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
Narelle Autio describes in this Floor Talk podcast how she hit on the idea for her new project and how her family got involved despite the growing stench of rotting sealife in her garden shed.
Photographer Melissa Lyttle explores interesting lives.
For the past 2 years I have visited a beautiful mound of earth that I have come to call “the hill.” Each time I have come to the hill a new story is told to me as if the hill is my stage and the locals are the actors in this daily play.
Myriam Abdelaziz could not stop thinking about the Rwandan genocide of 1994. So she set out in 2007 to meet those who had survived.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/showcase-143/
As a teenager in Cairo 16 years ago, Myriam Abdelaziz was haunted by images of the Rwandan genocide.
She had trouble comprehending the scope of the massacres, seeing them in photographs and on television. An estimated 800,000 people were killed by the Hutu, most of them Tutsi or Hutu moderates, many of them butchered with machetes.
Mr. Marshall was a photographer whose images of Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones and others in the 1960s and ’70s helped define their subjects as well as rock ’n’ roll photography itself.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/arts/music/25marshall.html?partner=TOPIXNEWS&ei=5099
Annie Leibovitz once called him “the rock ’n’ roll photographer.”
With an imposing figure and gruff, forceful personality, Mr. Marshall was something of a rock star himself, and musicians respected him as much for his pictures as for his dedication to getting them. Yet he saw his work largely in photojournalistic terms, capturing a natural scene instead of staging an artificial one.
“When I’m photographing people, I don’t like to give any direction,” he wrote in the introduction to his 1997 retrospective book, “Not Fade Away.” “There are no hair people fussing around, no make-up artists. I’m like a reporter, only with a camera; I react to my subject in their environment, and, if it’s going well, I get so immersed in it that I become one with the camera.”
By Ctein I’m feeling mildly discombobulated. I just found out an hour ago that Jim Marshall died in his sleep last night (Tuesday night) in his hotel room in New York City; he was there for another show opening and…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/03/artists-aint-saints-jim-marshall-19362010.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29
Practically the first thing Jim told me was to make a print for myself of anything I printed for him and he’d sign it. For all I know, my collection of Jim Marshall prints is worth more than everything he paid me over the last decade. He could alternate between being ridiculously tightfisted and incredibly generous. Mess with his intellectual property rights and he would go for your throat, literally and legally. Lots of people tried to rip him off, sometimes people who should know better like major magazines and television networks, sometimes just people who thought they could get away with putting a photograph of his on a T-shirt. Jim made a lot of money off of the many people who tried to rip him off. But ask Jim for something, almost anything, and if he didn’t think you were out to rip him off, he’d say yes.
Jackanory Films presents a Jim Marshall show and tell from andrew hetherington on Vimeo.
I recorded his show and tell on my point and shoot and have reposted the video in its entirety below. If you havent seen it or heard Jim speak before its well worth a look see. The stories and indeed his life and the way he lead it are priceless.
Link: Jim Marshall RIP – wtj
Marshall summed up his rapport with rock stars best when talking about Joplin: “You could just call her at home and be like, ‘We have to take some pictures,’ and she’d say, ‘OK! Come over!’ She trusted me and knew I had her best interests at heart. I only wanted to make her look good.”
Link: Jim Marshall, Legendary Rock Photographer, Passes Away at 74 : Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
Jim Marshall died today. That name might not mean much to lots of folks, even photographic folks, but we are all the poorer for his passing. He was an iconic shooter of the rock and
via Joe McNally’s Blog: http://www.joemcnally.com/blog/2010/03/24/jims-gone/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+joemcnally+%28Joe+McNally%27s+Blog%29
Has anyone ever shot a memorable picture of, for instance, Coldplay? From what I hear from a serious distance, this is a band, like many, who has left the term “control freak” in the rear view mirror. Absolute control of image, and images. I guess that’s understandable. It’s a business. Good music, to be sure. Sanitized, moderated imagery. Will we look in 20 years? Will that retouched, altered image hit a nerve?
Gallery owner David Fahey, who co-authored Not Fade Away with Marshall, says, “Jim had an intuitive way of getting to the heart and soul of his subjects. He was there at a special time for our generation. He recorded the best people and took the best pictures of them.”
Link: Rock and Roll Photographer Jim Marshall Has Died, Age 74
Her essay, which appeared in the Los Angeles Times in November as a front-page story that continued to a double-truck spread inside the paper and appeared on the paper’s Web site as both a multimedia feature and a flat gallery, documented the lives of more than 8,000 Navajo Indians who live on a 1.6 million acre tract of tribal land in northeastern Arizona
Link: Barbara Davidson Wins Cliff Edom’s “New America Award”
“Jim’s work is legendary,” he said. “As far as music photographers, he is the godfather.”
A photographer who took some of the most famous images of rock and pop musicians.
via ArtsBeat: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/jim-marshall-photographer-of-rock-stars-dies/?partner=rss&emc=rss
Jim Marshall, a photographer who took some of the most famous images of rock and pop musicians, including Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar aflame at the Monterey International Pop Festival and Johnny Cash at San Quentin prison, died on Tuesday night in a hotel in New York. He was 74.
Judges in NPPA’s 2010 Best Of Photojournalism competition have picked winners in the Domestic News Picture Story, International News Picture Story, Enterprise Picture Story (Large Markets) and (Small Markets), Environmental Picture Story, and Non-Traditional Photojournalism Publishing categories during their fourth day of judging at the contest’s host site, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg.
Link: Best Of Photojournalism: Judges Pick Picture Story Winners
For 70 years, this picture has been used to tell the same story – of inequality, class division, “toffs and toughs”. As an old Etonian closes in on Downing Street, it is being trotted out again. But what was the real story behind it? Ian Jack investigates …
Link: FIVE BOYS: THE STORY OF A PICTURE | More Intelligent Life
via: The Online Photographer: The Story of a Picture by Ian Jack
Shot with his iPhone using a Polaroid film filter app, the images simulate the classic look and feel of Polaroids. The washed out colors and soft focus lend the series a dreamy, remembrance-of-things-past feel that makes the images compelling, and in some cases, beautiful. Which raised the question: is this a case of style and form obscuring content?
Link: PDNPulse: Stylized Photojournalism: Where to Draw the Line?