Photography career

Read all 'SLR cameras' posts in Underexposed - CNET News
Adobe Systems released Lightroom 2.2 on Monday night, catching up the photography software's support for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and several other newer cameras, building in the camera profiles feature, and mashing a number of bugs. The update

Art Institute Graduates Hope to Start the New Year with Their Dream - PR Inside
The portfolio show is on December 17. 2008-12-16 06:20:32 - Design, culinary and media students present their portfolios to potential employers on December 17 This holiday season, Art Institute of California - Orange County graduates are hoping to

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Blu-ray Review - DailyGame.net
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe got all manner of marketing buzz and viewers, but when Prince Caspian hit theaters, it didn't seem to get quite the same level of either. In this sequel, the kingdom of Narnia has been conquered by the Telmarines

Annie Leibovitz at Work - Monsters and Critics
“Modestly proportioned, this new book is trim-sized more for the nightstand than the coffee table. Its photos are generally reproduced on a smaller scale than they were during their first appearances in splashy venues like Vanity Fair. The text

Polaroid in Bankruptcy Again, Cites Petters Charges - Daily Business Review
olaroid Corp., the pioneer of instant photography, sought bankruptcy protection for the second time in seven years, blaming an alleged $2 billion fraud at its parent company Petters Group Worldwide LLC. Petters Group, which acquired the 71-year-old

Underwater photography

Second Annual Epoch International Photography Competition ... - The Epoch Times

Second Annual Epoch International Photography Competition ... The Epoch Times, NY - Dec 8, 2008 The Second Annual Epoch International Photography Competition is now inviting both professional and amateur photographers of different ethnic origins and ...

Student takes 2nd place in photo contest - The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com

Student takes 2nd place in photo contest The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com, MI - Dec 8, 2008 Harris' new love for photography helped her place second in the 2008 Hispanic Heritage Local Photography and Essay Contest, sponsored by the Detroit ...

Innovative urban photo competition opens - Thanh Nien Daily

Innovative urban photo competition opens Thanh Nien Daily, Vietnam - Dec 14, 2008 A new photo contest that seeks to “transform cities through the arts” is being organized by the British Council in Vietnam and The Thao Van Hoa newspaper. ...

Snow Leopard: Winner, 2008 International Photography Contest - ScienceBlogs

Snow Leopard: Winner, 2008 International Photography Contest ScienceBlogs - Dec 13, 2008 My friends at National Geographic have provided permission for me to share some of the images from their recent 2008 International Photography Contest. ...

2008 Photo Contest Winners Announced - EMS Magazine

EMS Magazine

2008 Photo Contest Winners Announced EMS Magazine, MD - Dec 11, 2008 Ten photo contest finalists were also chosen, each receiving a $511 gift certificate from 5.11 Tactical. Finalists included:

Photography

Five hints for digital photos - CNET News
I've been taking digital photographs seriously for a few years now--since I first purchased a Canon Powershot G5 (since upgraded). Along the way, I've run into a few things that really make a difference to my photography in one way or another. None

Learning photography

Brush resident’s photography on display at MCC - Brush News Tribune
“Documenting Life by Photography” is now on exhibit at Morgan Community College. The art display by photographer Sue Hodgson can be viewed in Cottonwood Hall through the middle of December. Hodgson, a Brush resident, discovered her love for

Grant will allow Spencer Museum of Art to expand teaching, researching - University Daily Kansan
The works in Spencer Museum of Art aren’t just for looking at. They’re also for learning. Or at least that’s the idea behind a grant totaling $1.2 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that will help expand the use of the museum’s art

Keeping it Real - Egypt Today
T oday’s mania for digital photography might incline you to declare traditional film-based photography dead. Far from it: Instead, a new generation is learning that silver-based film and hand-made prints are a unique art form on par with sculpture

Digital photography

Diskeeper Supports Winners of National Geographic's All Roads - Market Wire
BURBANK, CA--(Marketwire - November 26, 2008) - Diskeeper Corporation announced it is supporting the 2008 All Roads Photography Program. Winners will receive full complimentary copies of award-winning Diskeeper® and Undelete® software to help

Art classes available for children and adults - Leaf Chronicle
Austin Peay State University announces the schedule of classes for the Spring 2009 Community School of the Arts. The spring term begins Jan. 20 and ends May 2. The dates for preregistration for returning students is Nov. 24 Dec. 5. Open registration

Photography class

Beginner photography class offered - East Dubuque Register

Beginner photography class offered East Dubuque Register, IL - 8 hours ago Stewards of the Upper Mississippi River Refuge are sponsoring a free photography class for beginning adults who are considering or have a new digital camera ...

SHS welcomes educators new to the district - Sahuarita Sun

SHS welcomes educators new to the district Sahuarita Sun, az - Nov 26, 2008 Rodriguez and Portugal are students in the advanced photography class taught by Kim Hermes. Trisha Evans, who was born in Nebraska City, Neb., ...

The Often-Imitated Reston Eyes Future With Trepidation - Washington Post

The Often-Imitated Reston Eyes Future With Trepidation Washington Post, United States - 10 hours ago ... has been for more than 40 years: a place where you can buy milk, take a photography class and commune with nature without stepping foot in your car. ...

Photography jobs

Samsung, LG Say No Kodak Patents Violated - Telecoms Korea
Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics rebutted Tuesday Eastman Kodak Co.'s complaint that they have infringed upon patents owned by the U.S. photography company. The 128-year-old U.S. company filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission

Local photographer a finalist in national contest - Record Searchlight
A north state high school teacher with a passion for photography has scored another big hit with his work. Already one of his photos adorns this year's Lassen Volcanic National Park permit and now another of his photos has made it to the final round

Nature photography

Motorola Zine ZN5 (T-Mobile) - CNET Reviews

Motorola Zine ZN5 (T-Mobile) CNET Reviews - Nov 4, 2008 The ZN5 is all about photography, so we'll start there. Kodak had a hand in the inner camera workings, though both Moto and Kodak declined to state ...

Pentax Optio M50 8 Megapixel Digital Camera - Product Reviews

Product Reviews

Pentax Optio M50 8 Megapixel Digital Camera Product Reviews, UK - Nov 7, 2008 ... AF to keep focus on the object, Panorama mode, 16 shooting conditions, a red-eye compensation function, and Auto-Macro for close-up photography. ...

Featured Image from the Quad City Photography Club - River Cities Reader

Featured Image from the Quad City Photography Club River Cities Reader, IA - Nov 5, 2008 Afraid he might run off any time, Paul went right to work taking many images with a macro lens. He said it was interesting that the tree frog was back ...

Canon PowerShot A2000 IS - AsiaOne

AsiaOne

Canon PowerShot A2000 IS AsiaOne, Singapore - Oct 22, 2008 Photo-wise, the A2000's colour reproduction is accurate, without being oversaturated. Those who like macro photography can fully exploit the macro function, ... Too troublesome to lug along? AsiaOne all 2 news articles

South Africa: Politics Enters an Era in Which Middle Ground Reigns ... - AllAfrica.com

South Africa: Politics Enters an Era in Which Middle Ground Reigns ... - AllAfrica.com

BBC News

South Africa: Politics Enters an Era in Which Middle Ground Reigns ...
AllAfrica.com - 1 hour ago
WHAT will be the economic policy of ... what do you call them, the African National Congress (ANC) dissident group, the National Convention organisation, SANC, Shikota, whatever?
In South Africa, Defectors Seek to Topple a Legacy New York Times
South Africa’s ANC Dismisses Splinter Group Accusation Voice of America
Monsters and Critics.com - BBC News - Los Angeles Times - Times Online
all 1,040 news articles

Saul Leiter Early Color 1948-1959

His first exhibition of colour photography was at the Artist's Club in the 1950 (a meeting place for many Abstract Expressionist painters) while Edward Steichen had included Leiter's black and white images in Always the Young Stranger at MOMA, NY, in 1953. In the late 1950's Henry Woolf published Leiter's colour fashion images in Esquire and later in Harpers Bazaar. For the next 20 years he worked as a fashion photographer for Elle, British and French Vogue and Nova. However, Leiter seemed to almost drop out of public view sometime in the 60s, until 2006 when the process of being rediscovered started. In both his fashion and more personal work Leiter has made an enormous contribution in the area of colour photography. His distinctively subdued colour and abstracted forms often have a painterly quality that stand out among the work of his contemporaries.


