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May 2008 
The Portfolio of...
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The Portfolio of...
Footsteps and Shadows Special thanks to Mark for highlighting Richard Koci Hernandez's newest piece on his newest venture -- his own personal blog. Richard calls it footsteps and shadows and says it's "nothing special, a quick walk, inspired by the sound of footsteps, great light, and my shadow. quick and abrupt, kinda like life." I beg to differ about the nothing special part. Because Richard never ceases to amaze me.
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.
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."
Behind the Scenes with Gregory Crewdson Whether you're a Crewdson-lover or a Crewdson-hater, it's worth checking out Aperture's behind the scenes exclusive. Read two interviews with him, see production stills on location, and learn about his process and some of the people involved in the making of an image.
NEWtopia I'm loving Nutopia. their magazine rocks my socks off. [via the Dalphos]
Dispatches from the Road I'm loving Julia Robinson's visual narrative after she compiled travel photos from my time on the road to and from internships and a song that i couldn't get out of my head, so i made a visual narrative too. And you can read her personal narrative too.
Ansel Adams' Yosemite I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite. -AA [via photokaboom]
Moore Wins Capa Senior staff photojournalist John B. Moore of Getty Images was honored with the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal award from the Overseas Press Club of America at the organization’s sixty-ninth annual awards dinner in Manhattan.
Dying Papers Satire “People really seem to identify with these moving, ‘end-of-an-era’-type pieces,” Washington Post editor-in-chief Leonard Downie, Jr. said. “It’s nice to see that the printed word is still, at least for now, the most powerful medium for reporting on the death of the printed word.” [via The Onion}
Bendiksen wins Nat Geo Grant The second annual National Geographic magazine photography grant has been awarded to Jonas Bendiksen, a Magnum photographer who is working to document urban population growth. The grant offers a documentary photographer $50,000 to work on a long-term project. Bendiksen proposed to document the population explosion in Chongqing, a city in western China that is considered the fastest growing metropolis in the world.
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