I loved this wise passage — from the Sunday New York Times Magazine in Behind 'Obama's People' — about the nature of portrait photography, which I've been slowly getting into: In "Camera Lucida: [Reflections on Photography]," his searching reflection on how photographs convey their meaning and emotional power, Roland Barthes suggests that any time a […]
Archives for January 2009
The four personas when shooting a portrait
A snapshot of history
The brilliant Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal Constitution says it all.
Social media strategies
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Middle schoolers as citizen reporters
Just watched the Inauguration and inaugural address. I’ll let the blogosphere’s version of the punditocracy dissect it (I’ve confined my remarks to Twitter.) Meantime, back in the social media/citizen media space: Taking the media into your own hands has filtered down to the middle school level. I bumped into the reporting team from the Santa […]