One of our favorite books of last year was a small self-published paperback called All Most Heaven. The book documents two years of Santiago Mostyn’s life as has he traveled across America.
Category: Photography
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An Artist You Should Know: Santiago Mostyn
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A Family Portrait | PDN Photo of the Day
Duncan Family Portrait, Tennessee 2008, photographed by Lucas Foglia from his Re-Wilding project. [Re-wilding: the process of creating a lifestyle that is independent of the domestication of civilization.]
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Richard Avedon, Master of Cruel
The question was always a problem for Richard Avedon. Even in the final decade of his life and career as the most celebrated, ridiculed, honored, debated portrait and fashion photographer of his time, journalists and critics would posit the same intolerable, unbelievable notion: Is photography really art? And it didn’t sound much kinder coming from his friend Charlie Rose, playing the genial provocateur and devil’s advocate for the TV viewers at home in 1993. Anyone watching could have detected Avedon’s moment of pain. “Listen, that is such a bogus and nitwit thing to ask .”
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Grover's Photographer Recession Survival Tactics – A Picture's Worth
Remain calm. This whole recession thing just may be a great opportunity in disguise. Here are 10 things you can do to help power your photography business through these stormy economic seas:
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Christopher Anderson and the Delicious Foods
Seeing as four out of eight of my my favorite things (1/2!) involve food and photography, I appoint myself an expert on food photography. And as said expert, I crown Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson’s illustrations for New York Magazine’s Where to Eat story the best I’ve seen in 2009.
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Pete Souza Named Obama's White House Photographer
Photojournalist and NPPA member Pete Souza has accepted the position of official White House photographer for President-elect Barack Obama, he told News Photographer magazine tonight.
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JPG magazine closes its doors by Photocritic
I just received an e-mail from the editor over at JPG magazine, bearing a rather quite sad message: They’re shutting the doors for good.
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Vacation Pics
Photos By John L. White
I went home for vacation a couple of weeks ago and instead of hauling around a bulky SLR camera, the kind I use every day at work, I decided to give the camera on my iPhone a try. Normally, cellphone cameras produce grainy and unusable in real life photos but with help from the Camera Bag application, downloaded from the iTunes store, I was able to take a lot of really fun photographs.
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Having your work reviewed (Conscientious)
Following my earlier request, Suzanne Revy kindly sent me some comments about getting your work reviewed at a portfolio review.
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PDN's Top 40 Online Stories of 2008
Here we present, in the tradition of Casey Kasem, a countdown of the Top 40 most popular stories on PDN in 2008.
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Leibovitz Picture Declared "Worst Photograph Ever Made"
Mike Johnston, on his site The Online Photographer, has written a critique of what he calls “The Worst Photograph Ever Made.” It’s an image shot by Annie Leibovitz for the 2009 Lavazza espresso calendar. How bad is it? We’ll let the picture speak for itself:
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Demotix | The Street Wire
Demotix, an uncensored, unedited user-generated newswire today announced its official launch. At www.demotix.com any individual anywhere in the world in the world can upload any image or video. The content is then made available for media publishers to purchase for publication, and Demotix splits the revenues with the contributor.
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Clients Reveal Their Most Creative Efforts of the Year
Yes, even in bad economic times, there’s room for creative risk-taking and innovation. We continue this month’s Create feature online by asking more ad agency creatives and magazine photo editors to describe the undertaking their most proud of this year. Many shared their thoughts on how to stay creative and innovative in times of uncertainty.
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Fans bid farewell to Polaroid film – CNN.com
Every day for a year, Tacey Willis looked for an eye-catching photo subject — a ballerina, a rocker dude in a bookstore or three older ladies from the Red Hat Society. She allowed herself one shot each day, with only one piece of instant film.
But halfway through that year, Willis abruptly took the money she’d saved for a down payment on a car and bought every piece of Polaroid film she could find. Why? Because the Polaroid Corp. announced it would stop making instant film. And without it her project, “Day by Day Polaroid,” would never be complete.
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Media taking mug shots — foreign, familiar — to bank
Newspaper, magazines, Web sites and a few book publishers are tapping into a curious American fascination: mug shots. Publications like Local MugSHOTS run nothing but photos of recent arrestees in a community.
You don’t have to commit a violent crime; you don’t have to be convicted; you don’t even have to be a celebrity (though for some publications, it helps).
Just get arrested — no charge is too small — and your mug could grace the pages of a local magazine or Web site.
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WFMU's Beware of the Blog: More Treasures From The Life Magazine Photography Archives
a super-colossal chunk of LIFE magazine’s photographic archives have been posted online, hosted by Google. Ever since then I’ve been compulsively ogling this embarrassment of visual riches. Here are a couple of handfuls of my favorite discoveries. I had to force myself to quit hunting for and, inevitably, finding more images to link to.
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Work for Free? « Vincent Laforet’s Blog
IF YOU ARE WORKING FOR FREE – simply to get “a” job – you risk destroying the entire business for everyone. In fact – your dream job – that you do for free – will be a job that some qualified person will no longer be getting paid for. And you’ll hurt that person’s chance of feeding their family in accepting to do that job for free. It’s quite that simple
