Photography

Week In Photos: Vote On Your Favorite, Send In Your Choices (POLL, PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 07.06.2009 | Style

Read More: Best Photography, Photography, Photos of the Week, Photos, Slidepoll, Week in Photos, Photo Slideshow, Style News

Last week we launched a new feature that asked readers to vote on the best photos we chose from the week. This week we're asking you to vote again but...

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"Carla Bruni In Bed" To Be Auctioned In Berlin, Sarkozy Says "No Problem" (NSFW)

Daily Mail | Posted 06.27.2009 | Style

Read More: Photography, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Fashion, Carla Bruni, France, Nicolas Sarkozy, Ochoa, Style News

We've seen it all (and more) before. But this nude picture of Carla Bruni is still expected to fetch a high price when it goes up for auction in Berli...

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The Lost & Found Bin of The Digital Age

Mathew Preprost | Posted 06.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Photography, Lost Camera, I Found Your Camera, Campfire Stories, New Orleans, Photo, Orphan, Found, Globalization, Cameras, Pennsylvania, Mardi Gras, Denmark, Lost, Living News
Mathew Preprost

IFoundYourCamera.net has proved that a lot of people lose their cameras and many people are willing to help out total strangers in getting their lost items back.

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Media Literacy 101: How to Detect Fear-Mongering -- Pakistani Nukes & Swine Flu

Susan Moeller | Posted 06.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Photography, Msnbc, Fear, Pakistan, Swine Flu, Media, Cnn, Nuclear Weapons, Pakistan Nuclear Weapons, Sean Hannity, Sensationalism, Craigslist, Fox News, Washington Post, Financial TImes, Media News, Sanjay Gupta, Media News
Susan Moeller

How can you tell whether you are getting a story that is balanced and proportionate to the crisis or one that is fanning panic and hysteria? One quick guide is to evaluate the pictures.

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Death and Taxes and Danger Pay

Ellen Susman | Posted 05.25.2009 | Style

Read More: Photography, Gaza Strip, Middle East, Terrorism, 9/11, Tax Day, Breast Cancer, Israel, Death, Style News
Ellen Susman

How much can you put on a gravestone? My sister led an unbelievable life. She went to Israel in 1984 to freelance and learn about the "situation."

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Culture Zohn: Barbara Kruger: Head's Up from Paste Ups

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Photography, Photoshop, Art, Paste Ups, Entertainment, Pre-Digital Images. Pre-Digital Photography, Skarstedt Gallery, Pre-Digital, Photoshopping, Entertainment News
Patricia Zohn

2009-04-17-itsourpleasuretodisgustyouSM.jpg Even though these images are not her current work, they are every bit as powerful today. They tell us to stay alert, to be mindful, and aware that we can be easily manipulated.

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Now We See Coffins Coming Home -- But What About the Other Missing Photos of War?

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Photography, Soldiers, Iraq, Troops, Casualties, Afghanistan, Media News
Greg Mitchell

While showing the coffins coming home is important, showing how the brave service members ended up in that state has always been more important.

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Greening Hollywood: Annenberg's Space Exhibits Humanity in Pixels

Paige Donner | Posted 05.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Wallis Annenberg, DMJM Design, Lauren Greenfield, Lawrence Ho, The Annenberg Space for Photography, The Annenberg Foundation, Kirk McKoy, Leonard Aube, Carolyn Cole, Genaro Molino, Julius Shulman, Caa, Greg Gorman, Patrick Ecclesine, Catherine Opie, Douglas Kirkland, Photography, Los Angeles, Living News
Paige Donner

The Annenberg Foundation has bestowed an exquisite visual, digital jewel upon our city and that jewel is The Annenberg Space For Photography, opening this week.

