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an exchange between a videographer and a security guard in front of Vancouver Olympic Centre where the 2010 Winter Olympics are being held.
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Mexican military, hotel staff protected Jennifer Aniston from paparazzi
WENN.com Jennifer Aniston’s Mexican vacation was made extra special by One & Only Palmilla resort staff in Cabo San Lucas and the local military — they teamed up to prevent the prow…
via Daily Dish: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=57093
She explains, “Our gang … has been holding up these mirrors … to sort of disrupt their photographs … I think any guest who comes here would hope to have a little privacy. I think it’s very nice.”
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In the November/December issue of American Photo, we scooped the story of how fashion and celebrity photo tag team Markus Klinko and Indrani are venturing into reality TV with their own Bravo network series. Called Double Exposure
Link: State of the Art: Two For The Show: Fashion’s Top Tag Team Hits Prime Time
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Tema Stauffer
MW What inspired you to start taking photographs, and what is the primary inspiration for you to keep working in this field? TS I sp…
Link: http://2waylens.blogspot.com/2010/02/tema-stauffer.html
I was fascinated with stories and was determined to invent my own path. Among some of my early fantasies of what I might be when I grew up were a writer, an artist and the leader of a motorcycle gang.
My mother enrolled me in my first photography class at an art center while I was in high school. I took pictures of my friends in fields and cemeteries and jumped out of the car with my camera for the right stranger on the street – someone who looked as restless as I felt.
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Don McCullin | Photography review
This career retrospective shows that time and familiarity have not dulled the impact of photojournalist Don McCullin’s astonishing combat photography, writes Andrew Pulver
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/10/don-mccullin-review
It feels like a state honour: the photojournalist Don McCullin, one-time employee of the Observer and the Sunday Times, is being dignified with a retrospective at a national museum. The venue – the new Libeskind-designed Imperial War Museum North – tells you the emphasis is on his astonishing combat work.
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Photographer Max Vadukul’s best shot
Max Vadukul: ‘I’m an atheist – to be honest, I was looking to trip Mother Teresa up. But she had such a force about her’
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/10/photography-max-vadukul-best-shot
‘I’m an atheist – to be honest, I was looking to trip Mother Teresa up. But she had such a force about her’
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Alfred Gregory obituary
Mountaineer and photographer who recorded the Everest expedition of 1953
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/10/alfred-gregory-obituary
There are some people who, by their presence and solidity, immediately impress, and Alfred Gregory, who has died aged 96, was one of them: the grave, lined face, the faded blue eyes puckering into ready laughter under a mane of silver hair, the slim sturdiness of physique and self-contained dignity. A former major in the Black Watch, the photographer with the team that made the first ascent of Everest in May 1953, and one of the stalwarts of that expedition, friendly with and respected by most of the climbing heroes of my youth, he was, in his diffident and self-effacing way, one of the crucial elders of the mountaineering tribe.
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We’ll get right to the point. The EOS-1D Mark IV’s AF system shows signs of brilliance. For example, while testing the camera’s ability to track an athlete running straight towards the camera, the EOS-1D Mark IV locked onto the subject and would not let go, producing sequence after sequence of mostly in-focus pictures. In several rounds, 25 or more frames in a row were either perfectly focused or just slightly out.
Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: An analysis of EOS-1D Mark IV autofocus performance
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Times Are Changing – Less Books, More Video and Profits Are Up – A Photo Editor
Speaking with an agent recently (small to mid-size, top shelf roster) who told me that last year 20 or more books would go out the door each week and now it’s more like 2. Also, 80% of jobs now come with requests to see a video reel. They commented that i
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/02/11/times-are-changing-less-books-more-video-and-profits-are-up/
80% of jobs now come with requests to see a video reel. They commented that it reminded them of when the internet got hot and everyone wanted web rights but they had no idea what they were going to do with it.
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Missteps, errors and miscommunication doomed Blackwater case
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021004029.html?wprss=rss_world
The questions come as the Justice Department last month launched its appeal of a scathing opinion by the well-respected judge, who ruled that the conduct of Kohl and other prosecutors was so egregious that it “requires dismissal of the indictment against all the defendants.” The guards had been accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians and wounding 20 others in an eruption of gunfire and grenade explosions in a busy Baghdad square on a sunny afternoon in 2007.
