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Source(google.com.pk)Born in New Jersey in 1961, Sam D’Amico recalls always being interested in photography. Some of his earliest memories are of his family gathering to view home movies, slide shows or albums filled with photographs held in place by photo corners. He can recall his family being connected through the memories and emotions that the images evoked.
When he was a young teen, after expressing an interest in photography, his parents gave him a 35mm SLR. “I wanted to photograph the people, places and things that I saw but I lacked the patience to teach myself the technical skills needed to work the camera. Sometimes my pictures would come out the way I imagined and sometimes they wouldn’t. I found photography difficult and frustrating and sold the equipment a few years later.”
In the mid-1980’s, approximately a decade after selling his camera, Sam was given a used 35mm SLR which was found while helping family members to move. According to Sam, “That gift reconnected me to my interest in photography and I’ve been examining that interest since.”
In 1986, after studying two photography courses at a community college, Sam left his job as a telephone operator and began working as a free-lance photojournalist.
From 1987 through 1991 he worked as a staff photographer for two newspapers. After being laid off from a staff photographer position in 1991, D’Amico continued to free-lance until 1997.
From 1992-1997 he photographed over 500 assignments for the New York Times as a free-lance Photojournalist.
Sam left photography again in 1997 due to what he viewed as “intolerable working terms”. Frustrated and disappointed, he worked at a variety of non-photography related jobs. During this time he began attending meetings of The New Jersey Photography Forum. Some of the members of the group encouraged D’Amico to begin to exhibit his work. “If it wasn’t for some of the members of the New Jersey Photography Forum, I probably would have given up on photography completely”.
In 2002 he moved to Washington, DC and began to work as an instructor at the Washington School of Photography in Bethesda, MD. Sam enjoyed working as a photography instructor and as a result, in 2003, he began developing curriculum for his own series of workshops. His first workshop was held at ‘Teaism Restaurant at Penn Quarter”, a Tea House in Washington DC.
Currently Sam continues to free-lance with clients who “treat photographers fairly” and continues his work as a photography instructor in the Washington DC area.
Sam’s visual sense and approach to making pictures have been influenced by his life experiences, his teachers and other photographers such as Andre Kertesz, Helen Levitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mary Ellen Mark, Lee Friedlander and Nan Goldin just to name a few. “I seem to be most influenced by Photographers whose approach seems to be just simply observing and recording with minimal influence on whatever is being photographed. Observing and waiting for the moment when things come together in the viewfinder to make an interesting form then instinctually making an exposure, not only showing the viewer what the photographer saw, but also showing the viewer the photographer. These photographers seem to have transcended the craft of photography by evoking emotion and thought in the viewer”. Please visit samdamico.com to learn more and to view Sam’s Photographs.
It's a well known fact that many people mistake Google's image search for a license-free stock photo repository. Of course, many people are unaware (or simply uninterested) in the nuances of copyright law, making liberal borrowing of images the norm, rather than the exception.
On the other hand, members of industries that rely on the protection of copyright laws shouldn't have to be reminded that "running an image search" is not even in the same neighborhood as "properly sourcing a photo." This distinction is even more important if you're in a business that relies on integrity, along with various IP laws. Having a staffer just grab an image from "The Internet" for use during a news broadcast could, at the very least, put you in the situation of having to pay up and apologize publicly for using someone else's photo without permission. At worst, you could find yourself on the receiving end of a lawsuit.
Somewhere in between these two situations lies another scenario: the photo picked hurriedly from the lineup presented by Google Image search is quite possibly THE WORST PHOTO THAT COULD HAVE BEEN CHOSEN. Charles Apple of the American Copy Editors Society has the details on how grabbing a random image resulted in some serious embarrassment for a Denver news team.
The folks at Denver's ABC-affiliated 7News last night ran a story about the David Petraeus sex scandal, his "mistress," Paula Broadwell, and her biography of Patraeus, All In.
