Photographs, it has often been said, both objectify and subjectify what they depict. They atomize time, disconnecting past from present. A picture may tell a thousand words, but words have ultimate power over photographs because each photograph is just a fragment: it needs words to assign it a context, and this context may change along with the message of the image.NYTM: Photographs That Cry Out for Meaning
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Hurricane Hunters: Cyberflight
As your eyes adjust to the glare of sunlight, you gaze out at one of the most awesome scenes in nature: the “stadium effect” inside the eye. A solid wall of clouds circles around the WC-130, as though you are floating in a giant football stadium made of clouds. You are inside a giant well that opens up miles above your head into a bright, blue sky. Congratulations…you’ve just joined an exclusive group: those few people who have entered the eye of a hurricane.These photos from a NOAA flight over Hurricane Isabel’s eye are rather astounding. The Goddard Space Flight Center has some great Hurricane Isabel satellite images, NASA’s Multimedia gallery has a boggling picture of the eye taken from the International Space Station, and, in the Washington Post’s Camera Works, Preparing for Hurricane Isabel.
28MM.ORG | Issue 010 | “Organic Matter” by Elena Kachuro-Rosenberg, Click!
I always enjoy 28mm.org, but Coastal Beauty by Sean Slavin is exceptional.
Psychic Doppelgängers: A Tale of Two Deans by Judith Lewis. (Referring to this Dean, btw.)
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I can’t get “Desert Road”:www.desertroad.net (“a hypergallery of war images from mainstream U.S. media sources including Yahoo! News, The New York Times, and CNN.") to work in Safari, but it sure sounds interesting.
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LAT photo essay on the DMZ.
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“The Trained Eye series began in October of 2000 as I wandered in the railyard near downtown Colorado Springs. All of these images are from the sides of boxcars, coal cars, miscellaneous freight cars and a caboose. These cars have been scratched, gouged, painted, scraped, rusted, and repainted over the course of their lifetimes. From a distance they appear uniformly colored, neat, and tidy. But, up close, with their context removed, they have become the gallery you see here.” I’ll let you find your own favorites among these achingly beautiful photographs. Thanks, Jerry.
So you feel like your role is to gather evidence?Anti-war photographer James Nachtwey.That's one of the things we do. We bear witness, we present evidence. It's effective not to do it in a cold clinical way, but in a human way. The images are a cold statement of fact, but they present the human tragedy. There are consequences to what we do and don't do, serious consequences for ordinary people.
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The great article Top Ten Digital Photography Tips led me to the very attractive O’Reilly book, Digital Photography Pocket Guide.
Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance.
“In 47 visits over 12 months, Fred Charles set up his tripod and panoramic camera in precisely the same spot at Dr. Davies Farm, a Congers, N.Y., apple orchard. His assignment: to follow an identical landscape through the shifting seasons.” For the resulting photograph, he stitched together 12 shots into one stunning montage.
