Thoughts & Theory – Page 26 – Visual Journalism

February 27, 2013

And for Some Light Entertainment …

… today we have Iran doctoring an image of Michelle Obama at the Oscars. Seems like they’d have better things to do than worry about her dress, but whatever …

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February 12, 2013

Interview with John Morris

John Morris is a legend, there’s just no other way to frame a discussion about him. A picture editor for Life and The New York Times, he was everywhere, it seemed, when the great images were being made. Think about this: he edited Robert Capa’s D-Day film, producing the iconic image of a soldier crawling up out of the surf,...

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February 12, 2013

So God Made a Photographer

The folks at the Santa Fe Workshops have a little too much time on their hands … (Thanks to Ethan Rocke for the link.)

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February 7, 2013

Useless, Wanted Projects

I have absolutely no need for this, but I really want to make a smartphone shoebox projector now …

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February 4, 2013

IDs in Wire Service Captions

I am … dumbfounded. Again. Stony Brook University’s Wasim Ahmad has a piece up on iMediaEthics about captions again, this time talking with AFP’s Director of Photography for North America Miaden Antonov. This piece is a result of an earlier piece where Aline Marie talked about no one asking her permission or talking to her after being photographed at a...

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February 2, 2013

Street-side Execution, 43 Years Ago

Yesterday marked the 45th anniversary of Eddie Adams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong suspect in the middle of a Saigon street. The Newseum has a short video clip of Adams talking about the image.

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January 23, 2013

Required Reading?

I bookmarked this a while ago … (wait, does anyone “bookmark” things anymore?) … over at PhotoShelter, Lauren Margolis collected the best blog posts about photography from 2012. Suspect there’s a semester’s worth of reading in there …

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January 23, 2013

Making the Boring Exciting?

Over at Feature Shoot, Alison Zavos has a piece up on Chip Litherland, who shot the football national championship age for ESPN. The pictures are okay, not my style, but the headline really bothers me: Photographer Chip Litherland Makes Anticlimactic Alabama vs. Notre Dame Game Actually Look Exciting. Does it bug anyone else? If the game wasn’t exciting, the photos...

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January 21, 2013

Quantity Does Not Bring About Quality

I teach two sections of an introductory course in photojournalism every semester. Last Wednesday, I handed the students their cameras and sent them out to shoot – 300-400 frames, nouns and verbs. Anything they want. This assignment is all about volume – the more they shoot, the more used to the camera they get, the faster they’ll get to story...

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