Tag: picture
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Baby Smiles With Rifle – Facebook Goes Nuts
Facebooking a picture of a baby with a gun is always a crowd pleaser: Wow… an outcry over a stupid little picture like that? I’ve seen lots of pictures with babies and guns, why did this one get so much press? If I had a kid brother or sister I would troll the shit out…
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Living Photographs Formed By Thousands Of U.S. Soldiers
Almost a century ago and without the aid of any pixel-generating computer software, the itinerant photographer Arthur Mole (1889-1983) used his 11 x 14-inch view camera to stage a series of extraordinary mass photographic spectacles that choreographed living bodies into symbolic formations of religious and national community. In these mass ornaments, thousands of military troops…
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Photography Is Not A Crime – Cameras Are The New Guns
When the police act as though cameras were the equivalent of guns pointed at them, there is a sense in which they are correct. Cameras have become the most effective weapon that ordinary people have to protect against and to expose police abuse. And the police want it to stop. The legal justification for arresting…
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The Big Caption – The Big Picture Photo Blog Parody
If you follow my blog, you know that I am a sucker for good photo blogs. The Big Picture is the PBlog that started it all for me. There is now a clever parody blog of The Big Picture, called The Big Caption. Here is one example: They are all pretty funny.
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War Through an iPhone Camera Lens
Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder not only documents the war in Afghanistan with traditional digital cameras, he also used an iPhone camera, carried in his flak jacket pocket, coupled with a Polaroid film filter application to photograph the daily lives of Marines, Afghan soldiers and fellow journalists during the military offensive in Marjah, Afghanistan. Check…