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Current Issue 2008 - 2

The Picture Professional —Issue 2.2008

Cover and “Portfolio: We Shall Overcome,” photography © Jim Wallace.

Images from the Civil Rights Movement count among those responsible for changing public opinion. Indeed, they helped change the course of history and continue to remind people of the events that shaped American culture in the sixties. Jim Wallace documented the movement in 1963-64. He photographed protest demonstrations, including the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, where Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

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“Talking Photography: Edward Hopper and the Decisive Moment” by Frank Van Riper

My long fascination with the work of the American realist painter Edward Hopper (1882-1967) probably began decades ago; the first time I saw his iconic depiction of a sun-streaked street in the city of my birth. It is entitled “Early Sunday Morning” (1930). Hopper, himself a New Yorker for most of his adult life, often referred to the painting as “Seventh Avenue Shops,” and the image achieves a kind of broad-shouldered eloquence with its nearly-abstract horizontal ribbons of red and green—the green of storefronts topped by the dull red of the brick superstructure—interspersed every so often with bright yellow window shades. Hopper painted the scene raked by strong morning sunlight, and the long shadows of the dawning day add to the impact of this austere, even minimalist, image. So minimalist in fact that the names of the businesses on the glass fronts of the shops are merely suggested by bands of blurry grey in what otherwise seems to be a highly detailed painting.

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“The Law: Libraries, Archives & Museums” by Joel L. Hecker, Esq.

Three years ago, the Library of Congress formed an independent study group under the auspices of the Copyright Office and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. The study group has now concluded its mission, and has issued a 201-page report and recommendations on the exceptions/limitations to the copyright law that are applicable to libraries, archives and museums. The report can be read in its entirety at www.section108.gov. Available at the same site, is a succinct 14-page executive summary of the Recommendations, Conclusions and Other Outcomes, and is a good starting point for those who wish to go directly to the source.

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“Stock Photography Niche” by Pat Hunt, photography © Mark Hunt/Huntstock

To keep swimming through a market that is bogged down with volume, price challenges and mediocrity, one must have a specialty niche that distinguishes good creative work and fills a need in a saturated industry. Lifestyle imagery that is real, dynamic, unstaged and high quality is today’s big market seller.  Huntstock’s niche is “Positive Lifestyle of People with Disabilities.” Today’s progressive lifestyle is not the same as years past.  Family makeup is more unique, ethnicities are mixed, females are rising up the corporate ladder, and people with various disabilities are leading active, mobile and fun lifestyles.  They are running companies, playing sports, traveling independently, getting higher levels of educations and making a difference in the world.

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“The Bottom Line” by Martha Hall

There are factors in educational publishing that are influencing the trend to negotiate lower use rates. First, educational publishing does not exist in a free and open market where natural forces of supply and demand influence prices and profit margins. Instead, educational publishing is ruled by the textbook adoption process.

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“Hi-ways & Buy-ways: ASPP’s 2008 Educational Weekend,” photography © Laurence L. Levin

Many elements must come together to organize and produce any conference, and 12 months of hard work by the Education Committee together with our executive staff Cathy Sachs and Greg Ogden made our event a success in Phoenix, April 24-27. 

As co-chairperson (together with Julie Orr and Mary Ann Albanese) of ASPP’s fifth biannual Education Conference, I am pleased to report that the event was a wonderful experience for the many people who attended and the organizations that they represent. We were delighted with the record sponsorship and support we received from many organizations and individuals without whom we would not have had the resources to hold this conference. Many thanks to the PACA and ASMP members in attendance.

The range of subject matter and the industry leaders who participated as speakers, panelists and moderators made the program inspiring as well as educational. The late Jane Kinne—who has been our conscience, motivator, mentor and guiding light for so many years—was given a special tribute at our banquet on Saturday night.
It may be time to consider making this conference an annual event.—George Sinclair, co-chairman


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  “Goings On”

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 “Reviews”

  • How to Succeed in Commercial Photography by Selina Maitreya
  • Image Makers, Image Takers: Interviews with Today’s Leading Curators, Editors and Photographers by Anne-Celine Jaeger
  • Scott Kelby’s 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 by Scott Kelby
  • Photoshop CS3 RAW by Mikkel Aaland
  • A Camera, Two Kids and a Camel: My Journey in Photographs by Annie Griffiths Belt
  • One Point of view: Fourteen Years at a Maine Lighthouse, text by Thomas Mark Szelog and Lee Ann Szelog, photographs by Thomas Mark Szelog
  • Maine: Guess Where from the Air, photographs by Charles Feil
  • The Red Volcanoes: Face to Face with the Mountains of Fire, photographs by G. Brad Lewis and Paul-Edouard Bernard de Lajartre

 

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