Sem Presser lecture 2008 - Martin Parr. Update

Due to technical problems the Sem Presser Lecture 2008 by Martin Parr couldn’t start in time. The full lecture will be available here from Monday 28 April until Sunday 4 May.

Sem Presser lecture 2008 : Martin Parr live

This year, for the first time, you can follow the Sem Presser Lecture through live streaming.
The lecture is an initiative of World Press Photo and the Sem Presser Archief and is part of the Awards Days program for the 6th consecutive year. Martin Parr, member of Magnum Photos, has entitled his lecture “Photobiography”. He will examine his long photographic career and explain his motivation as a photographer and how this has changed over the last 35 years. Parr throws light behind why he feels it is important to document our world in a new and different way. The lecture will be live streamed on Saturday, 26 April 2008, starting at 15.00 hours (CET). The estimated duration of the presentation is 1,5 hours. You can catch it all on http://worldpressphoto.kanaal11.tv

“Leaf” - The world oldest photograph, 1790?

 

A photograph, actually it is a photogram, known as “leaf” is coming up for auction at sotheby’s on April 7th. and could be possible the oldest photographic representation found.

It has been previously attributed to William Henry Fox Talbot who is one of the founding fathers of photography. He made a number of leaf pictures and this one is thought to be made by him at 1839.

Photoshop disasters

Couldn’t wait to post this one. The name explains itself. “Photoshop disasters“. Funny disasters with photoshop. Have a great time! 

“OMG dude look as Rachel Bilson’s legs they’re uhhh like totally whoa. Yeahhhh! (sound of smoke being inhaled). Whoa! she’s like uhhh some sort of sideshow. You know what would be (more smoke-related noises) totally amazing: we should uhhhh put like an inexplicably fake umm shadow behind her, so she’s like a warp-legged captain of a rubber sheet. Whoa! Yo Art Director didn’t we order a pizza?”

National Geographic

NEW YORK (Feb. 28, 200 ? National Geographic Magazine has announced their latest innovation, ‘My Shot.’ ‘My Shot’ allows photographers of all skills to create their own web page at www.ngm.com to display their best photographs.’My Shot’ members are able to upload and save up to 100 photographs on their own ‘My Shot’ page. Members will also be able to use a drag-and-drop version of NGM.com’s cutting-edge jigsaw puzzle generator on their pages. Any photo saved to ‘My Shot’ can be turned instantly into a jigsaw puzzle. There is also a custom version of a popular memory-sorting game that users can create from their own photos.

‘My Shot’ members can also submit their photos to National Geographic’s popular ‘Your Shot’ feature, where a dozen photos are selected each day by editors to appear on-line, with those photos being rated by readers. At the end of the month, the winning photo will be published in National Geographic Magazine itself, which reaches 40 million readers worldwide.

For more information, log onto http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/myshot

bron : Casey Sanders

Notification of Polaroid Instant Film Availability

Due to marketplace conditions, Polaroid has discontinued almost all of its instant analog hardware products. Polaroid has also made the difficult decision to cease manufacturing of instant film products in 2008

Polaroid ‘Instant’ Killed after 60 Years

Today is the anniversary of Edwin Land’s introduction of the Land Camera. Inventor and scientist, Land developed the first process that could make a finished print in 60 seconds. This year’s anniversary, though, is bittersweet; Polaroid Corporation announced this month that all instant films will no longer be produced after 2008.

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