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  • Norwegian Black Metal

    From the teased mullets of hair metal to the corpse-paint of the darker categories, heavy metal music and its subgenres have long been reinforced by visual…

    via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/10/norwegian-black-metal.html?currentPage=all

    Over a period of six years, the photographer Peter Beste documented the secretive, insular community of black-metal musicians and fans, with a focus on the bands Darkthrone, Mayhem, Emperor, Enslaved, Gorgoroth, Carpathian Forest

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  • Winners of nikons small world photomicrography competition
    Feature Shoot:

    Nikon recently announced the winners of the 2011 Small World Photomicrography Competition, which recognizes excellence in photomicrography, honoring images that successfully showcase the delicate balance between difficult scientific technique and exquisite artistic quality. This year’s top honors went to Dr. Igor Siwanowicz’s for his ‘Portrait of a Chrysopa’.

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  • Steve Jobs: Visionary, Inventor, and Very Challenging Photo Subject | PDNPulse

    The media is heaping accolades on Apple founder Steve Jobs, who died yesterday of cancer at the age of 56. Tributes have poured in from all over the world. Jobs was a  visionary who changed the way we use and interact with technology. The iPhone and iPad

    via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-visionary-inventor-and-very-challenging-photo-subject.html

    Asked to recount his experiences photographing Jobs, another photographer said,  “I don’t really want to be the guy who pans iGod during this hour of national mourning!”

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    jonesblog:

    Every generation needs an intellectual hero…  Ours was Steven P. Jobs.

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  • Photographer #393: Marco Vernaschi

    Marco Vernaschi, 1973, Italy, is a photojournalist with a very distinct signature. He has covered various intense stories around the globe. …

    Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/10/photographer-393-marco-vernaschi.html

    Marco Vernaschi, 1973, Italy, is a photojournalist with a very distinct signature. He has covered various intense stories around the globe.

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  • Who Photographers Follow On Tumblr | PDNPulse

    Photographers have used micro-blogging site Tumblr as a tool to share their work with audiences online, many of them building followings that number in the thousands and even tens of thousands. (For more on how photographers are using Tumblr see our Octob

    via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/10/who-photographers-follow-on-tumblr.html

    Photographers have used micro-blogging site Tumblr as a tool to share their work with audiences online, many of them building followings that number in the thousands and even tens of thousands.

    But photographers also use the site to follow other shooters, keeping up with what their peers are doing and passing along work they like or admire

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  • LightBox | Time

    Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time

    via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/05/bill-hunts-unseen-eye/#1

    W.M.—called Bill by friends—Hunt’s life has revolved around photographs. As a collector, curator and consultant, Hunt uses his photographic eye daily, so it might seem surprising that obscured vision is the theme of his new book, out this month from Aperture. The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious, includes 370 images from Hunt’s personal trove, which he has been collecting for nearly four decades.

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    Odd at first, perhaps, but it wasn’t long before Hunt’s home was filled with photographs in which the subject’s eye was somehow unseen. The collector, though, insists that he always “sees” the pictures. “The images run through my mind like a Rolodex,” Hunt says. “I don’t have to take them out physically to see them. They play on this strange lightbox in my head.”

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  • I post links fast on Twitter. Then, depending on how busy I am, I flesh out the links with excerpts and (sometimes) photos and post them to this site. For the latest links, you can always check out the new box at top right of this page that shows the @theclick Twitter feed.

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  • Law Firm Going After Photographers Shooting In CA – A Photo Editor

    A California law firm is using an often ignored part of CA labor law to go after photographers, producers and advertising agencies. On the website for the Muse Law Group under the heading Model Rights they state that: Under California Law, actors, as well

    via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/10/05/law-firm-going-after-photographers-shooting-in-ca/

    A California law firm is using an often ignored part of CA labor law to go after photographers, producers and advertising agencies

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    dvafoto:

    David Kasnic shared his work with me a few months ago, and we had a beer at a nice seedy Ukrainian bar in New York when I was last in town. He’s from the Pacific Northwest originally, like myself, and he is finishing a degree in photojournalism at Western Kentucky University. I wanted to ask him a few questions about this moment in his career and the pictures he has made lately.

