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In September of this year I visited Bill Jay, the pre-eminent photo-historian and critic, at his home in Ocean Beach, California.
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In the summer of 1993 Dan Eldon, a 22-year-old photographer for Reuters, was making his way through the streets of Mogadishu
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In the second week of December I received my Nikon D3. My trial by fire with a D2x at the Cog gig in 2005 proved so informative that I jumped at the opportunity to familiarize myself with the D3 in a similar challenging environment.
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National Geographic Magazine has picked a side in the long-running rivalry between the two major U.S. photojournalism contests.
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“I ran up, got as close as I got, made a few pictures of her waving to the crowd,” Getty Images senior staff photographer John Moore
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voice of john moore/getty images
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The photos of Getty’s John Moore are likely to stand as the most memorable and up-close from the scene of the Bhutto assassination today.
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12.28.2007
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12.27.2007
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Kevin Rivoli has spent the past 15 years capturing timeless moments in contemporary America
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Now that 2007 is coming to a close, everyone seems to be making lists of the best pix of 2007.
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If you are looking at the Aperture interface for the first time, you might not easily know what to do.
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12.26.2007
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It’s sort of a Leica on steroids, in that it allows precisely-focused, precisely-framed handheld 4×5 photography, with all the latter’s rich detail and beautiful defocus. The Littman VI
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Brady suffers from repeated seizures, daily. photo essay by Ashley Franscell.
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As far as photographers and photo books go, my list ebbs and flows with each day’s tide. So rather than a best of anything, here’s my list of some of my favorites from 2007
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the year in pictures
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12.25.2007
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Here are the 35 winning picks of Lens Culture’s first photo contest. The theme is “in between” moments, and the photos represent a broad range of interpretations.
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small signs photo essay – via conscientious
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Why choose journalism? Because you can make a difference — or even change the world — not because you’re going to get rich as a journalist.
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Call it instinct or intuition, but something is telling you what pictures you should be taking. I call it the quiet little voice, and when it talks, I try to listen.
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The best look at newspapers in movies or TV? Hands down, the prize goes to “The Wire.”
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12.24.2007
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Patrick Tsai is a 26 year old American who moved to Taiwan in 2003 to pursue his photography. Three years later he met a young Chinese photographer named Madi Ju
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When you enter Pictures of the Year International, your work becomes a part of visual history. Since 1943, POYi continues to be a living and a valuable reflection of human and world events.
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12.23.2007
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Dallas Morning News photojournalist Mona Reeder spent three years working on The Bottom Line — mostly on gaining access to some really sensitive situations.
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The newest buzz word in inkjet printing paper is Baryta. While it may be new to the 21st Century digital printing world it actually has its roots in high quality B&W printing papers from our past.
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To store a digital master record of a movie costs about $12,514 a year, versus the $1,059 it costs to keep a conventional film master.
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Last week, Basket Mouth let Sunday Sun into his world as he disclosed the five qualities that a woman must possess in order to unlock his heart.
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Friends
I’ve added a long list of links to friends along the right sidebar. I’m sure I forgot people, so if you have a blog that should be listed, let me know and I’ll add it.
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12.22.2007
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Arkady Babchenko said his only goal was to capture the confused, fear-ridden, despairing world of a young private and his buddies where the only goal is survival.
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The black-and-white portraits and landscapes in “Bhutan, the Sacred Within: Photographs by Kenro Izu,” taken over the past five years, fall somewhere between photojournalism and pictorialism.
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In the future photographers will rule the world.
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My name is Brad and I’m looking for my Next Top Muse to photograph constantly. Because the definition of a muse is kind of vague I’ve compiled a list of attributes that my muse would hopefully embody:
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12.21.2007
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Buy it. Put it in your pocket. Hit the streets.
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These kaleidoscopic images were created by Japanese architect and photographer Kazuhiko Kawahara (moonlighting under the name Palla).
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Interweaving footage of the clashes between police and demonstrators at the 1968 Democratic convention with 3-D animated reenactments of the trial that followed it, Brett Morgen turns the audience into witnesses of violent turmoil and absurdist spectacle.
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Zine 2 , an issue with Lomos has been shipped off to the printers.
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He is a talented and respected portrait photographer, and his pictures hang proudly in a dizzying number of Chicago homes. Worsom truly is a modern day “Picture Man.”
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It wasn’t Lane Hartwell’s first heated exchange over a photo copyright issue,
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a graphic illustration of just how fundamentally a little judicious cropping of an image can completely misrepresent the event it purports to illustrate.
