Congratulations to Dale Yudelman, the first winner of the newly established Ernest Cole Award for photography in South Africa. On the 30 June the adjudication committee chose his project – “From the Hip”, from a final selection of five entries.
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In part 1 and part 2 I started on a list of the photographers who have made the greatest influence on successive generations of photojournalists. To recap, this is a start on a “canon” to which you may contribute a suggestion. I’m looking not just for a list of the “great photographers” nor the most famous or successful. I’m looking for photographers who:
Produced documentary work reflecting the important standards and ethics of the profession,
Stood the test of time by repeatedly producing notable work, and
Innovated in the art or profession by being first to adopt an important style or approach, break a barrier or rise above the limits of the day.
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‘Homies’: A Conversation with Adam Amengual
INTRODUCTION Los Angeles based photographer, Adam Amengual says of his series Homies: “Through the help of the non profit Homeboy Industries I photographed people who have made the decision to chan…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/homies-a-conversation-with-adam-amengual/
Homies is very striking; the unorthodox subjects under studio lighting both captures and confuses the imagination when reading the portraits. Not surprisingly, Homies has done the rounds recently, appearing on Wesley, Kate and Joerg‘s blogs. I wanted to find out more about the community at Homeboy Industries, about Adam’s decision-making and about his reception at Homeboy when he turned up with his gear.
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They say that 95 % of communication is non verbal. This is the realm of photography. It explores and transports through time and space the world that resides outside the Word. Confusingly enough however, we tend to give much more credit, and emphasis, to the written/spoken word.
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Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade Announced at PhotoIreland Festival
We all know Martin Parr as the acclaimed photographer and well-seen photobook bibliophile. Mr. Parr recently released the list of his newest…
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2011/07/martin-parrs-best-books-of-decade.html
The list by Martin Parr … replete with links to all books that are (or were) available from photo-eye.
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In late May I drove from San Francisco to Charlottesville to attend the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph. LOOK3, which is the festival that offered an award that began my relationship with Leica, is probably the most intimate and intense photo festival in America
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A Space Album From Planet Earth
Shuttle missions have been depicted in intimate detail by Philip Scott Andrews and his father, Scott Andrews.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/a-space-album-from-planet-earth/
Given the great distance that separates photographers from the launching pad, the only way to get close is to use remote cameras. “A lot of people don’t realize the amount of work that goes into making an image of the shuttle lifting off the pad,” Philip Scott Andrews said. “It takes about three to four days to get all the cameras together, hooked up to their triggering devices and deployed into the field.”
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I loved photography graffiti writers because I identified with their insanity. These crazy kids that wrote their name tens of thousands of times all over the city. Hanging off rooftops 15 stories up to make their art. I felt the same making photos all day and night everyday and night. I was so fascinated by that lifestyle. I was always up for an adventure and never afraid to get in trouble. All of these subcultures tie into one another. Skating, graffiti, music; there are so many crossovers. Music has always been a large part of my life, defining the way I dressed , my attitude, my beliefs. All of these elements play a large roll in my photographs.
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Is social media helping your business, or is it simply wasting your time? The truth is, most people don’t have any idea. Bringing your business into social media is easy, but getting something out of it requires more than just keeping in touch with family and friends.
Let’s be realistic about it.
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Their conversation took place in New York City in January, the day after the opening for Richards’s exhibition “War is Personal” at 401 Projects.
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/07/20/the-young-slovenian-jost-franko/
Franko started taking pictures when he was 14 and won his first award when he was 16 with a moving series of photographs of his newly widowed grandmother. The series was awarded “Best Reportage” by the jury of the Slovenian Press Photo competition in 2010.
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The flood photo that isn’t
The Associated Press has withdrawn a photo depicting flooding in North Korea, released recently by the reclusive communist country’s news service, claiming that signs of digital manipulation were detected.
The American news wire agency transmi
via Korea JoongAng Daily: http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2939105
North Korea claimed that seven North Koreans are walking in a flooded street in this July 15 photo North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency took, which it provided to AP. In the photo, residents walk in knee-deep water, but photo experts suspect the photo of being retouched, citing the relatively dry clothes of the residents as evidence. [YONHAP]
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London-based photographer Jason Larkin’s Mistake of Nature takes us to the former Soviet republic of Karakalpakstan, a semi-autonomous enclave of Uzbekistan and the site of one of the biggest man-made environmental disasters – the near-disappearance of the Aral Sea.
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What is it with Hungary? As the Royal Academy’s forthcoming exhibition will show, this small European country punched well above its weight in the photography world in the middle of the last century, giving us people such as Robert Capa, László Moholy-Nagy, André Kertész, Brassaï and Martin Munkácsi.
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Another man with a video camera captured a clip of Maurent with handcuffs. Felix Maurent can be heard complaining of an unlawful arrest with a camera and NPPA press badge around his neck.
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Mil Besos: Ruven Afanador’s Women of Flamenco
In this week’s issue, Ruven Afanador photographed Tyne Daly and Alexandra Silber for Hilton Als’s review of “Master Class,” a play by Terrence …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/07/ruven-afanador-mil-besos.html
In this week’s issue, Ruven Afanador photographed Tyne Daly and Alexandra Silber for Hilton Als’s review of “Master Class,” a play by Terrence McNally about Maria Callas. The style, theatrics, and intensity of the women, as communicated through Afanador’s black-and-white photograph, brought to mind his 2009 monograph “Mil Besos,” of and inspired by the world of flamenco.
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A Western Photographer in Hama, Syria
Moises Saman says that his trip into Syria with Anthony Shadid was one of the more memorable he’s taken.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/a-western-photographer-in-hama-syria/
Moises Saman says that his trip into Syria with Anthony Shadid was one of the craziest things he’s done.
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Class Time with Garry Winogrand (1974 – 1976)
By O.C. Garza
The years were 1974, 1975 and 1976.Step back to those years in what was the active, peaceful city of Austin, Texas. The city is nestled hard against the banks of the Colorado River that knives through central Texas. This state govern
via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/07/garry-winogrand-class-time-with-garry.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Americansuburb+(AMERICANSUBURBX)
If students were taking Garry’s class to learn photographic techniques and methods, they were sorely disappointed. Garry didn’t teach much technique. That was left to the PJ side of the photography world or to his “TAs”. You have a lifetime to learn technique, he seemed to be saying, but I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.
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Detained Georgian Photographers ‘Confess’ to Spying for Russia | PDNPulse
The three Georgian photojournalists who were arrested in their homes on July 7, 2011, and accused of spying for Russia have “confessed,” according to an AFP report. On Monday Georgian authorities confirmed that Zurab Kurtsikidze, a European Pressphoto Age
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/07/detained-georgian-photographers-confess-to-spying-for-russia.html
The photographers could face up to 12 years in prison if they are convicted.