Photo Feed – 03.06.12

Skin care company Dove is speaking out on the issue of “fake beauty” being promoted in photographs through Photoshopping. Rather than address the issue directly at first, the company decided to speak out directly to those responsible for “fake” images by doing some clever guerrilla marketing. It essentially pranked […]

The US Department of Justice issued a statement this past Sunday that confirms the fact that the 1st, 4th, and 14th Amendment protect citizens’ rights to photograph police in public places.

The Statement of Interest document is a message to the US District Court in Maryland that it supports photojournalist Mannie […]

Madrid, Spain-based photographer Eugenio Recuenco shot a series of fashion photographs that pay homage to Pablo Picasso’s paintings.

The models are dressed similarly to the outfits seen in the cubist works, and the photographs are further post-processed and composited to look surreal. Random lines drawn on the face and fake eyeballs […]

David Hobby over at Strobist shares a fantastic idea for photographers who would like to always have some gaffers tape handy at all times:
So we are gonna make a gaffer’s tape keychain fob […] That right there is 40″ of gaff, effortlessly carried by default, at all times […]
No, no, […]

“There’s a lot of dry out there,” says George Steinmetz.
He knows what he’s talking about. For the past 15 years, Steinmetz has been photographing hyperarid regions (or “extreme deserts”) in 27 countries around the world plus Antarctica. The result of his work is a 352-page book titled Desert Air, published […]

Joe Rosenthal, American (1911–2006), Old Glory Goes Up on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945, gelatin silver print, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of the Kevin and Lesley Lilly Family, The Manfred Heiting Collection. © Associated Press

Jonathan C. Torgovnik, American (born 1969), Valentine with her daughters Amelie […]

I knew that photographs had always been altered and manipulated, but I didn’t really know how prevalent it was and how much a part of the history of the medium it was,” Fineman said.
“When I learned about photography at university, this kind of thing was hardly ever discussed,”
via Huffington Post.
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Wednesday: 3.6.13
Design Director/Photo Editor: Charles Hess, chessdesign
Art Director: Suzannah Mathur
Photographer:Elena Zhukova
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For this edition of our look at daily life we share images from Iraq, Israel, Burma, Germany, China, Pakistan, Serbia and a few others from around the world. — Lloyd Young ( 37 photos total)Tommy Edmonds and Agnes Hill get the dance floor to themselves during a Valentine’s Day dance […]

Matthew Brandt has used Cheez Whiz to print a photograph. And Kool-Aid. And human tears.
It’s all part of Brandt’s fascination with the photographic process and, on a larger scale, a relationship with what he photographs and its imprint on the physical world.
Brandt was influenced by landscape photography of the […]

Congratulation to the class of 2013. Good luck to all of you.
From the press release email I received:
Photo District News (PDN) has just announced their list of the top 30 emerging photographers for 2013. Selected from more than 300 photographers nominated from around the world, this year’s list represents 12 nationalities […]

Like most photographers—especially lighting photographers—I love me some gaffer’s tape.

Today, a great way to carry enough gaff on your physical person at all times to fix a light mod, tack a piece of fabric to a wall for a headshot backdrop, hog-tie a captured smuggler or whatever.

Get your MacGuyver […]

As professional and amateur cameras reveal more of the world at an increasingly rapid pace, the field of photojournalism is becoming a harder place to make a living. Yet many young photographers are pursuing careers as visual storytellers, despite a market in transition. Some study the craft at universities, others carve their own path. […]

When Detroit’s Cass Technical High School was closed in 2005 in order to move to a new building next door, the city was scheduled to lose one of its unofficial landmarks.
Built in a style of gothic construction at the beginning of the 20th century, Cass Tech was a symbol of […]

This is what I have wanted from PocketWizard for a long time: a sub-$100 remote.

Basically, the new Plus X transceiver has everything you really need—and nothing you don’t. Full details below.
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Even in a continent rich with fantastic traditional garments, the Herero tribe of Namibia stands out. Photographer Jim Naughten first came across and photographed members of the tribe while traveling across Southern Africa 15 years ago. Naughten returned in 2011 with better camera equipment and produced this eye-catching series. Merrell […]

“Searching for the Seventies” takes a new look at the 1970s using remarkable color photographs taken for a Federal photography project called Project DOCUMERICA (1971-1977). Created by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), DOCUMERICA was born out of the decade’s environmental awakening, producing striking photographs of many of that era’s environmental […]

Pope Benedict XVI appeared at his final weekly general audience today at St. Peter’s Square in front of an estimated 150,000 people recalling moments of “joy and light’’ as well as difficulty during his eight years as pontiff. Benedict, 85, said he decided to retire after realizing he didn’t have […]

There is nothing about flash in this post, except for “pre-flashing,” and that is not what you think.

Every time I adjust the exposure slider in a raw converter or tweak the tonal curve into a subtle S-shape, I think back to how we used to do some pretty insane […]

Reader Samora Chapman asks:

I’m new to all this and I dug up my dad’s Vivitar 285HV. I just got some Phottix radio triggers. Is it okay to connect them to the old Vivitar? Im scared of frying them!

Ah, the trusty old Vivitar 285. The older ones are great flashes, but […]