Read More

Peter Henry Emerson And American Naturalistic Photography

America's first movement of creative photography and its revolutionary founder, Peter Henry Emerson, are the subjects of a new exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA.) Nearly one hundred naturalistic photographs by Emerson and twenty other photographers will be on view through September 7, 2008.

.


Read More

Fan Photo Gives Extra Splash To Indianapolis 500 Ticket

Redmer's photo made the back cover of Speed Sport soon after.

"That was probably the highlight of my photography career until now," he said.

Redmer's handiwork with his Canon camera provided the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and fans of the "500" with one of the most dramatic and telling images of the soggy 2007 edition of "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing." For his work, the Speedway rewarded Redmer with a 2008 month-long credential and honorary starter status Friday, May 16, when he waved the green flag to start practice.

***

Indy 500 tickets on sale: Tickets are on sale for the 2008 Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, May 25, the 92nd running of "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing."

Fans can order tickets online at www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com, by calling the IMS ticket office at (317) 492-6700 or (800) 822-INDY outside the Indianapolis area, or at the ticket office at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.



Read More

WV Nature photographers serve up nature videos of the forests of

A team of nature photographers hike through the forests of West Virginia braving the dangers of steep cliffs, jagged rocks and various wildlife to capture some of the most remote and beautiful pictures of the Mountain State termed Almost Heaven. ForestWander Nature photography consists of a father and son team that has recently added another member to the team which is the youngest son of the family.

Some of the videos feature dangerous waterfalls, wonderful nature trails and trekking through the high mountain snow, just to mention a few.

Upcoming features include the scenic views of the wonderful floral display from the hills and valleys throughout the Monongahela forest.

For more information you may visit the ForestWander website at

http://www.ForestWander.com

Free Nature Pictures and Photography

.


Read More

Industrious photographers

We are not talking some kind of supercool art deco photography, where the pipes and flues and steel I-beams are transformed into geometric abstractions of great energy and diagonal verve, but straight-on, middle-of-the-frame, precisely half-toned shots of gas tanks, winding towers, etc., often arranged in groups of nine or a dozen, each shot taken at a different factory in a different region around the world.

They are photographs an engineer might take, or possibly a munitions director, since they focus on steel plants and their attendant industries. But the Bechers' "Typologies" have become icons of contemporary art, helped along from the couple's perch at the Dusseldorf State Art Academy, where the husband-and-wife team worked and Bernd taught for nearly 50 years. Over that time they trained many of the best-known, often large-format contemporary German photographers, like Thomas Struth (famous for his mural-sized shots of tourists in art museums) and Andreas Gursky (celebrated for his gleaming, billboard-sized color photos of prismatically stocked supermarkets and over-the-top modern architecture).


Read More

Helping others grow an entrepreneurial spirit

The camera-equipped signs would photograph the license plates of speeding cars, upload the information to a satellite and would automatically issue and mail them a citation. His second idea was to sell insurance in China. Glasheen dutifully reviewed both proposals, recommended some corrections and Hitchcock won the contest. He later advanced to the state finals, then the regional, and finally was selected to compete nationally.

"He came in third. Now I wished I'd worked with him even more. He would have won," Glasheen says flashing a broad smile.

Hitchcock was accepted at MIT, but decided to go to Worcester Poly Tech where he promptly enrolled in their real entrepreneur program. His third year in college, Hitchcock racked up a million dollars in sales, Glasheen recounted.


Read More

Camera Grants Professor Access to Cultural Communities

Mason, 53, teaches African history, South African history and the history of photography. He also uses photography to document history, preserving for posterity images of seldom-studied corners of culture.

"There are plenty of photographs of the Cape Town Carnival, but never photos from the inside," Mason said.

Mason, a frequent visitor to Cape Town for more than 20 years, studies 19th-century slavery in South Africa and its impacts. Documenting the minstrels is part of this, since many in the mixed-race community are descendants of slaves.

Mason donned a uniform and spent six weeks with Cape Town's Pennsylvania Crooning Minstrels participating in their New Year's marches and six weeks of weekend competitions that followed all the while capturing their activities in photos.


Read More

Missing Link Found

But a short time later, they said, she was able to photograph a man, sitting in front of her stolen laptop. The victim then was able to find photos of the person using the computer after it had been stolen.

Fischer said the victim did not know either man but showed the photos to one of her roommates, who recognized them as having attended a get-together at the apartment a few weeks before the burglary. Police both the men apparently are friends of a friend of the victims.

The computer-savvy victim contacted police, gave them the tell-tale photos, and the arrests were made a short time later. The burglars Shahikian and Frias are charged with second-degree burglary and fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, both felonies. -The Journal News .


Read More

http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/35254/format/html/displaystory.html

The High Museum of Art will include some of his images in "Road to Freedom," its survey of civil rights photography opening next month. A one-man show opened last weekend at Jackson Fine Art in Buckhead.

Davidson, a 74-year-old native of Oak Park, Ill., talked about his work and experiences at the gallery.

Q: How did you become interested in civil rights?

A: I had spent a year in 1959 photographing a Brooklyn street gang. I applied for a Guggenheim Fellowship to keep working along those lines, documenting American youth.

Someone suggested I go along with the Freedom Riders, the young people who were challenging segregation on interstate buses. I didn't know much about civil rights at the time. That experience changed my life.


Read More

This ‘Cat’ purrs: French Jewish cartoonist’s latest has gripping

And when he chooses to draw the cat with photorealism, he has great skill; for proof, one only needs to look at the photograph of the author (and his cat) on the jacket.

The Rabbi Cat sold hundreds of thousands of copies in Sfar native France and more in translated editions worldwide, and fans will be pleased with The Rabbi Cat 2. Set in Algiers during the 1930s, the first book introduced us to Rabbi Abraham, his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, and their mercurial cat who eats a parrot and is blessed with the ability to speak (and enter into talmudic discussions).

All of the principal characters return in for the sequel, and Sfar wisely fleshes out some of the more intriguing bit players from his first book. The Rabbi Cat 2 opens with a sojourn in the desert alongside a white-haired old gent named Malka of the Lions, Abraham swashbuckling cousin.



Read More

Chorley photographer snaps up top award

Denise won the award in the Fine Art category, beating off tough competition, with her image Triple Head which featured three dying Snake's Head Fritillary blooms.

Another of her images was also shortlisted and received a Certificate of Merit.

Both had been taken during a visit to Ness Gardens last year.

"It's always nice for your work to get recognition, and while I was hopeful that the images I submitted might do well, I was still amazed to hear my name being read out at the awards ceremony," said Denise.

Past winner of one of the national UK Photographer of the Year awards, Denise is an Associate member of the BIPP and is currently studying for an MA in Fine Art at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston.

The North West Professional Photography Awards is a combined photography award run by the Master Photographers Association (MPA) and the British Institute of Professional Photographers (BIPP) in the north west region.


Read More

Tate Modern Presents: Street & Studio - An Urban History of

Street & Studio is a magnificent exhibition of international photography. It presents a fascinating history of photographic portraiture taken on the street or in the photographer studio, looking at the differences between these two key locations in which photographers work.

