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Monday, 12 February 2007 |
 American photographer Spencer Platt of Getty has won the 50th annual World Press Photo of the Year award for his remarkable photograph of affluent young Lebanese surveying the destruction of war from inside a red convertible.
From Editor & Publisher:
"It's a picture you can keep looking at," said World Press Photo jury chair Michele McNally, assistant managing editor for photography at The New York Times. "It has the complexity and contradiction of real life, amidst chaos."
Platt's picture was selected from more than 78,000 entries.
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Thursday, 01 February 2007 |
 A Morristown, N.J., court will decide whether to dismiss an indictment of a man and his girlfriend who were arrested for taking photographs of women's buttocks in public places, such as parades and fairs.
Morris County's Daily Record has rightly condemned the indictment:
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Wednesday, 31 January 2007 |
A remarkable black-and-white photography exhibit, Matthew Pillsbury's "Screen Lives," runs through Feb. 24 at the M+B in Los Angeles.
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Monday, 29 January 2007 |
Aaron Johnson, who describes himself as "40% photographer, 60% Photoshopper," draws an amusing online comic strip called "What the Duck" that professional and amateur photographers alike should enjoy.
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Monday, 22 January 2007 |
 The combination of two art forms, done successfully and for maximum effect, can have a visceral effect on viewers. Take writing and photography, both extremely powerful on their own. When used together -- when the choice of words and phrases is an integral part of the image conveyed -- the result can be surprising and unique.
Santa Barbara photographer Mark Velasquez (pictured) posted a stunning 15-picture series called
Body Writing: Thoughts you won't admit to on photo-sharing site Flickr.
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Monday, 22 January 2007 |
 Placeblogger.org is a new site that aggregates local blogs, both in the United States and worldwide. It's part of a relatively new trend focusing on hyperlocal information and community-building. The photographic equivalent of Placeblogger might be Photobloggers.org, which is part of Photoblogs.org.
While the ultimate goal of Photobloggers.org is to create a global RSS feed of all the local photoblogger sites, it currently lists the local sites individually on its home page.
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Saturday, 20 January 2007 |
 In Victorian times, mourning family members often staged photographic portraits of dead children and other loved ones prior to burial. In later generations, this practice came to be viewed as morbid -- which led to the destruction of thousands of these so-called "bereavement portraits." Examples of 19th-century bereavement photographs can be found here and here.
Thanks to services such as Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, Touching Souls and others, bereavement portraits are shaking their stigma to provide comfort to the parents of childen who are stillborn or die in infancy. Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep was started by Cheryl and Michael Haggard in 2005 after they lost their son Maddux six days after he was born. They tell the story of creating the non-profit organization here, in a letter to their son.
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