March 13, 2017 Good Work: Richard Sandler A nice collection of images at Time’s Lightbox by Richard Sandler who does street photography in the northeast. Really love the light in the last two images in the gallery. Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
March 6, 2017 The Woman Behind the Saturday Night Live Photographs I kind of want to work for Mary Ellen Matthews now … Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work
February 22, 2017 160 Years of The New York Times Front Pages This is just awesome: Every front page of The New York Times – watch the way it changes over time put together by Josh Begley. (Thanks to DL Cade at PetaPixel for the link.) Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Graphic Design/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
February 21, 2017 Gordon Parks, Back to Fort Scott This was posted two years ago, but it’s still worth putting in a little time: A collection of images Gordon Parks made for Life magazine about segregation. It’s about both access and understanding the story you’re trying to tell, both are needed to succeed. Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
February 3, 2017 Dorothe Lange’s Internment Camp Images In 1942, Dorothea Lange was hired to document the collection and internment of Japanese-Americans. The images she made, owned by the government, were considered not suitable for publication and impounded, lost in the National Archives until 2006. Now, Anchor Editions has collected a bunch of them together, some of which you can order prints of for your own wall. Whether... Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism
January 13, 2017 What’s Important Is the Next Picture Nice, short interview with Bruce Davidson at Time’s Lightbox blog where he talks about his 1959 photographs of a Brooklyn gang. Want to get images this intimate? Follow this advice: I was close and I stayed longer. Worth sticking through the pre-roll ad. Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
January 9, 2017 Arbus, Avedon and Winogrand Images in Atlanta This is on my list of things to get to … the High Museum of Art in Atlanta has an exhibit of work from Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon and Garry Winogrand up through February 26. Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism
November 26, 2016 Castro In Photographs The morning brought news that Fidel Castro had died at the age of 90. A click to The New York Times brought me to this video that has some of the amazing work that Jack Manning did during a short trip to Cuba in 1964. Even if you turn the sound down (which I don’t recommend you do, as Richard... Categories Craft/Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism
November 23, 2016 Peter Turnley Print Sale If you were looking for a gift for your favorite professor or decided this was the time to invest in artwork, head over to Peter Turnley’s print sale. There’s a lyrical sense to his work that I have loved for decades. Yeah, they are expensive, but this is another revenue stream for wonderful documentary work. And #12 is just such... Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
November 8, 2016 Photographing A Candidate A great look inside the work done by The New York Times’ Damon Winter during the presidential campaign. I know that I can never explain the day’s news the way our writers do, but what I can do is help the reader feel what it is like to be there and to make pictures that have meaning beyond the objects... Categories At Work/Good Work/Photojournalism