Craft – Page 29 – Visual Journalism

January 24, 2012

On Kodak and Life

Over at the New York Times‘ Lens blog, David Gonzalez has posted his eulogy (perhaps premature) for Kodak. I loved this segment: And so I became an acolyte in the Temple of Kodak. Like a convert, I embraced the rituals, spending hours under the soft amber lights, holding beakers like chalices, head bowed over trays in worshipful anticipation. There was...

Craft/Tech Talk

January 23, 2012

Creativity is a Struggle

CNN.com’s Todd Leopold is building a nice little series on creativity, success and failure. This week, he features Pulitzer Prize winning author Jennifer Egan but also touches on the Xerox PARC lab, Orson Welles and others. Money graf: But it’s not true. Successful people — creative people — fail every day, just like everybody else. Except they don’t view failure...

Advice & Learning/Craft

January 22, 2012

Photographers and Their Photographs

Wired.com has posted a gallery of images by Tim Mantoani that’s pretty cool – portraits of photographers holding their iconic images. (Thanks to colleague Welch Suggs for the lede.)

Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

January 18, 2012

Lenses: Cameras as Applications: Computers?

Over at The Online Photographer, Ctein has an elegantly headlined post about whether you’re buying into a camera system or a lens system. Worth pondering.

Craft/Tech Talk

January 18, 2012

Colorizing History

This is both really well done and horrifying … iconic black and white images that have been colorized by Sanna Dullaway.

Craft/Ethics & Legal/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

January 14, 2012

On Creativity, with Brian Wilson

Over on CNN.com, Todd Leopold takes a look at the genius of Brian Wilson. Which, you know, is great and all. But what on earth does this have to do with visual journalism? We all love the Beach Boys, right? It’s the angle that he sets out on, though maybe doesn’t fully attain, that intrigues me – it’s the creative...

Craft

January 10, 2012

Inside (Covering) Politics

James Estrin interviewed New York Times’ colleague Jim Wilson about covering politics and how it’s changed over the last 30 years for the Lens blog. I did three primaries in New Hampshire, loved every minute of them and would happily spend a few wintry weeks back up there to do it again. Wilson’s comment on access is telling about how...

Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

January 6, 2012

Eve Arnold Passes at 99

Magnum Photos announced on Thursday that Eve Arnold has died in London at the age of 99. Arnold was the first woman admitted into the exclusive agency. “Her intimate, sensitive and compassionate 10-year collaboration with Marilyn Monroe has cemented her as one of the most iconic portrait photographers of our time, but it is the long-term reportage stories that drove...

Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

January 5, 2012

Inside National Geographic, 19 Years Ago

Joe McNally has posted a video done about him working on the Sense of Sight story in National Geographic nearly 20 years ago. Runs about 16 minutes, but well worth it as it gives you a sense of how stories were built back then.

Craft/Photojournalism

January 1, 2012

When Seeing Isn’t Enough

Another link from Black Star Rising today … David Saxe talking about the photographers role in image making, that simply being there isn’t enough, that there’s a need to share your vision, your feeling, your emotion.