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Reading The Pictures: Obama Puts Bankers On Parade

Michael Shaw | Posted 04.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Photography, Photos, Mack, White House, B of A, Current Events, Bankers, Obama, Business, Photojournalism, Bank of America, Wall Street, Ceos, Finance, Bankers White House, Pandit, News, Lewis, Dimon, Financial Crisis, Media News
Michael Shaw

2009-03-29-bankerparade.jpg I'm thrilled how Obama corralled those bank CEOs on Friday for a selflessness workshop, then kicked them loose out on the driveway to face a hungry media.

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Hypocrisy And Bad Faith In The AP's Countersuit Against Shepard Fairey

Jonathan Melber | Posted 04.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Fair Use, Copyright, Mannie Garcia, Associated Press Fair Use, Law, AP Fair Use, Photography, Art, Media News, Shepard Fairey, Barack Obama, Obama Hope Poster, Shepard Fairey Poster, Shepard Fairey AP, Media News
Jonathan Melber

An AP victory in this case would undermine artistic freedom. And it would, to paraphrase Lawrence Lessig, effectively outlaw a legitimate form of art.

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The Power of the Panorama

Sam Spear | Posted 04.11.2009 | Home

Read More: Photography, jumpintotomorrow.com, Breakthrough, Panorama, Gigapan, Obama Inauguration, Future Technology, Home News
Sam Spear

For amateur photographers, the panoramic shot is something of a Holy Grail. Traditionally, a good panoramic image required professional equipment and ...

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US Supreme Court Should Get Over Its Camera Allergy

Peter Scheer | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: California Prop 8, Proposition 8, Justice Scalia, Prop 8, No on Prop 8, Antonin Scalia, Photography, California Gay Marriage, California Supreme Court Gay Marriage, Cameras, California Supreme Court, Politics News
Peter Scheer

Legitimacy, the most valuable asset of any court, is diminished by judicial secrecy and enhanced by openness. Justices of the US Supreme Court, take note.

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Benefits of Unemployment

Chris Campbell | Posted 03.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Photography, Ipod, Amoeba Records, Cobra, Mississippi John Hurt, Wilco, Unemployment, Writing, Economy, Parks, George Jones, Sam Cooke, Doug Sahm, San Francisco, Health Care, Bruce Springsteen, Living News
Chris Campbell

I didn't greet this free time with a desire to sit around lazily and waste away the days, but rather to explore the things that I've always wanted to go after, namely writing and photography.

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Manure In Midtown

Joshua Kristal | Posted 03.27.2009 | Style

Read More: Photographer, Photography, Rodeos, Photographs, Slideshow, Rodeo, Madison Square Garden, The Professional Bull Riders, Style News
Joshua Kristal

The Professional Bull Riders rodeo came to Madison Square Garden in January, and the smell of 700 tons of dirt and cow manure brought out every closeted cowboy this side of the Gowanus Canal. See some photographs from the event.

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Third Screen: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders on "Black List"

Vickie Karp | Posted 03.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Hbo, George Bush, Elvis Mitchell, Michelle Obama, Photography, The Black List, Al Sharpton, Film, Movies, Media News
Vickie Karp

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders said, "My portraiture is about making people look the way they see themselves in the mirror. Not to overly glamorize or be cruelly honest."

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Fame and Frame: A Collection of Stories and Photos of my Career

Pat York | Posted 03.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Andy Warhol, Photography, Timothy Leary, Photographers, Pat York, Photography Book, Books, Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Fame and Frame, Glamour Magazine, Jack Nicholson, Celebrities, Robert F. Kennedy, Entertainment News
Pat York

This book is a partial visual diary of my life since becoming a photographer in the middle 60's. (The 90's is the only decade not represented. Principally, during that era, I concentrated on working with nudes and anatomy).

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The AP Has No Case Against Shepard Fairey

Jonathan Melber | Posted 03.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Photography, Associated Press Fair Use, Law, Mannie Garcia, Art, Copyright, Barack Obama, AP Fair Use, Shepard Fairey, Fair Use, Obama Hope Poster, Media News
Jonathan Melber

Why is the AP acting like it has a case? Because juries are unpredictable, copyright law is confusing and defending a lawsuit is extremely expensive.

