Opinion | No Afghan Ally Left Behind
How to learn from our failure to help our Vietnamese friends.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/31/opinion/31topping.html?_r=1
How to learn from our failure to help our Vietnamese friends.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/31/opinion/31topping.html?_r=1
Do festivals like Pitchfork and Lollapalooza have the right to restrict photography in a public park?
via Chicago Reader: http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/pitchfork-lollapalooza-photography-public-property-laws/Content?oid=2165520
Aditya Mukherjee is a talented 24-year-old photographer of Indian descent currently living in Singapore. He is a serious enthusiast of long standing whose pictures are clearly of professional caliber. No matter what camera he uses, his luminous, exquisitely composed images have that classic “Leica look” and we were not at all surprised to learn that his favorite photographer is the great photojournalist Sebastiao Salgado. An inveterate Leica fan, Mukhergee has often rented Leica cameras and lenses, but doesn’t own one quite yet. His dream outfit is a Leica M9 with 24mm, 35mm, and 50mm lenses. Clearly a photographer with a social conscience, he is currently working on a themed project called simply “poverty.” Here are his heartfelt observations on his mission, his technique, and his equipment as revealed in his thoughtful answers to our interviewer’s questions.
Link: Aditya Mukherjee: Insightful Eye on India and Beyond « The Leica Camera
There’s been a lot of talk about the danger posed by WikiLeaks’s disclosure of tens of thousands of military documents from Afghanistan. But so far, our cyber-sleuths aren’t seeing a lot of chatter on the Takfiri side of the internet. One notable exceptio
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/insurgent-leader-on-wikileaks-now-you-tell-us/
You’d think that alone would be enough to keep people away but this is Vietnam and it is sweltering. My local neighbors swim in the water every day after school. The boys will gather on large concrete beams extending out into the water and take turns diving in.
Back in May, we took a look at a ShutterSnitch, an iPad app that lets you receive photos wirelessly from your camera. Combined with an Eye-Fi wireless SD card, you can shoot away and have the photos pop up on the big screen in seconds. It’s like shooting
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/shuttersnitch-and-eye-fi-wireless-camera-tethering-for-ipad/
The War Logs represent a different kind of collaboration — between traditional organizations and WikiLeaks, a source that is itself a publisher.
via Media Decoder Blog: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/behind-war-logs-a-new-kind-of-alliance/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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Now comes another case in which a photographer has accused AFP of stripping his credit off an image (shown here) that happens to show Barack Obama’s Chicago residence, and distributing the photo to third parties without the permission.
Don’t study this picture too closely or you may come under suspicion, too.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/behind-47/
From Brussels, to a bunker, to blockbusters
via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/the_story_behind_the_publicati.php?page=all
Bill Turnage, managing director of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust, said: “It’s an unfortunate fraud. It’s very distressing.” via Telegraph.
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/07/28/ansel-adams-discovery-sparks-row-as-family-say-negatives-are-fakes-telegraph/
Courts have long ruled that the First Amendment protects the right of citizens to take photographs in public places. Even after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, law enforcement agencies have reiterated that right in official policies.
But in practice, those rules don’t always filter down to police officers and security guards who continue to restrict photographers, often citing authority they don’t have. Almost nine years after the terrorist attacks, which ratcheted up security at government properties and transportation hubs, anyone photographing federal buildings, bridges, trains or airports runs the risk of being seen as a potential terrorist.
Link: Freedom of photography: Police, security often clamp down despite public right
Less than three weeks after the Times paywall went up, data shows a massive decline in web traffic. By Josh Halliday
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/20/times-paywall-readership
Spencer Platt had never covered the Tour de France before. But he brought plenty of experience to the assignment, Merrill D. Oliver reports.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/assignment-41/
An archive of classified U.S. military logs spanning six years, more than 91,000 documents, and 200,000 pages, was today made available by WikiLeaks. The papers show a picture of the war in Afghani…