Visual Journalism – Page 282 – Notes from aside the camera

December 7, 2007

Is Photography Dead? Or Just Being Beaten to a Pulp?

Two recent pieces worth looking at … In the New York Times is a story about Richard Prince’s “art” – done by rephotographing famous ads and printing them large. Fair use? Copyright violation? No one’s sure yet. Up next is a piece from Newsweek titled, “Is Photography Dead?” Which … well … no, it’s not. But author Peter Plagens has...

Ethics & Legal/Thoughts & Theory

December 7, 2007

Quotes

As classes came to a close on Thursday, I shared some quotes with my advanced class about our roles as photojournalists. One asked me to post it on the class blog, but I suspect some of them may resonate with others, as well. We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no...

Advice & Learning/Thoughts & Theory

December 7, 2007

ScanAthens.com

One of the Advanced Photojournalism students, Richard Hamm, pointed out that Clarke County police, fire and emergency medical services, as well as University of Georgia campus police, have their radio traffic broadcast on the web through ScanAthens.com. Looks like you can have it fed into iTunes, a Real Audio player, Windows Media player and a few others.

Advice & Learning/Tech Talk

December 6, 2007

"First Year Out"

Mindy McAdams, Flash Goddess, posted about a New York Times piece on a man released from prison after serving 16 years for a crime he didn’t commit. It breaks a lot of rules we believe to be true about audio slideshows, but works really well.

Good Work/Multimedia

December 6, 2007

Illinois High School Association sues the Illinois Press Association

In their ongoing battle, the IHSA has now filed suit against the IPA.

Ethics & Legal

December 5, 2007

Internship: NYTimes.com

If you’ve got your multimedia skills up to snuff, the New York Times wants you.

At Work/Business & Industry/Multimedia

December 5, 2007

Passed Along …

While heading to lunch, one of my colleagues, Dr. Hugh Martin, said one of our shared students came in to class on Monday a little frazzled. Seems she’d spent most of the weekend working on an audio editing project and said, “I now know what an ‘um’ looks like …“

Multimedia/Tech Talk

December 4, 2007

New Photojournalism Center

The Angus & Betty McDougall Center for Photojournalism Studies has been created at the University of Missouri.

Advice & Learning

December 3, 2007

"Ian's Peace"

The Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer has posted a video package on Ian Creath, a 19-year-old who died at a local quarry. A team from the paper had been working on a project at the quarry when they met Creath a month before he died. The piece is narrated by his mother and is very well shot and edited.

Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk

November 29, 2007

Offline for a Few Days

I’ll be at the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar for the next two days. If something big happens, I’m sure you’ll find out about it. Full report when I return.

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism