PDNPulse: Nude Erin Andrews Photos Prove Problematic for NYPost
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Canon’s New Anti-Blur Lenses Will Be Available This Year | Gadget Lab | Wired.com:
The oddest part of the announcement, though, is that “The technology will be incorporated in an interchangeable single lens reflex (SLR) camera lens planned for commercial release before the end of 2009”.
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Sussex cops try to suppress publication of damning traffic-cam photos by claiming copyright – Boing Boing:
The Sussex, England police are trying to suppress publication of images from speed cameras — images that show technical shortcomings in the cameras — by claiming that they are copyrighted.
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Brit photographer who shot demolition of flyover arrested for terrorism – Boing Boing:
Alex took his camera out to photograph the demolition of a flyover (overpass) in Chatham, England. After refusing to give his identification to two plainclothes people who refused to identify themselves, he was arrested under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act
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Panasonic Lumix GH1 Review – Luminous Landscape:
If you want a peek at what the future of both still and video cameras might look like over the next few years, drop into your camera dealer and have look at the Panasonic Lumix GH1. To my mind it’s the first Combocam that “gets it”, delivering both image quality and functionality that don’t represent a considerable compromise on one side or the other.
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The Rencontres d’Arles Contemporary Book Award 2009 – photo-eye | Magazine:
The Arles Contemporary Book Award for 2009 goes to JH Engström and Anders Petersen’s collaborative book From Back Home
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whats the jackanory ? – tdh: report #1 austin prep:
As promised WTJ? has teamed up with team Humphreys and Brent has promised to deliver us some juicy roadside goodness and will be filing special reports from the field. His assignment, to hit us up with as much jam packed behind the scenes action as is possible. Not one to do anything by half measure Brent will also be using the Tour as his very own self promotional vehicle to pimp the project as he moto’s his way from stage to stage. Ladies and gentlemen here is our first 2009 Tour de Humphreys report
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Outside World Turns Blind Eye to N. Korea’s Hard-Labor Camps – washingtonpost.com:
A distillation of testimony from survivors and former guards, newly published by the Korean Bar Association, details the daily lives of 200,000 political prisoners estimated to be in the camps: Eating a diet of mostly corn and salt, they lose their teeth, their gums turn black, their bones weaken and, as they age, they hunch over at the waist. Most work 12- to 15-hour days until they die of malnutrition-related illnesses, usually around the age of 50. Allowed just one set of clothes, they live and die in rags, without soap, socks, underclothes or sanitary napkins.
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I’ll be off the grid for most of this week, so not a lot of posts for a bit.
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AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: “Cambodia Genocide Photographer: Memories From Tuol Sleng Prison (1976-1979)”:
After Nhem En arrived in Phnom Penh, he was sent to study political science and military tactics at a technical school. En was again promoted to an elite youth unit and sent to China for training in late 1976, at the age of 15. After the group arrived in Peking, they were divided, some sent to train in military and naval affairs, others in industry or agriculture. Nhem En was selected to study photography. When he arrived back in Phnom Penh, En was assigned to Unit 870 at the Ministry of National Defense under Pol Pot. At the age of 16 he was sent to photograph the incoming prisoners at S-21 Prison.
Even though En had learned only the basics of photography, he was given a studio and several assistants at S-21. Nhem received his daily orders directly from Khmer Rouge interior minister Son Sen and prison commandant Brother Duch: “Every time I met with them they both told me to be very careful when taking photographs, not to ruin or lose them, and to keep them in order. I was also told to keep the darkroom clean and proper…. They told us that we were clean-minded, and we were the representatives of the Angkar.” Nhem said that he was told by Son Sen that the purpose of the photographs was “for conducting investigations on issues about the CIA spies, KGB, Vietnamese.”
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New archive of 40+ audio interviews with great photographers – lens culture photography weblog:
Great news! We are so thrilled to post this link to our fantastic archive of audio interviews with great photographers from around world. We’ve been recording these conversations for more than five years now, and our hardworking staff at Lens Culture Towers finally got around to pulling them together into one accessible place!
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1973)”:
I’ve been taking pictures when I was very young. I think I don’t remember what age. I started by painting and drawing and for me photography was a mean of drawing and that’s all. Immediate sketch done with intuition and you can’t correct it. If you have to correct it it’s your next picture. But life is very fluid. Well sometimes the pictures disappeared and there is nothing you can do. You can’t tell the person, oh, please smile again do that gesture again. Life is once, forever.
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::: The Travel Photographer :::: Phil Borges: Women Empowered:
Phil Borges, the acclaimed documentary photographer and CARE, the humanitarian organization that fights global poverty by empowering women and girls, are continuing a successful multi-year collaboration with the launch of the Women Empowered Project.
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Rob Galbraith DPI: DSLR Camera Remote for iPhone comes to life in v1.1:
Here’s a rundown of what’s new in DSLR Camera Remote 1.1 (Pro Edition) for iPhone, as well as its companion Mac/Windows application, DSLR Camera Remote Server 1.1
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LIFE Goes Inside Today’s KKK – Photo Gallery, 12 Pictures – LIFE:
Photographer Anthony Karen has documented the modern-day Klan in their homes, at rallies, and at Klan gatherings, taking us deep inside a world we would otherwise never see — a world most of us might not even want to know about. The unnerving photos featured here, exclusively on LIFE.com, are from his new book, “The Invisible Empire: Ku Klux Klan.” “The majority of people I’ve come across,” Karen told LIFE, “you’d only know they were in the Klan if they decided to share that.”
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Julius Shulman, Photographer of Modernist California Architecture, Dies at 98 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com:
Over a career of more than half a century, Mr. Shulman almost always used black-and-white film, the better to reduce his subjects to their geometric essentials. But he was also able to make the hard glass and steel surfaces of postwar Modernist architecture appear comfortable and inviting.
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Unshuttered Lens: Dorothea Lange, Documentary Photography, and Government Work, (1935-1945)”:
Was Dorothea Lange a cultural interpreter? Former Lange assistant, noted photographer, and protege Rondal Partridge, said, “You ask questions of great photographs, and great photographs ask questions of you.” (1) Lange’s photographic work “begs the question.”
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