Link: Getxo Photo 2012: Margaret M De Lange | Le Journal de la Photographie
The project began in 1993 and continued until 2002, but the work was not published until they reached adulthood. Margaret wanted to ensure that she first received explicit permission and consent from her daughters. They are moving images that transport us to a universal summer where the girls play like creatures from Scandinavian folklore, protected and threatened by nature.
Link: Getxo Photo 2012: Jeongmee Yoon | Le Journal de la Photographie
JeongMee began The Pink and Blue Project with her daughter, when she was five years old. She was crazy about the colour pink, to a point where she only wanted to dress in pink clothes and play with objects of the same colour
Link: Getxo Photo 2012: Roger Ballen | Le Journal de la Photographie
Textures, compositions, objects, animals, disturbing characters and graphic elements create unique compositions that emotionally captivate the spectator. It would be a futile endeavour to attempt to explain his images, for they come from a way of telling that cannot be translated into another discipline
Link: PDN Pulse » Blog Archive » Sony Intros New Pro-Level 24.3MP Full-Frame A99 Digital SLR
Like other recent cameras in Sony’s SLT lineup, the A99 uses the company’s Translucent Mirror Technology, which simultaneously directs light to both the image sensor and the Phase Detection AF sensor for faster speeds. On the downside, the technology prevents placing an actual optical viewfinder in the camera but there is Sony’s crisp 2359K-dot, XGA OLED electronic viewfinder, which is clear and accurate.
Along with the full-frame sensor, the Sony RX1 sports a Carl Zeiss-branded, 35mm f/2.0 fixed lens
From LensRentals.com Roger over at LensRentals.com ran the new EF 24-70 f/2.8L II through an Imatest session and found it to be a stellar performer as far as r
via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2012/09/the-raw-data-the-ef-24-70-f2-8l-ii-is-the-sharpest-zoom-canon-has-ever-made/
I can’t believe I’m saying that a $2,300 standard zoom is worth the money. But then again, I can’t believe I’m seeing a zoom lens out resolve a $2,000 world-class prime, either.
Artist Michael Mapes creates intricate photographic portrait pieces in which photos of the subject are cut up and distributed amongst vials, pins, and
via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/photographic-specimen-portraits-by-michael-mapes/
Artist Michael Mapes creates intricate photographic portrait pieces in which photos of the subject are cut up and distributed amongst vials, pins, and other medical and scientific containers and equipment. The portrait “specimens” are housed in a wooden box, along with samples taken from the subject, including fingernails, eyelashes, and handwriting samples.
Those new Nikon D600 and WU-1b images and detailed specs were just published in a Malaysian forum: Sensor: 24,3MP CMOS Total: 24.7 million Image size FX 36mm x 24mm : 6,016 x 4,016 (L) 4,512 x 3,008 (M) 3,008 x 2,008 (S) DX 24mm x 16mm 3,936 x 2,624 (L)
via Nikon Rumors: http://nikonrumors.com/2012/09/11/more-nikon-d600-leaks-full-specs-and-new-images.aspx/
The medium format camera system will include models with 40, 50 and 60 megapixel image sensors as well as 50 and 200 megapixel multi-shot versions.
9/11 in 2011 9/11 in 2001 Unfortunately, the Bush administration used the emotional power of the images of 9/11, including mine, to justify and gather support for an ill-conceived invasion of Iraq, a country that had absolutely no connection to the attack
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2012/09/james-nachtweys-911-eleven-years-later-like-night-and-day/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29
Ten years after the event, maybe Stockhausen was right when he said: “Well, what happened there is, of course—now all of you must adjust your brains—the biggest work of art there has ever been.”
Sarasota, FL-based photographer Chip Litherland reviews the compact Leica X2 while on location in the Caribbean.
via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2012/09/leica-x2-review-by-chip-litherland/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ThePhotoBrigade+%28The+Photo+Brigade%29
I’ve used Leica’s before off and on for years when I can, but the price point is a little high (albeit the quality is off the charts) for me to start investing in that gear rather than my workhorse DSLR’s. Those cameras pay my mortgage, make the wife happy, and feed my kids. The Leica X2 is something like a mistress. We’re going to be sharing a lot of time together.
