From The Year in Pictures: Luigi Ghirri:
Luigi Ghirri was born in 1943 and died in 1992, at the age of 49. During his short life he revolutionized Italian, if not European photography, but for a number of reasons he is barely known in the States. However, all this should change now that Aperture have published the first American monograph of his work titled “It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It …”.
From The F Blog: meeting photographers: Alex Majoli:
Mr Majoli, how would you describe your work? You are photographer, photojournalist, war-photographer, or documentary photographer…?
via dvafoto.
CLICK NOTE: At first I thought that photo of the award hand-off is so awful… I’d better find something better. Then I thought, no, it’s so bad it’s awesome!
From photo-eye:
More info can be found on the Hasselblad Foundation website including the transcript from the live chat with Robert Adams that took place earlier today.
From The F Blog:
About the basic idea of The F Blog
Love of photography is the essential ingredient. The photographic image is powerful – an equally important link for communication between people as the written word or language. We want to present and promote good photography by offering a platform for photographers to show their work.
From Gotcha TV – Fox News Crews Stalk Bill O’Reilly’s Targets – NYTimes.com:
Mr. Hoyt, one of more than 50 people that Mr. O’Reilly’s young producers have confronted in the past three years, said the interviews were “really just an attempt to make you look bad.” In almost every case Mr. O’Reilly uses the aggressive interviews to campaign for his point of view.
From Pirates Beware: Soon Rifles That Kill from a Mile Away – TIME:
The highly-classified EXACTO program began a year ago, when the U.S. military’s band of scientists and engineers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — which played a key role in the creation of both the Internet and GPS — let the military-industrial complex know it was seeking a supergun. “The ability to more accurately prosecute targets at significantly longer range would provide a dramatic new capability to the U.S. military,” DARPA’S solicitation for bids said. “The use of an actively controlled bullet will make it possible to counter environmental effects such as crosswinds and air density, and prosecute both stationary and moving targets while enhancing shooter covertness.”
From State of the Art: A Different View on Iraq by Jehad Nga:
The New York Times website has some photographs that deserve to be seen. The pictures were made by a young photographer named Jehad Nga (“Inga”), who was one of American Photo’s Emerging Artists in 2007.
From Shepard Fairey, In Latest Legal Defense, Argues AP Copied His Poster:
The latest filing by Fairey’s attorneys includes 12 examples of images from the AP photo archive that show other works of art, including depictions of Fairey’s Obama poster.
Jesse Epstein interviews retouchers and talks about, among other things, the French government’s desire to mandate the disclosure of image manipulation.
From THE OXFORD PROJECT – Peter Feldstein & Stephen G. Bloom:
In the spring and summer of 1984, Peter Feldstein used a red marker to make a sign announcing that he wanted to take free portraits of everyone in Oxford, Iowa (pop. 673).
via Fraction.
From the Journal and Courier:
Andrea Bruce has seen much of the world through a camera lens. Bruce is a photojournalist for The Washington Post and has been in some of the world’s hottest spots.
via APAD.
From The Guardian:
As well as the photo being sepia, there appears to be a subtle soft pink hue on Madonna herself. I guess this is the colour of reassuring, concerned maternity. You can imagine Madonna and her team thinking this through in the same way an advertising campaign is orchestrated.
From Josh Spear, Trendspotting:
San Francisco-based photographer Geoffrey Ellis’ photo journal blog Sadkids is aptly named: its coverage can be as blue (with posts entitled “Sometimes, progress can suck it” and “Burn Santa burn”) as it can be lighthearted and youthful (”Easter valley of the sun” and “Hawaii + Halloween = Hawaiiloween” come to mind). But no matter the mood, the imagery featured has the same lovingly cluttered, colorful aesthetic as Ellis’ self-published photo zine of the same name, now in its fifth edition. The winner of the Bay Area’s Phelan Award in Photography, Ellis chose the name for his photo collections as a tribute to 1960s paintings featuring large-eyed kids, cats and dogs in the style of Walter and Margaret Keane.
From what it all looks like: Heidelberger Schloss:
Sitting with my back against the wall, Mitch and I gathered determination for a midnight hike from inside a glowing yellow bar in the center of Heidelberg. Looking down the establishment and through the giant front windowns I could see the castle glow hit the clouds. We climbed up the path to the castle gardens, walking through soaking orange patches of streetlight mixed with night. I saw the steps into the garden and the dark shadow where my dad hid and scared me over fifteen years earlier. So good to be back.
From The Bigger Picture:
The BIGGER PICTURE, a blog produced by the Smithsonian Photography Initiative (SPI), presents an inside look at the Smithsonian’s photography collections and invites audiences to engage in an online discussion about photography’s powerful impact on our world.
via Fraction.
