looks like apple is really trying to appeal to us "creative" people. in the past two weeks, they've posted little blurbs on James Nachtwey and Peter Turnley on their site. short fluff pieces, but interesting for the uninitiated.

another week. another photocolumn.

So much good photography and I bet so few people really had a chance to see it - the NYT mag's Fashions of the Times. Make sure to check out Matt Jones images of actress Natascha McElhone, Elliot Erwitt's primate pictures and the great piece on ground breaking fashion photographer Guy Bourdin's work.

bastards! friday the san francisco examiner fired 40 staffers, including its entire photo staff, leaving just two reporters, three editors and two columnists

i love learning about new photographers and discovering their work for the first time. even more so when what i see inspires me and get's me going...
i got an email from my buddy rachel a while back that said, "andrew and I wandered into the howard greenberg gallery yesterday and learned about photographer dave heath. his book, "a dialolgue with solitude," was originally printed in 1965 but is now available in a larger, second edition from lumiere press. i really connected with heath's work and recommend "a dialogue with solitude." It's available for purchase through photoeye, alibris and amazon.
pixel press also posted a great article about Heath's work. "
so, for whatever reason i just got around to clicking on the link today when i was cleaning out my email inbox. i must say, i like the fact that heath was a "photographer's photographer" and this description of his book intrigues me:
If it were a time of day, it would be twilight; a season, fall. If it were a text it would be nicolas gogol's tales of good and evil or rainer maria rilke's malte laurid brigges's notebooks. if it were a day, it would be overcast, with a hint of rain and an unexpected ray of sun piercing through the clouds. If it were music, it would be the shrill notes of a street harmonica or an accordion. but it is a book by dave heath, a dialogue with solitude, published in 1965 and long out of print. it is heath's only book and clearly one that has its place as a classic along with robert frank's lines of my hand, larry clark's tulsa and gene smith's essay on pittsburgh.
good stuff... thanks rachel.

For those of you who don't delve into the digitaljournalist you should at least check out contributing writer James Colburn's column about the things he's learnt about photographers on movies and tv. If you liked that, you should really check out more about the joys of progress in this digital age.

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Inventive work from photographer Eric Myer. He got the idea for stereotypes from a children's pop up book that had pages spilt horizontally to allow one to create hybrid animals by matching the head of one creature to the body of another. Nothing like thinking out of the box and applying it to his portraits.

Hundreds of anti-war protests are scheduled for this weekend, the biggest of which are likely to be in London and Rome - organisers predict at least half a million demonstrators will turn out in each city. The BBC is asking people attending Saturday's anti-war protests who are carrying new combination camera/cell phones to relay their pictures to its newsroom They hope to provide coverage of the demonstrations "from a protester's perspective." It is also accepting photos taken with digital cameras. It is not clear whether the pictures would be used only on the BBC's website or whether they would also be incorporated in its TV coverage of the protests. In tiny print at the very bottom of the page, "In contributing to BBC News Online you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way that we want, and in any media." A little scary, no?

Tennessean photographer Bill Steber's journey down highway 61 through Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee - blues country. Make sure to turn your sound up and prepare to stay awhile.

""Whatchya think?" asks a raspy voice from the early-November fog. Startled, and nearly knocking over my tripod, I turned around to see an older gentleman in his pickup behind me on Mt. Holly Road. Beautiful horses, I replied"
there's a new photo column up from a new contributor whom i hope we see more from.

a trompe l'oeil in the st. pete times.

"From then on I kept casting my eye skyward. Everywhere I went I glanced up to see the sky and what new palette would be presented. I felt a very emotional connection to the task of taking these pictures. I find it hard to explain, even to myself. Perhaps it's my own emotional catharsis. Or a connection to something bigger than I. This small being on planet earth looking up in to this vastness seen, but unknown to me."
gerik has a really great photo column this week.

here's a front page gallery so you can see what hundreds of newspapers across the country and several around the world did with the recent news of the space shuttle columbia disaster.
and if you like the idea of looking at what papers are doing with their front pages on a daily basis, the newseum has a great feature up of 179 front pages from 25 countries, presented alphabetically and updated each-and-every day.

national geographic has a section up on their website dedicated to black history month. i'm especially fond of the compilation of faces of traditional africa, ron tarver's images of african-american cowboys in philadelphia, and zip code 10027 -- a.k.a. harlem -- as seen through the lens of david alan harvey.