Posted in Photographers, Photojournalism on Jan 20th, 2012 No Comments »
Weegee’s Killer Decade The International Center of Photography has a show up Weegee: Murder is My Business that looks incredible. Weegee (Arthur Fellig) was a street photographer’s street photographer and photojournalist.
Posted in People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places, Politics, Video on Jan 12th, 2012 3 Comments »
This is an excellent video of both portraits and behind the scenes process of how photographer Peter Hapak put together his collection for an issue of Time Magazine. Reminds me of Irving Penn’s traveling studio (below): [via PetaPixel]
Posted in Photo Sites, Photojournalism on Dec 7th, 2011 1 Comment »
The Year in Photos Part 1 and Part 2 Alan Taylor has put together an amazing collection of images that document a tough year on planet earth. Part 3 coming tomorrow.
Posted in Art and Design, People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places, Video on Dec 6th, 2011 5 Comments »
I’ve been following Scott Schuman’s Sartorialist blog for a while. This video shows him shooting in Tokyo. At a glance his blog and the video might look like simple documentary of street fashion of the upwardly mobile but in fact if you follow it for a while it’s like watching live, current urban anthropology. He [...]
Posted in Landscape, Photojournalism, Places on Nov 22nd, 2011 2 Comments »
Heaven on Earth: Amazing salt flats where the sky and ground merge into one to create dreamy landscapes Fantastic series of landscape photographs. [via Steve Splonskowski]
Posted in People, Photojournalism, Video on Oct 28th, 2011 No Comments »
The PBS NewsHour had a great piece last night produced by Tom Bearden: A Life Under Fire: Combat Photographer Captures, Carries Wounds of War. Her photography is first rate, especially her portraits, they’re some of the finest portrait work I’ve ever seen. And her story is compelling: she’s a vet herself who was wounded numerous [...]
Posted in Events, Photo Sites, Photojournalism on Oct 16th, 2011 6 Comments »
World War II: The Holocaust More of Alan Taylor’s excellent collection of World War II in Photos. Many of us have seen numerous collections of photographic documentation of Nazi Germany’s “final solution” of concentration death camps and have little interest in seeing more. Alan Taylor is an excellent photo editor and has put together a [...]
Posted in Landscape, Photojournalism on Oct 15th, 2011 4 Comments »
Construction of Hoover Dam The Denver Post has a nice collection of images of the building of Hoover Dam on the Colorado River.
Posted in Events, Photo Sites, Photojournalism, Places on Sep 26th, 2011 No Comments »
World War II: The Pacific Islands Alan Taylor at The Atlantic puts together another great collection in his ongoing series on World War II in Photos. This one is particularly good, especially image #42 of the invasion of Okinawa.
Posted in Events, Photographers, Photojournalism, Process, Video on Sep 11th, 2011 1 Comment »
Joel Meyerowitz has a show up at the Tremaine Gallery at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut that’s well worth seeing if you’re in the area: The City Resilient. The images are spectacular: the superb photography and large scale increases the dramatic impact of the scale of the destruction at ground zero. Amazon has the [...]
Posted in Collections, Patterns, People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places on Aug 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
Katsuya Kamo Tod Selby has a great collection of images of the house and studio of Katsuya Kamo, hairstylist in Tokyo. His collections are spectacular as is Tod’s photography capturing it.
Posted in Photojournalism, Places, Politics on Aug 21st, 2011 No Comments »
World War II: Internment of Japanese Americans Alan Taylor continues his series at the Atlantic’s In Focus on World War II in Photos. This impressive collection includes a few images from Ansel Adams who was doing commercial photography for the State of California and the US government at the time. The internment of Japanese Americans [...]
Posted in Animals, Photojournalism on Aug 19th, 2011 No Comments »
Animals in the News Alan Taylor has a great eye for this stuff. The look on the bear cub in #3 is worth the entire set but they’re all wonderful images.
Posted in Photojournalism, Places, Process on Aug 4th, 2011 1 Comment »
Hull-Oaks Sawmill Hull-Oakes Lumber may be the last steam-powered commercial saw mill in the country, and they’re one of the few mills capable of cutting large timbers up to 85 ft. long. The mill has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1996. Large long timbers are still used in railroad trestles, the [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Stories, Video on Jun 23rd, 2011 2 Comments »
Vivian Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer born in New York City. Although born in the U.S., it was in France that Maier spent most of her youth. Maier returned to the U.S. in 1951 where she took up work as a nanny and care-giver for the rest [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Photojournalism on Jun 22nd, 2011 1 Comment »
The First 100 Days Behind the Lens: Barack Obama in Pictures TIME contract photographer Callie Shell had extraordinary access to the Obama White House. In this video documentary, she describes how she captured her behind-the-scenes images of the first 100 days of Obama’s presidency. Callie Shell narrates this excellent video slide show. Most of us [...]
Posted in People, Photojournalism, Social Software on Jun 15th, 2011 2 Comments »
Interview with Alan Taylor of In Focus Alan Taylor started the trend of collecting and putting large images in a simple, scrolling list as a way of telling a photojournalistic story. First at The Big Picture (The Boston Globe) and now at In Focus (The Atlantic). His photo collecting eye is one of the best [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Photo Editing Software, Photojournalism, Studio Photography on Jun 5th, 2011 No Comments »
Supermodel’s Photoshop Horror A former Sports Illustrated cover model is suing an Estee Lauder company for allegedly damaging her career with a fake promo using a Photoshopped picture of her. The suit is the latest wrinkle in the global phenomenon of photo retouching. An interesting example of this type of photo retouching is this Dove [...]
Posted in Events, People, Photojournalism, Politics on May 10th, 2011 2 Comments »
Ready to record history Jason Reed on how the press was notified and dealt with the last minute call on President Obama’s televised announcement that Osama Bin Laden had been killed. For those who questioned the process, read the last paragraph. Fascinating. [via Edward McKeown]
Posted in Events, iPad, iPhone, Photojournalism, Places on May 4th, 2011 1 Comment »
The 3/11 Project: Photographs from Japan, Helping Japan The 3/11 Tsunami Photo Project is a new app featuring the work of fourteen photographers who documented the tragic aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The .99 app, published by Kodansha, is an innovative fundraiser as well – all proceeds from the project go to [...]
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