Good Work – Page 28 – Visual Journalism

February 6, 2012

Lantern Slides of Washington State

The NPR Picture Show blog has a post up about the work of Asahel Curtis who, in the early 1900s, was shooting photos around Washington state. In the 1920s, he was commissioned by the Department of Conservation and Development to create a set of images to advertise the state. The images were hand-colored lantern slides, designed to be projected and...

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January 24, 2012

Campaign Photos

Nice collection of campaign photos from ZUMAs Mark Makela. Clean, controlled, good variety.

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January 24, 2012

Same Hill, Different Day

Over at the New York Times’ Lens blog, Kristen Joy Watts has the story of Paul Octavious who has been photographing the same hill in Chicago for four years. It’s a neat project, wonder if there’s something near my office I could do the same with …

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January 23, 2012

Twitter Chat with the AP on Photo Style

Wish I’d caught this earlier … The @APStylebook folks did an online Twitter chat that focused on photo style stuff. For the Intro students … captions matter. You should read that and see that @APStylebook agrees.

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December 23, 2011

Yearend Reading

I’m on the road, catching up with family and friends for a while, so it will be quiet the next few days around here. But, to keep you busy, Photoshelter has posted list of what they think are the best photo blog posts of the year – that’ll keep you busy for a while. (Thanks to NPPA President Sean Elliot...

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December 22, 2011

Western Weegee

Arthur Felig, much better known as crime photographer Weegee, spent more than four years out west working in Hollywood. Over at the New York Times’ Lens blog, David W. Dunlop takes a look at the western Weegee work that is now being exhibited in a museum.

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December 13, 2011

Remembering Alexia

Nice column by the Newark Star-Ledger’s Bob Braun remembering Alexia Tsairis, one of 35 Syracuse University students murdered on Dec. 21, 1988, when Pan Am 103 was blown out of the skies over Lockerbie, Scotland. Remember that the Alexia Foundation is now accepting entries for the 2012 competition.

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December 7, 2011

Ben Lowy on The Daily Show

Not much to say, but it’s a nice recognition of all the work Ben Lowy has done. The book, Iraq | Perspectives, is available online now. You can see a selection of the images on Lowy’s web site, as well.

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November 1, 2011

Life In A Day Now Online

In July 2010, Ridley Scott and Tony Scott teamed up to ask people around the world to shoot videos of their day. Partnering with YouTube, the entire 90+ minute video is now online. From the 4,500 hours of video, from 192 countries, this is the story of July 24, 2010 – now available online at YouTube.

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October 15, 2011

National Stories Gone Local, With a Back Beat

The hardest thing to learn in photojournalism is where to point the camera and when to push the button. The rest, well … it’s just mechanics, really. Maybe in between is composition, but a great moment (when to push the button) from a great story (where to point the camera) trumps composition. Usually. So when I talk with my students...

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Lantern Slides of Washington State

Campaign Photos

Same Hill, Different Day

Twitter Chat with the AP on Photo Style

Yearend Reading

Western Weegee

Remembering Alexia

Ben Lowy on The Daily Show

Life In A Day Now Online

National Stories Gone Local, With a Back Beat