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Author:Shahidul Alam
It was nearly twenty years ago when I had written this. After one of my first photojournalistic assignments:
What does one photograph to depict a flood? A submerged house, a boat on a highway, people wading in water?
As we boated...
Wednesday, 22 August 2007
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Author:ZoneZero
Photographers of the majority world unite! Friends, please take a minute to visit majorityworld.com, a database of images by photographers of the developing world. The idea is to create a website where photographers from developing...
Monday, 20 August 2007
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Author:ZoneZero
At ZoneZero we are pleased to announce the selection of 12 of our galleries by the Siggraph 2007 curating committee to be part of the ZoneZero gallery at this year's Siggraph Annual Conference in San Diego. The work of the selected...
Sunday, 19 August 2007
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Author:Incisive Media Investments
In a landmark case, JK Rowling, author of the phenomenonally successful Harry Potter series, has lost a privacy battle against one of the world's biggest celebrity agencies, writes Katie Scott. JK Rowling has lost her bid to win a High Court...
Friday, 17 August 2007
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Author:Picture New York
Dear friends, please take the time to read the petition of fellow photographers and filmmakers whose right to photograph in public space is threatened by a new set of rules currently under consideration in New York City. The...
Monday, 13 August 2007
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Author:BBC News
The growing problem of accessing old digital file formats is a "ticking time bomb", the chief executive of the UK National Archives has warned.
Natalie Ceeney said society faced the possibility of "losing years of critical...
Monday, 16 July 2007
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Author:Philip Gefter
Curator of Photohgraphy, Dies at 81.
John Szarkowski, a curator who almost single-handedly elevated photography’s status in the last half-century to that of a fine art, making his case in seminal writings and landmark exhibitions at...
Monday, 09 July 2007
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Author:David Schonauer
We just learned that Richard Whelan, one of the great writers on photography in the 20th century, has died. Whelan passed away two weeks ago—for some reason, the New York Times has yet to publish a biography—but his family hasn’t...
Sunday, 01 July 2007
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Author:Luis González de Alba
I got tickets to the premiere of the opera “Frida”, in Spanish, but I gave them away the night of the show. I hate Frida Kahlo and her era. It’s not hatred without motive; I’m convinced that the very attitude that has taken to such...
Friday, 08 June 2007
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Author:Mariana Gruener
Perhaps you are of the likes of Katrin Eissman, who realized that she could not get all she wanted to express with a single camera shot and decided to make image composites. She started out cutting photos with her scissors, put them together...
Friday, 01 June 2007
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Author:Mariana Gruener
On the introduction of this book we read:
“Our photographs contain our memories and our legacy, they connect us to our family and friends. Even if they are cracked, yellowed or damaged, we don’t throw them away. No matter how tattered...
Thursday, 31 May 2007
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Author:ZoneZero
Vilma Espin, the wife of Cuba's acting leader Raul Castro and for years one of the most important women in Cuba, died last Monday, June 18 in Havana. She was 77. Espin fought alongside Fidel Castro during the Cuban revolution and married his...
Thursday, 31 May 2007
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Author:Vesta Mónica Herrerías
Whenever the Magnum agency is mentioned, the names of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and David Seymour immediately stand out among the founding members list. However, there is another founding member that -perhaps because of his...
Wednesday, 30 May 2007
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Author:Doifel Videla
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THE PROJECTED OPTICAL IMAGE
In December 2001, an eventful conference was held in New York, crowning two years of intense research during which the painter David Hockney collected evidence to prove the thesis that the...
Tuesday, 29 May 2007
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Author:Trisha Ziff
Crossing Over, the recently published book by Ruben Martinez, from Metropolitan Books (Henry Holt and Company New York), is perhaps now a more relevant read than ever as the events of September 11th have spawned a new fervour of U.S. Jingoism....
Monday, 28 May 2007
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Author:Pedro Meyer
One of the problems that I get to hear most often, has to do with training. If someone states that they are interested in learning how to work digitally in photography then "what school do you recommend ?" is the next question that always...
Sunday, 27 May 2007
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Author:Trisha Ziff
There is something about Daily Report, which draws me to return to it. A book as the title indicates of images taken each day during the last year of the millennium by French photographer Frank Horvat; a visual diary. It is not as though...
Saturday, 26 May 2007
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Author:Yukiko Launois
Application deadline for the 2007 Howard Chapnick Grant is July 15th, 2007. Please download an application form from the link at www.smithfund.org.
The annual grant of $5000 is NOT intended for the creation of photographs, but in support...
Friday, 25 May 2007
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Author:Nell Farrell
I slept well last night, cozy and warm in the silence and pure darkness. For breakfast I had hot coffee and sweet bread, sitting in the sun. But I feel hungover, tired, used and abused.
I feel like my body has been handled by fat,...
Friday, 25 May 2007
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Author:Nell Farrell
Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho By Jon Katz (Villard Books, 2000)
This book will make you wish you'd paid your dues while there was still time. Like learning a foreign language or musical instrument, becoming a...
Thursday, 24 May 2007
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Author:Nell Farrell
A movie based on a novel, a written description of a photograph, a painting reproduced in a gallery in cyberspace. This is remediation. One media grows out of another, creating an entangled vine. None exists or even makes sense without those...
Wednesday, 23 May 2007
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Author:Nubar Alexanian
Weighing in at just under 5 pounds, the physical characteristics of Chaos (Phaidon Press), Josef Koudelka's latest book, are by themselves worthy of comment. At 110 pages, the book is 12 by 17 inches long, filled with panorama images...
Tuesday, 22 May 2007
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Author:Nubar Alexanian
Six years. Thirty five countries. Three hundred sixty three photographs in one book. Eighty three photographs in a companion book. One hundred thousand copies published each in six languages. Sixteen exhibitions. One photographer. ...
Tuesday, 22 May 2007
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Author:Nubar Alexanian
In the foreword of Sylvia Plachy's new book, Signs & Relics, Wim Wenders writes: "Whoever came up first with that saying 'a picture is worth a thousand words' didn't understand the first thing about either one." He goes on to describe a...
Tuesday, 22 May 2007
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