Category: Editor’s Choice
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Rebuilding Lives in Former Soviet Lands: The Work of Bruce Haley – NYTimes.com
Rebuilding Lives in Former Soviet Lands “Sunder” is a collection of photographs by Bruce Haley documenting the former Soviet republics. Mathew R. Warren describes its origins. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/rebuilding-lives-in-former-soviet-lands/ “Sunder” was released last week. Fifty-five black-and-white photographs depict a people and a landscape in flux. The haunting images, which were taken in various countries…
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A Photo Editor – Nina Berman Interview
Nina Berman Interview Jonathan Blaustein interviews Nina Berman for us: JB: I was in New York in June, and I had a meeting at the Whitney with a curator and I had about 15 minutes to kill, so they let me go upstairs to … via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2011/03/07/nina-berman-interview/ Has it made the world…
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Elegy to a Small Idaho Town: Steve Davis Photographs His Hometown – NYTimes.com
Elegy for a Small Idaho Town On return visits to American Falls, the small Idaho town where he grew up, Steve Davis found a sadness that he was moved to document, Michael Itkoff reports. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/elegy-to-a-small-idaho-town/ “American Falls seems to be dying a death that is as slow as it is unspectacular.” Steve…
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The Dissenting Photographer Or How American Photographers Turn To Intelligence In Times Of Intransigence « The Spinning Head
Link: An European photo editor I met at Visa Pour L’image some years ago pointed out that there was very little in the way of dissident and critical photography in America. Recently the same question came up in a conversation with students at a social science institute in India. I think that this is too…
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Legotron, Mark I — 4×5 Camera made of LEGO bricks | cary norton photographs
Link: Back in August of 2009, I blogged about having an idea of making a 4×5 out of LEGO bricks. Ten days later I’d made some serious progress on it.
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Rich Clarkson: Life behind the lens | Plog
Link: For seven decades Rich Clarkson has had a front row seat to sporting history and through his eyes–or more precisely, through his camera lens–he has shaped the way the rest of us remember many of the game’s greatest moments. Clarkson has photographed all the greats. His photos have appeared on the cover of Sports…
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Charlie Kirk: Tokyo. Leica. Flash.
Link: Charlie Kirk describes himself as “a 37-year-old English guy, working as a lawyer in Tokyo.” Based in Japan’s capitol for 9 years, he was educated at Sussex, Cambridge and Nottingham, and notes wryly “It’s a long process to become a lawyer.” A talented and avidly committed photographer with a knack for capturing the surreal…
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Captured: A Look Back at the Vietnam War on the 35th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon | Plog — World, National Photos, Photography and Reportage — The Denver Post
Link: These photos offer a look back at the Vietnam War from the escalation of U.S. involvement in the early 1960′s to the Fall of Saigon in 1975.
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Untouchable blood-camera goes to Africa for HIV portrait series
Link: Wayne Martin Belger created the blood camera, which incorporates HIV-infected blood that acts as a red filter for portraits of HIV+ people.
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The LENSCRATCH Self-Portrait Exhibition 2011
Link: Welcome to the 2011 LENSCRATCH Self-Portrait Exhibition. I am always excited to see how photographers choose to express themselves through self portraiture. A big thank you to all the contributing photographers for sharing your inner and outer selves, your humor, your life, and revelations. The genre of self portraiture is a universal expression of…
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Russian criminal tattoo documentary on YouTube
Link: Alix Lambert’s fascinating documentary from 2000 about Russian criminal tattoos, The Mark of Caïn, is available under a Creative Commons license and viewable in full on YouTube.
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Adam Magyar
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2011/05/on-flickrs-change-in-data-retention-policy-and-twitters-new-photosharing-service.html I think this is great for a couple of reasons. First the leading player in the Twitter photo space twitpic is a total ripoff for photographers. When you use it you are giving them the right to sell your photos through some fine print in the TOS. Many…
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INTERVIEW: "Interview with Raymond Depardon" (2001)
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2011/05/on-flickrs-change-in-data-retention-policy-and-twitters-new-photosharing-service.html I think this is great for a couple of reasons. First the leading player in the Twitter photo space twitpic is a total ripoff for photographers. When you use it you are giving them the right to sell your photos through some fine print in the TOS. Many…
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EPF 2011 Winner – Irina Werning's Back to the Future
EPF 2011 Winner Emerging Photographer Fund – 2011 Recipient [slidepress gallery=’irinawerning_backtothefuture’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICI… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/epf-2011-winner/ I love old photos. I know I’m a nosy photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for those old photos. Most…
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Great! All pictures into one…
Link: German photographer Peter Langenhahn has specialized in capturing a particular aspect of sports events in a single photo collage. Langenhahn takes as many as three thousand pictures and then puts them together on his computer to create a single image. One of his compositions documented all the fouls in a football match.
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Leica & Magnum — Portrait of Alex Majoli
Link: On Thursday, June 9, 2011, we had the pleasure of hosting a live judging of our 2011 Student Project Award that was open to the public at The Bridge Public Arts Initiative in Charlottesville, Virginia. Lead Judge Michael Wichita of the AARP Bulletin led a panel of Gillian Laub (Photographer), Larissa Leclair (Indie Photobook…
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Loli Kantor: There Was a Forest (4 Images)
Link: In There Was a Forest, Loli Kantor’s palladium prints document the parallel lives and rituals of the disappearing enclaves of Jews in rural Ukraine and the simultaneous, slow reemergence of Jewish culture and identity that is gradually transforming some of the larger communities there today.
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ED RUSCHA: "One-Way Street" (2005)
Link: Edward Ruscha arrived in Los Angeles in 1956, delivered by the car trip he and high school friend Mason Williams took in Ruscha’s black 1950 Ford from Oklahoma to the suburban-like stretch of a rapidly developing L.A. Over the next seven years, Ruscha drove the distance between L.A. and Oklahoma City several times, often…
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The Photojournalist’s Canon: Part Two — Early 20th Century
Link: So here’s part two, the photographers that opened the 20th century. This is the generation of photographers who picked up the new small cameras that shot roll film and started documenting life in action. They created what we consider photojournalism out of a near vacuum: