If you’re attending South by Southwest this year, come join Taylor Davidson and myself for a “core conversation” provocatively titled “Everyone Can Be a Professional Photographer.”
Link: Everyone Can Be a Professional Photographer – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
Pentax has gone large with the new 645D medium-format DSLR. The 40MP monster has a 33x44mm sensor to fit all those pixels comfortably, and round the back has the DSLR standard-sized screen, a three-inch, 921,000 dot LCD. For a camera of this type the 645D
Pentax has gone large with the new 645D medium-format DSLR. The 40MP monster has a 33×44mm sensor to fit all those pixels comfortably
As you drive down the road you see the landscape changing leading up to the center of the city, District 1 – the financial district. It’s quite telling of the make up of each section really. On the surface everything is interesting because it is different to me. But it’s the details that bring it all together. The blankets and cart of a homeless man mimics the textures of the buildings across the river. The sound of construction nor the passing traffic phases him. He sleeps engulfed by his possessions.
Link: The Motorbike Diaries: East-West Highway | Luceo Images
Coalition of Mavens – Find your maven
all charges against the photographers were thrown out, but that still doesn’t make up for the fact that they were detained by citizen security guards before being handed over to police who jailed them for 20 hours.
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
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
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
A couple years ago I had heard rumored that the eccentric Japanese publisher Kazuhiko Motomura was working on a special “book” on Robert Frank’s contact sheets from The Americans. That rumor had quieted a bit after Sarah Greenough’s masterwork Looking In seemed to beat it to the punch by reproducing every sheet that had an image that appeared in Frank’s final published edit, but Motomura proceeded anyway and Robert Frank: 81 Contact Sheets from The Americans is out. I have seen it and I have to say it is pretty amazing.
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/
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.
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…
I have a guarantee from someone up high in the Yamaguchi-gumi that they won’t touch my family. Their word is pretty solid. It’s a gentleman’s agreement that they’ll only kill me, which makes me feel better.
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
On March 11th at The Williams Club in New York City, Peter Turnley will step out from behind the camera for a “show and tell” on the images that have made him one of the preeminent photojournalists of our times.
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/
When she’s at work, Mariella Furrer sits on the floor. She doesn’t move, and rarely speaks.
For more than seven years, Ms. Furrer has been involved with a project so draining that she has had to seek medical help. Photographing young victims of sexual abuse in South Africa would be difficult for anyone, but Ms. Furrer, 41, is herself a victim of sexual abuse.
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…
It’s amazing all the ways that the iPhone manages to screw the people that love it: saddling iPhone owners with crappy contracts with abusive mobile companies, limiting their access to programs and forcing them into one-sided EULAs, then screwing the developers with equally abusive agreements.
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
Most photographers try to establish a rapport with their subjects. Lord Snowdon prefers to let them stew a bit. “I’m not a great one for chatting people up because it’s phoney,” he says. “I don’t want people to feel at ease. You want a bit of edge. There are quite long, agonised silences. I love it. Something strange might happen. I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It’s very cruel.”
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
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. Well ASMP has done the groundwork for you. Their great idea was to try eighteen different companies and invite people to review and rate the results.
Copyright law, litigation, civil procedure and fine art for lawyers.
Link: http://copyrightlitigation.blogspot.com/2010/03/sculpture-history-copyright.html
The Gaylord case involves the United States licensing a photograph of a sculpture to use the photograph on a postage stamp. Although the photograph was properly registered as a derivative work of Gaylord’s sculpture, the U.S.P.S. neglected to license the right to use the underlying sculpture itself.
