Antonio Bolfo was bored, so he became a police officer. To relieve the stress of patrolling South Bronx housing projects, he took a camera on the job. It led to a new career.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/on-the-beat-with-a-gun-and-a-camera/?pagewanted=all
There are all sorts of reasons why people become New York City police officers. Tradition. Family ties. The pension. Antonio Bolfo’s reasoning was simple.
“I was bored,” he said.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/03/charles-teenie-harris/#1
“One Shot” Harris freelanced for the Pittsburgh Courier, chronicling the life of black neighborhoods throughout the city.
When published on the Bee’s front page on Sunday as part of a two-picture combo, the images carried a byline for longtime Bee staff photographer Bryan Patrick.
Still Images In Great Advertising, is a column where Suzanne Sease discovers great advertising images and then speaks with the photographers about it. I reached out to Day 19 (Jeremy & Claire Weiss) after seeing this great Converse campaign, because they
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/02/02/still-images-in-great-advertising-jeremy-claire-weiss/
I reached out to Day 19 (Jeremy & Claire Weiss) after seeing this great Converse campaign, because they seem to work well as a husband and wife team. Here is our conversation about how they make it work… together.
I-4 is an interesting road. Connecting Daytona, Orlando and Tampa, it slices the nub of South Florida right off the map, it provides a vast array of landmarks – strange kitschy theme parks, vasectomy billboards, and rest stop oasis after oasis. It is also fertile ground for voters and an area candidates target every election cycle.
here are some random rectangles from the week of covering Mitt Romney’s win in the Florida Primary with some scraps from the cutting room floor as a bonus.
Link: British Journal of Photography
The 2012 edition of the Sony World Photography Awards is just around the corner – coming to London in April. But, the World Photography Organisation has today announced its shortlisted photographers
South Korean prosecutors indicted Park Jung-geun, a social media and freedom of speech activist this week for reposting messages from the North Korean government’s Twitter account.
“It was humiliating and ludicrous to have to wear a straight face and explain all my jokes to the detectives,” said Mr. Park, who faces up to seven years in jail if convicted.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/02/the-founding-fathers-of-video-games/#1
A youth wasted on video games unexpectedly paid off for me in an assignment to profile the old dogs behind the newest gaming company: Innovative Leisure
The search for a camera strap for my DSLR is over for good. Finally someone came up with something that is both comfortable to wear (especially important while traveling) and functional when it comes to actually taking photos. The strap is called Cinch an
via A Continuous Lean.: http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2012/02/01/acl-endorses-luma-labs-cinch/
The search for a camera strap for my DSLR is over for good. Finally someone came up with something that is both comfortable to wear (especially important while traveling) and functional when it comes to actually taking photos. The strap is called Cinch
A century-old critique of everything that’s wrong with media values today.
via Brain Pickings: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/30/bliven/
so long as we have a monetization model of information that prioritizes the wrong stakeholders — advertisers over readers — we will always cater to the business interests of the former, not the intellectual interests of the latter
I asked Ethan Levitas to tell us a little more about the picture he took for GQ that we featured on The Daily Edit last week. Here’s his response: Jean-Jacques Naudet, the legendary editor in chief (’76-’88) of French Photo, who looks like a leading man a
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/02/01/never-explain-your-work/
“These ARE great.” Then he added a four letter word, poured us another glass, lit another cigarette and after a long pause looked up and said, “Never explain your work.”
The core determinant, for me, is whether objects were moved, people’s faces were changed, images were combined in a way that altered what anyone would have seen in the setting, or if things were removed from the frame
Google’s announcement three weeks ago — buried in a Blogger help page — went unnoticed until it was highlighted by TechDows on Tuesday
Twitter’s U-turn is understandable, but that doesn’t mean we should be happy about its willingness to take down tweets on-demand for foreign governments. Rob Beschizza explains why this…
The false choice between degrees of political censorship belies Twitter’s third option, of continuing its censorship-free tradition instead of playing with political fire abroad.
Luiz Carlos Barreto’s original career as a photographer had a lasting influence in his later work in film. Now one of Brazil’s most respected producers, he recently looked back on the lessons learned.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/forget-the-light-shoot-the-shadows/?pagewanted=all
Before he became one of Latin America’s most prolific filmmakers — with more than 80 movies credited to his production company — Luiz Carlos Barreto was a photographer. For 15 years beginning in the late 1940s, he worked for O Cruzeiro, a Brazilian weekly magazine similar to Life or Look traveling all over Latin America and also working as a correspondent in Europe.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/01/exclusive-magnum-emergency-fund-announces-2012-grantees/#1
The Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund has made an exclusive announcement to LightBox disclosing the winners of its 2012 grants. The fund, which began in 2009, awards the annual prize to photographers from around the world who use their cameras to shed light on underserved issues and communities.
Sinking under legal bills, the Shaw Family Archives [SFA] has tentatively agreed to a 5-year, $3 million licensing deal with its arch-enemy–the estate of Marilyn Monroe–to pull itself out of bankruptcy. The deal would give the Monroe estate control over c
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/01/in-bankruptcy-photo-archive-cuts-deal-with-marilyn-monroe-estate.html
Sinking under legal bills, the Shaw Family Archives [SFA] has tentatively agreed to a 5-year, $3 million licensing deal with its arch-enemy–the estate of Marilyn Monroe–to pull itself out of bankruptcy
No document gives greater insight into how a photographer shoots and edits than a contact sheet—the direct print, from a roll or negatives, where a film …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/01/magnum-contact-sheets.html?currentPage=all
No document gives greater insight into how a photographer shoots and edits than a contact sheet—the direct print, from a roll or negatives, where a film photographer often first sees her work, grease pencil in hand, and marks her best frames. A new book from Thames & Hudson collects a hundred and thirty-nine notable contact sheets made by Magnum photographers, from the nineteen-thirties to the present, some of which are currently on view at the International Center of Photography
