David Walker – PDN:
Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe re-photograph old Western landscape images to create collages that break the boundaries of time and space.
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voiceofsandiego.org:
Today, we launch a new feature in Credentialed that we call “Perspective.” We’ll be regularly bringing you Q&A’s with talented local photographers in our community and featuring some of their work here. We kick off the feature with questions for Matt Mallams, a self-proclaimed “graphic documentary” photographer, who is consistently making waves in the national photo community.
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Seattlepi.com:
“Taking photographs of objects or people in plain view is not a crime. Police should not presume that it is a suspicious act, and should not overreact by detaining people for taking pictures,” said Sarah Dunne, legal director of the ACLU’s Washington chapter.
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Tim Hussin:
I just got back to NYC from the shootout. They gave us about 2 and a half days to shoot. The story topic was rituals and the single topics were architecture and cable car. I’ll post some more words later when I have time, but I just wanted to get the photos up for all that are interested. I placed 1st with these images.
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PDNPulse:
This afternoon Apple announced the latest iPhone, the “3G S,” which features a 3 megapixel, auto-focus still camera and new video capabilities.
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Gadget Lab | Wired.com:
That it follows the Pen’s stylings is significant, if only in nerdy kind of way. The MFT sensor is one half the size of a 35mm frame (and a slightly different shape, too). The Pen eked 72 shots out of a 36 exposure roll of 135 film by using the same trick. I’m pretty excited about this camera. If it can bring DSLR handling and image quality to a tiny package, it could be the Leica M of the 21st century, and as Olympus has a special event in London scheduled for June 25th, we may not have long to wait.
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JONATHAN TAGGART – News Photographers Association of Canada:
I was awarded a scholarship to a Magnum Workshop in Toronto in May of 2008, and while I was there I was fortunate enough to work with the Canadian photographer Larry Towell. I’ve always admired his work, but what I found most insightful was hearing him speak about his experiences in the field and about his working methodology. The best piece of advice he gave his students was we should expect to spend half our time shooting and the other half editing, because it is through the editing process that depth of narrative is created.
Although I might revise that to say, “expect to spend a third of your time gaining access, a third shooting, and a third editing.”
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Fred R. Conrad – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
Since Polaroid no longer makes either film, I often wonder about the photographers whose work was most identified with Type 55 and 665 — how are they doing and with what.
Photo by Bill Burke
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Blaine Harden – washingtonpost.com:
A North Korean court sentenced two U.S. journalists to 12 years in a labor camp Monday
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The Independent:
The seminal German picture magazines of the early Thirties and the invention of a small camera, the Leica, spawned a select group of key photographers: Erich Salomon, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Lucien Aigner is of that vintage, but is one of the least known “pioneers of photojournalism”.
It was the acknowledged “god- father of photojournalism”, Stefan Lorant, who commented of his fellow countryman: “What sets him apart from other ‘picture takers’ is his fervent dedication to his work. He belongs to a minuscule band of camera artists who do not press the button in a mad rush but ponder and think before they let the shutter go.”
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Kees Metselaar and Vaudine England – The Digital Journalist:
When we heard that our best friend, Hugh van Es, had gone to hospital after suffering a huge cerebral hemorrhage, we were in Amsterdam – where Hugh had first worked as a news photographer back in 1959. We promptly went to one of his favorite ‘brown cafés’ to think through what it all meant.
We were not alone.
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NYTimes.com:
Months of labor acrimony at The Boston Globe will come to a head on Monday, when members of the newspaper’s largest union are to vote on deep cuts in wages, benefits and job security, amid growing signs that they could well reject the deal.
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Beverly Spicer – The Digital Journalist:
It is interesting that the president, who taught constitutional law for a decade at the University of Chicago, would concurrently reveal criminal activity and sweep it aside by suggesting the country simply accept the past and move forward. His suggestion, however, was quickly vetoed in the court of public opinion, and the president also found himself in the position of possible legal culpability in the future if he refuses to address alleged infractions of his predecessors. Thus, he left it to the Justice Department to pursue or not pursue accountability for the past.
In the face of a cacophony of criticism, what would Obama do about the some 2,000 additional photographs he promised to declassify—a promise he made when transparency seemed like a good idea? This issue is especially compelling to journalists in war zones who work tirelessly and at great risk to document conflict.
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Marco Improta:
This essay portrays one of the families living in “Sertão do Ceará”, an arid region in the Nordeste of Brasil.
