LeicaShots aims to show some of the best pictures from the thousands of unknown Leica shooters worldwide. They get a chance to tell their stories behind the pictures, as well as why they choose a Leica as their trusted companion.
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Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb are both photographers. They also happen to be married to one another. Alex, a member of Magnum Photos, is known for his lyrical street photography, collected in books including Istanbul, Crossings, and Amazon. Rebecca published her first photography book, The Glass Between Us: Reflections of Urban Creatures, in 2006 to wide acclaim. Just this month they released their first photo book together, Violet Isle, which explores Cuba through both their cameras, seen more clearly, in a way, from two different angles. (Not surprisingly, their joint blog is called “Two Looks.”)
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The U.S. has blocked the release of photos showing clear evidence that the United States is responsible for torture in Iraq and Afghanistan. We think someone with access to the photos should simply leak them on the web, saving tax payers a load of cash and letting people know just what it is our twin occupations are really about. We are calling on anyone who has access to the images to leak them and anyone else to copy this message and post it in order to increase the chance of it reaching anyone who might have access.
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“So, at this point we are asking you, our loyal readers, who number more than 10,000, to help us,” Halstead wrote. “Effective immediately, we have set up a Paypal link on The Digital Journalist and urgently ask for pledges so that we can continue our work which will help you all. We have never solicited paid subscriptions, but these dire times call for dire measures.”
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7D Reviews: Shit are happen!
Hello and welcome. This is your favorite camera guru reporting to you live from my office here at Canon USA. I’m sitting here burning some really good ganja so there’s a lot of smoke in…
via Fake Chuck Westfall: https://fakechuckwestfall.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/7d-reviews-shit-are-happen/
Hello and welcome. This is your favorite camera guru reporting to you live from my office here at Canon USA. I’m sitting here burning some really good ganja so there’s a lot of smoke in the room, and in fact visibility is so low right now I’m having some difficulty seeing my monitor. Yeaaahh mon. I figured I needed to relax after all the shit that’s been going on recently. And it’s either getting high and relax, or snapping and picking up my double barrel shotgun to do some serious damage around here.
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Here’s a first, something I’ve been thinking about for a while: Video artist talks. This one, the first of its kind, has Michael Wolf talk about his project The Transparent City, which is currently on view at Aperture.
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Luceo Images would like to thank all the people involved with making our new site a success. We are especially thankful for the graphic and web design provided by our own photographers, Tim Lytvinenko and Kevin German and for the additional coding and consultation of Dan Nguyen. We are also grateful for design feedback provided by Kevin Panke, Maria Habib and Kelly Murdoch-Kitt.
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Suit Accuses Hartford Courant of Plagiarism (Published 2009)
A lawsuit cites 11 Hartford Courant articles it says were largely taken from The Journal Inquirer.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/business/media/20paper.html
Newspapers have tried many ways to cover the news with dwindling resources: dropping certain topics, having people do double duty, using more wire service work. Routine plagiarism is not usually an option, but a lawsuit contends that it was for a while at The Hartford Courant.
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Trained as a photojournalist, Hollyman specialized in travel photography for many years, shooting for Holiday and Town and Country magazines. He also served as the director of photography for the 1963 movie version of Lord of the Flies.
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In a time where coverage of Mexico and Guatemala by the mass media is saturated with crime and despair an amazing culture and vibrant people people still remain. In my travels I searched for my ideal Latin America, a land with an indescribable energy in the air, a land of music, art, ritual, life, and celebrated death. What I found in my personal journey was a place where nostalgia collides with the surreal and a forgotten magic still exists.
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W. Eugene Smith was one of the greatest photojournalists of the 20th Century, but I think he would probably have a hard time if he was still alive and decided to enter World Press Photo, which just decreed that only “retouching which conforms to currently accepted standards in the industry is allowed.”
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In our November issue, we showcased 13 books that caught the attention of PDN’s editors this year (read it on PDNOnline here). Below is part two of our list, which includes several books we wrote about in the pages of PDN in 2009.
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