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Link: Magnum Photos’ new focus: online, online and online – British Journal of Photography
Magnum Photos’ activities used to be divided into two categories – new work and licensing – respectively dubbed M1 and M2. Now the agency’s CEO, Giorgio Psacharopulo, is pushing Magnum’s online activities as part of a new strategy. He speaks to Olivier Laurent about M3 and the future of the 65-year-old collective
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How to Prep for the NY Art Book Fair
All this week, the photographer and handmade-book publisher Andreas Laszlo Konrath has been preparing for the NY Art Book Fair, which opens tomorrow, and …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/09/how-to-prep-for-the-ny-art-book-fair.html#slide_ss_0=1
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Link: Citizen fires whistleblower of doctored cover photo | News | National | Mail & Guardian
Johann “Slang” Hattingh tweeted about the incident shortly after the paper was published and a furious discussion about the ethics of the Citizen’s actions broke out over social media.
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Sean Vegezzi Photographs Secret New York
Sean Vegezzi is a young photographer from New York who enjoys hanging out in elevator shafts and getting cops to chase him through graveyards. His first photo-book, ‘I Don’t Warna Grow Up,’ is about not warnting to grow up.
via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/photographing-new-yorks-secret-hideouts-sean-vegezzi
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Link: Conscientious | Review: The Graves by Eric Stover and Gilles Peress
I think it’s fair to say that the time for the this-is-that game is up in photojournalism now (while the business model is imploding itself), so there are all kinds of attempts to re-play that game, by trying to make it look cool (using Instagram, for example). That’s not going to work.
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/27/the-green-book-project-by-jehad-nga/#1
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Link: Switzerland: Biel festival of Photography | Le Journal de la Photographie
Hélène Joye-Cagnard’s and Catherine Kohler’s selection welcomes photographers from 10 countries – among them Iran, the US, China, Spain and Switzerland – and congregates the multiple facets of a red-hot topic into a coherent image.
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Link: La Chronique de Pauline Auzou #2 | Le Journal de la Photographie
If Henri Cartier-Bresson were to peruse this online collection of photos, would he recognize his “decisive moment”?
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Gordon Parks: ‘A Lasting Love’
A new five-volume set from Steidl presents an unparalleled survey of Gordon Parks’s career, and just in time for his 100th birthday.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/gordon-parks-a-lasting-love/
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Instagram Isn’t an App, It’s a Publishing Platform (So Treat It Like One) – PhotoShelter Blog
We’ve been talking about Instagram so long that it seems quaint to continue to hear the “on-going debate” about whether professional photographers should be using it (and cellphone photography) or not. VII’s John Stanmeyer pretty much destroyed any argume
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2012/09/instagram-isnt-an-app-its-a-publishing-platform-so-treat-it-like-one/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
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Video – America’s Finest News Source | The Onion
The latest news from The Onion’s Video coverage all in one place and updated daily.
via The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/video/reporter-steps-in-to-replace-womans-missing-husban
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Link: Daido Moriyama Labyrinth | Le Journal de la Photographie
Daido Moriyama has published what amounts to a lifetime of work, a vast series of contact sheets soberly lined up without empty space on the 300 thick pages of the book
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/26/looking-at-the-land-from-the-comfort-of-home/#1
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Losing Fear and Learning to See
On a demanding assignment off Peru’s coast, in search of a coveted guano, the reporter Simon Romero couldn’t stomach more than an afternoon. The Chilean photographer Tomás Munita, undaunted, stayed weeks.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/losing-fear-learning-to-see/
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It’s Personal: 13 Photographic Visions
For the last twelve years, it have had the pleasure to teach at the Julia Dean Photo Workshops in Los Angeles, under the leadership of the amazing Julia Dean. Starting in January at JDPW, I began working with a group of thirteen talented Los Angeles photo
via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/09/its-personal-13-photographic-visions.html
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“The majority of football pictures, or really any sport pictures, tend to be tight action pictures. But the really memorable and definable moments tend to be wider shots that show some context,” Greule said. “I think they clue the viewer into the meaning of the photograph. A photo that shows teammates going ballistic, and fans, and some of the stadium, signals that this was a special moment.”
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The new Leica M as a filmmaker’s tool – an interview with Leica’s Jesko von Oeynhausen – EOSHD.com – Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews
Above: the new Leica M alongside the Leica M Monochrom
via EOSHD.com – Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews: http://www.eoshd.com/content/9060/the-new-leica-m-as-a-filmmakers-tool-an-interview-with-leicas-jesko-von-oeynhausen
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