Framework, the photography and video blog of the Los Angeles Times, celebrates the power and explores the craft of visual storytelling. The blog highlights the work of Times photojournalists who, frame by frame, document the drama, the emotion and sometimes the humor of life. Framework also aims to serve as a resource hub for photography, multimedia and video enthusiasts who share our passion.
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While many Web sites (you know who they are) subside on aggregation or free labor, Edmiston sees Nomad as providing a sustainable source of work for journalists. “We wanted to create something where people who create good content could actually share in the money that is generated by their work,” he said.
via Mediaweek.
think in terms of A Good Image once a day, and A Great Image once a week when you are traveling.
Helena Buzzeo, who was the senior VP of art buying at McCann, looked at my book and told me that she couldn’t show it to Exxon without a guy holding a wrench in their hand
via Stone Thrower.
the higher “value add” of best advice for clients in a more complex media world, plus an enhanced ability to demonstrate ROI, will create new, improved fee opportunities for agencies.
via Telegraph.
Talk about humble beginnings…
A Bay Area woman may have solid proof to support the assertions of the Ansel Adams estate that negatives a Fresno man bought at a yard sale were not taken by the famed nature photographer as he claims. She thinks they may have been taken by her Uncle Earl.
via KTVU San Francisco, via The Online Photographer.
Several years ago, a self-published photography book could cost an arm and a leg to produce, carrying the potential to be so costly as to deter artists from attempting the leap of photographic publication. But low and behold came the arrival of the print-on-demand book – an exciting new avenue for emerging or mid-career photographers hoping to show their work to a wider audience. In recent years, the photography book business has seen self-published titles overwhelm the market – I see many of these titles on a weekly basis, few of which have caught my eye with regards to content and image quality the way Phil Underdown’s limited edition Grassland has. It is exciting to see a print-on-demand publication emerge with the characteristics and individuality only larger publishers are typically able to achieve.
Bill Turnage, managing director of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust, said: “It’s an unfortunate fraud. It’s very distressing.”
via Telegraph.
Two small boxes he bought 10 years ago for $45 — negotiated down from $70 — are now estimated to be worth at least $200 million, according to a Beverly Hills art appraiser.
Those boxes contained 65 glass negatives created by famed nature photographer Ansel Adams in the early period of his career. Experts believed the negatives were destroyed in a 1937 darkroom fire that destroyed 5,000 plates.
via CNN.com.
“The creation of the Monocle newspaper is a response to our growing audience and the desire to launch a highly targeted product to reach them when they have time to read and listen at their leisure,” says Brûlé.
“There’s a huge amount of talk about the death of print, thanks to various types of ‘pad’ devices, but if you think of summer – with sand, swimming, sun cream and socialising – a carefully crafted newspaper is more useful and reader-friendly than a backlit screen that hates the sun and salt,” says Brûlé.
via García Media.
People go on about Arial and how awful it is, and Comic Sans, what an atrocity that is, why not the same about Helvetica?
via Creative Review.
I can honestly say I’ve never had as much fun looking at photographer’s portfolios as I did when I looked at these. In keeping with their entire brand, the Stash “books” are anything but.
via Hmab: The Lounge.
Hearst Magazines sold more than 12,000 downloads of its Popular Mechanics iPad edition since its release on July 8 and is gearing up to release many more apps this year, including app editions of Esquire; Marie Claire; O, The Oprah Magazine; Food Network Magazine; Cosmopolitan and Harper’s Bazaar.
Canon argues you won’t need to shoot stills when its video is capable of keeping everything in focus all the time — you’ll just pick out your favorite scene from the movie reel.
via Engadget.
thx, paulo
“Another thought for the Fotofest staff: As photographers we receive advice on how to prepare ourselves for the reviews. Have the reviewers received any advice/training? Some are truly excellent, and I’m personally satisfied if the reviewer actively and honestly engages with my work regardless of whether they like it. Some people can successfully be both reviewers and artists, but I’ve noticed that many artist/reviewers either don’t care about the reviewees at all, or they filter things through the lens of how they would do it in their work.”
via Conscientious.
So, the question is, “Are you good? “ Simple, easy, and sure way to find out is you. No one can answer this question but yourself. If you aren’t sure if your work is good, then probably your work is not good enough. Don’t ask somebody else. Instead, hang your work and live with it. If it makes you feel good and proud that you made it, your work is good.
–Hiroshi Watanabe
via Two Way Lens.
