Thursday, September 29, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Dr. Harold Edgerton
Atomic Test
1952
"Developed by Dr. Harold Edgerton in the 1940s, the Rapatronic photographic technique allowed very early times in a nuclear explosion's fireball growth to be recorded on film. The exposures were often as short as 10 nanoseconds, and each Rapatronic camera would take exactly one photograph.
Edgerton built a special lens 10 feet long for this camera which was set up in a bunker 7 miles from the source of the blast which was triggered- the bomb placed atop a steel gantry anchored to the desert floor by guide wires. The exposures are at 1/100,000,000ths of a second....In another millionth of a second, a planet of fire exists,
silhouetting and dwarfing the Joshua Trees."
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Sally Mann
Untitled
(Deep South #31) 1998
"Outfitting her large-format 8 x 10 camera with undersized and often damaged lenses, Sally Mann’s contemporary landscape photographs admit the light leaks and imperfections of the photographic process. Occasionally, a distortion becomes the central element in a work."
Friday, September 16, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Mathew Brady's Portraits
National Portrait Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
Generous support for this website has been provided by Siemens
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Siemens: The National Socialist economy and the war years (1933 - 1945)
from http://www.siemens.com
"In late 1944, at the height of World War II, Siemens’ total workforce of 244,000 included some 50,000 people who had been put to work against their will. The overall number of men and women who served as forced labor at Siemens during the war years was, however, higher."
Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
"All inmates were required to do heavy labor ranging from strenuous outdoor jobs to building the V-2 rocket parts for Siemens."
Siemens Electric Company: Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
Siemens Offers $12 Million to WWII Slave Labor Victims
September 24, 1998
Siemens retreats over Nazi name
September 5, 2002
June 8th, 1972
June 8th, 2007
Nick Ut made both of the above photos.
California Pay Jail
In 1998, an estimated 56,500 Vietnam War-era veterans and 18,500 Persian Gulf War-era veterans were held in State and Federal prisons.
"THE BIGGER PICTURE"
Nick Ut recalls the Events of June 8, 1972
"Original version of John Filo's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the dead body of Jeffrey Miller after he was shot by the National Guard."
caption from wikipedia.
"John Filo's photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the dead body of Jeffrey Miller after he was shot by the National Guard."
caption from wikipedia, with these words removed: "Original version of," "iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning"
Kent State 1970
Mary Ann Vecchio
Nadine Brozan, "Chronicle," New York Times, April 25, 1995, Sec. B, Pg. 4.
Photographer, May 4 subject return to KSU, May 6 2009
In the early 70's someone airbrushed out the "distracting" fence post.
"The picture had run numerous times–without the fencepost, and without anyone taking notice–in TIME (Nov. 6, 1972, p. 23) PEOPLE (May 2, 1977, p. 37), TIME (Jan. 7, 1980, p. 45), PEOPLE (April 31, 1990, p. 117) to name just a few publications. ….while closing our May (1995) issue, (we) contacted photographer John Filo, hoping to secure a repro quality print, as is customary at LIFE. Since we could not obtain a print from him directly in time to make our run, we went with the photo we had, not realizing a pole had been removed. One can only wonder why the missing pole hasn’t been noticed the previous times it has appeared, even though literally millions of people have seen the fence-post-less photo in publications dating back 23 years. At no time would LIFE’s photo, art or production department intentionally alter a news photograph.” (taken from the NPPA-L – and found at http://journalism_jobs.tripod.com/a.filo.html) This is indeed interesting – an unknown individual altered this photograph in the early 1970′s and the altered version seems to have become the standard."
From "Kent State Revisited – John Filo’s Photograph
By Thomas Henneman | Published January 21, 2010"
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Taken on September 10, 2011 at 1.22pm EST
Exif data
Camera Nikon D300
Exposure 1/6400 sec
Aperture f/22.0
Focal Length 18 mm
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash No Flash
X-Resolution 72 dpi
Y-Resolution 72 dpi
Orientation Horizontal (normal)
Software Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh
Date and Time (Modified) 2011:09:12 23:27:19
YCbCr Positioning Co-sited
Exposure Program Program AE
Date and Time (Original) 2011:09:10 16:22:58-04:00
Date and Time (Digitized) 2011:09:10 16:22:58
Taken on September 10, 2011 at 7.05pm EST
Exif data
Camera Nikon D300
Exposure 0.025 sec (1/40)
Aperture f/4.5
Focal Length 44 mm
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash No Flash
X-Resolution 72 dpi
Y-Resolution 72 dpi
Orientation Horizontal (normal)
Software Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh
Date and Time (Modified) 2011:09:12 23:44:44
YCbCr Positioning Co-sited
Exposure Program Program AE
Date and Time (Original) 2011:09:10 22:05:25-04:00
Date and Time (Digitized) 2011:09:10 22:05:25
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Truth in the Making: The Never-Ending Saga of Capa’s Falling Soldier
By Sebastiaan Faber
March 17, 2010
Proving That Robert Capa's "Falling Soldier" Is Authentic
by Richard Whelan
Copyright © 2003 by Richard Whelan
Robert Capa photographs copyright © by Cornell Capa
New Doubts Raised Over Famous War Photo
By Larry Rohter
Robert Capa’s Famous “The Falling Soldier” Fake
2009- Barcelona Reporter
By Sebastiaan Faber
March 17, 2010
Proving That Robert Capa's "Falling Soldier" Is Authentic
by Richard Whelan
Copyright © 2003 by Richard Whelan
Robert Capa photographs copyright © by Cornell Capa
New Doubts Raised Over Famous War Photo
By Larry Rohter
Robert Capa’s Famous “The Falling Soldier” Fake
2009- Barcelona Reporter
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