Piss Christ, the long-controversial photograph by Andres Serrano depicting a crucifix submerged in urine, has been attacked once again by Christian protestors
Link: Christian protesters destroy Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ in France | dvafoto
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shooting gallery
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Link: http://shootinggallery.tumblr.com/
photographers shooting + talking
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Photographers in peril
Readers and picture editors view the pictures of conflict in safety and comfort. But for the soldiers fighting the wars, and the civilians caught up in them, conflict is anything but safe and comfortable. We are witness to their stories and tragedies th
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/04/photographers_in_peril.html
Readers and picture editors view the pictures of conflict in safety and comfort. But for the soldiers fighting the wars, and the civilians caught up in them, conflict is anything but safe and comfortable. We are witness to their stories and tragedies thanks to people who willingly put themselves into the same lines of fire as the protagonists – photographers.
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Photographers in peril
Readers and picture editors view the pictures of conflict in safety and comfort. But for the soldiers fighting the wars, and the civilians caught up in them, conflict is anything but safe and comfortable. We are witness to their stories and tragedies th
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/04/photographers_in_peril.html
Readers and picture editors view the pictures of conflict in safety and comfort. But for the soldiers fighting the wars, and the civilians caught up in them, conflict is anything but safe and comfortable. We are witness to their stories and tragedies thanks to people who willingly put themselves into the same lines of fire as the protagonists – photographers.
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Full Winners List, links to further coverage…
No newsroom dominated the 2011 Pulitzer Prizes, with The New York Times and Los Angeles Times taking home two each. The surprise win went to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune for investigative reporting.
Link: 11 newsrooms split 13 Pulitzer Prizes for journalism | Poynter.
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Czech Photographer Miroslav Tichy passed away this past April 12, 2011, at the age of 85. He was born in Netcice, Moravia on November 20th, 1926.
Link: Death of Miroslav Tichy | La Lettre de la Photographie
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Of course there are “dark horse” images that may seemingly come out of nowhere to win, but one way to guess at what some of the top contender photographs may be is to look back at work that’s already either won significant recognition or received major play in the media during last year’s big stories.
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Some think the optimal way of scanning colour negatives is to minimize editing intervention at the scan stage by scanning exactly what the scanner produces unaltered, then opening the image in Photoshop, converting it to a positive and making other adjustments as needed. Stated advantages of this workflow are that no data gets altered or destroyed on the way to Photoshop and there is no need to bother about selecting and possibly re-configuring conversion profiles in the scanning software appropriate for the brand of negative film one is scanning.
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With Monday’s 3 p.m. announcement of the 94th edition of the Pulitzers fast approaching, most talk has reflected how little buzz the oldest and most revered of American awards now is garnering
Link: Handicapping the Pulitzers as prize season peaks with the top award | Poynter.
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In Part Two of VII The Magazine’s series on Libya Franco Pagetti looks at the rebel movement in the Benghazi area of Libya. Even with the support of NATO and the United States they have achieved little towards any kind of victory. The only certainty in this conflict is that the death toll will continue to rise.
Link: VII The Magazine
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Canon EF 35 f/1.4L II [CR2]
New Primes The supertelephotos are done for the moment from Canon. The last 12 months or so have been dedicated to updating and releasing new long lenses. F
via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2011/04/canon-ef-35-f1-4l-ii-cr2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+canonrumors/rss
First words today that a 35 f/1.4L II is in the wild and being tested and critiqued by a select few photographers.
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37 Megapixel 1Ds Mark IV? [CR1]
Is 37mp enough? This is the first bit of info I’ve received about a 1Ds Mark IV in a while. All that was said is the next camera would be 37 megapixels and
via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2011/04/37-megapixel-1ds-mark-iv-cr1/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+canonrumors/rss
All that was said is the next camera would be 37 megapixels and we’ll see it “soon”.
