- News from Haiti—Michael Shaw of BAGNews Notes' acute reporting on the ethical issues that Haiti photographs may pose and on the media’s chronic misinterpretation of the “looting” going on in Port au Prince; Philip Kennicott on why the images coming out of Haiti are some of the most graphic ever run by the media; Pete Brook over at Prison Photography with an incredible list of who, what, and where of photographing Haiti; and a Today Show interview with a man who used his camera to help him escape a collapsed building [last link via Susannah Wells of SPI]
- A great Flickr Commons set from the Nationaal Archief on crazy inventions, including a revolver camera! [via Effie Kapsalis of Smithsonian Photography Initiative]
- A link in honor of Jeff Sandoz's new click! story on Alzheimer’s Disease—artist Pascal Dufaux talks about taking 360-degree portraits of Alzheimer’s patients, including his uncle: “Alzheimer’s Disease makes you disappear in a sense . . . So I find it interesting [to be] trying to keep a memory of someone who is in the process of losing their memory.”
- The NY Times Learning blog talks about using photographs to build writing skills (and gives a shout-out to the SPI!)
- Inventions
- Phil Bradley has been posting some great vintage image and visual history resources lately, including: Vintage Browser and V Like Vintage [via Phil Bradley's weblog]
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