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“O.K., let’s try one that’s a little less complicated: You want a movie or an album. You don’t want to pay for it. So you download it.”
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In 2001, Darin Mickey began to document his father’s life at work and at home. Stuff I Gotta Remember Not To Forget is a portrait of Ken Mickey, who sells storage space
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12.20.2007
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Komenich and Chinn said that Mr. Fields not only taught students the craft of photography, but also schooled them in running a good business and maintaining ownership of their work.
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There are many ways to use photography at a magazine. The worst is to use photos as decoration or as a literal translation of the story into pictures.
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Chuck Thompson demolishes the dream in “Smile When You’re Lying,” his acidic take on travel journalism and the multitudinous horrors that lie just beyond the airline check-in counter
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One show not to miss is Pieter Hugo’s “The Hyena and Other Men” at Yossi Milo (through January 12)
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Stephanie Sinclair won the UNICEF photo of the year for her haunting picture of a 40-year-man and his 11-year-old bride in Afghanistan.
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Bubble Video: This Thing Ain’t Over
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Ironically, the original Shaun Schwarz photo was censored by the military, which erased his camera’s memory. The photographer eventually retrieved the image from his hard drive.”
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I like the idea of making prints for the many people who love the work but can’t throw down the big bucks
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Little did he know that during that celebration Saturday at Jim Carroll Stadium in Savannah, Tenn., a photographer with the Associated Press had captured his moment of utter elation with one frame left in his camera.
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many a hapless individual has been caught, camera down staring into space. These are the pictures that pinned to the office notice board, we unwittingly walk past for days on end to the delight of our workmates, until the penny finally drops
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The usual names in über-cool, raw photography are represented here: Ryan McGinley, Terry Richardson, Richard Kern, Dash Snow, et al.
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12.19.2007
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After examining reports of journalists killed in direct connection to their work, the committee found that 64 journalists were killed in 2007, up from 56 last year.
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official notice – formal apology
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Robert Wright delivered part 3 (here) on the “business” of editorial photography and we both agree that corporate greed is the source of the problems we face in photography and generally in business today.
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Just when you thought film was dead the good people over at File and Flak Photo are keeping it old school and have launched the 36 Exposures Challenge
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I like what Taj Forer is doing with his photographs so I decided to talk to him about it.
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Keith Arnatt’s “Notes from Jo” (1990 – 94) record his wife’s Post-It note messages usually left in their kitchen. The work irreverently plays on the conceptual concerns of image and text through the irritations and communications of daily life
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Cool people I met this year on assignment. by usa today photog robert hanashiro
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I’ve always thought of shooting downhill skiing as one of the hardest sports to shoot. – Mike Blake, Reuters
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On Oct. 18, the life of a fellow Sports Shooter member ended tragically when Bridget O’Brien, only 26 years old, was killed in a car accident in Ohio.
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The D300 reminds me more of the traditional professional camera before the motor drive was built-in. Think Canon F-1, or Nikon F, F2, or F3.
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Ever since I began covering major sporting events, the frenzy to obtain a press pin became the center of conversation
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My intention was to provoke thought and debate about the sane and the insane in current business practices. I am copping the standoffish attitude as an affect. The THEM is definitely corporate GREED.
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We’ve found the key to…Time Travel.
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So after 8 days on embed I had been out on two patrols and one useless operation, transmitted 18 photos and was developing an ulcer.
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I’m getting to a point where I only want to shoot sports with a wide angle lens.
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Now the photographer’s estate has presented this intimate chronicle of Arbus’s life — her complete archives — to the Met as a gift
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For the past year or so I’ve been taking photos of the reporters I work with out in the field and posting them on the wall next to my desk.
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while Nikon may have been late to the party with its new D3, I think it employed a much smarter approach to a lens compatibility issue.
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Shooting the Leica is like going out with Pamela Anderson.
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Maybe the real reason for looking through the year’s work is because contest season has officially began. I used to put so much energy into winning. Thought it was so important. But I’ve seen contests ruin people.
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here are my Photographers of the Year 2007, as always in alphabetical order.
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12.18.2007
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The reporter might walk up to the photo desk and ask, “Who took the fire photos?” And Kotalik would answer, “We don’t take photos, we make them.”
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Content is king. People who steal work to mash it up and don’t attribute or pay their sources are dicks.
