Thoughts & Theory – Page 26 – Visual Journalism

February 28, 2013

When Publishers Get It Right

I started reading this piece by Anne Almasy, a wedding photographer who wanted to place an ad in Weddings Unveiled, and went from being really angry to very happy. After talking with them, she sent along her credit card info and the half-page ad she wanted to run. Then, the editor contacted her – could she choose another photo? The...

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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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