The Power of Pictures

Jason Becking — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:29:00 GMT

I had the recent good fortune of helping the University of Missouri's College of Journalism order some prints from their Pictures of the Year International archives.

One order is now in Beijing for display as part of the Olympics, naturally featuring many Olympic highlights from over the years. The order I looked at yesterday is for display as part of the J-school's 100-year anniversary and is more on the news side. Shots of Babe Ruth, Iowa Jima, the "Dewey Defeats Truman" picture, Mother Theresa, and 46 more.

While looking through them all, I was simply awestruck. We see great photos every day, so sometimes can become a bit immune to the 'standard wedding shot'. It was a great reminder to me of the ability of great photographers to capture great memories and invoke great emotion in a manner that isn't possible with any other medium.

While they don't have an online gallery of the sets of images I was viewing, you can view their 2008 winners here and some of their archive of winners here.

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Jason Becking — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:21:00 GMT

Random tidbits for today… We’ve recently added some new information on the website… Check out our revised About Miller’s section and be sure to click on the “Charity” link once you’re there.

Technology has given us all the tools to do what was once impossible (or difficult, or unimaginable) with our images. Check out Microsoft’s Photosynth collection of the Space Shuttle Endeavour when you have a chance…. Use your mouse to explore, click & drag, zoom in and out, etc (but looks like it's a PC-only demo, sorry). This post on Techcrunch also points to some other interesting photo projects.

Lots of jokes coming my way from my co-workers (and wife) about what is a blog and more specifically, what it means that I’m a blogger. I assume this article from the Wall Street Journal will add fuel to their fire.

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The Power of Pictures

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