Photo by Helen Levitt
So asks Ludmilla Morais in Street Reverb Magazine:
So, where the fuck are you women street photographers? Are you a figment of my imagination, a manifestation of my awkwardness in bonding with female figures? Should I look at the results of my initial search, read between the lines of that insipid message and give it a rest? Or are you out there, working the streets quietly, unnoticed and unpublicized, like Vivian Maier?
Photo: US National Archives
Have a good weekend.
The New York Stock Exchange is lame.
From TPM:
The New York Stock Exchange now claims that you have to get their permission (express or implicit) before you use images connected to the New York Stock Exchange. So if you find a wire photo of the trading floor and use it to illustrate a story on Wall Street, you’re violating the NYSE’s trademark because they’ve trademarked the trading floor itself.
TPM is represented on Media and IP matters by extremely capable specialist outside counsel. And we’ve been advised that the NYSE’s claims are baseless and ridiculous on their face. But this is yet another example of how many large corporations have given way to IP-mania, trying to bully smaller companies into submission with inane and legally specious claims of intellectual property rights.
Photo by Andrew Kent/Rock Paper Photo
Last week saw the launch of Rock Paper Photo, an archival site of classic pop culture photography. Co-founded by Guy Oseary (best known as Madonna’s manager) and featuring top photographers shooting top stars, RPP does have a lot of rarely seen, cool shots — including David Bowie by Andrew Kent, Marilyn Monroe by Bernie Abramson and James Brown by Richard E. Aaron. The whole idea is that prints are for sale, from a couple hundred dollars to a couple thousand.
Meanwhile, over at Cool Hunting, photographer Tom Murray talks about why he allowed his classic color collection of Beatles photographs to be featured on the site.
Jack Kerouac, 1953 Photo: Allen Ginsberg LLC
• An exhibition made up of photos taken by poet Allen Ginsberg, a sort of “Beat family album,” is now at the National Gallery in Washington. [Smithsonian]
• Terror alert: Washington University was shut down for four hours after security found a suspicious DIY pinhole camera. [Gizmodo]
• Striking before and after satellite photos show the Joplin tornado’s destructive path. [Daily Mail]
• 360-degree photos with an iPhone app? It’s coming. [USA Today]
• Canon and director Ron Howard are collaborating on “Long Live Imagination,” a photography contest built around movie theme categories. [mediabistro]
Adelbert Ames Photo: Library of Congress
Smithsonian magazine has a slideshow of “The Best Facial Hair in the Civil War.” This sort of grooming wouldn’t fly in today’s military, but it makes for interesting viewing.
Photo: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
California prisons are overflowing with inmates, who are packed like sardines into unsafe and unsanitary conditions at nearly double the system’s capacity. Because of the overwhelming volume of people, in one prison an inmate had been dead for several hours before officials realized it. Mother Jones published this piece and accompanying slideshow of the conditions at several prisons in the state, which helped to play a major role in a recent Supreme Court decision to release thousands of inmates.
The photographs in this sideshow provide a glimpse of those extreme conditions: the E-beds (emergency beds) stacked in gyms and dayrooms, the tiny holding cells for mentally ill inmates. All of these photos, some of which were taken by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, were entered as evidence in the California prison case. Three of them (here, here, and here), were appended to the Supreme Court’s majority opinion, suggesting that they had played a role in convincing Kennedy and four other justices to endorse the plan to downsize the state’s prisoner population.
Source: Mother Jones (via Boing Boing)
Photo by lumierefl
There is a beautiful flowering tree in Los Angeles called the Jacaranda. These trees bloom spectacularly in May all over the city, so Good magazine is calling for readers to submit photos of their favorites. Find out more information here at “Project: Angelenos, Show Us Your Jacaranda Trees.” The resulting photos will be posted on the site’s Picture Show blog.
The Daily Mail has an interesting selection of rare color images from the Library of Congress’ Great Depression collection
If you have three years or so, The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf has compiled an intriguing list of “Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism.” These require more investment than 140 characters, but I think there are a few of us out there who still value long-form journalism.
Friedersdorf calls out usual suspects like The New Yorker, Esquire, Slate and the New York Times, but there are some – like Military History Quarterly – that might not be your regular reading. He also anoints the bloggers of the year, Glenn Greenwald, Julian Sanchez, Radley Balko and Adam Serwer “for their vital work on civil liberties.”
Source: The Atlantic
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