links for 2007-09-20
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Winning portfolio features images telling the story of Croatian Serbs displaced during the Serbo-Croatian war.
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Photographs by Phyllis Galembo
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Mark Luthringer
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Ashley Gilbertson
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Every so often a television programme comes along that is so utterly wretched, so totally lacking in any redeeming features whatsoever, that the only solution seems to be to stuff the neighbour’s cat through the screen. Right now, Deadline is that progr
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Paolo Pellegrin, Q. Sakamaki, Kristen Ashburn and Farah Nosh take photo awards
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Don McPhee was one of the kindest and most generous photographers I’ve ever worked with. He was one of my photographic heroes long before I joined the Guardian
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Audio slideshow: A gallery of Don McPhee’s best pictures for the Guardian with commentary from the paper’s picture editor, Roger Tooth.
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Photojournalist whose Guardian images have entered our collective memory
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Mark Brecke, a resourceful San Francisco photographer who’s spent a decade documenting mass murder and ethnic cleansing
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If you haven’t seen it yet, this week’s cover of Time Magazine features a photo-illustration of Ronald Reagan shedding a big and, if you ask me, totally over-the-top tear
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A somewhat cryptic credit in small type on the (revamped!) table of contents describes the image this way: “Photograph by David Hume Kennerly. Tear by Tim O’Brien.”
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cerealism
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Canadian singer Avril Lavigne defends spitting on photographers outside a Hollywood nightclub because they are “scum.”
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The Studio, episode 1
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The book is “Rough Beauty.” The photographer is Dave Anderson
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interview with Scott Strazzante
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Kristen Ashburn and Stephen Dupont — American and Australian respectively — are to a great extent, I believe, emblematic of Contact’s approach today and all that is right with our small agency.
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paolo pellegrin
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a photo a day best of 2006
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Yana Paskova
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Jennifer Finch’s early punk Los Angeles
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Jock Sturges has been at this for more than 30 years now, and still we don’t quite know. Are his photographs of nude women, men, children and adolescents poised on puberty’s divide art or, well, something else?
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Since the 70’s, Lee Friedlander has been intermittently documenting Americans at work
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It’s challenging enough, this reader suggested, to photograph a grieving community, to balance the news value of a given image against a certain respectfulness for its subjects
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There are few products that have had as profound an effect on their category as the T90 had on the modern SLR
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Curious about my studio. Have a look here.
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After Hurricane Katrina, Robert Polidori went to New Orleans, where he lived years ago, to shoot photographs of the devastation for The New Yorker
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The U.S. military in Iraq has imprisoned an Associated Press photographer for five months, accusing him of being a security threat but never filing charges or permitting a public hearing.
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The World’s Largest Lens
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The game begins as Frank West, a photojournalist, arrives by helicopter in a small town that has been sealed off by the National Guard. The game begins, not with killing zombies, but with photographing them
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Contest results
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Reuters has withdrawn all photographs taken by Beirut-based freelance Adnan Hajj from its database after establishing that he had altered not one, but two, images since the start of the conflict between Israel and the Lebanon.
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Catherine Leroy, 1944 – 2006
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A Reuters photograph of smoke rising from buildings in Beirut has been withdrawn after coming under attack by American web logs. The blogs accused Reuters of distorting the photograph to include more smoke and damage
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Months after my trip to El Salvador with Give a Kid a Backpack Foundation, images still keep me awake at night. – Ashley Franscell
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As Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon have escalated in the past two weeks, photographers flocking to cover the conflict have encountered particularly difficult and dangerous conditions.
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May of 2004 I was cleared for an embed with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (11th MEU) and First Battalion Fourth Marines (1/4).
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Catherine Leroy, who braved danger as a young Vietnam War photojournalist to capture painful scenes of combat at close range, died early Saturday of cancer. She was 60.
