Craft – Page 27 – Visual Journalism

March 26, 2012

Photo Geeks: Buy This Book

I have it sitting on my desk, I don’t have time to read it but I keep sliding back over to it … Todd Gustavson published this great book called 500 Cameras: 170 Years of Photographic Innovation. Pages and pages of classic cameras. I want one of each.

Craft/Tech Talk

March 21, 2012

Ed Kashi’s Notes From the Road

Over at the New York Times’ Lens blog, James Estrin talks with Ed Kashi about his latest book, a collection of journal entries Kashi has penned to his wife over the last 20 years. Kashi talked about this project during the NPPA’s Northern Short Course two weeks ago and it was a deeply moving presentation. He feels he has spent...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

March 21, 2012

Mark Hertzberg to Retire

The Wisconsin News Photographers Association has the announcement – after 34 years in photojournalism, Mark Hertzberg is going to retire. And you’re telling yourself lots of people retire, why should I care about him? From his post in Racine, Wisconsin, Hertzberg has had a massive influence on our profession, most of it very quietly. He has been an ardent supporter...

Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

March 20, 2012

Raw or JPEG?

I converted over to a fully-raw workflow a few years ago, sucking up hard drive space and slowing down my workflow in an effort to get every bit of pixel quality I could. Now, over at The Online Photographer, Ken Tanaka has a post up on how using the raw format is throwing away a lot of engineering expertise the...

Craft/Thoughts & Theory

March 18, 2012

Salgado on Art

Laura Barnett interviewed Sebastio Salgado last month for The Guardian, worth a quick read. Favorite quote: For the first time, I looked through a lens – and photography immediately started to invade my life. I so understand that.

Craft/Photojournalism

March 16, 2012

About the Pictures Not Taken

I advise my students to never talk about the images they didn’t make – because that will become the only photo an editor ever wants. Now, someone has turned all of those stories of missed opportunities into a book. And, of course, I desperately want to read about these non-existent photos now … Sean O’Hagan at The Guardian dives into...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

March 4, 2012

Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet

Most of us probably don’t know who Albet Kahn is, but we should. An early Twentieth Century millionaire, he dispatched photographers around the world to shoot color autochromes, a record of who we were then. If you scroll through the images there, take a look at the photo out of Montenegro – that’s not a crack in the picture frame,...

Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

March 3, 2012

He Had the Picture

Stan Stearns, the UPI photographer who made the iconic image of John F. Kennedy, Jr., saluting at his father’s funeral, has passed at 76.

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

March 1, 2012

White House News Photographers Association Student Photography Contest

There’s just two weeks left to get your entries in to the White House News Photographers Association’s 2012 Student Photographer of the Year contest. This could be great exposure for you, win, lose or draw – get your stuff together and get it in ASAP. For the UGA kids, if you win, dinner’s on me. I am totally not above bribing...

Competitions/Craft/Photojournalism

February 29, 2012

The Morgue Lives!

I am irrationally excited by this: The New York Times has launched a Tumblr site with images from their morgue. And not only are they publishing some long-lost and forgotten images, they’re shooting you what’s on the back of the print. Awesome, eh?