Hearst Corporation’s history of working with photography’s pioneers and rule breakers continues with the 2nd Hearst 8×10 Photography Biennial – an international competition saluting the next generation of talent, which will play an important role in the future of magazines, media, the web, design and photography.
On Christmas Day, police in the U.K. rounded up tourists taking photos of the royal family at Sandringham church and confiscated their cameras. At The Independent, Dominic Lawson’s dismay sub…
a new option called Endless Memory that enables the card to automatically delete the oldest photos and video from the card once it has confirmed they’ve been successfully transferred to their destination.
This has been a momentous year for media. In my previous four posts on the revolutions in the media economy, I have used the present uncertainty to take a fresh look at the past many now view nostalgically. This critical view demonstrated that newspapers have always been commercial enterprises rather than altruistic associations, they were in decline many years before the Internet restructured the conditions of publishing, and that the practice of investigative journalism is something we need to create as much as we need to protect. In this context, photographers who believe that their practice is defined by an editorial paymaster committed to documentary work are going to have a very hard time.
In a way, this completes a full circle for McSweeney’s founder and editor Dave Eggers, who, in his 2000 book A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, recalled doing freelance design for the San Francisco Chronicle to pay rent. While journalism struggles to redefine itself on the Internet, Eggers maintains that “print is a more calm, and maybe even civilized, delivery vehicle,” and wants the Panorama to demonstrate things print can do that web content can’t. The day after the Panorama’s release, The A.V. Club called up Eggers to find out what his favorite things are about newspapers.
We are still speaking of her as if she is alive, for it is so difficult to accept that our beloved colleague is gone. Michelle Lang, young, smart, engaged to be married, “a helluva journalist,” as our editor- in-chief said Wednesday amid the t
Peter Turnley is by any measure one of the most accomplished photographers of his generation. My interest in his work—and hence what you’ve read about him here on TOP—has centered around his personal work, in books such as Parisians and…
“As the temperature in London plummets, my thoughts turn to the homeless who have to endure below freezing conditions out on the streets,” reports Helen Soteriou. “I knew Blek Le Rat is an artist passionate about highlighting this issue, so I contacted him to ask a few questions.”
Update #2: the domain name cw-sonderoptic.de is registered to Rainer Schnabel (perform a whois check for cw-sonderoptic.de) and of course he works for Leica: see this Google search. Update: a picture of some of those Leica cine lenses could be seen here (
Ilan Godfrey’s projects about life in South Africa took my interest recently, partly due to how close to home they were for me.
His ‘Living With Crime‘ project looked at victims of crime in South Africa, who have suffered a horrendous ordeal or lost a loved one due to violent crime.
Samsung has jumped the CES 2010 gate and announced a new, rangefinder-style camera a couple days before the gadget-fest begins. The NX10 joins the Olympus Pen and the Panasonic GF-1 in a growing segment, made up of cameras with large, DSLR-sized sensors i
Pocket Wizard makes radio-frequency remote controls for camera flashes. These off-camera strobe triggers are the choice of professionals as they have a reputation of being bulletproof, firing the speedlight every single time, over and over and over. That