Retweets, like tweets, should not be written in a way that looks like you’re expressing a personal opinion on the issues of the day. A retweet with no comment of your own can easily be seen as a sign of approval of what you’re relaying
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The Leica Camera
Kevin WY Lee is a street photographer and the founder of The Invisible Photographer Asia (IPA), a street photography and visual documentary that features Asian photographers. In almost a year, he was able to grow the IPA community to over 70,000+ Facebook fans while pushing the art of street photography and visual documentation in Asia. Eric Kim had the opportunity to talk with Kevin about what inspired him to start The Invisible Photographer Asia and insights into his own photography.
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Robert Rauschenberg as Photographer
The artist Robert Rauschenberg was always interested in bringing a full range of media to his artworks—he’s most famous, after all, for his …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/11/robert-rauschenberg-as-photographer.html
The artist Robert Rauschenberg was always interested in bringing a full range of media to his artworks—he’s most famous, after all, for his “Combines” of 1954-1964, works that, as the name suggests, combined non-traditional materials from various disciplines, such as painting and sculpture. But just how much of an interest Rauschenberg had in photography, and its importance in his work, is made clear in a new book from D.A.P./Schirmer/Mosel, “Robert Rauschenberg: Photographs 1949-1962.”
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LightBox | Time
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/11/03/rawiya-photography-collective-finds-strength-in-numbers/#1
the Rawiya collective, a photography cooperative made up of six female photographers from across the Middle East, who’ve pooled their resources, contacts and talents to not only strengthen their work, but to also expand their reach
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I came to people who had done crime or been accused of it. If they had been in prison, they were now free or on parole. Where to do the photographs? I wanted to do them in situations that were somehow related to the crimes they had committed
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AMERICAN SUBURB X
Although he hasn’t published a photograph in almost fifteen years, Metinides can safely be called the most prolific news photographer of his generation. Between 1946, when he was barely twelve years old, and 1993, when he was muscled out of his “nota roja” newspaper job, Metinides was a tenacious documenter of death and brutality in the chambers of Mexico City’s hospitals, police stations, and morgues. He shot murders, suicides, auto and aviation accidents, fires, drowning, and crime scenes—sometimes in action. He breathed his work, sleeping at night with a police scanner always near his ear. He rode along to the scene of an accident or homicide on ambulances and fire trucks.
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JS photographer arrested while covering Occupy Milwaukee protest
“I can tell you that no one at MPD had any idea (Wentz-Graff) was a journalist until she arrived here at the police station,” Schwartz said. “She never identified herself as a journalist to officers.”
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Righthaven copyright troll’s victims send in US marshals to seize its assets
Righthaven, the copyright trolling organization that misrepresented its title to the copyrights of many of the newspaper articles at issue in its lawsuits against website operators, is now on the b…
The US Marshals in Nevada have been authorized to seize $63,720.80 from it in cash or assets to pay the fines and fees owed for one of its failed legal actions
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PDN PhotoPlus is the annual chance for photographers and enthusiasts in and around New York to sample what’s new amd exciting (or not so new and exciting) in the world of photography. It’s a far cry from Photokina, but but good fun nonetheless. I had the opportunity to explore this year’s show in some detail, and herewith is my dispatch from the front.
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Feature Shoot
Vans and the places where they were documents surviving custom and conversion vans across the West and examines the dialogue which exists between a van’s design aesthetic and that of its surrounding environment. The project began in 1996 and currently consists of hundreds of images shot on 120 film.
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via Laughing Squid
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LightBox | Time
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/11/01/collect-give-photography-meets-philanthropy/#1
A few years ago, I was thinking about selling a photograph on my blog to raise money for a local charity. That led to an idea of having other bloggers do the same thing simultaneously, and it quickly snowballed into a larger, more substantial idea. In December of 2009, collect.give (“collect dot give”) was founded as an online photography gallery helping artists support causes they believe in, by offering a limited edition of their photographs.
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Banned for 20 Years, Photographer Returns to Tunisia | PDNPulse
As a kid growing up in Belgium, photographer Karim Ben Khelifa spent all his school vacations in Tunisia, visiting his aunts, uncles and cousins, enjoying family gatherings in his grandparents’ home, going to the beach. But in the last 20 years, he had be
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/11/banned-for-20-years-photographer-returns-to-tunisia.html
As a kid growing up in Belgium, photographer Karim Ben Khelifa spent all his school vacations in Tunisia, visiting his aunts, uncles and cousins, enjoying family gatherings in his grandparents’ home, going to the beach. But in the last 20 years, he had been unable to return.
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Eros Hoagland Wins $20k Grant for Conflict Photogs | PDNPulse
The Aftermath Project, a grant making organization focused on funding photojournalism covering post-conflict stories, recently awarded a special $20,000 grant to photographer Eros Hoagland, who will work on a personal project that explores how photographi
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/11/eros-hoagland-wins-20k-grant-for-conflict-photogs.html
The Aftermath Project, a grant making organization focused on funding photojournalism covering post-conflict stories, recently awarded a special $20,000 grant to photographer Eros Hoagland, who will work on a personal project that explores how photographing conflicts has affected his own life.
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LightBox | Time
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In 1953, decades before William Eggleston and Stephen Shore established color photography as a serious medium for art photography, Fred Herzog shot his first roll of color film.
His wonderful and remarkable street pictures are the subject of a new monograph called Fred Herzog Photographs, published this month by Douglas and McIntyre.
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Polaroid Dua, A Combined Flash and LED Lamp
Polaroid, fresh from ruining its reputation in the instant camera game, has turned its attention to flashes. And lights. The latest product from whichever consortium currently owns the Polaroid brand name is the Digital Dua, a combo flash and LED lamp for
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/11/polaroid-dua-a-combined-flash-and-led-lamp/
The Nikon version costs around $160, and the Canon-compatible model $200. Available now.
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There’s no better argument for eschewing a buyout or work-for-hire contract, than Michael Grecco’s real-world example of how he earned more than $140,000 in licensing fees over an eight-year period from one advertising client.
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NPPA Seeks Repeal of D.C. Regulations Limiting Street Photography – NPPA Advocacy Committee
On Monday, October 31, 2011 NPPA general counsel, Mickey H. Osterreicher, sent a letter to the Hon. Irvin B. Nathan, Attorney General for the District of Columbia. The letter dealt with Police Regulations for the District of Columbia that affect photogra
via NPPA Advocacy Committee: http://blogs.nppa.org/advocacy/2011/10/31/nppa-seeks-repeal-of-d-c-regulations-limiting-street-photography/
The NPPA is concerned, given the recent penchant for police to interfere with, harass and in many cases arrest photographers, that these infringing regulations would provide the police with unbridled discretion to abridge the rights of photographers covering such events as “Occupy Wall Street” or any situation involving “photography of any person(s)” or lasting longer than five (5) minutes in any one location.
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Vincent Laforet:
The book is available now for pre-order and comes in both eBook and in hard copy of course, and will hit the shelves on November 14th.
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