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Your site will most often, nowadays, be the first way anyone sees your work. If you don’t have a site, you’re in trouble. Get one, and put some thought into it, even if your agency has a great site.
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Jim Merithew profiles David Gilkey, who is leaving the Detroit Free Press for NPR.
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In the way of visual analysis, I offer you the comment of one Zafar Sadik posted at SajaForum in response to last week’s Newsweek cover.
Monthly Archives: October 2007
links for 2007-10-31
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links for 2007-10-30
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We are happy to present, in a special gallery here the 17 winners in four categories (spanning four circulation groups), selected from hundreds of entries. Included are all of the photos from the multiple-image category, as well as a dozen honorable menti
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Amateur photographers looking to chronicle bird life, take snapshots in Times Square or capture the distinctive thrum of New York’s streets will not need to obtain permits or insurance under new rules being proposed by the Bloomberg administration.
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Frank Gohlke is enjoying a retrospective at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas and an accompanying book called Accommodating Nature: The Photography of Frank Gohlke has been co-published by the museum and by the Center for American Places.
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Thanks to Speak, See, Remember for this very strange and interesting find. PhotoQuotes.com is a site, of you guessed it, quotes of well-known (and obscure) photogs
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One of the things that I do with my photography is develop collections. Lots of other photographers build collections of their own. My collections are constantly evolving, but at present there are four things that I am collecting more passionately than ot
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It’s all light years away from my 14-year-old alter ego, hunched over his first indifferent grainy black-and-white image in the school darkroom.
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‘Tourist photographer’ Martin Parr wants to show you what’s really going on in the world’s favourite holiday destinations
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Martine Franck maintains the joy of photographing in black and white is that it allows you to concentrate on an image’s most rewarding aspects – such as composition, shape, texture and expression
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links for 2007-10-28
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John L. Gaunt, a retired Los Angeles Times photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize for his heartbreaking picture of a young couple embracing by the sea after discovering their 19-month-old son had drowned, has died of congestive heart failure. He was 83.
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The Boston Globe is encouraging readers to send in Photoshopped versions of their favorvite Red Sox players for publication on its Website.
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links for 2007-10-27
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Hindu activists and politicians bragged about hacking Muslims to death and burning their bodies. One assailant said he slit open a pregnant woman’s stomach.
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Essentially a long essay on how American society deals with Ebonics, The Dialect of the Black American is fairly radical in its message…and very entertaining in its presentation
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Einstein’s Creation is a bizarre oddity that defies description. It was originally conceived as a way to study for a high school English test on the book, To Kill A Mockingbird
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between blasting Minor Threat and Misfits out of a boom box on the corner and the watching skate videos religiously, I got a pretty good education. Also, skateboarding made me independent, which easily leads to antisocial tendencies, a pretty necessary c
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Takashi Murakami is the most influential contemporary artist on the planet. His fine art is not only found in galleries and museums around the world, it’s also emblazoned across skateboards, album covers and most of Tokyo
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links for 2007-10-27
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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere… (April 20, 2007- October 02, 2007)
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this time my intent was to share my experience and feelings; to share what it’s like to have tragedy hit your hometown. Making a profit on these pictures would be cheating my own heart.
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We’ve been so good and so passionate about delivering storytelling for so long, and so excited about it, that we’ve never learned how to figure out the value of what we do
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A picture of a large bull elephant kicking and spraying mud in a Botswana water-hole has won the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year award for Ben Osborne
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Bride Joan Swift hardly recognised herself when a magazine published her wedding pictures. They’d airbrushed out her prominent tattoos – two large black stars on her chest and two more on her arms.
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“I’m just a photographer; I don’t know anything,” Nhem En said he told the newly arrived prisoners as he removed their blindfolds and adjusted the angles of their heads. But he knew, as they did not, that every one of them would be killed.
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links for 2007-10-26
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For almost 20 years, Chris Verene has photographed his hometown of Galesburg, a small working class railroad town in western Illinois.
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The October Revolution, also called the Bolshevik Revolution, was the second revolt of 1917.
