More Obama
5 Jan
Among the more reporterly hand-shaking and speech-making photos are images of Obama playing pool, in silly poses, barbequing and supporters laughing as he gets food on his clothes.
Tag Archives: campaign
Obama Obama
14 Nov
Another Obama photoessay, this one more ‘official’.
Also, you can now own a piece of history for $19.95! Obama commemorative plates are already out. Honestly, I can’t imagine any other president or president-elect who could sell merchandise the way Obama’s image can. Can you imagine people buying a Bill Clinton plate when he was president-elect?
Travels with Obama
11 Nov
Callie Shell has a great photoessay documenting the early Obama campaign, showing Obama in some relaxed situations away from all the bustle of the campaign.
PDN pointed out the echoes of William Gallagher’s photo of Adlai Stevenson.
MEMORY
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What people really want: film vs digital, longform vs shortform
Whereas Kodak has so far failed to adapt adequately, Fujifilm has transformed itself into a solidly profitable business, with a market capitalisation, even after a rough year, of some $12.6 billion to Kodak’s $220m. Why did these two firms fare so differently? Both saw change coming. Larry Matteson, a former Kodak executive who now teaches [...]
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Chris Jordan on fear, inspiration and living fully
If you haven’t seen this interview, block out an hour and a half to see it now. I transcribed (and lightly edited) a great deal of it, because it was great (not the least because Chase Jarvis references one of my favorite Errol Morris films, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control). Originally I was just [...]
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Subsidizing art, subsidizing yourself
What is economic growth for, anyway? It’s for expanding our choices and making life better. Is it really so surprising that, as we grow wealthier as a society, more and more of our young people, when the amazing resources of the modern university are put at their disposal, choose to use them learning something satisfying [...]
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down with artspeak! (or, don’t let yourself go)
Arturo Soto There are probably more than 10,000 articles about how unwise and un-blog-attractive it is to apologize for not posting frequently enough to your blog. (“Don’t keep hamsters if you can’t remember to feed them”?) It is the blog version of saying, “I’ve really let myself go.” Supposing that I have, it seems that [...]
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the byline
This is what Hans Rosling says of global development in the documentary I linked to earlier. I want to dig a little deeper into this issue. I’d say that most of the photo world has done a fairly terrible job of making this point. All the images of development are somehow read as “look at [...]
