Link: Gordon Parks’s Alternative Civil Rights Photographs – NYTimes.com
While 20 photographs were eventually published in Life, the bulk of Mr. Parks’s work from that shoot was thought to have been lost. That is, until this spring, when the Gordon Parks Foundation discovered more than 70 color transparencies at the bottom of an old storage box, wrapped in paper and masking tape and marked, “Segregation Series.”
Media outlets send snippets of interviews to White House officials, who tweak them before publication or prohibit their use entirely.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/print/2012/07/the-most-transparent-administration-ever-doctors-its-quotes/259857/
Media outlets send snippets of interviews to White House officials, who tweak them before publication or prohibit their use entirely
Sometimes a photographer finds a part of the world that resonates so completely with their sensibilities that the marriage of the place and the person results in perfection. Monica Denevan has been creating photographs in Burma (and China) for many years
Sometimes a photographer finds a part of the world that resonates so completely with their sensibilities that the marriage of the place and the person results in perfection. Monica Denevan has been creating photographs in Burma (and China) for many years and with each new visit she adds to her stunning portfolio of images.
Link: http://thelifeofm.com/?p=541
In the womb, Olivia and Hailey Scheinman formed to the thump of the same heartbeat. Cells divided and organs sprouted, skin and hair knitted together while fluids swirled. Their mother rocked them with her every step.
For reasons no one knows, something didn’t proceed normally for Olivia. During the first trimester, her brain didn’t form the way it should, the way her twin sister’s did.
James Losey from New America Foundation sez, The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal, who has estimated how long it would take to read every privacy policy you encounter highlights an interesting bit …
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User preference known by Canon I have been talking to various professionals about what they think about the black AF points on Canon’s new 61 point AF system.
A lot of people are finding it hard and/or impossible to see which AF point is selected when shooting in dark conditions, like a wedding reception. There are also people telling me they’re having trouble tracking birds in flight with the 1D X and the black AF points.
Link: Friday the 13th hits Sports Illustrated | Utah Photojournalism
A series of pending staff cuts was announced a couple Fridays ago
On this day in 1946, one of photo history’s greatest shooters was born: Larry Sultan, who died in 2009. In 1977, Sultan published “Evidence,” with …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/07/happy-birthday-larry-sultan.html?currentPage=all
On this day in 1946, one of photo history’s greatest shooters was born: Larry Sultan, who died in 2009. In 1977, Sultan published “Evidence,” with Mike Mandel, a hugely influential conceptual photo book that consisted of reproduced images from industrial and government archives. For the rest of his career Sultan would create projects that bridged the realms of fictional and documentary photography
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/07/the-2012-tour-de-france-part-1-of-2/100337/
The 99th Tour de France cycling race began on July 1, as 22 teams of nine riders raced first through parts of Belgium, then on to France in stage three. Switzerland’s Fabian Cancellara held the overall lead until stage six, when Team Sky rider Bradley Wiggins overtook Cancellara, gaining the leader’s yellow jersey, which he still wears as of today. The Tour continues until July 22, heading into the Alps for grueling mountain stages in the second half of the race. The entire tour will cover a distance of 3,497 km (2,173 mi). Gathered here are images from the first half of the 2011 Tour de France. Part 2 will be posted after the finish. [40 photos]
Philip Scott Andrews’ ongoing photo series Last Days documents the end of NASA’s space shuttle program. For three years Andrews has had unprecedented access to Cape Canaveral and he’s made good use of it by capturing a side of this facility the public is
Philip Scott Andrews’ ongoing photo series Last Days, which documents the end of NASA’s Space Shuttle program. For three years Andrews has had unprecedented access to the Kennedy Space Center, and he’s made good use of it by capturing a side of this facility the public is not used to seeing.
The London Organising Committee has refused to clarify photography rules ahead of the Games, claiming it would be “impractical” to publish a list of cameras and lenses authorised within Olympic venues
Still Images In Great Advertising, is a column where Suzanne Sease discovers great advertising images and then speaks with the photographers about it. I have been in this business for many years and I been familiar with Stephen Wilkes for years, okay deca
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/07/12/still-images-in-great-advertising-stephen-wilkes/
Nikon Japan has already listed the previosuly rumored Nikkor 800mm f/5.6 lens on their website. There is not much information except that the new lens will be on display during the The 141st Open Championship golf tournament (July 19-22, 2012) and Photoki
Latte Ninja. Leica M8, 21/1.4 ASPH In the last few years, rangefinders (effectively only the Leica M system) have experienced something of a renaissance; I think partially due to the market being o…
via Ming Thein | Photographer: http://blog.mingthein.com/2012/07/12/revisiting-the-leica-m8-a-cheap-entry-into-digital-rangefinders/
This is where a second hand M8 starts to make some sense: you can find clean, low-mileage examples in the US$2,000-2,500 range
Link: Kidnapping unravels a spy’s career – The Washington Post
At 56, Sabrina De Sousa’s life has come to be defined by a landmark criminal case that has been playing out in Italy for much of the past decade, ever since prosecutors began investigating the disappearance of an Egyptian cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, known as Abu Omar.
Their conclusion in 2005: A sprawling cast of CIA operatives and senior Italian intelligence officials were the culprits. In a startling turn of events, a foreign country — an ally, no less — had charged a group of U.S. officials for the practice of rendition, in which a terrorist suspect is flown against his will to another country for interrogation.
Scott Blake is a computer artist who created a Photoshop plug-in called th “Chuck Close Filter,” which transformed images into mosaics reminiscent of the famous hand-made mosaics create…
Scott Blake is a computer artist who created a Photoshop plug-in called th “Chuck Close Filter,” which transformed images into mosaics reminiscent of the famous hand-made mosaics created by Chuck Close, whom Blake calls “the 14th richest living artist.” Close objected to the filter, and threatened legal action, so Blake complied; although Blake believes that what he’s made is legal under the doctrine of fair use, he can’t afford to litigate against a multimillionaire adversary.
Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: Feature: Steve Simon’s passion for documentary photography
I realized that maybe the photography that first attracted me as a young man on the streets of Montreal — Henri Cartier-Bresson and the great street photographers — was not what I was doing anymore. Partly because of practicality — lack of time on assignments — I was shooting in a very formulaic way. I wanted to see if I could break away and rekindle that innocence of vision that I [once] had. I found that the project was my way back into that wonder of photography that I experienced as a young guy.
Link: Portraits of a Middle Class Childhood | Feature Shoot
‘In Umbra I seek to explore the collapse of reality into the fantastic. I use a set cast of characters, my family, which repeat and become confused with one another throughout the series. This creates the idea that the events and people that are in the photographs are part of a specific Midwestern neighborhood or subdivision, and that what is taking place is part of a parallel reality and alternate universe.
Visa Pour l’Image, the world’s largest photojournalism festival, is coming back to Perpignan for its 24th edition. Its director, Jean-François Leroy, speaks with Olivier Laurent about this year’s programme and the state of the market