The iPad is retrograde. It tries to turn us back into an audience again. That is why media companies and advertisers are embracing it so fervently, because they think it returns us all to their good old days when we just consumed, we didn’t create, when they controlled our media experience and business models and we came to them. The most absurd, extreme illustration is Time Magazine’s app, which is essentially a PDF of the magazine (with the odd video snippet). It’s worse than the web: we can’t comment; we can’t remix; we can’t click out; we can’t link in, and they think this is worth $4.99 a week. But the pictures are pretty.
To piggyback on the New York Times article from last week (our post on it is here), the Guardian weighs in on the challenge professionals photographers are facing from the surge of amateurs in rece…
At long last, Data Robotics has made a networked version of its very popular redundant storage hard drive bay. The Drobo FS is essentially an empty box you plug into your router and fill with hard drives. It is then accessible to any other computer on the
The National Press Photographers Association’s general counsel has filed NPPA’s comments with the New York City Police Department’s Legal Bureau regarding the NYPD’s proposed rule changes about the process for issuing city press credentials, one-time event credentials, and defining who is eligible to receive an NYPD press pass.
CHARLOTTE, NC – AUGUST 24: 3-Time Olympian Scott Shipley of the USA paddles down the rapids during the official training session for the US Slalom Kayaking Championships on August 24, 2006 in…
Christoph Bangert shares photographs from his recent reporting trip to Kandahar, perhaps some of the last photos to be taken by a Western photographer in the city, which is bracing for a major offensive in the coming months.
Update, 9pm PT: The US military has issued a statement on the massacre investigation (6.52MB PDF). An update on that video released earlier today by Wikileaks, which shows US occupying forces shoot…
Thirty-year-old photographer,Thomas Prior, lives and works in Brooklyn. He received a BFA in Photography from SVA in 2002 and was recently included in PDN’s 30.
So when I saw Bill Wadman’s 365 Portrait project, I realized what a huge undertaking it was for him to make a portrait a day for an entire year. That got me thinking about what I could do and I came up with the idea of making a portrait a day for 30 days of total strangers. 30 portraits in 30 days of 30 people I had never met before.
Because the seed of this project came from Bill, I thought it would be great to interview him while I’m doing the 30 Strangers project again and ask him about his own process, his reason for doing it, what he learned, and other such things. He graciously agreed. And so, here is an interview
You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll marvel at the wonders of the circus world recorded by Frederick W. Glasier. Shane Dixon Kavanaugh stopped in at the big top.
by Daryl Peveto | I am on the road for three weeks with the Tea Party Express. Sabine Meyer of TIME Magazine was kind enough to send me out for the the first leg in Searchlight, NV
This week we’ll take a look at a couple of incarnations of the Work for Hire beast and try to play a game of follow-the-bouncing-ball to see where the photographer’s rights go when the song comes to an end.
Before all the iPad buzz has even had a chance to fizzle, Apple this morning sent e-mails inviting press to a sneak preview of the next-generation iPhone operating system. The event is scheduled for Thursday, 10 a.m. PT at Apple headquarters. Apple has no
I’d like to warn you that this footage has a relatively tight field of vision, and is quite a bit more graphic than some bombs-bursting style aerial attack video you may have seen before. Also seems worth noting that the pilots, if WikiLeaks’s annotations are correct, confused the camera held by Namir Noor-Eldeen, the 22-year-old photographer killed that day, for an rocket propelled grenade.
It was either Beierle or Keijser (one of the Mrs. Deane halflings) who emailed and pointed out Simon Menner’s photographic series Objects – 2010. Typology is a trendy term that gets ba…
For anyone who loves great documentary photography — here’s its future – the four student winners, first place and three awards of excellence, from the White House News Photographers Association, whose annual gala dinner is in D.C. May 15.
I was curious to see how the new iPad from Apple will handle compressed DNG files from the M9. I transferred 84 photos (each 18.3MB in size) via iTunes and the results are illustrated in the video below – I did not see any delay rendering the pictures wha
This week showcases Andrew Bush’s series, Vector Portraits. Project description, courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery: “Begun in 1989, Andrew Bush’s series Vector Portraits was taken while the artist drove the city streets and freeways of Los Angeles. Either stopped in traffic or traveling at speeds of 20 to 70 miles per hour, the artist took portraits of other drivers using a medium-format roll-film camera and flash attached to the passenger side door of his car. Extended titles note particulars of speed, location or time with scientific precision while leaving other details unclear, such as “Man traveling southbound at 67 mph on U.S. Route 101 near Montecito, California, at 6:31 p.m. on or around Sunday, August 28, 1994”.”