At the end of the infamous railroad tracks is a city of red brick and barbed wire fencing. To see it is to gaze into the face of death. The human mind can’t comprehend what more than 1,000,000 murders looks or feels like. Nevertheless, the same number of living people pay homage to the lost souls at Auschwitz-Birkenau every year. Very few venture into the adjacent Polish town.
Link: Danny Ghitis: The Land of Oś, pt. 1 | Pangea Photo Blog
The truth is more difficult: seeing is irrational, inconsistent, and undependable. It is immensely troubled, cousin to blindness and sexuality, and caught up in the threads of the unconscious.
These photographs — spanning 30 years of life in Iran, from the Iranian Revolution in 1979 through the highly contested political elections of 2009 — depict conflict, contradiction, anger, defiance, tenacity, and an overwhelming will to live freely with joy and celebration.
Zed Nelson documents bodily transformations. As Nadia Sussman reports, he thinks they reflect globalization as much as a Starbucks in Beijing.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/showcase-145/
Playing on the conventions of commercial photography, Zed Nelson has explored the reach of the global beauty industry in “Love Me,” an artful catalog of operations and other bodily transformations — some of them practically medieval — in 17 countries on five continents.
iPi — The International Photographer Index at photoeye.com is a visual index of important fine-art and documentary photographers from throughout the world.
It is our mission to become the most focused and useful index and search engine for discovering and exploring fine-art and documentary photography. Unlike all general search engines on the web where pertinent information is buried amidst the less relevant, the iPi search tool focuses only on the art and documentary community of photographers and their work, making it the ideal tool for a discerning audience of curators, gallery directors, publishers, editors, researchers, collectors and all other lovers of art and documentary photography.
The Photography Website Project’s mission is to index all significant websites by internationally renowned and emerging art and documentary photographers.
Link: photo-eye | iPi – The International Photographer Index
Did you know that more expensive gadget break less often? If you answered “Duh, of course,” then congratulations: You have a brain and can likely think and keep you mouth open at the same time. Nevertheless, a new study showing the reliability figures in
Did you know that more expensive gadget break less often? If you answered “Duh, of course,” then congratulations: You have a brain and can likely think and keep you mouth open at the same time. Nevertheless, a new study showing the reliability figures in the digital camera market has some interesting (and non-obvious) results.
Ongoing series of collected photographs from eBay.com depicting televisions for sale.
Link: eBay TV | Steve Or Steven Read
via: VVORK
Link: How “Christ, What an Asshole!” is the Answer to the New Yorker Magazine Caption Contest
via: Boing Boing
“Appalachia! is a national, juried photography exhibition that welcomes artistic, personal, and documentary images of Appalachia. This exhibition serves to promote photographers from across the nation, amateur and professional, and will feature NEW work that provides the viewer with an appreciation of the spirit and rich culture of Appalachia, a region that spans 13 states and diverse landscapes. Work that incorporates any photographic process is eligible for submission.”
Tom Zimberoff and Jim Marshall By Tom Zimberoff I had to buy onions today. I just couldn’t bring myself to write about Jim Marshall, I suppose, until something that ordinary and evocative opened a sluice of memories and tears. Some…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/03/memories-of-marshall.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29
When I stopped shooting years ago, I gave Marshall some bricks of film I had in my fridge. He loved Tri-X. But the last time I saw him, at my own recent exhibition opening, he proudly showed me the new digital Leica M9, engraved with the Jim Marshall moniker, bestowed on him by the German factory moguls. I would like to see the pics he made that night.
Adobe Photoshop Project Manager John Nack previewed the “Content-Aware Fill” feature that will make its way into the Photoshop CS5 later this year. The Content-Aware Fill allows operators to remove parts of the scene without laborious retouching. The implications for image security, watermark removal, and creative expression are enormous.
How should photographers, photo buyers and the industry greet this new technology? And what are its implications, both good and bad?
Link: Wider Angles: Photoshop “Content-Aware Fill” – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
Amateur photographers, happy to accept small checks for snapshots, are underpricing professionals.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/business/media/30photogs.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Mr. Eich and Ms. Pruitt illustrate the huge shake-up in photography during the last decade. Amateurs, happy to accept small checks for snapshots of children and sunsets, have increasing opportunities to make money on photos but are underpricing professional photographers and leaving them with limited career options. Professionals are also being hurt because magazines and newspapers are cutting pages or shutting altogether.
Photographer Sean Flynn, who went went missing in 1970, believed to have been captured and killed in Cambodian war
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/29/cambodia-remains-errol-flynn-son
Photographer Sean Flynn, who went went missing in 1970, believed to have been captured and killed in Cambodian war
Update: The new Nikon rebates are restricted to either the D300s or D700. Same with the SB-900 – in order to get the $100 rebate on the flash you must buy either a D300s or D700. I will have the full details next week (Adorama and B&H are close for a week
A New Yorker article reports that ABC showed footage of an alleged killing in Zambia in the 1990s — and did not inform Zambian authorities about the shooting.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/business/media/29newyorker.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
“We were allowed to accompany patrols in Zambia after we agreed not to identify those involved, should a shooting occur,” Meredith Vieira, who replaced Deborah Amos as the reporter on the project, said in the documentary.
Along with the letter, I enclose an invoice for the use or uses I have discovered. I tell them that I will grant them a “retroactive license’ upon payment of the fee that they would have paid had they contacted me for a license. However, I also clearly state that they must pay the invoice within 10 days and also disclose any and all other uses of my images they may have made.
Link: Wooster Collective: Contra’s “Interactive Gordon Brown” Installation on the South Bank of London
Line2 takes a big step toward a future when cellphone users won’t need to rely on a cellphone carrier’s service.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/technology/personaltech/25pogue.html?src=me&ref=general
Line2 also turns the iPhone into a dual-mode phone. That is, it can make and receive calls either using either the AT&T airwaves as usual, or — now this is the best part — over the Internet. Any time you’re in a wireless hot spot, Line2 places its calls over Wi-Fi instead of AT&T’s network.
