During this period he got his famous photo of Joplin backstage, slouched on a couch with a bottle of Southern Comfort cradled in her hands.
“Some people said I shouldn’t have published that picture of her lying back, with the bottle in her hand, but I’ll defend it to the death,” he once said. “People said her legs looked too fat. But Janis said, ‘Hey, that’s a great shot because it’s how it is sometimes. Lousy.’”
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SwankoLab is an image editing app for the iPhone and iPod that features a complete darkroom simulator with chemicals, timers, and the whole shebang.
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In the last decade, the photo industry has pivoted from an economy of wealth and abundance to an economy of fear. It is not so much about talent, creativity or effectiveness anymore, as it is about who can scare the other into submission.
Link: Thoughts of a Bohemian » Blog Archive » The only thing we have to fear….
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Emilio Morenatti, Honored and Recovered
Emilio Morenatti will resume his career at The Associated Press, with a top prize from the National Press Photographers Association.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/behind-41/
This has been the week for Emilio Morenatti.
And, surely, he has earned a good week. On assignment with The Associated Press in southern Afghanistan last August, Mr. Morenatti was badly injured when a vehicle in which he was riding was struck by a roadside bomb. Andi Jatmiko, an A.P. videographer, and two soldiers from the Army’s Fifth Stryker Brigade were also injured in the blast. One of those soldiers crawled out of the vehicle and applied a tourniquet to Mr. Morenatti. All four were then evacuated by helicopter.
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The Los Angeles Documentary Project was one of the most ambitious of all the photography surveys supported by the NEA. In addition to including more photographers (eight) than any of the other Greater L.A. surveys, Los Angeles presented a larger subject than any of the other NEA-supported surveys of cities. The application noted that the project would be “a visual examination of the sociological and topographical diversity of one of the most dynamic and unusual cities in the world.” In their application for an NEA Photography Survey Grant, the directors of the survey were aware that Los Angeles signified more than just itself, and called Los Angeles “the ultimate city of our age.” The description goes on to address the importance of understanding what Los Angeles had become by the 1970s:
Link: MARK RICE: “Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s” (2005)
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Marty Lederhandler of The Associated Press — “I never want to stop saying that,” he declared on his retirement — was there on June 6, 1944, and on Sept. 11, 2001, and on a remarkable number of occasions in between. (Including Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller’s honeymoon flight to Venezuela.)
Link: Marty Lederhandler Dies; At D-Day and 9/11 – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
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RACHEL HULIN: You’re right that I like to photograph moments from my own life; I generally have a camera with me whenever I’m at a family function or away for a weekend with friends, and sort of lie in wait for a moment to capture. There are beautiful and unexpected things happening all the time and I like to try to record some of them. It’s funny how these have sort of created a diary for me now; there’s my roommate in my very first apartment in New York, there’s my mom in the hot tub when she was just getting hair back after chemo.
Link: Rachel Hulin, the “Blog Stewardess,” joins Wonderful Machine / Wonderful Machine Photography Blog
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Out of the Dark
Preface: I don’t think I’ve ever written a purely emotional, purely personal post on my blog. Today is going to be different, and I’m going to fully give in to my ADD and just let…
via PhotoDino: http://photodino.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/out-of-the-dark/
It’s a bittersweet day for me. Today I pack up my darkroom for the foreseeable future. It’s like burying my best friend and hoping he will breathe again someday.
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Ray Potes recently took some time to answer some questions about Hamburger Eyes as well as his own photography.
Link: Through Their Lens: Ray Potes of Hamburger Eyes – CALIBER
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Losing It
The former editor of House & Garden describes how she was laid off — and learned to love life again.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/magazine/28fasttrack-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The folding of the magazine was ruthless. Without warning, our world collapsed. No one was expecting it, though with five publishers in 10 years, we had our share of turmoil. I came to work on a Monday in 2007, went to the corporate offices for a meeting, had a different meeting, got the news and was told to have everything packed up by Friday. Security guards were immediately posted by the doors.
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A quick report on the Olympus EPL
Austin, Texas Portrait Photographer’s Blog about Photography, Art and Writing by Kirk Tuck.
There is something absolutely exhilarating about shooting wonderful images with a camera that cost 1/10th the amount I paid for a Nikon D2x in 2005.
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Marty Lederhandler, an Associated Press photographer who captured on film every U.S. president from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton, covered the D-Day landing in 1944 and climaxed a 66-year career with an iconic shot of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, has died. He was 92.
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Ask Anything – Copying Other Artists – A Photo Editor
Former Art Buyers and current photography consultants Amanda Sosa Stone and Suzanne Sease have agreed to take anonymous questions from photographers and not only give their expert advice but put it out to a wide range of photographers, reps and art buyers
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/03/26/ask-anything-copying-other-artists/
It is of course quite possible that two like minded people come up with a similar idea at the same time, or within a recent time frame, but surely as an informed practitioner, you have a responsibility to do your research or at least credit the inspiration in some manner. Perhaps I’m being pathetic.
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rijasolo – miverina
[slidepress gallery=’rijasolo_miverina’] Hover over the image for full screen and navigation controls Rijasolo Miverina, back to Madagascar play multimedia “If you don’t know whe…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/03/rijasolo-miverina/
These images speak of my return to the country of my roots, Madagascar, back over on the other side of the world. It was bound to happen one day, after 20 years of absence… I was bound to feel the desire to go back one day, like an obsession to rediscover what I had forgotten, and confront my imagination with a country – a real living nation. I felt the desire to reinvent an identity after all those years of diasporic existence. These images are the result of my wanderings and meetings on “Grande Ile”. I have tried to show something of my intimate relationship with this country, the Malagasies, their daily life, and the rhythms of their existence. Yet these images also speak of distance. They show violence in my incapacity to be totally assimilated to this Ancestral Land, and violence in the idea of being a resolute foreigner in my native country. Photography is my pretext for learning again and understanding what it is to “be Malagasy”.
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Some of the most gripping images in “Road to Freedom” went unseen for decades. Pictures showing a mob attacking and setting fire to a bus carrying Freedom Riders in Anniston, Ala., are chilling in their step-by-step precision. Yet they were locked away in the files of a law firm.
Link: Civil Rights Battles, in Black and White – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
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very excited to announce the launch of Photo Brigade’s newest regional blogs: Ohio, Missouri, and Rochester!
Link: The Photo Brigade » Ohio, Missouri & Rochester, oh my! – by Robert Caplin
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I have fought hard to own all or most of my images that I have produced over the past 20 plus years. The older I get the more and more I grow to appreciate Marshall and what he stood for. This man fought hard for everything he had, and no way in Hell was he ever going to let anyone fuck with him or his pictures.
Link: Jim Marshall was a bad ass :: Mangin Photography Archive
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Leica M8 firmware update in early May – Leica Rumors
I received a tip that the next Leica M8 firmware update will be released in early May, 2010. My understanding is that this will be the last firmware update for the M8 model – as far as I remember Stefan Daniel mention that in one of the Leica videos when
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