December 2009
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“The elimination of illiteracy may have made numerous scribes...”
– a brief note on visual literacy | Mrs. Deane
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B: 2009 Recap: Prime Photoblogs →
Nice photoblog roundup.
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“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit,” Hemingway confided...”
– Ernest Hemingway’s Top 5 Tips For Writing Well | Copyblogger via A Photo Editor.
Knowing what to throw in the trash — and what to keep — is the soul of good editing, in pretty much any medium.
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Street-Wise: The Photography of Garry Winogrand... →
I stumbled onto this great essay by John Bailey, through Nick Turpin’s blog. The text is supported by photographs by Winogrand and Titarenko, of course, but also other artwork relating to their work along with videos. You’ll need a bit of time to get through it all but it’s worth it.
At the risk of unduly trivialising the rest of the article I want to mention one thing that...
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“I’m now blogging over at The Little Brown Mushroom Blog.”
– New Blog « Alec Soth’s Archived Blog
Alec Soth, black in the photoblogosphere? Neato.
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The Online Photographer: A Small Controversy →
There’s not much I can add to Mike Johnston’s comments on James Nachtwey advertising a position for an unpaid intern. I already mentioned Nachtwey positively here on 1/125 and having seen some great prints by him in person I’ll say that I’m a fan of his work. I know nothing about his person besides what I could have learned from the movie War Photographer and possibly his...
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Divorce Photography?
It all started with a tweet I wrote:
Why aren’t there any divorce photographers? I think that would be much
more interesting as a genre than wedding or baby photography.
Sure, I posted it as a joke but at the time I was thinking how much more interesting divorces would be, as a subject for photography, than weddings. Maybe it’s just because I find most wedding photography that...
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B: The second training method →
Blake Andrews recommends the game Set as a training tool for street photographers. Looks like a good idea based on the tutorial I tried but do click the link and read what Andrews has to say about it.
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“The best criticism is written for only one person. It is up to the writer to...”
– John Bentley Mays via Hrag Vartanian via Concientious.
I don’t normally like to post anything that requires that many vias, but this was too good to pass up. And also, I suspect, extremely good advice, although I have to admit it’s not something I’ve ever tried before, at least...
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Exercept From an Email
I just sent the following as part of an email in response to a local organization which wants to use some photographs I shot at events they organized.
Certainly, they can use some of the photos.
I do feel a need to comment on this phrasing, though:
I assume the odds are good – it will be
published and widely distributed, and we can almost certainly credit the
photo if he...
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Pictory: "Overseas & Underwhelmed."
Something called Pictory just popped up in a few places in my feed reader. It is described in one post as “The Photo Magazine, Re-imagined.”
I took a look at the first “showcase,” which is called “Overseas & Underwhelmed,” and here is my initial assessment:
Too much design
Too little editing
To clarify: when I say “editing,” I mean the...
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Publication - Produced by street photographers for... →
I’m probably way behind everyone else with this but I didn’t hear about the new biannual periodical Publication until yesterday (I’m also slow to post what I’m late at discovering as things have been unusually busy at the 1/125 Europe HQ).
In any case the format of Publication looks rather interesting. It consists “of an illustrated color booklet of essays and...
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