Yearly Archives: 2008

(Wall) Street Art

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The Big Picture, Again

The Boston Globe’s The Big Picture site keeps on delivering fabulous imagery. This time, Obama. Also see these remarkable Callie Shell photographs. About Callie Shell, from The Digital Journalist: Four years ago Time photographer Callie Shell met Barack Obama backstage when she was covering presidential … Continue reading

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Front Pages

See this story from the National Press Photographers Association. And check out yesterday’s Newseum entry: Wednesday, November 05, 2008. 719 front pages from 65 countries

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Scout Tufankjian

She is a freelance photographer based in Brooklyn who has covered the Obama campaign from day one, and is said to have made over a million exposures in doing so. See more of her superb Obama images here. Tufankjian is also … Continue reading

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Ivi Anna : A Collaboration of Nikolas and Lawrence

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Veronica — Who Knew?

Fellow photographers may have been wondering. Turns out that the patron saint of photography is Veronica, thanks to Saints.SQPN.com.

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Four Arguments for the Retention of Television

This week I watched five hours of PBS TV’s AMERICAN MASTERS “You Must Remember This” series on the history of Warner Bros. and its films. I thought about how much my still photography has been informed by the likes of Orson Welles, … Continue reading

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Life, and Life Only (to quote Bob Dylan)

Life magazine’s photo archives will go online in 2009. Visit the embryonic Web site now and signup for news and updates:http://www.life.com/Life/ I can hardly wait. Here’s the press release: Press Release Time Inc. and Getty Images Jointly Launch LIFE.com New Site … Continue reading

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Kim Sleeps

I have hundreds and hundreds of old slides and negs, never processed or printed or published, that I slowly try to review, cull and scan. I am trying to find at least one I like each weekend. Here is something … Continue reading

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Seeing With A Different Eye

Provocative, and for real: http://www.theblindphotographer.com

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