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Slow Photography

Douglas Gayeton’s Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town (Welcome Books) is pornography for the Heat-reading set. It is the Slow Food movement brought to art (it even has its own dinner tour). It is a series of portraits of a rural town in Italy where Gayeton lived, worked, cooked, fell in [...]

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Photography.Book.Now competition sponsored by Blurb

Got a book in you? This looks like it might be a fun project (the chance to win $25,000 is just icing, really): The Photography.Book.Now International Juried Competition seeks entries for its second annual competition celebrating self-published photography books and the photographers behind them. The grand prize is $25,000 to finish [...]

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Review: David Pogue’s Digitial Photography: The Missing Manual

Digital Photography: The Missing Manual from O'Reilly sets out to answer all of the questions beginning photographers face before and after they open their new cameras and file away the unopened and often unfriendly manual that came with it. I'm giving away my review copy. Read on to find out how [...]

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I Only Want One Job…

I'm sure this is a sentiment many people can sympathise with at the moment. I came across this photo in Improperganda: Art of the Publicity Stunt which I've been enjoying flicking through very sporadically over the last few weeks. If you get the chance it's worth a look through, the [...]

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Review: Odysseys and Photographs

I finally had a chance to sit down with this book over two nights and read it through. And I'm bummed out that I didn't do it sooner. Odysseys and Photographs: Four National Geographic Field Men is fantastic. Read the rest of the review and find out how you can get [...]