Photographing The Brains Behind The Book - NPR

"How do you photograph that invisible thing?"- Marion Ettlinger

Marion Ettlinger specializes in photographing book authors including Truman Capote, Haruki Murakami, Joyce Carol Oates, David Foster Wallace, and Cormac McCarthy.

Photo of Major Jackson by Marion Ettlinger

Nikon introduces D300S with HD video recording

The Nikon D300S now includes HD Video, 24 fps, 720p HD movie clips. $1,799.

Photo Agency Gama may collapse

Gamma Presse, co-founded in 1966 by Raymond Depardon may collapse. The agency has provided the world with some of its most memorable images in the last 40 years.

Photo by Raymond Depardon

The longest total solar eclipse of this century

The longest total solar eclipse of this century. Photos from the Sacramento Bee.

More street photography with Tony Fouhse

Tony Fouhse, a Ottawa based editorial and commercial photographer, photographs people on the streets in a very controlled manner but his results look totally natural. Check it out the video of him shooting.

Street photography À la Richard Avedon

Blind photographer turns to the iPhone

Blind Photographers Use Gadgets to Realize Artistic Vision - Wired Gadget Lab.

Check out Blind Photographers.

Photo by Alex Dejong

Apollo moon landing hoax?

Nope! Here is the very cool video of the Apollo 11 moon landing from 1969.

If All You Have Is a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail. By Paul Melcher

Supreme court justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor, it was just revealed yesterday, was one of three judges who handled the Chris Usher vs. Corbis (owned by Bill Gates). It should be noted that if she is appointed, which she probably will, photographers and photography will undoubtedly be mistreated if any case bubble up to the Supreme Court. By Paul Melcher

A Corbis lawyer said, “Why would photographers be immune from the laws of economics?” he said. “If I had a 20-year-old business selling nails, and you were interested in buying my nail business, would you not look at how it performed? Would you not look at the gross revenue over 20 years and at the net and what the competition is, in order to fix a price? Why would photographers think they’re immune from these things? It’s a commodity.”

Chris Usher's web site here.

Moon landing tapes erased - Reuters

To the Point

A just-discovered daguerreotype shows Phineas Gage with the iron rod that went through his skull in 1848. He lived 11 more years after the accident.

‘Destroyed’ Cartier-Bresson photos ‘sold on black market’

Martine Franck, herself a photographer and member of Magnum Photos agency founded by her husband, accused the French state of negligence over their handling of the 551 images. The Independent.

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Consumed

Consumed by Susana Raab. This is a nice collection of photos looking at our daily bread.

WARNING. This is dirty.

12th Annual Boryeong Mud Festival from the Sacramento Bee.

Photo by AP / Lee Jin-man

Revisiting the Death of Photojournalism, Ten Years Later. The Digital Journalist

Revisiting the Death of Photojournalism, Ten Years Later by Dirck Halstead

Pictures of the Day

CAMERAS

Here is a cool little application for MAC users. Cameras by Flexibits helps manage multiple cameras on your computer. FREE!

dispatches by Gary Knight

Dust to Dust. Photographs by David Maisel

David Maisel's collection of photographs of copper canisters, each containing the unclaimed remains of a patient from a psychiatric hospital in Oregon. It is worth a look.