David Schonauer
Politico Monday April 23, 2012
Noted New York Daily News photographer David Maisel caused a flap when he alleged that the New York Times paid sources for scoops in the Secret Service hooker scandal. Maisel
tweeted, “NY Times still has key players locked up. Money talks." The Times scored the first interview with a woman at the center of the scandal, while the Daily News later
published a photo of her. Maisel has since apologized and deleted the original tweet, although several other allegations remain in his Twitter timeline. Read the full Story >>
The Huffington Post Wednesday December 18, 2013
Roger Ballen's photographs make your nightmares look quaint, notes the Huffington Post, which spotlights the noted South African artist’s latest exhibition, "Asylum." The new work probes the
dark regions of subconscious fear: “I've been working in a place I call the ‘Asylum of the Birds’ building,” says Ballen in an interview. “If you think of the
Psycho house from Hitchcock's movie, it's sort of that type of building.” Like a house in another Hitchcock film, this one contains a disturbing population birds flying around. Read the full Story >>
Palm Springs Photo Festival Tuesday October 23, 2012
A scheduling note if you’re planning to attend the PhotoPlus Expo, which gets underway on Thursday in New York City: PDN is teaming with the Palm Springs Photo Festival for a three-day portfolio review program, where you’ll be able to get feedback on your work from top industry pros like
Howard Bernstein, director of the Bernstein & Andriulli agency; Alex Arnold, deputy photo editor of Travel + Leisure; and Christina Cahill, deputy director of Reportage by Getty Images. There are
still available interview times, so register now. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Wednesday April 24, 2013
The film At Any Price, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday and opens in limited theatrical release today, represents an almost total departure for its director, Ramin
Bahrani, notes the NY Times. Bahrani’s acclaimed earlier films, including Chop Shop and Man Push Cart, are small-scale works that star mostly unprofessional actors and track
immigrants at the margins of cities. The new movie, which features actors Dennis Quaid and Heather Graham, is a Midwestern farming tale with car chases—but, as Bahrani notes, no chickens or
cows. Read the full Story >>
Vimeo Friday July 24, 2015
Ryan Gillis’s animated short Palm Rot, fresh off the festival circuit and now available online, has impressed the web with its cinematic visual flair and mysterious narrative about a
crop-duster named Bill who discovers a crate floating in the Florida Everglades. In an interview, Gillis tells Short of
the Week that when he started the project—his thesis film at the University of Southern California—his goal was simply to capture “all of Florida’s hot, trashy
beauty.” The strange story emerged later. Read the full Story >>
The Times of Israel Tuesday July 12, 2022
A software engineer working for Google has created program that uses artificial intelligence to scan through hundreds of thousands of photos from World War II to help identify victims and survivors of the Holocaust. In an interview with The Times of Israel, the engineer, Daniel Patt, 40, noted that he worked on the software as a side project but is being joined by a growing team of engineers, researchers, and data scientists. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, website, there is no single list identifying the victims and survivors of the Holocaust; research to find individuals' stories has required following leads on minimal information, adds Mashable. Read the full Story >>
The Lost Angeles Times Wednesday October 24, 2012
Russell Means, who gained international notoriety as one of the leaders of the 71-day armed occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973 and continued to be an outspoken champion of American
Indian rights after launching a career as an actor in films and television in the 1990s, has died from cancer at 72, reports the Los Angeles Times. “Wounded Knee restored our dignity and pride
as a people," Means said in a 2002 interview. His acting career began when he played Chingachgook in Michael Mann’s The Last of the Mohicans. He also appeared in Oliver Stone’s
Natural Born Killers. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Wednesday August 24, 2016
“I’m not responsible for anything like social media, am I? Tell me I’m not,” says photographer Nan Goldin in a New York Times interview. With Goldin’s acclaimed
“Ballad of Sexual Dependency” work now on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Times wonders
if today’s culture of compulsive over-sharing can be traced to the intimate diaristic work of the photographer — a thought that frightens Goldin. “It can’t be true,” she
says. “But if it is, I feel terrible.” Read the full Story >>
Sony Alpha Rumors Thursday November 7, 2024
In September, Tamron announced the 90mm f/2.8 Macro lens, a move that looked like a return to the production of fast primes for the company that has lived exclusively in the world of zooms for the past several years. But, noted PetaPixel recently, the new lens may be the exception, not the rule. In an interview with French publication Phototrend, spotted by Sony Alpha Rumors, Jean-Christophe Thiry, President of Tamron France, said the launch of the 90mm was “romantic” because it ” it embodies the entire history of the brand.” Tamron, he said, intends to stick with zooms.