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  • What’s Inside: The iPhone 4S Camera

    Apple may have added three more megapixels to the iPhone’s camera, but that’s just about the least interesting, and certainly the least important part of the 4S camera upgrade. The big news is threefold. Lens, sensor tech and processing hardware. Lens The

    via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/10/whats-inside-the-iphone-4s-camera/

    Apple may have added three more megapixels to the iPhone’s camera, but that’s just about the least interesting, and certainly the least important part of the 4S camera upgrade.

    The big news is threefold. Lens, sensor tech and processing hardware.

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  • Leah Millis, at the visual student:

    I think for fellow students who are looking for internships and applying: make sure you apply for a ton and don’t lose hope if you don’t get your first choice. Reach out to people who you look up to or whose work you admire and ask questions. These days with email it’s kind of silly not to. Some will respond, some won’t. Bottom line for me, is keep being curious, be a good listener and learn from your mistakes.

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    Time looking for best student photographers of 2011. Enter by October 17th

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  • bjp:

    Gökşin Sipahioğlu, the celebrated photojournalist and founder of the Sipa Press agency has died, BJP can confirm. He was 84.

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  • An Interview with Walker Evans: ‘The Thing Itself is Such a Secret and so Unapproachable’ (1974)

    Roadside stand near Birmingham, Alabama, 1936

    “I didn’t like the label that I unconsciously earned of being a social protest artist.”

    “The Thing Itself is Such a Secret and so Unapproachable”

    George Eastman House, Image Magazine, Vol. 17., No.

    via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/10/interview-walker-evans-with-students.html

    Walker Evans: I guess I’m the only survivor of my age of the school of non-commercial and extremely self-virtuous young artists that I was when I was your age. We wouldn’t do anything we were asked to do, and we fought around it. Of course that kills most people. For some reason or another it didn’t kill me. And I feel that since I’ve progressed rather slowly, I still have a long career ahead of me.

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  • Photographer’s Lost Archive Turns Up at NY Flea Market | PDNPulse

    Photographer-turned-filmmaker Alexi Tan almost lost his entire photographic archive because of an expired credit card. This past June, photographer and self-professed flea market hound Henry Leutwyler was browsing a Manhattan market when he came across bo

    via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/10/photographers-lost-archive-turns-up-at-ny-flea-market.html

    “I couldn’t even begin to describe the feeling to see these lost works once more,” Tan says. “It really feels like part of me came back, in a good way. My photography was the foundation for what I do now as a filmmaker. So to describe the feeling to have them back, in one word: Unbelievable.”

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  • APA Launches $5,000 Grant For Established Photographers | PDNPulse

    American Photographic Artists (APA) is launching a scholarship of $5,000 to be awarded to “a deserving established professional photographer for a specific project.”  The grant will be administered by the Lucie Foundation. “As a photographic educator I se

    via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/10/apa-launches-5000-grant-for-established-photographers.html

    Starting November 1, interested photographers can apply for the grant by uploading a project proposal, a biography or CV, a selection of digital images, and additional information to the scholarship Web site

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  • How the iPhone 4S Stacks Up With the Best of the Rest

    At its iPhone 4S event on Tuesday, Apple boasted of its new phone’s specs by comparing it to a number of Android competitors. But as much as newly minted CEO Tim Cook raved about the 4S, the question remains: Does the 4S truly stack up to the rest?

    via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/10/iphone-4s-android-comparison/

    At its iPhone 4S event on Tuesday, Apple boasted of its new phone’s specs by comparing it to a number of Android competitors. But as much as newly minted CEO Tim Cook raved about the 4S, the question remains: Does the 4S truly stack up to the rest?

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