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
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/07/fuji-finepix-x100-review.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+typepad/ZSjz
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
Hasselblad has gone back to its roots, creating a new research and development department to serve niche photographers, and starting with aerial specialists. Olivier Laurent speaks with the global special applications manager, Benny Buchtrup.
No 1Ds, however…… I’m told a mid September announcement for a 1D Mark V. It will be a full frame high fps camera that will lead to the amalgamation of the
via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2011/07/1d-mark-v-cr1/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+canonrumors/rss
I’m told a mid September announcement for a 1D Mark V
Just firing news photographers who manipulate images doesn’t seem to be doing the trick, because photographers keep doing it. This time it was freelancer Miguel Tovar, who was on assignment for the AP at the Copa America soccer tournament in Argentina. Hi
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/07/another-photo-manipulation-case-raises-question-is-the-penalty-high-enough.html
Just firing news photographers who manipulate images doesn’t seem to be doing the trick, because photographers keep doing it.
It only took us a matter of seconds to find a story on the Huffington Post’s Los Angeles page that is based on the work of another news organization and contains no link to said organization.
Google+ completely changes the photo sharing game. Not just a little bit — alot. This may be the most significant shift in photo sharing that we’ve seen since the introduction of Flickr. There is more engagement going on with photographs on G+, more ways to share photographs on G+, and it is growing at a rate that blows my mind away
Empresa especialista en la intermediación y promoción de bienes raíces y desarrollos inmobiliarios.
Link: http://tres16.com/
“Inconscience” (french for “Unconsciousness”) is a photographic project about sleepers in the world, that I started few years ago. I began to photograph sleepers that I came accross during my travels. I saw in them so much poetry, but also questions about the world and the derailment of society.
I ‘m now launching a presale campaign, to be able to publish the book f these pictures myself. That would hopefully give me more freedom in my future work. I’ll need to sell 250 copies to start the publishing process.
While Britain reassesses the balance between press freedom and privacy, France is grappling with the consequences of its tradition of protecting the powerful.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/world/europe/10press.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
A widening phone-hacking scandal is prompting a broad reassessment of the balance between press freedom and privacy in Britain, even as France grapples with the consequences of its tradition of protecting the powerful.
A hidden bomb in Afghanistan made Giles Duley a triple amputee, but after rehabilitation, he’s ready to go back into the field.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/09/world/europe/09duley.html?_r=1&hp
TO the annals of understatement and optimism add this: the account of Giles Duley, an independent photographer, about the moment after he stepped on a hidden bomb while covering an American and Afghan infantry patrol.
In Arles Chris Boot is one of the four nominators for this year’s Discovery Award. He has selected three artists who all work with photography in new and unorthodox ways:
At 4pm, JR is nowhere to be seen. Behind the blue wooded barricade, a dozen people covered in glue are devoted to covering a large wall in with eyes staring in black and white. More then 30 minutes more will tick by in order to see suddenly the face of the elusive artist, up there, on the roof of the building in front of us, waving like a kid
Link: Boing Boing