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Archivist Rick Prelinger sez, “The U.S. Department of Defense has entered into a contract with T3 Media to get its gigantic still and moving image collection digitized at no cost to the gover…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/12/21/us-department-of-defenses-pu.html
Previously undisclosed CIA program provided intelligence for airstrikes and GPS kits to guide smart bombs.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/12/21/covert-action-in-colombia/?wprss=rss_world
Link: my best photos of 2013 – Shooting from the Hip
As a newspaper photographer, each year takes a different path.
Link: Andrea Urban: Leica X2 Gagosian Edition « The Leica Camera
Leica Camera recently announced its collaboration with Gagosian Gallery on the new, limited edition Leica X2 Gagosian Edition. The camera features all-metal construction and black paint splotches dot the camera’s high-grip white leather trim in an Expressionist style. Below, Andrea Urban, the Creative Director for the Gagosian Shop, explains the inspiration behind the camera and the relationship between Gagosian Gallery and Leica Camera.
Link: » newsletter | 20 december 2013
As the year is coming to an end, we are happy to share some of NOOR’s highlights from this past year. NOOR photographers have continued their dedicated work as visual storytellers. They covered the harsh events of this year’s tragedies while aiming to bring joy and solutions to troubled issues. With the world changing, photography is also moving forward and video is becoming more and more a part of the work by NOOR photographers.
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During the month of November, National Geographic magazine invited photographers from around the world to submit photos in three categories: People, Places and Nature. We received more than 7,000 entries from over 150 countries, with amateur and professio
via Photography: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2013/12/19/the-2013-national-geographic-photography-contest-winners/
Link: LensCulture Editors – 2013 Photobooks of the Year | LensCulture
The selection is quirky, subjective, untraditional, and probably not like many other lists of favorite photobooks out there. They range from super-large-format mainstream books to small hand-assembled artists books, from straightforward to obscure. But all of them are gems, in our opinion.
The suburbs of Southern California go on and on and on some more, a sea of cookie-cutter houses so vast it’s crossed the border into Mexico. This collision of cultures fascinates photographer Anthony Marichetti, whose series Occidente Nuevo and Little Box
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/12/anthony-marchetti-american-suburbs-in-mexico/?viewall=true
Link: My 2013 Memories as a Salt Lake Tribune photographer
I have the best job in the world. Here are some of the people and moments that left their mark on me over the past year…
We emailed Art Buyers and Art Producers around the world asking them to submit names of established photographers who were keeping it fresh and up-and-comers who they are keeping their eye on. If you are an Art Buyer/Producer or an Art Director at an agen
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/12/19/art-producers-speak-henrique-plantikow/
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Memories of childhood humanize us as adults. With age, our version of that time is deformed then reassembled. What fragments bleed through are tailored to a narrative designed to hide vulnerability. – Paul Kwiatkowski Paul Kwiatkowski stitches together an
The current antagonism between photographers and the White House needs to be broadened beyond the simple question of access. It is time to look at the bigger picture, and make the photo-op as much the subject, so we have a visual record of how events and
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/12/photo-ops-and-staging-beyond-white-house-access-the-larger-issue-is-what-we-have-access-to/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29
I feel most filmmakers are looking at this moment in time as an age of opportunity. But having gone through this revolution already in the music business, I feel compelled to tell you why right now we should be questioning everything.There are countless c
via Hope For Film: http://trulyfreefilm.hopeforfilm.com/2013/11/hey-filmmakers-you-guys-are-next-a-word-of-warning-from-the-music-industry.html
As technological change has changed photojournalism, news photographers fear that iconic images that could trigger the public’s conscience are being missed.
via Reuters: http://blogs.reuters.com/david-rohde/2013/12/18/will-a-billion-selfies-cause-us-to-miss-history/
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/12/the-wandering-spirit.html#slide_ss_0=1