• Link: stjoenews.net | Lawhon knew how to capture a moment:

    Ival Lawhon Jr., a dogged photographer who captured three decades of fires, floods and poignant personal moments, died Saturday night. He was 61.

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  • Link: Baseball Stock Photography: Mangin Photography Archive:

    I am a freelance sports photographer based in the San Francisco  Bay Area where I regularly shoot assignments for Sports Illustrated and Major League Baseball Photos. My work keeps me busy from the first pitch of Spring Training to the final out of  the World Series. When not shooting, I enjoy attending San Francisco Giants games in my season ticket box seats and working on SportsShooter.com, the online resource for sports photography, of which I am a founding owner.

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  • Paparazzo Threatens Legal Action Against Penn

    WENN.com Sean Penn is facing the threat of legal action from a paparazzo he allegedly attacked on Friday afternoon. Jordan Dawes filed a police report against the Milk star, who reportedly kicked t…

    via Daily Dish: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=48962

    Bosses at Flynet Pictures, who employ Dawes, allege he did nothing to offend the star, insisting Penn “emerged from his truck and walked over 50 feet towards the photog and kicked and punched him without provocation”.

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  • Link: A Conversation with CPC 2009 Winner David Wright – Conscientious:

    Of course, I had been familiar with David’s work for a while – given Pause, To Begin. But with Alebtong, Uganda he clearly seemed to be upping the ante of his work quite a bit. There is no text on David’s website, so I did not know the background story of Alebtong, Uganda, but I became immediately intrigued – and this, for me, is one of the criteria for good photography: When you want to know more, when the work draws you in and makes you ask questions.

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    Link: Missouri Photo Workshop | MPW.61 | Photojournalism & Documentary Photography:

    During the first stretch of crisp fall weather in 2009, from September 27 through October 3, 31 photographers, 12 faculty and 16 University of Missouri School of Journalism students blanketed Festus and Crystal City to document life in these small towns, fine-tuning their story-telling skills in the tradition of Cliff and Vi Edom and six decades of photographers that came before them. The photographers journeyed to Missouri from Dominican Republic, Canada, India, Romania, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, and all points domestic to explore small-town life in Missouri.

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  • Link: PDNPulse: Futuristic Video Project: Moving Magazine Cover for Outside

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    Link: Magnum On Georgia, For Georgia:

    This month Magnum Photos releases Georgian Spring: A Magnum Journal, a group project for which ten photographers—Thomas Dworzak, Martine Franck, Mark Power, Alex Majoli, Martin Parr, Alec Soth, Jonas Bendiksen, Antoine D’Agata, Gueorgui Pinkhassov and Paolo Pellegrin—traveled to the Eastern European country to document the contemporary culture and national identity. The book is curated and published by Chris Boot, a former Magnum director in London.

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    Link: ABQ via 285 | Matt Slaby

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  • Chris Jordan – Running the Numbers

    Copyright Chris Jordan 2009 courtesy of Kopeikin Gallery and Prestel Verlag In the Old Testament of the Bible, there are the numerous stories of the Prophets who have an unpopular message for their…

    via PhotoBook Journal: http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/chris-jordan-running-the-numbers/

    The ability to visual changes is a central issue for Chris Jordan when had attempted to grasp and illustrate the environmental issues of waste. He was finding there was not an effective way to actually visualize what was occurring. It is difficult to comprehend the relationship between being an individual consumer and what the potential accumulation of that consumption might actually look like. Thus he created a series of images based on using individual objects, that when compiled into a larger image in conjunction with an identifying caption, could help us understand what the Big Picture might look like. That at the core is what his recent book Running the Numbers, an American Self-Portrait is attempting to help us comprehend.

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  • Sugar and Spice and all things not so nice

    Garry Gross, Richard Prince and the story behind the Brooke Shields photograph

    via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/oct/03/brooke-shields-nude-child-photograph

    The Richard Prince photograph of Brooke Shields that Tate Modern recently withdrew from the exhibition Pop Life, after Scotland Yard suggested it might break obscenity laws, travelled across the Atlantic carrying a long history of controversy. It shows a 10-year-old Shields, oiled and glistening, naked and made-up, posing in a marble bathtub with a seductive danger that belies her years. She has, in Prince’s description, “a body with two different sexes, maybe more, and a head that looks like it’s got a different birthday.”

