CBS News Monday December 4, 2023
Five Mexican journalists have been shot and wounded in a single day—the worst day of violence against the country’s press in more than 10 years, notes The Guardian. Four photojournalists were shot near a military barracks in the southern Guerrero state after they returned from a crime scene, according to CBS News, citing a report from Photographer Without Borders. They had been covering one of the many homicides in the city of Chilpancingo. Hours later, reporter Maynor Ramón Ramírez was shot and wounded in the neighboring state of Michoacán.
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David Schonauer Monday December 4, 2023
As we noted on Friday, the acclaimed photographer Elliott Erwitt died on Nov. 29 at age 95. "For more than six decades he used his camera to tell visual jokes, finding material wherever he strolled,"
noted The New York Times, explaining the appeal of Erwitt's "Chaplin-esque sense of the absurd" and his "sharp eye for silly, sometimes telling conjunctions." Art News added that Erwitt's … Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Friday December 1, 2023
Photographers with a comic outlook on life seldom win the acclaim granted to exalters of nature or chroniclers of war and squalor. Elliott Erwitt, who died at 95 on Nov. 29 at his home in Manhattan, was an exception, notes The New York Times. As a photographer with the Magnum agency, he photographed many of the famous faces of the 20th century, from Marilyn Monroe to Vice President Richard Nixon debating Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow in 1959. But he was best known for the visual jokes he captured while strolling through locales far and wide—especially, perhaps, his charming pictures of dogs that poked fun of human foibles. Read the full Story >>
MY MODERN MET Friday December 1, 2023
Photographer Dan Zafra of the Capture the Atlas website features top astrophotography from around the world each year. At My Modern Met, he shares tips for shooting the Milky Way. Zafra recently spent time in New Zealand, where he captured an outstandingng image of our galaxy arching over a glacier valley in Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park. The image, titled “Aoraki Starlight,” has a foreground made from seven vertical images and a sky formed from 10 tracked vertical images.
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