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in Film & TV
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Why All The Articles in PDN’s New Issue Are About Women Photographers | PDNPulse
The articles in the September issue of PDN, now available to subscribers and in the iTunes store, offer our standard mix of technical advice, interviews, and insights into the photography business. The one difference is that all the photography we are fea
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/08/why-all-the-articles-in-pdns-new-issue-are-about-women-photographers.html
in Photography
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The Case For Never Banning Photography
As photography goes beyond a daily or even hourly exchange, it stops becoming a distraction from life; rather, it is life. “People are showing their lives not to create a document but as a part of living. If we were dogs we’d be peeing on fire hydrants. but instead we’re posting to Instagram and Facebook,” Mayes says.
in Photography
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Study: Flickr Photos Can Predict People’s Movements
Before you head out for your next vacation, you may want to consider what your photos on Flickr reveal about your travel plans. A new study published in
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/08/12/study-flickr-photos-can-predict-peoples-movements/
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‘Women, Children and Loitering Men’: A Glimpse at Manchester’s Slums in the 1960s – Feature Shoot
The streets of the Manchester slums, in which children played on concrete roads and their parents watched as terraced homes were razed to the ground in favor of new developments, became in the 1960s and two decades following like a home away from home for
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2015/08/women-children-and-loitering-men-a-glimpse-at-manchesters-slums-in-the-1960s/
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Work of pioneering war photographer Olive Edis to be showcased online
Lottery grant will fund digital archive of Britain’s first female war photographer, who also took portraits of early 20th century celebrities
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/aug/11/work-of-pioneering-war-photographer-olive-edis-to-be-showcased-online
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Graduate student drawn to postwar photojournalism
Doctoral dissertation chronicles the innovations in visual culture that followed World War II.
via USC News: http://news.usc.edu/84943/graduate-student-drawn-to-postwar-photojournalism/
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Mary F. Calvert: The War Within
We used to call this type of work “women’s Issues.” I prefer to think of them as our issues. You cannot marginalize half the world’s population without it being a problem for all of us. The only difference between “us” and “them” is that they were born there and we were born here. I became a photojournalist so I could tell the stories of those with no voice and to provide a mirror for society to examine itself. Everyone should know what is going on in his or her world and it is my job to make them care.
in Interviews
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Pablo Piovano – The Human Cost of Agrotoxins
Pablo Piovano The Human Cost of Agrotoxins [ EPF 2015 FINALIST ] The first survey of areas affected by glyphosate spraying in Argentina revealed that 13.4 million people — one third of the co…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2015/08/pablo-piovano-the-human-cost-of-agrotoxins/
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There’s No Place Like Nome
In 2003 a 19-year-old Native American woman was found dead in an abandoned gold mine in Nome Alaska. Two years later, Nome police officer Matthew Clay Owens was convicted of her murder. Soon after his arrest, I was sent to photograph Nome for a magazine that went out of business before my essay was published. The place has haunted me ever since. More than any other location I’ve traveled in America, Nome evokes an authentic feeling of frontier rawness. So when Vice Magazine asked me if there was a place I wanted to travel, my first choice was to return to Nome.
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Media groups deride White House on information curbs, monitoring
A coalition of 53 press and open government organizations, including the Poynter Institute, have “once again” urged President Obama “to stop practices in federal agencies that prevent important information from getting to the public.”
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Surfaces in the Street – Photographs by Siegfried Hansen | LensCulture
Colorful street photography that celebrates delightful visual compositions found by chance (or choice) out in the world — overlapping planes of color, juxtapositions, lines, geometries, visual tricks and treats
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/siegfried-hansen-surfaces-in-the-street
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Tibet’s little-known nomadic culture, high on the ‘Roof of the World’
The Tibetan nomads’ way of life is being challenged by political and environmental forces.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/08/11/tibets-little-known-nomadic-culture-high-on-the-roof-of-the-world/
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Shooting the Stanley Cup Finals with Photojournalist Dirk Shadd
Here’s a 2-minute behind-the-scenes video by Monica Herndon that shows how photojournalist Dirk Shadd of the Tampa Bay Times photographs the Tampa Bay
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/08/11/shooting-the-stanley-cup-finals-with-photojournalist-dirk-shadd/
in Sports
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This Site Will Sell Your Instagram Selfie Without Your Permission for $150
Earlier this year, artist Richard Prince sparked a huge controversy by taking people’s Instagram photos, making very small changes to them, and selling
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/08/11/this-site-will-sell-your-instagram-selfie-without-your-permission-for-150/
in Copyright
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Correspondent
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/1995-a-summer-of-fire-in-sarajevo
in War
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Revisiting David Wojnarowicz in an Era of Conflict and Change
David Wojnarowicz was both of his time, and way ahead of his time—an artist and activist who refused to consider the whims of the art world, and made art so beautifully abrasive and politically poignant that it feels vital over 20 years after his death.
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The ethics of modern web ad-blocking
Web ads are dramatically different from prior ad media, though — rather than just being printed on paper or inserted into a broadcast, web ads are software. They run arbitrary code on your computer, which can (and usually does) collect and send data about you and your behavior back to the advertisers and publishers. And there’s so much consolidation amongst ad networks and analytics providers that they can easily track your behavior across multiple sites, building a creepily accurate and deep profile of your personal information and private business.
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Photographer Gets Investigated for Terrorism, Responds in Best Possible Way – Feature Shoot
“Once you’re wrapped up in a terrorism investigation, you never really escape from it,” says artist and University of Maryland professor Hasan Elahi of his experience as an innocent man under the scrutiny of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2015/08/photographer-gets-investigated-for-terrorism-responds-in-best-possible-way/
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What Makes a Person Decide to Dress Up Like Minnie Mouse?
Anyone who has spent time around Hollywood Boulevard has seen tourists posing for pictures alongside recognizable pop culture characters like…
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/08/09/ken_hermann_s_behind_the_mask_a_look_at_some_of_the_characters_on_hollywood.html