Craft – Page 25 – Visual Journalism

June 28, 2012

Casey, Crime Photographer Radio Show

Don’t you love it when you learn something completely old? Did you know the Columbia Broadcasting System had a radio show in the 1940s about a crime photographer? Me either. A link popped up on Twitter (but now I can’t remember who it sent it out), and I did some searching to see if there were downloadable files. And there...

Audio/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

June 27, 2012

The Rolling Stones, as Shown by Jim Marshall

CNN.com has a gallery up of images from the new Jim Marshall book on the 1972 Rolling Stones tour. One quote, pulled from an earlier book, says more about Marshall and his work than everything else ever written about him: I want someone to see those people, not my picture of them. So well said, and something a lot of...

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 26, 2012

New Alexia Foundation Grant

The Alexia Foundation has announced a new grant program that focuses on stories about issues surrounding the abuse of women. The Women’s Initiative In every country in the world, women are being abused, trafficked, bartered, sold, burned by fire and acid and killed, sometimes by their own families, for “honor” or anger. The Alexia Foundation, recognizing that most of the...

Business & Industry/Competitions/Craft/Photojournalism

June 24, 2012

Too Deep or Not Too Deep

Over at The Online Photographer, John Kennerdell has a column up about the desire for shallow depth of field and the believe amongst new shooters that large sensors and wide apertures equate to professional images. Several grafs down, he gets to the core of the issue. It’s not that wide apertures make images better, it’s that it makes them easier...

Craft/Tech Talk

June 20, 2012

Cell Phone Cameras and the Pros

Over at the Poynter Institute, Keith Jenkins has a post up about professional photojournalists using cell phone cameras for their work assignments. It’s a nice introduction to the topic, though I wish it delved a little deeper. Yesterday I was interviewed by a reporter for our student newspaper about the effects of Instagram on professional photographers (will post a link...

Craft/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

June 11, 2012

Martin Parr, Picturing the South

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta has shows up titled Picturing New York and Picturing the South, hoping to get in to see these in the next few weeks. Additionally, on Thursday, June 14, photographer Martin Parr will be onsite talking about his documentary project, Up and Down Peachtree.

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 11, 2012

Beneath the Lively Morgue

A while back, The New York Times launched a new Tumblr site, The Lively Morgue, that features archival prints and shows the backside, the notes and captions. It’s kind of addictive. Now, NPR’s Claire o’Neill has the story behind the site and talks with Jeff Roth, the last man in the photo morgue.

At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

June 7, 2012

Going Old School for a New President

Over at The Online Photographer, Michael Johnston linked off to a series of photos of French photographer Raymond Depardon shooting the official portrait of the new French President, Françios Hollande. There are some interesting comments, including one by Johnston himself, about the camera that made the final image – a 1962 Rolleiflex. More interesting, to me, are the comments about...

Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

May 10, 2012

Horst Faas Has Passed

The Associated Press is reporting that legendary photojournalist Horst Faas has passed at the age of 79. Faas, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, lead the AP’s coverage of the Vietnam War. He lived for a time with David Halberstam, the late New York Times correspondent, who is quoted as saying, “I don’t think anyone stayed longer, took more risks or...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

May 6, 2012

Eisie and Papa

Ben Cosgrove has a story up on Alfred Eisenstaedt’s trip to Cuba in 1952 to photograph Ernest Hemingway … and how miserable of a subject he was.

Craft/Photojournalism

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