Germany's Bild seeks citizen photographers

Germany's largest newspaper is looking to expand — and not by hiring new reporters.

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Unique Tribute to War Photojournalists

Nearly four decades after their deaths, four combat photographers received a museum burial Thursday as family, friends and former colleagues recalled how the men gave their lives to show the world "Vietnam as they saw it."

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Photographers Lost in Shootdown Honored

Ten years ago this week, a U.S. military search team digging into a steep mountainside in southern Laos found camera parts, film, broken watches and bits of wreckage — proof that a South Vietnamese helicopter had been shot down there in 1971, a UH-1 Huey that was carrying four top-rated war photographers and seven Vietnamese soldiers.

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Film Still Popular Among the Pros

Photojournalist Chris Usher usually relies on digital technology. When he wants something special, though, he reaches for a film camera.

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Sarkozy Lashes Out at 2 U.S. Journalists

French President Nicolas Sarkozy lost his temper with two American news photographers covering his vacation Sunday, jumping onto their boat and scolding them loudly in French.

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Blind Photographers Show Work in Israel

Reaching above her dark glasses, Riki Fritsh held a compact camera to her forehead and snapped away at a group of passengers boarding a bus. Most of the travelers were caught off guard by the camera's flash. But they were even more surprised to learn that Fritsh is blind.

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Young Photographers Bring Mali to Life

Some of the people look you in the eye, others go on with their daily routines. Their homes and animals and places of worship come to life in photos of the West African country Mali taken by youngsters who live there.

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Over 2,300 of the world's best photographs available for tours free to public during an international convention and tradeshow for professional photographers, January 10-12, 2010.

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Changing Ideas is a charity that helps photojournalists to effect measurable change.

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Jeremy Cowart is a professional artist in Nashville, Tennessee, who has photographed rock stars such as Sting and Britney Spears. But on Saturday, he turned his lens on people unlikely to be recognized by anyone but family.

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Herding Cats

Getting everyone together and arranging them into groups for portraits at weddings can be rather like herding cats. No sooner have you got the last straggler to come and join in, one of the first arrivals wanders off.

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The color photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, who plied his trade in Russia in the early 1900s, is making the rounds online again. It's always worth a look.

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Since 1970, National Wildlife® magazine's annual Photo Contest has attracted wildlife and nature enthusiasts from around the world to share their work and compete with other amateur and professional photographers.

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THE site MeetTheFamous.Com, launched barely 10 minutes ago, has declared war on the paparazzi. They're inviting everyday folks to submit their cellphone or Brownie snaps and get paid.

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- Casey Anthony was publicly seen Thursday for the first time in nearly three months and it was a legal snafu that dragged her out of her jail cell and into court.

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A judge berated Casey Anthony's defense team at the courthouse Tuesday. Her lawyers are trying to delay her deposition in the civil suit filed by Zenaida Gonzalez until after her murder trial.

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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Casey Anthony's defense team has asked for an emergency court hearing Tuesday afternoon to allow it to take cameras, photographers and a sketch artist to the scene where a child's remains were found last week.

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VIENNA, Austria: An Austrian lawyer representing the victims of Josef Fritzl's alleged incest dungeon is pleading anew to the media to leave them alone. Christoph Herbst says Fritzl's victims have suffered enough —

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Excerpt: Cyrus told us the song is about the constant attention she gets, whether she goes to the mall with a new love interest or holds a "sweet 16" bash at Disneyland. " 'Fly on the Wall' is about the media," she said.

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jurors unanimously rejected the civil lawsuit Monday, ruling that Reeves is not responsible for the photographer's alleged injuries. An interesting look at the fine line between getting out the news & harassment.

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You're the suspicious type: Your spouse walks away from the computer, and you decide to click on her search history. What do you see? That she's been visiting a site called Sexy People — a lot.

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I haven't seeded much lately, but found this to be very interesting. However, I wish it had been published earlier in the week, before the RNC started. The author lists 8 rules for covering a riot.

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As it turns out, the story is only half true. The men in the photo are members of a tribe, but it certainly ain't "lost." In fact, as the photographer, José Carlos Meirelles, recently explained, authorities have known about this particular tribe since 1910.

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The NYT reports: David Gahr, who turned his back on a promising career as a scholar to take pictures and listen to music and who as a result landed among the pre-eminent photographers of American folk, blues, jazz and rock musicians of the 1960s and beyond, died on Sunday at his  …

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It was only a matter of time: confirmation today that 13 photographers were arrested at the weekend trying to get a sneaky picture of Elisabeth Fritzl or one of her children. Police say one of the snappers was dressed as a policeman, another as a cleaner.

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Flickr, was at one time acclaimed "the best online photo management and sharing application in the world" has introduced videos to the photo site while Flickr photographers are quite grumpy!

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In the immediate aftermath of the Paris crash, photographers and press motorcyclists were hauled in by French police for questioning over any involvement they might have had in the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed.

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"Of course he went faster than he would have, if he had not been chased by the paparazzi," Mr Veres told me.

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Unbelievable! A photographer was harassed during the height of the Christmas season for taking pictures of one of the most photogenic locations in New York: The Macy's on 34th Street.

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Professional Photographers are Still Needed in the Digital Age

Like many people, I started to build my photography business in the age of digital image making. I don't say that proudly.

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Microsoft has released a plug-in to remind photographers about the gear they need to bring along on shoots.

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