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July 2005 
The School That Skipped Ethics Class The NYTimes is reporting that the Brooks Institure of Photography may face possible closure over some false recruiting claims. "...the state concluded that Brooks routinely inflated claims of its graduates' success in order to draw new students. Posing as a fledgling photographer, an agency employee was told by an admissions counselor earlier this year that she could expect to make $50,000 to $150,000 in her first year out of school. ...only 45 of the 151 graduates from the class of 2003 are working full time. They make an average of about $26,000 and owe $74,000 in loans, according to the state's report." According to the article Brooks' students may be given some restitution. Which is great for them, because I don't know any photographers making $150,000 a year. And if you're making $26,000 with $74,000 in student loans -- you're gonna need every penny you can get.
Digital Cameras = Better Photographers ... ? Well, not necessarily, but in a BBC News article Friday, foto8.com editor Jon Levy makes an interesting point when he says: "Looking at images and showing them to each other more often has made photography a universal, vibrant everyday language continually evolving and growing." The article itself is pretty interesting and covers a few different digital photography issues (like the importance of archiving), and the reader comments on the bottom are worth a read, too.
Amassing a Treasury of Photography It looks like the ICP and the George Eastman House are joining forces to create an unprecedented digital archive of iconic photographs. -- via an email from Pete Kiehart
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Bystander Photography I have a buddy who is interning at the New York Times. The night that the London terroist bombing attacks on the busses and trains rocked the world, he IMed me to say, "You'll never believe what the Times is running on their front page tomorrow?" The answer ended up being a picture from a cell phone -- lead on the page and big. I opened up my paper, the next morning, and sure enough, the St. Petersburg Times did the same thing. So I checked the Newseum site, and apparently a lot of other papers were thinking the same thing. For the first time in recent memory, we've started seeing the proliferation of cell phone photos in mainstream media.
Philip-Lorca diCourtroom Well, well, one of my favorite photographers is being sued for daring, gasp!, to photograph someone in one of the most public places in the world. Renowned portrait photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia has had a lawsuit filed against him for photographing, then exhibiting and selling prints, of strangers captured in public at Times Square in 2001 as part of his "Heads" series. The stranger in question is Erno Nussenzweig, a retired diamond merchant from New Jersey, who is snapping back at not only diCorcia, but also Pace Wildenstein, the exhibiting gallery, publisher Pace/MacGill, and even unnamed distributors and sellers of the image and the book produced from the "Heads" project. So says Mr. Jay Goldberg, Nussenzweig's lawyer, about the case: "We claim that to take someone's picture without their consent is bad enough. But to then hang the picture in galleries, put it in books and sell it around the city without telling the person or obtaining permission is unfair and outrageous." The image in question of Mr. Nussenzweig was a part of diCorcia's winning 2002 Citigroup Prize portfolio, but was made under scaffolding at Times Square and not in the subway, as the Guardian story explains. (Thanks to Greg Allen for the amusing headline.)
WashingtonPost.com's Divas Washington, D.C., area subscribers are not the only ones who will benefit from stories done by Ben de la Cruz and J.C. Crandall at WashingtonPost.com. Stories on the Web like The Post's Divas of the Gridiron present outstanding journalism and stories told by the subjects themselves fostered and shaped, in this case, through two video documentarians. In three chapters, the duo told the story of the hometown team's 8-0 regular season, their second undefeated. Visit The Post and see the story for yourself.
Lives, Wallet-Sized "Last January, Mark Pike '04 and Blaise Dipersia '03, friends and former roommates, became co-proprietors of a model 21T color photo booth...Pike told Dipersia about the plan. They'd buy the booth, set it up in the middle of campus, and, like Sander, create a sort of 'community self-portrait.'" From Duke Magazine and check out the multimedia component too.
Open Your Eyes to a New Way of Seeing Inspiration has just come in the form of Matt Mallams journal entries and collages.
San Jose steps up Their Web Presence More newspapers should take note and follow suit. The San Jose Mercury News just introduced a new section on its website displaying a gallery of photos, multimedia and audio from staff photographers. It will feature a week in pictures gallery, in-depth picture stories/essay with audio narration, staff favorites and bios. The multimedia projects site, can be accessed directly at www.mercurynewsphoto.com, or by clicking on a link at the main Mercury News website: www.mercurynews.com.
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