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Photography Link Roundup

Published January 13, 2011 Photography Leave a Comment
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Photo by lightwelder

• Substitute teacher, photographer and boxing enthusiast Emily Harney has been shooting fights for 10 years — she’s even pissed off Mike Tyson. Those are her photos in the Mark Wahlberg  movie “The Fighter.” [Salem News]

• The World Erotic Art Museum in Miami is suing blogger/photographer Thomas Hawk for $2 million because he took photos of the exhibits and published them on Flickr. They say he violated their “no professional or flash photography” policy. [Gizmodo]

• Paul Burwell is a photographer who specializes in snowflakes. He’s good, but he’s actually not the world’s pre-eminent snowflake photographer. [Montreal Gazette]

• What does Norway look like over 365 days? In the video “One year in 2 minutes,” you see 3,500 images — all from the same window — unfold. [Boing Boing]

• Should you work for free? Consult this helpful chart for the answer. [A Photo Editor]

Photography Link Roundup

Published January 6, 2011 Photography 2 Comments
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• The New Yorker’s photography blog is running five exclusive excerpts of Cheryl Dunn’s documentary on street photography, Everybody Street – featuring Bruce Davidson, Mary Ellen Mark, and more. [Photo Booth]

• New York Times staff photographer Fred R. Conrad explains how he got a pretty sweet shot of a balloon delivery in progress totally by accident. [Lens]

• Refocus is a nonprofit that teaches photography to disadvantaged and marginalized minority groups, and they’d love your old cameras. [Refocus]

• A Maryland hospital has banned photos and videos of newborns in the delivery room until five minutes after birth. They think this rule will help the medical staff to do their jobs better; we think there are going to be a lot of angry parents. [ABC News]

• Update to a story we posted on in December: a Google engineer named Neil Fraser posted Jeremy Marks’ bail to get him out of jail in time for Christmas. Marks had been in jail for eight months on charges of “attempted lynching,” or in other words, filming a police officer with his cell phone. The whole thing is a farce, but thankfully there are good people in this world. [LA Weekly]

Photography Link Roundup

Published December 16, 2010 Photography Leave a Comment
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• During the period of 1935-1944, the Farm Security Administration undertook a photo project to document American life. The book Killed compiles 157 rejected photos by FSA director Roy Stryker, photos that didn’t meet his exacting standards. The above video, “Punctured,” put together by William E. Jones, is a sampling of some of the castoffs that were marked by a hole punch.

• Mick Rock — “the man who shot the seventies,” i.e., Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Queen, and just about everyone else — talks about his new book. See Rolling Stone’s slideshow here. [Bloomberg News]

• Forty years later, John Filo remembers the Kent State riots and the circumstances behind his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo, one of the most iconic images of the era. [Neon Tommy]

• Photoshop wiz Danil Polevoy drops modern-day pop culture icons into old photos, creating incongruous images like half Storm Trooper/half vintage military officer. [Design You Trust, via Boing Boing]

• Sit down at your own risk: a photo gallery of the 50 Scariest Santas. [UGO]

Photography Link Roundup

Published December 9, 2010 Photography Leave a Comment
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“Shark Men” Vigo, Spain 2010 Photo by Corey Arnold

• Corey Arnold is both a fisherman and a photographer, a great combination when you’re trying to document the commercial fishing industry in the European Union — so “Fish-Work Europe” is the result of five months tracking ports and people in nine countries. It’s also at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art in Portland, OR through January 15. [Hartman Fine Art]

• 12,000 of White House photographer Cecil Stoughton’s photos, letters and books are to be auctioned off today in New York, including the iconic photo of Lyndon Johnson being sworn in on Air Force One and the only known image of JFK and Marilyn Monroe together. [Bonhams]

• “10 Ways to Break Photographer’s Block.” [Photocritic]

• A rundown of the best apps to help edit and share the photos gathering in your smartphone. [Wall Street Journal]

• And there’s an Ansel Adams app for iPad. For those times when you want to run a slideshow of his work but to your own iTunes library pick. [The Online Photographer]

Photography Link Roundup

Published December 2, 2010 Photography 1 Comment
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Photo: John Foster

• John Foster has been buying photos at garage sales and on eBay for the past decade, but you’d never know they’re just a hodgepodge of random finds when they’re evoking Henri Cartier-Bresson and Sally Mann. [Newsweek]

• Hundreds of never-before-seen photos of Hitler taken by his personal photographer Heinrich Hoffman will be auctioned off in England in January. [Daily Mail]