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TIME LightBox Tuesday March 5, 2013
Saul Leiter, a giant if somewhat overlooked figure of 20th-century photography noted for his pioneering color work, is finally receiving his due, notes Time’s LightBox blog: New exhibitions
include a slideshow projection (with original transparencies) at the Milwaukee Art Museum; a new book, Early Black and White, to be published this summer by Steidl; and a recently completed
documentary film about the artist by Tomas Leach, In No Great Hurry. Leiter himself talks with the blog about his early work, his color work, and his talent for indifference. Read the full Story >>
FullMetalJacket.com Thursday October 4, 2012
More good news for admirers of Stanley Kubrick in general and Full Metal Jacket in particular: Actor Matthew “Private Joker” Modine, who released a well received memoir about
the making of the film seven years ago, has adapted his book as an iPad app, and it’s just gone on sale. Start sh#@ing Tiffany cufflinks now! “A young man from Apple named
Adam Rackoff asked if he could turn it into an app with sound effects, an original score, and all the images and personal letters from Kubrick,” says Modine in an Adweek interview. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday January 9, 2025
Just a few days ago the internet was filled to the brim with news that Meta was planning to fill Facebook and Instagram with AI-generated users that would exist on its platforms, just like real
humans. At least that the vision described by Connor Hayes, the vice-president of product for generative AI at Meta, in an interview with the Financial Times. Meta hoped the … Read the full Story >>
Interview Tuesday July 23, 2024
The work of David Armstrong, the iconic New York-based fashion photographer of the early 2000s who died in 2014, is celebrated in the latest issue of MATTE Magazine. This marks the first time the images have been seen in print since Armstrong’s death at age 60, notes Interview. This work was selected by co-editors Vince Aletti and Matthew Leifheit, “[W]hen you look at the pictures in the magazine, they don’t look like fashion. They just look like David’s pictures,” says Lisa Love, co-executor of Armstrong’s estate.
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FILMMAKER Thursday March 13, 2014
The PBS documentary series POV and The New York Times are launching a collaborative effort to simultaneously show documentary films online, reports Filmmaker. The first film in the series, Dan
Barry and Kassie Bracken’s half-hour The Men of Atalissa, which was produced by the Times,
kicks off the series. Along with the film, which tells the story of a group of mentally disabled men who endured decades of abuse, the Times will run an article about the men by Barry, while POV’s website streams
an interview with both Barry and Bracken. Read the full Story >>
nofilmschool Monday January 6, 2014
About four years ago, during a trip with NYU Tisch School of the Arts, filmmaker and hard-rock lover Nicholas Brennan stumbled across a heavy-metal scene in an unlikely place—Havana, Cuba, where
free expression is strictly controlled. He created a doc short focused on a band called Zeus and is now in post-production on a feature documentary. “I’ve now made five production trips to
Havana over the past several years and captured 120 hours of footage inside this world on the margins of Cuban society,” he tells Filmmaker in an interview. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Monday February 11, 2019
The worldwide sales of
standalone digital cameras have been plummeting since they peaked in around 2010, but Canon thinks the industry is in for even more pain: The company believes the market will plummet another 50
percent over just the next two years, notes PetaPixel. In a recent interview, Canon president Fujio Mitarai noted that the current global market for interchangeable lens cameras is roughly 10 million
units per year. But Canon’s sales have been steadily dropping by 10 percent a year over the past few years. Mirrorless models simply cannibalize DSLR sales. Read the full Story >>
ANDROID AUTHORITY Friday September 30, 2022
Not long ago we noted that Sony president and CEO Terushi Shimizu predicted that smartphones would overtake DSLRs in image quality by 2024—which, we can state with authority, is just two years from now. In a recently interview with Android Authority, Qualcomm’s vice president of product management and cameras, Judd Heape, echoed Shimizu’s assertion, though he thinks it may take from three to five years for smartphones to become better than DSLRs. “In terms of getting towards the image quality of a DSLR, yes. I think the image sensor is there,” he states.
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Vimeo Tuesday July 26, 2016
After winning the jury prize at Sundance and top awards at SXSW and a host of other festivals, director Jim Cummings’s 13-minute short film Thunder Road recently became available
for viewing online. The appeal of the film is its combination of craft with storytelling, notes Short of the Week,
which has this interview with Cummings. The plot is simple: Police officer Arnaud stands
to eulogize his recently passed mother. An inarticulate man, he struggles, and as the camera moves closer to him in a single long take, he begins to unravel. What he needs is a boom box and Bruce
Springsteen. Will you cry, or laugh? Read the full Story >>
YouTube Tuesday April 12, 2016
Ukrainian time-lapse maker Kirill Neiezhmakov gets around. He made headlines with a film capturing the Dubai hotel fire earlier this year, and now he’s back with an impressive time lapse of Madeira,
the Portuguese archipelago off the northwest coast of Africa in the Atlantic Ocean. DIY Photography praises the piece’s “hybrid hyperlapse style.” This isn’t Neiezhmakov's first trip to the area: His previous
work includes A Day in Porto. Portugal Hyperlapse, Go to Time Lapse
Network for an interview with the filmmaker. Read the full Story >>
YouTube Tuesday July 24, 2012
Celebrity photographer Mark Seliger has launched a new interview show on YouTube’s Reserve Channel that promises
to be a unique behind-the-scenes look at photography … and the creative process in general. The format features Seliger in conversation with a fellow photographer and a celebrity—such as
noted portrait photog Platon and actor Dylan McDermott, who chat with Seliger in the premiere episode about the making of some famous pictures (for instance, Platon’s notorious photo of Bill
Clinton) and other issues. We’re staying tuned. Read the full Story >>
