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Praying for Papers

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:13:54 -0500

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

Thu, 08 May 2008 23:33:36 -0500

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

Wed, 07 May 2008 19:03:20 -0500

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

Sun, 04 May 2008 10:34:28 -0500

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

Sun, 04 May 2008 02:26:53 -0500

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

Sun, 04 May 2008 02:19:27 -0500

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

Sun, 04 May 2008 01:34:01 -0500

I'm loving Nutopia. their magazine rocks my socks off. [via the Dalphos]

Dispatches from the Road

Sat, 03 May 2008 23:40:23 -0500

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

Sat, 03 May 2008 23:32:28 -0500

Ansel Adams' Yosemite:

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite. -AA

[via photokaboom]

Moore Wins Capa

Sat, 03 May 2008 23:17:52 -0500

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.

The Capa award is given by the OPC in recognition of the “best published photographic reporting from abroad, requiring exceptional courage and enterprise.” It honors the legacy of the great war photographer Robert Capa of Magnum Photos.

Dying Papers Satire

Sat, 03 May 2008 21:42:45 -0500

“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

Fri, 02 May 2008 23:18:46 -0500

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.

a camera, two kids, and a camel

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:45:04 -0500

NPR's weekend edition Sunday did a piece on Annie Griffiths Belt and her new book today. She discusses how she has been able to raise her family while maintaining her career as a traveling photojournalist. it's a really heartfelt take on balancing family with work. Click here to listen to the story. [via Max Bittle]

Journeys of a Lifetime

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:39:31 -0500

In order to reveal what matters in the world, you have to put yourself square in front of it. Photography is about being there, as the saying goes.
It didn't take long, however, for Lo Scalzo to realize that his passion had a dark side. "Travel was a compulsive craving. An addiction. Heroin," he writes.

In April's edition of PopPhoto, 4 very different photographers talk about the trips that changed their lives.

Susana Raab Speaks

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:54:01 -0500

Liz Kuball has a great interview with photographer Susana Raab who talks about the long and winding road it took her her to become a photographer, a portfolio review that changed how she shot, and the talk of projects.