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Photography Link Roundup

Photo: Smithsonian Institution

•  A Smithsonian volunteer has uncovered what seems to be the first true color photographs of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake — as well as the first true color photos ever taken of the city. [Newser]

•  Life magazine has released rare images of Hitler’s number one lady, Eva Braun, from her own personal collection. Love the one of Hitler’s portrait in her living room. [Life]

•  It’s a bummer when your Big Day coincides with a protest by anti-fascist demonstrators because then your photos are all messed up. [Daily Mail]

•  Dogtography, New York’s first-ever photo exhibit shot by dogs, is opening today. They took the photos with collar cams, if you’re wondering.  [Gothamist]

•  To celebrate Women’s History Month, NPR is calling for photos of inspiring women in any size, shape or form. To submit, tag your Flickr photos #nprwomen. [The Picture Show]

New York’s No. 1 Fashion Photographer

Bill Cunningham New York, opening on March 16 in New York and March 25 in Los Angeles, celebrates the life and work of photographer/bicyclist/smock fan/all around eccentric, Bill Cunningham.

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Mystery Film’s Owners Found

Todd Bieber, the extremely dogged finder of a roll of film in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, finally tracked down its owners after a five-country journey through Europe. (Does this guy have no job and unlimited funds? Amazing.) He met up with them in Paris in a reunion he called awkward.

As the Lookout blog reports:

It turns out the photos were taken by a French student temporarily studying in America named Camille, whose brother was visiting her in New York when the storm hit. Camille’s ex-roommate wrote to Bieber to say that she thought the photos were taken by Camille because she recognized the block outside her apartment.

In another universe, a New York City sanitation worker would have found the film and just thrown it away….


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DSLR Gets Steampunk Makeover

Photo by Jake von Slatt

Steampunk/hacker extraordinaire Jake von Slatt decided to converge his Canon DSLR and an old Diana camera plastic lens to see what would happen, and then, since that was too “competent and boring,” he mounted a bellows rig he picked up from the town dump. If you’re curious how he did it, he traces the process step-by-step on his blog, The Steampunk Workshop

(via Boing Boing)

Call for Entries: Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism

The 17th annual Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism is calling for entries for outstanding reporting on disadvantaged children and families. The categories include print articles and series, as well as photojournalism, multimedia and video.

Winning stories offer a fresh take on a significant issue, show enterprise in research and reporting and demonstrate masterful storytelling and impact. Judging is conducted by respected journalists and journalism educators.

+  First-place winners receive $1,000 and are honored at a ceremony in Washington, DC.
+  The contest is open to news organizations with an independent voice (members of advocacy groups and professional associations are not eligible).
+ Work must have appeared in the 2010 calendar year, from January 1 to December 31.
+  The deadline is April 15, 2011.

Work from a variety of big and small newspapers, magazines and online outlets have won in the past. For more information, go to the University of Maryland’s Journalism Center on Children & Families.

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JR Wishes For Your Photos

The French street artist “JR” is known for what he calls “photograffiti,” huge black and white photos that he plasters on hillsides, buildings and roofs, mainly in very poor parts of the world. He just won the 2011 TED Prize, and along with the honor, he got a $100,000 grant and one wish “big enough to change the world.” So he’s created “Inside Out,” a global project that you can be a part of, if you so desire.

As the New York Times sums it up:

The artist has started a project called Inside Out that allows anyone to upload a photo of himself (or of families or groups of people) for free to a Web site: insideoutproject.net. JR and a team working with him then make those photographs into large posters that are mailed back to the senders of the photographs, with the hope that that they will display the posters somewhere in public. Whether the posters are displayed with the permission of property owners or are pasted up in a more guerrilla fashion seems to be left up the individual poster owners.

So how about it? (If you participate, please send us a photo of your installation.)

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