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    As we slip into the holidays, we figured that it would be great to get a whole bunch of frequently requested features into the product. So we’re happy to announce a slew of new functionality that has been made possible by an entire rewrite of our e-commerce engine.

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    collect.give, a place to collect contemporary photography and donate to worthy causes at the same time. The photographers featured on collect.give have pledged to donate 100% of the profits from their print sales to worthwhile causes they support. Each has offered a print for sale, and chosen their price and edition size. New photographs will be added to the site in coming months, so please bookmark collect.give, and visit us again!

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    Animal Logic, Barnes’s first monograph, collects four related species of his photographic work that touch on themes relevant to science, history, archaeology, and architecture. Through his lens, sights and objects normally hidden from public view—half-installed dioramas, partially wrapped specimens, anatomical models, exploded skulls, and taxidermied animals in shipping crates—take on a strange beauty

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    For his latest body of work, Larry Sultan hired Mexican day laborers as actors and subjects in his photographs, which he made on the outskirts of Southern Californian suburbs. He found these illegal laborers outside a nearby strip mall where hundreds of men wait day by day to be picked up for hourly work. Sultan directed the men’s actions and gestures while drawing from his own memories of home life and interpretations of their experiences as exiles.

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  • LensCulture – Contemporary Photography

    Discover and share the best in contemporary photography

    via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com

    Since our start in 2004, Lens Culture has always been an all-volunteer effort, with absolutely no commercial revenue or paid advertising. But now we need your financial help so we can continue our day-to-day activities, and to expand our educational and cultural exchange programs in 2010.

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    I always have problems coming up with gifts, so this year, I thought I’d help you out with some of my favorite tools of the trade. Now, now. no need to get them for me because I already have them. This is not some sort of shill list for our partners — these are things I purchased and use (well, with the exception of the last item on the list…feel free to gift that to me).

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  • From snapshot to Special Branch: how my camera made me a terror suspect

    Casual shots of London’s Gherkin attract stop and search just days after police were reminded street photography is no offence

    via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/11/snapshot-special-branch-terror-suspect

    It felt like a minor terror alert. Four security guards were watching me, whispering into microphones on their collars. A plainclothes police officer had just covered my camera lens, mentioned the words “hostile reconnaissance” and told me I would be followed around the city if I moved.

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  • Showcase: On the Beach

    Wayne Lawrence tries to bring his subjects’ hidden spirits to the surface. They stare through the camera, Candice Chan writes, with a story just behind their lips.

    via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/showcase-98/

    Tiffany was photographed at Orchard Beach in the Bronx by Wayne Lawrence, 34, who strives to bring his subjects’ hidden spirits to the surface. They all stare right through the camera, straight at you, with a story just behind their lips. Mr. Lawrence can evoke these memories because he carries his own story with him, close to his heart.

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  • Adding Fees and Fences on Media Sites (Published 2009)

    Ads alone are proving inadequate, and in the next several weeks, some publications are expected to take the plunge by erecting pay walls.

    Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/business/media/28paywall.html

    Newspapers, including this one, are weighing whether to ask online readers to pay for at least some of what they offer, as a handful of papers, like The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, already do. Indeed, in the next several weeks, industry executives and analysts expect some publications to take the plunge.

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    It’s just about a year since I visited Michael’s gallery in Toronto and was exposed (excuse me) to the Sony A900 for the first time. He was a bit like the serpent in the Garden of Eden – he tempted me with his own gear and I subsequently sinned most grievously and bought an A900 system too.

    This article is an examination of the fruits of my sin after one year and over ten thousand shots. Was it worth it? What worked well, and what not so well? Would I do it again?

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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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    It’s just about a year since I visited Michael’s gallery in Toronto and was exposed (excuse me) to the Sony A900 for the first time. He was a bit like the serpent in the Garden of Eden – he tempted me with his own gear and I subsequently sinned most grievously and bought an A900 system too.

    This article is an examination of the fruits of my sin after one year and over ten thousand shots. Was it worth it? What worked well, and what not so well? Would I do it again?

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    Robert Frank’s The Americans may actually be the only book that can safely claim to have influenced the work and inspirations of most any photographer, documentarian and photojournalist born and working since the 1950s. There isn’t a Most Influential Photographers Of The Century list that will not list Frank’s name. This is truly one of the great documentary works of our time, and worth seeing again and again.

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    Lyon is a journalist, but not by the usual ’90s definition. Whether he was photographing the Civil Rights Movement in the American South in the ’60s or the guerrilla uprising in Mexico in the ’90s, his journalism is not about the surface, the sensational, the soundbite; it is imbued with his respect for the people he photographs, and with the commitment and responsibility this respect entails. Now, in his collages, Lyon has come up with an emotional kind of journalism exploring classes and cultures and the options that people are allowed. Claiming the same credibility for his personal images as for his more conventional documentary pictures, he has made some of his most political and most moving work to date.

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