Corbis and The Associated Press have unveiled a “cross-distribution partnership” that will see the two photo agencies sell each other’s images
Category: Photography
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Corbis signs deal with Associated Press
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Thoughts on Granny's albums
Snapshot
After my grandmother passed away recently, the family gathered to divide some of her old photo albums. Granny was a great collector —an aggr…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2011/08/thoughts-on-grannys-albums.html
Admittedly I have a strong personal bias toward generators. I find it hard to take seriously anyone who writes about photography without making images themselves. It’s a prejudice I know, but one I find hard to overcome. My secret fantasy is for every photoblogger out there to stop analyzing for one day and show ten recent photos of their own. Seeing ten photos would give me more insight into someone than reading ten years of their writing.
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Photographing the Prostitutes of Italy’s Backroads: Google Street View vs. Boots on the Ground
Photographing the Prostitutes of Italy’s Backroads: Google Street View vs. Boots on the Ground
© Paolo Patrizi, from the series Migration This week, I wrote two pieces for Wired on Google Street View. The first was a gallery of the various projects spawned by GSV, and the second was a piece …
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/photographing-the-prostitutes-of-italys-backroads-google-street-view-vs-boots-on-the-ground/
No Man’s Land (more images here) is a disturbingly large selection of Google Street View screen-grabs of (presumably) prostitutes awaiting customers on the back roads of Italy by Mishka Henner
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Luc Delahaye turns war photography into an uncomfortable art | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
Luc Delahaye turns war photography into an uncomfortable art
Sean O’Hagan: Hanging on the walls at Tate Modern, Luc Delahaye’s giant, painterly photographs of real-life conflicts wield unsettling power
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/aug/09/luc-delahaye-war-photography-art?CMP=twt_gu
Hanging on the walls at Tate Modern, Luc Delahaye’s giant, painterly photographs of real-life conflicts wield unsettling power
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Photographer #355: Murat Germen
Photographer #355: Murat Germen
Murat Germen, 1965, Turkey, is an experimental artist that often uses photography as his medium. He received a Bachelor of science in city p…
Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/08/photographer-355-murat-germen.html
For his series Muta-Morphosis he created bizarre panoramic photographs or multidimentional cityscapes in various places around the world
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Google Street and Art Projects
Google’s Mapping Tools Spawn New Breed of Art Projects
Instead of walking out on the street to find interesting scenes and people, a few photographers are now simply curating the pre-documented streets from the comfort of their desks at home.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/08/google-street-view/
Michael Wolf, for example, uses a camera to photograph scenes from Google Street View open on his computer’s browser. In February, his honorable mention in the Contemporary Issues category at the World Press Photo Awards for A Series of Unfortunate Events ignited a storm of debate. Some balked at the idea that Wolf’s project was photojournalism, while others embraced the decision and called for more conceptual leaps and redefinitions of photojournalism in the digital age.
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Free Online Class Shakes Up Photo Education
Free Online Class Shakes Up Photo Education
On the ground floor of a converted, Victorian-era cinema in Coventry, England, Jonathan Worth delivers a world-class photography lecture anyone can attend at any time, from anywhere, for free.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/08/free-online-class-shakes-up-photo-education/
On the ground floor of a converted, Victorian-era cinema in Coventry, England, Jonathan Worth delivers a world-class photography lecture anyone can attend at any time, from anywhere, for free.
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DIANE ARBUS: "Notes from the Margin of Spoiled Identity – The Art of Diane Arbus" (1988)
The principal issue raised by the remarkable photographs of Diane Arbus seems not to be their remarkableness, which few would dispute, but their morality. The very potency of her images, their dangerous, disturbing allure, demands an almost instantaneous moral judgement on the part of the viewer. Her pictures call forth an immediate stance which, it would seem, just cannot remain equivocal, yet which in many cases is tinged with uneasy contradiction. To some, Arbus is seen as the prime exemplar of the fundamental baseness of the photographic act, that act which caters ineffably to the disinterested voyeur lurking in us all. Others laud her for her compassion and her humanity, finding in her work an empathy with a disadvantaged subject matter to rival that of Riis, or Hine, or any of the great photographic humanists.
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Frans Lanting and Art Wolfe: Using Photography’s Power for Planet Earth
In a special presentation before a packed room at PDN’s Outdoor Photo Expo in Salt Lake City on Friday, photographers Frans Lanting and Art Wolfe talked about their careers as nature photographers who have focused on conservation.
