©David Katz

This is really quit amazing if you think about it.  Obama won the election partly because of he completely embraced New Media, Web 2.0 or whatever you want to call it.  He used the medium of the new generation to inspire and move them to action.

I think this also has some interesting implications for photogaphy on the web but I’m not exactly sure I’m able to articulate what those maybe right now.  I may have to chime in later on.

Election Night Set [Barack Obama on Flickr]

via Obama Has A Flickr Photostream [A Photo Editor]

As Obama Won: The Flickr Album [Gawker]

“You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning…And that, I think, was the handle – that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply PREVAIL.” – Hunter S. Thompson

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We were recruited to help out with an essay for Magnum In Motion. Big thanks to James Wendell for suggesting us!

At The Forefront Of The Elections

MDM has put together an impressive mixed-media project which will debut at the Opal Gallery in Atlanta on Nov. 1st and run through Nov. 7th, included will be an Election Night Party.  Also on Nov. 4th, a limited edition print will be released on 20×200 at 2 pm EST.

So Help Me [sohelpme.us]

Michael David Murphy [website]

Photographs ©Callie Shell

I hadn’t been paying much attention to the photography coming from the trail, but for some reason today I stumbled upon a handful of essays.  Some of it’s quite good.  Perhaps because of my liberal bias, I find the Obama coverage to be a bit more interesting, but there’s some good stuff from both campaigns.

In case you missed it Magnum launched inSight America, a documentary project covering the run-up to the election.  Soth, Webb, Gilden, DAH, Peres, Meiselas and few other notables are all contributing.  It’s basically a blog with slideshows.  Nice and simple but not so RSS friendly.  I’ve listed the coverage I’ve noticed, but I’m sure there’s some other good stuff out there.  If you have suggestions, let me know.

Barack: Portrait of a Candidate by Callie Shell [Time]

Taking it to the People by Larry Fink [Vanity Fair]

Photographer’s Journal: Update’s From the Campaign Trail [NYTimes]

On The Road by Brett Marty [FiveThirtyEight.com] [Brett Marty]

So Help Me by Michaeld David Murphy [SoHelpMe.us]