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This semester I had the opportunity to create and teach a new graduate course, focused on multimedia storytelling.
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it triggers so many negative visual codes that it make me uncomfortable. Do you find this image as provocative as I do? What does is say to you?
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When Tribune national correspondent Aamer Madhani and photographer Kuni Takahashi returned to Iraq last month for their third extended reporting trip for the “Inside the Surge” series, the military abruptly canceled their plan to embed with Bonecrusher.
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All you can do then is use a similar copy from another backup and hope that it will have a good version, underlining the idea that there is safety in numbers — and in back-ups.
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Howard Schatz has no time to lose. At the age of 67, he is in the full flowering of a second career.
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Photographer Lane Hartwell has just posted a statement on why she contacted a music group that used of one of her photos in a video without her permission
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A photo of Owen Thomas that I shot under contract for Wired News was used without my permission in a music video created by the Richter Scales.
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12.17.2007
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Ever wonder what your dog does while you’re away? Wonder what life looks like at his level?
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A lego reconstruction of Robert Capa’s 1936 picture “Death of a Loyalist Soldier”
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Henrik Kam – I have explored and photographed the stage-set like settings of the abandoned work spaces of the defunct Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco extensivly for a period of several years.
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People that use flickr as a source for free imagery have got to get this through their head. It doesn’t matter if you think copyright laws in the US are broken, they exist, and to misappropriate an image because you misunderstand the law isn’t right.
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I’ve gone through 4 generation of digital cameras in about a decade, and the difference in quality is staggering. So I’ll continue to let my Photoshop skills languish, and instead, try to concentrate on capturing the realism of photography the way I l
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I shoot on films at least 10 months of the year, 5-6 days a week, 12-16 hours a day. Every day I shoot a minimum 32GB of NEF’s (RAW digital image files). On the film I am working on now I have delivered over 4,0000 frames
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12.16.2007
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As deputy director of photography, Dave was the heart of The Sun’s photo department, and its staff was his family. Affable and easy going, he could be counted on to take on any task with a smile
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Via the flickr blog, your flickr account now has detailed stats for images and your photostream, with info such as referrers, so you can see where your photos are getting linked from.
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We’ve introduced a new feature for our pro members: stats!
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Dug up from the lightstalkers archive, Sion Touhig posted a great, no-nonsense, layman’s summary of copyright and what it means to photographers, especially in regards to websites such as Facebook, Flickr, and other sites where users submit photos.
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In the end, what counts for The Times is whether photographs of a semi-nude teenager with a certain Lolita quality to them are appropriate for the newspaper, regardless of their artistic merit.
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Bill Burke’s legendary book I Want to Take Picture originally published by Nexus Press in 1987 has been re-issued in a facsimile edition by Twin Palms for 2007.
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12.15.2007
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Paris Match had two men hidden in a tree overlooking the churchyard. As the burial took place one of the men jumped from the branches to be chased by the police, leaving his companion undisturbed to take the photograph.
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I cannot state how important I think personal work is for an editorial and commercial photographer like myself.
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i always have my camera with me…but, i do not always photograph everything around me all the time…like you, there are no pictures for me unless i am ready to make them…i need to be in the mood….or moved
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Yeah, what’s interesting about it is if you think about music, 35mm is jazz. So, the riff, the spontaneous and immediate riff on something that comes out of nowhere
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(Now I’ve linked to Ben Lowy’s site before, but it recently got overhauled and there’s all new stuff to look at… including the Storylines work which I’m totally enamored with.)
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For nearly three years, Jessica Dimmock followed this crew documenting what happened to them after eviction, how they fought to get clean, sank deeper into addiction, went to jail, started families and struggled to survive.
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Selecting the best pictures of the year is a massive task and involves trawling through thousands of world class images including stunning news pictures, graphic scenes of conflict, natural disasters, sports, and a lot of boring pictures
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we’ve just quickly created an Amazon Affiliate account specifically for this post so that 100% of the kickback (sometimes up to 5% of each item) will go to charity
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http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/digitized_collections/lissitzky/fold_out/index.htmHuge photomontage by soviet photograph El Lissitzky, at the Getty
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12.14.2007
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A co-panelist—the director of corporate advertising at a big company—showed us the before and after versions of an executive’s profile that she retouched electronically.
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When I think about high level photographers who can shoot anything and are flexible and can problem solve on the fly, Frank (Frankie three sticks) comes to mind every time.