Street & Studio brings out the contrast between the photos taken in the carefully orchestrated studio, and images captured in the changing and uncontrollable street, whilst highlighting the crossovers between the genres and their influence on each other.

Over 350 striking works are gathered in this stylish exhibition, by some of the world most famous and important photographers including Francis Al, Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rineke Dijkstra, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Norman Parkinson, August Sander, Cindy Sherman, Malick Sidib, Paul Strand, James Van der Zee, Juergen Teller and Wolfgang Tillmans.


Read More

Mandy in Matt-rimony

Her photography style uses both a photojournalistic approach with traditional lovey-dovey photos.

It's funny how money matters work. It wasn't two weeks after I sent off a check for the photography deposit when the mansion folks sent me an e-mail saying they needed a deposit to hold our date. Great timing, though I can't blame them for wanting to get paid.

Wedding and reception locale? Check. Photographer? Check.

Now all we need is the dress, the tux, cake, the pastor, a hotel to stay before the wedding, a hotel for the wedding night, a rental car, airplane tickets ... well, you get the picture.

I think it's going to be a long ride to matrimony lane.

You can e-mail Amanda at amillard@gastongazette.com.

.


Read More

Reporter Hassled By Union Station Security While Reporting a Story

This is pretty good: Fox 5's Tom Fitzgerald decided to do a report on the ongoing harassment of photographers inside D.C.'s busy Union Station, a topic we've written about and heard about from our own Flickr contributors many times before. While he was there interviewing Amtrak's spokesperson on the subject, who in fact told the reporter that photography is absolutely allowed inside the Amtrak portion of the station, a security guard came up to the Fox 5 crew and told them turn their cameras off. You can watch the report here.

Interestingly enough, the company that owns the mall area of Union Station never got back to Fox 5 to clarify their policy.

.

Raed More

Rants about Wright overlook the pain of slavery

My grandmother Ethel shared with me an early 1870s photograph she cherished of her grandmother Sarah. She was a striking woman with a deep, dark complexion and long black hair, braided waist length. She may have been native Indian, given that Silver Bluff, S.C., established an Indian trading block in the 1700s, or she may have been from the British West Indies.

Sarah gave birth to my great-grandfather in the late 1870s, shortly after Abolition. Joe McElmurray was born out of the slave-master relationship between her and John McElmurray. The specifics of their relationship are unknown. However, oral history tells the story that the elder John was present at the birth of his son. One can speculate by John's presence at his son's birth there was affection between him and Sarah.


Read More

Luminescence of Nature Press Releases New Guide to Nikon Capture

Digital photographers of all levels will be able to use Dr. Odell's Guide to quickly master Capture NX2. The Photographer's Guide to Capture NX2 is available as a downloadable PDF file, and includes ready-made software presets and copies of the actual Nikon NEF images used as examples in the guide. .


Read More

http://www.huliq.com/60539/peter-henry-emerson-and-american-naturalistic-photography

Friend rightly considers them true art.

‘Graydon treats photographers like auteurs,' he says. ‘There is a trust not only between photographer and subject but also photographer and the magazine. And that's reflected in the pictures. Our publication commands a certain respect and that's reflected in the access we get. We tend to elevate the subject in magazines as lush as ours.'

In revisiting the magazine's near and distant history, Friend and Vanity Fair have helped illustrate how portraiture has changed. Einstein atop a mountain in ski boots and shorts like Arnie? I doubt it, somehow. Julianne Moore posed up like a Reuben-esque model? Not bloody likely. What is impressive is the scale and scope of the exhibition, and while it may not ask too much of us, there are some genuinely breathtaking photographs here, which is all that really matters.


Read More

'Cosplay' queen

We had two photographers during that shoot-my close friend and favorite photographer Tricia Gosingtian and schoolmate Tata."

The shoot was held in San Agustin Church. "I remember this one incident where my mom even had to talk to a Spanish priest to allow us to shoot in the premises. We all had fun."

Recently, Gosiengfiao cosplayed the "Tekken" character Lili. "Every time I play with my friends, I would pick her. I practiced using her, and I now know most of her moves and poses."

Mainstream

Gosiengfiao plays an active role in the country's anim�, gaming and cosplay scenes, which are all intertwined, according to her.

"The scenes are quickly expanding and gaining recognition. How people look at it is starting to change.


Read More

Art-Walk this way, Mountainfilmavarians

Photographer Chris Jordan is featured at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art. Jordan, a former corporate attorney turned photographic artist, explores American consumerism and waste. "It was the first call I made after getting the Mountainfilm job last November," said Holbrooke. "I started to explain Mountainfilm, when Chris interrupted and said: 'You had me when you said 'Telluride.'" Art is nothing if not the recognition of an opportunity and the results of those happenstances being acted upon. Alongside Jordan, at the same venue, are paintings by Jennifer Lowe-Anker depicting Montana. She created the frames too. "As many know, Jennifer was once the wife of climbing star Alex Lowe, who was killed in a widely publicized accident," Holbrooke said. "She is now married to Alex's former partner, another climbing star, Conrad Anker.


Read More

Search BostonHerald.com for Past 7 days Archives

The photographers drew straws (actually names out of a hat) and Getty Images won Day 1 in the Entwistle murder case.

Getty, a top-shelf international photo agency, has the enviable assignment of covering opening arguments. Getty photographer Darren McCollester, from Boston, said seven photographers from the U.S. and England will all have a turn in the pool for still photographers.

TruTV, formerly Court TV, is the lone pool camera for TV. They have a camera in the very back of the court and a remote camera in the front of Courtroom 430.

Your Herald reporter is in the second row (and sure to be kicked back a few rows once family members for the victims arrive.) Both the defense and prosecution have arrived. ABC, BBC, London Times … they're all here.


Read More

Somerville seeks to install cameras at traffic lights, catch violators

The photo-enforcement program uses a close-up photograph of the license plate to identify cars that run red lights. Police then ticket the owner of the car, making the vehicle's owner responsible for the behavior of its driver.

"The administration is reviewing the issues, and we are trying to determine if there are any workable solutions," Terrel Harris, a spokesman for the Patrick administration's Public Safety Department, told the Daily. While Harris acknowledged that the installation of traffic cameras would create a number of logistical issues, he said that they would also provide "potential public safety and municipal revenue benefits."

According to Harris, no legislative action has been taken to allow for red-light photo enforcement.

Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone and Police Department Chief Anthony Holloway both signed the letter to Patrick, which was circulated by Red Flex Traffic Systems, a camera vendor that is vying for Somerville's business.


Read More

Project puts top teens in spotlight

Right away on Day 1, Penner prodded the budding photographers to get creative, inventive, to know their equipment, and to not let the camera get in between them and an amazing shot. It took a lot of work, and some getting used to taking criticism, but the students' thinking changed from taking pictures to creating art. Leaving the workshop on Day 2, armed with knowledge and ambition, they were ready for the real thing.

.


Read More

http://www.actuphoto.com/7813-a-history-of-women-photographers.html

While film looks to be a dead medium, she believes photo imaging software means the art of photography has not died.

"It’s up to the individual to enhance using digital software, but I don’t think anyone’s gone overboard in the exhibition," she says.

The exhibit will feature the work of 28 photographers. All work will be framed and available for sale.

The Garden D-Light exhibition, by Cairns Photographic Society, June 13-July 9, 10.30am-4pm, Tank 4, Tanks Arts Centre. It will be launched on June 13 and all are welcome.

Share this article .


Read More

A History of Women Photographers

The last section contains valuable thumbnail biographies of approximately 240 female photographers-from the obscure to the famous-whose illustrations appear in the text. An ambitious bibliography makes this a prime tool and stimulus for researchers. Highly recommended for photography, women's studies, and young adult collections. Joan Levin, MLS, Chicago Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The essential illustrated history of women photographers, now updated and expanded to include women working in the twenty-first century. Women have had a special relationship with the camera since the advent of photographic technology in the mid-nineteenth century. Photographers celebrated women as their subjects, from intimate family portraits and fashion spreads to artistic photography and nude studies, including Man Ray's Violon d'Ingres.


