We posted [part 1] here.
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CONTACTS: William Klein [part 2]
Published October 26, 2010 Photography Leave a CommentTags: William Klein
We posted [part 1] here.
Spades With the President
Published October 26, 2010 Photography Leave a CommentTags: Air Force One, Barack Obama, Pete Souza, White House photographer
Photo by Pete Souza/The White House
Nice gig, if you can get it….
On long Air Force One flights, [President Obama] retreats to the conference room and plays spades for hours, maintaining a trash-talking contest all the while, with the same three aides: Reggie Love, his personal assistant; Marvin Nicholson, his trip director; and Pete Souza, his White House photographer.
Source: New York Times
Photo by Olivier Marcel
CONTACTS: William Klein [part 1]
Published October 25, 2010 Photography 1 CommentTags: CONTACTS, William Klein
[Part 2] will be posted tomorrow.
LA Times Photo Intern: Don’t Bore Editors
Published October 25, 2010 Photography 2 CommentsTags: intern, John Adkisson, LA Times
Photo by John W. Adkisson/Los Angeles Times
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student John Adkisson was the LA Times’ 2010 photography intern over the summer, and he’s given an interview to the The Visual Student blog at NPAA.org about his time at the Times, revealing what he learned.
“This may seem obvious, but I think the biggest thing that I learned is to not bore the editors. At that level of editing, they’ve pretty much seen it all. What they want to see is something they haven’t seen. You don’t necessarily have to perfectly illustrate the story everytime. Making a really graphic or cool frame can engage readers in an otherwise mundane story. It really pushed me to work situations harder to try and make something different.”
Source: The Visual Student
Max
Published October 22, 2010 Photo Of The Day , Photography 2 CommentsTags: batman, discarted, hollywood, Los Angeles, shawn nee, superman
Photo by Shawn Nee / discarted
Trashed Flag Hurts Newspaper Readers’ Feelings
Published October 21, 2010 Photography 1 CommentTags: American flag, David Carson, foreclosures, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, trash
Photo by David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It appears some readers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch would prefer their news nice and sanitized. Never mind that the real world is oftentimes ugly and unfair, they just don’t want to see it — and you’re not a patriot if you reveal it to them! That’s what editors found out when they ran photographer David Carson’s photo of an American flag in a trash can to accompany a story on foreclosures in O’Fallon, Mo.
Readers wrote in asking why they had to include it – it’s sacrilege! Couldn’t the photographer have removed it before taking the photo? He must not respect veterans!
In a response on the paper’s photo blog, Carson actually had to explain the fundamentals of photojournalism to readers: “As a journalist, I’m bound by ethics to only record and document reality. I never stage it or change it, even after I’m done photographing it.” But, even worse, he felt he had to list all the veterans he is related to and was named after to prove he’s not really the horrible traitor they think he is.
Listen, I love veterans just as much as the next guy. Many of my best friends are veterans. But I think we can quit using it as an all-purpose criticism when our delicate sensibilities are offended.
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Photo by Reuben Wu
Power of Photojournalism 2/2
Published October 21, 2010 Photography , Photojournalism Leave a CommentTags: Pictures of the Year International
Winners of the 66th Pictures of the Year International and editors talk about photojournalism and their work. Winning photos are also presented.
Photography Link Roundup
Published October 21, 2010 Photography Leave a CommentTags: Cary Conover, Darcy Padilla, link, Mary McCartney, Paul Hedlund, Robert Mapplethorpe, roundup
Girls in Brooklyn, 1974 Photo by Danny Lyon/The U.S. National Archives
• A Q&A with freelance photographer Cary Conover about shooting for the New York Times, how the city has changed, and why he’s picking up and moving to Kansas to become a high school photojournalism teacher. [Street Reverb Magazine]
• With her work being displayed in London’s National Portrait Gallery, Mary McCartney (daughter of Paul) talks about her new photography book, a retrospective called From Where I Stand. Real talent or major connections? You decide. [The Guardian]
• Paul Hedlund lives on the streets of Seattle, selling copies of the newspaper “Real Change” and his own photography. “I get great compliments, but I need customers! It’s hard to sell art on the sidewalk.” [Crosscut]
• Another award for photographer Darcy Padilla – she won the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography on Wednesday for her 17-year-long documentation of the AIDs-afflicted mother and addict Julie Baird. [Lens]
• James Franco to star as Robert Mapplethorpe in future biopic? [Showbiz 411]
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