• Elegy for a Small Idaho Town

    On return visits to American Falls, the small Idaho town where he grew up, Steve Davis found a sadness that he was moved to document, Michael Itkoff reports.

    via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/elegy-to-a-small-idaho-town/

    “American Falls seems to be dying a death that is as slow as it is unspectacular.”

    Steve Davis, 53, is describing the Idaho town in which he grew up. He left when he was 18. The region, once known for small potato farms, is now home to agribusiness and big-box retailing. About 4,000 people live there today.

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    The disease progressed quite rapidly. The initial infection, the X1, occurred in August. By September a Leica M9 was on order and the fever was beginning. By October, a 35 mm Summilux ASPH joined the M9 and from then on it was all downhill. The fever only abated after I’d picked up a bunch of lenses. Finally I was back in the Leica fold, after a twenty-year absence.

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  • Nina Berman Interview

    Jonathan Blaustein interviews Nina Berman for us: JB: I was in New York in June, and I had a meeting at the Whitney with a curator and I had about 15 minutes to kill, so they let me go upstairs to …

    via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2011/03/07/nina-berman-interview/

    Has it made the world my oyster, in the sense that I have no financial difficulties, or I can do any project I want, or I have all of these amazing offers just dropping in my lap every day? No. It has not done that for me. Has it opened some doors? I think. I think, also, that the effect of the Biennial will be something maybe felt for quite a while, for me. It has given me a bit more confidence in the choices I’ve made and what I do. And so for all of those reasons, it was a beautiful experience.

    My work is still very difficult to look at. It’s very political work. If you look at what’s in museums these days, in the art world these days, it is not of such a direct political nature. At least, I haven’t found it.

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  • Rebuilding Lives in Former Soviet Lands

    “Sunder” is a collection of photographs by Bruce Haley documenting the former Soviet republics. Mathew R. Warren describes its origins.

    via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/rebuilding-lives-in-former-soviet-lands/

    “Sunder” was released last week. Fifty-five black-and-white photographs depict a people and a landscape in flux. The haunting images, which were taken in various countries throughout the former Soviet Union, show abandoned industrial sites and decaying towns and villages. Children play in bombed-out structures; families toil in rural wastelands. A panoramic photo depicts a young man about to dive into the ocean from the top of a partially sunken warship. A piece of the broken hull pokes out of the water.

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    An European photo editor I met at Visa Pour L’image some years ago pointed out that there was very little in the way of dissident and critical photography in America. Recently the same question came up in a conversation with students at a social science institute in India. I think that this is too simplistic an argument. American photographers have been speaking out and offering resistance to the mainstream radicalization and militarization of the American public and political space. Tim Davis’ work of course is an example of a photographer confronting the dimensions of America as he sees it, and pointing out the dangers of its slide towards extremist consumerism, war and comic book political dialogue.

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    We do a variety of educational webinars each month, and last week we did a special one that will be of interest to anyone who is, or wants to be, selling prints. Allen digs deep into the print sales tactics of several very different photographers – showing that although they may do things differently, each are finding success in selling prints.

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    One year after first testing the Leica M9, Jonathan Eastland finds there’s still room for improvement from this “nearly perfect” digital rangefinder. But short of some adjustments to body shape and JPEG reproduction, the greatest development has been the introduction of the Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 ASPH

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    This story’s a bit old, but it’s the first I’ve encountered it. Ron Haeberle, US Army photographer during the Vietnam War, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 2009 that he took photos of soldiers in the act of killing during the My Lai massacre but destroyed the negatives.

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    Yet despite his relative comfort with being on the frontlines, Moore told the NewsHour from his hotel room in Cairo that his latest assignment -a six-week trip that took him to the uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain and Libya – might have been his most dangerous. Moore recorded the interview for us after sneaking out of Benghazi, Libya en route back to his home in Denver.

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    “I inform you that rights of photographers to make claims for their pictures and slides has expired,” a spokesman for the trustee, Stéphane Gorrias, told PDN in an e-mail last week.

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    Miami-based photographer Joe Raedle and two other journalists — detained in Libya on Saturday — have safely crossed the border into Tunisia Wednesday morning

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    Our new guide is aimed at people who want to sell photos. Entitled “How to Sell Prints,” it’s a free 44-page guide that will walk you through different aspects of selling prints from product selection to pricing to fulfillment.

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    Saying the deal goes “too far,” a federal judge Tuesday rejected Google’s proposed legal settlement with book publishers, an accord that would have paved a path toward digitizing the world’s books.

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    AFP journalists Dave Clark and Roberto Schmidt and Getty images photographer Joe Raedle have not been heard from since Saturday morning.

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    Christopher Morris is familiar with working in controlled environments. From following the rigid protocols of the White House to the totalitarian bubble of North Korea, he has captured lyrical and telling moments under watchful eyes and strict boundaries. Over the last two weeks, Morris, a TIME contract photographer, has been on assignment in Libya and encountered some surprising similarities to some of the places he’s worked in the past.

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  • Wade Laube – Constant Updates

    Constant Updates

    via Wade Laube – Constant Updates: http://www.wadelaube.com/blog/it-takes-more-than-a-camera-phone/

    A prominent Australian newspaper is experimenting with the idea of issuing reporters with camera-capable mobile phones with which they are supposed to produce photographs for their court and police stories without the involvement of an actual photographer.

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    The awards are divided into two categories – the Student Award and the International Award. 

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  • LightBox | Time

    Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time

    via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/

    On Thursday, Prix Pictet named Mitch Epstein’s American Power, a stunning series on fossil fuels and renewable energy use in the U.S. this year’s winner of the group’s third photography prize for environmental sustainability. The theme of this year’s competition was growth, which correlated with Prix Pictet’s mission to “search for photographs that communicate powerful messages of global environmental significance.”

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    The contested and, at times, controversial ‘discovery’ of the work of Malian photographer Seydou Keita in the 1990’s acutely highlighted some of the difficulties that can accompany the First World consumption of Third World imagery

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