Read More

Open Call Photography Exhibition At Brooklyn Museum

A Crowd-Curated Exhibition is a photography installation that invites Brooklyn Museum's visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process. The installation will be on view from June 27–August 10, 2008, at the Brooklyn Museum.

.


Read More

Child can have right to privacy infringed by surreptitious photography

It was arguable that a child had a reasonable expectation that he would not be targeted in order to obtain photographs in a public place for publication which the person taking or procuring the photographs knew would be objected to on the child’s behalf.

The Court of Appeal so stated in a reserved judgment, when allowing an appeal by the claimant, David Murray, suing by his litigation friends and parents, Dr Neil Murray and Mrs Joanne Murray, from the decision of Mr Justice Patten (The Times August 7, 2007) in which he struck out as unarguable the claim that the second defendant, Big Pictures (UK) Ltd, had infringed his right to privacy under article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights by the publication in the Sunday Express Magazine of a photograph, taken covertly and without his parents’ consent, which depicted him in a public street with his father and his mother, the author J.

Famed Hollywood publicist Warren Cowan dead at 87

Legendary Hollywood publicist Warren Cowan, shown in this undated publicity photograph, whose clients included Ronald Reagan, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra, died at age 87 after a fight with cancer, a spokeswoman announced on May 15, 2008. A pioneer of entertainment publicity and a co-founder of the firm Rogers & Cowan, he died on May 14 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with family members at his side. Cowan had been diagnosed with cancer three weeks earlier. REUTERS/Courtesy Warren Cowan and Associates/Handout .


Read More

Photography at the Townsend library

Brenda Purvis, of Alamogordo, will be showing her photography at the New Mexico State University Alamogordo Townsend Library for the month of June. Brenda was born and raised in Michigan, but at the age of 16 she moved to Tucson, Ariz. where she discovered photography. With only a 110 instant camera, she began her self-taught journey of creating memories that last forever. In 1992, Brenda moved to Alamogordo, where she was inspired by nature's intensity from sunsets to fall colors.

Purvis had the pleasure of having her work critiqued by Alamogordo's own, the late Kirby Workman. Purvis has a large portfolio of works on many topics, from nature to automobiles. She was honored to have her work published nationally.

Come by the Townsend Library for a reception on Tuesday, June 17, from 2 p.m.


Read More

Photography as Art Gallery & Competition

The Gallery is designed to showcase the art of East Tennessee photographers. The mission of The Photographic Society of East Tennessee (PSET) is to present, promote, and perfect photography as art. Our purpose is to promote interest in photographic excellence among non-professional photographers in the East of I-75 region of the State of Tennessee by providing a juried photographic competition and exhibition in which to participate. For more information and to obtain an entry form for the gallery, please visit pset.org. The Rose Center and Council for the Arts has a mission of presenting artistic, cultural, and educational programs for the local people. To learn more about the Rose Center, please visit www.rosecenter.org. A non-refundable entry fee of $ 5.00 per print will be charged for each print entered.


Read More

The Kills' art goes present tense

Every bit of writing, every bit of artwork, every photograph we take, everything that we wear, everything is gonna be part of the Kills. It wasn't supposed to be like a band necessarily. It was supposed to be like an art group. But a life kind of art group. And it was just the most exciting thing."

One thing that's kept it that exciting three releases down the road is that it's always changing.

"I wish everything in the world would change that drastically, that quickly," Mosshart says. "And I hope everything we do changes considerably. Otherwise we'll get really bored. I like to push myself constantly everyday to improve and come up with new ideas. That's what it's all about, the freedom to do that."

Even as she changes her love for those early records continues.


Read More

Hollywood hellraisers in the spotlight

"Look at a photograph of me from the old days and I'm going to one of my film premieres with a bottle of vodka in my hand. Tom Cruise has a bottle of Evian water. That's the difference," the outlandish Irishman once recalled.

When drunk, he would rush into traffic and attack passing cars with his bare fists. He once threw a wardrobe at his wife.

O'Toole, who soared to fame in Lawrence of Arabia, once beat up a policeman after seeing some of his colleagues rough up a prostitute.

Burton twice faced angry husbands brandishing guns after he had seduced their wives.

Reed got the juvenile cast of the musical Oliver drunk after spiking the children's drinks with vodka.

But, as the book so tellingly relates, non-stop debauchery inevitably took its toll - even with a fitting final curtain.


Read More

19 years later, crash survivor is college graduate

In the crash's aftermath, Spencer's image became a powerful symbol of the rescue efforts because of a photograph of him being carried away from the crash site by Lt. Col Dennis Nielsen of the 185th Fighter Wing of the Iowa National Guard.

The photo, snapped by a Sioux City Journal photographer, was used across the world. Five years later, it became the basis for a memorial statue erected at the Spirit of Siouxland Memorial in Chris Larsen Park along the Sioux City waterfront.

Today, Bailey, who graduated this year from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, has no memories of the crash.

Still, he sees it as a "positive learning experience" from which he has grown and says its inspired an interest in writing and discovering new experiences. He says hopes to pursue a career as a writer.


Read More

http://www.tampabay.com/features/visualarts/article506209.ece

But in what meaningful way is Sternfeld doing something different from zillions of photographers who see something interesting in the street and snap it?

A sensible visitor is advised, therefore, to ignore the show’s stated purpose entirely and wander about looking at things that catch their fancy. Of which there will be many. In 1917, Alvin Langdon Coburn shot the American poet and fascist sympathiser Ezra Pound in a startling set of "vorticist" portraits that reduce Pound’s likeness to a hard black profile set in a grid of dark shadows, some of which - and this could be my imagination - seem to form a scary preemptive

swastika on the wall. A few images later, Paul Strand looks down on Wall Street in 1915, and notices the way the shadows of the rushing crowd cut dynamically across the blocky squares of modern architecture.


Read More

The Ringling museum gives familiar pieces room to breathe

A second gallery contains instantly recognizable works: Thomas Struth's ironic photograph of museumgoers unconsciously emulating the art from his famous Museum series; a Chuck Close photorealist portrait composed of his signature fingerprints; a Philip Guston nude; a Louise Nevelson cast wall sculpture; and a Richard Serra drawing of his dark, curving forms that he has interpreted on a grand scale in metal.

The Mystery of the Blind Lemon is a provocative title for a Larry Bell painting that has its own elements of mystery, technically. It refers to Blind Lemon Jefferson, a well-known blues musician of the early 20th century whose life was something of a cypher. Bell incorporates his trademark fascination of reflective surfaces with subtly embedded metallic particles that cast an eerie glow, more so when combined with an airbrush effect.


Read More

Bob Carey to lead photographers' assoc.

Among his credentials as a photographer, he has done freelance work for United Press International several times a year since the early 1990s. His photographs have appeared in The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, in numerous other papers and in various publications affiliated with Southern Baptists, such as Baptist Press, and other religious groups.

Carey was elected unanimously by the NPPA's 11-member board during their May 28 meeting in Louisville, Ky. He previously was one of the organization's regional directors.

Carey, who joined Gardner-Webb's faculty in 1997, teaches photojournalism, convergence journalism, mass media theory and media law.

"I discovered photography in high school and quickly found I loved capturing moments in time," Carey writes on his website, www.bobcareyphoto.com.


Read More

Life on the Neches jurored photography competition seeks

The Museum of East Texas in Lufkin and Texas Conservation Alliance invite you to participate in the Life on the Neches photography competition. One hundred photographs will be exhibited at the Museum of East Texas from March 2009 through May 2009.