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Vee Speers' Birthday Party -- Bring Balloons!

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 03.09.2009 | Style

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Photography, ARt Exhibition, Vee Speers, Madeline L'Engle, Children, Style News
Kimberly Brooks

VS: My mother was a singer, and we grew up watching her sing in public, so it seemed obvious that I should include an image of my daughter -- who also sings -- performing.

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The Journalist and the "Other" in Times of War

Sandy Tolan | Posted 02.24.2009 | World

Read More: Journalists, Photography, Wmd, Pentagon, War, Iraq, The Other, Independence, State Department, Journalism, El Salvador, Voices, Iran, Photographs, Conflict, Ethics in Journalism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Ethics, Wartime, Iason Athanasiadis, Orwell, International, Guillermoprieto, Shadid, Bonner, World News
Sandy Tolan

What is the ethical responsibility of the journalist in telling the story of the Other? And what larger forces come to bear in shaping that story in the press?

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Hudson Crash Required Journalists to Collaborate

Danny Groner | Posted 02.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Photography, Us Airways Hudson River, New York Waterway Ferry Terminal, Scott Mcclellan, Associated Press, Citizen Journalism, Airplane Crash Hudson River, Plane Crash Hudson River, Plane Hudson River, Airplanes, Hudson River, Plane Crash, Plane Crash in Hudson River, Citizen Photographs, New York, The White House, Mainstream Media, Photographs, Plane in Hudson River, New York Times, Hudson River Plane Crash, ABC News, Hudson River Crash, US Airways Crash Photos, US Airways Crash, Flight 1549, Media News
Danny Groner

The photographs taken at the site of the Hudson crash may be the best proof yet that citizen journalism is not only essential, but is here to stay.

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Reading The Pictures: The "44" Official Portrait

Michael Shaw | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Photography, White House, Politics, Pete Souza, Photograph, Obama, Official Portrait, Souza, News, 44, Portrait, Barack Obama, Photojournalism, Politics News
Michael Shaw

2009-01-15-shaw115.jpgReady for a change of view?

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A New Book Explores The Softer Side of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

Zandile Blay | Posted 02.07.2009 | Style

Read More: Photography, Douglas Kirkland, CoCo Chanel, Chanel, Interview, Paris, Gabrielle Chanel, Style News
Zandile Blay

Douglas Kirkland: "Coco Chanel's story is a story of someone who came from zero, from nothing. She was living on the lowest level, but she had determination."

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Farida Batool, Photography and Pakistani Lives

Monroe Price | Posted 02.06.2009 | World

Read More: Photography, Shari'a Law, Farida Batool, Aicon Gallery, Postmodernism, Pakistan Images, Beaconhouse National University, SOAS, Photograph, Pakistan, Pakistan Photograph, Lahore, Pakistani Girl Jumping Rope, World News
Monroe Price

Farida's image of a Pakistani girl is becoming iconic. She captures a cross between ruin and ritual. It's a side of Pakistan that rarely makes it into the American press.

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US Won't Release Reuters Photographer In Iraq

Reuters | Posted 01.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Photography, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Reuters, War Wire, Baghdad, Foreign Affairs, Iraq, Media News

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military in Iraq is not obliged to obey an Iraqi court order to release a freelance photographer working for Reuters news...

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Annie Leibovitz At Work: Renowned Photographer At The Harold Washington Library

Time Out Chicago | Posted 01.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Photography, Annie Leibovitz Chicago, Photographers Annie Leibovitz, Annie Leibovitz at Work, Annie Leibovitz Harold Washington Library, Annie Leibovitz, Chicago News

She shot Kate Moss, George W. Bush, Queen Elizabeth II, John Lennon and other iconic faces for Rolling Stone, Vogue, Vanity Fair and other publication...

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