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Nikon’s new flagship digital SLR, the D3, at this year’s PhotoPlus Expo. We got an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at this new 12.1-megapixel FX-format digital DLSR with Steve Heiner
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Friends share memories of award-winning photographer Alexandra Boulat, who passed away October 5, 2007. – VIA PDN PHOTO FEED
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I’ve been testing out the new Hasselblad H3Dii 39.1MP Back. the files I pulled off it were amazing. The image quality, sharpness, and dynamic range just blew my mind. But is it worth $30,000? VIA PDN
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Agency: Advico Young & Rubicam, Zurich-Gockhausen, Switzerland.
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Dennis Reggie and Vincent Laforet supplied the RAW files and “a representative of each RAW converter manufacturer will have 15 minutes to process the images, with feedback from the photographers.”
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In an effort to bring some more inspiration to all of us I have collected 83 links to blogs about photography, art, multimedia and journalism, that I hope might be a source of good information for you.
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For anyone interested in reading essays that parse the subject of violence and suffering in images, this is for you.
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Brad Bohrer had a concussion 11 years ago playing football but the
doctors misdiagnosed him. The following Friday he got hit again giving
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For the last couple of weeks, I have been editing my portfolio. It is a task, sometimes frustrating and other times invigorating. Today is one of those invigorating days as I look through my new portfolio
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links for 2007-10-25
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The Pace-MacGill Gallery bid $1,105,000 for a print of Edward Weston’s “Nautilus” at Sotheby’s in New York, setting an auction record for the photographer.
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talk with photographer and author Amadou Diallo about new paper for B&W imaging. Diallo also discussed his new book Mastering Digital Black and White and offered some tips on B&W printing.
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This coming Saturday’s already published edition of the UK’s Guardian features personal essays by five very different photogs. Check them out now:
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Since 1949, legendary Observer photographer Jane Bown has shown us countless colourful characters in beloved black and white
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From Bowie to Pavarotti to De Niro, legendary portrait photographer Anton Corbijn recounts the lessons learned from his life’s works
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The aerial images of Yann Arthus-Bertrand may be beautiful, but they are also a stark reminder of human impact on our planet
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Magnum member Philip Jones Griffiths reveals the highs and lows of front-line photojournalism
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Not quite by accident, Eamonn McCabe fell in love with sports photojournalism and its highs and lows
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In April, 2005, Italian photographer Antonella Monzoni set off for Pervomaiscki – literally translated: 1st of May village.
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Ups and Downs
I really do have the best job in the world. But that doesn’t mean every day is worth writing about. My two assignments for today are a portrait and a restaurant. So unless something blows up, not much to write about.
The photo above is from a fizzled assignment last week. The press release said something about a big protest in front of Utah Congressman Chris Cannon’s office. As you can see, the turnout was less than stellar.
It’s what you call an insurance shot. You take a photo like this in case anyone back at the office needs proof that something didn’t happen (not that they ever have). You can pull this shot out of the bag and prove how the reality differed from the expectation.
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links for 2007-10-24
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We stopped by the Leica booth during PhotoPlus Expo 2007 and talked with Leica USA Marketing Manager Christian Erhardt about the new lower-priced Leica Summarit-M lens line.
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When covering a show as big (and noisy) as last week’s PhotoPlus Expo in New York City, it’s easy to overlook some of the lower-key products tucked away in the various corners of the show floor.
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links for 2007-10-23
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Copro Nason Gallery – The Talking Board Show
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Navy SEAL Lt. Michael P. Murphy was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor today “for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life” while outnumbered by Taliban fighters in a June 2005 battle high in the mountains of Afghanistan.
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The knock-out gas that special forces pumped into Moscow’s Dubrovka theater to end the hostage crisis five years ago sent baffled scientists scrambling in their laboratories in the United States and Europe.
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Investigators believe that a teenage boy whose mangled body was found in the woods near Domodedovo Airport hid in the wheel well of a plane and plummeted to the ground as the plane descended toward the runway.
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The hackers go by names like ZOMBiE and the Hell Knights Crew, and they inhabit such a robust netherworld that Internet-security firms in places like Silicon Valley have had to acquire an expertise in Russian hacking culture half a world away.
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