Twelve photographs will be selected to travel throughout East Texas. Photographs may depict the river, its flora and fauna, bottomland forests, evidence of the region's history, economic benefits, life on the river, the Big Thicket National Preserve or other refuges, and river-based recreation found in the Neches River region.

Photographs can be black and white or color in 35mm or digital images. No digitally manipulated photographs will be accepted. All works for judging must be 4 by 6- inch prints. Participants may submit up to five photographs.


Read More

Chorley photographer snaps up top award

Denise won the award in the Fine Art category, beating off tough competition, with her image Triple Head which featured three dying Snake's Head Fritillary blooms.

Another of her images was also shortlisted and received a Certificate of Merit.

Both had been taken during a visit to Ness Gardens last year.

"It's always nice for your work to get recognition, and while I was hopeful that the images I submitted might do well, I was still amazed to hear my name being read out at the awards ceremony," said Denise.

Past winner of one of the national UK Photographer of the Year awards, Denise is an Associate member of the BIPP and is currently studying for an MA in Fine Art at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston.

The North West Professional Photography Awards is a combined photography award run by the Master Photographers Association (MPA) and the British Institute of Professional Photographers (BIPP) in the north west region.


Read More

Beauty In The City

While film looks to be a dead medium, she believes photo imaging software means the art of photography has not died.

"It’s up to the individual to enhance using digital software, but I don’t think anyone’s gone overboard in the exhibition," she says.

The exhibit will feature the work of 28 photographers. All work will be framed and available for sale.

The Garden D-Light exhibition, by Cairns Photographic Society, June 13-July 9, 10.30am-4pm, Tank 4, Tanks Arts Centre. It will be launched on June 13 and all are welcome.

Share this article .


Read More

Photography as Art Gallery & Competition

The Gallery is designed to showcase the art of East Tennessee photographers. The mission of The Photographic Society of East Tennessee (PSET) is to present, promote, and perfect photography as art. Our purpose is to promote interest in photographic excellence among non-professional photographers in the East of I-75 region of the State of Tennessee by providing a juried photographic competition and exhibition in which to participate. For more information and to obtain an entry form for the gallery, please visit pset.org. The Rose Center and Council for the Arts has a mission of presenting artistic, cultural, and educational programs for the local people. To learn more about the Rose Center, please visit www.rosecenter.org. A non-refundable entry fee of $ 5.00 per print will be charged for each print entered.


Read More

Project puts top teens in spotlight

Right away on Day 1, Penner prodded the budding photographers to get creative, inventive, to know their equipment, and to not let the camera get in between them and an amazing shot. It took a lot of work, and some getting used to taking criticism, but the students' thinking changed from taking pictures to creating art. Leaving the workshop on Day 2, armed with knowledge and ambition, they were ready for the real thing.

.



Read More

Til alle der leger med web-video

Today, there are countless workshops and seminars around the country every year, teaching newspaper photographers how to produce video. This year, the NPPA TV News Workshop actually had more still photographers from newspapers enrolled than people from TV stations. But we hear countless calls for help from these newspaper photographers who have made the jump, as their employers � who although they have heeded the call to move to video, don't understand what it takes to do this skill � are beating them down. So here are the rules. Please pass these on to your editors and publishers: YOU ARE NOT IN THE TELEVISION BUSINESS TV news has been around for a long time. Most of your audience can't remember a time when it wasn't. They are all TV critics. They have been watching professional TV news all their lives.


Read More

Dr Jens Ehrhardt warns on inflation: Friday's funds news from

The Art Photography fund, which invests in modern photographic art, has posted a return of 3.6% since launch, Institutional Money reports. The fund is the first art photography fund and is offered by Erste Bank, Raiffeisen, Capitalbank, Volksbank amongst others.

Italy

.


Read More

A History of Women Photographers

The last section contains valuable thumbnail biographies of approximately 240 female photographers-from the obscure to the famous-whose illustrations appear in the text. An ambitious bibliography makes this a prime tool and stimulus for researchers. Highly recommended for photography, women's studies, and young adult collections. Joan Levin, MLS, Chicago Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The essential illustrated history of women photographers, now updated and expanded to include women working in the twenty-first century. Women have had a special relationship with the camera since the advent of photographic technology in the mid-nineteenth century. Photographers celebrated women as their subjects, from intimate family portraits and fashion spreads to artistic photography and nude studies, including Man Ray's Violon d'Ingres.


Read More

Tate Modern Presents: Street & Studio - An Urban History of

Street & Studio is a magnificent exhibition of international photography. It presents a fascinating history of photographic portraiture taken on the street or in the photographer�s studio, looking at the differences between these two key locations in which photographers work.

Street & Studio brings out the contrast between the photos taken in the carefully orchestrated studio, and images captured in the changing and uncontrollable street, whilst highlighting the crossovers between the genres and their influence on each other.

Over 350 striking works are gathered in this stylish exhibition, by some of the world�s most famous and important photographers including Francis Al�s, Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rineke Dijkstra, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Norman Parkinson, August Sander, Cindy Sherman, Malick Sidib�, Paul Strand, James Van der Zee, Juergen Teller and Wolfgang Tillmans.


Read More

Open Call Photography Exhibition At Brooklyn Museum

A Crowd-Curated Exhibition is a photography installation that invites Brooklyn Museum's visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process. The installation will be on view from June 27–August 10, 2008, at the Brooklyn Museum.

.


Read More

Tate Modern’s Street & Studio is a blind alley

But in what meaningful way is Sternfeld doing something different from zillions of photographers who see something interesting in the street and snap it?

A sensible visitor is advised, therefore, to ignore the show’s stated purpose entirely and wander about looking at things that catch their fancy. Of which there will be many. In 1917, Alvin Langdon Coburn shot the American poet and fascist sympathiser Ezra Pound in a startling set of "vorticist" portraits that reduce Pound’s likeness to a hard black profile set in a grid of dark shadows, some of which - and this could be my imagination - seem to form a scary preemptive

swastika on the wall. A few images later, Paul Strand looks down on Wall Street in 1915, and notices the way the shadows of the rushing crowd cut dynamically across the blocky squares of modern architecture.


Read More

Luminescence of Nature Press Releases New Guide to Nikon Capture

Digital photographers of all levels will be able to use Dr. Odell's Guide to quickly master Capture NX2. The Photographer's Guide to Capture NX2 is available as a downloadable PDF file, and includes ready-made software presets and copies of the actual Nikon NEF images used as examples in the guide. .


Read More

Search BostonHerald.com for Past 7 days Archives

The photographers drew straws (actually names out of a hat) and Getty Images won Day 1 in the Entwistle murder case.

Getty, a top-shelf international photo agency, has the enviable assignment of covering opening arguments. Getty photographer Darren McCollester, from Boston, said seven photographers from the U.S. and England will all have a turn in the pool for still photographers.

TruTV, formerly Court TV, is the lone pool camera for TV. They have a camera in the very back of the court and a remote camera in the front of Courtroom 430.

Your Herald reporter is in the second row (and sure to be kicked back a few rows once family members for the victims arrive.) Both the defense and prosecution have arrived. ABC, BBC, London Times … they're all here.


Read More

Vanity Fair Portraits

Friend rightly considers them true art.

‘Graydon treats photographers like auteurs,' he says. ‘There is a trust not only between photographer and subject but also photographer and the magazine. And that's reflected in the pictures. Our publication commands a certain respect and that's reflected in the access we get. We tend to elevate the subject in magazines as lush as ours.'

In revisiting the magazine's near and distant history, Friend and Vanity Fair have helped illustrate how portraiture has changed. Einstein atop a mountain in ski boots and shorts like Arnie? I doubt it, somehow. Julianne Moore posed up like a Reuben-esque model? Not bloody likely. What is impressive is the scale and scope of the exhibition, and while it may not ask too much of us, there are some genuinely breathtaking photographs here, which is all that really matters.



