The NY Times is reporting on new revelations concerning a shooting of a student protester in 1967 West Berlin. The article is accompanied by a photo of the student lying on the ground, “the shot that changed the republic.” It’s a photo I’ve never seen nor heard of. We are all in our own little [...]
NYPD Operations Order explaining how to deal with street photographers, or, er, not deal with them. Posted on Craphound.
(via Joy Garnett)
Since I make my living (or made until recently, I’m unemployed at the moment) in the digital space, I’ve had little patience for the luddites in photography, rejecting posting of photographs on the Web as the first step to rights theft. Well, Paul Melcher’s diatribe “It’s your problem, right now” has me rethinking that position. [...]
The NY Times launched a new blog over the weekend, called “Lens”. Lens is devoted to photojournalism and displays the work of the Times‘ photographers as well as others. (I wonder what the rights management issues are for a mainstream commercial blog like this. Small fry like myself are operating in a gray-zone when it [...]
Affordable Art Fair is ongoing through this weekend in New York. On Sunday if you’re a female and can convince a child under the age of 12 to accompany you, you get free Mother’s Day admission. This year the upper limit of affordable is $10k. I’d have thought they might lower it in response [...]
Marshall Poe, Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa, has launched “Mechanical Icon“, a series of video essays analyzing the background of iconic historic photographs. about 1/2 of the essays so far deal with portraiture. Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx, Ulysses S Grant, Robert E Lee, Geronimo, Queen Victoria. Each essay is about two-and-a-half [...]
