The launch of the Sigma SD1 camera last Friday, with a MSLP of $9,700 outraged most prospective buye
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Taryn Simon: the woman in the picture
Taryn Simon is currently the hottest property in art photography, with her work sought after by major museums across the world. On the eve of her latest show at Tate Modern, she talks to Sean O’Hagan about her complex and challenging images and the painst
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/may/22/taryn-simon-tate-modern-interview
Taryn Simon is the hottest property in art photography, with her work sought after by major museums worldwide. On the eve of her latest show, at London’s Tate Modern, she talks about her images and the painstaking creative processes involved
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World Press Photo has been forced to close down its exhibition in Beirut after a winning project by Israeli photographer Amit Sha’al sparked local protests
Link: Protests force World Press Photo shutdown in Beirut – British Journal of Photography
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/05/21/up-in-the-air-kite-photography/#1
Argentianian Esteban Pastorino Diaz, who trained as a mechanical engineer before taking up photography full-time, gives us a slightly different view of the earth from 150 feet in the air. Building his own pinhole cameras
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Bad Art of The Rapture
Eager for May 21? Can’t wait for Jesus to dustbust up all the Christians so you can get on with your on post-rapture orgies and looting? Well, some of us
via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/bad-art-of-the-rapture/
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South Africa Assails Libya Over Photographer’s Death
The family of Anton Hammerl, a South African photojournalist missing in Libya since early April, said Thursday that they believed he had been killed.
via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/south-africa-assails-libya-over-photographers-death/
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Remembering Chris Hondros, Part IV – Reading The Pictures
We conclude our series remembering Chris Hondros: Tyler Hicks, Darren McCollester, Shannon Stapleton, James Pomerantz, and Bruno Stevens. Additional photos and videos by Tim Fadek, Mark Ovaska, and Alan Chin.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2011/05/remembering-chris-hondros-part-iv/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Bagnewsnotes+(BAGnewsNotes)
We continue our series of posts of remembrance of our friend, comrade, and brother on another sad day.
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Ruth Gruber, From Exodus to Ethiopia
Ruth Gruber, correspondent and humanitarian, is honored for decades of photojournalism. Many decades. She is 99.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/ruth-gruber-from-exodus-to-ethiopia/
She began carrying a medium-format Rolleicord as a correspondent for The New York Herald Tribune in the 1930s. “I just put one finger on the shutter and I found I was really enjoying it,” she said. “Now I could make my own pictures that also told the story.”
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/05/20/the-war-in-libya-photographs-by-michael-christopher-brown/#1
“I didn’t go to Libya to cover a war, I went to cover an uprising,” said Brown, who was using an iPhone loaded with the Hipstamatic app after dropping his SLR on one of the first days he was there. “But then it became a war so I followed it, because that’s where the story was moving.”
