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From 5B4:
Two of the most embarrassing displays of booksigning insanity have happened at Robert Frank events. At the public library a couple years ago, physical altercations broke out. At a recent Steidl event at Walter Reade theater Robert was visibly uncomfortable when a crowd descended upon him with open books. One dealer who had lent his book as an example during the actual discussion opportunistically approached Robert to sign his book while on stage. That copy appeared for sale online within a couple days along with “ephemera” from the event. Had the guy had identified himself as a bookseller and asked Robert if he’d sign the book so the he could make an extra 500 dollars do you think Robert would have signed the book? Josef Koudelka had an event at Aperture last year and expressed his disappointment afterwards in finding many copies posted the next day on Ebay. He told me he’d never do that again..
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From Advertising – Newspaper Ads Expected to Show Up to 30% Drop – NYTimes.com:
Publishers will start to report first-quarter results this week, but people who follow the industry and have had a glimpse of the 2009 numbers say it is clear that once again, even the most pessimistic predictions were not dark enough.
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From grain edit · Janine Rewell: Graphic Design & Illustration:
Finnish designer and illustrator, Janine Rewell, has a wonderful way of fusing colorful detailed illustrations with clean, simple type. There are surprises in every corner of her work
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From PDNPulse: Slain Afghan Fixer Subject of New Documentary:
Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi, a documentary about the life, work, kidnapping and murder of an Afghan fixer who worked with many Western photographers and journalists, will debut April 26 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
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Danish photographer Peter Funch stakes New York City street corners out for two weeks at a time, taking pictures of passersby from the very same spot. He then uses Photoshop to composite the results into single images.
via BoingBoing.
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From Webby Nominees:
With nearly 70 categories, Website entries make up the majority of Webby Awards Winners, Nominees and Honorees. Some are beautiful to look at and interact with. Others are a testament to usability and functionality. And a handful excel across the board. To be selected among the best is an incredible achievement worthy of praise — and perhaps a little bragging.
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From Portfolio – ARTINFO.com:
Curator and critic Vince Aletti introduces some of his favorite photographers who have heretofore flown under the radar.
via APhotoEditor.
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From A Photo Editor – New Ruling Makes Slides And Film Worth $7:
Chris Usher has lost his appeal after a seven year battle against Corbis and each of his 12,640 images lost will be compensated for a lousy $7.00 a piece.
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From SB2 video – The Basics of Copyright and Licensing at Strictly Business:
Copyright and licensing together are the business backbone of our industry. Both are rapidly evolving. Changes to copyright law are soon expected and the licensing model, as we once knew it, is under seize. It is important to note that as the process evolves, the premise is still here.
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From RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
Going back into the mid ’80s when I first started to sell photographs, I knew it wasn’t going to be easy. No one was calling me up. One of the big misconceptions now is that people are calling us up all the time to buy photographs. That’s not how it works in general.
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From Rob Galbraith DPI: Nikon introduces D5000 digital SLR with vari-angle LCD, 720p video:
The club of video-capable digital SLR cameras has a new member. Nikon has unveiled the D5000, an entry-level digital SLR that features a 12.21 million image pixel CMOS sensor, 4fps still photo shooting rate, 2.7in (diagonal) vari-angle rear LCD and 720p video capture in a lightweight body that’s expected to sell for US$729.95 in the U.S. when it ships later this month. The D5000 offers pro photographers in the Nikon camp a way to try their hand at digital SLR video, at a price that’s even lower than the D90.
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From dannyghitis.com:
Danny Ghitis, born 1982, is a New York-based freelance photographer specializing in social documentary and portraiture. Born in Cali, Colombia, he and his middle-class Jewish family emigrated to the Midwestern U.S. when he was four-years-old. By age 10, his family had moved eight different times. They finally decided to settle in South Florida, where he spent his formative years. He picked up a camera for the first time in 2004 at the University of Florida.
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From Augenblick – Blog on Photography by Daniele Mattioli: Conversation : Bevis Fusha:
I am posting another conversation which I had with Bevis Fusha recently. Bevis Fusha is one of the most interesting photographer of so called ” New Europe”, coming from Albania Bevis has witnessed and reported the slow and complicate change of his country.
via metro collective.
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From Jamie Ziobro Photography:
I shoot film with Leica M 35mm cameras. Until I find a camera that works as well, unobtrusively, and that captures images with a resolution greater than what can be made with a high resolution drum scanner from a film source, I will continue to shoot film. In my mind, the chemical reaction of light being locked into film, a four-dimensional moment in spacetime becoming a two-dimensional piece of acetate, makes my camera a hand-held time machine in many ways. In this digital age, you never know whether an image you see is an accurate and true representation of reality. But I can show you the original transparency of any image on this website, and I guarantee that it is as I saw it and how it is represented here.
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From photo-eye Bookstore | Tony Stamolis: Frezno | photo books:
Photographs by Tony Stamolis.
Process Books, 2009. 136 pp., 100 color illustrations, 9×6¾”.
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From Angela Bacon-Kidwell Photography:
My photography comes from a life long obsession of exploring how my subconscious generates my dreams.
via Burn Magazine.
