Visual Journalism – Page 18 – Notes from aside the camera

March 6, 2017

The Woman Behind the Saturday Night Live Photographs

I kind of want to work for Mary Ellen Matthews now …

March 3, 2017

Another Camera Store Shuttered

Many years ago, I sold cameras. I worked in a catalog showroom, running the photo area for a while. I worked in a one-hour photo lab for a while and did time behind the counter at one of the major retailers in Washington, D.C. Every one of those businesses is gone now. The shops I frequented in Boston, places where...

Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

March 2, 2017

Destruction of Public Property

As a general rule, I’m a big fan of the work Roy Stryker and the Farm Security Administration did during the Great Depression. I’ll be the first to say it IS NOT journalism, but as a documentary record of where we were as a country, it’s tough to beat. But Mr. Stryker, for all his visionary tendencies, had a bad...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

February 22, 2017

160 Years of The New York Times Front Pages

This is just awesome: Every front page of The New York Times – watch the way it changes over time put together by Josh Begley. (Thanks to DL Cade at PetaPixel for the link.)

Business & Industry/Good Work/Graphic Design/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

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...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Photojournalism

February 21, 2017

Gordon Parks, Back to Fort Scott

This was posted two years ago, but it’s still worth putting in a little time: A collection of images Gordon Parks made for Life magazine about segregation. It’s about both access and understanding the story you’re trying to tell, both are needed to succeed.

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

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,...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Craft/Photojournalism

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...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

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...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Photojournalism

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.

Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism