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Is it Time to Retire the LENA Test Image?

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LENA test image
The LENA test image, often regarded as one of the most reproduced in modern times, is a test image used for image compression, an...

The Future of Work as a Media Worker

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Horst Faas at the picture editor desk © Mark Anning photo 1990
The final chapter from Mark Anning, a 50 year career veteran as a media worker, on the Future of Work as a Photographer "Everyone...

Chapter 1: Evolution of Photography

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Oldest Known Daguerreotype: "The Artist's Studio / Still Life with Plaster Casts", made by Louis Daguerre in 1837
As we look at the concept of Everyone is a Photographer Now and see a thread on the effects that the rise of the...

The Democratization of Artistic Expression

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Fire twirling © Mark Anning photo 2020
The role of the artist is to create discussion, cause controversy and debate, and create change. Photographers jobs are coveted for their potential that...

Visual Literacy in the Digital Age

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Paris street art or graffiti? © Mark Anning photo 2022
Visual Literacy in the Digital Age is being taught to school children while the elderly are especially vulnerable to digital illiteracy. Everyone is a...

Professional Photography in the Digital Era

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Montmartre Grape Harvest Wine Festival © Mark Anning photo 2022
After the end of professional photography during the transition to digital the common pyramid where 10% of people earn 90% of the money in...

Navigating the Future of Professional Photography

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Photojournalists at a Covid protest in Paris © 2021 Mark Anning photo
Before coming to conclusions about the future of work in photography, the future depends on the individual and there is no shortage of young...

How Getty Images & Disruptors Changed Photography

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Photojournalists at a Covid protest in Paris © 2021 Mark Anning photo
After a decade of massive change, the 1990s ended with the world passing through the Millennial, and Getty Images storming the scene, disrupting the...

Is publishing political pamphlets in Paris risky?

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Down with la Phar-Macronie at Covid protest in Paris © 2021 Mark Anning photo
Publishing political pamphlets in Paris, especially for a photographer, can be a venture fraught with risks and challenges, given the sensitive nature of political...

The Kiss in Times Square photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt

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Alfred Eisenstaedt's photo is called “V-J Day in Times Square” but is known to most people simply as “The Kiss.”
"The Kiss" photograph, captured by Alfred Eisenstaedt, is one of the most iconic images in the history of photography. Taken on August 14, 1945,...