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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.


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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.


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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.

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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.

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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.


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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.

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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 .


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.

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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.


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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.

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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.


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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.

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