What Can You Really See From Space?
The problem I want to raise is that once you’ve been given a literal description of the image, your imagination may shut down too soon.
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AP Photographer Alters Syria Photo to Remove … a Camera! — Worth Considering a Little Deeper
It's ironic because the viewer, particularly in war photography, isn't supposed to be aware that there is a camera.
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The Debate Over White House Photo Access: The BagNews Salon (with Video Highlights)
Watch video highlights of the salon as an esteemed panel, mostly current or former White House photojournalists, discuss the ins-and-outs of presidential photo coverage.
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On Jim Estrin's 9/11 Meditation: Silence and Dust
What touches me about the photo, beyond the eloquence of the ritual, is its audacity and appeal for humanity in the midst of roiling injury and two wars of retaliation.
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On any Given Day, What May be Needed is Not 400 Photographs, But Just 1
There is much more to the "photo excess" discussion than the likelihood of being overwhelmed. Bob Hariman weighs in.
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News Photography: The Year of the Selfie, Too
If "the selfie" was the dominant theme this year in social media and personal photography, I would argue that the theme of "self absorption" (or, "the absorption of self") applied as much to news photography.
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Alex Garcia's "Inner City" Photos from Austin: The Pictures That Cannot Be Seen
Where the "impossibility" lies is in the steep challenge of looking at these photos naïvely enough to consider each individual as distinct from the associations they invariably stimulate.
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Photo Requests from Solitary: S. Martin Luther King Drive and E. 63rd Street
First pass, I was not just struck by the emptiness – or, the quiet here, but I was concerned by it.
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The Naval Yard Shooting Photo That Wasn't –Then Was
Because our goal is to promote visual and media literacy, The Atlantic's summary of these photos is something to take note of.
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Sweet Damascus
So the photos from Syria the past year or so have been a little weighted toward Aleppo and, recently, the Damascus suburb of Gouta. On that diet, of course, one would only think that apocalypse reigns.
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No Photos by Women Photojournalists In Syria & Brown Miss America Freak Out: 2 Reasons BuzzFeed Starting to Piss Me Off
Here was a perfect opportunity to show us a women or multiple women journalists, for goddsakes, actually covering the war in Syria -- though I understand it might have taken about a minute to find one.
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Alan Chin in Lower Manhattan: 9/11 Turns Twelve
Good hack and lensman that I am, I fight for access to restricted areas, bemused that the young men and women in uniforms who see journalists as intrusive adversaries have no idea that, the dozen years back, I was here too.
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Former Newsweek Editor and that "Blurry" Obama
Did the intent of the image, when it was originally made, have more to do with Obama's political style? Or was it motivated more by the fact the man was such an unknown?
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There is Shooting and There is Shooting
Among photography's many virtues, it slows the world down, indeed, it stops the world in ways that normal sight is often hard pressed to do—at 1/800th of a second, for example—inviting us not just to look at the world around us, but to see it, sometimes with fresh eyes.
Continue ReadingDetroit, Braddock and the (Powerfully) Indeterminate Nature of the Image
It is difficult to assign to art the role of producing, or the credit for realising social and political change - something that is in the end always the result of human efforts, and not reducible to the content of specific images.
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David Schalliol from Chicago: From a Focus on Buildings and Landscape, Photographing People
Now that I am engaged in a project about a specific neighborhood, documenting the demolition of a corner of Englewood to accommodate the major expansion of that freight yard, my photographic relationship to people is changing.
Continue ReadingReady, Aim, Backfire: Police Photographer's "Rolling Stone Retribution" Photos
To the extent that this kid looks so small and exposed, so bloodied and bowed, so targeted by shooters and shooters alike, I wonder if Mr. Murphy and his counterparts aren't feeling now like they should have just finished the job.
Continue ReadingAsiana Crash Photos: NTSB Scoops BuzzFeed
It's interesting and curious -- in this era of social networking, scoops, and competition for the money shot between new media, traditional media and citizen journalists -- to look at these photos of the Asiana Airlines crash site from the NTSB.
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