog and not a daily newspaper) provided evidence that the photograph had been faked. Later, many of those same papers published a Whitman’s sampler of retractions and apologies. For me it raised a series of questions about images.[1] Do they provide illustration of a text or an idea of evidence of some underlying reality or both? And if they are evidence, don’t we have to know that the evidence is reliable, that it can be trusted?
Check it out here.
Photographer Pieter Hugo, whose work I’ve blogged about before, has a spectacular new series of images out about Nigeria’s homegrown movie stars.
Check it out here.
Members of the popular 1990s grunge band Soundgarden shocked critics and fans alike Tuesday, appearing together publicly for the first time in more than a decade after accidentally running into one another at the Northgate Mall Cinnabon.
Check it out here.
A 7-year-old girl, unable to speak or feed herself, discovered in a filthy, roach-infested room, her diaper overflowing and her body covered with bites. How do you tell a story like this? Poynter’s St. Petersburg Times responded by clearing its Sunday features section and devoting six ad-free pages to a 6,500-word narrative and haunting photographs of the girl and her adoptive family.
The project was the result of months of reporting and photographing by two gifted journalists, as well as a behind-the-scenes team. The story is worth a reader’s time. And for journalists, it’s worth analyzing for lessons learned, including this: A few months into the project, reporter Lane DeGregory and photographer Melissa Lyttle found themselves without compelling content for the Web and had to retrace their steps in reporting this story.
Check it out here.
She was found curled up in a filthy room, unable to speak or make eye contact.
They called her a feral child.
Could nurturing make up for a lifetime of neglect?
The girl in the window is a story about a 9-year-old girl named Dani. Ultimately it’s a story about hope.
Check it out here.