Read More

'Cosplay' queen

We had two photographers during that shoot-my close friend and favorite photographer Tricia Gosingtian and schoolmate Tata."

The shoot was held in San Agustin Church. "I remember this one incident where my mom even had to talk to a Spanish priest to allow us to shoot in the premises. We all had fun."

Recently, Gosiengfiao cosplayed the "Tekken" character Lili. "Every time I play with my friends, I would pick her. I practiced using her, and I now know most of her moves and poses."

Mainstream

Gosiengfiao plays an active role in the country's anim�, gaming and cosplay scenes, which are all intertwined, according to her.

"The scenes are quickly expanding and gaining recognition. How people look at it is starting to change.


Read More

Fan Photo Gives Extra Splash To Indianapolis 500 Ticket

Redmer's photo made the back cover of Speed Sport soon after.

"That was probably the highlight of my photography career until now," he said.

Redmer's handiwork with his Canon camera provided the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and fans of the "500" with one of the most dramatic and telling images of the soggy 2007 edition of "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing." For his work, the Speedway rewarded Redmer with a 2008 month-long credential and honorary starter status Friday, May 16, when he waved the green flag to start practice.

***

Indy 500 tickets on sale: Tickets are on sale for the 2008 Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, May 25, the 92nd running of "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing."

Fans can order tickets online at www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com, by calling the IMS ticket office at (317) 492-6700 or (800) 822-INDY outside the Indianapolis area, or at the ticket office at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.


Read More

Somerville seeks to install cameras at traffic lights, catch violators

The photo-enforcement program uses a close-up photograph of the license plate to identify cars that run red lights. Police then ticket the owner of the car, making the vehicle's owner responsible for the behavior of its driver.

"The administration is reviewing the issues, and we are trying to determine if there are any workable solutions," Terrel Harris, a spokesman for the Patrick administration's Public Safety Department, told the Daily. While Harris acknowledged that the installation of traffic cameras would create a number of logistical issues, he said that they would also provide "potential public safety and municipal revenue benefits."

According to Harris, no legislative action has been taken to allow for red-light photo enforcement.

Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone and Police Department Chief Anthony Holloway both signed the letter to Patrick, which was circulated by Red Flex Traffic Systems, a camera vendor that is vying for Somerville's business.



Read More

Photos offer virtual tour of French heritage

"Thanks to these photographers, Vietnamese visitors will be given some insight into the unique and artistic characteristics of French architecture and culture, a centre of international culture and architecture," said Pham The Khang, director of the Viet Nam National Library, noting that the photographers captured unique scenes that highlight French heritage.

"Visitors float into the space of the photos," Ngoc commented." Sometimes, I feel lost in the passion of the work."

"The archiving will never be finished, it will go on as long as time continues," said Guillaume Rousson, counsellor of the French Embassy in Vietnam.

"The exhibition is the result of archiving efforts, and we hope that some Vietnamese people will get a chance to learn something about French heritage in the country first hand."

The event, which is jointly held by the French culture centre L'espace, the French Embassy in Vietnam and the National Library at 31 Trang Thi Street, Hanoi, will run until June 18.


Read More

WV Nature photographers serve up nature videos of the forests of

A team of nature photographers hike through the forests of West Virginia braving the dangers of steep cliffs, jagged rocks and various wildlife to capture some of the most remote and beautiful pictures of the Mountain State termed �Almost Heaven�. ForestWander Nature photography consists of a father and son team that has recently added another member to the team which is the youngest son of the family.

Some of the videos feature dangerous waterfalls, wonderful nature trails and trekking through the high mountain snow, just to mention a few.

Upcoming features include the scenic views of the wonderful floral display from the hills and valleys throughout the Monongahela forest.

For more information you may visit the ForestWander website at�

http://www.ForestWander.com

Free Nature Pictures and Photography

.


Read More

Helen Gahagan Douglas - A Woman for All Seasons

A background of projected visual images illustrated the dialogue and included Gahagan Douglas as a starlet, the iconic photograph Migrant Mothertaken by photojournalist Dorothea Lange, shots of the Capitol, and the 1973 issue of Ms. Magazine featuring Gahagan Douglas on the cover. In addition, audio clips from the period added dimension to the production

The turning point in Gahagan Douglas's life was the 1931 cross-country trip she took with her husband. It opened her eyes to the "other America," which existed outside the sphere of her insulated world. In 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt extended an invitation to the couple to dine and spend the night at the White House. It was the beginning of a long-term relationship. In December of 1940, Gahagan Douglas got her feet wet when she was appointed as both the Vice-Chairperson of the California Democratic Committee and the head of Women's Division.


Read More

Camera Grants Professor Access to Cultural Communities

Mason, 53, teaches African history, South African history and the history of photography. He also uses photography to document history, preserving for posterity images of seldom-studied corners of culture.

"There are plenty of photographs of the Cape Town Carnival, but never photos from the inside," Mason said.

Mason, a frequent visitor to Cape Town for more than 20 years, studies 19th-century slavery in South Africa and its impacts. Documenting the minstrels is part of this, since many in the mixed-race community are descendants of slaves.

Mason donned a uniform and spent six weeks with Cape Town's Pennsylvania Crooning Minstrels � participating in their New Year's marches and six weeks of weekend competitions that followed � all the while capturing their activities in photos.



Read More

Mandy in Matt-rimony

Her photography style uses both a photojournalistic approach with traditional lovey-dovey photos.

It's funny how money matters work. It wasn't two weeks after I sent off a check for the photography deposit when the mansion folks sent me an e-mail saying they needed a deposit to hold our date. Great timing, though I can't blame them for wanting to get paid.

Wedding and reception locale? Check. Photographer? Check.

Now all we need is the dress, the tux, cake, the pastor, a hotel to stay before the wedding, a hotel for the wedding night, a rental car, airplane tickets ... well, you get the picture.

I think it's going to be a long ride to matrimony lane.

You can e-mail Amanda at amillard@gastongazette.com.

.


Read More

Helping others grow an entrepreneurial spirit

The camera-equipped signs would photograph the license plates of speeding cars, upload the information to a satellite and would automatically issue and mail them a citation. His second idea was to sell insurance in China. Glasheen dutifully reviewed both proposals, recommended some corrections and Hitchcock won the contest. He later advanced to the state finals, then the regional, and finally was selected to compete nationally.

"He came in third. Now I wished I'd worked with him even more. He would have won," Glasheen says flashing a broad smile.

Hitchcock was accepted at MIT, but decided to go to Worcester Poly Tech where he promptly enrolled in their real entrepreneur program. His third year in college, Hitchcock racked up a million dollars in sales, Glasheen recounted.


Read More

Civil rights photographer: 'You could feel the fear'

The High Museum of Art will include some of his images in "Road to Freedom," its survey of civil rights photography opening next month. A one-man show opened last weekend at Jackson Fine Art in Buckhead.

Davidson, a 74-year-old native of Oak Park, Ill., talked about his work and experiences at the gallery.

Q: How did you become interested in civil rights?

A: I had spent a year in 1959 photographing a Brooklyn street gang. I applied for a Guggenheim Fellowship to keep working along those lines, documenting American youth.

Someone suggested I go along with the Freedom Riders, the young people who were challenging segregation on interstate buses. I didn't know much about civil rights at the time. That experience changed my life.


Read More

Industrious photographers

We are not talking some kind of supercool art deco photography, where the pipes and flues and steel I-beams are transformed into geometric abstractions of great energy and diagonal verve, but straight-on, middle-of-the-frame, precisely half-toned shots of gas tanks, winding towers, etc., often arranged in groups of nine or a dozen, each shot taken at a different factory in a different region around the world.

