photography

Pearsall returns to Newhouse to tell stories of war, Oprah
By Glenn Coin
November 11, 2011 - 8:33am
Former combat photographer and Newhouse grad Stacy Pearsall spoke about her experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan.

After combat photographer Stacy Pearsall was discharged as disabled from the Air Force at age 28, she didn't know what to do with her life. But she knew one thing: "Being disabled did not mean I was unable."

Staff Sgt. Pearsall, who was the first woman to win the National Press Photographers Association's military photographer of the year, graduated in 2004 from Newhouse School's Military Photojournalism Program. She spoke Thursday night before a standing room only crowd.

Leibovitz wows, inspires with images
By Paul Brockwell
April 29, 2010 - 9:30pm
Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz shares favorites and insights in a packed Hendricks Chapel Thursday.

Vogue. Vanity Fair. Rolling Stone.

These are just a few of the magazines that have featured the work of  the acclaimed photographer and documentarian Annie Leibovitz. She has photographed the Queen and the first family. She has produced images that have become enduring cultural icons in modern America. The Library of Congress has labeled her a living legend.

And on Thursday, she inspired a standing-room only crowd at Hendricks Chapel.

Police raid marijuana operations in Cayuga and Onondaga County
By Melissa Lyons
April 16, 2010 - 4:46pm
Plus, President Obama wants equal visitation rights for Gay and Lesbian Partners, and Kim Kardashian Reveals all in her new photo shoot

Police agencies raided several marijuana growing operations on Thursday. Over 600 marijuana plants, four pounds of marijuana prepared for sale and more than $23,000 were seized by police.

According to Syracuse.com, members of Auburn police, the Cayuga County Sheriff’s Office, the Drug Enforcement Administration, state police, and the Onondaga County district attorney’s office took part in the raids on Thursday.

An evening with Annie Leibovitz
By Sherri Williams
April 4, 2010 - 7:37pm
Respected photographer speaks at Hendricks Chapel April 29

Famous photographer Annie Leibovitz will speak at  Hendricks Chapel Thursday April 29 at 7:30 p.m. Leibovitz's photography career began in 1970 at Rolling Stone where she was the chief photographer and shot the iconic cover photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Best in show changes model standards
By Jennifer McCaffrey
March 2, 2010 - 3:53pm
SU senior's unconventional models top Light Work art gallery's Transmedia Photography Annual exhibit.

Jacqui Palumbo went through plenty of ideas, some which she called “really bad,” before she finally settled on the idea she wanted to use for her final Bachelor of Fine Arts show: elder women facing life problems.

“I had this fashion inclination. It’s not necessarily a bad idea, it was just I was using younger models around my age and it was great, but it looked like ads for J Crew with suitcases,” said Palumbo, a photography senior in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. I really wanted to go for more of the narrative and more of the emotional impact.”

Miss Marie Massacre
By Mallory Passuite
December 1, 2009 - 9:23pm
This self-taught makeup maven plays with bright colors, hoping for a bright future.

She wears her pale skin bare on this rainy afternoon after class. Cotton-candy pink streaks run through her white-blonde hair.  Earrings dangle from the gages that form sizable holes in each of her ears: one a machine-gun, the other, a revolver. Her four facial piercings add enough sparkle to evoke her alter ego: Miss Marie Massacre, a sort of gothic pin-up girl who covers herself in her creativeness.