Advice & Learning – Page 6 – Visual Journalism

February 22, 2017

Finding Your Tribe

One of the things I love about our program here at the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication is the sense of community that each cohort creates. And it is something they create – I can’t make them like each other, they just do. It’s something that I felt at various points in my...

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February 18, 2017

Photojournalism’s Future

Two interviews that James Estrin did this week at The New York Times Lens blog have had me pondering the future of photojournalism. Up first was an interview with Donald Winslow, the editor emeritus of the National Press Photographers Association’s News Photographer magazine and a long-time supporter of photojournalism. A few days later, Leslye Davis, a staffer at the Times,...

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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...

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January 17, 2017

Seeking Visual Truth

This piece ran on The New York Times’ Lens blog last month but I held it until now. John Morris has had more to do with how we visualize our world than, perhaps, almost else and yet no one knows who he is. “If they no longer think truth is important, that’s the end of journalism,” Mr. Morris said. “It’s...

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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.

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January 12, 2017

White House News Photographer Association Student Contest

Tis the season to seek out fame and, possibly, fortune … the White House News Photographer Association’s Student Contest is accepting entries until February 1. There is a $25 fee to enter, but that can be applied towards a student membership … which is also $25. So, you can join and enter for the same $25 bucks. Not a bad...

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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.

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October 11, 2016

The Lost Rolls

In my home office, there are filing cabinets and boxes full of processed film. Tens of thousands of frames, made over a span of 20 years, waiting to be seen again. But that pales in comparison to the volume of images stored on hard drives, to those stored in the cloud and burned to DVDs and CDs over the last...

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October 4, 2016

One Little Hammer

This short video of Randy Olson talking about his work … whoa. Especially this line: If I don’t go somewhere and find something that’s unexpected, then I’m not doing my job. If you can Google what I’m finding out, then everybody already knows about it. One Little Hammer: Randy Olson from Blue Chalk on Vimeo.

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September 16, 2016

The Making of A Photograph

Sam Abell talking about taking more than a year to make just one image, well worth a little bit of your day.

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