They are photographs an engineer might take, or possibly a munitions director, since they focus on steel plants and their attendant industries. But the Bechers' "Typologies" have become icons of contemporary art, helped along from the couple's perch at the Dusseldorf State Art Academy, where the husband-and-wife team worked and Bernd taught for nearly 50 years. Over that time they trained many of the best-known, often large-format contemporary German photographers, like Thomas Struth (famous for his mural-sized shots of tourists in art museums) and Andreas Gursky (celebrated for his gleaming, billboard-sized color photos of prismatically stocked supermarkets and over-the-top modern architecture).


Read More

Child can have right to privacy infringed by surreptitious photography

It was arguable that a child had a reasonable expectation that he would not be targeted in order to obtain photographs in a public place for publication which the person taking or procuring the photographs knew would be objected to on the child’s behalf.

The Court of Appeal so stated in a reserved judgment, when allowing an appeal by the claimant, David Murray, suing by his litigation friends and parents, Dr Neil Murray and Mrs Joanne Murray, from the decision of Mr Justice Patten (The Times August 7, 2007) in which he struck out as unarguable the claim that the second defendant, Big Pictures (UK) Ltd, had infringed his right to privacy under article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights by the publication in the Sunday Express Magazine of a photograph, taken covertly and without his parents’ consent, which depicted him in a public street with his father and his mother, the author J.


Read More

Peter Henry Emerson And American Naturalistic Photography

America's first movement of creative photography and its revolutionary founder, Peter Henry Emerson, are the subjects of a new exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA.) Nearly one hundred naturalistic photographs by Emerson and twenty other photographers will be on view through September 7, 2008.

.


Read More

Saul Leiter Early Color 1948-1959

His first exhibition of colour photography was at the Artist's Club in the 1950 (a meeting place for many Abstract Expressionist painters) while Edward Steichen had included Leiter's black and white images in Always the Young Stranger at MOMA, NY, in 1953. In the late 1950's Henry Woolf published Leiter's colour fashion images in Esquire and later in Harpers Bazaar. For the next 20 years he worked as a fashion photographer for Elle, British and French Vogue and Nova. However, Leiter seemed to almost drop out of public view sometime in the 60s, until 2006 when the process of being rediscovered started. In both his fashion and more personal work Leiter has made an enormous contribution in the area of colour photography. His distinctively subdued colour and abstracted forms often have a painterly quality that stand out among the work of his contemporaries.


Read More

Bob Carey to lead photographers' assoc.

Among his credentials as a photographer, he has done freelance work for United Press International several times a year since the early 1990s. His photographs have appeared in The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, in numerous other papers and in various publications affiliated with Southern Baptists, such as Baptist Press, and other religious groups.

Carey was elected unanimously by the NPPA's 11-member board during their May 28 meeting in Louisville, Ky. He previously was one of the organization's regional directors.

Carey, who joined Gardner-Webb's faculty in 1997, teaches photojournalism, convergence journalism, mass media theory and media law.

"I discovered photography in high school and quickly found I loved capturing moments in time," Carey writes on his website, www.bobcareyphoto.com.



Read More

Reporter Hassled By Union Station Security While Reporting a Story

This is pretty good: Fox 5's Tom Fitzgerald decided to do a report on the ongoing harassment of photographers inside D.C.'s busy Union Station, a topic we've written about and heard about from our own Flickr contributors many times before. While he was there interviewing Amtrak's spokesperson on the subject, who in fact told the reporter that photography is absolutely allowed inside the Amtrak portion of the station, a security guard came up to the Fox 5 crew and told them turn their cameras off. You can watch the report here.

Interestingly enough, the company that owns the mall area of Union Station never got back to Fox 5 to clarify their policy.

.


Read More

CanoScan 8800 f- appealing to the avid photographer or SOHO user

The classy two-tone silver black body of the new Canoscan 8800 f looks beautiful, and if you have a silver or black computer then this is certainly going to increase it's charm. Canon has integrated both a flatbed and a film scanner into it – something that will appeal to the avid photographer or SOHO user.

It works as expected to scan a sheet of paper, but the lid can also come off to accommodate thicker books or magazines. For scanning film or slides, special holders are provided (both medium format and small format) and the lid itself provides the backlight.

It took just 18 seconds to scan a full A4 photograph at 600 DPI, while it took 14 seconds for a grayscale scan of the same image. Film scanning was fast too; taking 1 minute 20 seconds for a 35mm slide at a resolution of 2400 DPI.


Read More

Marvin E. Newman at Silverstein

Photographers have to earn a living, and one of the tests of their commitment to their art is how far they will stray from their ideals to pay the rent. "Marvin E. Newman: The Color Series," at Silverstein Photography through May 24, presents the work of an artist who was fortunate to have studied early on with some of the great photographers of the mid-century, who absorbed their aesthetic and social ideals, and who has drawn on their teachings throughout a long and successful career. Silverstein's second exhibition of Mr. Newman's work is mostly concerned with his color photography, much of it from the 1950s, when color was still pretty much a novelty.

Mr. Newman was born in New York in 1927, and first studied photography as an undergraduate at Brooklyn College in the mid-1940s.


Read More

Photographer goes digital and achieves new heights

The last time Harris Stanton Gallery exhibited Robert Glenn Ketchum's photographs was in 1999, according to co-owner Meg Harris' records.

In that show, there were several images from the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, or the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area as it was called in 1987-1989, when Ketchum did his now-famous series there, commissioned by the Akron Art Museum.

In the exhibit that opened this weekend at the gallery, the only Cuyahoga Valley image in the show is a framed poster image from the series, hung demurely at the back of the gallery above one of Barbara Krans Jenkins' intriguing carved, stained and wood-burned gourds.

Jenkins is widely known as a highly precise artist whose medium of choice is colored pencils, often combined with watercolors and/or pastels.


Read More

Bohannan Huston Awarded Extensive Denver Region Aerial Photography Project

Professional engineering and mapping services firm Bohannan Huston, Inc. (BHI) has been selected by the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) to produce high-quality digital aerial photography for the Denver Regional Aerial Photography Project (DRAPP). BHI will conduct multifaceted aerial photography of approximately 7,000 square miles of the Denver metropolitan area, including Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver, Douglas, Gilpin and Jefferson counties, and parts of Weld, Grand and Park counties. The resulting aerial imagery will be used for regional planning, evaluating and mitigating natural hazards, transportation and land use planning, natural resource management, and water resource planning.

.


Read More

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X

Having my photograph taken has always been like having extensive root-canal work done on my soul. I hate it with an unbridled passion. A photograph of me serves as a permanent reminder of the simple fact that I am just a stomach and a very large chin with a small piece of wire wool growing out of the top.

Unfortunately these days everyone has a camera phone, so everyone has become an amateur paparazzo. And that means I have my photograph taken about four hundred million times a day.

I understand why, of course. If you could get a snap of Cliff Richard mowing his lawn, then – ker-ching! – I bet it’d be worth a grand. If you could get a Formula One boss having his hair checked for lice by a girl dressed up as a Belsen inmate, you might even be able to afford a new car.


Read More

Iconic photo of Che subject of new film

It's probably the most famous portrait ever taken, considered by many to be the "Mona Lisa of photography."

Chances are you see a version of it at least once a week. But very few people, even the picture's most passionate fans, really understand what it means.

"Chevolution," a documentary about Alberto "Korda" Diaz's iconic portrait of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, is playing this week at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Trisha Ziff and Luis Lopez's entertaining film describes in detail the taking of the legendary photo and how, since 1968, the mass-marketing of the image has separated the icon from Guevara the man.

Diaz took the photo on March 5, 1960, at a funeral for Cuban workers killed in an explosion. Diaz was able to get off two snapshots before Guevara disappeared from view.


