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    Ostzeit: Stories from a Vanished Country might thus come at the right, or at least a good time. Ostzeit contains photography by five East German photographers, who later went on to form Ostkreuz, a photography agency

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    Los Angeles photographer, Susan Anderson, has a new project, High Glitz, spotlighting the spectacle of children’s beauty pagents. The series has just been published by powerHouse, and is opening as an exhibition at the Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles on October 24th.

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    The 2009 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar website launched today.  Check out this can’t-miss opportunity.

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    So I’m pleased to announce our new “Post to Facebook” feature that we released today. You might say to yourself, “well, duh!” And I would nod my head in agreement. It’s an obvious piece of functionality. But we’ve done it slightly differently than other implementations that I’ve seen.

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    To coincide with their latest photo special issue the good people over at The Fader magazine have released a new photo website called Double Vision.

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    At a certain point during the week that I spend in Los Angeles, interviewing adult performers, visiting adult movie sets, and talking to those who live in the San Fernando Valley and work in the adult movie industry about the recession and how the current state of the economy is affecting their livelihood, I find myself in a nondescript apartment on the outskirts of the Valley, the residence of a man who requested I not reveal his identity.

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    Capture One 5’s simple, intuitive interface is designed to achieve superior image quality through easy-to-use tools that match a professional photographer’s daily workflow requirements. Now pros can:
     
    –     Get an instant view of image focus with the Focus tool and use the Focus Mask for quick selection of images with correct focus;

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    Valery Rizzo is a New York City based stock, assignment and fine art photographer, specializing in lifestyle, food and travel imagery, with a focus on portraiture and green living.

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  • The Onion | America’s Finest News Source.

    The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America’s finest news source.

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    According to sources at the Pentagon, American quagmire-building efforts continued apace in Afghanistan this week, as the geographically rugged, politically unstable region remained ungovernable, death tolls continued to rise, and the grim military campaign persisted as hopelessly as ever.

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    When I received an invitation to shoot with a final version of the elusive 37.5-megapixel Leica S2 at an off-site studio during PhotoPlus Expo last week, it didn’t take me long to juggle my already-packed schedule to make room to test this $23,000 (body only) camera.

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    The National Press Photographers Association has partnered with PhotoShelter to bring NPPA members a “Virtual Short Course” in an exclusive series of five free Webinars for visual journalists, and the first Webinar in the series is this Wednesday.

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    CNN.com is my browser homepage, and I don’t know why.

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    A panel of distinguished judges has awarded The Denver Post team of Craig F. Walker, Meghan Lyden, and Tim Rasmussen the grand prize in Editor & Publisher’s 2009 Photos of the Year competition.

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    To me a documentary photographer and a photojournalist are pretty much the same thing. If I have to make a distinction, I’m more a documentary photographer–I don’t think of myself as a photo-essayist in the sense that I always consider a magazine layout when I’m working. To be honest with you, I always try to think of the specific pictures. What’s important to me is to make strong, individual pictures.

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  • Homage to Abu Ghraib?

    It may not be wise to question a photography project that was conceived of, and produced, in honour of the photographer’s father who was tortured in Stalinist labour camps. But, is not Anton …

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    It may not be wise to question a photography project that was conceived of, and produced, in honour of the photographer’s father who was tortured in Stalinist labour camps.

    But, is not Anton Kratochvil’s Homage to Abu Ghraib obsolete?

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    The Powershot G11, which started to ship in October, 2009, continues that trend, but it does so in a new environment. So, before looking at the G11 itself and how it compares to its predecessor the G10, let’s see where it fits into the current taxonomy of cameras.

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    Advertising photographer Jeff Sedlik’s seminar, Strategic Estimating, was about how NOT to be a starving artist. And it boiled down to this: protect your copyright, negotiate strategically, communicate clearly, and get all of your agreements in writing.

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    Baseball is the sports I grew up playing as a kid and a sport I
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    Long-time Associated Press photographer, James A. Finley was inducted into the Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame in a 2009 class that also included Bill Eppridge of National Geographic/Life Magazine/Sports Illustrated and Ival Lawhon Jr. of the St. Joseph News Press.

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    Georgian Spring – A Magnum Journal is a wonderful book for many reasons, one of them being the fact that it can serve as a good starting point for discussions of the nature of the beast, photojournalism’s imagery. Of course, it is a little bit unfair to use the book in such a way – shouldn’t I be talking about the topic of the book? But in this case, talking about the book almost inevitably involves talking about photojournalism itself.

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