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The Education a Photographer

"The Education of a Photographer"
Edited by Charles H. Traub, Steven Heller, and Adam B. Bell
Review by Hans Durrer (Switzerland)

This lively and idiosyncratic collection of writings from the diverse thinkings about photography will bring encouragement and insight to all of those engaged in lens-based media in the twenty-first century. From the early twentieth-century masters to the postmoderns and on to today's incisive visionaries, this thought-provoking book will navigate the reader through the varied landscape of photography, eloquently expressing what it means to be a photographer" one reads on the backside cover and that is, essentially, true save for the fact that not all authors express themselves as clearly and eloquently as, say, John Szarkowski or Berenice Abbott.

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Christian Poveda

"Life among the Social Causes of Photojournalism"
Ulises Castellanos (Mex)

The international community has been moved by the recent murder of French-Spanish photojournalist Christian Poveda. Who killed him and why? It seems to have been the work of at least four of the protagonists of his last documentary, La vida loca, which deals with the Maras and gangs in El Salvador. The world will have to wait for the results of the investigation, while his body is repatriated to Spain.

But, who was Poveda? Here we’ll try to render a semblance of this singular journalist. It is always difficult to be objective when a colleague dies, particularly when he is assassinated at one of the best moments of his life, when he was on the verge of premiering his most recent work in Paris and Mexico.

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© Drik

"Drik´s 20th Anniversary"
(Bangladesh)

Zonezero would like to join the celebration of Bangladeshi photography on this landmark year that amounts to 20 years of Drik photo agency and 10 years of the Pathsala school. We would like to specially congratulate the outstanding job that Shahidul Alam has done not only in organizing, teaching, and providing visibility to photographers in Bangladesh, but in doing it so successfully.

We know that accomplishing such a paramount task has been the result of collaboration. We would also like to congratulate Shahidul's colleagues and staff at Drik and Pathsala for their vision and commitment.

We also thank Andy Levin and 100Eyes for sharing this magnificent selection of work done by Bangladeshi photographers portraying their own land and people.

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"The Black Snapper"

"The Black Snapper, an online magazine for talented photographers from all over the world, dedicates a week to talented young photographers from Brazil, selected by Joana Mazza, head curator of the FotoRio photo festival."

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Pedro Meyer© Paolo Woods

"Documentary Photography Project Newsletter Summer 2009"
Open Society Source (USA)

Call for Work: Moving Walls 17
Deadline: Friday, October 23, 2009.

The Open Society Institute invites photographers to submit a proposal and completed body of work for consideration in the Moving Walls 17 group exhibition. Since its inception in 1998, theMoving Walls exhibition series has featured nearly 100 photographers whose work addresses a variety of social justice and human rights issues that coincide with OSI's mission.

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Pedro Meyer© Pedro Meyer

"Walking Down the Street in Coyoacan"
by Pedro Meyer (Mexico)

"Creative acts can differ notably depending on the tool one has on hand. The other day I was walking down the street, after leaving a physical therapy session for my chronic back problems (the matter becomes relevant as we shall see shortly). While walking down the street, the image just as we see in the above right struck my eye.

The camera that I was carrying in my pocket was my iPhone, which even though it does not take photos at more than 2 megapixels in the model that I have (the new iPhone S can shoot images at 3 megapixels), these photos are good enough for most things we present on the internet."

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Steven Leckart
© Neil Armstrong/NASA

"Moon Landing Pics: Gee-Whiz Afterthough"
by Steven Leckart (USA)

"This is, perhaps, the most famous photo from the Apollo Moon landing. It was taken by Neil Armstrong, who shot most of the pics taken on the Lunar surface using a Hasselblad 500EL camera outfitted with a Zeiss Biogon f-5.6/60 mm lens and 70mm Kodak film that was "thin-based and thin emulsion double-perforated.

Called the Data Camera, the 500EL used on the Moon was modded with a special silver finish to boost the hardware's ability to withstand extreme thermal variations (the middle camera pictured here has the silver finish)."

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Maggie Fox© Neil Armstrong/NASA

"Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits"
by Maggie Fox (USA)

"The original recordings of the first humans landing on the moon 40 years ago were erased and re-used, but newly restored copies of the original broadcast look even better, NASA officials said on Thursday.

NASA released the first glimpses of a complete digital make-over of the original landing footage that clarifies the blurry and grainy images of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface of the moon."

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Richard Butler© dpreview.com

"Nokia nosing closer to cameraphone convergence?"
by Richard Butler (USA)

"It’s very easy, when you spend any amount of time learning and writing about one area, to focus in on that niche. We may spend most of our waking lives thinking or talking about digital cameras in the dpreview office but it’s worth remembering that there’s a whole world beyond digital cameras – there are camera phones, for example.

Finnish handset giant Nokia contacted us because it considers it latest phone/camera/music player, the N86 8MP, to be its most sophisticated photographic device yet and thought we’d be interested. It was always likely that there would be some convergence between compact cameras and camera phones so we thought we’d take a quick look, to see how close this 8 megapixel camera phone brings us."

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Legally Free Images

"Find Legally Free Images Online"
by Terry Stone (USA)

"It just got a little easier to keep yourself honest online.

By checking a few boxes in the "Usage rights" section of Google's Advanced Image Search page, you can now tell Google to show only files tagged with a license that allows re-use of the image. You can even narrow the search to see only images you can use commercially, or -- my favorite -- images you can modify and then use for commercial purposes."

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"New York Times Magazine Withdraws Altered Photo Essay"
Darryl Lang - Photo District News (USA)

"The New York Times has published a new editors' note about the altered photo essay that was published in Sunday's Times Magazine. The newspaper says "most of the images did not wholly reflect the reality they purported to show." The note does not address which photos were altered, or whether the photographer misrepresented them to the editors. PDN has tried to reach Edgar Martins, the photographer, but has not heard from him. Here's the Times' note."

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"Paris Match fake photo faux pas"
Incisive Media Ltd. 2009

"French magazine Paris Match was the victim of a hoax, as this year's winners of its Photojournalism Award revealed they had faked their images

Every year Paris Match, which remains one of the last weekly magazines to give predominant space to photography, organises its 'Grand Prix Paris Match du Photoreportage', dedicated to photojournalism projects. This year the award, which comes with EUR5000 cash prize and ten pages in Paris Match, was awarded to two students attending Strasbourg's university of decorative arts.
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