Read More

Mini-course Day at CCMS

Charles City Middle School students experienced a variety of indoor and outdoor activities on Wednesday for Mini-course Day. Students learned about digital photography, archery, golf, caligraphy, bowling and many other activities.Ashley Schlader styles Rebecca Rivera's hair. The eighth-graders took part in a hair and make-up mini course. Seventh-grader Shaley Landt paddles across a lake as she and other students learn to kayak with the help of staff from Crawdaddy Outdoors Waverly.

.


Read More

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080502/nyf006.html?.v=101

While perusing the pages of this newspaper on a daily basis, one cannot fail to notice Rob Fountain's credit line as staff photographer.

He started his photojournalist journey at age 22 when he purchased a 35mm Olympus OM-10 and walked into the Saranac Lake offices of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise.

"I was friends with the sports editor there, Jim Stowell," Fountain said. "He said if I was interested, I could take high-school football photos for him, so he didn't have to. I started being their sports photographer on Saturdays. I did that for some time. Then their photographer quit, and they asked me to take over."

FINE-ARTS ASPECT

When Fountain first started, he knew little, formally, about photojournalism.

"The publisher, Cathy Moore, told me to fill up the frame and come up with a single photo that best tells the story of the whole situation.


Read More

Photo: Bryan Adams Unveils Hear the World Ambassadors Photo Exhibit

Bryan Adams, famed musician and official photographer of the Hear the World initiative, today introduced his photography collection of Hear the World Ambassadors to the public in an interactive exhibit. Last night's opening was timed to celebrate the beginning of Better Hearing and Speech Month.

Hear the World is a global initiative raising awareness about the importance of good hearing and the impact of hearing loss. For the Hear the World exhibit, Adams has photographed several notable musicians including Mick Jagger, Amy Winehouse, Placido Domingo, Joss Stone, Lindsay Lohan, Annie Lennox, Michael Buble and many others. Each image features a celebrity ambassador in a conscious pose of "hearing."

Because music is a universal language that goes beyond geographical, social and linguistic boundaries, it is the chosen medium to spread the message of Hear the World.


Read More

Thursday, May 1, 2008

We all know that a pictures speak a thousand words and the people were allowed to witness this statement as C R Sathyanarayana, award winning photographer put up an exhibit of all his collections at Chitrakala Parishat Art Complex from April 24 to 28. .


Read More

Photography.Book.Now Announces Distinguished Panel of Jurors for Photography Book Competition

The Photography.Book.Now International Salon and Symposium has announced a distinguished panel of jurors for its photography book competition. Head Judge Darius Himes, co-Founder of Radius Books, will lead the following panel of internationally renowned editors, publishers, curators, and photographers in judging the most innovative and finest self-published photography books:

"Any photographer would kill to have their work reviewed by this prestigious group," said Eileen Gittins, Blurb's founder and CEO. "Our jurors are all excited to see the range and creativity of books that will be submitted, now that it is so simple and affordable to compose a book of great beauty and quality."

Members of the jury will help select the winning photography books including the recipient of the grand prize award: $25,000 towards the photography project of the winner's choice.


Read More

What's On: Galleries

The Contact Photography Festival, running today to May 31, looks "Between Memory & History" with the works of hundreds of artists on display at various venues around the city. Some of the exhibits are listed here, marked with CF. A public launch for the Festival is Fri. 7 p.m. at Brassaii Bistro, 461 King St. W. Full festival info at www.contactphoto.com

Africa's Children — Africa's Future Office (588 Richmond St. W. 416-203-3715): AC-AF exhibits the Digital AIDS Quilt, today to May 31. CF

Angell Gallery (890 Queen St. W. 416-530-0444): Tim Roda's exhibit "Family Album" is on display Sat. (reception 1 p.m.) to May 31. CF

Art Trax (133 Queen St. E. 905-274-3400, Port Credit): Open house and Sunday evening of art, Fri.-Sun.

Bau-Xi (340 Dundas St.


Read More

Walking tour mixes modern with historic

Looking for a way to honor Isaac Wetherby, Marybeth Slonneger came up with the idea of a photography walking tour.

Not only would the tour showcase historic photos, but it also would include contemporary photos.

Through the month of May, several downtown Iowa City venues are hosting photography exhibits, two historic and 25 modern.

"It just seemed like the year to honor Wetherby, who this year has been more in the news more than in a long time," Slonneger said. "I wanted to highlight not just historical photography, but contemporary photography as well."

Wetherby (1819-1904) left a legacy as an painter and photographer.

He took early views of Iowa City and took the first known photograph of Old Capitol, Slonneger said.


Read More

Beyond photography

"What's photography?" is not the question any more. The question now has to be, "What's not photography?"

Answers can be found at Contact 2008, the month-long photography festival opening today. With some 600 artists showing in more than 200 venues, you get a range, from Alice Lipczak's show of images of the Toronto club scene in the 1980s being held at Michelle's Beach House (1955 Queen St. E., to May 31) to Aron Portnoy's "A Journey to Ethiopia" at St. Michael's Hospital (to May 18).

"Between Memory and History: from the Epic to the Everyday," the 12th annual festival's grandiose theme, is also the title of the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA, 952 Queen St. W., today to June 1). But big ideas can't exist without a big essay attached, in this instance written by MOCCA's David Liss and festival director Bonnie Rubenstein for the festival handbook.


Read More

The Natchez Democrat

NATCHEZ — On May 2, two young friends, and co-workers, will make their art show debut at the Natchez Coffee Co.

Payton Trim, 20, and Nathanael Gassett, 17, will be displaying their photography in the coffee shop as part of the First Friday festivities.

Trim and Gassett both work at the coffee shop and both said they are looking forward to their first showing.

While neither of the friends has a wealth of experience, their art speaks differently.

Trim and Gassett said they occasionally collaborate on projects but have different photographic philosophies.

Trim said one of his favorite things about photography, especially digital, is the photographer's ability to change images.

“You can edit, change the color, change the texture and make it new," he said.


Read More

Cultural Council features northwest photographers

The St. Johns Cultural Council is featuring two northwest St. Johns County photographers in a show opening tonight at the Art Advocate on San Marco Avenue in St. Augustine.

Riverscape: Images of the St. Johns River will highlight the work of Cher and Terry Brown and five other photographers including Nease High School student Will Livingston. The opening reception will be from 5 - 9 p.m. and coincides with St. Augustine's monthly Uptown Saturday Night festivities. The public is invited to attend and meet the artists.

The Browns are a husband and wife team who have spent much of their marriage photographing scenes along the St. Johns River and coastal areas throughout the South. They live in northwest St. Johns County. Cher Brown spent most of her life shooting photos with an instamatic camera but after meeting her husband switched to a Nikon digital camera and has since developed a sizeable portfolio of work focused on the flora and fauna found along the banks of the St.


Read More

Arts haven

On a Saturday, mid-afternoon, in the University Galleries at Illinois State University, a single person was taking in the latest exhibit, a group show by teachers from the College of Fine Arts.The main gallery was filled with examples of paintings, prints, sculptures, photography, books, drawings, glass work, ceramics, film -- the sum total of the art program, with two dozen contributing artists, at the disposal of the solitary viewer.Down the street, a much different scene unfolded that day.At the McLean County Arts Center in downtown Bloomington, a single-event attendance record was set, with hundreds of people coming to the reception featuring Jessica Benjamin, a Bloomington native and ISU graduate who is painting representational portraits of Americans from her studio in Long Island.Benjamin's paintings occupied the Armstrong Gallery, the smaller of the two at the arts center, and consisted of 12 portraits and an impressionistic portrayal of a parade.Extending from her "The American Series" exhibit -- through the hallway, down stairs and into the arts center's basement classroom space -- were 150 amateur portraits and murals produced by students, from kindergarten to high school.She and the arts center's education coordinator, Tony Preston-Schreck, had spent the preceding week leading workshops in the basement, in schools and at the Boys and Girls Club of McLean County.


Read More