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Author:Camille Paglia
Will women soon have a Viagra of their own? Although a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recently rejected an application to market the drug flibanserin in the United States for women with low libido, it endorsed the potential...
Monday, 02 August 2010
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Author:Olivier Laurent
On Saturday 26 June, photojournalist Jules Mattsson, who is a minor and was documenting the Armed Forces Day parade in Romford, was questioned and detained by a police officer after taking a photo of young cadets. [Photojournalist Edmond...
Friday, 16 July 2010
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Author:Mariko Yasu and Maki Shiraki
June 2 (Bloomberg) -- Porn star Mika Kayama is at the frontier of a push to develop videos and content in Japan that Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. need to lure customers for their new 3-D televisions.
Kayama and Yuma Asami, the top actresses of...
Friday, 02 July 2010
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Author:MODERN MC
I am very fond of Diego Goldberg's “Arrow of Time”, photo art and ritual. Whenever June rolls around, I think of this family and I'm later compelled to visit the Arrow of Time site just to see how they are doing. The photos tell...
Thursday, 24 June 2010
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Author:The British Journal of Photography
The porn industry is big business. It has larger revenues than Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Apple and Netflix combined and achieved $97.06bn worldwide in 2006, according to market research company TopTenReviews. There are 4.2 million...
Friday, 11 June 2010
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Author:The British Journal of Photography
In 1993 Kevin Carter found himself mired in controversy over an image he shot in Sudan. The photograph showed a vulture watching a starving young Sudanese girl, seemingly waiting for her to die and its chance to pounce. The image was published...
Monday, 24 May 2010
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Author:Rahnuma Ahmed
Shahidul Alam’s exhibition, ‘Crossfire’ (a euphemism for extrajudicial killings by the Rapid Action Battalion), was scheduled to open on March 22, at Drik Gallery, Dhaka. A police lockup of Drik’s premises before the opening prevented noted...
Monday, 17 May 2010
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Author:Nick Bilton
A recent blog post by Craig Mod, a self-titled computer programmer, book designer and book publisher, offers a thoughtful and distinctive perspective on the move of books from paper to interactive devices like Apple’s iPad.
Mr....
Sunday, 16 May 2010
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Author:ZoneZero
In this course, Pedro Meyer will explore the issue of photography, memory and its tricks to reflect on the photographic image as a document, record, anecdote and vehicle for what is memorable. Participants' photographic work will be discussed to...
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
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Author:David Brinn
Each year, on June 17, Diego Goldberg readies his Nikon D700 camera to take the annual family photos – he has been doing this now for 33 years.
Studying the black-and-white portraits in Diego Goldberg’s time-lapse photo journal Arrow...
Thursday, 06 May 2010
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Author:Erick Schonfeld
Legend has it that when Cortes landed in Mexico in the 1500s, he ordered his men to burn the ships that had brought them there to remove the possibility of doing anything other than going forward into the unknown. Marc Andreessen has the same...
Thursday, 15 April 2010
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Author:Michael Wolff
Everyone’s betting on the Internet’s next big thing. The author provides a tip sheet on competing theories–it’s the platform (Google, Facebook); it’s the machine (iWhatever); it’s digital behavior (Twitter); it’s porn (Skype...
Thursday, 15 April 2010
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Author:Hans Durrer
Review of: David Friend (2007), Watching the world change. The stories behind the images of 9/11. New York: Picador (464 pages; ISBN: 978-0312426767)
The World Trade Center disaster at that fatal date of September 11th, 2001, probably...
Thursday, 08 April 2010
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Author:Media Helping Media
31 March 2010
Government lawyers confirmed to the Vacation Bench of the High Court today that the police deployed in front of the DRIK Gallery had been withdrawn and that there would be no obstruction to the exhibition from now on.
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Monday, 05 April 2010
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Author:Rezaur Rahman
26th March morning at Drik. Conversation between young man and guard as narrated by guard.
Young man: Egulo ki? Egulo ki hochche ekhane
BD: What are these? Whats going on here?
Guard: egulo prodorshoni hochche ekhane
BD: It’s an...
Monday, 05 April 2010
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Author:Shahidul Alam
22 March 2010 PRESS RELEASE
Drik Picture Library was forcibly closed down by the police today to prevent the launch of Pathshala, South Asian Media Academy, and the unveiling of a photography exhibition by photojournalist Dr...
Monday, 05 April 2010
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Author:Piroska Csúri
Response to Filler, Martin (2009) "The Mighty Penn," New York Review of Books, 19 October, 2009.
In our vigourously and light-heartedly postmodern, reception-idolizing present authorial intentions might not be considered the...
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
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Author:Guardian.com.uk
More than 2,000 photographers demonstrate against police using terrorism laws to prevent photography in public places.
Thousands of photographers have staged a mass protest against the "malicious" use of anti-terrorism laws to stop...
Saturday, 23 January 2010
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Author:ZoneZero
Zonezero would like to join the celebration of Bangladeshi photography on this landmark year that amounts to 20 years of Drik Picture Agency and 11 years of the Pathshala, South Asian Institute of Photography. We would like to specially...
Sunday, 20 September 2009
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Author:Ulises Castellanos
Christian Poveda, a photographer born in Algeria, had devoted his work to portraying conflicts in almost all of Ibero-America. In the 1980s his lens focused on the ups and downs of El Salvador, a country that he loved and...
Sunday, 13 September 2009
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Author:The Black Snapper
The Black Snapper, an online magazine for talented photographers from all over the world, dedicates a week to talented young photographers from Brazil, selected by Joana Mazza, exhibitions coordinator of the FotoRio photo festival.
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Sunday, 06 September 2009
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Author:Open Society Source
Call for Work: Moving Walls 17 Deadline: Friday, October 23, 2009.
The Open Society Institute invites photographers to submit a proposal and completed body of work for consideration in the Moving Walls 17 group exhibition. Since its inception...
Saturday, 08 August 2009
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Author:Steven Leckart
Boingboing.net | Mon July 20, 2009
This is, perhaps, the most famous photo from the Apollo Moon landing. It was taken by Neil Armstrong, who shot most of the pics taken on the Lunar surface using a Hasselblad 500EL camera...
Monday, 20 July 2009
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Author:Maggie Fox
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The original recordings of the first humans landing on the moon 40 years ago were erased and re-used, but newly restored copies of the original broadcast look even better, NASA officials said on Thursday....
Monday, 20 July 2009
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Author:Richard Butler
Dpreview.com - July 15, 2009
It’s very easy, when you spend any amount of time learning and writing about one area, to focus in on that niche. We may spend most of our waking lives thinking or talking about digital cameras in...
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
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