The cartoonist talks about his new book, heart surgery on a shoestring budget, and how he broke The New Yorker’s ban on phallic humor.
via Mother Jones: http://motherjones.com/media/2010/05/dan-clowes-comics-cartoons-interview?page=1
The cartoonist talks about his new book, heart surgery on a shoestring budget, and how he broke The New Yorker’s ban on phallic humor.
is there anything better than a childhood dream? 9 year old Gracie Johnson dreams of becoming a photographer….she lives now in the Virginia town where i also dreamed of being a photographer …
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2010/05/of-trees-and-dreams/
so here at Burn we are creating Circus Magazine for photographers under 18 and young Gracie will of course be a candidate photographer, and we are also working in the kindred spirit of her physician father Capt. Johnson and will be using the fee many of you contributed as part of the EPF grant award for Burn to send approximately $6,000. to Doctors Without Borders specifically to be used for Haitian relief efforts….
“It’s like a modern Aladdin’s Lamp, you rub it and, in this case the camera, you push the button and it gives you the things you want.”
Click to Play (Right Click & Save to Download): “Weegee” MP3 by Weegee, 1958.
From the 1958 LP “Famous Photogr
via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/05/interview-famous-photographers-tell-how.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28AMERICANSUBURBX%29
The subject is news photography. This was the most wonderful experience for any man or woman to go through. It’s like a modern Aladdin’s Lamp, you rub it and, in this case the camera, you push the button and it gives you the things you want. News photography teaches you to think fast, to be sure of yourself, self confidence. When you go out on a story, you don’t go back for another sitting. You gotta get it.
Burning Man is trying to figure out how to respond to the revolution in digital photography. Old timers will tell you that cameras weren’t much in evidence in the early years of the event. But now you can’t help but…
via Burning Man Journal: http://blog.burningman.com/photosvideosmedia/cameras-at-burning-man-policies-for-the-digital-age/
Last week, the organization gathered photographers, videographers, artists, event leaders, legal experts, technologists and just plain good thinkers to explore the ramifications of the digital revolution. Are Burning Man’s policies and procedures still up to the task of protecting privacy, preventing commercialization while still nurturing the creative image-making process?
Get Squared This is a leak from an unnamed camera manufacturer about square sensors. We have heard in the past that the 1Ds Mark IV would have a square CMOS
via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2010/05/the-cmos-sensor-squared-cr2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+canonrumors%2Frss+%28Canon+Rumors%29
We have heard in the past that the 1Ds Mark IV would have a square CMOS sensor. Most people dismissed it as poppycock.
Rosalind Solomon may be one of the most interesting photographers you’ve never heard of.
Hers is a bold, humanistic and highly personal view of the world, deftly executed in square format using black-and-white film. Through images like “Catalín Valentine’s Lamb, Ancash, Peru, 1981,” Ms. Solomon confronts our pre-existing ideas. She challenges us with a subversion of the Madonna archetype that is simultaneously nurturing and for some, macabre.
Link: Rosalind Solomon’s Singular Journey – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
CLICK NOTE: Definitely worth watching. If you’re busy fast forward to the dances.
via: Robert Popper: The end of an era
Whenever I received such an assignment from my boss at the Sun-Tattler, Rick Shaw (who now directs Pictures of the Year International based out of the Missouri School of Journalism), he would always say the same thing. ‘The event is not sacred.’
What did he mean? He meant that he wanted his photographers to look beyond the obvious. He wanted us to bring back story-telling images from the fringes.
Link: Paying forward a little advice for the budding photojournalist | PICTURES | STLtoday
WHEN pioneering Scottish photojournalist Grace Robertson nervously submitted her first set of photographs to Picture Post magazine, she did so under a male pseudonym.
Link: Interview: Grace Robertson – Photojournalist – Scotsman.com Living
A few weeks ago, after visiting with the Sellers family in Columbus I traveled down to Athens where I decided to catch up with the other primary family I focused on at the beginning of this project.
Link: In My Back Yard: Carry Me Ohio, Part II | Luceo Images
There is always a certain tension in my work which draws the viewer into what is hidden beneath the surface. My intention was to show a real side of human nature, to expose a side of childhood that is not care-free or clichéd, and project a range of emotions and definitions which are part of an imperfect world.
Portland currently has one major professional team, the Portland Trail Blazers. Each season since moving to Portland in 2000, I have been assigned a handful of games each season. The games were assigned to the photographer working the night shift on game day. For the first several years, I would request for some sort of behind-the-scenes access from the team, but was denied. I tried asking over and over and was met with the same response: No.
I wanted to change that answer. The approach I decided on would take an investment of both time and a little money.
Hasselblad just chose Chicago photographer Saverio Truglia to test out their new H4D-40 camera, post the images and blog about it on their site for the month of May.
Link: Saverio’s Guest Bloggin’ For Hasselblad / Wonderful Machine Photography Blog
A surprising and exciting set of images from Carl de Keyzer, a photographer whose work has always challenged and fascinated me, particularly since he produced the wonderful God Inc. Now come a set of images of the Congo that are lovely for their sharp contrast to the conventional ‘dark Africa’ depictions of the pathologies and struggles there.
Link: Carl de Keyzer Travels To Congo And Finds A People, A History And Consequences « The Spinning Head
Live in New York? Got a hankering to try out the “coveted” Leica M9 for a few hours? Got a credit card robust enough to take a big hit if something goes wrong? Then you’re in luck! Leica has teamed up with the New York Photo Festival to offer the Leica Ph
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/05/leica-will-lend-you-an-m9-this-weekend-in-nyc/
Leica has teamed up with the New York Photo Festival to offer the Leica Photo Scavenger Hunt this coming weekend.
Sample from the Thomas Boyd Aperture 3 Advanced Adjustments Video from Mac Creative Network on Vimeo.
via: New Video: Advanced Adjustments Video with Thomas Boyd – Thomas Boyd Photography
I am infinitely fascinated by portraiture, and I decided to continue my little quest, trying to find out what made some portraits great, so I asked a different group of people the same question: “What makes a good portrait? Could you provide us with an example of a portrait that you really like – either from your or someone else’s work – and say why the portrait works so well for you?” Here is what I got back.
Link: Conscientious Extended | What Makes A Great Portrait? (cont’ed)