• At Flagging Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture (Published 2010)

    Under Sam Zell, the Tribune Company was bankrupted by debt, and employees describe a profane and alienating workplace.

    Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/business/media/06tribune.html

    The new management did transform the work culture, however. Based on interviews with more than 20 employees and former employees of Tribune, Mr. Michaels’s and his executives’ use of sexual innuendo, poisonous workplace banter and profane invective shocked and offended people throughout the company. Tribune Tower, the architectural symbol of the staid company, came to resemble a frat house, complete with poker parties, juke boxes and pervasive sex talk.

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    A word of advice to would-be interns: Pack for the unexpected. There’s nothing like finding out that you have to photograph a funeral the next day and realizing your suit is hanging in the closet at your parent’s house. After an hour long game of Tetris I finally got everything packed.

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    This shows the risks to objective storytelling if one is employed by an NGO.

    You are corporatised into showing the message of your employer – bottom line.

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    Stephen Voss, a photographer based in the Washington DC area, announced a personal project earlier this year called 91 Days. For the 91 days of spring he would make one 4×5 instant picture a day in his backyard and send it to those who sent in an email asking to reserve a day.

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    How many photo contests did you get emailed about today? Some photo contests take themselves a little too seriously. This isn’t one of them.

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    This release also introduces the Adobe Lens Profile Downloader.  The Lens Profile Downloader is a free companion application to Photoshop CS5, Photoshop Lightroom 3, and the Camera Raw 6 plug-in. It allows customers to search, download, rate and comment on the online lens correction profiles that are created and shared by the user community

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    The Annie Leibovitz story, however, is more than a tale of a photographer who got absorbed into the high-spending world of the people she portrays. It is a reflection of something unexpected – that, despite all her celebrity and talent, Leibovitz lacks earning power as an artist.

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    Joao Silva, a New York Times photographer, has been severely wounded in Afghanistan after he stepped on a mine, the newspaper has announced

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    What confuses me is the thought behind the video and comments: Michael Kamber is surprised that a system meticulously designed to censor the likes of him, is…..censoring him.

    Isn’t this precisely what this system is designed to do?

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    In February 1993, Darcy Padilla was photographing a team of doctors and social workers in San Francisco who cared for people with AIDS who were too sick to make it to a clinic. She envisioned the story as an updated urban version of W. Eugene Smith’s epic 1948 photo essay “Country Doctor.”

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    Listen to the audio from his talk below while viewing a slideshow of his work.

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    This is a huge update performance wise. Everything is faster. Zooming, Library switching, everything. Apple clearly spent a lot of time working on the bugs and issues that Mac Create members (and others) have submitted.

    But there are also a ton of new features, some of which is not immediately obvious from the support notes.

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    Here’s another picture-heavy post from another amazing warehouse party in Brooklyn.  The theme this time was The Forbidden City.  Most party-goers and art installations kept with the theme, but others loosely interpreted.  Either way, there was a lot to see.

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  • lesley louden – “evelyn, nothing fancy”

    [slidepress gallery=’lesleylouden_evelyn’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls   Lesley Louden Evelyn, Nothing Fancy play this essay   For over a deca…

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    For over a decade the regal life of an exceptional  U.S. mid-western woman and her plush apartment situated in a small town on the banks of Lake Erie has been documented and compiled into a series of photographs, “Evelyn, Nothing Fancy.” The photographs invite the viewer inside to experience Evelyn’s domain, a common place transformed into a personal work of art, filled with precious powder blue and pink possessions.

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    We’re thrilled to present the winners of the 2010 Lens Culture International Exposure Awards.

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    Separations is a series of studio images focusing on disused electronics, as well as flora and fauna. The series is part of the book project entitled 32 Separations, by Benjamin Innes

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  • Leica M9 – Field Test and Hands-on Review – DigitalRev.com

    World’s first video of a field test of the Leica M9(http://bit.ly/Leic-M9), the first full frame rangefinder with a groundbreaking Kodak sensor and improveme…

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    Chang W. Lee, a staff photographer for The New York Times, aspires to a 1.000 average. “In the playoffs, you have to succeed 10 times out of 10,” said Mr. Lee, 42, who has covered all of the New York Yankees’ postseason games since 1996.

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    So, how do we as artists balance our pursuit of perfection with our drive to produce? The answer is, quite simply, functional perfectionism.

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    The NPPA Student Clip Contest will be re-launching on Monday, November 15, with simplified online entry, multimedia categories, and live winners’ galleries on NPPA.org.

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    In a book, my favourite images are usually hidden. The books are all on their shelves. I don’t have books lying around, their images exposed (ever since one of the cats once threw up on an Alfred Steichen book [a possible sign that her taste is strictly contemporary, but I don’t want to overinterpret things] I am a bit careful with books). If I want to see an image, I go and open the book, and then… there it is. It’s almost a bit like as if it was newly revealed, and I can look at it again.

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