Visual Journalism – Page 84 – Notes from aside the camera

July 15, 2013

Who Decides Who the Real Journalists Are?

The irony of linking to this is a little sickening … but Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin has penned a letter to the, ahem, Chicago Sun-Times (that bastion of journalistic excellence) about letting the government decide who is a journalist. Ack. Just … ack.

Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

July 15, 2013

What’s in Your Trunk?

My students laugh at all of the things I tell them I used to carry around in the back of my car. They laugh enough to mock me, openly, on a regular basis. And then they go get an internship or job and send me a note saying they just bought one of those ridiculous things because they needed it...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 13, 2013

More Visions Silenced

I’ve known about this one for a few weeks as one of my friends was involved – Southern Community Newspapers decided last month to let their photography staffs go at all of their papers. One was converted to a videographer, but that’s it. With a few poorly phrased keystrokes, the vision of several communities was wiped out. Blinded by a...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 13, 2013

The Sound of a Generation Goes Silent

This isn’t about photojournalism or even journalism, I suppose, but it touches me a bit: Amar G. Bose, the founder of the Bose Corporation, has passed at 83. When I was growing up in Massachusetts, everyone revered Bose for the high quality, realistic speakers they made. Their 901 Direct/Reflecting series speakers were an aspirational item for everyone I knew and,...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

July 12, 2013

National Geographic Photojournalist Arrested

You would expect to see that headline on a story with a foreign dateline, not Kansas. George Steinmetz was arrested last month for trespassing, though the story is a little vague at the moment. Steinmetz has done some stunning work for National Geographic, shooting landscapes from a paraglider. It appears he was arrested in trespassing charges for where he...

Photojournalism

July 12, 2013

More Evidence Against Selling Copyright

My local paper has a story this morning about the archive of one Milton Greene, who passed away some 30 years ago, going up for sale – negatives with copyrights included. Why is his archive important? It may contain thousands of unseen images of Marilyn Monroe who he photographed more than 50 times. By law, the copyright was handed over...

Journalism

July 10, 2013

Watch Your Gear

Michael Zhang has a post, with video, up over at PetaPixel about camera gear being stolen from someone’s neck. Watch it closely – who ends up with the lens?

Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 7, 2013

Journalism Summer Camp

A little too close to home … Brian McFadden’s New York Times comic hits us where it counts. And where we should be hit. (Thanks to alum Yasmin Yonis for the link.)

Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 6, 2013

What Makes a Photo Private?

Think about the question for a few moments, then head over to read this story from AZCentral.com by Shaun McKinnon and Rebecca McKinsey about an image, released on Facebook, that shows the flag-draped remains of the 19 firefighters who died in Arizona this past week. There is some confusion about who took the photo and how it ended up being...

Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 6, 2013

Why Photography Wil Survive

Nick Bilton has a story up at The New York Times about why the death of photography has been greatly exaggerated. And I agree, completely – the human brain is wired to remember singular moments and context, not fluid spans of time. (Thanks to colleague Prof. Kent Middleton for the link.)

Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory