photojournalism

Quoted: "I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated."

Quoted: camera back is never vertical, as prescribed by classic procedure; if the figure fills the frame the lens will be pointed at the subject's navel, and the camera back will be inclined some forty-five degrees downward from vertical. In this posture any lens will violate our belief that we should see the walls of buildings as parallel to each other, but the wide-angle lens, because of its broader cone of vision, will exaggerate the effect, and destroy all sense of architectural order. To retrieve a kind of stability Winogrand experimented with tilting the frame, making a vertical near the left edge of his subject square with the frame, and then a vertical near the right edge, or a dominant vertical anywhere between. In the process he discovered that he could compose his pictures with a freedom that he had not utilized before, and that the tilted frame could not only maintain a kind of discipline over the flamboyant tendencies of the wide-angle lens but could also intensify his intuited sense of his picture's meanings...

Quoted: "Larry Fink's photographs are like the stage in a darkened theater. His hand-held flash splendidly illuminates the details of the drama before us and reveals the nuance of the personal moment,"

At first glance this looks like a pretty good photoblog. It has a distinct tilt to covering the work of photojournalists/travel photogs.

Quoted: Luc Delahaye's work spans the world of journalism and art. As a war photographer, he has documented many conflicts around the world. At the same time, he started work on documentary portraiture and then engaged himself in a broader approach to documentary photography. In his latest projects, he took a long trip across Russia, examining the country's economic depression, and a four-month stay in the suburb of Toulouse, France. He now works on documentary photography in the fields of news and history.

Oh man. This one rips at you.

From the gallery Derek dotted. Lots of great images in there -- most of them *not* centered around Iraq, by the way, in case you were wondering.