You can learn so much about people without ever showing them. This is a portrait of a place without seeing its residents.
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About 3:45 p.m., a Sacramento Bee photographer was threatened and chased by members of an angry mob who mistakenly believed she was recording it on her cell phone. She ran to her car, where people surrounded her, screaming and pounding on her windows. She escaped unharmed but shaken.
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Three photographers have pledged to continue with the Basetrack experiment, despite losing accreditation from the US Marines they had been following for the past six months
Link: US Marines pull the plug on photojournalism experiment – British Journal of Photography
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OUCH: Maggie Steber accuses duckrabbit of conducting a hysterical witchunt. Am I? — duckrabbit
There’s no question that Maggie Steber is a top, top photographer. She’s hugely respected for all the right reasons and…
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2011/02/maggie-steber-accuses-duckrabbit-of-conducting-a-hysterical-witchunt/
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Hiding Details of Dubious Deal, U.S. Invokes National Security
A computer programmer who said his software could prevent Al Qaeda’s next attack won $20 million in contracts, despite suspicions that his claims were a hoax.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/us/politics/20data.html?_r=1
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Reporting While Female
In many countries, women journalists must enforce a particular kind of crowd control.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/weekinreview/20logan.html
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Patrick Smith–
Many of us in this industry, including myself, are very competitive.
This industry is tough and we all want make a difference in others lives by having our images appear on the front page of every major publication. We work hard, long days, and this dream job of everyone who owns a camera is demanding, largely on the physical side of the spectrum. Everyday sets a new challenge and it’s easy to neglect things that are important to us – such as our health.
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In essence, it’s time we recognize our solipsistic viewpoint of only one way to record and document what we deem “photojournalism.” For far too long we have been held hostage by our own stringent rules, guidelines, methodologies and processes of making and distributing what was supposedly photojournalism. To discount Wolf’s work as anything less then what we all do is a rather fearful and, as quoting Lippman, a “democratic defect” in the pursuit of what really should be an egalitarian form of documentation. We cannot thrust upon the public or ourselves an outline of a “proper way.”
Link: “Picture Head”, a response from Donald Weber | dvafoto
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Fair Fee for Photo of Arizona Shooting Victim? Or Price Gouging? | PDNPulse
The Arizona Republic is reporting that Tucson photographer Jon Wolf and his attorney, Ed Greenberg of New York, demanded $125,000 from the newspaper’s owner for unauthorized use of Wolf’s image of Chrstina-Taylor Green. Green was the nine-year-old girl ki
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/02/fair-fee-for-arizona-shooting-victim-photo-or-price-gouging.html
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The Leica Historical Society of America took the ultimate Leica trip for our most recent annual meeting last September … Germany! We chose Wetzlar, the original location of the Ernst Leitz Company, as our home base for the week. We toured a number of historic sites in the area, had a wonderful cruise on the Moselle including a winery tour and spent a day at the Photokina show in Cologne, but the real highlights for me were the Leica Factory tour of the production facility at Solms and the day I spent at the Leica Akademie.
Link: Carl Merkin: Back to the Source; Wetzlar, Solms and Beyond « The Leica Camera
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Paul McDonough arrived in New York City in 1967 with a 35mm camera and entrée, through childhood friend Tod Papageorge, to the photography workshops and social networks of street photographer Garry Winogrand. Emerging from an early career as a studio easel painter, McDonough found photographing on the streets of New York liberating: “It satisfied my sketching impulses… I learned to carry a camera everywhere, all the time, loaded with 400-speed film.” McDonough’s first monograph, Paul McDonough: New York Photographs 1968 – 1978, was published in November 2010 by Umbrage Editions, in conjunction with an exhibition at Sasha Wolf Gallery. – Umbrage.
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Your Last, Last-Minute Chance To Enter PDN Photo Annual | PDNPulse
Attention procrastinators: Due to overwhelming demand and the high-volume of last-minute submissions received yesterday, PDN has extended the deadline to enter the Photo Annual until Monday, February 21, at Midnight EST with no further late fee. Forms and
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/02/your-last-last-minute-chance-to-enter-pdn-photo-annual.html
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The Many Faces of Uganda’s Elections
Todd Heisler is covering the elections in Uganda, Kerri MacDonald reports. One of the sights that has fascinated him most are campaign posters.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/the-many-faces-of-ugandas-elections/
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Los Angeles — Elegiac and a Touch Evil
Thomas Michael Alleman was a continent away from 9/11. But Jennifer Hamblett says that it found its way into his L.A. street photos.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/los-angeles-elegiac-and-a-touch-evil/
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Q & A with Nancy Rexroth
Self Portrait, Athens, Ohio 1969, Nancy Rexroth • from the preface to Nancy Rexroth’s Iowa • Since its publication in 1977 Nancy Re…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2011/02/q-with-nancy-rexroth.html
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If one wants to think of photobook making as a spectrum, at one end, there are commercial publishers. At the other end, there are artists literally making their own books: Printing the pages, binding them etc. Raymond Meeks has produced a variety of such artist books, and I approached him to talk about those.
Link: Conscientious Extended | Conversations about Photobooks: Raymond Meeks
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Topic: apple articles on Engadget
apple articles, stories, news and information.
via Engadget: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/02/17/ap-photographer-uses-mywi-to-cover-bahrain-protests/
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Afghan imams wage political battle against U.S.
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021706160.html?wprss=rss_world
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Photographer David LaChapelle Sues Rihanna
Though he describes himself as a good friend of hers, the fashion and art photographer David LaChappelle claims in a suit filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan that the pop star Rihanna helped herself to too many of the images in the recently release
via ArtsBeat: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/photographer-david-lachappelle-sues-rihanna/
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