With a fresh $225 million in its pocket, Pinterest is gearing up to spend a little of it to build out its platform and the data that powers it — and close up a copyright hole in the process. Pinterest today announced a deal with Getty Images — the image
“She was an encyclopedia of film, culture and writing,” says agent Marek Milewicz, who began working with Turbeville 36 years ago. “She never compromised what she did. She believed in what she did and followed her voice of creativity.”
National Geographic magazine will present “The Power of Photography: National Geographic 125 Years” at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles from October 26, 2013, through April 27, 2014. National Geographic’s director of photography, Sarah L
During a talk at PhotoPlus Expo 2013, sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), attorneys Mickey Osterreicher and Alicia Wagner Calzada provided tips for how photographers can protect their First Amendment rights and control the co
How does one photograph a group of people whose beliefs prohibit virtually all photography? David Nevala found out a few summers ago when he arrived in…
There’s something hauntingly beautiful and indeed powerful about Nick Brandt’s animal portraits that are part of his new book Across the Ravaged Land, the third and final volume in Brandt’s trilogy documenting the disappearing animals of eastern Africa. B
Tomorrow night, photographer Kurt Simonson will open his first solo exhibition, Home is Where, featuring work from Northwoods Journals, a photographic series Kurt has been developing for over ten years exploring his family history in Minnesota. It opens a
Link: Signs of Life (10 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day
Chicago-based portrait photographer Saverio Truglia has an eye for quirky and conceptual photos. Truglia refers to his current series, “Signs of Life,” as a visual time capsule that tells a bizarre story of how life was lived on planet Earth. “‘Signs of Life’ began as a need to show work that I think is funny, kitschy or odd; to catalogue the weird shit that stops me in my tracks,” Truglia told PDN via email. “Overall I’m interested in what makes us, especially Americans, an exceptionally idiosyncratic group of people. Personal style, taste and class all figure into this branch of my work. How we present ourselves and what we leave behind is often really funny or sad if you stop to look at it.”
I’ve been writing a lot of geeky testing stuff for the last couple of weeks, most of which can be summed up as ‘take some pictures; if they look good everything is fine.’ So last weekend, I went out and took some pictures. It was pretty fun. So much fun t
Seven photographer are suing the National Football League and two image distributors–Getty Images and Associated Press (AP)–for copyright infringement over widespread use of their images in NFL ads, products and promotions without fair compensation, accor
Earlier this summer, I caught up with David Maisel, a few weeks after reviewing his new book “Black Maps.” He recently began working with Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, and has a solo show up at Haines Gallery in San Francisco through October 26th
It might be hard to believe in retrospect, but it turns out that Steve McCurry’s most famous photograph, the iconic ‘Afghan Girl,’ was almost passed over
Piergiorgio Casotti Sometimes I Cannot Smile ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT An intimate, personal journey into the greenlandic juvenile world where nature, boredom, violence and a strong cultural …
Link: Strobist: An All-Nighter at The Vista: Greg Heisler’s 50 Portraits
I pre-ordered on February 08, 2013, but I have been waiting for this book for 20 years. And it was worth it. Editor Julie Mazur, then of Amphoto/Random House, has coaxed from Heisler exactly the book a photographer would want to read.
When National Geographic was first founded, photographers, in today’s sense of the term, didn’t really exist. ‘Instead, there were explorers,’ says Sarah Leen, the newly promoted director of photography at National Geographic magazine. ‘These explorers wo
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