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Financing a Rare Book on Endangered Species
After struggling to find a publisher for his project on the illegal trade of endangered species, Patrick Brown turned to Emphas.is, a photography crowd-sourcing Web site, to produce his book.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/financing-a-rare-book-on-endangered-species/?pagewanted=all
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CIA Claims Publication of Bin Laden Death Photos Would ‘Trigger Violence’
The Central Intelligence Agency says releasing images of a dead Osama bin Laden “could trigger violence, attacks, or acts of revenge against the United States.”
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Things I Learned About Self-Publishing, by Self-Publishing by Kramer O’Neill
Eric’s Note: I am pleased to have street photographer Kramer O’Neill share in this guest blog post his experiences about self-publishing two of his books. It is an incredibly difficult …
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Odd Shadows in a Sunny Land
“All this is out there,” he said about these brief, quiet and sometimes deliciously odd tableaux. “It’s easily ignored, but at our peril, if we forget who we are or if we think the only important stuff is what’s smack in the middle of the limelight.”
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/odd-shadows-in-a-sunny-land/?pagewanted=all
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Canon EOS-1D X Technical Report
From the Canon Museum Canon has posted a technical report about the Canon EOS-1D X at their Canon Museum. It’s a good quick reference for the camera. The
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Greer Muldowney is a fine art photographer and adjunct professor based in Boston, Massachusetts. She works in several formats, exploring ideas based upon- or working around-anything American; whether it looks that way or not. Her work has been exhibited in several galleries in the United States, Hong Kong and France
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Ben Syverson’s Mattebox
I don’t usually post much about apps, but rules are made to be broken. Ben Syverson (a TOP regular, if you’ll excuse the brag) has created the killer iPhone camera app, called Mattebox. The camera interface is based on the…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/01/mattebox.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29
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Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
The 360-degree panoramas of Evgueniy Ivanov tell the private life of the Great Patrioic War at the beginning of this century. These tracking shots of life depict a nation and its heroes.
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Emma Kisiel
I had the great pleasure of discovering Emma Kisiel’s work while in Colorado. She shared her touching and beautiful project, At Rest, during portfolio reviews at the Center of Fine Art Photography, just weeks before she was about to open her BFA Thesis Ex
via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/01/emma-kisiel.html
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Twitter caves to global censorship, will block content on country-specific basis as required
A new Twitter policy which goes into effect today allows the social network “to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country,” so that Twitter can further expand globall…
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/01/26/portraits-of-the-homeless-by-lee-jeffries/#1
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Pieter Hugo resolved to visit, ‘photographing and contemplating’ the sites of Rwanda’s carnage. The results of that journey are now published as Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide offering, he writes, “a glimpse of what I saw there before the reburials took place.”
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Still Images In Great Advertising – Bryce Boyer – A Photo Editor
Still Images In Great Advertising, is a column where Suzanne Sease discovers great advertising images and then speaks with the photographers about it. In today’s feature, I reached out to Bryce Boyer, because the ads he shot show great lighting, clever c
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/01/26/still-images-in-great-advertising-bryce-boyer/
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Gary Wang is a street photographer based in Singapore and is well regarded for his work shot on his Leica camera and super-wide 21mm lens. He is the founding member & head of Rangefinder Singapore, a community dedicated to further knowledge of photography and rangefinder cameras. He has also been recently nominated to the 2011 Platform Ten project. Eric Kim had the chance to sit down with Gary recently and ask him a few questions.
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A few weeks ago I went to Dashwood books for the first time to pick up three books that I’d eventually giveaway to our 2011 subscribers. While browsing the inventory I found Halpern’s A. There was no way I couldn’t page through it. After I closed the book I decided to buy it. Not for the giveaway, but for myself.
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Insane English copyright ruling creates ownership in the idea of a photo’s composition
In a bizarre ruling, an English court has ruled that in favor of a commercial poster company that argued that a photo that showed a similar (but different) scene taken by a different person in a di…
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Challenging the Silence of Others
After confronting anti-Muslim hostility, Bharat Choudhary – himself a Hindu – set out to document how young Muslims navigate their way through the fears and stereotypes imposed on them in the West. His journey has taken him across several continents and c
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/challenging-the-silence-of-others/?pagewanted=all
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/01/26/postcards-from-america-the-box-set/#1