At Work in Syria, Times Correspondent Dies
Anthony Shadid, a prize-winning journalist, was reporting inside Syria when he suffered a fatal asthma attack.
Anthony Shadid, a prize-winning journalist, was reporting inside Syria when he suffered a fatal asthma attack.
A former Washington Post correspondent, Anthony Shadid died while reporting in SyriaPulitzer Prize-winning reporter was a former Washington Post correspondent.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/anthony-shadid-dies-in-syria-read-his-legacy-of-award-winning-work/2012/02/16/gIQAt3PpIR_blog.html?wprss=rss_world
In another victory for photographers, the NPPA is applauding a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit which held that restrictions on a photojournalists’ access to a horse roundup by a federal agency may have violated her First Amendm
via NPPA Advocacy Committee: http://blogs.nppa.org/advocacy/2012/02/16/ninth-circuit-photojournalists-access-is-a-fundamental-constitutional-right/
Kempenaers undertook a laborious trek through the Balkans in order to photograph a series of these mysterious objects for his book Spomenik
This weekend, The New York Times Magazine is running a series of the Goldstein photos — a collection that not only gives more insight into who Vivian Maier was, but further solidifies her place in the canon of photography.
Los Angeles photographer Michael D. Jones has filed a lawsuit against Quincy Jones, claiming that the legendary music producer provided one of the photographer’s portraits without permission for use in ads, packaging and other materials to promote a line
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/02/photog-sues-quincy-jones-for-infringement-says-he-was-strong-armed.html
One of the delights of having your photographic work ‘out there’, is having it seen. Unfortunately most of the time…
Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
His photographs were praised for their combination of color and black-and-white, their biblical symbolism and their dream-like surrealism
The current issue, shown above, the American edition of the magazine has a cover about animal friendships, while the worldwide editions have a cover featuring Italian prime minister Mario Monti
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/world-press-photo-contest-2012/100246/
The van transporting the gear for the Dublin NPS roadshow was stolen on Saturday night near The Phoenix Park in Dublin, Ireland. The van contained Nikon equipment valued at £100,000 ($156,000) including the brand new D4 and D800 demo cameras. Her is a lis
It’s probably no coincidence that Kodak sensors are in all three of those Leica models (listed just above) and that both companies have chosen to make cameras without AA filters. I’ve never asked Leica about the following but I can imagine some early prototype tests in which an AA filter was included in a DMR test mule. I then imagine the optical design team, in particular, being rather aghast at what that filter had done to the fine resolution delivered by their lenses. Leica lenses, as a rule, are quite expensive and a great amount of time and money goes into tweaking their performance. To then throw some of that performance away, via the AA filter, probably seemed anathema to the company. I can’t say that I disagree with that thinking.
In her lifetime, Lillian Bassman’s photographs went from fashion to fine art. Yet Ms. Bassman – who died this week in New York at the age of 94 – showed all along a vision that was as ethereal as it was graphically striking.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/a-life-fashioning-art/?pagewanted=all
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/15/syria-at-war/#1
Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
John L. Hillelson has died. A great figure of 20th century photojournalism has left us. The “John Hillelson Agency” represented Magnum in London, but also Sygma and Viva. He collaborated with and sold the work of photographers including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Erwitt, Cole etc. I would need a book to name them all.
In Samuel Aranda’s photo, named World Press Photo of the Year last week, she is an unidentified, veiled woman who symbolizes thousands who have suffered in the anti-government demonstrations that swept the Arab world this past year. Now the woman behind t
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/02/yemeni-woman-in-world-press-photo-of-the-year-speaks-out.html
from Is This Place Great or What From Aperture and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Is This Place Great Or What by Brian Ulrich is the pub…
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2012/02/closer-look-is-this-place-great-or-what.html
I don’t always endorse products online, but when I do, they kick ass.
Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
The Japanese photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto who has died at the age of ninety was one of the leading figures in the renaissance of photography in Japan in the years immediately after the Second World War