Visual Journalism – Page 186 – Notes from aside the camera

May 16, 2011

Horst Faas on Henri Huet

The BBC has produced a short video interview with Horst Faas talking about an exhibit marking the 40th anniversary of the death of Henri Huet, an Associated Press photojournalist who was killed in Vietnam. Well worth watching – the images are stunning.

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

May 15, 2011

Dogs … Yes, Pictures of Dogs

My students sometimes struggle with what makes a news photograph a news photograph. “A picture they’d like to see in a newspaper” isn’t really a great way of defining it, because many of them would like to see pictures of … well, dogs. So I tell them no pictures of dogs (I also tell them no cute pictures of kids,...

Good Work

May 15, 2011

Wandering Through History in Preserved Photographs

Ralph Gardner has a piece up on the Wall Street Journal about his visit to the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation’s photogrpahic archive at the State University of New York Purchase in Westchester, N.Y. Why is this important? Well, they have one of the largest collections of Abraham Lincoln photographs as well as the collections of Gordon Parks and Ed Clark – two...

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

May 15, 2011

Sports Shooter Academy VIII To Be Held Sept. 21-25

FYI … from Robert Hanashiro: Four days of sports photography, working with an award-winning faculty, getting a critical view of your work, networking with people from around the country and having access to top professional-level camera gear are just a few of the things that make the Sports Shooter Academy THE coolest sports photography event of the year. SSA VIII...

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism

May 13, 2011

The Way It Was

The Chicago Tribune’s Alex Garcia sat down with Gerry Souter for a Q&A about his time as a Trib shooter back in the 1960s. It’s a fascinating read, though some young’uns may need a translator … this last graf really sums it up for me: There was a mystery to photography back then. You were sort of a magician, to...

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

May 13, 2011

Sherman Print Sets New Record at Auction

Not visual journalism, but certainly journalism about a visual … a 1981 Cindy Sherman print sold at Christie’s auctions for, ahem, $3,890,500. Note the price is for one print, so that doesn’t include the license to publish it. Just to hang it on your wall. If I had any clue how to do it, I should have been an art...

Business & Industry

May 13, 2011

The Freelancer’s Game of Life

One for the kids heading out to freelance and for those leaving their offices behind. (Thanks to the Future Journalism Project for the link on Twitter.)

Business & Industry

May 13, 2011

The Perilous Job of Conflict Photography

NPR has posted their story based around the memorial service for Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros. In it, they talked with several other conflict photographers and those who send them into the field. The Associated Press’ director of photography, Santiago Lyons, talked about how technology has improved the journalism but left the journalists more open to danger: For photographers, the...

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

May 13, 2011

Multimedia Training at UC Berkley

If I had the time (and wasn’t already overbooked), I definitely want to go to this … The Knight Digital Media Center (KDMC) at UC Berkeley just wanted to let everyone know that the application period is still open for our July Multimedia Workshop. In case you’re not familiar with our program, we offer free week-long training to working journalists....

Advice & Learning

May 13, 2011

No More Reenactments at the White House

The buzz generated from a blog post by Reuters’ Jason Reed two weeks ago was stunning – individuals and organizations across the country came out against the idea of shooting reenactments of presidential speeches, a practice that has gone on since at least the Truman administration. Now, according to an Associated Press story, the White House has said they will...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism