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No Surprises At Visa pour l'image

Someone asked when we would see at Perpignan the likes of Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Jean-François Leroy thought it was some kind of joke.

via Le Journal de la Photographie.

Tomás Munita: 2013 Recipient of the Chris Hondros Fund Award

citing his “fierce commitment to photojournalism and endless drive to tell a story.” Munita’s portfolio of work, shot in a wide variety of settings and locales, reflects a strong and nuanced grasp of the human condition. His photographs of refugees in Afghanistan, prisoners in El Salvador and daily life in Cuba all demonstrate just how in touch Munita is with the currents (and undercurrents) of life.

via Time- LightBox.

Optimize A Picture To Boost It's Chances Of Winning An Award

All you have to do is reproduce the effect that a scratch on the lens would have created in a photo, and purist jurors will praise the photographer for not having gone too far with enhancement, Palmisano says with a chuckle.

via Enhanced Reality: Exploring the Boundaries of Photo Editing - ABC News.

The Creative Class Is The Canary In The Digital Coal Mine

At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 14,000 people and was worth $28 billion.  But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only 13 people.

via Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class - Salon.com.

The Future Is vibrant, It’s Just Going To Be Very Different From Mine

I’ve got a couple of young assistants in my studio, and I say look, you’re future is very vibrant…a lot of people are saying doomsday stuff right now, but I think the future is vibrant, it’s just going to be very different from mine. Talk about multitasking! They have to be good on the web, they are going to have to know video, audio, all that stuff. They’ll have to be kind of their own multifaceted entertainment-information package. They are going to have to bring lots of skills to the party. We learned how to do one thing well, and that was how to tell a good story with a camera in our hands.

--Joe McNally

via Conversation: Joe McNally | burn magazine.

There Are Photographers Right Before Our Eyes Who We Don't Even Know About Yet

After 25 years, the enthusiasm and excitement are still palpable when Rosenheim discusses his latest exhibition, and the future of the field. “I think we’re going to continue to have breakthroughs and new bodies of work,” he says. “I think there are photographers who are right before our eyes who we don’t even know about yet.”

-- Jeff L. Rosenheim, curator of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

via photographmag.com.

Because I Like It, The Only Valid Answer

One of my clients is on the committee of a museum, and other committee members were calling him crazy for buying outside of the zone they deemed safe. ‘Why’d you buy that?’ they’d demand. I told him what to say the next time they ask — and it’s the only answer I think is valid. ‘Because I like it.

--Paul Kopeikin

via photographmag.com.

One Of My Favorite Things To Do Is Insta Creepin' On Photographers

I love Instagram. It’s my go to app when I need to kill some time and want to see what’s happening in the world beyond my sad windowless office.

One of my favorite things to do it creep on photographers.

You probably think I’m pretty weird now, but I really do love to see what inspires some of my favorite photographers on a regular basis.

For me, its just another way to see what they’re up to and what they’re shooting.  I can’t always keep up with all the promos, but I always make time for Insta Creepin’.

-- another fantastic Art Producer

via art buyers are people too.

I'm A Photo Editor for a News Organization and I Looked At Every Single Photo Taken At The Boston Marathon Bombing

I will be one of many people you don’t even know exist who works in the news industry tasked with combing through every single photo taken in Boston so that we can tell the story with images.

While the public gawks in disbelief at the hastily chosen images of destruction, the vast majority of the photos taken in Boston will go unseen because some are far too mundane or repetitive (do you need to see the back of an EMT’s head?) while other are far too graphic.

via xoJane.

We’ve seen an incredible run in art sales in the last decade

“What’s driving the art market globally is that certain people have a lot of liquidity and are looking for places to put it,” said Suzanne Gyorgy, head of Citi Art Advisory, a service of Citigroup’s private bank. “For many people art is an interesting alternative investment. It’s seen as a hedge against inflation and a safe haven in the high end of the market.”

via As Money Props Up Art World, Prospects Are Mixed - NYTimes.com.