U.S. official resigns over Afghan war
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102603394.html?wprss=rss_world
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The Untitled Navy SEAL movie has taken me to some of the most extreme working conditions that I have ever experienced in my career as a Director of Photography.
Link: Hurlbut Visuals
via: Vincent Laforet
[slidepress gallery=’lafamiliaabrazada’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Curated Group of Photographers La Familia Abrazada play this essay La Famili…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/10/la-familia-abrazada/
Alexander Allan’s newly published collection of pictures from his tour of duty in Helmund offer an extraordinary new perspective on the conflict
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/oct/27/photographs-afghanistan
Veteran photojournalist James Nachtwey shared the stories behind images he’s shot throughout his career at the keynote address Saturday afternoon at PDN PhotoPlus Expo.
Every six months, the Audit Bureau of Circulations releases data about newspapers and how many people subscribe to them. And then everyone writes a story about how some newspapers declined some amount over the year previous. Well, that’s no way to look at data! It’s confusing—and it obscures larger trends. So we’ve taken chunks of data for the major newspapers, going back to 1990, and graphed it, so you can see what’s actually happened to newspaper circulation.
Link: A Graphic History of Newspaper Circulation Over the Last Two Decades | The Awl
Ross Mantle is a Pittsburgh, PA based photographer. These images are from the G20 Summit in September in Pittsburgh, PA.
Liz Cockrum was born and raised in Chicago, IL. After earning her BFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago, Liz moved to her current home in San Diego to nurture her passion for surfing. Through photography, Liz seeks to reveal little-seen elements of environments, cultures, and people to her viewers. Her current body of work, Sirens, focuses on female surfers in Southern California.
You know there’s an iPhone app for just about everything when you stumble upon a piece of software you don’t completely understand. An app that got me scratching my head was Scanner 911, a live police radio scanner. Yes, an app that listens to police offi
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/scanner911/
Corbis, which shuffles its executive team around every couple of years, is frequently the subject of gossip about company politics. Recently, one internal feud spilled out in public on a blog by Jon La Grace, a former editor at Corbis Outline, the stock agency’s celebrity portrait division.
I had heard about Barnstorm being a life changing experience. It would kick your butt and leave your head spinning. A kind of boot camp where the drill sergeants are the big heavy photographers and they would push you away from your comfort zone and lead you to find a much more deeper meaning to photography. So technically, I was expecting an in-your-face, demanding and tough-loving workshop, where at the end the lessons learned were invaluable and nowhere else to be found.
Link: The Visual Student » Road Trip: Eddie Adams Workshop, Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez
Since the announcement of the Leica M9, there has been much interest in the powerful but little camera. The main reason for this is the full frame sensor in such a small body. I had the pleasure an…
via Photography Bay: http://www.photographybay.com/2009/10/26/leica-m9-hands-on-review/
Twenty Ten, African Media on the Road to 2010 (and beyond), is an educational project inspired by the media opportunities offered by next year’s FIFA World Cup. A joint initiative of World Press Photo, Free Voice, Africa Media Online and lokaalmondiaal, it is made possible by financial support from the Dutch Postcode Lottery, which together with its participants provides annual support to World Press Photo and Free Voice.
Link: Twenty Ten: African Media on the Road to 2010 (and beyond)
Birdseye View of Indiana Steel Co.’s Plant, Gary, Ind. 1910 I recently discovered the photographs of George R Lawrence , probably an unfa…
Link: http://richardrenaldi.blogspot.com/2009/10/george-r-lawrence.html
A highly political biography of a transformative figure in modern photojournalism, the documentary photographer Dorothea Lange.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
The conclusion of the Depression-era photo-fakery series, with an account of a visit with the subject of “Migrant Mother.”
via Opinionator: http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/24/the-case-of-the-inappropriate-alarm-clock-part-7/
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