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the real beast.
when i was enjoying myself in beautiful snowy sundance i got an email — actually through facebook — asking if i would cover a premiere. it wasn’t an assignment per se as it came from the studio. hadn’t done one…
via APhotoContributor: http://aphotocontributor.typepad.com/aphotocontributor/2010/02/the-real-beast.html
so … when i mentioned that i was gonna shoot this particular premiere, valentine’s day, one of my friends asked if i thought a leica s2 would be interesting to shoot. almost 38 megapixels. i’m used to 20 or so but … 38? there was only one lens available and since i wasn’t gonna be roaming i wondered if the 2.5/70 sumarit would be enough. it wasn’t like i was on an assignment-assignment so … whatever. it’s all good. having shot one of the h2’s i thought it’d be slow.
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Edward Linsmier
Edward Linsmier is my first guest blogger, he is a photojournalist based out of southern florida. Edward has spent a lot of tim …
Link: http://adjustmentlayer.blogspot.com/2010/02/edward-linsmier.html
Edward Linsmier is my first guest blogger, he is a photojournalist based out of southern florida. Edward has spent a lot of tim working and shooting in Haiti over the past several years and has a close relationship with the country and it’s people. When the earth quake happened I knew he would go down so I contacted him about doing this for me. Here is a story from Edward as well as some heart stopping images.
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This collection of images are excerpts from a visual journal. The title is derived from something my wife, Melissa, said to me in her sleep. These are snapshots from my daily life
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On August 8, 2008, the Beijing Olympic Games began. The choice of China as a host country was the subject of criticism by politicians and NGOs concerned about China’s human rights record.The Games saw 43 new world records and 132 new Olympic records set. Chinese athletes won 51 gold medals altogether, the second largest haul by a national team in a modern, non-boycotted Summer Games.The local Beijing people gave up the most for the Games. The homeless were banished from the city. The poor were covered by constructed walls. The culture was diluted to welcome Western tourists.
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Reuters photographer says reborn after freed by U.S.
The U.S. military freed a Reuters photographer in Iraq on Wednesday, almost a ye…
via U.S.: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6191PF20100210
The U.S. military has never said exactly why it detained Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed — who worked for Reuters as a freelance TV cameraman and photographer — and locked him away for so long, saying the evidence against him was classified.
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Russia is just so BIG. So it’s no wonder that’s where one of the first online photography workshops is taking shape. As Liza Faktor points out in this interview about the workshop, [OR]EDU, using online tools like blogs allows her Objective Reality foundation to bring international masters to emerging photographers who are too often cut off from a vibrant photo community and too rarely can afford travel costs to real-space workshops.
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But has the legal settlement made a difference in how photographers are treated within the nation’s largest subway system?
Not even close.
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Standing on the Corner – Reflections Upon Garry Winogrand’s Photographic Gaze – Mirror of Self or World? Part II (1991)
Whenever I see it, I immediately hear a voice singing, “Standing on the corner watching all the girls go by.” Yes, it is a sexist work. But that is a fact about Winogrand we must face and accept, if we are to honestly assess his picture-making.
Part IIvia AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/02/theory-standing-on-corner-reflections_08.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28AMERICANSUBURBX%29
About looking and watching. That is what so many of Winogrand’s pictures are about—about his looking and watching. And that is why I think, in clear disagreement with most other writers on Winogrand, that Women are Beautiful (1975) is the quintessential Winogrand book. Whenever I see it, I immediately hear a voice singing, “Standing on the corner watching all the girls go by.” Yes, it is a sexist work. But that is a fact about Winogrand we must face and accept, if we are to honestly assess his picture-making. Of his books it is the most vibrant and vital; it is the one that most consistently reveals an honest, deep, real commitment.
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Insight Timer – Meditation, Relaxation and Sleep
12 million people use Insight Timer to sleep better, reduce anxiety, improve their happiness and learn to meditate. With more than 35,000 free titles, Insight Timer has the largest free library of sleep tools, music tracks, and guided meditations on earth
Link: http://insig.ht/2010/02/more-wall-or-less-wall/
One of my greatest photographic pleasures is getting together with a few savvy individuals and a box of prints and then proceeding to disembowel, dissect and reconstitute the latter (doing it to the former would be self-defeating). I most recently did this with Ben Roberts: we lay a bunch of prints from his series The Gathering Clouds on my floor one afternoon and whipped up an effective initial edit in about half an hour.
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