Pivotal midterm elections in the United States are taking place on Tuesday November 2nd. President Barack Obama is under increasing pressure from the Republican Party and the Tea Party to maintain control of the U.S. Congress. We thought it would be interesting to look at an exclusive interview with Christopher Morris about the three videos he has done about the President and the difficulties he faces.
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Yael Ben-Zion
MW What inspired you to start taking photographs, and what is the primary inspiration for you to keep working in this field?
YBZ While I…
Link: http://2waylens.blogspot.com/2011/08/yael-ben-zion.html
While writing my dissertation, I took a couple of photography classes that opened my eyes (literally and metaphorically) to the potential of photography as an expressive art form
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Polaroids, Bedsheets and Backdrops
It was not the most sophisticated setup: a painted sheet, a Polaroid camera. But a very brief trend in New York street photography produced a series of quirky portraits, some of which are published in Sunday’s Metropolitan section.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/a-singular-moment-in-new-york-street-portraiture/
The backdrops, to exercise the imagination slightly, were an urban version of medieval unicorn tapestries, evoking icons like gleaming BMW’s or wads of $1,000 bills accompanied by slogans like “Living Large” or “I Wanna Sex You Up.”
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Chip:
I don’t know why I never did this at the paper more, but running around the sidelines with a 50mm was a very welcome break from tradition – even though its about as traditional a lens as you get.
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Spotlight on Bryan Derballa
TID : Bryan, thanks for your time. Please tell us some of the background of the image. BRYAN : Abandoned. Summer. Camp. I don’t…
Link: http://imagedeconstructed.blogspot.com/2011/08/spotlight-on-bryan-derballa.html
Abandoned. Summer. Camp. I don’t know what emotions
those three words stir up for the readers out there
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Into the wild — duckrabbit
Someone said what you’ve been thinking (please read the full post here on the excellent LPV magazine) “I bought a…
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2011/08/into-the-wild/
Photographers need to get away from hyper-connectivity, and all this internet shit. It’s making the work all look the same . All these anxiety ridden photographers hustling for attention. Tweeting frivolously, talking about their shows, or what stupid blog they’ve appeared in
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Lewis Hine: Photographer, Activist, Character
Alison Nordstrom, the curator of a retrospective of the work of the early 20th-century photographer Lewis Hine, has come to know him as the Walt Whitman of picture-taking.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/26/lewis-hine-photographer-activist-character/
Since our material is vintage material, there are sometimes these amazing annotations on the backs of these prints. I often say the back of a photo can tell you more than the front. In that period, he is really gathering evidence, and so the notations have the name of the child and the height of the child. He measured the height of his buttons on his vest. He always wore a suit and tie to the ground so that he could ascertain the heights of these little children by measuring them against the buttons on his jacket.
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/26/the-mexican-suitcase/#1
Now a documentary about the find, The Mexican Suitcase by director Trisha Ziff, expands on ICP’s recent exhibition on the negatives. The film showcases the photos and the photojournalists’ work during Spain’s civil war– a battle between communist and fascist that began in 1936 with a failed coup, and killed half a million people before General Franco won control in 1939– and the continuing struggle to come to terms with the country’s painful history.
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For three years, the Magnum photographer Abbas and Melisa Teo have journeyed through the spiritual worlds of Buddhism, Shamanism and Hinduism, photographing the same subjects but with contrasting perspectives and styles.
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Free Ride – How Technology Companies Are Killing The Culture Business – A Photo Editor
This new book titled Free Ride by Robert Levine a former features editor for Wired looks to be a must read for content creators. The book is currently available in the UK and goes on sale in the US onOctober 25th. Copyhype has a review of the book (here).
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/08/26/free-ride-how-technology-companies-are-killing-the-culture-business/
As much as technology pioneers want us to believe that information wants to be free and that free is the “The Future of a Radical Price” the bottom line here is someone wants to make a buck that someone else is currently making
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After a staffer for U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) ordered police officers to seize video cameras from members of the public during a town hall meeting earlier this week, the office has announced that it will allow videotaping at future events
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/25/brian-ulrich-copia-retail-thrift-and-dark-stores/#1
Taken from the Latin word for plenty, Copia, is the 10-year-old brain child of photographer Brian Ulrich: his in-depth exploration of American consumer culture. The project consists of three-parts: Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores. TIME spoke with Brian about his inspiration for this project.
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Photojournalists Assaulted in Kashmir by Indian Forces | PDNPulse
Zuma Press photographer Narcisco Contreras of Mexico and freelance photographer Showkat Shafi of India were beaten by police and government forces, then arrested while covering a violent street protest in Srinigar, Kashmir on August 19, the Committee to P
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/08/photojournalists-assaulted-in-kashmir-by-indian-police.html
Zuma Press photographer Narcisco Contreras of Mexico and freelance photographer Showkat Shafi of India were beaten by police and government forces
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Sports Illustrated photographer Lou Capozzola, seen here with Kevin Durant, passed away at age 61 on Aug. 18. Lou began his career at SI in 1980 and shot countless hockey games, among other sports, for the brand. Here’s a sample of some of his most memorable photographs.
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If only every year was like 2008.
Three years on, at the time of this writing, only the Nikon D3 has been replaced with the slightly enhanced D3s. (HD video anyone?) It’s also worth noting that we haven’t seen any full-frame DSLRs released in nearly two years.
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Call for Applications: $20,000 Aftermath Project Grant | PDNPulse
In 2012 The Aftermath Project will award a $20,000 grant to a photographer exploring the lasting effects of conflicts on civilian populations. The work of the grant winners and four finalists will be published in the sixth volume of War is Only Half the S
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/08/call-for-applications-20000-aftermath-project-grant.html
In 2012 The Aftermath Project will award a $20,000 grant to a photographer exploring the lasting effects of conflicts on civilian populations.
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Mr. Crowley has photographed the Washington Monument dozens of times over the years as part of “Crowleygraphs,” a personal project that Lens described as revealing “unvarnished truths” behind Washington politics
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LightBox | Time
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/25/collateral-crisis-the-catastrophic-famine-in-somalia/#1
In a world with more than enough to feed itself, all hunger is an unnecessary tragedy—but this year’s famine in southern Somalia is a true scar on the world’s conscience. Over six days in Mogadishu in early August, TIME contract photographer Dominic Nahr and I found appalling suffering and death among the hundreds of thousands of refugees who had fled famine in the south of the country.
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Poynter:
Melissa Lyttle: It’s the one that was our lead photo the first time around, where [Bernie Lierow is] hugging her and she’s just kind of dangling, lifeless and limp, and not hugging back. And that scene happened again … I made this picture in the living room this time where he was hugging her. It’s very clear: She’s holding his head. She’s kind of playfully biting his nose and kissing him back. … It’s the same down to the fact of lensing and composition and moment.