Staff photographers are getting laid off. Freelancers are seeing less work. The Nikon D3x, the Canon 1DMk4 and Leica M9 are beginning to look a little pricey. Thus, this month’s column is on the relatively cheap – oops – economical stuff.
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Importantly, though, these fine art photographers also have a mission and a sense of purpose based on craft, ingenuity and often a desire to experiment. Their work and the techniques they use to achieve their goals are often different from photojournalists’. I saw photos reproduced in traditional silver prints, chromogenic prints, large-scale inkjet prints, electron microscopy, gum bichromate-cyanotype prints.
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What makes the M9 an important development beyond providing long-term Leica stalwarts with a dream come true, is its size. It is no small feat of engineering to bring forth a full 35mm-frame digital camera in such a compact camera. I was struck by this image in a Leica training document comparing the M9 footprint to those of DSLRs.
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In the end, one wonders how it’s possible to even put out a magazine anymore. When I think of what we used to do, the budgets we had – and they never felt extravagant at the time – were essentially an investment in excellence.
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The horse has escaped the barn, but almost all the discussions over the years as newspapers began their downward slide failed to acknowledge, or even seemed to grasp in some cases, that “newspapers” are, in essence, really TWO businesses – the “front half” and the “back half.” The “front half” is the news operation, with reporters and photographers leaving the building to report and editors in the office who package that news, and the business office where ads and subscriptions are sold. The “back half” involves trade union workers – pressmen and such – who take the news operation’s pictures and ads into a production facility not that far removed from the 19th-century “hot-type” era of linotype machines and newsprint rolls weighing a ton or more each, printing inks and giant presses, where they manufacture the actual “product” that gets trucked away by union drivers (some making six-figure salaries) to distribution points.
Link: All the News That Fits the Horse-Drawn Cart – The Digital Journalist
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Leica X1 photo gallery proves that big shots do come in little packages
For those who’ve never really understood the mystique and allure surrounding Leica’s retro-styled cameras (and their stratospheric price tags), here’s a galler…
via Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/08/leica-x1-photo-gallery-proves-that-big-shots-do-come-in-little-p/
For those who’ve never really understood the mystique and allure surrounding Leica’s retro-styled cameras (and their stratospheric price tags), here’s a gallery of shots that might just lend a little insight into the fixation.
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My strategy had two components in an attempt to create an image that had some sort of structure. The first was to explore and photograph every single inch of this place, from the top of the Ferris wheel to the bottom of the water slide. The second was to get a bit of height that would allow the viewer to look at this image without losing their bearings.
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I was sweating out a prep football practice here in Florida when ESPN the Mag called with a cool last minute assignment. Always fun to see their name on the caller I.D. I was to jet off to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for the weekend to cover the University of Alabama Crimson Tide take on their bitter rivals – the University of Tennessee Volunteers. It got even better. I didn’t need to cover every-down, game action – just wander the stadium making pictures of what a true megafootball college program is all about.
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Nien Cheng, Memoirist, Is Dead at 94
Ms. Cheng’s memoir, “Life and Death in Shanghai,” offered a harrowing account of the Cultural Revolution in China.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/books/07cheng.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
In 1973 she was told that the authorities had agreed to release her in recognition of an “improvement in her way of thinking and an attitude of repentance.” She refused to leave and vowed to stay in prison until the government declared her innocent and issued an apology in the press.
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My nine to five: Jonathan Scott
Jonathan Scott on the less glamorous aspects of life as a photographer
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/nov/07/jonathan-scott-photographer
Jonathan Scott on the less glamourous aspects of life as a photographer
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David Y. Lee is the Creative Director for The Waiting List, an online multimedia storytelling project introducing the stories of people waiting for an organ transplant. Lee covered the 2004 Presidential campaign for Time and Newsweek. In October 2007, the U.S. Department of State contracted Lee as Secretary Condoleezza Rice’s official photographer to document her international legacy during her final fifteen months in office.
Link: The Visual Student » Visual Journalism for a Cause: The Waiting List
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Three foreign journalists reported detained in Iran
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/06/AR2009110602462.html?wprss=rss_world
Iranian officials arrested a Japanese reporter and two Canadian reporters during anti-government protests this week and charged them with “unauthorized reporting,”
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We at McSweeney’s love newspapers. We love the internet, too. But we believe that print newspapers are an invaluable part of the journalistic landscape. So we’ve spent five months collaborating with dozens of reporters, designers, photographers, and authors on a 21st-century newspaper prototype.
Link: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The San Francisco Panorama Press Release.
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NPPA has partnered with PhotoShelter to bring its members and exclusive series of five free Webinars for visual journalists, and the second Webinar is coming up on November 18.
Link: Next Free NPPA-PhotoShelter Webinar Set For November 18
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Over the past thirty years, I have taken hundreds of thousands of pictures. Many of them have been published in my books, in exhibitions, and in magazines, but a majority have never been seen. Here are a few of those unseen pictures.
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Link: The Price of Sex: Women Speak | The Price of Sex
Mimi Chakarova and the Center for Investigative Reporting’s recent project, The Price of Sex, is a harrowing account of human sex trafficking told by those who have lived to tell their story. Combining still photography, video, and nearly six years of investigation, the piece explores the sex trade from the villages where women are abducted or tricked into being trafficked
via: dvafoto
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edoardo pasero – half life
[slidepress gallery=’edoardopasero_halflife’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Edoardo Pasero Half Life play this essay  …
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/11/edoardo-pasero-half-life/
Half Life is a personal project that is born of two needs; photographically narrate my life, thus building a kind of extended self portrait composed of several blocks, the individual images, not so much through withdrawal pictures of myself as in pictures of what I see around me and trying to make so my identity. Secondly, the desire to devote myself to a photographic project that I do not put thematic or stylistic limits, a “place” where to express freely the possibilities of the medium and the pure desire to take photos and frame. The images are in sequence but my desire is that the series can be seen stirring the pieces, just as the mind does with the memories, wear temporal references, as well Bergson describes the concept of “duration”. I also decided not to give the viewer any information or description about the time, so I hope that the work can thus de-personalized and take a more “universal” so that the viewer has the possibility of getting lost and imagined.
