“Fans can see that they give up their copyrights when they read their tickets. The tickets say NASCAR owns anything the fans capture as pictures, video or sound,” Osterreicher said by phone Sunday.
Mr. Sweet was a photographic illustrator known for his use of fierce hues that emulated the emergent Technicolor palate of American movies, and helped define — visually, anyway — an era.
Steve Sands, whom some consider New York’s most notorious paparazzo, has been going to celebrity affairs to document what he sees as abuse from security and the police.
I hope you will be enthralled, as I have, to realize that at times, we all stand before the mirror of our ancestors, our great grandmothers and grandfathers of roughly 2,500 generations past, when they walked 60,000 years ago out of the Afar region of what is today, Ethiopia — not carrying a bar of soap.
The other notable effect from yesterday’s critique was the counter-critique that BagNews “failed to contact” Mr. Pellegrin in advance or “give him the chance to reply.” I welcome the chance to clarify a fundamental misperception people make about the role
Yesterday, I linked to a BagNews post about the accuracy of an award-winning photo by Magnum’s Paolo Pellegrin. Since then, Paolo has responded (weakly, in my estimation) and a number of sites have leapt to his defense. This morning, BagNews…
The subject of a photo that helped earn Paolo Pellegrin top honors in the Pictures of the Year International contest has raised questions surrounding it.
The next time I heard anything about Mike Brodie, aka The Polaroid Kidd, was when I learned his photographs of his freight train-hopping peers were hanging in the Louvre as part of the Paris International Photo Fair in 2006.
Photo by World Press Photo contest winner Paolo Pellegrin of Magnum. When I was in photography school, I made a small portfolio called Ocean City, Maryland. It consisted of 12 or 15 pictures (I don’t recall now) taken in Ocean…
Previously in October 2012, I had a chance to handle the M Typ 240 (I’m going to call it the M 240 from hereon in) back at the Kuala Lumpur launch event, and produce a quick preview (that can…
On November 7, 1956, in Budapest, on a barricade erected to oppose invading Soviet troops, Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini was killed. He was 29 years old and a photographer for Paris Match. That was my earliest memory of a photographer who fell on the battlefield in the name of journalism. I was eight years old.
What happens when a World Press Photo and Picture of the Year International award-winning photograph wasn’t taken where it was claimed to be taken and when the subject of the photo isn’t who the photographer says he is?
In an interview with the Atlantic, author and former Reuters correspondent Anne Sebba makes several points about women war reporters that current female conflict journalists find insulting. Sebba, who is the author of a history of women reporters called B