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Friday Links: August 14, 2015

August 14, 2015 By Heather Goss

Iced Coffee Popsicles by Caroline Angelo
Iced Coffee Popsicles by Caroline Angelo
  • Italian photographer Stefano Cerio documents Chinese amusement parks in hibernation in his upcoming book “Chinese Fun.”
  • See Wayne Levin’s gorgeous pictures of schools of Hawaiian fish in hypnotizing shapes at D.C.’s National Academy of Sciences.
  • Outside magazine has a slideshow of awful scenes from the wildfires raging in California.
  • For decades, nobody had explored the vast photo archives of Metronome Magazine, which closed in 1961, until Pierre Vudrag decided to take a look. His selections from the archives are now featured in a traveling exhibition, “The Metronome Jazz Photo Collection.”
  • Members of Uganda’s persecuted LGBT community celebrated Gay Pride this week in an undisclosed location near the capital Kampala.
  • There are a few galleries out there of the Perseid meteor shower, which peaked on Thursday, but this one by the Guardian is quite nice.
  • Lachryphagy is the practice of drinking tears for nutrients. It’s what these butterflies are doing to a pair of turtles in Ecuador.
  • In the mid-1970s a young engineer invented the digital photographic process. Some of his bosses were not impressed. His employer? Eastman Kodak.
  • 96 million black polythene “shade balls” fill a reservoir in drought-hit Los Angeles to protect against evaporation.
  • Envious of the endless barrage of friends’ gorgeous vacation photos on social media? Guardian readers share their soggy British holiday pictures.
  • A fox decided to take a nap and be adorable on this second story window in London.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: amusement parks, butterflies, California, China, digital photography, fox, gay pride, hawaiian fish, jazz, lgbt, persieds, social media, turtles, uganda, wildfires

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

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