• Steve Schapiro‘s photos from the set of 1975’s Taxi Driver are now compiled in a glossy 328-page Taschen tome. Listen to Schapiro’s thoughts on the film in this Guardian piece here. [Brain Pickings]

• Artist Jon Rafman has collected thousands of screen grabs of Google Street View images, and the result is by turns a banal and creepily voyeuristic look at everyday life. [Cool Hunting]

• “14 Tips to be a Successful Freelance Photographer” [Digital Photography School]

Photography Link Roundup

Published November 18, 2010 Photography Leave a Comment
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Photo by Sacha Goldberger

• A grandson decides to cheer up his 91-year-old depressed Hungarian grandmother by dressing her in a superhero costume and photographing her in outlandish settings. Her depression lifts, she has a MySpace page, all is well! [My Modern Met via Boing Boing]

• “Cuba in Revolution” documents the island nation’s epic rebellion through 30 photojournalists’ photos from the 50s and 60s. Now through Jan. 9 at the International Center of Photography. [New York Times]

• A retrospective of California governor-elect Jerry Brown’s style. Or, the loss of hair over four decades. [LA Times]

• The 65th College Photographer of the Year went to Ohio University’s Rachel Mummey. See her work here. [NPAA]

• This is just disturbing: An NYU photography professor is getting a camera surgically implanted in his head as part of art exhibit. The images, taken at one-minute intervals, will be transmitted to a museum in Qatar. [Wall Street Journal]

Photography Link Roundup

Published November 11, 2010 Photography Leave a Comment
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Photo: National Library of Scotland

• For Veteran’s Day, Reuters compiled a sobering collection of dozens of photos of the US’s many wounded veterans. [Reuters]

• Even if you hate the Lakers (and we don’t blame you  if you do), NBA staff photographer Andrew D. Bernstein has some great documentary shots in the new book he co-authored with Phil Jackson called “Journey to the Ring.” [LA Times]

• Wired’s Raw File blog rounds up their favorite photobloggers. What, no Boy With Grenade? [Raw File]

• Underwater photographer Karin Brussaard was shooting tiger sharks in the Bahamas when a particularly cranky one snatched a camera right from her colleague’s hands. The camera survived with only a few scrapes. The colleague is looking into becoming a wedding photographer. [Daily Mail]

• The media they are a changin’, and here are the 12 things photo students need to know before they graduate. [PhotoShelter]

 

Photography Link Roundup

Published November 4, 2010 Photography Leave a Comment
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Priest with Dark Glasses, 1970 Photo by Paul McDonough/Courtesy of Sasha Wolf Gallery

• Paul McDonough muses on his masterly street photography, which is compiled in the just-released book “Paul McDonough: New York Photographs 1968–1978.” An exhibit of his work is also on display at New York’s Sasha Wolf Gallery beginning today. [The Paris Review]

• Matthew Brady, the most famous photographer in the world…circa 1860 – just one of the things you’ll learn about the “father of modern photojournalism” who died an indigent, naturally. [Washington Post]

• Britons are up in arms that Prime Minister David Cameron would have an official photographer on the payroll, which is pro forma here in the US, so that seems a little odd. A former photo editor and election artist debate the issue. [BBC]

• Photographer David K. Langford is suing the state of Texas for appropriating his iconic 1984 image of a cowboy and horse on its vehicle inspection stickers. Don’t mess with Langford. [UPI]

• San Francisco hosts the World Photography Festival Nov. 18-21, which will include talks, workshops, studio sessions and portfolio reviews. [World Photography Organisation]

Photography Link Roundup

Published October 28, 2010 Photography 2 Comments
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Photo by Dean Terry

• A man with a blog examines some daguerreotypes of the Cincinnati waterfront from 1848 and, with the help of a reader, unearths one of the first photos of humans — ever. [Boing Boing]

• The British Journal of Photography awarded its International Photography Award to Michelle Sank’s image of a man lying face down in the grass. People were dismayed and confused. One of the judges explains the decision. [BJP]

• Seven years of taking the same shot out his office window, and Andy Kyle finally got the big one — a double rainbow over the River Dart in Dartmouth, Devon. The double rainbow guy would be apoplectic. [Daily Mail]

• Critical Mass announces their Top 50 and the Lucie Awards were given out last night. Cheers to all. [A Photo Editor]

• Cameraman Mike Skiff is suing Sacha Baron Cohen for assaulting him at a Prop 8 rally (in character as “Bruno”) in LA in 2008. He wants $25K to make it all better. [E! News]

Photography Link Roundup

Published October 21, 2010 Photography Leave a Comment
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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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