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The New York Times Polling Place Photo Project “is a nationwide experiment in citizen journalism that encourages voters to capture, post and share photographs
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links for 2008-01-10
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Two compelling books from the South Africa photographer Guy Tillim are about the dependence of a marginal group of people to the land that they live upon.
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my attention went to Nicole Bengiveno’s photo of Jessica Martinson at the funeral of her husband, Lt. John Martinson of the FDNY, who was killed while fighting a blaze in Brooklyn last week
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The New York Times Polling Place Photo Project “is a nationwide experiment in citizen journalism that encourages voters to capture, post and share photographs
links for 1-9-2008
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© John Vink / Magnum Photos
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Pangea Magazine’s Official Blog: Taqwacore : Islamic Punk-Rock Quashes Public Opinions…
The Rise of The American Muslim Punk!
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PRINT Magazine – Hard Focus
“One of the things that many people don’t talk about is how digital photography is giving a lot of the power back to the photographer,” Ron Haviv
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Amy Stein | Photography | Blog: Martin Parr Meets Reality TV
Martin Parr has signed up to be a judge on a new reality TV show, Picture This, on Channel 4 in Britain. From the Independent:
links for 2008-01-07
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Interview with Melissa Lyttle
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Burt Keppler died Friday night at age 82
links for 2008-01-06
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Word is that half the hipsters in Brooklyn have already bought theirs.
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A friend once said to me that Canons are the best cameras available designed by engineers, and that Nikons are the best cameras one can buy designed by photographers.
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Some of the best moments came when I was just trying get a better photo from an odd angle.
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The anti-Semitic worldview, generally speaking, is fantastically stupid.
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LAST CHANCE TO ENTER: PDN PHOTO ANNUAL 2008
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We are woken at 6.30am by a frantic banging on our gate.
links for 2008-01-05
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The method would adjust the price of an image license based on factors like how popular the image is, how much the image cost to produce and the significance of the subject of the photo.
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links for 2008-01-03
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Evil Mad Science laboratories is selling stickers that read “Now Slower and with More Bugs.”
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Exactly 35 years after taking his Pulitzer-winning photo of an injured girl in Vietnam, Nick Ut shot another young woman in distress – Paris Hilton.
links for 2008-01-01
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An AFP photographer had his elbow broken by a plain-clothes Egyptian policeman on Saturday while trying to take pictures of French President Nicolas Sarkozy
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Bound for the landfill, old photographs found a savior in David R. Phillips
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The film, Journey, will see Radcliffe play Dan Eldon, a 22-year-old who was among four journalists stoned to death by a mob in Mogadishu
links for 2007-12-31
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The “Local Testimony” exhibition is held each year together with the World Press Photo exhibition, and presents the best of local photojournalism.
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Join us in celebrating another year in the life of these shooters, in this newspaper and this community. Because this work matters.
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Check out how you did, and get your lawyers to call our lawyers in the morning…
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The guest professor, Zhou Xiaoming, a Tibet specialist and government consultant, was providing the students with their latest class in “Marxist journalism.”
links for 2007-12-30
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist (renne byer) was inducted Friday into the Ulster County Community College Alumnae Hall of Fame in recognition of her career.
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Six years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, airport security remains a theater of the absurd.
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While Faulques snapped away, men in Chad, wounded and bound, were left on a riverbank to be devoured by crocodiles.
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As part of a new series of work, Christopher Morris will be documenting America as a contributing photographer to the Italian fashion magazine AMICA.
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Ron Haviv’s photographs touch upon some of the issues affecting the people in Watts on both sides of the lines.
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When Kate Webb reported from the battlefields of Cambodia, she kept her chestnut hair cropped G.I.-short and wore jeans and loose shirts to obscure her breasts.
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Withers carried cameras everywhere he went. Denied access to the people and places where white photographers flourished, Withers documented instead the lives of the other invisible people around him
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Harkins was stunned when David, scorning the hypocritical civility most of us were still willing to indulge in, refused to shake the general’s hand.
links for 2007-12-29
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In that way, Wall is the anti-Weegee. Struck by a fleeting moment in the “world,” he doesn’t surreptitiously snap off a frame with his Leica; he goes back to his studio and “re-creates” the moment on a heroic scale
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“It’s a picture, which isn’t a big deal!”
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The Hasselblad Masters represent photography at its finest; at its most inspired, most communicative, most beautiful.
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Our photo editors select their favorite images of 2007 by the photographers of the Los Angeles Times.
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if you ever have worked as a professional photographer, designer, creative, etc..
this is exactly how we feel.
links for 2007-12-28
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In September of this year I visited Bill Jay, the pre-eminent photo-historian and critic, at his home in Ocean Beach, California.
