Good Work – Page 27 – Visual Journalism

April 6, 2012

Silver, Light, Chemistry and a Stunning Hook

I want you to click play on the video below and keep your cursor over the pause button, watching the time tick off. When it hits 57 seconds, stop it and ask yourself what this video is about. Then watch the rest. If that isn’t the greatest lead in ever, I don’t know what is. There is No Way you...

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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...

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March 17, 2012

Sequentially Yours

Elliot Erwitt has a new book out, Sequentially Yours – a collection of sequences he’s shot over the years. The BBC interviewed him about it, and it’s kind of fun. (Thanks to Greg Mironchuk for the link.)

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March 5, 2012

Bonus Opportunity If You’re Headed to the NSC

If you’re Virginia bound this week for the National Press Photographers Association’s Northern Short Course, try and book a little time before or after. National Geographic has an exhibit up at their Washington, D.C., headquarters of unpublished image from the 2011 magazine stories. (It would be wicked cool if someone at NG would open this up late for those of...

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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,...

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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.

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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?

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February 28, 2012

The Baseball Factory by Billy Weeks

Longtime supporter Billy Weeks has been featured on the CNN Photos blog with a set of images about baseball in the Dominican Republic, a project he’s been working on for several years. Check out photos four, seven and ten for a true look at what these kids are playing on and with.

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February 14, 2012

Photographers You Should Know About

Scott Bourne over at PhotoFocus has stolen an idea from me. Of course, it’s an idea I never executed, but whatever … he is beginning a series on Photographers You Should Know About with a look at Dorothea Lange, one of the stars of the Farm Securities Administration in the 1930s. Worth keeping an eye on this series if he...

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February 8, 2012

The Education of Walter Iooss, Jr.

Sports Illustrated has posted an autobiographical piece by one of their legends, Walter Iooss, Jr. It’s a long read, but worth it as he tells tales of shooting the greats over the last 50 years. My self-aggrandizing moment: I assisted for Iooss once, in about 1995, on a shoot of Mo Vaughn at Fenway Park. Learned a ton, even if...

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