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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/07/14/londons-street-photography/#1
There are some terrific photographers in the Museum of London’s current exhibition, London Street Photography. The photographers range from John Thomson, who was a 19th-century pioneer in this genre when long exposure times and bulky cameras made such photographs minor miracles, to Nick Turpin, who founded the website In-Public
You can't forget those adorable self-portraits taken by a group of vain monkeys on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The shots are amazing, so amazing that a controversy is brewing over their copyright.
via Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/5820714/if-a-monkey-steals-your-camera-who-owns-the-photos
So who in this chain owns the rights to these photos? Is it the monkeys who took the pictures? The man who owns the camera but didn’t take the photos? Or the news agency that merely sent them out? This issue has not been ironed out, but it could be soon.
By John Kennerdell “I’ve finally figured out what’s wrong with photography. It’s a one-eyed man looking through a little ‘ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?” —David Hockney “An extension of my eye,” Cartier-Bresson famously called his…
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I’d like to talk about another approach: the handheld camera as an extension of the hand, or simply as an unobtrusive device off to the side as we engage directly with the scene before us, both eyes wide open.
Once Magazine claims that it will publish three stories of about twenty-five full-screen photographs with captions, an introductory text essay, and interactive features. The magazine will allow photographers to tell their stories by using the iPad as one of the mobile platforms.
Doug Mills has come up with a simple but strangely elegant solution for shooting video and stills simultaneously.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/shooting-twice-at-once/
When shooting stills and video simultaneously, Doug Mills, a staff photographer in the Washington bureau of The New York Times, has tried a creative trick or two. He once strapped the video camera around his neck, using his stomach to hold it in place. The results, he said, were “freewheeling and dangling and very difficult to work with.”
PENTAX Imaging Company has announced it will offer a limited edition 645D camera kit produced to celebrate the PENTAX 645D being named Camera Grand Prix Japan 2011 “Camera of the Year.” This limited edition camera features an elegant, lacquer-finished body.
I don’t want to get on a jag about copyright infringement here, but a lawsuit filed this week against Ryan McGinley illustrates how copyright can potentially impinge artist’s creative expression if taken too far. Rachel Corbett of ArtNet.com writes: Artis
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/07/13/can-copyright-be-bad-for-photography/
I don’t want to get on a jag about copyright infringement here, but a lawsuit filed this week against Ryan McGinley illustrates how copyright can potentially impinge artist’s creative expression if taken too far.
With images having become so ubiquitous online, the old distinctions between elites and the rest are actually fading away rapidly: Anyone can look for images online and do something with them.
The Rape of a Nation , Photographs by Marcus Bleasdale . Published by Schilt Publishing , 2010. The Rape of a Nation Reviewed by Sa…
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2011/07/photo-eye-book-reviews-rape-of-nation.html
As sobering as the images (and their brief accompanying captions in the black margins of the pages) are, there is often a deft sensibility at work here, one that captures beauty and humanity, in the midst of dire situations.
“Just as social media and its uses continue to evolve, so will our policies related to this topic,” wrote Tom Kent, AP’s deputy managing editor for standards and production, in a memo to staff.
Since its launch back in October 2010, Instagram has quickly become the spiritual successor to the Polaroid. But it’s limited. There are third-party services that let you view Instagram images on Android or the web, but good luck getting Mom to use those.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/07/better-cameras-google-plus-and-other-instagram-hacks/
There are also a whole lot of other ways to take and process pictures that offer more features than Instagram. Here are a few Instagram hacks.
While mainstream sports photography has become blunted by the controlling instincts of administrators and the ubiquity of same-brand digital SLRs, a select band of shooters – often focused on “adrenalin” sports that offer greater co-operation and freedoms – are finding new perspectives on the action. Diane Smyth talks to six of the best.
Keith Davis Young was born in a small town known as Bryan, TX. After picking up a degree from Baylor University and getting his fill of fluorescent lighting, boardrooms, and 5 years in ad agency experience, he struck out on his own as a full-time freelancer.
Dangerous Minds recently did a nice image gallery of selected bubblegum trading cards of the 1960s and ’70s, including some sci-fi classics, Bo Derek, What’s Happening, and Dukes of Haz…
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Dangerous Minds recently did a nice image gallery of selected bubblegum trading cards of the 1960s and ’70
On Sunday we were faced with a case of deliberate and misleading photo manipulation by a freelancer on assignment for the AP at the Copa America soccer tournament in Argentina.
Miguel Tovar chose to clone some dust from one part of a feature photo to another in order to obscure his own shadow, which was visible in the original photograph showing children playing soccer
Interrogations is the result of my personal quest to uncover the hidden meaning of the bloody 20th Century. In dialogue with friend and writer Larry Frolick – whose own ancestors had been decimated in the final months of WW II – I insistently and provocatively address questions both to the living survivors and to the ghosts of the State’s innumerable victims, resurrecting their final hours by taking their point of view, and performing a kind of incantatory meditation over their private encounters with Power.
Janine Gordon has filed a lawsuit against Ryan McGinley for copyright infringement, “arguing that 150 of McGinley’s photographs, including several used in an ad campaign for Levi’s, a co-defendant in the suit, are ‘substantially based’ on Gordon’s original work
A few weeks ago there was news that Jay Maisel had successfully defended his copyright against someone claiming “transformation” by turning his original Miles Davis cover photograph into pixel art. It was another victory for photographers in the fight ove
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/07/12/jay-maisel-defends-his-copyright-and-is-attacked-for-it-online/
The crazy thing about the whole debacle is that he licensed all the cover songs from Miles Davis’s publisher but didn’t do the same with the image. He didn’t think he would have any issues copying the images. That’s because you don’t mess with the music industry when it comes to copyright, now maybe the same will be said to photographers thanks to Jay Maisel.
One Photographer’s Experiences and Opinion By Ken Tanaka “Fall in love with photography all over again.” That opening invitation on Fujifilm’s dedicated X100 website neatly sums the camera’s apparent strategic design and primary target market; a retro-des
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though the X100 may sport a crew-cut and horn-rimmed glasses, it’s actually every bit as technologically and functionally complex as any of today’s top-line cameras. And then some
Warning: Hit mute before you play this clip or you’ll have some explaining to do. You also might want to skip forward to around 19 seconds in. What we see here is the sensor of a Canon 5D MkII being zapped by lasers. The hapless owner was videoing DJs spi
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/07/canon-5d-mkii-sensor-zapped-by-lasers/
What we see here is the sensor of a Canon 5D MkII being zapped by lasers. The hapless owner was videoing DJs spinning some truly horrible club music when one of the lasers in the light show shone right into the lens and frazzled the sensor within. Pretty bad luck, I’d say — with all the camera shake I’m surprised any light found its way onto the lens at all