Actual Pictures – Page 6 – Visual Journalism

July 31, 2011

Herding (Very Talented, Very Famous) Cats

That’s the only way to describe this footage (pixelage?) of Rene Burri shooting the group portrait at the Magnum Annual General Meeting. Magnum Annual General Meeting 2011 from Magnum in Motion on Vimeo. (Thanks to Greg Mironchuk for the link.)

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July 28, 2011

Joao Silva Returns to Work

Joao Silva, who lost both of his legs last year while on assignment for the New York Times, landed a front page photo in the gray lady this week. That’s pretty awesome.

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July 26, 2011

Tim Hetherington’s Last Frames

Newsweek.com has posted a gallery of images pulled from Tim Hetherington’s camera from his last day of shooting. It’s hard to believe it has been three months since he and Chris Hondros were killed in Libya.

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July 26, 2011

Finding Vivian Maier Trailer

The buzz continues … and I want to see this. Trailer: Finding Vivian Maier from John Maloof on Vimeo.

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July 21, 2011

The Scientist Behind the Milk Drop

The British Journal of Photography has a short piece up looking at Harold Edgerton, the MIT professor who spent 30 years trying to photograph a symmetrical milk drop. The most interesting part of this is that Edgerton never felt he got the shot. Next time I’m in Boston, I think I need to swing over to The Edgerton Center at...

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July 18, 2011

Photographers at Work

Life.com has a collection of images up of their photographers at work over the years. It’s always fun to take a look at how our predecessors were equipped, and they’ve asked Andrew Hetherington to comment on them, as well. To me, looking through the images, two really stand out. The first is of John Shearer (at left) working outside the...

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July 15, 2011

Sports as a Spatial Exercise

Over at the British Journal of Photography, Diane Smyth has a series of six profiles on some pretty non-traditional sports photographers. These are not peak-action, super telephoto shooters. There are people who use space and place in their images, who give as much of a sense of what as where in their images. I keep looking at that Lorenz Holder...

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July 9, 2011

More Shuttle Photos

Yeah, I’m a space nerd – deal with it. Todd Heisler from the New York Times looked at the people who came to watch more than the launch itself. So many of these have the same feel as some of the 1960s galleries that looked at Apollo launches.

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July 8, 2011

Getting THE Shuttle Shot

MSNBC.com has a piece up on Scott Adnrews who has been photographing NASA launches for more than 40 years. Watch the time-lapse video at the end … pretty cool.

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July 7, 2011

No Bikes, So Here’s the Space Shuttle …

With the start of the Tour de France this past week, I was expecting the usual deluge of gorgeous imagery of guys in brilliantly colored racing … suits? … pedaling through the French countryside. I like to bike, but just for entertainment and relaxation, so my fascination with coverage of the Tour is a little odd – I couldn’t care...

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Tag: Actual Pictures

Herding (Very Talented, Very Famous) Cats

Joao Silva Returns to Work

Tim Hetherington’s Last Frames

Finding Vivian Maier Trailer

The Scientist Behind the Milk Drop

Photographers at Work

Sports as a Spatial Exercise

More Shuttle Photos

Getting THE Shuttle Shot

No Bikes, So Here’s the Space Shuttle …