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Olivier Zahm has become a mascot of the fashion world with his magazine, Purple, and his blog.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/fashion/04ZAHM.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
Olivier Zahm has become a mascot of the fashion world with his magazine, Purple, and his blog.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/fashion/04ZAHM.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
It has now been nearly ten months since the devastating January earthquake struck Haiti, reducing Port-au-Prince to rubble and claiming over 300,000 lives. In the time since, Haiti’s government, the United Nations, and many other aid agencies have struggl
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/11/haiti_ten_months_later.html
A street shooter in the tradition of Cartier-Bresson, his Leicas capture classic images that reveal the moment
Link: Craig Semetko: A Comedian With an Incisive and Ironic Eye, Part 2 « The Leica Camera
Covering politicians in the state capital, Nathaniel Brooks gets blindsided, misled and stage-managed. What’s not to like?
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/some-clarity-in-albanys-heavy-haze/
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/02/AR2010110203290.html?wprss=rss_world
Norway is my favorite country on Earth, but life near a warm sea with fresh octopus hanging on racks has its perks as well
Link: Corey’s Fishing News » Blog Archive » Greece is the new Norway
With the U.S. troop surge now nearing its peak in Afghanistan, more than 150,000 US and international troops are now on the ground. 64 of those troops lost their lives this month, as forces pushed hard into the southern Kandahar Province, traditionally th
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/11/afghanistan_october_2010.html
Geoffrey Crawley, the world-esteemed former editor of British Journal of Photography, has died.
London? Funny? If you are as practiced — and as patient — as Matt Stuart, the answer is yes. Christopher F. Schuetze explains.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/london-very-dry-with-a-twist/
It’s been a long, long time coming, but OnOne has finally gotten around to making an iPad version of its handy DSLR Camera Remote for the iPad. The app, previously available for the iPhone and iPod touch, allows you to remote-view what your SLR sees on th
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/11/dslr-camera-remote-hd-for-ipad/
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Were you lucky enough to attend one of the MLB playoff games this month? Then you’ll want to check out TagOramic, a nifty feature on MLB.com that was built to celebrate the Fall Classic. Over the course of the playoffs, MLB has taken some absolutely massi
via TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/29/mlbs-tagoramic-lets-you-stare-into-the-face-of-each-and-every-fan-at-the-world-series/
A lot of people who make pictures have said some version of this: “Nothing was happening, there was nothing to photograph’; or more specifically, “I couldn’t make an interesting picture because nothing was happening.”
That’s generally a copout
Link: Making pictures of nothing? – Blog – Picture Editor : Photography Consultant : Mentor : Mike Davis
It’s hard for me not to sound a bit overzealous about the GH2 and these two new lenses. I was predisposed toward the GH1, and now with the GH2 Panasonic has mostly fixed those few deficiencies that the GH1 had
Link: Panasonic GH2 First Look
via: dvafoto
In covering narcotics trafficking and use, photographers work hard to bring back pictures that almost never show their subjects’ faces.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/when-drugs-ruled-new-york-streets/
Getty Images and photographer Stefano de Luigi have teamed up to create a brilliantly hillarious parody of the worst journalistic stereotypes and cliches about Africa, something that they call (with tongue firmly planted in cheek) “T.I.A — This is Africa
via John Edwin Mason: Documentary, Motorsports, Photo History: http://johnedwinmason.typepad.com/john_edwin_mason_photogra/2010/10/getty-.html
TRAILER ” WOMEN ARE HEROES” from SOCIAL ANIMALS on Vimeo.
via: Women are Heroes: a new film of concerned photography by JR – lens culture photography weblog
Shots of battle from the war in Iraq in 2006, taken by the photographer Joao Silva, helped lead to a Bronze Star for a brave Marine sergeant who saved a fallen Marine’s life.
via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/courage-recognized-joao-silva-in-combat/
InMenlo.com – Daily News and Features about Menlo Park and Atherton California
via InMenlo.com: http://inmenlo.com/2010/10/28/inmenlo-founder-chris-gulker-mar-10-1951-oct-27-2010