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September 27, 2012

Photographers to Ignore

Over at Wired, they’ve picked up a piece by Bryan Formhals and Blake Andrews on 10 Photographers You Should Ignore. Stick your tongue in your cheek as you read this … then realize most young shooters won’t. Or will argue that they really are the next Arbus or Adams. I might recommend being aware of these shooters but not emulating...

Craft/Tech Talk

September 20, 2012

Let the Aruging Begin …

Don’t you love a good list? Even when it’s an insane one like, say, the 100 most influential photographers of all time? A list that puts Robert Capa at 95. And omits James Nachtwey completely? And no Matthew Brady? Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine aren’t here? Special thanks to NPPA President Sean Elliot for giving me something else to be...

Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

September 20, 2012

The Relevance of Picture Agencies

In an article at the Wall Street Journal, Mary Panzer questions whether photo agencies like Magnum are still relevant in the modern media era. It’s a good question, and one I don’t really want to think about too much. More troubling is the fact that with the decline of the press and its demand for relevance, and the rise of...

Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

September 18, 2012

Then and Now

There have been lots of folks talking about the Civil War over the last year, but this is one of the coolest … Todd Harrington, who specializes in wet plate photography, has tried to find the location of some of Alexander Gardner’s images from the Battle of Antietam and recreate them. The way NPR put the web page together is...

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

September 14, 2012

The Darkening Effect of Memory

Over at Bag News Notes, Michael Shaw looks at the retoning of images shot by James Nachtwey on September 11, 2001 – all of the images are appearing darker than when originally published eleven years ago. He makes some good arguments for why this may be, particularly that the editors who scanned and prepped those images weren’t on the scene...

Craft/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

September 6, 2012

Burnett Fan Club Post #317

You’re probably sick of me linking to stories about David Burnett. Tough, here’s another one from Film Is Not Dead. And, aside from a massively wrong word choice in the second graf (arrogation in place of inauguration), it’s pretty good as it has Burnett talk about his experience covering the Olympics. Loved this quote: The one worry of the Olympics...

Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 27, 2012

How to Pitch a Story

Over at the Poynter Institute, Tom Huang has an excellent post up about how to pitch a story. One of my great struggles in the classroom is moving students from shooting items or events to documenting ideas and issues – this will be brought into all my classes now.

Advice & Learning/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

August 26, 2012

How to Get Better

Over at the Online Photographer, Mike Johnston talks about how to learn to love a camera. His advice is two fold: learn the camera, then use it. A lot. The advice I give my students is equally simple (and appropriate since the intro kids will be getting their cameras tomorrow): the camera has to disappear in your hands. Much as...

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 14, 2012

How Reuters Covered Track and Field in London

Reuters produced the video below to give us an idea of how they covered track and field at the Olympics. Think about this: for the 100 meter final, that lasted 9.63 seconds, they had 15 photojournalists covering it. The race started at 9:52 and they had their first photo on the wire at 9:55. Egads. (Thanks to Stephen Terry for...

Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 8, 2012

When Grand Central Was a Grand Gallery

In all my youthful travels to New York, I don’t ever recall getting to see these images. But I wish I had … At The New York Times’ Lens blog, James Estrin takes a look back at the giant Colorama images that use to grace Grand Central Station. Shot on large format cameras, these 60-foot wide images must have been...

Craft/Good Work/Tech Talk

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