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In the summer of 1993 Dan Eldon, a 22-year-old photographer for Reuters, was making his way through the streets of Mogadishu
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In the second week of December I received my Nikon D3. My trial by fire with a D2x at the Cog gig in 2005 proved so informative that I jumped at the opportunity to familiarize myself with the D3 in a similar challenging environment.
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National Geographic Magazine has picked a side in the long-running rivalry between the two major U.S. photojournalism contests.
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“I ran up, got as close as I got, made a few pictures of her waving to the crowd,” Getty Images senior staff photographer John Moore
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voice of john moore/getty images
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The photos of Getty’s John Moore are likely to stand as the most memorable and up-close from the scene of the Bhutto assassination today.
links for 2007-12-27
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Kevin Rivoli has spent the past 15 years capturing timeless moments in contemporary America
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Now that 2007 is coming to a close, everyone seems to be making lists of the best pix of 2007.
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If you are looking at the Aperture interface for the first time, you might not easily know what to do.
links for 2007-12-26
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It’s sort of a Leica on steroids, in that it allows precisely-focused, precisely-framed handheld 4×5 photography, with all the latter’s rich detail and beautiful defocus. The Littman VI
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Brady suffers from repeated seizures, daily. photo essay by Ashley Franscell.
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As far as photographers and photo books go, my list ebbs and flows with each day’s tide. So rather than a best of anything, here’s my list of some of my favorites from 2007
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the year in pictures
links for 2007-12-25
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Here are the 35 winning picks of Lens Culture’s first photo contest. The theme is “in between” moments, and the photos represent a broad range of interpretations.
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small signs photo essay – via conscientious
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Why choose journalism? Because you can make a difference — or even change the world — not because you’re going to get rich as a journalist.
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Call it instinct or intuition, but something is telling you what pictures you should be taking. I call it the quiet little voice, and when it talks, I try to listen.
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The best look at newspapers in movies or TV? Hands down, the prize goes to “The Wire.”
links for 2007-12-24
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Patrick Tsai is a 26 year old American who moved to Taiwan in 2003 to pursue his photography. Three years later he met a young Chinese photographer named Madi Ju
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When you enter Pictures of the Year International, your work becomes a part of visual history. Since 1943, POYi continues to be a living and a valuable reflection of human and world events.
links for 2007-12-23
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Dallas Morning News photojournalist Mona Reeder spent three years working on The Bottom Line — mostly on gaining access to some really sensitive situations.
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The newest buzz word in inkjet printing paper is Baryta. While it may be new to the 21st Century digital printing world it actually has its roots in high quality B&W printing papers from our past.
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To store a digital master record of a movie costs about $12,514 a year, versus the $1,059 it costs to keep a conventional film master.
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Last week, Basket Mouth let Sunday Sun into his world as he disclosed the five qualities that a woman must possess in order to unlock his heart.
links for 2007-12-22
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Arkady Babchenko said his only goal was to capture the confused, fear-ridden, despairing world of a young private and his buddies where the only goal is survival.
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The black-and-white portraits and landscapes in “Bhutan, the Sacred Within: Photographs by Kenro Izu,” taken over the past five years, fall somewhere between photojournalism and pictorialism.
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In the future photographers will rule the world.
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My name is Brad and I’m looking for my Next Top Muse to photograph constantly. Because the definition of a muse is kind of vague I’ve compiled a list of attributes that my muse would hopefully embody:
links for 2007-12-21
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Buy it. Put it in your pocket. Hit the streets.
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These kaleidoscopic images were created by Japanese architect and photographer Kazuhiko Kawahara (moonlighting under the name Palla).
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Interweaving footage of the clashes between police and demonstrators at the 1968 Democratic convention with 3-D animated reenactments of the trial that followed it, Brett Morgen turns the audience into witnesses of violent turmoil and absurdist spectacle.
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Zine 2 , an issue with Lomos has been shipped off to the printers.
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He is a talented and respected portrait photographer, and his pictures hang proudly in a dizzying number of Chicago homes. Worsom truly is a modern day “Picture Man.”
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It wasn’t Lane Hartwell’s first heated exchange over a photo copyright issue,
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a graphic illustration of just how fundamentally a little judicious cropping of an image can completely misrepresent the event it purports to illustrate.
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“O.K., let’s try one that’s a little less complicated: You want a movie or an album. You don’t want to pay for it. So you download it.”
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In 2001, Darin Mickey began to document his father’s life at work and at home. Stuff I Gotta Remember Not To Forget is a portrait of Ken Mickey, who sells storage space