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If “photography” is something so brittle & exclusionary that it can’t bear evolution, then goodbye and good riddance.
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Mormons are addicted to Coke.
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$25,000 grant for photographer Kathryn Cook to support her project “Memory Denied: Turkey and the Armenian Genocide.”
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“You can’t steal people’s work,” Gross said, pointing out that the “Bubble” video did not parody Hartwell’s image, and therefore is not covered by the fair use provisions of copyright law.
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Reading the new book about Cartier-Bresson, the Scrapbook, makes one aware of that peculiar and forceful truth that photography is not only intimately linked to the use of film, but in fact depends for its very existence on film.
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John McDermott’s workflow once consisted of handing off rolls of Kodachrome to a courier and waiting to see which images appeared in Newsweek. He then struggled through the awkward digital transition until he discovered Aperture.
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VISUAL definition is a contest to provoke creativity. OBEY challenges you to capture the essence of your favorite city, anywhere in the world, in a single photograph.
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the Concord Monitor photo staff has learned to cover the rat race better than most… So they recently started a blog of all of their presidential primary photography.
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Bonnie Jo Mount has been named as the new photography editor of The Washington Post beginning January 7, 2008
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12.13.2007
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a book titled “American Pictures”, but after a Byzantine plot by the KGB to use the book as pro-communist, anti-american propaganda was uncovered, Jacob Holdt hired a lawyer to stop publication of the book all over the world.
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I found them unique, moving, sensual, brutal, sometimes even shocking, wavering between desire, pleasure and suffering – one moment attracting us to desirable bodies or exciting situations, and the next to something we have no reason to desire.
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Every software program that I’m familiar with includes some automatic adjustments, and without fail, until recently, I’ve been opposed to using them.
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Editor’s Note: This is a first-person account of Bill Lawson’s arrest by a state trooper while attempting to take pictures at a house fire in Maumelle on Monday evening.
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Radar has learned that NYPD detectives recently questioned New York Post photographer Ron Romano of Staten Island in connection with the Ninja burglaries which have besieged that tropical paradise this year
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In his most recent projects, Mexican photographer Alejandro Cartagena looks at urban sprawl and its ecological consequences in his country.
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The latest service to make a splash is called Uber.com and from the little bit we’ve seen so far, it differentiates itself from liveBooks and others in one important area for photographers — it’s absolutely free and there’s unlimited storage.
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So, when I walked into the Fenger gym today and saw the sun streaming in, I decided to work the light.
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12.12.2007
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I have heard Enrique Metinides referred to as the ‘Mexican Weegee’ linking him to Arthur Fellig, the famous New York crime photographer of the 1930’s and 40’s.
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But to date, Army lawyers and bureaucrats have blocked requests by The Sun and others to open these war stories to the public. They cite, among other reasons, potential threats to soldiers’ privacy and safety.
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12.11.2007
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The story, it turns out, was fabricated, soup to nuts, by a 4-month-old snap-and-gab site called Derober.com.
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You’ve got to see this to believe it.
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I documented the entire experience [in] 3,214 photographs, beginning with the taxi ride to Newark airport, and ending with the butchering of the second whale, seven days later. The photographs were taken at five-minute intervals
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An L.A. museum show of African American photography finds out just how volatile two simple words can be.
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Walter Ioss Jr., photo shoot of Tiger Woods: Director of Photography Matt Ginella recalls: “I was holding a reflector in front of Tiger. When he looked up, I almost fell over. The look was too good.”
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Joerg Colberg speaks with Peter van Agtmael, a 26-year-old graduate of Yale University who has spent the majority of his young career in hotspots like Iraq and Afghanistan.
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12.10.2007
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German photographer Nathalie Mohadjer delivers an insightful photo-essay on the plight of some of the 2.2 million refugees still living in crowded run-down refugee camps in Bosnia
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Photographer Jim Lo Scalzo has been on assignment for U.S. News & World Report in all 50 states and in 64 nations since 1994.
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The US military have insisted that any meetings between Hussein and his defence lawyer must also be attended by US military personnel and an interpreter. “You cannot prepare a defendant for a criminal trial with the prosecutor in the room”
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She posted an ad on Craigslist inviting users to come to the Tacoma, Wash., home of her aunt Laurie Raye and “take what you want. Everything is free. Please help yourself to anything on the property.”
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Photos from David Hume Kennerly’s new book, “Extraordinary Circumstances: The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford”
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30 years of portraits by Diana Walker
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photos by Kevin German
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