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I just checked my mailbox, here at work, and found a subscription offer from Food & Wine magazine.For just six measly dollars, I'd enjoy six issues of Food & Wine, including the Holiday issue, The Healthy Eating Issue, the Spring Wine Issue and the Grilling Issue. And if I paid my $6 up-front with a credit card, I'd get three extra issues.I'd honestly never given subscribing to Food & Wine much

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Copyright 2010, Steve Gomes

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Piera 2010 © Steve Gomes

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I've come back to this blog after being away from it for almost exactly a year.Stay tuned.

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Photo: © TungstenIan Regnard wrote the other day to say that he and his brother, Erick (collectively known as Tungsten) have been awarded Honorable Mention in the International Photography Awards for their underwater series of a nude with stingrays, which I first mentioned here a few months ago.

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© 2007 Steve Gomes. Model: Janice A.

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© 2009 Steve Gomes. All Rights Reseved.

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Photo: © Brandon SappI've just added a link to Light-Test.com, a site where you can share your finest light test and color chart out takes.

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Photo: roadsidepictures via flickrThe Huffington Post and PDN Online are reporting today that Kodak will stop production of Kodachrome because of poor sales. The color film, in production since 1935, now makes up a fraction of one percent of Kodak's film sales.

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Reuters reports today that American Apparel, Inc. has settled a lawsuit brought by director Woody Allen for $5 million. Allen had sued American Apparel for using an image of him dressed as a Hasidic Jew from his 1977 film Annie Hall without permission.American Apparel's attorneys had contended that the images, which appeared on the company's billboards and internet ads, did not have a commercial

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© 2009 Steve GomesA couple of posts ago (see Print is Dead) I cited an article about the flailing newspaper industry, and placed the blame, largely, at the feet of very old men who have little to no understanding of the ways in which technology [generally] and the internet [specifically] have changed society.I saw this status update on Facebook today from a friend attending her art school

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Photo: David SeidnerThe International Center of Photography continues its "Year of Fashion" with exhibitions of work by Richard Avedon and David Seidner, beginning on May 15th.See the ICP site for more information.Update: The New York Times, today, has a story about Avedon's career.

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Gawker reports that a group of newspaper execs will be meeting this week to discuss how to slow the implosion of their industry. Quoting media consultant Alan Mutters, Gawker says that items on the agenda will include "how to recover some of the classified advertising business that has been usurped" by craigslist and others.Also on deck are a discussion of whether newspapers should begin charging

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© 2009 Steve Gomes. Model: Piera

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Photo: Watanabe KatsumiThe New York Times Magazine this week has a feature on Japanese photographer Watanabe Katsumi whose book Gangs of Kabukicho documents the East Shinjuku area of Tokyo's "hostess bar and yakuza heyday.""Watanabe was not well known at all,” says Andrew Roth, who is now the caretaker of the Watanabe estate, “but, by their own admission, Japanese photography stars like Keizo

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© 2009 Steve Gomes. Model: Laura V.

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Photo: Helen Levitt.

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The New York Times reports today that Hewlett-Packard is now offering a 'print on demand' service called MagCloud. For those looking for something slightly less ephemeral than a web site or blog, this awkwardly-named service offers to print short-run magazines at a cost of 20 cents per page. The article doesn't mention print quality (e.g., line screen, etc.) of the magazines, but does say that

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© 2009 Steve Gomes. Model: Piera

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© 2009 Steve Gomes.Saw this at Key Foods in Astoria tonight.

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They say that you should never watch laws or sausages being made, but fashion photography? That's something else again. Andrew Hetherington's What's the Jackanory? today has links to these snippets from a BBC 4 special, which feature fashion shooter Rankin trying to recreate 7 iconic fashion shots from the past 100 years.

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© 2009 Steve Gomes.Union Square fixture, self-proclaimed "grafter" and subject of a 2006 Vanity Fair article, Joe "The Peeler Man" Ades died Sunday, at the age of 75. Ades' death was reported in today's New York Times.

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© 1993 Steve Gomes.The New York Times reports today that Kodak will cut 3500 to 4500 more jobs because of declining sales of its film and digital photo products.According to the Times, the cuts could reduce the number of Kodak employees to less than 19,000, a level not seen since the Depression era of the 1930s. For context, Kodak's payroll peaked in 1988 at 145,300 employees.

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This video of a TV news report from 1981 talks about a new technology that might someday make it possible to read the daily newspaper on your computer.While it is weird to think that print newspapers and magazines could be surpassed by a technology that barely existed less than 30 years ago, I think we need to look beyond the internet angle. The web's certainly a big part of the equation, but I'd

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Photo: Erick & Ian Regnard via StabI'm a Photo Editor, so I get promo emails and postcards from photographers and reps pretty regularly. To be honest, most of them range from dreadful to forgettable, and are unceremoniously thrown out. Occasionally, though, I get a comp card featuring a shot I like enough to stop what I'm doing and visit the photographer's site. And in the space of five minutes

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Photo: Neil Krug via FlickrThe New York Times today is reporting that the Impossible Project has leased Polaroid's factory in the Netherlands and plans to begin making a new instant film cartridge which will be compatible with Polaroid cameras.According to the Times, the project is being led by Andre Bosman, a former Polaroid employee, and Florian Kaps, a former manager of the Lomographic Society

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Photographer: Unknown via RetrozoneI just found a site called Retrozone, which seems like a pretty random mish-mash of old pin-ups, snapshots and ads from the '30s through the '70s. Sites like this are a great resource for people trying to recreate the look of a particular time period, because they provide reference for the color palettes, lighting techniques and compositions that were popular at

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© 2001 Steve Gomes.Today I added a link for a site called The Photographs Not Taken, which features photographers writing about the times they did not use their cameras.This is interesting to me for a couple of reasons. First, because I walk around without a camera most of the time, even though I come across something that would make a great picture at least once a day (and each time it pains me

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© 2003 Steve Gomes.I'm doing a little housekeeping at the moment. The blog here's pretty new, so I'm still tweaking fonts and weighing this color vs. that for the links. Also trying to decide whether I need a little copyright notice on the images. The artiste in me doesn't like how watermarks distract from the composition. But the realist in me don't want my shit swiped. These, and other weighty

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Photo: © 2008 Steve Gomes.

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Photo: © 2007 Steve Gomes.The very few times I've ever asked a stranger if I could take their picture the response has almost always been "Why?" To which I never have a good answer. And which, I think, explains why I don't often ask people if I can take their picture, and why I prefer to do candid/street shots.Emily Shur wrote something the other day that I think explains why answering that

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Photo: © 2008 Steve Gomes.

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Photo: © 2006 Steve Gomes.

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