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1 year ago

Saturday Shout-Outs: Links We Love

You've probably heard of Stanley Kubrick as the famous filmmaker, but did you know he was a photographer before that? Check out this collection of photos that he took of Chicago in 1949 while on assignment for Look magazine. Twitpic users, beware: Rob Haggart (A Photo Editor) warns that Twitpic, now partnering with news agency WENN, has altered its terms of service so that it can gain profit from [...]

1 year ago

Saturday Shout-Outs: Links We Love

How often are photos we see in the news staged? Probably more than we think ... and sometimes for justifiable reasons. Jason Reed gives a personal account on Reuters in his article Ready to Record History, in which he details the press process on the night of Obama's speech announcing Osama bin Laden's death. Reed says that the photographers' photos were taken after the [...]

1 year ago

Saturday Shout-Outs: Links We Love

Sony World Photography Awards recently announced its winners: Alejandro Chaskielberg took the top prize as Sony world photographer for his photos of river island inhabitants—many of whom had never seen a camera before. Read more and see the gallery here. In light of the recent deaths of photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros in Libya (see Kara Ardnt's Pixiq article here), [...]

1 year ago

Saturday Shout-Outs: Links We Love

Is responsibility to justice implicit in a photojournalist's ethos? In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Times-Picayune doggedly covered the city's struggling recovery. But five years later, when it became clear during court investigations that photojournalist Alex Brandon witnessed and failed to report extreme police violence toward black residents, his ethics have been questioned. [...]

1 year ago

Saturday Shout-Outs: Links We Love

For some mind-boggling physics, read New York Times' article Small Cameras, Big Sensors, which details the difficulties of mixing these two seemingly anomolous requirements. But with the arrival of the Panasonic Lumix GF2 and the Olympus EP-L2, the times are changing. Celebrating their 25th anniversary, Panos Pictures assure us that photojournalism is alive and well as they reflect back on their [...]

1 year ago

Saturday Shout-Outs: Links We Love

From Wired, the world’s largest indoor photograph: 2,947 individual shots, 40 gigapixels, 283 GB. It’s a 360-degree image of Philosophical Hall, a Baroque reading room in Prague’s Strahov monastery library, taken by Jeffrey Martin with a robot-controlled Canon 550D. While not a pro photographer, Bob Bonis had talent as well as access to The Beatles as their U.S. tour manager, [...]

1 year ago

Saturday Shout Outs: Links We Love

The four New York Times journalists captured in Libya were freed Monday after being held for six days. Here is their account of the story. After a three-decade run, the fine art photo gallery Camera Obscura in Denver will soon close its doors. Camera Obscura has featured exhibits from Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, and many others. Read more in this story from Denver Post. A farm bill introduced [...]

1 year ago

Saturday Shout-Outs: Links We Love

As Japan faces its tragedy, The Atlantic reports with the gallery Japan Earthquake: The Struggle to Recover, among others. And from the archives, here's 1923 Kanto Earthquake: Echoes from Japan's Past. It all started with an abandoned roll of 35mm film in Central Park, a filmmaker's curiosity, and a three-minute video. Millions of views later, Todd Bieber's YouTube videos are international news. [...]

1 year ago

Saturday Shout-Outs: Links We Love

Forgot your flash gel? No problem, so long as you have some ingenuity and a Fruit Roll-Up—that's how John Crane and his friends crafted an emergency substitute to pair with their Nikon CLS. Read more in his post on his Outdoor Photo Blog. Millions of Mexican Catholic pilgrims make the trek to the Basilica de Guadalupe in Mexico City every year, but Alinka Echeverria's photographic [...]

1 year ago

Saturday Shout-Outs: Links We Love

Feeling blue? Check out this Wired article Aura Portraits Make Good Art, Bad Science about Carlo Van de Roer’s color portraits (which supposedly capture one's aura), taken with a $10,000 AuraCam. RAW or JPEG? The British Journal of Photography votes for RAW, not just for any photography—but for crime scene/forensic photography by police. Given poor exposure and the lacking photography [...]

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