{"id":12467,"date":"2007-08-29T23:49:14","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T23:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/08\/taliban-as-boy-george-frozen-photos-more.html"},"modified":"2007-08-29T23:49:14","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T23:49:14","slug":"taliban_as_boy_george_frozen_photos_more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/taliban_as_boy_george_frozen_photos_more\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban as Boy George; Frozen photos; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Magnum photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soros.org\/initiatives\/photography\/focus_areas\/mw\/7\/dworzak_bio\">Thomas Dworzak<\/a> has posted a fascinating 7-minute look at <a href=\"http:\/\/inmotion.magnumphotos.com\/essays\/taliban\">the Taliban &amp; photography<\/a>.&#160; Their religious beliefs led them to deface any human or animal representation (from ancient statues to bottles of shampoo), yet numerous young men posed for images that make them look &quot;like gay icons.&quot;&#160; Western reactions say something about our times, too. <\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in photography: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dave Hirmes has created  captivating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hirmes.com\/ice\/\">macro ice photography<\/a>.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sampottsinc.com\">Via<\/a>]&#160; (Ah, but how about taking those image while using <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060612214126\/duggmirror.com\/design\/Taking_photos_with_a_lens_made_of_ice_\/\">a lens <em>made<\/em> out of ice<\/a>?)<\/li>\n<li>Adobe Bridge engineering manager <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arno.org\/\">Arno Gourdol<\/a> has been doing some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/arnog\/\">cool wide-angle HDR<\/a> imaging. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2007\/05\/seeing_more_wit.html\">The blind camera<\/a> contains no optical parts. Instead, &quot;The camera memorizes only the time and starts to continuously search on the net for other photos that have been taken in the very same moment.&quot;&#160; That is, it takes <em>other<\/em> people&#8217;s photos. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com\/2007\/07\/americas-roadside-bloomery.html\">Roadside bloomery<\/a> is calling for great images of America&#8217;s &quot;unplanted gardens.&quot; [Via Craig Schamp &amp; Bryan O&#8217;Neil Hughes] <\/li>\n<li>ShootSmarter.com features a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shootsmarter.com\/monitorcentral.html\">guide to monitors for professional photography<\/a> usage.<\/li>\n<li>Watchismo features a <a href=\"http:\/\/watchismo.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/watchismo-times_10.html\">Victorian spy camera<\/a> disguised as a pocket watch. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/05\/10\/victorian_spy_camera.html\">Via<\/a>] \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak has posted a fascinating 7-minute look at the Taliban &amp; photography.&#160; Their religious beliefs led them to deface any human or animal representation (from ancient statues to bottles of shampoo), yet numerous young men posed for images that make them look &quot;like gay icons.&quot;&#160; Western reactions say something about our times, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}