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    Edward Ruscha arrived in Los Angeles in 1956, delivered by the car trip he and high school friend Mason Williams took in Ruscha’s black 1950 Ford from Oklahoma to the suburban-like stretch of a rapidly developing L.A. Over the next seven years, Ruscha drove the distance between L.A. and Oklahoma City several times, often documenting it by taking snapshots of gas stations along U.S. Route 66 that record the experience of the drive. Although many of the photographs were shot from across the road, several of the images are framed by the visual parameters set by a car window. They appear to be taken from the spatial perspective of the dashboard.1

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    Freelancers are constantly challenged to balance self promotion with the demands of client projects in order to keep growing their businesses. Usually, when one priority needs attention, the other falls to the wayside. That’s no way to run a sustainable business.  So, we decided to write this e-book to teach freelancers how to use the latest online marketing tactics to create a constant pipeline of new client opportunities. It’s packed full of “how to” research, lots of tools, and actionable strategies that freelancers can implement immediately.

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    There’s always that terrifying moment when a large, seemingly peaceful gathering turns brutally ugly. In an instant, blood is drawn and you could easily be crushed by the swirling, pulsing chaos of what is now a mindless, violent mob. Sadly, we all know that inexplicable self-destructive stupidity is not limited to the streets, but can be witnessed quite often online. And it’s happening now, in an ignorant, misguided and ruthless attack on Jay Maisel.

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    Our 10th annual Photo Issue has a couple of things going for it. For one, each of the 39 photographers contributed a photo essay, so everyone’s work has a nice narrative to it and the magazine flows really well and blah blah blah. For TWO, the cover is f*cking scratch-n-sniff.
    That’s right, if you scratch those naked colored people (#notracist) they will release a funny smell.

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    Techmeme’s “mimimalistic” aggregation approach — a headline and a snippet — brought 746 page views, according to Google Analytics. Huffington’s “short but thorough paraphrasing/rewriting” brought 57, Dumenco writes, although the site is “vastly bigger” than Techmeme

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    It offers a close-focus distance of 6.4in/16.3cm and utilizes Nikon’s Close-Range Correction System

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    “In all of my prints, I collect things that I’ve cut out from Google Satellite View— parking lots, silos, landflls, waste ponds.”

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    The Virginian-Pilot: Your source for Virginia breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, weather and traffic

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    Pilot reporter Corinne Reilly and photographer Ross Taylor spent two weeks this spring in Afghanistan with the staff of the NATO hospital in Kandahar. Their job is to save the most critical casualties in the most unforgiving war zone. Since 2001, more than 100 doctors, nurses and corpsmen from Portsmouth Naval Medical Center have served there.

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    What’s the secret to making your website images look like visually vibrant eye-candy for your visitors? When preparing images for your online portfolio, it’s important to ensure that the images look their absolute best. Short of hiring a professional retouching expert, what can photographer do to improve the look of their images when they hit the web?

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    The images he’s collected for books like Skins & Punks and Raving ‘89 have shown how the smiling, glowering, gurning faces of British youth culture have stretched themselves across decades

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    Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time

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

    In Europe, his camera captures intentionally narrow observations, with all action taking place around the edges, leaving the viewer to fill in the blanks or begin their own  narrative. For France, he picked the 2009 Tour de France; for Spain, bullfighting; and for his own country, a Prussian military parade, which reflect the “rigidity and orderly structures in different aspects of German life,” says Pluemacher, “in particular, the German administration.”

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    End beneath the trees, skin dappled by the sun. Deep breaths, underwater. Guerneville is for lovers.

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    We start in Southern California. Easy landing, In ‘n’ Out burgers, LAX, West Hollywood to the desert.

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    While living in Ethiopia from 2003 to 2005, I was overcome by the beauty of the rituals of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. They stood out in such a stark contrast, even for someone who had grown up with Ethiopia so close to my family, with the images that one normally conjures up when asked to create a mental image of this country. When I asked my beautiful Ethiopian girlfriend to become my wife, I knew that the church would become an even bigger part of my life, and I hope to spend my life continuing to document and explore this beautiful culture. This is how far I have gotten so far.

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    I found a very interesting thought about photojournalism in a short essay written by Daido Moriyama

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    In this very personal story Adam Ferguson gives us an unedited account of what it is like to be a combat photographer. He openly discusses what his feelings are about the troops, war photography, Afghanistan, and combat in general.

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  • The Surreal Dioramic World of Photographer Lori Nix

    Lori Nix spends weeks, even months, hand-fashioning elaborate tabletop dioramas specifically to capture in just the right light with her camera.

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    She spends weeks, even months, hand-fashioning elaborate tabletop dioramas specifically to capture in just the right light with her camera. Without the aid of digital manipulations, Nix goes one step further and uses an old-fashioned 8 X 10 large format camera

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    Later this month the Cleveland Museum of Art will present the first major museum exhibition of work by contemporary photographer Brian Ulrich. “Copia—Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores, 2001-11,” is a decade-long examination of the American consumer psyche. From the Latin word for “plenty,” the artist’s “Copia” series explores economic, cultural and political implications of commercialism and American consumer culture. The exhibition, featuring 60 photographs, will be on view from August 27, 2011 to January 16, 2012, in the museum’s east wing photography galleries.

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    Almost two weeks ago, I had the chance to take a Fuji X100 out for an afternoon. After using it for a day and really getting a chance to get to know it, I took the plunge and bought the camera. Since then, I’ve learned a lot more about it. As I’ve used it, I’ve sorted some things that—at least for me—smooth away some of its rough edges.

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  • via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2011/08/five-reasons-why-google-is-winning-the-war-in-photosharing.html

    On Facebook photographs seem tolerated. On Google+ photographs seem celebrated. Our world is so visual. Google gets this in a big way.

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