Posts Tagged “photojournalism”

War Images As Evidence in War Trials

April 2, 2013

Powerful story and images – posting so I remember it. Ron Haviv’s Bosnian War Images As Evidence in War Trials – NYTimes.com. “The photographs really didn’t have any of the effect that I had hoped they would,” said Mr. Haviv, (…)

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LIFE, Gordon Parks, Memory

March 5, 2013

I just finished posting to my Community Collaborations blog about this fantastic piece in the Lens Blog: Gordon Parks’s Harlem Family Revisited by John Edwin Mason and Jesse Newman. The photo essay appeared in the March 8, 1968 issue of LIFE which (…)

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Photojournalism And Post-Processing

February 20, 2013

Interesting articles about the 2013 World Press Photo Contest winners – very similar to questions I had upon seeing the winning image above. Photojournalism And Post-Processing: Should Contest Images Be The Actual Published Picture? | NPPA. DURHAM, NC February 20, 2013 (…)

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The Story Behind the Iconic Photograph from Sandy Hook

December 26, 2012

The Story Behind the Iconic Photograph from the Sandy Hook Tragedy  Interesting and touching account from the photograph. Don’t know why it struck me as I read this, who brilliantly decided to call flash cards for cameras – “memory cards?” (…)

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Shocking Photographs

December 12, 2012

You tube warns us. The New York Times tells us the next photo will be upsetting or of a dead child. Interestingly, they don’t give us the option to skip the image and in other parts of the website the (…)

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Some good journalism

November 27, 2012

Cjchivers.com / Pinterest   C.J. Chivers using Pinterest for arms identification – brilliant. —— Interview with Tyler Hicks on Lens Blog

23 Women’s Magazines, Then And Now

November 10, 2012

23 Women’s Magazines, Then And Now. like this

Watching Syria’s War – NYTimes.com

October 21, 2012

Watching Syria’s War – NYTimes.com Videos and images of the continuing conflict in Syria The New York Times is tracking the human toll of the conflict in this feature. The primary source is the online video that has allowed a widening (…)

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Malcolm X’s Passionate Engagement With Photography – NYTimes.com

September 19, 2012

great piece by Maurice Berger in the lens blog today Malcolm X’s Passionate Engagement With Photography Malcolm X often carried a camera, his way of “collecting evidence,” as Gordon Parks once observed. He relied on photographs to provide the visual (…)

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Vietnam war reporter Malcolm Browne dies

August 28, 2012

The journalist who captured an iconic image of a burning South Vietnamese monk in 1963 has died at the age of 81. via BBC News – Vietnam war reporter Malcolm Browne dies.