Henry Wessel’s photographs wryly depict an American West of decades past. Taken between 1968 and 1987, Wessel’s pictures explore suburban pockets and …
Currently, five city stops are scheduled: June 10 in McLean, VA (a suburb of Washington, DC): August 11 in Denver, CO; September 29 in St. Louis, MO: October 7 in the San Francisco Bay Area; and November 10 in Tampa, FL.
Dorothy Parvaz, a 2009 Nieman Fellow, hasn’t been heard from since she landed in Damascus on assignment on April 29. Syrian officials have informed Al Jazeera that they’re holding her.
The first time, he was on vacation with his girlfriend. Mark Power discovered Poland as a tourist without ever imagining that after a tumultuous year, he would return here 25 times. It is 1989. He just entered stardom with his iconic pictures of the fall of the Berlin Wall, making him an expert on eastern Europe for his native British newspapers.
As this project has developed, the locations and subjects are beginning to speak to me in a language that is clearer and more resolute. Which is not to say that it is easy or that I am always successful. On the contrary. But I do feel a clearer understanding of how the panos and single frame multiple exposures can be used to convey a range of ideas.
I know this is a long standing tradition in the White House as to not let the camera clicking interfere with the message. It isn’t President Obama, and it dates back decades. Unfortunately, the message that is being sent when the cameras are clicking is being interfered with.
That is no longer an acceptable answer in my mind. It is falsifying history. What if – and just imagine – what if something were to happen during the re-enactment? Any slip of the tongue, a trip on the red carpet, a glance or subtle expression change all can dramatically alter what is real and what is news. It is going to take that kind of moment to change all of this staging of events. Essentially, the White House is determining what is history. What we see. What is real.
CNN is the latest news organisation to settle its case against Daniel Morel, as the freelance photographer is set to face Agence France Presse and Getty Images in court this summer, BJP can confirm
the start of November 2010, these five young men decided to take matters into their own hands hoping they can provide a bit of motivation and influence to an outside world so consumed with proper and trite ways. As the weeks began to pass, the beards grew into what looked like seemingly unending hell.
We feel today’s action by the Administration must lead to the end of a false assumption, taken for granted by the President and leaders in both parties, that the snuffing out a critical and essential photo is somehow a zero-sum game.
Issues surrounding photography and the “truth” of news pictures have become an unusual storyline running throughout this week’s coverage of America’s commando attack on Osama bin Laden’s compound, and the White House’s handing of both press photographers here and pictures of the terrorist’s body overseas.
American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) executive director Eugene Mopsik has issued a statement strongly implying that the majority of ASMP members who sell stock photography through Getty Images should leave the agency.
By today’s standards David Carol is an “Old School” photographer. He shoots only Tri-X film using Leicas and Hasselblad rangefinders. His film is hand developed in Rodinal and printed on fiber based paper using a point source enlarger. David will show examples of his work and discuss his career and how he approaches taking pictures.
Osama bin Laden was killed a few days ago, and today the White House announced it will not release an image of his corpse. A look at the impact of other famous death images–and what they say about us.