• Just Make the Damn Picture: An Interview with David Burnett, Part I

    Interview by John Camp Introduction: I’m a writer—a novelist —and a few weeks ago my publishing company sent a well-known professional photographer out to Santa Fe to take my picture for the backs of upcoming novels…which shows a bit of…

    via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/03/burnett.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29

    You can still make a living, but in so many aspects of editorial and commercial photography, the world has seen a quantum shift. A few people are doing extremely well, in most cases people who have not only talent with a camera but the ability to create an aura about themselves using social media and blogs. I am constantly amazed at the number of “comments” I see on some of the popular photo blogs. Dozens, sometimes hundreds of comments from what must truly be a large population of people with true photographic interest. Proof, I suppose that the photograph isn’t the only way to connect with your audience.

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  • Nikon D800 tested at DxOMark, gets the #1 spot – Nikon Rumors

    After the Nikon D4 got the second best DxOMark overal score on Tuesday, today there is a new king – the Nikon D800 is now the #1 rated camera – it even got a higher score than the Phase One IQ180 digital back. The detailed stats are available on DxoMark,

    via Nikon Rumors: http://nikonrumors.com/2012/03/23/nikon-d800-gets-tested-at-dxomark-gets-the-1-spot.aspx/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NikonRumors+%28NikonRumors.com%29

    it even got a higher score than the Phase One IQ180 digital back.

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  • LightBox | Time

    Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time

    via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/23/larry-towell/#end

    Through five harrowing videos (three of which are shown here), Towell gives viewers a comprehensive look at life for citizens inside conflict-riddled Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the photographs from this project are on display for the first time in Larry Towell: Danger and Aftermath at the Museum London in Southwestern Ontario through April 1. “I wanted to look more at the social problems before I looked at what was going on militarily,” the photographer says. “The victims of the war weren’t just people who were wounded. They were the people living in the rural areas who were forced into the cities without means.”

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  • Link: DSLR News Shooter

    
I have my own fairly strong views on the competition and the direction in which newspaper and news website multimedia is heading – I have not sought to promote those here. This is more a listening exercise to try and gauge what practitioners in the field are thinking – with the aim of shaping future contests and dialogue.

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  • Link: La Lettre de la Photographie

    In 1975, while working as a young journalist at PHOTO magazine, I had the privilege of interviewing Helmut. He was recovering from a heart attack in New York that had turned his life upside down. The conversation lasted hours. June was there, and we can never overestimate the importance of the role she played in their Parisian apartment on Rue Abriot. Thirty years later, not a single word needs to be changed.

    Also, galleries:

    http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/6023/newton-100-masterpieces-part-1

    http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/6024/newton-100-masterpieces-part-2

    http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/6025/newton-100-masterpieces-part-3

    http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/6026/newton-100-masterpieces-part-4

    http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/6027/newton-100-masterpieces-part-5

    http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/6028/newton-100-masterpieces-part-6

    http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/6041/newton-100-masterpieces-part-7

    http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/6042/newton-100-masterpieces-part-8

    http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/6043/newton-100-masterpieces-part-9

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  • The most disgusting trading cards ever made: exclusive Boing Boing preview!

    (All images copyright 2012 The Topps Company, Inc., used by permission.) My kids and I have become deeply engrossed with the book Garbage Pail Kids, a fond look at the Topps bubblegum trading cards…

    via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2012/03/22/the-most-disgusting-trading-ca.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

    My kids and I have become deeply engrossed with the book Garbage Pail Kids, a fond look at the Topps bubblegum trading cards that were art directed by Art Spiegelman 25 years ago. This book, published by Abrams ComicArts, has all 206 images from the Garbage Pail Kids stickers produced in 1985 and 1986.

