(Some Takes on) The First Arrest Caught on Google Glass
If there's something memorable here, it's the contrast with those dinosaurs rushing around filming the dust up with their cell phones.
Continue ReadingSFO Asiana Accident: The Power of David Eun's "I Just Crashed" Tweet
There isn't a photo that comes close to the power of the one taken by passenger and Samsung exec, David Eun, from the brown grassy field just off the runway near the body of the plane. The question, though, is why?
Continue ReadingLeica Video Ad: War Photography Like it Was Yesterday
War is eternal and war photography is (still) the bastion of virile men destined for death.
Continue ReadingRita Leistner: Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan
So this photo is one of the first I ever shot on a phone cam of any kind, and on the iPhone Hipstamatic app in particular. Already I could feel I was photographing a memory that wasn’t a memory I actually had.
Continue ReadingTIME Gitmo Photo Story: Tell Me You Didn't, Eugene
Given the military censorship and the heinous situation surrounding the ongoing mass hunger strike and force-feeding of prisoners, it's troubling this photo-story would just pass into the ether.
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People Who Live in Glass Boxes: The Arne Svenson Tribeca Telephoto Controversy
How is it Svenson didn't know that, in a city build on wealth and status, money -- floating glass boxes or not -- also buys you transparency?
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When Words are Photoshopped
So it turns out that there really are two sets of rules: the rules that guide reporting what is supposed to be said, and the rules that insure that some things are not said.
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James Whitlow Delano – First Dispatch: Return to the Rainforest
Over the months ahead, I want to make some sense about how a long-term project on the needless destruction of the equatorial rainforest came to be an obsession and how I have attempted to visually portray this form of daylight robbery.
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Stereotypes of Black Violence … and Photography Playing with Your Head: That Karales Photo at Lens Blog
Racism and racial stereotypes being so grounded in our culture, I was lost for meaning when I first saw this.
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Horse of a Different Color: Charlotte Observer's Creative Contribution to Photo Processing Debate
What a wonderful way to cue the public that something is up with news photography -- and to make it known with such a simple illustration.
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Dare I Say the Homeless Have Made for Some Fabulous Bits and Pieces These Past Few Days?
The homeless figure is unwittingly enlisted into a composition, an emotionally laden object conscripted to collide with a 50 foot model, or a bonnet in a passing parade.
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A Suicide Photo
In spite of all the newswire images I look at everyday, this one keeps troubling me.
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The Role of the Camera and the Photos in Domestic Abuse: Maggie, Shane and Sara Lewkowicz
Since most people seem terribly uncomfortable about actually addressing the images, let's go there.
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Teaching Women the 1000 Yard Stare
It's interesting how much differently we might look at a picture given where we are along the "equality trajectory.
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BagNewsNotes Response to World Press and POY Pellegrin Decisions, Controversy Overall
Do we think the entire controversy portends the need for a larger, more open discussion? Yes, we do. And we are impressed with the high caliber of discussion our post has engendered.
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BagNews, Paolo Pellegrin and Reading the Pictures
The other notable effect from yesterday's critique was the counter-critique that BagNews "failed to contact" Mr. Pellegrin in advance or "give him the chance to reply." I welcome the chance to clarify a fundamental misperception people make about the role and practice of BagNews relative to news photography.
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When Reality Isn’t Dramatic Enough: Misrepresentation in a World Press and Picture of the Year Winning Photo
What happens when a World Press Photo and Picture of the Year International award-winning photograph wasn’t taken where it was claimed to be taken and when the subject of the photo isn’t who the photographer says he is?
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From Gaza to Kansas City: Yes Photos, But So Much More!
When it comes to the processing of a photo, our concern is primarily the motive and the aesthetic, political and historical effect of the result.
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