Last week was full of horror, disbelief and touching compassion. It was also a week driven by photographs and discussion about photography. From the iconic photo by Boston Globe’s John Tlumacki on the cover of Sports Illustrated, to the hundreds of citizen photos turned in to the FBI, the story and the events that followed were driven by photography.
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Do you ever have those times when you look up or around you and you see something like the scene above?
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How do you solve the problem of professional concert photographers snapping unflattering photos of you during your live shows? One way is to ban them completely, and that’s exactly what Beyonce is doing with her latest concert tour. Policies like hers may be growing in popularity among artists who want to control their image, but the policy is still causing quite a hoopla.
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“Loki” Actor from Thor to Play Robert Capa in Upcoming Biopic —CinemaBlend
Tom Hiddleston, the guy who played “Loki” in the 2011 movie Thor, will star as famed war photographer Robert Capa in an upcoming biopic.
The film will be titled Capa, and will be directed by filmmaker Paul Andrew Williams.
Hiddleston says he plans to prepare for the role by visiting places Capa visited, reading books about he photographer, and studying Capa’s photos and how he shot them.
Yesterday we reported that the online communities of Reddit and 4chan were attempting to identify the attacks behind the Boston Marathon bombings by crowdsourcing publicly available photographs from the scene. We blurred the faces in the photos we shared, since it was likely the people in them are completely innocent.
At least one (much larger) news source didn’t. The New York Post actually took one of the photographs being circulated by vigilant photo detectives and ran it on the front page of its newspaper. The headline: “Bag Men: Feds seek these two pictured at Boston Marathon.”
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“‘Suspicious Package’ Sparks Concern in Downtown Park” —Metro
This is second time in about one week that a bomb squad has been called in to destroy a pinhole camera left in a public location.
In the aftermath of what happened in Boston this past week, it’s probably not the best time right now to start your own solargraphy project.
People often give iPad photographers a hard time for trying to use an unwieldy tablet as a casual snapshot camera. Tom, the iPad photog seen in the video above, is one person who is glad he was using his iPad as a camera. You see, his iPad-ography saved him from a good deal of pain.
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Remember that giant wooden Nikon 14-24mm hanging lamp we featured back in February? The designer, Spanish studio Monoculo Design, is back with another interesting piece of photography-inspired home decor — this time for Canon shooters.
The latest creation is a stool that’s designed to look just like a Canon 8-15mm fisheye zoom lens.
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We reported yesterday that the FBI has issued an open call for photographs and videos that may help provide clues in the Boston Marathon bombing case. Since that time, investigators have begun circulating photos of two “possible suspects” spotted in images of the scene, suggesting that analyzing crowdsourced images has indeed been useful in this case.
It’s not just government law enforcement that is attempting to use public photographs to identify the attacker, though: the large online communities Reddit and 4chan have also begun carrying out their own crowdsourced photo analysis.
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In the aftermath of the tragic Boston Marathon bombing on Monday, investigators are turning to crowdsourced photographs and videos in order to hunt down the perpetrator(s). Authorities are calling for anyone at the marathon that day to send in photographs or videos captured in the area.
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