The Associated Press says it has settled its copyright infringement claim against Obey Clothing and three of its big retail customers–Nordstrom’s, Urban Outfitters, and Zumiez Inc.–for sale and distributions of merchandise bearing the iconic ‘Hope’ image
“This settlement marks the final resolution of the disputes over our rights in the AP’s photograph of Barack Obama,” AP president and CEO Tom Curley said
Duckrabbit called it the “hottest photobook to be published in the UK in 2010,” while Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins argued it was “a significant document of life in modern Britain that should continue to have significance long after the moments of its making.”
I’ve chosen 64 books from Andrew Roth’s Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. Most but not all titles have been translated into English. Modeling after the NCAAs, I’ve seeded the photobooks into four regionals, New York, Europe, Middle America, and Misfits, the last one being a catch-all category for books that don’t easily fit somewhere else.
By Ctein I was catching up on some of my photonics journals last week and they reminded me that I still haven’t answered for myself the question of just how fast digital cameras can get. What is the ultimate limiting…
Honest to God, I have no idea what you do with a speed of 1,000,000. Make handheld photographs by starlight? Just sayin’—it can be done, and we haven’t exhausted the bag of technical tricks so don’t assume that even this represents that performance brick wall.
By Ctein I was catching up on some of my photonics journals last week and they reminded me that I still haven’t answered for myself the question of just how fast digital cameras can get. What is the ultimate limiting…
Honest to God, I have no idea what you do with a speed of 1,000,000. Make handheld photographs by starlight? Just sayin’—it can be done, and we haven’t exhausted the bag of technical tricks so don’t assume that even this represents that performance brick wall.
Christian Als (Denmark)
Edward Burtynsky (Canada)
Stéphane Couturier (France)
Mitch Epstein (US)
Chris Jordan (US)
Yeondoo Jung (Korea)
Vera Lutter (Germany)
Nyaba Leon Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso) Taryn Simon (US)
Thomas Struth (Germany)
Guy Tillim (South Africa)
Michael Wolf (Germany)
“Negatives filed in drawers clamor for attention and light,” Sylvia Plachy wrote. “I seem to hear them. As in the streets of New York I look for what once was and still is and if it speaks to me.”
With those words on March 9, 2005, Ms. Plachy inaugurated the Lens series in the Metro Section
Both Matt and myself have been covering the tragic events surrounding the Tsunami in Japan. I have left Japan now but Matt is still there and headed back into the disaster zone to do more reports. I’m sure both of us will talk more about what it was like later on, but for now the story is the priority.
Shiho Fukada was born and raised in Tokyo. Now a freelance photographer in Beijing, she began making her way back to Japan, on assignment for The International Herald Tribune, hours after the earthquake. She is traveling with Michael Wines, a writer from the Beijing bureau of The New York Times, and Mac Bishop, a video journalist for The Times. This narrative is an edited version of her conversation with Kerri MacDonald from her hotel room in Kitakami, in northern Iwate Prefecture.
Elisabeth Biondi has been the visuals editor at The New Yorker for fifteen years almost to the day. It is with both heavy hearts and high hopes that we say…
Elisabeth Biondi has been the visuals editor at The New Yorker for fifteen years almost to the day. It is with both heavy hearts and high hopes that we say auf Wiedersehen as she leaves the magazine and begins pursuing new curatorial endeavors. We asked several photographers with whom she worked closely to share a picture from their most memorable New Yorker shoot with Elisabeth. Here are their selections and recollections.
When I am practicing the art of street photography there are certain things that are sure to catch my attention.
With apologies to Julie Andrews, here is a list of some of my favorite things-
We have all seen the footage, the web galleries and YouTube videos of the tragic events unfolding in Japan. Below is an ongoing list of photographers and photojournalists selling prints to raise money for relief efforts.
photo-eye has this to say about her work:
Using a hybrid of film and digital processes, Campbell-Jones has created a cultural and psychological document of the vanishing coal mining communities of Southern Wales in her series Stories from Underground. Calling her images “a fairy-tale reconstructed from an unbroken lineage of oral histories,” Campbell-Jones’s work is well-researched, taking into account historical legacy and modern global changes, but pushes further than basic documentation. These are complicated images — dense in their visual symbolism and deeply thoughtful.
It’s hard to say for which image Brian Lanker may have been most renowned. Was it the Pulitzer-winning photo of an ebullient Lynda Coburn with her couldn’t-be-more-newly born upon her belly? Or was it the elegant portrait of Septima Poinsette Clark, looking every bit the “queen mother” of the civil rights movement, that graced the cover of his book, “I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America”?
Michael Rubenstein is a commercial and editorial photographer who has recently returned to a lovely apartment in Brooklyn after spending two and a half years photographing South Asia. Michael’s work has appeared in Mother Jones, BusinessWeek, Time, Time Asia, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
A central message of the film is that greater transparency and openness can improve a system in which most convictions are not based on physical evidence and defendants are vulnerable to unfounded claims.
A message in the credits advises viewers to demand their legal hearings be recorded.
I wanted to go to the States and to work there. I loved the feeling of my body in this space… I felt free. I decided to do a road trip and to produce it myself. François came with me. I had no idea what I was wanting to do… just a road trip from the east to the west like in the American tradition of photography, but not with the same spirit. Once I started, I realized quickly that the circulation of people was quite strange.
