What Future For Photography?
We recently went to the Bill Brandt show at the Museum of Modern Art. Brandt is a very famous photographer, but in all honesty, when I saw most of his work my reaction was ‘what’s the big deal?’...
Read moreThe Law and Shooting in Public Places
credit: Marc Vallee, photojournalist. The explosion of digital cameras in the hands of ‘amateurs’, particularly since the advent of HD video in cell phones has caused a lot of changes, and a lot of consternation – particularly among law...
Read moreOut Of The Picture
Definitely don’t move… Margaret Bourke-White was on the cutting edge of a lot of change. She was a woman photographer when there were almost none. She was a war correspondent, photog for Life Magazine, member of Magnum. She traveled...
Read moreWhat’s in a Picture?
Smile We are in Jerusalem this week, and like all good tourists to Jerusalem we did the ‘religious’ sites today. So at 10am it was The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (above). At noon it was The Wailing Wall...
Read moreHow To Save Photojournalism
This just in! Jesus and his pals had dinner last night….. full story at 11. Last week, Dirck Halstead ran a very provocative piece in his Digital Journalist asking How To Save Photo Journalism. The answers were more depressing...
Read morePowerful Video
96 simultaneous videos of faces from Hungary Yesterday we spent the day at the Venice Biennale, the great modern art exhibition. Even for someone who lives over the MoMA, it was an overwhelming show. Building after building, pavilion after...
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Shirt 1 – 36×48…. and for sale! There is an expression called ‘high tech-high touch’. It means that in a high-tech world, there is a naturall attraction to high touch, or non technical things. Like writing with a fountain...
Read moreWhen 35mm and Video Meet
Panasonic merges all the advantages of 35mm with video… I started my career as a still photographer. I liked working as a photojournalist. The gear was light weight and working by yourself gave you a chance to be both...
Read moreToward a New Grammar for Video
Photography in the 1860s was expensive, complex and heavy There is a direct correlation between technology and grammar – that is a direct relationship between the way something is made, and the way it looks. This is particularly true...
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