Writing about an astounding soccer goal made half a century ago by the U.S. team in the first round of the 1950 World Cup, sportswriter Alexander Wolff could have focused on the circumstances of Joe Gaetjens’ improbable header, which led to the shocking 1-0 defeat of Great Britain. In our latest Notable Narrative, however, the [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Channeling “The Power of Narrative”: Isabel Wilkerson on Boston University’s April conference
Looking for thoughts on narrative from big names in a small setting? We spoke last week with Isabel Wilkerson, director of narrative nonfiction at Boston University’s College of Communication, about the upcoming conference “The Power of Narrative: Timeless Art in an Urgent Age.” Taking place at the University’s Photonics Center April 23 – 24, the event [...]
Andreas Gefeller’s Supervisions: structure as story
by Stephanie Mitchell |
March 26, 2010
[In our latest look at fine arts photographers who might have something to offer photojournalists, contributing editor Stephanie Mitchell considers the Supervisions project of Andreas Gefeller. Gefeller’s collapsed images and simultaneous use of exterior and interior shots offer exciting possibilities for storytelling, particularly in relation to architecture and urban topography. –Ed.]
Ice tracks ramble across a blackened field. Concrete slabs [...]
National Magazine Award finalist Oliver Broudy on morbid curiosity and narrative as burlesque
We talked this week with Men’s Health contributing editor Oliver Broudy about his December 2009 story “Dead Man Driving,” which recreates the events leading up to the death of Adam LaBar on Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania in 2008. A finalist for a National Magazine Award in the “Personal Service” category, the story is full of [...]
“Bottoming Out” from the Las Vegas Sun: citizen journalism folded into multimedia storytelling
When Las Vegas Sun staffer Scott Den Herder saw Tony McDew at an area nightclub last year, he could tell by McDew’s “outrageous” 1980s outfit and high-top fade haircut that he’d make an interesting character in a story. What he didn’t know was that McDew was a gambling addict who had been filming himself for [...]
Duckrabbit’s Benjamin Chesterton on the Blindfolded Photographer
by Benjamin Chesterton |
March 18, 2010
[We recently met Benjamin Chesterton at the Frontline/ICP symposium, where he participated in a discussion on the future of visual narrative. He had some strong opinions about photojournalists and storytelling, and we thought our readers would be interested in hearing his ideas. —Ed.]
One surefire way to irritate blind people is to think that you can put a blindfold on [...]
Paul Nicklen goes to extremes with Polar Obsession
Just a few minutes talking with Paul Nicklen reveals his compulsion to educate the world. Ask a question about his polar adventures, and he segues quickly into arthropods, krill and dangerous drops in the levels of polar sea ice. He carries within him the ghost of the marine biologist he nearly became.
Luckily, he found another [...]
Paul Nicklen’s Polar Obsession: “I had finally found a way to really connect with readers”
Paul Nicklen, a photographer with National Geographic, was going to call his latest collection of images Bipolar Obsession on a lark, to reflect his trips to both poles. He settled instead on Polar Obsession and freely admits that he is, in fact, obsessed—not just with the animals and his pictures of them, but with getting [...]
Still images and storytelling in the digital era: more from the February Frontline/International Center of Photography symposium
[Second in a series of posts about a February meeting on the future of visual narrative sponsored by Frontline and the International Center of Photography.]
With the decline of print newspapers, what will happen to the still images that formed the bedrock of visual storytelling? Veteran photographers, television producers and filmmakers discussed the issue last month in New [...]
Who rubbed out Arthur Kasherman? Noir, the Star Tribune and a senior thesis combine for multimedia storytelling
A little shy of midnight on a January night in 1945, someone shot Minneapolis muckraker Arthur Kasherman as he sat with a friend in his Oldsmobile. Firing several more times, the gunman pursued Kasherman as he climbed out of the car. Kasherman died at the scene, and the killer—whose name he seemed to have known—was [...]
