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Expect an even bigger announcement within the next 48 hours – that will involve you all! (hint…it’s a BIG film contest…)
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Despite being hammered by a paralyzing recession, 2009 turned out to be a surprisingly exciting year for photography gear. And as Technology Specialist for PDN magazine and Editor of the PDN Gear Guide, I had the lucky job of being able to test much of it.
Though year-end lists are always a very subjective matter, the following is my rundown of the stand-out professional “Gear of the Year” for 2009.
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If 6-year-olds created a bike race, it’d easily be a form of cyclocross. It’s fun to ride, fun to watch, fun to shoot.
I crisscrossed the state to Bend a week ago for the final day of the national championships to see what I could see and to test out my new cold-weather gear before the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
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Geordie Wood first got his hands on a Mamiya camera while attending the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, beginning his academic career as a Photojournalism major.
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Photos by Kendrick BrinsonFor 50 years, those 55 and older have relocated to Sun City, Arizona, a city self-governed, a city unlike any other in the world. Sun City is 13 square miles of a retirement paradise of palm tree lined streets, each with a golf cart lane. The average age is 73. The community boasts eleven golf courses, seven recreation centers, seven swimming pools, three country clubs, 16 shopping centers and two libraries; the 42,500 residents have a lot to keep busy.
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Carrying a Leica with a 35-millimeter lens, James Whitlow Delano photographs fast and unobtrusively. He says that photography is part of his D.N.A. “I am moved by light,” he said. “I like to tell stories. There is this need to travel and learn that I have been lucky enough to indulge.”
Link: Showcase: A Thirsting Planet – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
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Swedish photographer Johan Bävman is the winner of the international competition “UNICEF Photo of the Year”. His photo shows two schoolgirls playing in their classroom at a school in Northern Tanzania. The visual impairment of 10-year-old Mwanaidi is not obvious at first glance. Her best friend Selina, however, stands out immediately. She suffers from albinism
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We’re a ways off from hand-held cameras that can do it, but the future of photography will involve pictures in which the depth-of-field and focus and camera position each can be adjusted reliably and with quality in post-production.
Link: Building the future of photography at home: DIY Computational Photography | dvafoto
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The D3S digital SLR cameras and AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED lenses ordered by NASA will be carried on the Space Shuttle and used to photograph activities at the International Space Station (ISS) in the future.
Link: Nikon | News | NASA Orders D3S Digital SLR Cameras and Interchangeable Lenses from Nikon
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Loan wolf? Prizewinning photographer faces fakery claims
José Luis Rodriguez accused of using tame, ‘model’ animal for close-up that won him prestigious £10,000 award
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/dec/21/wolf-picture-rodriguez-wildlife-photographer
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Press photographer Tomasz Tomaszewski took top honors for his series “Hades?” depicting how the economic crisis is affecting manual labor in heavy industry in Poland.
Link: PDNPulse: Tomaszewski Wins SocialDocumentary.net Photo Contest
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I finally found some time to look at the 2009 Photography Book Now winning publication, Black Sea of Concrete, by Polish photographer, Rafal Milach. Rafal won $25,000 for his grand prize winning submission about the Black Sea. He works as an editorial photographer and is the co-founder of SPUTNIK, the collective of photographers from Central-Eastern European region, but he continues to work on fine art projects and essays.
Link: lenscratch: Rafal Milach
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Since FlakPhoto’s Andy Adams and I put out our call for posts on the Future of Photobooks a few weeks ago, more than 40 bloggers have shared their insights. You can find them all in our original post, plus lots of additional comments, and two new posts, about DIY book printers and the Future of Photobooks Twitter chat.
Link: 12 Hot Thoughts on the Future of Photobooks | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog
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Alec Soth’s Top 10 Photobooks of 2009
You and Me and the Art of Give and Take by Allen Ruppersberg (Santa Monica Museum of Art) Holy information overload. One of the coolest exhibition catalogues I’ve ever seen. Greater Atlanta by Mark…
via LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG: http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/alec-soth’s-top-10-photobooks-of-2009/
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a collectors’ edition…
dreams, fantasies, and idealizations….all ethereal in nature….and hardly anything one can grasp or hold onto…yet, this is what i live for and form the basic building blocks for an…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2009/12/a-collectors-edition/
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I recently talked about this with a friend of mine who has been taking photographs for thirty years now (incl. large-format). I asked him why so many photographers formerly well known for their beautiful analog prints end up with bad, oversharpened digital prints, which often even have colours bordering on the gaudy. My friend suggested it was because these photographers typically hand off the work to be done by the various professional digital labs, and they accept what they get back, thinking that that’s just as good as it gets.
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