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"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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"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´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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© Paolo
Woods
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"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
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"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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© Neil
Armstrong/NASA
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"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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© Neil
Armstrong/NASA
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"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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© dpreview.com
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"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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"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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