No time to ruminate or pontificate today, but thought you’d like to know that the film “Documenting the Face of America” about Roy Stryker and the photographic projects of the Farm Security Administration and, later, the Office of War Information. NY Times has a review and there’s a site dedicated to the film which was [...]
If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don’t need Photoshop. You don’t need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don’t need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.
Errol Morris strikes again.
I haven’t done an exhaustive search, but it looks like the Washington Post has the most comprehensive collection of photos from the ongoing conflict between Russia and Georgia. Boston.com’s “The Big Picture” also has some striking images, all very large. Both include photos from Reuters, which has it’s own extensive slideshow, though the images are [...]
A while back, waaay back, I mocked an interviewer for starting off an interview with the dreaded “what camera do you use?” question. Those sorts of questions always strike me as being based on the assumption that if you just knew what equipment another photographer uses you could replicate their results.
After reading a post by [...]
