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
Panasonic continues to tear a hole through the high-end camera market with an update to its original Micro Four Thirds camera
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/
Legally, this is a very interesting story and ethically it is quite troublesome. Obviously, we don’t know the exact nature of Welsh’s digital files from Friday April 17th. We don’t know if his images held information pertinent to the case. Whether he did or not is of no consequence if you look at this case from only a legal argument position.
Reporters have always kept an eye on other reporters. But in the Internet age of instant publishing, what if watching your competitor becomes your whole story?
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/business/media/08carr.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Reporters have always kept an eye on other reporters. For a journalist, the only thing more interesting than what you are working on is what your competitor is working on.
But what if watching your competitor becomes your whole story?
In the exhibition “Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc,” the photographer plays with stereotypes by placing Moroccan women in scenes from Orientalist paintings.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/nyregion/07artsnj.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Lalla Essaydi is a Moroccan-born, New York-based photographer who has risen to prominence for her beautiful, striking imagery dealing with the role of women in Islamic societies.
Parisian guerilla photographer JR aims to put a human face to the most impoverished areas of the world
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/mar/07/street-art-jr-photography
From the slums of Kenya to the Paris banlieues, the guerilla photographer JR aims to put a human face to the most impoverished areas of the world. Just don’t ask him who he is
Pop Pluralism is the skateboarding, graffiti-tagging, sometimes bratty and rebellious younger sibling of the art shown in most Chelsea galleries.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/arts/design/07lowbrow.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Unlike Pop Art, which drew on similar sources to comment on art and culture, “for this generation, who grew up on TV, pop-culture imagery is their language,” Mr. LeVine said. “Their culture is pop culture.”
There is something I absolutely love about sketchy motel rooms. I know that’s not a normal way to begin a paragraph, but it’s true, I love them.
“Every Sunday at my house we had … dinner early … and watched The Ed Sullivan Show. Whether we wanted to or not. Whether we enjoyed it or not. That was my first lesson in show business. I don’t think…
via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/03/the-late-night-hosts-before-they-were-big.html
NBC President Fred Silverman was so impressed with David’s performance that an exclusivity contract was penned soon after. Silverman started brainstorming immediately. An afternoon show was conceived called Leave it to Dave. “The whole project was just a disaster,” says Letterman, “I was supposed to sit on a throne and the set was all pyramids. The walls were all covered in shag carpet … At one point I was in New York and I got a phone call from the West Coast. They said, ‘We’ve come up with a great idea. Your guests will all sit around on pillows.’ And I hung up the phone and I turned to my manager, Jack Rollins, and I said, ‘This moron wants us to sit on pillows. What’s the matter with chairs?’ You could just see the elements kind of – I hate to say it was like dominoes toppling, but it was like dominoes toppling.”
Jan Koster devoted himself to one simple activity for a whole summer: he observed women´s private everyday life in the building opposite for several hours a day from the window of his Amsterdam apartment
Link: lenscratch: Jan Koster
The monthly guide to the 20 best photographic exhibitions and books with photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Don McCullin, Eugene Richards, Irving Penn, Paul Graham, Simon Roberts, and many more
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/interactive/2010/mar/06/photography-exhibitions-new-review
The monthly guide to the 20 best photographic exhibitions and books with photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Don McCullin, Eugene Richards, Irving Penn, Paul Graham, Simon Roberts, and many more
Colin Pantall’s blog about photography, writing, art and politics
Link: http://colinpantall.blogspot.com/2010/03/yann-gross-and-african-skateboarders.html
It’s the first east African skate park, and as a skateboarder I was fascinated by the community that had built up around it. It was constructed entirely by local kids. I ended up staying there for two months; I became friends with them first, and only then I started to take pictures.
travel photographer
Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/03/8th-annual-smithsonian-photo-contest.html
The 8th Annual Smithsonian Photo Contest is scheduled to begin on March 1, 2010. Contestants can enter photographs in five categories—Altered Images, Americana, The Natural World, People and Travel—that represent subjects of special interest to the magazine. Fifty finalists will be selected, ten for each of the five categories.
The entire first page of The Los Angeles Times on Friday was an ad for the film “Alice in Wonderland” that was designed, in part, to look like the front page.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/business/media/06paper.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The entire first page of The Los Angeles Times on Friday was an ad that looked, in part, like the front page of The Los Angeles Times, as the newspaper again tested the accepted limits on where ads can be published and how they can blur the boundary with news.
Vee Speers was born in Australia and has been living in Paris since 1990. Her portraits have been exhibited and published world-wide. Speer’s most recent work ‘The Birthday Party’ is a series of short stories linked by the theme of an imaginary birthday party.
Photographer Jason Hawkes, a frequent contributor to the Big Picture blog, returns today, sharing with us some of his latest images of American cities seen from above at night – New York City and Las Vegas, both cities that undergo significant transformat
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/03/nyc_and_las_vegas_from_above_a.html
Photographer Jason Hawkes, a frequent contributor to the Big Picture blog, returns today, sharing with us some of his latest images of American cities seen from above at night – New York City and Las Vegas, both cities that undergo significant transformations after the sun goes down. From Hawkes: “The images of New York were shot on Nikons latest camera, the D3S, using three gyro stabilizing mounts
I do not want to spend my life testing equipment. I want to make images. My only reason for testing is that I want to know what the best tools are to help me make the best images considering my subject matter and working habits. It is in this vein that I decided to do a comparison between the Hasselblad Multishot system and the PhaseOne system. I am not interested in the Nth degree of scientific and mathematical accuracy. I am interested in practical differences that can have an impact in my photography.
Link: Hasselblad H3D 50 II Multishot Versus Phase One P65+ / 645AF
Lyle Owerko, is not only a talented photographer and a winner of the 2009 Hasselblad Masters Award, but also a humanitarian who is has a lifetime commitment to the people of Sereolipi, Kenya through The Thorn Tree Project.
Link: lenscratch: Lyle Owerko
As an artist or designer, you are passionate and serious about your work. You should be just as serious about learning about copyright, because copyright allows you to protect your work, or to share it with others, if that is your preference. This site, dedicated to the creative spirit, aims to be a source of accurate information, and a corner for debate and dialogue about copyright and other important intellectual property issues
Link: The Copyright Corner
via: PDNPulse: The Copyright Corner: New Online Guide and Forum Launches
A Miserable Old Git has launched CREEP with the following words Among suggested subjects generally embargoed might be: • Women in black weeping over their dead menfolk. • Terrified civilians runnin…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/campaign-for-the-eradication-of-repetitive-photojournalism-creep/
A Miserable Old Git has launched CREEP with the following words
Among suggested subjects generally embargoed might be:
• Women in black weeping over their dead menfolk.
• Terrified civilians running away from trouble in a crouching position.