comments from the press conference this morning with Stanley Greene, Yuri Kozyrev, Lucas Menget, and Patrick Robert — the conflict journalist’s speak. These photographers have all made incredible images in the most difficult places imaginable
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In a never-ending quest for the illusive (SIC) “different” photo Reuters set up remote-controlled cameras at Sen. Barack Obama’s historic acceptance speech in Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver.At any major event we need to provide our clients with what we call “the bread and butter” photos – the pictures that tell the story in a very straightforward way and will end up in history books someday. But in addition to that what we really want to shoot are just very cool images – pictures that grab you by the throat and scream at you in the face or sometimes more subtle images you look at for awhile before you “get it.”
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Perhaps more impressive is that this will apparently be the first 35mm-sensored camera with image stabilization in the body, and I admit that the thought of an image-stabilized Zeiss 135mm f/1.8 on a full-frame camera makes my heart go pitter-patter.
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When the Asian tsunami hit southern Thailand in 2004, the sea that had sustained the region for generations – the Andaman – rose up, destroying families and killing thousands.
Three-and-a-half years later, a team of journalists set out for the seaside province of Phang-nga to document the lives and culture of people living by the Andaman. They found a people marked – but not defined – by disaster, a people who have taken on challenges and risen above them.
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Mona Reeder of the The Dallas Morning News has won the Visa d’or International Daily Press Award.
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Nik has announced a new version of its venerable sharpening plug-in. Sharpener Pro 3.0 adds U Point-based selective sharpening, improved sharpening algorithms, a “soft proof” feature and compatibility with both Adobe Photoshop
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At the press conference this morning we heard from Christian Poveda about his three-year work with the maras (gangs) that developed in the El Salvador communities of the L.A. suburbs and then were exported back to the country, where gangs had previously been unknown (image above; the maras are known for their facial tattoos)
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The new a900 has arrived. A new height in the “a” revolution is now within reach. Engineered with the exclusive 24.6 Mega Pixel Full Frame Exmor CMOS sensor, an industry breakthrough from Sony, this powerhouse integrates only the best imaging technologies from the world’s leading image sensor manufacturer. A work of art for the truly discerning individual.
24.6 Mega Pixel Full Frame Exmor CMOS Sensor – Dual BIONZ Image Processing Engine – Intelligent Preview – 100% Viewfinder, 0.74x Magnification – 3.0”, 921K-out Hybrid LCD – 9-point Centre Dual-cross AF (with f2.8 sensor and wide-area 10-point assist) – 5 fps Continuous Shooting – SteadyShot INSIDE
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An old favorite I’ve been meaning to post.
Hello to rap fans, I am ILL Mitch. I come from Russia to America now I am free to do 3 favorite things. These are rap and ride on my skateboard and hit my boxing bag. But most favorite thing is rap.
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Photojournalist Françoise Demulder, who covered the Vietnam war and in 1977 became the first woman to win the World Press Photo award, has died
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I also came across this uncredited biography of Winogrand on the Temple University website. I thought it was worth copying whole, but if you have to skim, don’t miss out on John Szarkowki’s final quote. As always, he said it better than anyone.
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Needless to say, this type of self publishing seems to require a fair amount of work – but then, the photographer is in full control of the final product (and I’ll take a book produced this way over any on-demand book at any given time – if you’ve ever seen examples of both types you know why); and who says that producing a book should take no time? But how much work exactly? How much does it cost? What does one have to do to create a book like this?
Several photographers/artists were kind enough to send me information about the process etc.
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Anthony Lappe and Dan Goldman’s Shooting War is one of the strongest graphic novels I’ve read in years, a tough anti-war comic that provides trenchant, spot-on commentary about the relationship of the news-media to all sides of modern war.
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Though it’s not exactly earth-shattering news — most people already knew it was coming — Adobe is launching CS4 on Sept. 23rd
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Photographer Matt Rourke of the Associated Press was arrested and detained at the Republican National Convention yesterday
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