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Coalition of Mavens – Find your maven
Do you look away from images of real-life horror, or look closer? A series of shocking photographs from Somalia asks disturbing questions about the ethics of bearing witness
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/mar/08/world-press-photo-sean-ohagan
A couple years ago I had heard rumored that the eccentric Japanese publisher Kazuhiko Motomura was working on a special “book” on Robert F…
Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2010/03/robert-frank-81-contact-sheets.html
Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You’ve got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate.
Link: AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: “Walker Evans with Students” (1974)
Photographer Casey Templeton showed me some of the amazing responses he received from a promo he did recently and I thought you might want to hear more about what went into it. You can see more behind the scenes images and a video about it on his blog (he
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/03/09/cool-photographer-promo-lands-serious-interest-from-clients/
Jake Adelstein is the author of Tokyo Vice, a new book that chronicles the author’s crazy adventures as a crime reporter for Japan’s largest newspaper. During his 12 years at Yomiuri Sh…
Rather than put out a laundry list of ugly contract language, I have decided that it would be most beneficial to take one clause and dissect it in plain English. If this were an anatomy class, this exercise would be similar to looking at one organ rather than an entire system. It is by no means exhaustive and doesn’t account for the entirety of the contract. However, for purposes of sticking to the broad topic of intellectual property and the photographer, it gets pretty close to helping us look for those places where a contract should address those four big things we talked about in the last post
Link: Legal Left, Meet Creative Right –A Dissection | Luceo Images
travel photographer
Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/03/peter-turnley-williams-club-nyc.html
For more than seven years, Mariella Furrer has been involved with a project so draining, Kerri MacDonald reports, that she has had to seek medical help.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/showcase-134/
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published the Apple iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, a secretive document that requires its signatories to agree to a gag order on the terms of the…
The FROM THE POCKET project features the iPhone Photography of Chicago-based photographer, Jeremy Edwards. All of the images featured in this portfolio were captured using Apple’s second-generation iPhone and Apple’s iPhone 3Gs cameras. Images were processed using various iPhone photography applications only.
Link: Jeremy Edwards
As Lord Snowdon approaches his 80th birthday, Elizabeth Grice meets the spirited photographer and former husband of Princess Margaret.
via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/7368664/Lord-Snowdon-Taking-photographs-is-a-very-nasty-thing-to-do.html
Moises Saman, a freelance photographer for The New York Times, arrived there just after United States Marines had secured the district center. Traveling with Taimoor Shah, a Times correspondent and translator who is based in Kandahar, Mr. Saman was working independently from the military, unembedded, seeking to document conditions since the offensive.
Link: On Assignment: A Perilous Route to Marja – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
So you’re thinking about making a Print-On-Demand book but you don’t know which company to use, or whether it’s going to be worth the money….
Link: http://sharpernewyork.blogspot.com/2009/07/print-on-demand-book-test-results.html
Copyright law, litigation, civil procedure and fine art for lawyers.
Link: http://copyrightlitigation.blogspot.com/2010/03/sculpture-history-copyright.html
Panasonic continues to tear a hole through the high-end camera market with an update to its original Micro Four Thirds camera, the G1. In fact, there are two new bodies and one new lens. Both the G2 and G10 share the same body and 12.1 MP sensor with the
THE DOCUMENTS OF A PHOTOJOURNALIST Last April, San Francisco’s Superior Court played host to legal wrangling between the San Francisco Police Department and a young aspiring photojournalist. …
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/alex-welsh-the-sfpd-shield-law-and-the-responsibilities-of-a-photojournalist/