Journalism – Page 47 – Visual Journalism

May 17, 2010

California is a Place

This has popped up in my Twitter feed several times over the last few days, so I figured I’d better go check it out. California is a Place is, at the moment, a collection of videos shot by Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari and they are pretty stunning pieces. Go check them all out, but here’s my favorite – it...

Good Work/Journalism/Video

May 17, 2010

The Jazz Loft

In the late 1950s, W. Eugene Smith moved into a New York City apartment building known as the Jazz Loft. He made more than 40,000 images of musicians playing for the fun of it, along with hours and hours of audio recordings. Now, the show is on the road. (Thanks to Abriana Welch for the inadvertent tipoff to the video.)

Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism/Video

May 10, 2010

Does Quality Matter?

It’s a question that no one wants to ask or answer, it seems. As journalism organizations scale back their operations, they’re looking more and more to “contributed” material to fill space and time. What’s the result? Well, aside from all sorts of ethical problems, the technical quality tends to be pretty bad, too. Of course, this quote from a New...

Business & Industry/Journalism/Tech Talk

May 6, 2010

Selling Newspapers’ History, One Print at a Time

Interesting read over on Chicago Reader about what happened to the Chicago Sun-Times’ photo library – and why parts of it are showing up on eBay. One of the most horrific stories I ever heard was about an editor at a paper who was tired of all the space the photo library was taking up so she ordered the staff...

Business & Industry/Journalism

May 2, 2010

Reflecting on the Kent State Shooting

John Filo is a name not many know, but everyone recognizes the photo – a woman, distraught, hovers over the body of a dead student on the Kent State University campus, shot by National Guard troops during a protest against the war in Southeast Asia on May 4, 1970. Filo is talking about the image as the 40th anniversary comes...

Business & Industry/Journalism

April 28, 2010

NPR on Dorothea Lange

Linda Gordon has published a new book on Dorothea Lange, one of the Farm Securities Administration’s photographers from the 1930s whose iconic “Migrant Mother” photo has haunted and informed us for decades. National Public Radio had a segment interviewing her this morning and has posted an excerpt from the new book, Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, which I’ll be...

Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism

April 26, 2010

WASPs in Flight

Okay, that was a little cheesy. But this is a nice piece by NPR on Lillian Yonally, one of the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II. And she carried a camera … with color film. Lillian’s Story : In Color from NPR on Vimeo.

Good Work/Journalism

April 10, 2010

Cartier-Bresson Exhibit at MoMA

The New York Times has a review of the soon-to-open Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Any student or friend of mine knows how much I love his work, how much I admired the man and how desperately I have tried to emulate his vision through the development of my own style. Sometimes,...

Craft/Good Work/Journalism

April 8, 2010

10 Reasons to Get Your Social Media Game On

(Thanks to Tammi Marcoullier for the link.)

Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia