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Category: Photography
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Charles Harbutt – I Don’t Take Pictures; Pictures Take Me (1972)
AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Charles Harbutt – I Don’t Take Pictures; Pictures Take Me (1972)”:
How is this continuum of photographer, world, and camera achieved? Each person must find it individually, but for me it has flowed from the realization that I don’t take pictures, pictures take me. I can do nothing except have film in the camera and be alert. My adversary, a photograph, stalks the world like a roaring lion. Pictures happen. One can only trust one’s sensitivity, the bounty of the world, and the chemistry of Kodak. This is the photographic method.
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Phil Borges: Women Empowered
::: The Travel Photographer :::: Phil Borges: Women Empowered:
Phil Borges, the acclaimed documentary photographer and CARE, the humanitarian organization that fights global poverty by empowering women and girls, are continuing a successful multi-year collaboration with the launch of the Women Empowered Project.
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Unshuttered Lens: Dorothea Lange, Documentary Photography, and Government Work, (1935-1945)
AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Unshuttered Lens: Dorothea Lange, Documentary Photography, and Government Work, (1935-1945)”:
Was Dorothea Lange a cultural interpreter? Former Lange assistant, noted photographer, and protege Rondal Partridge, said, “You ask questions of great photographs, and great photographs ask questions of you.” (1) Lange’s photographic work “begs the question.”
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Showcase: Extremely Large Format
Showcase: Extremely Large Format – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
Shaun Irving, 34, has always been into photography. So much so that for the past six years, he has been taking photographs from inside his cameras: old delivery trucks he’s turned into mobile cameras by tricking them out with surplus military lenses and heavy doses of ingenuity.
Thus, the “world’s largest traveling camera,” which has taken photos from Virginia to Spain and back again. The proof can be found at cameratruck.net, a Web site dedicated to all things camera truck.
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Michal Daniel's "In Your Face"
E-Project: Michal Daniel’s “In Your Face” – PDN:
Michal Daniel’s street portraits of unsuspecting subjects add up to a compelling and provocative body of work. With spy-like stealth, he gets as close as he possibly can to his subjects and while pretending to be distracted by his digital organizer, he photographs them with an outmoded and rather shoddy mini camera.
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Point and Shoot: How the Abu Ghraib Images Redefine Photography (2005)
AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Point and Shoot: How the Abu Ghraib Images Redefine Photography (2005)”:
The Abu Ghraib photographs were taken with commonplace “point and shoot” digital cameras owned by at least two of the alleged participants in the abuse. Being digital, the cameras recorded the scenes as arrays of pixels that were instantly compressed into a near-universal format called “JPEG.” The advantage of such compression is that it makes it easier to store pictures on a hard drive or memory card and to send them via e-mail and the Internet to friends and relations. The sharing of e-mail photographs has become the common coin of today’s image economy, and it has contributed to a proliferation of all sorts of photographs, from shots of cars for sale on eBay to explicit pornography. The Abu Ghraib photographs are, as Michael Kimmelman, the chief art critic of the New York Times, has remarked, “the visual equivalent of cell-phone chatter.”
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Living Things for Nylon Magazine
Zack Arias – Atlanta based editorial music photographer » Living Things for Nylon Magazine :::
These images are from my shoot with Living Things. This was an assignment for Nylon Magazine. I’ve completed four assignments for Nylon and as they hit the shelves I’ll blog about them. The assignment was to shoot the band, individuals, and cover their show here in Atlanta. I haven’t worked with a better group of artists than these four guys.
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The 25 best of urban decay
The 25 best of urban decay :: Photocritic photography blog:
I’ve got a guilty pleasure which I’d like to share with you guys – I love urban decay photography; I can spend hours on end browsing Flickr galleries tagged with Urban Decay… Brilliant stuff. I was talking about this particular style/subgenre of photography with my good friend Dave Feltenberger a few months ago, and he was enthused about collecting some of his favourite photographers and sites.
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Wanted in Iran: The Photographs
Wanted in Iran: The Photographs – insig.ht:
Andrew Sullivan’s “Daily Dish” has done substantial work covering the protests against the election in Iran. His post this morning “Counter-Targeting the Protestors” led to a site controlled by the Iranian government, where the regime was posting candid photographs of Mousavi supporters demonstrating in the streets, and using the site as a plea to the public to help with identifications.
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How To Bring Documentary Images to Decision Makers
How To Bring Documentary Images to Decision Makers – PDN:
After spending two years documenting the work of hospice volunteers inside the Angola Penitentiary, photographer Lori Waselchuk wanted to show administrators, doctors and guards at other prisons how much prison hospice programs can benefit inmates—both those who volunteer to provide hospice care, and the dying inmates they comfort.
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Stories of conquering fear: Advice from Platon
Stories of conquering fear: Advice from Platon | Waitin’ On a Moment – by Tim Gruber | NYC Photographer:
fear.less is an online magazine that will be launching soon that has notable people address the issue of overcoming fear. I signed up for their magazine awhile back and today I received a PDF about Platon facing and overcoming his fears.
