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Friday Links: April 17, 2015

April 17, 2015 By Heather Goss

A photo posted by Messay (@streetamatic) on Apr 16, 2015 at 9:51pm PDT

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  • Don’t get out of the Jeep on safari, even if you might get a great photo.
  • LIFE Magazine’s photo essay of a working mother in the 1950s.
  • Alison Nastasi had published a compilation of photos of famous artists and their cats.
  • “Through the African American Lens,” culled from a Smithsonian collection, shows how photography — and black photographers — reshaped a people’s image.
  • NY family loses legal battle against photographer who secretly shot them through the windows of their apartment and then put them in an exhibit.
  • For three years, photographer Michael Soluri had exclusive access to the astronaut crew, labor force and tools of the shuttle mission that saved and extended the life of the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • These photos could be better, but the idea and subjects here are interesting: Where did John Wilkes Booth run after he shot Lincoln? Nate Larson shows in his series “Escape Routes” that the path Booth took is a mix of truck stops, suburbs, highways, and back roads.
  • The Atlantic’s CityLab writes about citizens’ rights to photograph and videotape the police, discussing some of the same cases covered in this National Press Club panel with local officials we reported on in 2013.
  • “When I photograph my subjects, I do not set out to construct a narrative, though each photograph ends up marking moments and landmarks from my life.” A photo essay by Texan photographer Armando Alvarez.
  • Local Craigslist ad seeks mustachioed individual to pose with turtles. I hope this is real, and that we get to see the resulting images.
  • Pete Souza tweets that this is last term in the White House.
  • It’s that time of year again — the Aaron Siskind Foundation is accepting applications for their Photographer’s Fellowship program. Grants up to $10,000 are up for grabs.
  • Imagine yourself decidedly out of town with these Icelandic mountain peaks in blue by Andy Lee.
  • Sony and the Sea Life Aquarium in New Zealand trained the world’s first Octographer because they’re good with animals and cameras but now how words work, I guess.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: african-american photographers, cats, Hubble, Iceland, Lincoln, lions, octopus, pete souza, Photographer's Rights, police, privacy, safari, Smithsonian, space, turtles

Friday Links

January 31, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Memorial Bridge by Wolfkann
Memorial Bridge by Kevin Wolf

This week we have cat photos from a true animal photography master, electric blue volcano images from Java, the photo inspiration behind a Grammy winning song, and a tiny Batman roaming across Texas.

  • Everyone with an Instagram account thinks they’re an expert, but here are lessons from Walter Chandoha, an actual cat photography master. This man has been photographing cats for 60 years, and even Grumpy Cat would be pleased with his work.
  • Air & Space Magazine announced the winners of their first annual photo contest.
  • Narciso Contreras, the photographer cut by the AP last week, spoke with PDN about what he saw as an unfair process.
  • Seniors in a German retirement community recreated famous movie scenes. Jack and Rose look as in love as ever.
  • They’re not tigers, but the newest lion cubs at the National Zoo are still pretty adorable.
  • Grammy winner Lorde gathered inspiration for her song “Royals” from a picture of from Kansas City Royals star George Brett. The photo originally appeared in a 1976 issue of National Geographic.
  • Johnson Press, a UK newspaper chain, let go of all of their photographers.
  • In Focus shared images of the snow storm that shut down the South this week.
  • The snow also reached the Outer Banks, and the two environments colliding is pretty fantastic.
  • Photographer Oliver Grunewalld has been capturing pictures of volcanoes that are straight out of a sci-fi flick. The fantastic blue glow comes from the combustion of sulfuric gases.
  • Hold the Alamo, a tiny batman is making his way across Texas. Photos by Remi Noel.
  • The New York Public Library held a #shelfie day on twitter, where readers shared photos of their favorite book shelves. #YOLO
  • Photographer Roger May photographed people in West Virginia dealing with the chemical spill that has destroyed their drinking water.
  • Head down the photographic rabbit hole with this selection of 22 online photo magazines.
  • Benjamin Moser is going through the Susan Sontag archives at UCLA, and writing a book about the her life.
  • In tiger news, a Phoenix man found a young tiger on his neighbors patio. The local news footage and tiger sounds are glorious.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: #shelfie, Air & Space Magazine, batman, Benjamin Moser, friday links, Johnson Press, lions, Narcison Contreras, National Geographic, national zoo, OBX, Oliver Grunewald, Remi Noel, Roger May, Royals, snow, Susan Sontag, tiger, tigers, volcanoes, Walter Chandoha

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