The implications may depend on our politics. Here is a child’s toy and the ruins of an apartment building. We know enough — “Israeli bombs slammed into a complex of buildings” — to infer (correctly or incorrectly) that Israeli forces targeted civilians. The Mickey Mouse photograph is not unique. A blog post, “The Passion of the Toys,” collected a number of wire service photographs taken in southern Lebanon. The sheer number of toys photographed seems to suggest that some of the images could have been staged.
In his hands. Louis Mendes works the same crowds — and parades, graduations and concerts — cradling like a piece of sculpture a vintage Speed Graphic camera outfitted with two flash units and a Polaroid back.
At one point during the attack, which took place late Friday, only a reinforced bathroom door protected the artist, Kurt Westergaard, 74, who was shielding his 5-year-old granddaughter as the attacker — armed with an ax and a knife and shouting “Revenge!” and “Blood!” — tried to smash through the door, according to an account the artist gave to the newspaper that employs him, Jyllands-Posten.
CLICK NOTE: I think this may be the greatest photo of a criminal suspect that I’ve ever seen.
Two security men in Kaduna State, are now in hot soup for stealing goat. The suspects, who were security men at Oando filling station, Gonigora, allegedly stole the goat, belonging to the Director of Sharon petrol station, Gonigora, Kaduna State.
Due to my general laziness after the holidays I see that Andrew Phelps, the fine photographer and blogger of the booksite Buffet, has beaten me to the punch by mentioning Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen’s newest publication Sanatorium.
“The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete”
In this single sentence, Chimamanda Adichie sums up the danger of a “single story” such as all Africans being poor and corrupt and all Middle Eastern men being terrorists.
I’d like to do a little self promoting here today, which is not something I’m overly good at. For whatever old-school reason (maybe it’s a midwestern thing), it has always been my practice to just put my work out there…
So, 2009 for me was a year of transition. I made about twice as much farming and ranching as I did making images for magazines this year. Which is a first. In fact, I did something else in 2009, that I have never done before, which is to turn down editorial work. No offense magazine editors, and I can say this because we both know it’s true… at some point it became just too big of a hassle to wait three or four months to be paid, and then have the invoice returned because a bottle of water should be listed under “food”, and a package of tissue should be listed under “supplies”.
Recreating historical images using models is nothing new, but in the case of Bradley Wollman’s The Little War, images of the Iraq war, there is an added dimension: Most of the original images, recreated by the artist, were either carefully staged – or at least controlled – themselve
[slidepress gallery=’jeromebrunet-cops’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Jérôme Brunet Cops: Riding Shotgun with Texas Sheriffs play this essay When …
When asked why I’m interested in law enforcement, I’m compelled to reply, “We all should be.” The fact that we know so incredibly little about our ‘boys in blue’ all though we see them on our street corners and of course in more dramatized versions on television and in Hollywood, I’ve always been interested in the symbolic aspect of the modern day police officer; the man with the badge, gun and authority to dramatically change a persons life forever.
There is no order here, it’s just how the work came in, so make a cup of coffee, sit back and celebrate our rich visual community. If you really like an image, click on it to make it bigger, and even send your fellow photographer an e-mail. Here’s a toast to all to good things happenning for Fine Art Photographers in 2010. If nothing else, we have each other!
I have a thousand questions about The Tablet’s design. What size is it? There’s a big difference between, say, 7- and 10-inch displays. How do you type on it? With all your fingers, like a laptop keyboard? Or like an iPhone, with only your thumbs? If you’re supposed to watch video on it, how do you prop it up? Holding it in your hands?
When owners of The Washington Times cut their 170-member newsroom staff yesterday, the entire photography department – with the exception of photography director Joseph M. Eddins Jr. and imaging tech Melissa Cannarozzi – lost their jobs.
If you’re holding one, you can turn the page. But it’s very possible that you’re nowhere near a turnable page now. You’re reading on a computer or a hand-held device, even though this column was intended for a magazine — a Sunday newspaper supplement that started in 1896. Like hardcover books in Kindle editions and “Daily Show” clips on the Web, this column is produced in large part for a medium other than the one in which it is consumed.
Canon Rumors 2009 Awards! Here are my picks for the best and worst of 2009. Stay tuned tomorrow for my predictions for 2010 from Canon. *Note: You may disag
Copyright Jim Goldberg 2009 courtesy Steidl Reviewing Jim Goldberg’s photobook Open See, published this year by Steidl, it may be initially a stretch to think of this body of work coming fro…
Reviewing Jim Goldberg’s photobook Open See, published this year by Steidl, it may be initially be a stretch to think of this body of work coming from the Magnum photographic agency as a photojournalist project. In more than one way it is difficult to think of this body of work as a derivative of the other renowned members of this storied cooperative photographic agency, including such photographic luminaries as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, David Seymour, Dennis Stock, Burk Uzzle, Sebastiao Salgado, Marc Riboud, Elliot Erwit, Bruce Davidson and Steve McCurry.
The five-exposure contact strip of 35-millimeter Kodak Plus-X film begins unremarkably enough. Frame 12: Helmeted policemen gather around a motorcycle. Frame 13: Pedestrians move one way or the other on the sidewalk. (Not bad. Some promise there.) Frame 14: A woman and children gaze up at something above them. Frame 15: Well-dressed shoppers appear to be peering into a store window.
