American Pastoral
Florida's Senate Bill 1246 would make it illegal to create visual depictions of agriculture.
Posts filed under: Media
LaChapelle v. Rihanna
How far does copyright go and when do ideas become protectable expressions?
Anatomy of a freelance assignment
A play-by-play with a few outtakes from a recent assignment for the Wall Street Journal
Anchorage Journal for the New York Times
Quick assignment for the New York Times
Laughing-Stock
Knowing when and how to use stock photography is a talent in its own right. So is knowing when not to.
Anchorage G Street Outtakes
Travel photography tends to be about capturing the differences you find, either in the landscape or culture or food, between what you live with and what you find when go somewhere else. This makes a travel piece about your home town a challenge…
Salon des Refusés
Why would a major news organization with its many resources choose the stock photo rather than finding a photo, any photo, of the actual conditions? The answer is simple:
Photography & Social Media
As new social media outlets sprout like weeds I have found myself developing a new rule when dealing with them: I'm not uploading my images to your servers. Sure, I may post an iPhone shot or something similar…
A Place in Time, Not All Frozen
For the New York Times, Friday November 20, 2009
Fire your congressional representatives
The story has everything it needs for mass appeal: puppies, death, sex, and the first amendment. Naturally it has enjoyed a lot of attention from the press.
Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
Julius Shulman, who died in earlier his year, is perhaps the premier architectural photographer of the 20th century. He is one of those artists whose work is so strong that it has supplanted our collective memory…
Photography in Public Spaces
Looking at this image it occurred to me that it might be considerably more difficult to shoot today. Although the laws haven't changed significantly regarding photography in public places, the public has been asked to vigilantly report suspicious behavior
AIG, US Airways, and Stephen Mallon
Risk averse insurance companies and the photos of flight 1549
Licensing the Public Domain to the Public
Museums asserting copyright over the works of long-dead masters.