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  • Pics from a Chinese gangsters phone

    via Imgur: http://imgur.com/a/RjInD

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  • A patchwork of memories captured through multiple exposures
    Link: Feature Shoot

    Justin Maxon: This project is about my transition from a path of chaos to one of healing. For the past decade, my life has been a blur of movement. The healthy parts of my life fell away: family, friends, love. I found myself in a space between worlds: a visitor to everything around me, a stranger to my own life. I had a crossroads approaching, a choice ot be made. I choose to thread the fractured pieces of my life back into place. Multiple exposures in camera are strung together to create a patchwork of feeling, as strands of memory are layered over strings of the present

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  • Leica M9-P white limited edition – Leica Rumors

    A new Leica M9-P white limited edition camera was announced for the Japanese market. Only 50 pieces will be produced. This white kit comes with a silver Noctilux-M 50mm f/0.95 lens and a leather strap. The price is ¥2,620,000 (around $30,000). Via DC.Watc

    via Leica Rumors: http://leicarumors.com/2012/03/22/leica-m9-p-white-limited-edition.aspx/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LeicaRumors+%28LeicaRumors.com%29

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  • DOUST0432
    Link: PDN Photo of the Day

    The exhibition presents eight works from the project, which explores the transformative foreign influences of New York City’s 1970s disco culture and the liberation in 1975 of Angola (where the first disco hit was allegedly written) from Portuguese rule. Researching archival photographs, period costumes, and decor, Douglas meticulously recreated historical moments from the two locations that tie them together, and in the process, he probes questions about the veracity of photojournalism and the “decisive moment”.

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  • photo-eye Book Reviews: True Norwegian Black Metal

    True Norwegian Black Metal. By Peter Beste. Published by Vice, 2009. True Norwegian Black Metal Reviewed by Tom Leininger _____…

    Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2012/03/photo-eye-book-reviews-true-norwegian.html

    I am not an expert on Norwegian Black Metal. This review will deal strictly with the book True Norwegian Black Metal, as I read and processed it over a number of days. Clearing my mind in this manner gave me the space to think about the work, and just the work, on the printed pages. It is not the music or the musicians, but Peter Beste’s interpretation of them that I am coming to grips with.

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  • Link: ReviewJournal.com

    The payment would settle the federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Mitchell Crooks, whose video of the confrontation with officer Derek Colling became an Internet hit.

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    Link: Exposures

    Sisyphus with Leica,” Alex Webb termed himself in three words

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    Link: John Nack on Adobe

    a preview release of Photoshop CS6 is available for download from Adobe Labs

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  • Raw and honest portraits of daily life in the mississippi delta
    Link: Feature Shoot

    ‘My ongoing project, When Morning Comes, explores daily life in the Mississippi Delta. In the summer of 2009 I began traveling the village streets and farm roads of the Delta on my bicycle. I needed to breathe after troubled times and the people that I met, the very landscape itself, became midwives, mythmakers, and prophets. I found strength and humility there that summer.

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  • Leica X1 discontinued? – Leica Rumors

    This Leica Camera price list has the black and silver X1 camera models listed as “ausverkauft” or “sold out”. The Leica X1 was announced together with the M9 back in September of 2009 and is supposed to be refreshed at some point this year (maybe on May 1

    via Leica Rumors: http://leicarumors.com/2012/03/21/leica-x1-discontinued.aspx/

    ‘My ongoing project, When Morning Comes, explores daily life in the Mississippi Delta. In the summer of 2009 I began traveling the village streets and farm roads of the Delta on my bicycle. I needed to breathe after troubled times and the people that I met, the very landscape itself, became midwives, mythmakers, and prophets. I found strength and humility there that summer.

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  • Link: PhotoShelter

    upgrades

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  • Link: Wisconsin News Photographers Association

    In a one-hour interview (well worth listening to) with Gregory Berg on the WGTD-FM Morning Show, Hertzberg recalled a lifetime of photojournalism.

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  • Link: The Leica Camera

    “I have embraced photojournalism as a means to communicate, provoke, and inspire, as well as to document history. I have employed the camera as a voice, to shout out about injustice while affirming what is beautiful and good.”

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  • Link: The Photo Society

    If you read closely in the TERMS of your social networking sites, even apps like Hipstamatic or video platforms like YouTube, you’ll find that you have given them usage rights to your images that can be as generous as whenever, wherever, for the rest of time.

    How do they get away with this?

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