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There’s an element of trying to capture a realness, a kind of spontaneity to both that’s appealing. But of course in punk, like just about anything else, there’s definitely an element of performance, controlled chaos and building off of what’s come before. To that end, covering music, especially larger bands, reminds me of when I was covering Congress. It’s funny, when I’ve shown my portfolio to editors, I’ve been knocked on more than one occasion for including music photography. I was told that work is “just capturing a performance.” Hell, outside of spot news or street photography, just about everything a photojournalist shoots is “just a performance.” Sports? No doubt. Politics? Hell yes. Especially today, in the reality show soaked world we’re living in, you pull out a camera and people perform
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Big Pictures for a Big City
“It’s not real, but your brain says it’s real.” Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao’s urban panoramas are huge, intricate prints full of light, textures and a hyper-real perspective.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/big-pictures-for-a-big-city/?pagewanted=all
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao loved documentary and street photography — until an internship at Magnum Photos led him to a sobering conclusion.
“You go through their contact sheets and it strikes you,” he said. “I was never going to be better.”
But he could be bigger.
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Did Syria’s army use sat-phone surveillance to hunt down and kill journalists?
Jillian York and Trevor Timm, writing for the EFF, explore the possibility that the Syrian government used satellite phone surveillance to pinpoint the locations of journalist Marie Colvin of the S…
The Telegraph quoted Jean-Pierre Perrin, a journalist for the Paris-based Liberation newspaper who was with Colvin in Homs last week as saying: “The Syrian army issued orders to ‘kill any journalist that set foot on Syrian soil’”
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Riobert Popper
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LOOK3 Festival Announces Featured Artists and Speakers | PDNPulse
LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph announced today that Alex Webb, Donna Ferrato and Stanley Greene will be the featured “INsight” artists at this year’s festival, to be held June 7–9 in Charlottesville, VA. As featured artists the photographers will create
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/02/look3-festival-announces-featured-artists-and-speakers.html
Alex Webb, Donna Ferrato and Stanley Greene will be the featured “INsight” artists
in Photography
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Arizona Considers Anti-Photoshop Law | PDNPulse
An Arizona legislator has introduced a bill to make it illegal to run print ads in the state that have been Photoshopped, unless viewers are notified that the image has been altered. The bill’s sponsor, state representative Katie Hobbs of Phoenix, told th
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/02/arizona-considers-anti-photoshop-law.html
The disclaimer proposed by the bill would have to say: “Postproduction techniques were made to alter the appearance in this advertisement. When using this product, similar results may not be achieved.”
in Ethics
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Japan Earthquake: Before and After
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/japan-earthquake-before-and-after/100251/
In just over two weeks, Japan will be observing the one-year anniversary of the disastrous magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that struck its east coast in March of 2011. The destruction was unprecedented and the loss of life and property were staggering — more than 15,800 are confirmed dead, with another 3,300 still listed as missing nearly a year later. Photographers documented the many faces of this tragedy and have now returned to give us a look at the difference a year can make, re-shooting places that were photographed during and immediately after the quake. Collected here are 20 of these pairings. They are interactive: Starting with number 2, click the images to view a fading before/after comparison. [20 photo pairs]
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Wim Wenders – Eulogy for James Nachtwey at the occasion of the Dresden Prize
If a war photographer is awarded a Peace Prize, furthermore in a city once devastated by a war, then he must be a very special person and a truly extraordinary photographer. And he must have…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/02/wim-wenders/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29
James Nachtwey’s images give us an accurate idea of how he “goes about it”, in the true sense of the word: where others “just want to get out of here”, that’s where he goes. He travels, in principle, in the direction of places that other people are only desperately leaving from, or have already left in a hurry, or can’t leave anymore.
It is with that first movement that he’s already opposing war: With himself. With his safety, his life, his affection, his conviction. All of the above are captured in his images…
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Were Journalists in Homs Targeted for Bombing? | PDNPulse
Radio communications between Syrian army officers have shown that the army was ordered to bomb the make-shift press center in the besieged city of Homs where photographer Remi Ochlik and reporter Marie Colvin were working, The Telegraph newspaper reports.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/02/were-journalists-in-homs-targeted-for-bombing.html
Radio communications between Syrian army officers have shown that the army was ordered to bomb the make-shift press center in the besieged city of Homs where photographer Remi Ochlik and reporter Marie Colvin were working
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Jonnie Begood
His projects take him through Japan and Norway and Australia and America, capturing the fascinatingly mundane lives of an intercontinental brotherhood of breast-loving, beer-drinking, car-show-attending hedonists
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Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
The Ai Weiwei exhibition Entrelacs at the Jeu de Paume contemporary art museum in Paris is the first of its kind in France. Press coverage of this multi-talented artist tends to emphasize his work’s subversive aspects and his frequent run-ins with the police and government
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Parting Glance: Rémi Ochlik
Rémi Ochlik, a 28-year-old French photographer, was killed in Syria on Wednesday. Friends and fellow photographers remember his work.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/parting-glance-remi-ochlik/?pagewanted=all
Rémi Ochlik, the young photographer who died Wednesday morning in Syria, was the second photographer in a close group of friends to die covering conflicts in the Middle East in just over a year.
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/22/remi-ochlik/#1
Oct. 23, 2011. French photojournalist Remi Ochlik in Misrata, Libya. Ochlik was killed Feb. 22, 2012, by Syrian shelling of the opposition stronghold Homs.
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*UPDATE* The Next 5D on March 2, 2012 [CR3]
5D Mark III Below are the known specs of the upcoming 5D Mark III. To see all the 5D Mark III coverage, you can click here for the category view. Specs
the specs for the coming 5D replacement, the full name of the camera is currently unknown
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“I cannot remember any story where the security situation was potentially this bad, except maybe Chechnya,” Marie Colvin told me over a dinner of traditional Lebanese fare on her last night in Beirut a week before she was killed in Homs.
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Link: British Journal of Photography
Speaking to Michel Puech of La Lettre de la Photographie, Guillaume Clavières, senior photo editor at Paris Match, said, late last year that Ochlik was one of the most talented young photographers of his generation. “Motivated, enthusiastic, curious and brilliant. He is capable of going from one difficult news topic to another less dramatic subject with the same photographic quality.”
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President Obama’s 1 Percent Solution
This is the first picture essay in a new series for Lens called “Smoke-Filled Rooms.” The series will examine the processes and consequences of contemporary American politics.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/president-obamas-one-percent-solution/?pagewanted=all
This is the first picture essay in a new series for Lens called “Smoke Filled Rooms.” The series will examine the processes and consequences of contemporary American politics.
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Photographer Remi Ochlik Killed in Homs, Syria | PDNPulse
Freelance photographer Remi Ochlik was killed today in the besieged city of Homs, Syria, according to several news organizations. Reporter Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times of London was killed in the same attack. An aid worker told Reuters the journalists
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/02/photographer-remi-ochlik-killed-in-homs-syria.html
Reporter Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times of London was killed in the same attack
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