Category: Photography
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Photographer Learned About VIBE Shutdown in Mid-Shoot
Photographer Learned About VIBE Shutdown in Mid-Shoot: David Anthony’s photos of skateboarder Chaz Ortiz will never make it into VIBE, which folded Tuesday as the shoot was in progress.
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Wall of Shame
Thoughts of a Bohemian » Wall of Shame: Running a photo agency used to be a gentleman sport. You represented photographers and if, for some reason, the relationship did not work out, regardless the contract, everyone would gently part their own way . These days, contracts are like hammers, mostly used to crush a photographer…
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OK! Paid $500,000 For Michael Jackson Death Photo
OK! Paid $500,000 For Michael Jackson Death Photo – PDN: Sarah Ivens, OK!’s editorial director, said she thought the photo of the dying Jackson would differentiate the title from the rash of tribute-style covers that have begun hitting newsstands this week.
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The Five Biggest Photographers on the Internet
PDN: The Five Biggest Photographers on the Internet: For our highly subjective list of the five biggest photographers on the Internet, PDN focused on the ones who dominate each of five popular platforms: blogging, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. For this exercise, we considered only photographers who are primarily known for their online work. We…
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Behind the Picture of Farrah Fawcett That Made her an Icon
TIME: Bruce McBroom, a photographer, snapped the image that made Farrah Fawcett an icon. He tells TIME how an innocuous photo shoot — in which Fawcett posed at her Hollywood home in a red swimsuit — resulted in the 1976 poster that wound up plastered on millions of bedroom walls.
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THE BUSINESS OF EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Brian Smith – A Picture’s Worth: If you’re waiting to “raise your game” until you get your dream gig, you’ll never get it. I spent the first decade of my career and a newspaper photographer, and I put the same effort into my assignments for newspaper as I did on the freelance shoots for Rolling…
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The Value of a Stock Photograph
Cradoc Bagshaw – A Picture’s Worth: It’s possible that you might have to battle with one client to get paid $150 for the use of a photograph yet you might get $15,000 from another client for the use of the same photo. What makes the difference? The answer is image uniqueness, but this may not…
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Shoptalk: Dial “P” for Photo
Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: Shawn Rocco, 37, is a professional photographer. He shoots a Motorola E815. Yes, that’s a cellphone.
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Seeing Money: New business column by Doug Menuez
Doug Menuez: When most photographers set up shop, they focus on becoming better photographers, naturally. Few photographers, however, develop even the most basic skills they need to run their own business. They hope to hang on long enough to be discovered before they sink under their own lack of knowledge. That’s like building an intricate…
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Skin color and the photography industry
dvafoto: There are a lot of white faces at all levels in the photography industry: in the editorial offices, in the business offices, behind the cameras, and in front of the cameras (well, in photojournalism it’s often dark suffering faces in front of the cameras, but that’s another conversation; rarely do black models feature prominently in…
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Chase Jarvis: Who Wants My iPhone?
Chase Jarvis: I’ll pick my favorite image from all those uploaded and I’ll give that person my beloved iPhone 3G. Announced Wednesday 6/24.
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ALL-NEW EDITION #21 OF LENS CULTURE ONLINE NOW — FREE!
lens culture: This edition is packed with wonderful new discoveries including a rare, intimate look inside the working studio of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein from American photographer Laurie Lambrecht; extraordinary glass negative portraits from 30s Poland by Stefania Gurdowa (which have provided the material for our favorite photobook of the year so far: Negatives are…
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lenscratch: Ferit Kuyas
lenscratch: Ferit Kuyas was born in Istanbul, studied architecture and law in Switzerland, and has spent a lot of time in China. His most recent work, City of Ambition, showcases the city of Chonqing.
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10 Great Things I Might Have Missed if I Hadn’t Gone to LOOK3: Festival of the Photograph
RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog: we were all there to scope out some great photography. Here are 10 awesome things from LOOK3 that I might otherwise have missed (they’re in no particular order, so I’m not even numbering them).
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Kim Badawi « The New Breed of Documentary Photographers
Kim Badawi « The New Breed of Documentary Photographers
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Bob O’Connor, Boston
Feature Shoot: Bob O’Connor studied photography and architecture at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. He was named one of PDN’s “30 Emerging Photographers to Watch” in 2006. His recent clients include Technology Review, Fast Company, ReadyMade, IEEE Spectrum, and Boston Magazine, among others.
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Confronting The Photo Industry's Lack of Diversity
PDN: For PDN’s Careers and Self-Promotion Issue, we asked En Foco executive director Miriam Romais about the lack of diversity in the photo industry, why it matters, and what can be done to ensure more support for minority photographers. Romais, who will co-chair the 2010 Society for Photographic Education (SPE) conference, also addressed the efforts…
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Flickr User Posts Comments Critical of Obama on the Official White House Photostream and Has His Comments And Flickrstream Deleted
Thomas Hawk: I was dismayed today to read about the latest alleged case of Flickr Censorship. Censorship (or as they like to call it “moderation”) continues to be a problem on Flickr.
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On Lack of Diversity in Photography, and in PDN
PDNPulse: On Lack of Diversity in Photography, and in PDN: Yesterday some blogs circulated a note about the fact that of the 24 judges of the 2009 PDN Photo Annual contest, all of them are white. It’s a valid point ,and one that everyone who works on PDN’s contests has given a lot of thought.…