May 6, 2012 Eisie and Papa Ben Cosgrove has a story up on Alfred Eisenstaedt’s trip to Cuba in 1952 to photograph Ernest Hemingway … and how miserable of a subject he was. Categories Craft/Photojournalism
May 4, 2012 Copyright Office Planning to Raise Registration Fees FYI The NPPA is disappointed to report that the U.S. Copyright Office is planning to nearly double the cost of registering your images. They have provided the opportunity for public comment prior to the change and NPPA will be submitting comments regarding the change. The changes include increases in the cost of group registration of images from $35 to $65.... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
May 2, 2012 Pursuing Pulitzers Wired.com’s Jakob Schiller has a piece up about Tim Rasmussen, the Denver Post’s assistant managing editor for Photography and multimedia. Should you care? I don’t know … since getting to Denver six years ago, his staff has won two Pulitzer Prizes … he’s kind of a smart guy. Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
April 30, 2012 Webinar: What Photo Buyers Want Get your popcorn and Coke ready, Photoshelter is running a webinar on Tuesday, May 1, at 4 p.m. Eastern, with Jamie Wellford, the senior international photo editor for Newsweek. No cost, but you do need to register. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
April 30, 2012 A Film Legend … Shot Film The Museum of the City of New York has a collection of images up shot by legendary Hollywood film maker Stanley Kubrick, all shot on subways around the city in the 1960s. (Thanks to Andrew DeVigal for the link.) Categories Good Work/Photojournalism
April 30, 2012 Architects, Photography and Professionalism My reading habits tend to wander and a few months ago I got hooked on Bob Borson’s Life of an Architect, which has almost nothing to do with photography, photojournalism or journalism but is a nice look in to the thought processes of modern design. (Yes, I’m a Modernist. I wanted to be a Postmodernist, but I couldn’t hack it.)... Categories Craft/Photojournalism
April 28, 2012 Falling Bears and Copyright There’s an interesting story brewing around an image that everyone is linking to. Andy Duann is the Colorado University student who made the image of the falling bear earlier this week. (The bear, for the record, is fine.) Andrew Beaujon has a story up at the Poynter Institute’s site that looks into the legal aspects of this, because Duann is... Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
April 27, 2012 Why Photojournalism is an Awesome Job Over at the Chicago Tribune, Alex Garcia takes on the career surveys that say photojournalism is a bad choice. Could not agree more. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism
April 26, 2012 Mike Davis on Photos The Image Deconstructed recently interviewed Mike Davis, a guy I feel like I know though I’m not sure I’ve ever talked with him in person. (I have seen him speak at a couple of conferences so maybe that’s it.) I love his approach to building images and stories. In the interview he was asked about the language he was using... Categories Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
April 25, 2012 A Digitized Visual History of New York City New York City’s Department of Records has released more than 800,000 archival images of the city online. The collection, some dating back 100 years or more, also includes maps, motion-pictures and audio recordings. Britain’s MailOnline has a nice collection of them up now, from street scenes to bodies in elevator shafts, it’s a stunning portrait of the city. If you’re... Categories Photojournalism