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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/28/california-dreaming-in-1964-arthur-tress-san-francisco/#1
Tress took this same approach with him to San Francisco, trying to create a collection of images that would reflect the old and new aspects of the city. “I was thinking as a kind of amalgam, all these little bits and pieces, almost as if you’re making a collage—a symphony of the city,” he says.
But every time I see one of these “news images” — subtly altered to resemble images taken on vintage film stock or using expensive lenses and filters — I feel cheated. And so should you.
British photographer Paul Conroy, who was injured last week in an attack on a makeshift media center in Homs, Syria that killed two other journalists, has been smuggled to safety in Lebanon, the Associated Press reports. Syrian activists smuggled Conroy o
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/02/injured-photographer-paul-conroy-smuggled-out-of-syria.html
Syrian activists smuggled Conroy out last night. According to The Guardian, the activists came under attack while they were moving Conroy to safety and several of them died.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/28/senegal-spring/#1
They’re using a new type of tear gas in Senegal. It chokes you, blinds you, but it also burns and stings, like it’s been mixed with pepper spray. It’s a sensation with which more and more Senegalese are becoming familiar as presidential elections were held this past weekend.
Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
Fine-art photographer Cig Harvey’s monograph You Look At Me Like An Emergency is the title of Schilt Publishing’s most recent publication. This crafted book, with its catchy red cover, fuses seventeen short vignettes written by the artist, with seventy-four vividly colored photographs, which take the viewer on a literal and visual journey into Cig Harvey’s world.
Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
Paul Harris is the head of Pacific Coast News, one of the largest paparazzi agencies on the West Coast…
ask yourself this, if it was not for the prying inquisitive media who would keep these people honest ? Ordinary people have to pay to get into clubs, abide by laws and pay fines when caught, Celebrities and Fat Cats can often bribe , promise favors or talk their way out of situations just because of who they are, we need the media to keep a level playing field for us all.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/27/a-brief-photographic-history-of-republished-books/#1
Reprints of older photobooks, commonly known as second editions, have been one way for newer generations of photographers and students of photography to become familiar with and learn from artists who came before them. Books have served me by informing and inspiring me throughout my own photographic practice for more than two decades.
From ‘Son’ by Christopher Anderson
Why show it ?
Interview with Christopher Anderson
By Baptiste Lignel, December 2, 2012, Paris
Baptiste Lignel- You seem to have a dilemma about your project “Son”…
Cristopher Anderson – I’m constantly confli
I’ve spent the last fifteen years with the title of “War photographer”, going to the other ends of the earth, to photographs stories of other people, looking for photographic intimacy from people that I didn’t know. In Afghanistan, which could not be further away from what I grew up in, which was milk and toast Texas. My father was an evangelical preacher, and I grew up in a very conservative and religious environment. My family is not right wing, born again, or that kind of thing, but the environment, the town, the culture that I grew up in were conservative, and I became a photographer, really, to escape that.
Then all of sudden you have a child, which is a crazy experience, because it is at the same time the most intimate and unique experience a person can have, and it is also the most common and universal experience a person can have. Then I was having this internal dialogue: “I’ve been going off to Afghanistan, and now I’ve come the full circle, where I’m not running away from home anymore, I want to be at my home. I want to understand myself through my family”.
By Kathalijne van Zutphen Jodi Bieber (1966) is a South African photographer mostly known for her highly publicized portrait of Bibi Aisha; the young Afghan woman who had her nose and ears cut off by the Taliban after seeking rescue from her violent husba
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/02/27/jodi-bieber-interview/
Editing is absolutely crucial. Everyone is a photographer these days and where you can make a difference is with interpretation. As a good editor you have to be true to yourself but not be too emotionally attached. If you let someone else edit your work, you have to make sure you put your point of view across well and work with someone you trust.
[slidepress gallery=’michaelnicknichols_interview’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls play this essay David Alan Harvey: Now the thing is that you were…
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I can’t justify what I do if I’m not reaching the planet. I gotta have a huge audience because my work is about saving the planet, you know. Its not about me, its about tigers and elephants and stuff like that. So if I didn’t have this microphone, I’d just be pissing into the wind. This is the only place on earth that I can do what I do.
After promising to enhance whistle-blower laws to protect federal workers, the Obama administration has used the Espionage Act as a kind of ad hoc Official Secrets Act.
The Obama administration, which promised during its transition to power that it would enhance “whistle-blower laws to protect federal workers,” has been more prone than any administration in history in trying to silence and prosecute federal workers
Todd Heisler spent four days photographing the members of a unique program at the California Men’s Colony that pairs inmates with dementia with caretakers — other inmates.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/behind-bars-and-beginning-to-forget/?pagewanted=all
There are constant reminders of the outside world at the California Men’s Colony. The prison, nestled in the seaside mountains outside of San Luis Obispo, is routinely enveloped by a thick fog that rolls in from the ocean at dawn. Seagulls and other birds fly overhead, stop occasionally to perch on the razor wire encircling the yard, and fly away at a whim. The birds are a reminder of the world outside, which many people in this prison will never again experience.
A collection of unexplainable, bad stock photos. Huge thanks to Awkward Stock Photos for a bunch of these.
via BuzzFeed: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/60-completely-unusable-stock-photos
Why does most multimedia suck? It’s as if God wrote on stone tablets that all pieces called multimedia must follow a three-commandment formula
Sentencing is scheduled for July 16. He faces a maximum of six months in prison, and fines up to $5,000.
Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography celebrates the nexus of these two phenomena in a one-of-a-kind collection that features more than two hundred works by more than forty postwar artists and photographers. Thematically grouped into topics ranging from the rise of celebrity culture, suburbia and dystopia, avant-garde architectural landscape design, and the cult of the body, these images offer a rich study of the cultural connotations of the swimming pool.
How do you know which type of photography is being recognized by a given contest? The answer is the same one to the question of “Which contest do you most often agree with what wins? The answer will tell you as much about your approach to photography as it does about contests.
Link: British Journal of Photography
The governments of France and the UK are urging Syria to offer safe passage to the city of Homs, as three journalists – including photographers William Daniels and Paul Conroy – remain trapped following the attack that killed Rémi Ochlik and Marie Colvin
