Visual Journalism – Page 120 – Notes from aside the camera

July 5, 2012

Minor Victories in the War Against Photoshopping

Think Progress is reporting on an eighth grader who wrote Seventeen magazine asking them to not Photoshop at least one person per issue. Her online petition has over 81,000 signatures – and the magazine responded. But not how you’d expect – (T)he magazine has made a commitment to not alter the body size or face shape of the girls and...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 4, 2012

Getty Images May Sell for $4 Billion

The Wall Street Journal has a story up that says early bids have put the price of buying Getty Images somewhere around $4 billion.

Business & Industry

July 4, 2012

More Olympic Photos

This time, though, they’re a lot better … CNN has a gallery of Donal Miralle’s work up from past Olympic Games, some really nice frames in there.

Craft/Photojournalism

July 3, 2012

Robberies of Journalists in California

The Oakland Tribune is reporting that robberies of journalists have spiked in the last six weeks in the Oakland, Calif., area. Remember your gear can be replaced, but, despite what corporate managers occasionally believe, you cannot. (Thanks to the Poynter Institute for the link.)

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 3, 2012

Those Olympic Photos …

All of my social and non-social media streams have been filling up with debates and diatribes over Joe Klamara’s photos of the U.S. Olympic athletes made during the 2012 Team USA Media Summit in May. A quick Google search will bring you hundred of results, most taking Klamar to task for his images – almost no one seems to think...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

July 3, 2012

On Being Ready

Forty years ago last month, Nick Ut made one of the most iconic images of war ever, a photo of a young Vietnamese girl running, naked, after her village was attacked by her own air force*. The story of that day has been told again and again, the image is in nearly every book on photojournalism. But there were other...

Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 2, 2012

The Story Behind Capa’s D-Day Images

I have known this story for decades, but John Morris, a Life magazine picture editor in London during World Was II, recounts the whole story of how Robert Capa’s legendary Normandy landing images came to be. What ever happened to the rest of the damaged film? I wonder if we could send it to Hollywood and have those CSI-computers fix...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

June 30, 2012

Arbitration vs. Litigation

Over at Photo District News, Conor Risch has the tale of independent photographer David Strick who had been working for the Los Angeles Times shooting in Hollywood, only to have everything go bad when the Times cancelled his contract – and continued using his images. It’s a complex situation that should serve as a warning to all independent contractors –...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal

June 29, 2012

Combat Insurance

One more thing to add to my business lectures … Alysia Santo has a story up at the Columbia Journalism Review talking about independent photojournalists working in conflict zones – and who covers their insurance. In most situations, it seems, they just don’t have any. (Thanks to Greg Mironchuk for the link.)

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

June 28, 2012

Casey, Crime Photographer Radio Show

Don’t you love it when you learn something completely old? Did you know the Columbia Broadcasting System had a radio show in the 1940s about a crime photographer? Me either. A link popped up on Twitter (but now I can’t remember who it sent it out), and I did some searching to see if there were downloadable files. And there...

Audio/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism