I don’t know where to start. Haiti, even on a good day, is an exhaustive assault on the senses. Even on its worst, you know it’s not the people of Haiti that are the problem.
Link: the life of m: Ayiti!
I don’t know where to start. Haiti, even on a good day, is an exhaustive assault on the senses. Even on its worst, you know it’s not the people of Haiti that are the problem.
Link: the life of m: Ayiti!
As always, we’ve been busy trying to keep up to date with all of the fantastic multimedia being produced out there. Here are a few more projects we’ve been watching that we wanted to share with you.
Link: MediaStorm » Blog Archive » Things We Love: Projects Worth Watching
Cory Doctorow: Copyright may not be perfect, but when applied with common sense, it’s the best system we’ve got
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/26/copyright-cory-doctorow
A Canon EVIL? A new rumor has appeared the web about Canon announcing an EVIL camera. From DPR Apparently Canon will unveil soon an EVIL system smaller tha
via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2010/01/canon-x1-evil-cr/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+canonrumors%2Frss+%28Canon+Rumors%29
In 1957, Davidson starting working for Life Magazine and became a full-time member of Magnum in 1958.
via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/7071459/Bruce-Davidson.html
Photo by Umida Akhmedova Uzbek photographer Umida Akhmedova is awaiting trial and is facing a potential sentence of six months in prison or three years forced labor. At issue is a 2007 work called Men and Women from Dawn to…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/01/umida-akhmedova.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29
“The Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2.6.1 update includes one important correction that is only relevant for Leica M9 users. This release of Lightroom fixes a bug that caused Lightroom 2.6 to crash when processing certain M9 images. The bug was introduced i
An automatic camera with a date-imprinting function, a flood of words, silence and solitude – Araki manipulates all of these in every possible combination. Photography has never been a tool or medium for him. For twenty-five years he has been trying to confirm something within photography. Photography, for him, was neither a mere instrument nor a means towards an end; he has always only wanted to know if photography can depict substantial beings at all.
Link: AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Nobuyoshi Araki – Photographs to be Read”
In a recent survey leading up to the release of the 30th anniversary issue of PDN, readers voted Josef Koudelka’s Invasion 68: Prague (Aperture, 2008) one of the most influential books of the decade.
Link: Visions of the Decade: Koudelka’s Invasion 68: Prague | PDN Photo of the Day
What I do intend to do is to lay out a single principle around which a good negotiation should center and work backwards to describe how photographers can use their own creativity along with all the moving parts of a contract so that the final agreement isn’t disproportionately slanted in favor of the stronger party.
Link: Legal Left, Meet Creative Right -Beyond Price | Luceo Images
Just before the holidays, I managed to get my hands on a new Leica M9. Over the past several weeks I have been putting it through the paces around Paris. Since late 2005, the only cameras that I ha…
via Tomas van Houtryve | Journal: http://tomasvanhoutryve.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/testing-the-leica-m9-in-paris/
Roger Ballen talks about photobooks from Jim Casper on Vimeo.
via: Short video: Roger Ballen talks about photobooks – lens culture photography weblog
Darren Holliday: New technologies do not make better art: a new generation of artists has turned to equipment older than themselves
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/24/retro-creative-artists-equipment
When people steal my content on the internet, I get very angry. At some point, I decided to fight back. This post explains why and how.
Link: Protecting your copyright in a digital world :: Photocritic photography blog
The Tulip Revolution of 2005 infused Kyrgyzstan with hope. William Daniels has found the optimism badly tarnished and dulled, Celina Fang reports.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/showcase-114/
You know how Leica marks itself out with its typically subdued matte black finishes and old school designs? Well, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of t…
Austin, Texas Portrait Photographer’s Blog about Photography, Art and Writing by Kirk Tuck.
Brauer: “I’m currently based in China, working on various long-term publications. I’m represented by Invision Images in Europe, Aurora Select in the US through a partnership with Invision, and Wonderful Machine in the US, as well. I get by selling stock, periodic assignments, corporate shoots now and again, and some web design on the side. I got here by sheer force of will, I suppose.”
Without picking on any one individual, I’d like to address a common plaint about prices. But first, I wonder if I could reproduce, unedited, a short passage from the website of a high-end stereo retailer. To make sure you understand…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/01/leica-could-be-worse.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29
Chilly perfection is traded for humanity in Iwan Baan’s architectural photographs.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/arts/design/24baan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss