Over the last six years, Los Angeles-based photographer Stacy Kranitz has been working on a personal project about the Native American community living on the disappearing Isle de Jean Charles in the Louisiana bayous
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Jeff Wall Photograph Fetches Artist Record $3.6 Million at Auction | PDNPulse
A 1992 photograph by Jeff Wall sold for $3,666,500 yesterday evening during a Post-War and Contemporary art auction at Christie’s in New York City. The previous record sale for a work by Jeff Wall was $1.1 million. The work “Dead Troops Talk (A vision aft
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/05/jeff-wall-photograph-fetches-artist-record-3-6-million-at-auction.html
A 1992 photograph by Jeff Wall sold for $3,666,500 yesterday evening during a Post-War and Contemporary art auction at Christie’s in New York City. The previous record sale for a work by Jeff Wall was $1.1 million.
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Lightroom 4 is footing the bill for a catered banquet, as the new Process 2012 raises the bar on image adjustments! The new Shadows and Highlights sliders can do things curves can only dream about. Things that can really improve images
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Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
Adam Bartos’ recent large-format work documents and explores in equal measure the visual language and ethos of that analogue printing culture before it slips beyond our experience forever. The acrid odor of chemistry, an uncanny stillness hanging in damp air — Bartos records the descriptive aspects and spatial constraints of the darkroom but also visualizes the lab as a site of limitless creative potential, invested with as much aura as a photographic print
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‘Inside the Story: a masterclass in digital storytelling by the people who do it best’. It’s a collaborative ebook I’ve produced with the help of some of the best digital journalists working on the web.
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7th Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Right to Record in Public – NPPA Advocacy Committee
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit today granted a preliminary injunction, blocking enforcement of the Illinois Eavesdropping statute as it applies to audio recording of police performing “their duties in public places and engaging
via NPPA Advocacy Committee: http://blogs.nppa.org/advocacy/2012/05/08/7th-circuit-court-of-appeals-upholds-right-to-record-in-public/
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit today granted a preliminary injunction, blocking enforcement of the Illinois Eavesdropping statute as it applies to audio recording of police performing “their duties in public places and engaging in public communications audible to persons who witness the events.”
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LensCulture – Contemporary Photography
Discover and share the best in contemporary photography
via LensCulture: http://www.lensculture.com/
As we enter our 9th year of Lens Culture, we’re releasing our largest issue to date. And more will be added in the coming days and weeks.
Discover great photography and new photobooks touching on an incredibly diverse variety of themes, styles and cultures. Included in this issue, so far:
• On the foggy fringes of explosive growth in China
• A photo diary of a manic road trip around Iceland
• Re-enactment of a real serial murder by teenage Americans
• Centuries of imperialism and war in Afghanistan
• Modern day street photography in Paris
• Steaming mountains of garbage recycled in Phnom Penh
• Dying traditions in Transylvania
• Academic research about Francesca Woodman in Rome
• Grappling with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Extended family-based organized crime in London
• Overstepping the boundaries of appropriation
• A (photo) graphic novel with no linear narrative
• Celebration of supersaturated color and personal whimsy
• Duane Michals photographs Magritte
• Photographic philosophical musings on personal identity post 9/11
• An overview of contemporary Iranian photography
• A reprint of a classic book about sexual identity in 1950s’ Paris
• History of Kodak Girl advertising campaigns
• Up-close photographs of criminal interrogations in the Ukraine
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KearneyHub.com, a local news web site in Kearney, Nebraska, U.S.A., has posted an article on an initiative called The Platte Basin Time-lapse project. This spring, the project will finish installing 45 remote-mounted, weather-protected DSLR cameras in various locations around the Platte River Basin.
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US – Econsultancy
via Econsultancy: http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/9802-perfect-10-sues-tumblr-for-copyright-infringment?utm_medium=feeds&utm_source=blog
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/05/08/moments-before-the-flood/#1
In trying to understand the tension Carl de Keyzer seeks to present in his images of European coastlines, look to the World War II bunkers, tank traps and crumbling walls still present by the shore for starting points.
The decaying fortifications, much like the human response to rising ocean tides as examined by de Keyzer in his new book, Moments Before The Flood, are telling. They anticipate a massive threat, but cannot hope to prevent it: rising sea levels that would submerge entire countries in Europe present an overwhelming challenge to which most solutions are futile.
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Camera Raw 7.1 adds HDR tonemapping to CS6
According to the Lightroom Journal, Camera Raw 7.1 and DNG Converter 7.1 Release Candidates are now available on Adobe Labs. This release includes bug fixes, new camera support, and new lens profi…
via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2012/05/camera-raw-7-1-adds-hdr-tonemapping-to-cs6.html
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The Pernicious Myth That Slideshows Drive ‘Traffic’
Readers aren’t stupid. They know when your product is cheap.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2012/05/the-pernicious-myth-that-slideshows-drive-traffic/256831/
readers may click through your slideshow, but they’ll hate you a liiitttle bit more than they did when they got to the site. And I bet they’ll feel the same way about whatever advertiser was unlucky enough to get stuck on the page with some stupid thing that a reporter did with a little bit of hate in his heart and fingertips
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Morel Releases More Evidence Against AFP, Getty in Copyright Case | PDNPulse
Photographer Daniel Morel, who had his exclusive Haiti earthquake images ripped off by Agence France-Presse and Getty more than two years ago, has released more evidence in his claim against the two wire services in his ongoing fight for justice. The new
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/05/morel-releases-more-evidence-against-afp-getty-in-copyright-case.html
A hearing on Morel’s motion for summary judgment is scheduled for July. The judge is unlikely to issue a decision before fall.
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Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
Éric Dessert’s work seems to be nourished and regulated by his travels, Romania, Georgia, Estonia, Japan, and here, China, shown at the Camera Obscura Gallery until May 26, 2012. A different China, far from the dazzling changes of the past few decades. Rural China. It is no surprise that from 2002 to 2009, Eric Dessert visited four rural provinces of China, Sichuan, Guizhou, Xinjiang and Ganau, for, as he comments, “The notion of rural seemed essential, not only for China, but for what remains elsewhere. All of my pictures for the past 25 years have dealt with this issue.”
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Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
Chirodeep Chaudhuri presents The Commuters, a series of portraits taken in the trains of suburban Mumbai and exhibited at the former Prince of Wales Museum in Mumbai
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Life on Both Sides of the Border
Joseph Rodriguez documents the life of several immigrant families on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/life-on-both-sides-of-the-border/?pagewanted=all
“Family is complicated,” the photographer Joseph Rodriguez said. “That’s all.”
Mr. Rodriguez was talking about “Migrantes,” his long-term project following several immigrant families as they journeyed from rural Mexico, past the border in Arizona and on to various parts of the American South. They encounter hardship – even death – as they go on to accept menial, backbreaking jobs on farms. But they face all these challenges together, as family.
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/05/07/eskildsen-home/#1
Joakim Eskildsen’s new body of work, Home Works, explores the poetry of place through the five different homes to which he has moved his family over the past six years. His pictures are painter-like, discovering different moods and seasons, a quiet thoughtfulness, an overwhelming beauty and a love of landscape. His family’s final move to a new home in Germany, just this month, will dictate the last pictures in the project.
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Link: Editorial Photographers UK
Living in the digital age has meant an unprecedented exploitation of photographs writes David Hoffman
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Fire. Power. — duckrabbit
From the Anarchist News “Photographers were continually confronted throughout the demo. These vultures not only put people at very…
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2012/05/fire-power/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duckrabbit%2FNrks+%28duckrabbit%29
it must be made unequivocally clear: journalists are f*cking enemies.”
“………………….To our enemies: if we won’t hesitate to directly confront hundreds of cops and to destroy property, what makes you think we hold the lens of your camera to be sacred? You want to preserve your four thousand dollar camera to watch us break everything else? We are not doing this for you, and this is not a game. You clearly do not understand that there is no exception. We feel nothing but contempt for you cowardly spectators.
You’d better watch your necks next time
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