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Alamy: “We Can Cannibalise Microstock” [By Selling Photos Even Cheaper]
Stock agency Alamy found themselves facing a forum firestorm last week when a leaked marketing email revealed the existence of a previously unknown Alamy product called Premium. Contributors were infuriated not just by the fact that they only heard about Premium through a leak rather than an Alamy announcement, but also by Premium’s terms – $49 for virtually unlimited commercial usage for 10 years.
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Photographer #349: Antonio Bolfo
Photographer #349: Antonio Bolfo
Antonio Bolfo, 1981, USA, is a photojournalist based in New York City. His career started working as an animator for video games before he d…
Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/08/photographer-349-antonio-bolfo.html
Antonio Bolfo, 1981, USA, is a photojournalist based in New York City. His career started working as an animator for video games before he decided to persue photography fulltime. For his series NYPD: Operation IMPACT he followed the youngest, most untested officers on their operation IMPACT
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Seeing in Color
What Ernst Haas was telling me in those seemingly prehistoric times was to open my eyes, to learn how to see, to slow down, to open my mind, to see the world in a grain of sand, to dream, to walk the streets, to watch the light, and to feel the wind on my face
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Negotiating with Clients Doesn't Have to Be Scary
A majority of the photographers I know absolutely hate to negotiate with clients, and often find themselves suffering through an unfair arrangement as a result of their poor negotiations skills. Negotiating your way to a win-win scenario can be a common experience if you’re prepared.
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LEE FRIEDLANDER: "Out of the Cool" (1991)
‘Like a One Eyed Cat’, Lee Friedlander – Out of the Cool
Haverstraw, New York, 1966
Friedlander is a photographer, never forget. Although a major photographic artist, he is not an ‘artist utilising photography.’ He uses the camera, that unthinking machine, to transcribe his visual perceptions of the world.
via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/07/lee-friedlander-out-of-cool-1991.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Americansuburb+(AMERICANSUBURBX)
The second essay I ever wrote upon the subject of photography was about the work of Lee Friedlander, on the occasion of an exhibition of his pictures at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, in 1976.2 Now, some fifteen years later, a much larger retrospective, Like a One-Eyed Cat, arrives at the Victoria and Albert Museum, having the benefit of much fine work completed in the interim, and accompanied by the most extensive monograph on the photographer to date.3 And published almost concurrently is the eagerly awaited volume of his remarkable and controversial studies of the female nude.4
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Marketing Yourself With Photo Books
Today we’re launching Marketing Yourself With Photo Books, a new (free) 22-page guide that explores the different ways photographers are using self-publishing to promote themselves to photo editors/buyers and fans alike. Sponsored by Blurb, this guide includes both practical guidance on building a book to use for promotional purposes, as well as rich case studies from top photographers who have successfully woven photo books into their overall marketing strategy.
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The third language
They say that 95 % of communication is non verbal. This is the realm of photography. It explores and transports through time and space the world that resides outside the Word. Confusingly enough however, we tend to give much more credit, and emphasis, to the written/spoken word.
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Social Media for Photographers: Let's Get Real for a Moment
Is social media helping your business, or is it simply wasting your time? The truth is, most people don’t have any idea. Bringing your business into social media is easy, but getting something out of it requires more than just keeping in touch with family and friends.
Let’s be realistic about it.
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Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century
What is it with Hungary? As the Royal Academy’s forthcoming exhibition will show, this small European country punched well above its weight in the photography world in the middle of the last century, giving us people such as Robert Capa, László Moholy-Nagy, André Kertész, Brassaï and Martin Munkácsi.
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GARRY WINOGRAND: "Class Time with Garry Winogrand" (1974 – 1976)
Class Time with Garry Winogrand (1974 – 1976)
By O.C. Garza
The years were 1974, 1975 and 1976.Step back to those years in what was the active, peaceful city of Austin, Texas. The city is nestled hard against the banks of the Colorado River that knives through central Texas. This state govern
via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/07/garry-winogrand-class-time-with-garry.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Americansuburb+(AMERICANSUBURBX)
If students were taking Garry’s class to learn photographic techniques and methods, they were sorely disappointed. Garry didn’t teach much technique. That was left to the PJ side of the photography world or to his “TAs”. You have a lifetime to learn technique, he seemed to be saying, but I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.
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The Other Side of the Berlin Wall
Spiegel Online via Conscientious…
Concerned about security problems, the East German communist regime ordered border guards to snap photos of the Berlin Wall in the 1960s. The images, which were top secret, were lost in an archive for decades. Now a new exhibition will reveal hundreds of the photographs, digitally spliced to create remarkable panoramic views of the infamous landmark.