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Praying for Papers

Praying for Papers is a site devoted to the simple premise. Our business is in trouble and with it are a lot of our friends, our brothers and sisters and their families.

They are just asking that anyone who cares about their fellow journalists devote part of their prayer time to "Pray for Papers".

And in this day and age, we newspaper people could use all the help we can get.

Behind every good (fashion) photographer

Is an even better retoucher. You may have never heard of Pascal Dangin, but he may well be the premier retoucher of fashion photographs. An "adept plumper of breasts and shrinker of pores", in the March issue of Vogue alone, he retouched a hundred and forty-four images. With 30 celebs keeping him on retainer and a list of photographers and publications longer than your arm, Dangin is the most famous retoucher you've never heard of.

The World of Fashion: Pixel Perfect: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

Orphan Works

Photographers, Illustrators, Artists of all sorts,

The Orphan Works Bill is consistently going through Congress trying to take the copyright away from any image you may have made without a copyright stamp on it.
That means that print you sold 10 years ago, if you didn't throw a copyright sticker or marking on it, could be fair game for reproduction. If you think this is an unfair concept take a moment to let your voice be heard here.

Magnum Photogs Speak

I found this old gem, while searching the web for something else... Magnum photographers Steve McCurry and Alex Webb talk about their approach to photography on The Leonard Lopate Show.

Meet Jill Freedman

Back in the 1970s, a gutsy blonde named Jill Freedman armed with a battered Leica M4 and an eye for the offbeat trained her lens on the spirited characters and gritty sidewalks of a now-extinct city.

...Her New York was a blemished and fallen apple strewn with piles of garbage. Prostitutes and bag ladies walked the streets, junkies staked out abandoned tenements, and children played in vacant lots.

"The city falling apart," Ms. Freedman said one day recently in recalling that era. "It was great. I used to love to throw the camera over my shoulder and hit the street."

 
 
 

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