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  • Link: The Visual Student » Preparing for Barnstorm XXII: Melissa Lyttle:

    It’s true what you hear.  You will not sleep.  You may miss meals while on assignment.  Be prepared for both. Bring some granola bars or other snacks to keep in your camera bag. Get some sleep before you get there so you don’t come in already spent.  I hate seeing students sleep through some great presentations because they stayed up all week before the workshop reworking their portfolios, and they’ve stayed up each night at the workshop drinking crappy beer and chatting with friends.  But when those lights go out in the barn, eyes close, heads go down… and a lot of powerful pictures and inspiration are missed.

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  • The Blitz kids

    Photographer Derek Ridgers who documented the rise of the Blitz kids and the New Romantic scene in London in the late 70s and early 80s, guides us through his pictures

    via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2009/oct/04/photography

    Photographer Derek Ridgers, who documented the rise of the Blitz kids and the New Romantic scene in London in the late 70s and early 80s, guides us through his pictures

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  • Link: Brian Blanco -Gearing-up for and Covering Protests, Riots and Affrays:

    Well, I’m certain there are things I’ve failed to mention and no doubt the next one of these things I cover I’ll learn a few more tricks and tips but, again, that’s the nature of the business. The bottom line is that no photo of a bunch of anarchists is worth getting hurt over. These things can and do get dangerous and it’s easy to fall into the trap of believing that because it’s not in some far off war zone that it’s safe.

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  • Link: PDN: Marty Forscher, Inventor and Camera Repair Guru, Dies at 87

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  • The Battle of Wanat | Inside the Wire

    Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/03/AR2009100303048.html?wprss=rss_world

    In recent months, the battle of Wanat has come to symbolize the U.S. military’s missteps in Afghanistan. It has provoked Brostrom’s father to question why Jonathan died and whether senior Army officers — including a former colleague and close friend — made careless mistakes that left the platoon vulnerable. It has triggered three investigations, the latest initiated last week by Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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  • Children of the revolution

    This week a photograph of a nude 10-year-old Brooke Shields was removed from Tate Modern on police advice. But when the image first appeared in Playboy in the 70s there wasn’t even a ripple of shock

    via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/oct/03/attitude-to-children-in-seventies

    This week a photograph of a nude 10-year-old Brooke Shields was removed from Tate Modern on police advice. But when the image first appeared in Playboy in the 70s there wasn’t even a ripple of shock

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  • In pictures: Veolia Environnement wildlife photographer of the year – 2009 shortlist

    A baby orang-utan in Borneo, a snake preying on a gecko and a black and white lion portrait are among the highly commended images in the 2009 Veolia Environnement wildlife photographer of the year competition

    via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/oct/03/veolia-wildlife-photographer-2009

    The winner of the 2009 competition will be announced on 21 October at London’s Natural History Museum, which will disaply 95 winning, runner-up and commended photographs from the competition’s 17 categories in an exhibition running from 23 October – 11 April 2010

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    Link: Gaters Football » THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS:

    Thankfully, Boyd called me Saturday morning and suggested a roadtrip down to Eugene in his rig. While he was covering the Ducks game, I wandered around the Autzen parking lot shooting tailgaters. We (Boyd) left PDX so early, I had 7 hours to do my thing.

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  • Link: Matt Brown: Are you building relationships or only taking photos?:

    One of my clients, Cal State University Fullerton, has over 300 student athletes. I will have face time with all them throughout the school year. Like must schools we do posters, schedule cards, programs and media guides just to name a few things. I’m around these student athletes so much that it’s actually like having another set of kids-300 of them. I do my best to build a relationship with everyone of them-from the time I take their first mug shot I start to commute with them.

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    Link: The Changing Face of Photographer Websites:

    In my role at PhotoShelter I have seen a new trend emerging due to how the economy is affecting photographers and what they are doing in response. The current climate is forcing old pros and new freelancers alike to become their own tech-savvy marketing and branding agencies, and they have to take website changes seriously.

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