Ken Storch Photo Blog – All Things Photographic, All Thoughts Photographic
The New York Times is reporting, in an article by Randy Kennedy, that all of the Magnum photo cooperative images will be digitized.
“It will be the first time that the archive, which for the last several years had been crowded onto shelves at Magnum’s modest offices on West 25th Street, will be accessible to scholars and the public.”
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The National Archives has joined Flickr to share images of National Archives archival photographs and documents in a new way with National Archives researchers, potential researchers, and the public. You, we, the public, are invited to contribute our own
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The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York announced plans to exhibit a major retrospective of Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the great masters of photography.
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Improper Photography. What a chillingly lovely and delicate phrase, “Improper Photography“.
Update: This thread appears to have awoken recently with several new commenters adding their thoughts to the Comment section below. Feel free to add yours as well.
I had run across a headline on one the many online news feeds that I read, “Webster Man Arrested for Improper Photography”.
My first though was, ‘oh, my students do that all the time!’ But no. It is a legal term and it is a state jail felony in Texas.
Ever want to have Adobe Photoshop help you crop an image using the ‘Rule of Thirds’ or ‘Diagonal Rule’ or, perhaps, the ‘Golden Section’, ‘Golden Spiral’, or ‘Golden Triangle’ etc? Now there is an easy way to compose your image, in Photoshop, to many of the commonly accepted compositional techniques.
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Terry Gross has another fine interview; this time of singer/songwriter/poet Patti Smith. The incentive and drive for the interview is the memoir Patti Smith has published, Just Kids, recalling her life and times with famed and infamous photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.