Showcase: A Story, Waiting to Happen – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
Katie Orlinsky stood by herself in an enormous train yard on the outskirts of Mexico City, looking for the perfect photograph. A picture editor had told her she needed a dramatic image to embody her story about illegal Central American immigrants on their way by rail to the United States border: she had to stand on top of a moving train with one of the people she’d been following.
Associated Press claims to have discovered magic anti-news-copying beans – Boing Boing:
A lot of copyfighters were mystified by the Associated Press’s recent announcement (complete with a bonkers diagram straight off a bottle of Dr. Bronner’s) that they had spent millions of dollars on a DRM system for news that would limit how you could paste the text you copied from your browser window.
This is a seeming impossibility, and while there will always be DRM vendors with impossible magic beans to sell to any panicked goofball media dinosaur who’ll buy them, it just seemed too weird to think that no one at the AP had said, “Wait, what? This is dumb.”
Death In The Making … For The Last Damned Time – News Photographer Magazine:
And so why do we care so? For one thing, this is the photograph that made Robert Capa, more even than in the usual figurative sense, because Robert Capa had only just been created by the young Hungarian photographer André Friedmann shortly before. From then on, Friedmann would be gone, to the point, as his Life editor John G. Morris told me, of being called Capa by his friends and even his mother in later years.
Greenpeace Activists Vandalize HP Headquarters | Gadget Lab | Wired.com:
HP employees at the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto were in for a shock Tuesday morning as they found the message “Hazardous Products” painted on the roof of their office and Greenpeace activists squatting on top.
I Am So Over Shooting Sports – SportsShooter:
Michael McNamara has become more of a food photographer, and he couldn’t be happier.
Photographer’s Toy Box: Is The FourSquare For You?:
My friends know that I LOVE gadgets. But often, once the newness and the “wow cool” thoughts subside, a lot of the gadgets I try often end up not being used very much, basically specialty items that I pull out when the need — or inspiration — arises.
Honestly, that was my original thought when my friend Paul Peregrine from Lightware showed off the prototype of his FourSquare — a speedring enabling you to mount multiple speedlights into it — at last spring’s Sports Shooter Academy Workshop.
Team Work Brings Together Cardinal Culture Multimedia Project:
On a recent steamy Saturday morning in late June, eleven members of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch photography department set out into Cardinal Nation to tell the story of the biggest fans of baseball, their lives intertwined with the balls and strikes that soared over the largest diamond-shaped piece of downtown grass.
So, you want to be a wedding photographer? – SportsShooter:
A couple months later, I shot a wedding and had a thought: “I should just shoot this like a newspaper story.” All of a sudden, shooting a wedding was fun. I could be creative, I could tell the story, and I could make pictures that people liked. I could blow them up as big as I wanted, no worries about an editor cropping it bad or registration being off. It was the wedding that pointed my career in a new direction.
Ask Sports Shooter: ‘Why should newspapers cover local events?’:
In fact, due to the advertising downturn and the Chiefs 2-14 season last year, our paper reluctantly decided to skip sending me on the road to the final two road games of the 2008 season, marking the first time in over 20 years the Star had not covered a Chiefs road game. Combining the often blowout, non-competitive games with the reality of needing to save as many jobs in our department as possible made that an easy decision.
A Talk with Tait. – A Photography Blog.:
Blast from the past! I ran into Tait Simpson in my inbox the other day, and was very excited to hear his career updates. I’d previously chatted with Mr. Simpson last year on Earth Day about some work he made in the desert for TOTO High Efficiency toilets. Tait’s an up-and-comer; he’s just made some big moves, both with his photography and with his person. Here- you can hear him tell it. Q&A below…
Damion Berger – BOMBLog:
Damion Berger’s work is interesting to me precisely because has so little in common with the majority of his contemporaries. When I first saw it, we just had to talk. So talk we did, about everything: his early mentors, the photographic rat race, form and content, and the ubiquitous debate of large versus small format. He was born in Britain and presently divides his time between Monaco and New York. This summer, he’ll begin a new series about the public ritual of fireworks. His work is currently on display at the Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York through September 5, and both of his major projects, RSVP and In the Deep End, will be published by Mets & Schlit in the spring and fall of 2010.
Stock Photography: It’s all gone a bit Pete Tong | Verbal Hmmm.:
In the case of Time Magazine, they decided to use a stock photograph for the cover of their latest issue. Well as I said, nothing new there, but this time we discovered who the photographer was and how much they paid. A rather paltry 30 US.
Behind the Scenes: In a War Zone, With Film – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
All you need to process film, besides the chemicals, is clean water. However, near the Iraq frontier in 1991 — convulsed as it was by the Kurdish uprising — clean water was in short supply. And it certainly didn’t come from the tap. So I washed my film in the toilet.
photo-eye Bookstore | Ralph Gibson: Nude | photobooks:
A decade after his first TASCHEN book, Deus ex machina, master photographer Ralph Gibson returns with an exquisite collection of nudes, combining the best of his recent work with an in-depth interview by Eric Fischl. Strikingly graphic, meticulously composed, and loaded with subtle provocations, Gibson’s mysterious, dreamlike images pay homage to greats such as Man Ray and Edward Weston, while continually pursuing new frontiers.
The truth is rarely so black and white | Euan Ferguson | The Observer:
Even if he acted from the best of motives, what Robert Capa did now seems indefensible
AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: “Extending the Frame: An Interview with Susan Meiselas (2006)”:
Susan Meiselas has represented difficult issues with innovative approaches throughout her thirty-year career as a documentary media artist. Her awards include the Robert Capa Gold Medal (1979), the MacArthur Fellowship (1992), and the Hasselblad Prize (1994). A self-described “human rights” photographer and filmmaker, Meiselas works with the images, voices, and histories of everyday people in global situations of conflict. Whenever possible she has stayed in the affected communities after her photojournalist colleagues are pulled away to another story. This long-term approach allows her work to reflect the complexity of issues in a way rarely permitted by the news media.
