via The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/snap-judgements-seven-great-photographers-talk-about-their-craft-2124420.html
Anybody can take a snapshot – but what makes a truly extraordinary picture? The world’s greatest living photographers tell Anne-Celine Jaeger how they craft their genre-defining images…
aCurator is proud to present images from the digital exhibition ‘100 Portraits – 100 Photographers: Selections from the FlakPhoto.com Archive’.November 6-13th is Fotoweek DC, and as part of the event, the city of Washington will be transformed into a nigh
via aCurator: http://www.acurator.com/blog/2010/11/100-portraits—100-photographers.html
aCurator is proud to present images from the digital exhibition ‘100 Portraits – 100 Photographers: Selections from the FlakPhoto.com Archive’.
F8magazine online.
via [F8]magazine: http://www.f8mag.com/
Tara Inanloo has taken a series of self-portraits ‘to represent the different Iranian women inside myself’. Now she is in grave danger if she goes back to her country
Not all of the human subjects of documentaries enjoy enduring relationships with the filmmakers. Errol Morris, Andrew Jarecki and other directors explain.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/movies/07lives.html?_r=1
IN 2002, while he was making “Capturing the Friedmans,” his investigation of a notorious child-abuse prosecution on Long Island, the director Andrew Jarecki received a piece of documentary wisdom. “When this is over,” Sheila Nevins, the president of HBO Documentary Films, told him, “you will have had one of the most amazing experiences of your life. You’ll understand your subjects in a way you don’t understand your own family.
“And when the movie comes out, you’ll never talk to them again.”
2010 turned out to be a better year than everyone expected in camera sales. Many companies had a nice bump to their interchangeable lens camera sales (Nikon, Panasonic, Sony, Olympus) while others are still mostly hanging on (Pentax, Samsung, Sigma, etc.). Curiously, 2010 was not a full frame year. Nobody did much of anything other than come out with new FX lenses during the year. We got a lot of APS/DX and m4/3 action, but not a lot else. 2011 will be different. Really.
Link: 2011 Predictions by Thom Hogan
via: Duncan Davidson
The reality is that the Internet loves a riot, and any old riot will do: last week Cooks Resource Roast just happened to be the best show in town.
Link: Cooking Up A Copyright Storm » The Russian Photos Blog
*Cory, bear pelt and fox cod piece, Hawk with bowling ball* My brother and I are leaving on our cross-country journey today. We planning t…
Link: http://thussin.blogspot.com/2010/11/hitting-road-finally.html
My brother and I are leaving on our cross-country journey today. We planning to leave in summer, but the great group of people we’ve met here in Asheville have kept us for several months. Winter is here and we will bike through the cold, despite the cringes from our friends. With our departure, we are launching our Web site where we will host all our short films, photos and musings. We’d love to have all of you follow along.
The Moment caught up with the 55-year-old Corbijn on a recent Tuesday morning at the 60 Thompson Hotel. He was dressed in head-to-toe gray (jeans, sweater, shirt), a look that accentuated his bright blue eyes and silver hair. Corbijn had just flew in from Holland, where he lives in The Hague after a 30-year residency in London. He spoke in a quiet, measured tone, but with an unmistakable passion for his work that mirrors that of his subjects.
Link: Anton Corbijn on his intimate celebrity portraiture – NYTimes.com
via: Saturday 6 November 2010 « P H O T O J O U R N A L I S M L I N K S
Sergei Vasiliev’s photographs of Russian Criminal Tattoos are part of a three part encyclopaedia/archive on the subject. Vasiliev photographed between 1989 and 1993 in prisons and reform sett…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/sergei-vasilievs-photographs-in-the-russian-criminal-tattoo-encyclopaedia/
Sergei Vasiliev‘s photographs of Russian Criminal Tattoos are part of a three part encyclopaedia/archive on the subject. Vasiliev photographed between 1989 and 1993 in prisons and reform settlements across Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Tagil, Perm and St. Petersburg.
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/06/AR2010110603627.html?wprss=rss_world
“It’s a huge relief to know that Tony Tormenta has been eliminated, His gangsters were everywhere,” said a supermarket worker in Reynosa who gave his name as Oscar. “But we’re still worried, because they’ll find another boss, and who knows what the Zetas will do?”
Judging to begin Monday at 9am:
If you are unable to be with us in person, please keep an eye on the judging via the podcasts on the cpoy.org website. We will be updating this blog with behind-the-scenes content from the contest judging period. Check back soon for more updates and make sure to follow @CollegePhoto on Twitter for updates during the judging week.
This Artisan & Artist case for Leica M9 is made out of crocodile leather. A natural dye process is used in order to preserve the leather quality and indigo color. The price is 136,500¥ (over USD 1600). Related posts: New Artisan&Artist leather case for Le
via Leica Rumors: http://leicarumors.com/2010/11/06/this-exotic-leica-m9-case-costs-over-1600.aspx/
If you are unable to be with us in person, please keep an eye on the judging via the podcasts on the cpoy.org website. We will be updating this blog with behind-the-scenes content from the contest judging period. Check back soon for more updates and make sure to follow @CollegePhoto on Twitter for updates during the judging week.
An internet firestorm is brewing over a small New England magazine accused of publishing recipes and articles lifted from the web without permission. The dust-up began when food blogger Monica Gaudio discovered that Cooks Source had published a 6-year-old
But honestly Monica, the web is considered ‘public domain’ and you should be happy we just didn’t ‘lift’ your whole article and put someone else’s name on it! It happens a lot, clearly more than you are aware of, especially on college campuses, and the workplace. If you took offence and are unhappy, I am sorry, but you as a professional should know that the article we used written by you was in very bad need of editing, and is much better now than was originally
[slidepress gallery=’astrada_anthropographia’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Walter Astrada Rape, weapon of war in Eastern…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/11/walter-astrada-rape-weapon-of-war-in-eastern-congo/
In the eastern of The Democratic Republic of Congo, tens of thousands of women and young girls are being raped with impunity and extreme brutality by all sides in the conflict, civilians, militiamen, armed groups, foreign-armed groups and members of the Congolese Army.
Eric Tabuchi, 1959, France, is a true collector. He has released several books amongst which are Alphabet Truck and Twentysix Abandoned Gasoline Stations.
Neighbors, friends and teachers were dropping hints — some subtle, others pointed, even cruel — that something was not right with Timothy Archibald’s first child, Elijah.
Link: Son and Father Pierce Autism’s Veil: The Work of Timothy Archibald – NYTimes.com
APE field reporter Jonathan Blaustein brings us his impressions from the PDN 2010 Photo Plus Expo. Hola. This is the first of several stories I’ll be filing for A Photo Editor about the New York Photo Scene. Rob asked me to fly in to the City to cover the
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/11/05/impressions-from-the-pdn-photo-plus-expo-2010/
PDN was kind enough to grant me a press pass so that I could sit in on the professional seminars and share my findings with you, the APE audience.
One Russian soldier’s account offers a departure point for confronting the ways that war can unravel its participants.
via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/the-diary-of-a-killer-in-chechnya/
Every so often a lengthy newspaper or magazine article arrives that all but demands a fuller and even longer treatment. Such was the case in the Oct 31. issue of The Sunday Times magazine in London, which published translated excerpts from the diary of a Russian spetsnaz officer who served for more than a decade as one of the Kremlin’s shadowy fighters in the Chechen wars.
Just to get the easy part out of the way, there are better photographs being made today than ever before. There are better photographers at work now than in the past. But don’t be surprised if you rarely see their work, or the general audience is numb to the effect of the pictures. This much we all know: we are awash in a sea of images.