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Soldier-Taggers: Afghanistan as Fight Club – Reading The Pictures
Street art depends on disrupting the order and values of everyday life. Except, that is, when it’s riffing off of “Fight Club” and posted on a NATO military base in Afghanistan.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2011/04/us-soldier-taggers-afghanistan-as-fight-club/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Bagnewsnotes+(BAGnewsNotes)
Here we’re introduced to the artist ZEROSIX, whose imagery is characterized by quirky and deadpan quotation, in both image and text. Who, by the judgement of his colleagues, is truly badass.
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Gianni Giosue spent over two weeks in the North East of Japan to document the consequences of the gigantic Tsunami which swept away hundreds of kilometers of coast line. Buildings were destroyed, roads stripped, lives were lost and precious memories from inside the houses, like photographs of loved ones, stolen for ever.
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You’ll really enjoy the colorful stories Ami shares behind each of these tips, like how Ami’s images from Angola captured the world’s attention because of the unique stories she chose to photograph — despite her editors originally insisting that work from Angola would never get published.
Link: Ami Vitale on Trusting Your Instincts – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
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Dan Winters Interview – Part 3 – A Photo Editor
Dan Winters interview part 3. Part 1 is (here). Part 2 is (here). Rob: So when did you move to Austin? Dan: We moved in 2000. I knew going into this that there’s no market in Austin. There are a lot of photographers here… Rob: It’s amazing how many photog
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/04/15/dan-winters-interview-part-3/
Rob: That leads me to my next question, the now legendary fact that you deliver final prints, and that’s it.
Dan: Yeah usually, and it’s one of those things, too, where when I started out in New York, I really stuck my neck out a little bit, but I say I know the kind of picture I want to make, and I know the aesthetic that I want to apply to the picture. And I knew back then, at that time, the kind of pictures I was making. They’re different now, but when you look at them, you see they’re very similar, really. They really are. They’re square, little square black and white pictures, but they’re very similar to the ones that I do now and have done for many years. I felt like a part of my job was to see the thing through all the way, and I knew exactly what I wanted, so I didn’t want someone editing what my version of the picture was.
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Yesterday the final decision was made to close the School of Journalism and Mass Communication that is not only my part-time employer, but my alma mater. My father also taught photojournalism part time at this school and graduated from its predecessor College of Journalism at the University of Colorado. The old school will be replaced by a double degree in journalism and another discipline at the university, and details of how that will work remain vague.
Though I and many of my colleagues wish a purposeful change of how journalism is taught at CU would have unfolded differently from this, the decision begs an examination of what it means to have a journalism education. This may still be well served by CU’s plan, depending on how it unfolds. I am hopeful.
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When I first started making the multiple exposures for this project I was very calculated and made a lot of notes. The first batch looked like I was very calculated and made a lot of notes – which is to say, they were contrived and boring. Except for when I made a mistake. So the second time out I relied almost entirely on intuition and tried to allow the process to flow more naturally. I tried to imagine the camera seeing what was in my mind. The second batch looked exactly how I saw the frames. In fact they were more intricate and beautiful than I first saw them. Since then I have relied on intuition to make these frames.
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How to set up & tune a great Photoshop machine
Photoshop gets used in a huge variety of ways, from editing tiny icons laying out multi-hundred-layer Web designs* to wrangling gigapixel photos. The optimal settings depend on the work you do. Now…
via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2011/04/how-to-set-up-tune-a-great-photoshop-machine.html
the Photoshop performance team has posted a white paper on Photoshop CS5 performance, explaining various cache & GPU settings, discussing the impact of 64-bit and multicore, and more.
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Mr. McConnell’s story, which includes 50 images, won a World Press Photo award this year but has yet to be exhibited outside Spain. Mr. McConnell, who is represented by Panos Pictures, worked for three years as a press photographer in Northern Ireland before traveling through Australia, Asia and Africa, where he is based. He spent four months photographing and interviewing the Sahrawis in refugee camps and in the Polisario-controlled Western Sahara.