The cartoonist talks about his new book, heart surgery on a shoestring budget, and how he broke The New Yorker’s ban on phallic humor.
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The cartoonist talks about his new book, heart surgery on a shoestring budget, and how he broke The New Yorker’s ban on phallic humor.
“It’s like a modern Aladdin’s Lamp, you rub it and, in this case the camera, you push the button and it gives you the things you want.”
Click to Play (Right Click & Save to Download): “Weegee” MP3 by Weegee, 1958.
From the 1958 LP “Famous Photogr
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The subject is news photography. This was the most wonderful experience for any man or woman to go through. It’s like a modern Aladdin’s Lamp, you rub it and, in this case the camera, you push the button and it gives you the things you want. News photography teaches you to think fast, to be sure of yourself, self confidence. When you go out on a story, you don’t go back for another sitting. You gotta get it.
WHEN pioneering Scottish photojournalist Grace Robertson nervously submitted her first set of photographs to Picture Post magazine, she did so under a male pseudonym.
Link: Interview: Grace Robertson – Photojournalist – Scotsman.com Living
From Sleeping with the Mississippi
“I have big problems with Sleeping By The Mississippi, there’s parts I love, but definitely things I would do differently now. When people point to those things you’d rather do differently, you feel, ‘I wish I could’,
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I have this thing, the camera’s on a tripod, it’s like an easel “Ok, I can only take a couple, I gotta makes this great.” Then I tried to get everything in the frame, which, in fact, is not a good strategy for photography. Its pulling stuff out of the frame is usually what you want to do, to simplify it. But I didn’t know that. So that was one of the lessons learned.
Eva-Claire #04, 2008
“For me, the feeling of my body in space is really important. It’s all very simple there. Everything seems more real, more authentic, and you can project yourself more easily.”
Lise Sarfati and Rick Owens, Austin, Texas. Fas
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I like going to small towns where the people get bored. At first it was hard to unfold a story around that, using a human being, a body, an environment, a house.
Chris Radcliffe is the University Photographer at Eastern Kentucky University. A 2003 graduate of EKU, Radcliffe has been in his current position for six years.
Link: The Visual Student » University photography: Chris Radcliffe
Tests & Reviews
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Tomorrow, Washington Post national enterprise editor David Finkel will receive the 2010 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for The Good Soldiers, a bruising account of a U.S. Army battalion’s service in Iraq during 2007 and 2008. The $10,000 prize, announced by the Nieman Foundation and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, is given for excellence in nonfiction writing that exemplifies literary grace and commitment to serious research. We wanted to take advantage of the moment to talk with Finkel about his ideas on writing and the narrative approach he chose for his story.
West Virginia Uncovered is a project by the P.I. Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University. The project sends journalism students to community newspapers around the state to teach multimedia storytelling. Project Director John Temple and Project Coordinator M.K McFarland talk about West Virginia Uncovered.
Link: The Visual Student » Discovering West Virginia Uncovered
Stephen Shore is a prominent photographer and photographic educator. A pioneer in the field of color photography, Shore has published numerous books of photography, included his seminal book, Uncommon Places, published in 1982 (reissued in 2004).
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On occasion of the recent printing of a second edition of The Nature of Photographs, published by Phaidon Press, is Stephen Shore’s primer on the understanding of the photographic object. Big Red writer Ben R. Sloat interviewed the noted photographer before his lecture at Boston University on the 5th of April.
“I lived with my black friends all those years,” said Holdt. “I saw the pain and the suffering and I felt, when I showed the pictures to people, they didn’t even know the suffering that was going on in the midst of their own cities.”
By Ronald Netsky
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Holdt approached the United States as a citizen of the world who would not accept the limitations society usually imposes. He lived with the underclass in the one-room shacks of the rural South and the urban slums of the North, but he has also slept in the homes of Rockefellers and other wealthy families. He photographed the protests at Wounded Knee by Native Americans in the early 1970s and secretly photographed and recorded Ku Klux Klan rallies.
The photographer on his life, loves and influences.
via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/7635803/Larry-Fink-in-conversation.html
If you are smitten with obsession then you will survive and the world will be larger for it…
If not, you might simply make a living or simply go broke.
