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Author:Pedro Meyer
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill.
I have heard over and over, in many parts of the world. How new digital technologies have an unfair...
Monday, 30 April 2007
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Author:Gary Kamiya
Iraq: Why the media failed
Afraid to challenge America's leaders or conventional wisdom about the Middle East, a toothless press collapsed.
Apr. 10, 2007 | It's no secret that the period of time between 9/11...
Tuesday, 10 April 2007
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Author:El Universal
The National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature of Mexico informed that Mercedes Iturbe, director of the Carrillo Gil Art Museum died last night in her home in Cuernavaca, Morelos.
The Institute highlighted her work promoting art...
Saturday, 31 March 2007
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Author:Amy Benfer
Writing in a Free World
Jonathan Lethem explains why copyright laws stifle creativity and why he's giving away the film rights to his new novel.
Mar. 25, 2007
Jonathan Lethem's seventh novel, "You Don't...
Sunday, 25 March 2007
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Author:ZoneZero
I am well aware that not all cultures enjoy the same special days for celebrating an event nor do so on the same day, in this case most of the western cultures celebrate Valentine's Day with variations. On the other hand, in the Chinese...
Wednesday, 14 February 2007
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Author:Juan Antonio Molina
There isn’t a single document of culture that is not also a document of savagery.
As it is not itself free of savagery, the process of conveying it
from one to the other isn’t either. That is why the materialistic
historian...
Wednesday, 31 January 2007
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Author:Andrew Orlowski
by Andrew Orlowski
Photojournalism is dying
- readers rejoice -
Letters Recently, we invited top UK photojournalist Sion Touhig to describe the grim economics facing photo journalists. His passionate essay: How the...
Saturday, 13 January 2007
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Author:Iliana Ulloa
Darwin said: It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the smartest, but the one that adapts better to change.
In a devastating week for the professional development laboratories industry, we can see Darwin’s theory fully...
Friday, 12 January 2007
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Author:Sion Touhig
Comment: We're continually being told the Internet empowers the individual. But speaking as an individual creative worker myself, I'd argue that all this Utopian revolution has achieved so far in my sector is to disempower...
Friday, 12 January 2007
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Author:The Getty Trust Fund
Help create an archive of photographic materials from the pre-digital age
Digital photography is replacing traditional photography. And it's happening so fast that traditional photography, and the knowledge about how to create it, is in...
Tuesday, 05 December 2006
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Author:ZoneZero
And yet another year went by. Time seems to be accelerating as we become ever more aware of simultaneous realities. Technology is largely responsible for this, and we at ZoneZero think this is enough reason to celebrate. We would like to...
Friday, 01 December 2006
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Author:Vicki Goldberg
Published under permission: Abbeville Press, Fine Arts & Illustrated Books
Photography was a powerhouse medium from the date of its birth in 1839 and was already on steroids and flexing its muscles when it was barely out of its...
Friday, 17 November 2006
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Author:ZoneZero
We regret the death of our American colleague Brad Will, on October 27th, 2006 in Oaxaca, Mexico, while covering a story for the global network Indymedia.
He was shot in the torso during a paramilitary attack on the APPO...
Friday, 27 October 2006
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Author:Pedro Meyer
A group of scientists put five monkeys in a cage, and inside it, they placed a ladder with a bunch of bananas. When one of the monkeys climbed up the ladder to get a banana, they hosed the rest with ice-cold water.
After a while...
Monday, 16 October 2006
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Author:ZoneZero
Goro Kuramochi,
Director of GIP Photographic Agency in Tokyo,curator and editor of various photography books,
and organizer of photographic events, died last september 30, 2006 at 7:30 am at the Tokyo Hospital.
In honor to my friend...
Tuesday, 03 October 2006
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Author:Carlos Darío Albornoz
Traditional arts and crafts in extinction
Tucumán, Argentina – 2004
Installation of contemporary daguerreotypes
This work was funded by a grant from the Simon Guggenheim Foundation that I was awarded in 2004.
These...
Tuesday, 19 September 2006
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Author:Juan Antonio Molina
From the body photographic to the photographed body
(variations of a discourse regarding spirtuality in contemporary photography)
by Juan Antonio Molina
Probably the objects of a religious, moral, aesthetic and logical...
Wednesday, 13 September 2006
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Author:Pedro Meyer
part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4
We somehow were brought up with the notion that documentary pictures were the equivalent of a testimony that was credible because it was a photograph.
In other words, the very nature of being...
Thursday, 10 August 2006
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Author:Katharine Q. Seelye and Julie Bosman
The last August, 8th., Adnan Hajj was the most-searched term on the Technorati Web site, which tracks what is being discussed in the blogosphere. And a rendering of his work was one of the most viewed videos on YouTube.
Adnan...
Wednesday, 09 August 2006
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Author:Marilyn Domínguez Turriza and Juan Carlos Saucedo Villegas
Marilyn Domínguez Turriza
INAH Center
(National Institute Anthropology and History)
Campeche
Juan Carlos Saucedo Villegas
Institute of Culture
A brief history of photography in Campeche.
Photography has been...
Wednesday, 09 August 2006
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Author:Felipe Ehrenberg
It is not easy to say something about a man that was a younger brother, a major accomplice and an unreserved friend. He was also a great still photographer and cinematographer, a soundman, and documentarist. In other words, he was...
Monday, 03 July 2006
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Author:Juan Antonio Molina
chapter I | chapter II | chapter III | chapter IV
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In 1960 Yves Klein published a photo of himself floating in the air, apparently after jumping out of a window. The composition was thorough and you could see both the...
Friday, 23 June 2006
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Author:Nora Olivia Sedeno Torres
The Manuel R. Palacios Historic Archive of the City of Oaxaca has now its very own building. It now has a splendidly edited general guide of its documents and a much better organization. The catalog “Rescuing the city's image through its arts...
Tuesday, 20 June 2006
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Author:Daryl Lang
Portrait photographer Arnold Newman dies at 88.
Arnold Newman, a deeply influential photographer who spent a lifetime capturing penetrating images of artists, entertainers and presidents, has died at age 88.
He died on...
Tuesday, 06 June 2006
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Author:Christopher Knight
Photographer Robert Heinecken dies.
Robert Heinecken, an artist who was instrumental in changing the way photographs are considered in the American cultural landscape, died on May 15th at a nursing home in Albuquerque,...
Monday, 15 May 2006
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