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'It's all been a bit of an eye-opener' commented our writer Lucy Davies on her article on Lawrence Schiller, and who can blame her. Schiller made his name in the 1960s with a project on acid freaks that, even now, disturbs. Women with dirty feet laugh hysterically on the sofa, women losing their minds cry - apparently unheeded - on the floor. 'When my husband and I want to take a trip together,' commented one subject. 'I just put a little acid in the kids' orange juice in the morning and let them spend the day freaking out in the woods.'

But if his subjects were losing it, Schiller was not. He kept a clear head in the druggiest parties, and used sheer ingenuity to win his first big commission. Life magazine was unwilling to run anything on LSD because there was no scientific data on it, so Schiller persuaded Time to run a story on the drug's medical properties then went back to Life. It's a timely reminder for today's recession-hit photographers - pitching for work sometimes means overcoming rejection and refusing to take no for an answer. Read all about it in this week's BJP - it's free online.

And also free online are: a Canon EOS 5D MkII vs Nikon D3x shootout, a Sigma 50mm lens test, an investigation of ophthalmic photography and a profile of an ad campaign by Nick Simpson. Enjoy!

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what if you're an Acid Freak Photographer in a depression hole, in a depression?

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