“Regardless of the economy, we always reach out to the best photographer for the job. Over the years I’ve found that there isn’t a shooter out there who won’t do everything in their power to work within the budgets I have.”
–Kellie Bingman, Art Buying Supervisor, McKinney
via Stone Thrower.
In an effort to recognize and support emerging photographers, Editorial Photographers [EP], a non-profit mutual benefit organization, is pleased to announce our second annual student photography competition (here).
“Newspapers are an important part of our lives, not to read, of course, but, when you’re moving you can’t wrap your dishes in a blog.”
— Stephen Colbert
via CJR.
“I was furious that my reputation, and that of the three other photographers, was apparently being used to sucker in amateur photographers to spend the summer filling the hard drives of a new National Trust picture library – all of which the Trust would be able to reuse and resell to generate profits.”
— Simon Norfolk
via EPUK
“We’ll make it through this short-term economic crisis—but it’s only with your help “
Under the deal, Allen will receive $5m in damages for the unauthorized use of his image in a billboard advertising campaign for American Apparel last year.
via guardian.co.uk.
New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely roil the seas, it will drain them dry. Those who would pirate what you produce have developed an elaborate sophistry to convince you that they are your victim. They aren’t. Fight back.
via WSJ.com, thanks Bobby T.
Good to put some faces with names (here). I think David Curcurito is a genius magazine designer.
via i can read.
I like Will Steacy’s work but after reading this interview on BombLog (here) I have a new appreciation for the pictures.
But there’s only so much that “New Media” can do. At the end of the day, good art is still an expensive, labor-intensive, pain-in-the-ass thing to make. Technology may remove a specific barrier to entry – the way photography did to portraiture over oil paint, for example – but the good stuff, the stuff people are willing to pay BIG MONEY for, still remains really, really hard.
via An Interview with Hugh MacLeod, Cartoonist | Lateral Action.
The problem with a lot of men’s magazines is that they worry too much about who they’re addressing, when they should be worrying more about the quality of their content.
Dylan Jones, Editor of British GQ
via FT.com
This overfed, over-monied art world, Saltz explained, was a self-replicating machine: people think that “the art market is so smart that it only buys the best work…[but in reality]…the art market is so dumb that it buys anything other people are buying.”
[…]Prince, he suggested, “invented a dangerous idea and packaged himself for the corporate boardroom.” He posited that the major premise of Prince’s art was appropriation, and that it was “the idea that ate the art world.”
via NYFA Current saw it on Conscientious.
But because Google are uppity little nerds who consider the world as theirs to metatag, they decided to scan them all, regardless of legal status.
Arm-in-arm with librarians, Google declared they would have 15 million books digitized in under a decade. In other words, almost half of the 32 million books that humans have published.
via newmatilda.com.
“We shot them before they went to dinner in NYC and made sure plenty of drinks were available.”
This and other behind the scenes tidbits from Ben Baker’s 12 page photo essay in Fortune over on whats the jackanory?
…the deal also would allow Google — and only Google — to digitize so-called orphan works, which has raised some eyebrows in antitrust circles. Orphan works are books or other materials that are still covered by U.S. copyright law, but it is not clear who owns the rights to them.
“Essentially, it gives Google a free pass for infringement for selling all these books,” said James Grimmelmann, who teaches at the New York Law School. “Publishers (who are part of the settlement) would be happy to share the monopoly with Google.”
[…]”We would like the court to say: ‘This is fine theoretically, but these orphan books, they don’t have anyone to speak for them, so let’s take them out of the agreement,'” he said.
via Reuters.
With generous support from Canon USA and Leica Cameras, LOOK3 will be offering 10 full workshop scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in 2-4 year accredited programs. Deadline to apply is May 1, 2009 and scholarship recipients will be notified May 8, 2009. The application consists of a submission of 10-15 images from a single project, preferably a recent body of work, and an email to workshops@look3.org. Please do not send portfolio images from a multitiude of projects. To apply, please click here and follow the ftp and email instructions under Student Scholarship submissions.
