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Director of Photography, Rob Haggart.

Editor vs. Photographer

thx, Tim.

it’s not news, and it’s not hard to do, and it’s not hard to replace

No one surveying the changes the internet is bringing to the newspaper business is saying “My God, who will tell me about Big 12 football! Where will I find a recipe for spicy chicken wings!”
via Clay Shirky.

David Alan Harvey on Launching a Photo-j Magazine

“You’ve got to have something to say. It could be conceptual, or you can try to save the world as a photojournalist. But you can’t just be a technician. Everybody’s a technician. You’ve got to have an idea.”
via PDN.

Oyster Hotel Reviews – Hotel Photo Fakeout

I like this new hotel review site, Oyster Hotel Reviews, because they understand how powerful the editorial voice can be when making a buying decision and they understand a photograph will convey the most information in the shortest amount of time. They’ve hired a bunch of writer photographers to go check out hotel properties and [...]

Breaking: Getty Shuts Down The Entire Wholly-Owned Shoot Program

This just in: The entire wholly-owned shoot program at Getty Images has been shut down and the producer and digital tech person at Getty have been laid off.
My source (here).
I’m told: “Wholly owned is when Getty Images would commission photographers for shoots in their creative division. It may also include photographers who were on [...]

Lucie Award Winners

Picture Editor of the year – Steve Fine – Sports Illustrated
Photo Magazine of the Year – www.burnmagazine.org
Fashion Layout of the Year – Harper’s Bazaar – Thriller Fashion by Terry Richardson
Book Publisher of the Year – Verso Limited Editions Bruce Davidson – Central Park
Print Advertising Campaign of the Year – FFL France Wrangler We Are Animals [...]

Shepard Fairey Admits He Lied About Which Photo He Used

In a strange twist to an important case with strange twists (photographer Mannie Garcia claims AP has no rights to the image) Shepard Fairey admits that the image he used for his iconic poster was the image that everyone and their dog knew he used: The image that’s an exact match to the poster.
From the [...]

Emailers are now little better then spam

While emailers sounded like a good idea several years ago, they are now little better then spam. Most of the work I get is not appropriate to any need I might possibly have, and lots of it just isn’t good at all. Plus, if the image isn’t displaying in my email window and fast, I’m [...]

How Art Producers Find The Right Photographer For The Project

I’ve always thought this Canadian Club print campaign was genius, partially because of the vibe but mostly because I couldn’t figure out if the images were 40 years old or shot recently. When I discovered that Liz Miller-Gershfeld, VP and Senior Art Producer at Energy BBDO (the agency that made those ads) reads APE I [...]

He who wishes to become a painter first must cut out his tongue

We must resist academia as artists. We really must. When Matisse was near death a young man visited him and as he turned to leave Matisse said, “Remember one thing: guard your naiveté. Some day young man, that’s going to be all you’ve got. And now I’m packing my bags for the next world.”
–Robert Bergman
via [...]

Peter Yang and Rolling Stone Win Magazine Cover of the Year

I’ve sat through too many meetings where badges, sashes, boxes, hairlines and an entire dump truck full of coverlines were added to perfectly good cover images or instead a meeting where perfectly good cover images were thrown out in favor of images that held coverlines better, to not point out the irony of a winner [...]

Online Symposium: Seeking Justice – Social Activism through Journalism & Documentary Practice

The Centre for Documentary Practice invites you to logon and join the world’s first online journalism and documentary conference on October 15th 2009, starting 12:01am (GMT) (That’s 8PM EST).
Speakers include Paul Fusco, Ed Kashi, Jodi Bieber, Marcus Bleasdale, Shahidul Alam, Gary Knight, Robin Hammond, Adam Ferguson, Travis Beard, Michael Coyne, Masaru Goto, Jack Picone, Megan [...]

A Couple Docs Shot With A Stills Camera

Photographers are doing some amazing things shooting video with the Canon 5D Mark II. Here are a couple that I saw that made me go “wow” when I heard they were shot on a stills camera. I have no idea how they will hold up on a 50″plasma TV, but who’s got time to watch [...]

Every Dumbass With A Camera

via – make art not war.

the sec­ret of being a suc­cess­ful car­too­nist

“Con­ti­nuity,” he said. “Anyone can draw a good car­toon… ONCE. But not ever­yone can draw a good car­toon, every day, day-in-day-out. It’s something you have to work VERY HARD at for many years before you even get close…”
– Hugh Dodd
via Gapingvoid.

Paolo Roversi – On Creativity

http://www.paoloroversi.com/

Sam Jones Interview Part 2

APE: I talked to you about a year ago right after Canon announced the new 5d markII that shoots video. I called because I wanted to talk with someone who was actually a filmmaker and a photographer to get their opinion on the new product. We got into this huge conversation about film vs. digital [...]

Sam Jones Interview Part 1

I consider Sam Jones to be one of the top photographers in the country at shooting men. And there are plenty of people who shoot men as people or fashionable or sexy but very few who shoot them “manly,” which is something I love about Sam’s photography. So, that’s a very thin category that I [...]