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Photos by DARYL PEVETOA central goal of the American Dream is to one day own your own home. Yet our beginnings were forged out of another, antithetical idea: that of movement and searching for self-determination. Today this idea still exists, but far away from our neatly manicured suburban homes and out of view of the mainstream. In the United States, there exist large communities which have turned their backs on the idea of settling down, opting for a nomadic life. One such community open to this lifestyle is Slab City, located on the Salton Sea in southern California. There are no amenities or services. No potable water, no electricity, no stores, nothing. What this community does offer is a sort of freedom, which for many of them begins with its root: free. No rent, no taxes, no fees. This is a community of barter and necessity, completely anarchic. At first glance, this community is both raw and harsh, but there is also much beauty and love. There are thieves and rampant drug use, but also picnics and birthday parties and an always-open door. And much like the rest of the world, they eat and bathe and sleep and marry and die. But they do it on their own terms.
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Photos by DARYL PEVETOLike many emerging market-based economies throughout South America, Africa, and even many of the former Soviet republics, Peru is a case study in both the tumultuous nature by which free market economies develop and a reminder that they, like democracy itself, are a perpetual work in progress. More importantly, it is also a study of the will power of individuals and communities to effect change rather than wait for it to reach them.
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Showcase: Trouble on the Line
“Pipe Dreams,” a new book by Rena Effendi, effectively brings an 1,100-mile-long underground pipeline into the light of the day, Kerri MacDonald reports.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/showcase-106/
“Pipe Dreams: A Chronicle of Lives Along the Pipeline,” a new book by the 32-year-old Azerbaijini photographer Rena Effendi, effectively brings an 1,100-mile-long underground pipeline into the light of the day. With a grant from Getty Images, she traveled along its route, from Baku, Azerbaijan; through Tbilisi, Georgia; to Ceyhan, Turkey. She found a collapsing Soviet-era infrastructure and refugees living hopelessly among ruins and decay.
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New Leica 35mm Summilux lens details – Leica Rumors
This just in regarding the rumored new Leica 35mm Summilux lens: Will have a floating element construction to reduce focusing shift to nothing. Will be on the market in March, 2010. Will have screw lens hood like the Elmar 24. Will be a little bigger than
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Getty Images, Inc., the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual and digital media content, today announced an editorial distribution partnership with The Washington Post. This strategic relationship provides customers around the world with access to imagery captured by one of the most respected news organizations, The Washington Post, and enables Getty Images to offer the most comprehensive editorial imagery coverage of today’s top stories.
Link: Getty Images: Getty Images Appointed as Editorial Distribution Partner for The Washington Post
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FOTOFORUM: Indelible Image II
Because we had so many responses to last month’s FotoForum: The Indelible Image, we decided to run a second column this month. So for January, we are featuring the indelible image choice of …
Link: http://webbnorriswebb.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/fotoforum-indelible-image-ii/
we are featuring the indelible image choice of noted Aperture editor Denise Wolff, who has worked with some of the world’s most widely acclaimed photographers, including Mary Ellen Mark, Stephen Shore, Martin Parr, and Eugene Richards. Originally a photographer herself, Denise is joined by six other photographers from five different countries around the world for this column, all of whom have chosen to write about a photograph that they responded to strongly as young photographers –– an indelible image that still lingers with them today
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Too much of what we see today in photography ( thank you, commercial stock) is a sea of banality, of repetition, of dullness. It is status quo and no more. A long straight road of boring pre digested concept. Like a TV dinner : Please reheat and serve hot. Millions upon millions of images that rote just a few days after being exposed, so much full of artifice they are. A constant stream of annoying visual buzz that we hardly notice anymore.
Link: Thoughts of a Bohemian » Blog Archive » Like a Tv Dinner
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Nygard Store Tries to Impose a Press Curb
Nygard, a sportswear line based in Canada, is suing for copyright infringement after an uninvited reporter covered its grand opening in Manhattan.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/business/media/11nygard.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
In its complaint filed in a United States District Court, Nygard said that it had invited only a few members of the media who had to sign an agreement “limiting their right to record the event.”
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This week showcases work from Céline Clanet’s project, Máze, which documents a small Sámi village located at the highest point of the European map, far above the Arctic Circle, in Norwegian Lapland.
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It is important to get a feel for the real photo world, which is a lot different then what school, or even your own mind tells you. You need to find out if this is really for you (i.e. photojournalism, etc.). That’s what I did. I ended up being a cadet staff photographer for my local Hong Kong paper the South China Morning Post. I worked 6 days a week and did 3 – 8 assignments a day. Sometimes I would spend 5 hours just sitting around waiting for news stories.
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British reporter Hamer and U.S. Marine are killed by roadside bomb in Afghanistan
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/10/AR2010011001441.html?wprss=rss_world
British press reports said the journalist, Rupert Hamer, 39, was the first British reporter killed covering the conflict in Afghanistan, now in its ninth year. The photographer was identified as Philip Coburn, 43, and initial reports said his injuries were serious but not life-threatening.
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Study Finds That Papers Lead in Providing New Information
A new study found that 95 percent of articles containing new information came from old media, which “set the narrative agenda for most other media outlets.”
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/business/media/11baltimore.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
the great majority of actual reporting still comes from newspapers
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An interview with Elizabeth Fleming about using MagCloud and Blurb to publish her own magazine and book.
Link: Larissa Leclair – Interview: Elizabeth Fleming
via: Tethered
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There is a strong rumor that Nikon, Canon and Sony are developing mirror-less compact cameras with APS-C sensor sizes. The Leica X1 foreshadows this development. For Leica the X1 is a bold step and this could be a very promising one, but only when the camera offers interchangeable lenses and a redesigned set of functions. One could even imagine a digital CL with the M8 sensor size.
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In Search of an Archive of Warhol’s Era
Thousands of negatives of photographs the photographer Billy Name took in Andy Warhol’s Factory in the 1960s have gone missing.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/arts/design/09billy.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
sometime in the last two years, Mr. Name’s archive of negatives went missing. Mr. Name left it in the care of a photography agent, Kevin Kushel, a former director of The Associated Press’s photo archive who went on to form his own stock-photography company, and whom Mr. Name said he had not been able to contact for months. The disappearance of the negatives has alarmed not just Mr. Name and his circle of friends and supporters but also scholars, who describe the images as an important historical record of a pivotal time in art history.
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Chris Anderson visited HOST gallery in at the end of last year to launch his new book, Capitolio, in London.
He spoke about being a photographer and how his photography and desire to explore new ways of telling stories has developed over recent years, culminating in the book based on his experiences in Venezuela.
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I don’t remember how I first met Isaac McKay-Randozzi, but it feels like it was a very long time ago. Mentally, I associate him with: film, black/white, and skateboarding.
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I recently spotted one of Nathan Lundstrum’s photographs on Flak Photo and was intrigued. And then discovered his book, Ordinary Hours, was selected with an Honorable Mention in the Photography.Book.Now. competition.
