03 Sep 2008

Daily Digest - 03 September 2008

Author:

Olivier Laurent

+As Patrick Demarchelier prepares to open a retrospective exhibition in Paris, The Daily Telegraph interviewed the photographer who has grown tired of 'what he describes as today's "perfection-obsessed" society and the photographers and image-makers who "want to turn all women into models".' Asked who he would love to shoot, Demarchelier, famous for his Princess Diana's photographs, answers: the Duchess of Cornwall. 'I'd love to do her, but she would be very hard to photograph because she's not photogenic. She's got an interesting face, but I'd need a lot of time with her because I haven't seen any pictures of her where she looks beautiful. Rather than ask her to my studio, I would go to her house and make sure she felt really comfortable and confident. Then I'd get her to laugh - really laugh.' Read the interview here.


+An Associated Press photographer was arrested at the Republican National Convention while covering protests. Matt Rourke was in St Paul, Minnesota, when he was covering the 'unrully end to an otherwise peaceful anti-war protest,' the Committee to Protect Journalists reports. 'Covering news is a constitutionally protected activity, and covering a riot is part of that coverage,' said David Ake, an AP assistant bureau chief in Washington. A broadcast crew and host for Democracy Now! were also arrested. Full story here.


+MSN Money won't be in professional photographers' good books. In its regular '10 ways to get yourself a pay rise' column, it advices its readers to top up their income with a little bit on the side. 'Maybe one of your hobbies or interests could generate a handy second income. If, for example you're a keen (and good enough) photographer you could have a nice little earner on your hands working Saturdays as a wedding photographer'. Last July, we wrote that wedding photographers were seeing their income shrink. I wonder if MSN Money has the solution for them.


+Magnum Photos is celebrating Eve Arnold with a special exhibition at the Magnum London Print Room on Gee Street. The Independent has a profile of the photographer who was the first woman to join the photo agency and who followed Marilyn Monroe for ten years until her death. The photographer Elliott Erwitt said of her that 'she had a way of getting on with people, the mighty and the modest, in a way that was quite extraordinary. Photographers often keep a distance [from their subjects] but she didn't. She became part of the lives of many of the people she photographed. Maybe her size had something to do with the way she worked with people. She was a tiny, unaggressive kind of person who you wanted to pick up and be nice to.' Read the full story here.

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