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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/16/bronx-boys-a-digital-monograph-by-stephen-shames/#1
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The AIGA worked to ensure that professional designers should be compensated fairly for their work long before technology allowed for easy, free publication of writing and photography
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Luc Delahaye turns war photography into an uncomfortable art
Sean O’Hagan: Hanging on the walls at Tate Modern, Luc Delahaye’s giant, painterly photographs of real-life conflicts wield unsettling power
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/aug/09/luc-delahaye-war-photography-art?CMP=twt_gu
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San Francisco Subway Shuts Cell Service to Foil Protest; Legal Debate Ignites
For apparently the first time in the United States, a government agency shuttered mobile-internet and phone service in a bid to quash a demonstration — the same type of speech suppression exercised by Middle Eastern tyrannies to quell dissent.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/08/subway-internet-shuttering/
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PDN:
Matt Lutton has been living and working in the Balkans since early 2009. His project “Only Unity” is an exploration of Serbia’s relationship with its history and a psychological portrait of the Serbian people adjusting to a radically changed landscape with physically contracting borders.
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Bloggers and photographers are calling on the BBC to rethink its use of Twitter images during its news broadcasts after failing to credit copyright owners
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The Titanic Taxonomy of Professional Wrestler Names
Pop Chart Lab has created The Titanic Taxonomy of Wrestler Names, celebrating the noms de guerre of 382 professional wrestlers.
via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/the-titanic-taxonomy-of-professional-wrestler-names/
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Long Beach Police Chief: we detain photographers, and I don’t have any guidelines for that policy, photography is classed with attempts to acquire weaponized smallpox
The Police Chief of Long Beach has confirmed that his department’s policy is to detain photographers who do nothing more than take pictures in public places, and that he neither has, nor plan…
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Cops Stop Photogs over Subjects of “No Apparent Esthetic Value” | PDNPulse
When constabulary duty’s to be done in Long Beach, California, police officers have a lot on their plates: arresting robbers and cut-throats, ticketing speeders…and being art critics. That’s right: according to the Long Beach Post, the city’s police chief
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/08/cops-stop-photogs-over-subjects-of-no-apparent-esthetic-value.html
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Don’t worry: L.A. artist Shepard Fairey, 41, only has a “black eye and a bruised rib” after a pummeling he received in Copenhagen, Denmark last weekend.
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BART statement on killing wireless service in stations on Aug. 11, in anticipation of civil unrest
(Image contributed to the BB Flickr Pool by Bhautik Joshi) Finally, here is BART’s cop-out explanation for why they shut down wireless service in Bay Area stations on Aug. 11. BART temporaril…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2011/08/12/bart-statement-on-killing-wireless-service-in-stations-on-aug-11-in-anticipation-of-civil-unrest.html
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Photographer #355: Murat Germen
Murat Germen, 1965, Turkey, is an experimental artist that often uses photography as his medium. He received a Bachelor of science in city p…
Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/08/photographer-355-murat-germen.html
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On the Road, Embracing the Distance
When Mustafah Abdulaziz drove across America to ask himself questions, he didn’t find the answers. Here is what he did find.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/on-the-road-embracing-the-distance/
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The Fuji FinePix X100. It’s one of the more talked about and lusted after cameras on the market right now. It’s also one quirky beast full of contrasts. Reviewers are quick to point out every annoying flaw, yet are also quick to tell you how much they love it and the resulting images. Thanks to a generous friend, I finally had the chance to test drive it myself for an afternoon.
Before I say more, however, let me state that this is not a full review. It’s barely a quick review. In fact, it’s really a set of personal impressions based on several hours walking around town playing with the camera in hand. There’s no science here. Just my own unfettered opinion. Got it? Good.
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Google’s Mapping Tools Spawn New Breed of Art Projects
Instead of walking out on the street to find interesting scenes and people, a few photographers are now simply curating the pre-documented streets from the comfort of their desks at home.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/08/google-street-view/
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LightBox | Time
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/11/thomas-hoepker-views-of-a-vanished-country/#1
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Scott Strazzante:
New York is an amazing place for street photography, but I still failed much more often than I was successful.
I guess that’s up for debate.
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Free Online Class Shakes Up Photo Education
On the ground floor of a converted, Victorian-era cinema in Coventry, England, Jonathan Worth delivers a world-class photography lecture anyone can attend at any time, from anywhere, for free.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/08/free-online-class-shakes-up-photo-education/
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