Link: YouTube – Behind the scenes with Todd Cole on Kurt Vile’s “Baby’s Arms” music video
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Most of my initial observations about Google+ will have to do with how it impacts photo sharing, and here I think Google has pushed the envelope to create a compelling photo sharing experience to accompany this new social network. Photo sharing in Google+ is very slick and very polished and works very well.
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Todd Korol, a Canadian who lives with his family in Calgary, Alberta, has spent the last 20 years traversing the world with camera in hand on assignment for international publications including Time, Sports Illustrated and the New York Times and he has worked with corporate clients including Apple, Visa, Rolex and several other household names. His assignments have taken him all over the world, even far north to the Arctic Circle. Todd’s work has been included in the acclaimed Day in the Life series and published in over 200 books including his own book entitled “Harvest” documenting the lives of a Saskatchewan farm family working their land. The Paul Kuhn Gallery in Calgary represents his fine art work. Here Todd shares part one of his story with us.
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/06/30/mexicos-ongoing-drug-violence-by-shaul-schwarz/#1
TIME contract photographer Shaul Schwarz writes for LightBox about his experience documenting years of drug-related violence in Mexico.
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2 French Journalists Freed by Afghan Militants
The television journalists had been held hostage in Afghanistan for 18 months. News of their release Wednesday was the first public sign of them since a November 2010 video.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/world/europe/30iht-hostages30.html?_r=1
France 3 television said the reporters, Stéphane Taponier and Hervé Ghesquière, had been freed along with their interpreter, Reza Din.
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To Be Young, Russian, and Rich
The German photographer Anna Skladmann’s work in Russia has resulted in several striking bodies of work, including a series of portraits of market …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/06/anna-skladmann-little-adults.html
For her new book, “Little Adults,” Anna Skladmann takes a look at the children of wealthy Russians. Here’s a selection, with Skladmann’s captions
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At the head of the Olympus compact system camera (CSC) pack is the 12.3-megapixel E-P3, with several under-the hood improvements including a new image sensor and a new processing engine.
Link: PDN Pulse » Blog Archive » PDN Camera Review: Olympus PEN E-P3
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What I Would Get If I Were Starting Now
I had several bouts of photographing as a kid, and had my first show in the lunchroom of the University School of Milwaukee (despite the confusing name, a prep school). But I didn’t really become a photographer until 1980, when…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/06/starting-photography-now.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+typepad/ZSjz
I didn’t really become a photographer until 1980, when I was 23. That was 31 years ago.
Yesterday I was asked what I’d do if I were 23 and just starting out now.
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Capture Pilot: iPad Remote Control for Phase One Cameras
Normally I’d complain about an iOS camera triggering app which requires a computer as well as a camera to make it work, but when that camera is loaded with the Phase One back, which pumps out 80MP images, you’re going to need somewhere bigger than the iPa
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/capture-pilot-ipad-remote-control-for-phase-one-cameras/
Normally I’d complain about an iOS camera triggering app which requires a computer as well as a camera to make it work, but when that camera is loaded with the Phase One back, which pumps out 80MP images, you’re going to need somewhere bigger than the iPad to put them.
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Olympus PEN EP3 Improves Almost Everything
A big day for photography news today, thanks to the folks at Olympus. First up is the Pen EP3, the fifth iteration of its PEN Micro Four Thirds line, which manages to mix up pretty much everything while keeping it in the original PEN’s retro-style body. F
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/olympus-pen-ep3-improves-almost-everything/
The Olympus EP3 could be the Micro Four Thirds camera we have always been waiting for
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In photographing these women, both before and after they dress for the day, I wanted to communicate the idea of vulnerability and women’s presentation of one’s self to the world. All of us dress accordingly because we are all vulnerable and want to come across in our respective desired way
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Newspaper Chain Fights for Copyright Troll’s Survival
Stephens Media, the Las Vegas–based media chain, is fighting to keep its latest business model alive: copyright-trolling. After standing on the sidelines while professional content-troll Righthaven fights in court, the newspaper company that seeded the ve
Stephens Media, the Las Vegas–based media chain, is fighting to keep its latest business model alive: copyright-trolling.
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Jennifer Garza-Cuen got her start shooting slot champions, tourists and divorce parties at the motel casinos down route 40 in Reno, Nevada. Later she became a cocktail waitress at the Nugget, but perpetual dissatisfaction drove her on the road which landed her in Providence where she recently completed her MFA in Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design
Link: Art & Photography: Jennifer Garza-Cuen | Feature Shoot
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“The world of Bruce Haley is not for the faint-hearted. Now living in Northern California, Bruce has traveled the globe photographing some of the darkest moments that only the intrepid want to face. “I wander toward the world‘s margins, the dark places, places of solitude, rural landscapes, wasteland. What this says about me is unimportant; what one encounters in such places is the heart of the matter. For it is there that life is unvarnished and vital, where the margins offer the occasional glimpse of a darkly-splendid world.”
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LightBox | Time
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IdeasTap, a charity that works to “fund, connect and nurture” new creative talent recently declared Pierfrancesco Celada the winner of its inaugural photographic award for his project, Japan, I wish I knew your name.
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Peripatetic artist Jim Dow has compiled many of his best-known images in this generous love poem to America. On the road, using a large format camera, Dow has catalogued the stadiums, the road signs, the diners, and the ice cream parlors that pepper the landscape.
Link: Jim Dow Love poem to America | La Lettre de la Photographie
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Newspaper Chain Fights for Copyright Troll’s Survival
Stephens Media, the Las Vegas–based media chain, is fighting to keep its latest business model alive: copyright-trolling. After standing on the sidelines while professional content-troll Righthaven fights in court, the newspaper company that seeded the ve
Stephens Media, the Las Vegas–based media chain, is fighting to keep its latest business model alive: copyright-trolling.
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Newspaper Chain Fights for Copyright Troll’s Survival
Stephens Media, the Las Vegas–based media chain, is fighting to keep its latest business model alive: copyright-trolling. After standing on the sidelines while professional content-troll Righthaven fights in court, the newspaper company that seeded the ve
Stephens Media, the Las Vegas–based media chain, is fighting to keep its latest business model alive: copyright-trolling.
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Chinese government photoshop disaster goes viral
A crummy government photoshop propaganda disaster in China has turned into a meme among Chinese netizens, who are furiously remixing three enthusiastic government officials into all manner of situa…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/28/chinese-government-p.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag
On the afternoon of June 27, our reader interviewed the Huili County Government publicity department director Zhang Yongzhi. According to Zhang, several county leaders went out to inspect the road. An accompanying worker took some photos for the record. But when it came to posting onto the website, the worker decided that “the background of the original photo did not look very good
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Emmet Gowin, Lee Friedlander and Harry Callahan: “The Model Wife” (2001)
Edith, 1970 @ Emmet Gowin
“I realized that my own family — Edith’s family — was as miraculous as the most distant people in the world and they were at the same time, the most available to me, and perhaps available only to me…. I had not realized t
via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/06/gowin-friedlander-callahan-model-wife.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Americansuburb+(AMERICANSUBURBX)
He came of age photographically, making images of his wife’s family. “I realized that my own family — Edith’s family — was as miraculous as the most distant people in the world and they were at the same time, the most available to me, and perhaps available only to me…. I had not realized that art could be made by simply telling the story of your own life, of your own experience.”
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