Yearly Archives: 2011

Soupe à l’Oignon

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Sun At Last

After seemingly interminable rain, this morning the sun broke free. Here is a colleague, Mark, basking …

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Deadline Every Second

Here is the trailer for a documentary of Associated Press photojournalists and the challenges they face to meet their deadlines. AP is said to send out over one million photos a year. Trailer from Ken Kobre on Vimeo.

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Kickstart This!

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Christmas Day in Los Angeles, 1993

    Another resurrection from the archives … This one was originally a color snapshot made with a borrowed, cheap, entry-level Polaroid camera.  Then it was scanned some years ago.  When I recently rediscovered it, the thing was a 600px … Continue reading

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The Day

Moby gives us another free MP3 download, this an orchestral version of his The Day, included in a different arrangement on his new Destroyed album. Nice, peaceful, meditative. Along with the album is a selection of Moby’s own fine, mood-fitting photography, also shown on … Continue reading

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Vivian Maier Update

Back in December 2010, we talked about Vivian Maier. A traveling exhibition of her remarkable photographs is underway. The Vivian Maier website also is now showing quite a number of images, including one of my favorites, a self-portrait made in New York City in 1953, … Continue reading

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Gabrielle, Rediscovered

A long-lost photo from a visit to New York in 1974 …

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The Nikon Way

How to clean your lenses … with John Coltrane!

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Crowdfunding PhotoJournalism

Emphas.is kicked off its website last month and appears to be on its way to great success.  The site accepts project proposals from visual journalists and invites “backers” to sign up to support the project of their choice for as … Continue reading

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