Category: Photojournalism
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "Walker Evans and Photography (2000)"
Walker Evans (1903-75), whose work is currently (2000) on display at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, was an American photographer who produced some remarkable images, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s. He is perhaps best known, rightly or wrongly, for a series of photographs he took of tenant farm families in Hale County, Alabama…
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Rick Loomis: Unforgotten Casualties
Toward the end of that fight, when the Marines and Loomis were evacuating the area, he had to make a decision. Was he only a photographer, or was he going to put down his cameras and help a young Marine, Lance Cpl. Aaron Austin, who had been shot several times through the chest during the…
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PDNPulse: Associated Press Reassigns Four Photo Editors
Link: PDNPulse: Associated Press Reassigns Four Photo Editors
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After Photography › Twenty-Five Years Ago, And Now
photojournalism is devolving into yet another medium perceived as intending to shock, titillate, sell, distort. My sense is that if we are truly serious about preserving at least some of its credibility — while making it clear that it is not representative of the “truth” — we need to take strong steps. Link: After Photography…
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Photographs (2001)"
W. EUGENE SMITH: “W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Photographs” (2001) W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Photographs Carnegie, Nov/Dec 2001 by Ellen S. Wilson “Don’t expect,” wrote photographer W Eugene Smith, “a point-by-point hand-led tour. This is an experience as an intensely curious visitor (perhaps a new resident) mig via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/11/theory-w-eugene-smiths-pittsburgh.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28AMERICANSUBURBX%29 “Don’t expect,” wrote photographer…
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TribBlog: Photo Finish | The Texas Tribune
TribBlog: Photo Finish After more than forty years with the Associated Press, veteran photographer Harry Cabluck, 71, was one of the 80-90 staffers laid off by the organization on Tuesday. He always said he had no plans to retire. via The Texas Tribune: http://www.texastribune.org/blogs/post/2009/nov/17/photo-finish/ He just ordered new business cards. But by Tuesday afternoon, veteran…
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AP Layoffs Include Photographers, Texas Legend Harry Cabluck
Other AP veterans let go include photography staff members Donna McWilliams in Dallas; Al Grillo in Anchorage, AK; Mary Ann Chastain in Columbis, SC; and Winslow Townson and Lisa Poole in Boston, MA. Link: AP Layoffs Include Photographers, Texas Legend Harry Cabluck
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My Everest Birthday Part I | Kevin German – Luceo Images
I have always had a fascination with Mt. Everest. There is just something about being on top of the world that is ever appealing. So when I finally decided fly to Nepal with two weeks notice, I knew that this birthday would be one to remember. Operation Everest Base Camp would commence with the intention…
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Magnum photographs: The hidden face of caring
Magnum photographs: The hidden face of caring When Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins entered the private world of carers and those they care for, he discovered the true meaning of love via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/nov/14/magnum-photographs-carers Take a handful of Britain’s six million carers and their families, add a Magnum photographer and what do you get? A…
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‘Kenya hasn’t seen a drop of rain for several years.’ | duckrabbit
‘Kenya hasn’t seen a drop of rain for several years.’ — duckrabbit If you have no knowledge about East Africa you might actually believe a statement like the one written above presumably… via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2009/11/kenya-hasnt-seen-a-drop-of-rain-for-several-years/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duckrabbit%2FNrks+%28duckrabbit%29 I’m wracking my brains to imagine how he (or someone else) could have got it so wrong, and how no-one…
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Newsweek photo staff gutted in recent layoffs | dvafoto
Link: Newsweek photo staff gutted in recent layoffs | dvafoto
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Tragedy at Fort Hood – Collective Vision | Photoblog for the Austin American-Statesman
This is a blog about photojournalism, so I want to tell my story about how I photographed this historical event. At 2:21 pm I was in downtown Austin covering a funeral when I got a news alert on my cell phone about the shooting in Killeen. Eleven minutes later I got a call from my…
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dispatches / Revolutions in the media economy (3) – photojournalism’s futures
How do the revolutions in the media economy (detailed in the first and second post of this series) affect photojournalism? Given both the crisis in the distribution of information and the new opportunities for the structure of information, what futures are there for photojournalism? Link: dispatches / Revolutions in the media economy (3) – photojournalism’s…
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On Assignment: Liability, Meet Asset – Lens Blog
The picture, by Nicole Bengiveno, ran at the top of The Times’s front page on Wednesday. What made Specialist Hill such a compelling focal point was not just his agonized posture. It was the low angle from which Ms. Bengiveno deliberately photographed him and the softer focus in which Ms. Bengiveno deliberately cast his comrades.…
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Portfolio Advice – CPOY
With summer internships and graduation looming six months away, assembling a portfolio is the essential piece in applying for internships and jobs. But it’s hard. Photographers constantly wrack their brains looking through bodies of work. Which images should they use? In what order? What does this image convey? What does the portfolio, as a…
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Not A Typical Morning
Photographer Eugene Tanner covered his first natural disaster in American Samoa. Link: Not A Typical Morning
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20th Anniversary: The Fall of the Iron Curtain – Peter Turnley – The Digital Journalist
We parked our car and I positioned myself behind several protesters as Claudia asked two men to allow me to balance my camera on their shoulders, in order to make a long exposure without flash, of the lineup of Stasi and their dogs that were biting protesters. After making many images, I was suddenly swept…
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We're Just Sayin' – The Digital Journalist
In the end, one wonders how it’s possible to even put out a magazine anymore. When I think of what we used to do, the budgets we had – and they never felt extravagant at the time – were essentially an investment in excellence. Link: We’re Just Sayin’ – The Digital Journalist
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The Visual Student » Photo Contest Insights: Melissa Farlow
Every photographer who enters a contest hopes his or her images are recognized. I can relate. Over the years, my photographs have won and lost in contests. I have helped edit my husband, Randy Olson’s portfolio when he won magazine Photographer of the Year and another year for newspapers. On the other side of the…