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Xan Rice gives a personal account of the shooting of the Swedish cameraman and producer Martin Adler
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by James Nachtwey
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Arnold Newman, the portrait photographer whose pictures of some of the world’s most eminent people set a standard for artistic interpretation and stylistic integrity in the postwar age of picture magazines, died yesterday in Manhattan. He was 88 and lived
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For his limited-edition Leica, Ralph Gibson chose the MP, but with the angled rewind crank; 35, 50, and 90mm framelines, each visible singly in the finder; matte black finish to be “less conspicuous” but then some notably conspicuous red leather; and he e
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MOST musicians I know don’t just play music on Saturday night,” Henry Wessel explained. “They play music every day. They are always fiddling around, letting the notes lead them from one place to another. Taking still photographs is like that. It is a gene
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This is video of the judging panel in action
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Going back to Iraq was not an easy choice. I had been twice already. Each trip had been more perilous than the last and I thought that maybe I’d had enough.
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STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST RESULTS
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Photojournalist Tomas van Houtryve has been covering political unrest in Nepal for years, from the rise in power of King Gyanendra Shah to the secretive Maoist insurgency.
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I know Joachim Ladefogeds work for quite some time now. I met him during the New York VII Seminar on October 16th 2005 were we also recorded this interview in an empty classroom at the School of Visual Arts.
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“No, I do not need a permission to photograph in a public place”
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Canadian photogapher Edward Burtynsky worked through diplomatic channels to gain access to photograph many sites undergoing enormous change.
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Jens Dresling has been a news photographer every working day of his life. He sold his first picture when he was 15, to his tiny hometown newspaper in Elsinore, Denmark, the same town where, centuries earlier, another young man, called Hamlet, had some fam
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Ami Vitale is an American freelance photographer based overseas whose work has been widely recognized for its humanity and purposeful push to see past the differences between cultures and race
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Founded in the late 19th century as a railroad water stop, Marfa was a town in extreme West Texas, near the Mexico border, rooted in its utility
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Today Caucasus is littered with the remains of the Soviet Union’s collapsed empire, and is home to now dormant civil wars that some believe will never be officially resolved.
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todd heisler
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The shooting dead of British cameraman James Miller by an Israeli soldier in Gaza was murder, an inquest jury found on Thursday. The jury also said Israeli authorities had “not been forthcoming” about how and why Miller (34) was killed by a single shot fi
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Did I screw up? Was the floor open and were photographers now allowed at NCAA tournaments to rush the floor?
As quickly as it started, it is over.
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Torino for me was one of those times. I came THAT close to working out a credential and shooting situation for the Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy. But in the end, the client wanted way too much of my flesh, in addition to the pictures, and I decided to
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A new book, aptly titled “Things as They Are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1955,”
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Ben Hider, Photographer: “Emptied my pockets, searched me, frisked me, started telling me about the recent terrorist threats in America over the past five years and ‘haven’t I been watching the news?’”
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by christopher morris, VII
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In 2002, Narelle Autio won a 1st Prize World Press Photo Award in arts, for The School of Dance, and in 2000 a 1st Prize World Press Photo Award in nature and environment for a series on Australian Road Kill
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The new Hasselblad H3D-II cameras — which come with 39MP, 31MP, or 39MP digital backs — bump that screen up to a more respectable three inches.
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The Canon 5D Mark II is rumored to include the following specs:
* 16MP DIGIC III
* 14 bit RAW
* sRAW format
* 3? LCD
* Live View
* Refined AF (similar to 40D)
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John Stanmeyer took these haunting photos of real like pirate haunts in Southeast Asia’s Malacca Strait for a National Geographic story.
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n all there are 116 pictures, beginning with a photo from June 21, 1944, of Höcker and the commandant of the camp, Richard Baer, both in full SS regalia. The album also contains eight photos of Josef Mengele, the camp doctor notorious
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TIME doesn’t exactly stand still in JoAnn Verburg’s photographs. Not that her single images, diptychs and triptychs are set up to create narrative sequences in which one thing leads to another
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Getty CEO: “We Will Own The Online Market”
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For more than three months, police Detective John Botte roamed the ruins of the World Trade Center, snapping photographs with his Leica Rangefinder camera and capturing hundreds of images of people at work on the monumental cleanup
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