Over the past two weeks, Ben Lowy was in Tampa to Charlotte, using Instagram to cover the Republican and Democratic National Conventions for The New …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/09/ben-lowy-instagrams-the-conventions.html#slide_ss_0=1
I’ve used Leica’s before off and on for years when I can, but the price point is a little high (albeit the quality is off the charts) for me to start investing in that gear rather than my workhorse DSLR’s. Those cameras pay my mortgage, make the wife happy, and feed my kids. The Leica X2 is something like a mistress. We’re going to be sharing a lot of time together.
I’ve followed Paul Melcher’s Thoughts of a Bohemian blog for many years, because he had an insiders perspective of the stock photography industry and was a harsh critic of the old guard not keeping up with the digital age (similar to my own blogging on ma
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/09/10/meet-stipple/
Stipple solves the age old question everyone who has ever taken a picture has been asking : where are my photographs published and how many people are seeing them ? Today, when an image is published online, it is quickly replicated, blogged, re bloged, pinned, twitted, Tumblred, Facebooked
Link: Newspapers get $1 in new digital ad revenue for every $25 in print ad revenue lost | Poynter.
The newspaper industry’ s effort to cover print advertising losses with digital ad gains, weak in 2010 and 2011, deteriorated further in the first half of this year.
The photographer Li Zhensheng documented China’s Cultural Revolution for his local paper in Harbin, but soon started taking pictures that didn’t align with the Community Party dogma and, fearing retribution, hid them.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/through-a-thwarted-cinematographers-eye-chinas-cultural-revolution/
Li Zhensheng’s photographs of the Chinese Cultural Revolution are perhaps the most complete and nuanced pictorial account of the decade of turmoil ignited by Mao Zedong.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/10/the-end-of-al-qaeda-on-patrol-in-yemen-by-yuri-kozyrev/#1
Yuri Kozyrev and I have spent more hours than we care to remember on ‘embed’ with the great militaries of the world—American, Russian, NATO, Indian. But a chance to travel with a Yemeni Central Security Force (CSF) patrol in the southern Abyan province had both of us filled with nervous excitement. We were keenly aware that Yemen, a desperately poor nation at the bottom of the Arabian Peninsula, doesn’t exactly have the best-equipped army. And yet this army had just dealt al-Qaeda a major military blow in Abyan, earning the respect of all soldiers who have fought against fanatical jihadists, and those of us who have covered those battles.
My question is: is the picture of Syrian rebels at the moment of death a stellar piece of journalism and an essential contribution to our knowledge of the Syrian civil war in particular and war overall, or is this photo more a profound illustration of voy
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2012/09/horrific-photo-from-aleppo-war-porn-or-stellar-journalism/
First off, is the picture of Syrian rebels at the moment of death a stellar piece of journalism and an essential contribution to our understanind of the Syrian civil war, in particular, and war overall, or is this photo more a profound illustration of voyeurism and war porn?
With the party congratulating itself for programming Gabby Giffords’ final convention night recitation of the pledge of allegiance, and so many news outlets having extolled Gabby’s proud but not exactly fluid or easy rendition as a brilliant Hallmark mome
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2012/09/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-the-gabby-giffords-dnc-appearance-and-gun-violence/
Giffords appearance on Thursday night could easily have been a “profile in courage” moment as well as a near unassailable public statement about gun violence. If you look at the DNC video of the Giffords appearance, as well as the cross section of photos that primarily crossed the newswire, however, you’ll notice that Giffords’ physical condition was minimized, Gabby captured instead looking as much like her old self as you could imagine. As a striking emotional moment in the convention hall, what the media chose to communicate was the groundswell of sympathy for Giffords as a hearty survivor
