The Photo Feed 04.08.08

Seattle Times To Cut 200 Jobs (Seattle Times / NPPA)
The Seattle Times is the latest paper to be struck by waning ad revenue. On Monday, the paper announced that it will cut its staff of 1,845 by nearly 200. Up to 30 newsroom employees could be laid off, according to an email sent the staffers by vice president Alayne Fardella. (NPPA is reporting that Fardella has indicated that as many as 49 newsroom positions are at stake.) Exact numbers will depend on how many staffers accept voluntary buyouts—a decision that they must make before next Monday.

Photog's Daughter Fights For Father's Legacy (Baltimore Sun)
When the Baltimore Museum of Art prepared its exhibit “Looking Through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960,” Jennifer B. Bodine wasn’t happy. She believed her newspaper photographer father, the late A. Aubrey Bodine, deserved to be exhibited alongside the likes of Edward Stieglitz and Dorthea Lang, and she went out of her way to make sure the curators knew this. She sent angry emails inviting the curators to visit her home and see her father’s work; she questioned the credentials of one curator, and even got the museum’s Board of Directors involved. But in the end, the board supported the curators, saying Bodine’s work, which hangs in L.A.’s Getty Museum and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, didn’t fit the show’s theme. Now the photographer’s daughter says there’s no chance she’ll donate any of her father’s work to the museum.

Women Photogs Helping Women Photogs (Liz Kuball Photography via Shoot! The Blog / APAD)
As a female photographer, Liz Kuball finds that other women in the industry are among her biggest supporters. So she’s created a web site badge for women photogs who are willing to help other women photogs in ways big and small. The badge reads, “Ask me. I’ve got answers.” And if you think you don’t have answers, says Kuball, “[W]ipe that thought out of your mind. You know things, baby. And you’ve got answers.” Also: APAD’s Melissa Lyttle points us to photog Amy Elkins' new site called “Women in Photography,” which seeks to reach new audiences and showcase the work of women in the contemporary photography world.

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Changing Times Call For Changing Photojournalism Teaching Strategies (Dennis Dunleavy)
With the convergence of art, video production, journalism, communications and computer science, teaching photojournalism is becoming trickier than ever. The answer, says Dennis Dunleavy, isn’t a field-specific vocational approach, but rather an interdisciplinary one that offers students a broader range of skills and perspectives.

X17 Apologizes To Tony And Eva (Jossip / TMZ)
Back in December, the paparazzi photo agency X17 alleged that Spurs basketball superstar Tony Parker had cheated on his new wife Eva Langoria with a woman he met—where else?—at their wedding. Faced with a $40 million libel suit by the couple, X17 has apologized “to Mr. Parker for any damage or inconvenience this may have caused him or his wife.” And now one of X17’s biggest buyers, TMZ, is mocking the apology, calling it the “greatest understatement ever.”

MVP/NY Names New Photo Editor (Mediabistro)
Jodie Love is the new photo editor over at MVP/NY. Love was previously assistant photo editor at Time Out New York Kids.

Esquire Celebrates 75 Years With Another Shaving Woman (Popsugar / Min)
Esquire seems to have gotten the message that men’s mags sell better when there’s a woman on the cover. But what happens when it’s a woman playing a man? Esquire will find out in May when it remakes a 1965 cover of Virna Lisi by featuring Jessica Simpson shaving her lathered face.