The key for photographers today is that they must be idea people. Concept people. It is no longer any advantage to have technical skills. Today one needs idea skills, to really have something to say, either journalistically or artistically. I see photography as a language far, far from dead. In my opinion, just being born. I look for visual literacy in a body of work. The makers must be visually literate and the audience must be visually literate as well. Seeking this happy medium of literacy from creator to audience is a full time preoccupation that will never end. However, the pursuit of this ideal is in and of itself an art.
Link: The New York Photo Festival | The Future of Contemporary Photography
Mark Murrmann came to Mother Jones with a background as a freelance editorial and documentary photographer, having covered Congress, the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath in New Orleans, and the repercussions of the Balkan wars in the former Yugoslavia. He has also logged thousands of miles on tour, shooting bands and is a regular Hamburger Eyes contributor. Mark studied photography in London in 2004 a winner of the Alexia Foundation Photography Contest. Prior to becoming a photographer, he started a self-published punk magazine in 1991, which led to a weekly column in the Indianapolis Star and a coediting position at Maximumrocknroll, a long-running San Francisco-based punk magazine.
Link: The New York Photo Festival | The Future of Contemporary Photography
MW What inspired you to start taking photographs, and what is the primary inspiration for you to keep working in this field? AS From an ear…
Link: http://2waylens.blogspot.com/2010/04/aline-smithson.html
The two biggest problems that beginning photographers face are learning how to edit, and making high quality prints. Beginning photographers forget that it’s not just the image that is for sale, but the print. Many students have never produced prints, even though they have made thousands of photographs, and perhaps the fact that they have thousands of photographs, doesn’t allow them to commit to a single image!
“I used to feel that I should not discuss my experiences. I wanted the pictures to be judged as images only…”
Steven Watson Interviews Rosalind Solomon
RS: I used to feel that I should not discuss my experiences. I wanted the pictures to be jud
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I used to feel that I should not discuss my experiences. I wanted the pictures to be judged as images only, but now I feel that it is important for me to share as much as I can.
I never felt as though I belonged and that was something that continued through my childhood. It changed somewhat when I became a teenager. I had chums then and boyfriends, but I always felt as though I was somebody different on the inside.
A Q. & A. with the Polish photographer Adam Lach, who has been on assignment for The Times capturing images of this week’s events after a plane crash in Russia killed his country’s president and 95 others.
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Here, Adam Lach, 27, a co-founder of Napo Images, answers questions about a poignant week for him and his country, and about his photography in Poland.
Fazal Sheikh is an artist and activist based in Zurich, Switzerland. His work has been widely exhibited, in institutions ranging from the Tate Modern to the Princeton University Art Museum to small huts in rural India. He has collaborated with numerous foundations and non-governmental-organizations, and he has won, among many other awards, a MacArthur Prize.
I asked him to do an interview with the PhotoPhilanthropy blog because he approaches collaboration, strategic partnerships and accessibility in a way that I find very inspiring.
Link: Fazal Sheikh: fear, vulnerability and openness – PhotoPhilanthropy’s Blog, written by Eliza Gregory
“MY NAME IS MICHAEL. I TOOK A PHOTO CLASS IN HIGH SCHOOL. I DID NOT OWN A CAMERA. I FAILED THE CLASS.”
An interview with Dave Sanders, who has been photographing the lives of Darfurian immigrants in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
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Dave Sanders, 34, has been photographing Darfurian immigrants in Kensington since late 2008. Over that time, he has captured everything from celebration to political protest.
A look at life in the troubled republic of Chechnya, through the images of the photographer Davide Monteleone.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/documenting-the-chechen-struggles/
After suicide bombers set off two huge explosions, killing dozens in the Moscow subway system last week, attention turned toward Chechnya — the troubled republic in North Caucasus where the Russian government has sought to suppress a violent Muslim uprising since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The Italian photographer Davide Monteleone has been working there extensively this year, pursuing a project that documents Muslim life and the struggle for stability as the Russian government tries to stamp out the remnants of a war that has continued for nearly 15 years. Based in Rome and Moscow, Mr. Monteleone, 35, is represented by Contrasto.