Now, this sort of thing could have happened to anybody, but it really shouldn't be happening to professionals. But, as Apple points out, this sort of sloppy work is far from rare and he's got a long, long, incredibly long list of links to prove it (scroll towards the bottom of the page). A combination of careless image sourcing and less-than-thorough copy editing resulted in a situation that was likely much, much funnier to everyone not employed in certain positions at KMGH-TV. The news director has since offered an apology for the "regrettable and embarrassing error" and has promised to take steps to make sure this sort of mistake doesn't happen again.
Well, we'll see. Apple's list contains a lot of repeat offenders. In the meantime, KMGH-TV can be happy it accidentally added a bit of levity to its viewers' lives and added to the pantheon of screw-ups forever enshrined on the web.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 8, 1861, William Crapo Durant (1861–1947) grew up in Flint, Michigan. His parents divorced after his father went bankrupt in the late 1860s, and his mother moved the family to Michigan. There she reunited with her father, who had prospered in the lumber business and served as mayor of Flint and governor of Michigan. Durant left high school early to work in his grandfather's lumberyard and at various other jobs. One of those jobs was as a salesman for a local cigar manufacturer.
Durant was a natural salesman. "Let the customer sell himself," was his stated philosophy. In 1885, after finding a unique suspension system that minimized bounce, he organized the Durant-Dort Company to make carriages. This company was his first real success, and it became one of the leading manufacturers of horse-drawn carriages. By 1900 the company was the largest carriage manufacturer in the United States.
But Durant saw that the future of transportation rested in the automobile rather than the horse-drawn carriage. In 1904 he took over management of the Buick Motor Company, which had financial problems. That year, he arranged for Buick to participate in the New York Automobile Show and took orders for 1108 cars, more than 25 times the number of cars the company had ever manufactured. To raise the capital necessary to respond to this increased need, Durant sold Buick stock to anyone in Flint who was interested in buying. Production at the Buick Company went from 725 cars in 1905, to 1400 in 1906, to 4641 in 1907. Buick reached the position of number one in the country in 1908, with a production of 8820 cars, outselling Ford Motor Company and Cadillac combined.
Durant tried to buy Ford in 1907, but the bid failed when Henry Ford (1863–1947) insisted on being paid in cash. The next year Durant formed General Motors Company in response. Durant's concept for his new company was to be a total supplier of automobiles from the car itself to its parts and service. Durant added Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Oakland (Pontiac) and other lesser companies to the original Buick at General Motors. Durant was a great salesman, but not so great at purchasing companies. Many of his acquisitions were over-priced or ill advised. In 1910 General Motors was heavily in debt and under a cash crunch. Bankers rescued the company from its financial predicament, but the price was a loss of control for Durant.
Still believing in the automobile, Durant joined forces with race car driver Louis Chevrolet (1879–1941) and established Chevrolet Motor Company in 1911. Chevrolet was an instant success with the Model 490, which cost more than Ford's Model T, but offered greater refinements and comfort. The loan the bankers had made to General Motors expired in 1915, and with it, Durant's prohibition from involvement in the company. With the help of the Du Pont family, Durant was able to regain control of General Motors in 1916. Chevrolet was brought into the General Motors family of automobiles, and the company prospered.
Durant, however, was unable to effectively deal with the company's stock price problems during the Panic of 1920. General Motors stock fell from $42 per share in March to just $14 per share in October. Durant felt personally responsible to many of the shareholders, as he had made personal commitments to friends and neighbors to sell the stock. He tried valiantly to prop up the stock price and save his friends' investments, but he failed.
When the Du Ponts discovered Durant's position, they forced him out of General Motors in order to protect their own investment. Oddly, Durant could have weathered all the problems with stock prices and the company if he had just left the situation alone. By 1926, just six years later, General Motors stock was trading at $210 per share. From April to November of 1920, Durant lost over $90 million. Adjusted for inflation, that amount would have been over $1 billion in the 1990s. Many believe this to be the largest relative loss of money in the history of the stock market.
Durant made another attempt to succeed in the automobile industry, starting Durant Motors in 1921, but it failed to establish itself in the market. By the time of the stock market crash of 1929, Durant Motors was already shaky and it lost ground steadily until its dissolution in 1933. By 1935 Durant had declared bankruptcy. He dabbled in a number of other business ventures, including a bowling alley, but none were particularly successful. He died in New York on March 18, 1947.
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