A collection of some of the most striking images of 2022.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2022-in-review/an-evocative-year-in-new-yorker-illustrationsA collection of some of the most striking images of 2022.
Book Review Why Omaha? Photographs by Darius Koehli Reviewed by Blake Andrews “I’ve encountered many photobooks over the past few dec…
Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2022/12/book-of-week-selected-by-blake-andrews_26.html
Then he discovered wrestling. The old AWA professional circuit held sway in the midwest at the time, hosting regular matches at the Omaha Civic Auditorium and Pershing Municipal down the road in Lincoln. Young Darius befriended his neighbor Carl and the two attended every match they could, each boy toting a Kodak Instamatic 124 camera stocked with color film and flash cubes. In case you’ve forgotten just what those old clunkers looked like, a model photo appears in the back of the book. “Drop in film, pop on flashcube…Shoot!” cheers the boxed housing, before promising, “Clear sharp pictures!”
This past September, I had the good fortune to be asked to juror Photo Midwest and attend the Photo Midwest Festival in Madison, Wisconsin. I met so many wonderful people, spent time with old friends, and saw a mother-lode of fantastic work. Included in that bounty were photographs by Michael Knapstein. His project, Midwest Memior,
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/12/michael-knapstein-midwest-memoir/This past September, I had the good fortune to be asked to juror Photo Midwest and attend the Photo Midwest Festival in Madison, Wisconsin. I met so many wonderful people, spent time with old friends, and saw a mother-lode of fantastic work. Included in that bounty were photographs by Michael Knapstein. His project, Midwest Memior, follows the tradition of Group f/64 aesthetics. Taking his inspiration from mid-century artists who captured the midwest landscape with a certain formality, Knapstein brings an elegance and way of seeing that is timeless. The subjects could be from any era; he uses light and architecture to elevate the ghosts of these classic landscapes.
For Zaharia Cusnir, photography was an all-consuming passion. Now, nearly 30 years after he died in obscurity, the Moldovan’s fame is rising.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/world/europe/photographer-moldova-soviet-cusnir.html
For Zaharia Cusnir, photography was an all-consuming passion. Now, nearly 30 years after he died in obscurity, the Moldovan’s fame is rising.
Over 67 years ago on the summer of August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Louis Till was tragically lynched in Mississippi by two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam after he was accused by Bryant’s wife, Carolyn Bryant, of allegedly making an advance at her. Bryant and Milam were tried and acquitted by an all-white-male
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/12/bob-newman-shadows-of-emmett-till/There remains a variety of vital ongoing conversations revolving around the life and death of Emmett Louis Till. In Bob Newman’s recently released publication, Shadows of Emmett Till, published by Kehrer Verlag, he continues this discourse and actively confronts the complex past of America before Till’s unfathomable fate. The circumstances surrounding his death parallel the society we still exist in today where Black lives, such as Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, George Floyd, and a heartbreakingly long list of more Black Americans, are continuing to be unforgivably taken at the hands of racist white Americans.
Many of the magazine’s most memorable images this year made work of subverting the familiar.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2022-in-review/the-best-new-yorker-photos-of-2022James Nachtwey’s photograph from Bucha, Ukraine, is a wartime tableau cluttered with the stuff of life. Bottles and boxes sit atop of a worn floral tablecloth. A metal bowl perches precariously on a chair. The old painted door is flung open to the darkened next room. It takes a moment to notice the lifeless body of the woman who lived there, slumped beneath the table, still wrapped in a heavy coat.
Photographers captured historic moments of war, grief and wonder that defined the year.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/world/year-in-pictures.html
Every year, starting in early fall, photo editors at The New York Times begin sifting through the year’s work in an effort to pick out the most startling, most moving, most memorable pictures. Recently, every year seems like a history-making year: a pandemic that killed millions; an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol; and, in 2022, a war with frightening echoes of the 20th century’s devastating world wars.
The photographer’s latest photobook journeys to Wisconsin, depicting a world of uncanny originality and intrigue.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/in-the-midwest-alessandra-sanguinetti-blurs-fact-with-fiction/The photographer’s latest photobook journeys to Wisconsin, depicting a world of uncanny originality and intrigue.
Finding documentary photography’s blind spots at the world’s biggest sporting event.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/max-pinckerss-spectacular-world-cupFinding documentary photography’s blind spots at the world’s biggest sporting event.
What were the most talked about technologies of 2022? What happened in visual tech? And who were the biggest disappointments?
via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/2022-a-year-of-visual-tech-in-review/The year is coming to an end, and unlike the previous years, things are not quieting down. In fact, it’s increasing. 2022 is undoubtedly the year of Generative AI. And with it, not only a flurry of applications but many, many questions, if not anxieties. While other events might have happened in the visual space this past year, nothing will be as much remembered as the shockwave created by the successive public releases of DallE, Stable AI and Midjourney. It’s too bad because other technologies, like Neural Radiance Field ( NeRF), can certainly benefit from more exposure. If anything, 2022 has demonstrated that nothing is ever settled in the world of visual tech.
These are the images that defined a remarkable time across the worlds of art, music, dance and performance.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/arts/best-arts-photos-2022.html
Together, these photographs capture a narrative about a year in the arts, building a collection of evolving scenes and inner worlds. We asked some of the photographers to discuss the intentions behind these frames and the stories they saw within them. Now that the year is coming to a close, take one more look back at how we saw culture this year. — JOLIE RUBEN, senior photo editor
This past year we have been focusing on books on Lenscratch. In order to understand the contemporary photobook landscape, we are interviewing and celebrating significant photography book publishers, large and small, who are elevating photographs on the page through design and unique presentation. We are so grateful for the time and energies these publishers have
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/12/publishers-spotlight-brown-owl-press/Brown Owl Press is an independent publisher of photo books and zines based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2013 by Al Palmer, they focus on narrative photographic stories in printed form. Brown Owl Press was initially inspired by such publishing concerns as Antler Press, A-Jump Books and Little Brown Mushroom. Palmer drew the logo and a two year plan out in a coffee shop in Honolulu while traveling, and started Brown Owl Press when he returned to the UK later that year. 23 releases later and they’re still going strong.
28 curators, artists, editors and photography experts share their personal favorite photobooks from 2022 — a delightfully diverse list of great recommendations
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-favorite-photobooks-202228 curators, artists, editors and photography experts share their personal favorite photobooks from 2022 — a delightfully diverse list of great recommendations.
This week Lenscratch will turn its sights upon the artistic output of German photographers who present a broad array of the personal, social, historical, and political influences of life in contemporary Germany. Germany’s contributions to the photographic realm are extensive from the earliest days of the genre. From August Sander’s People of the 20th Century,
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/12/germany-week-stephan-zirwes/Entering the photographic realm of Stephan Zirwes is an adventure in looking at the world from an entirely unique perspective. Your perception of swimming pools, airplanes, glaciers, oceans and many other subjects will be altered by his unusual point of view…directly overhead from various heights
“Mezen: By Sky’s Edge” by Emil Gataullin “Here is a door behind which the hidden is revealed, enter and you will see not what one wants to see but what is” — writing on a big wooden cro…
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/12/mezen-by-skys-edge-by-emil-gataullin/“Here is a door behind which the hidden is revealed, enter and you will see not what one wants to see but what is” — writing on a big wooden cross, Kuloy village, Arkhangelsk region, Russia.
When the photographer Hossein Fardinfard first visited the Soviet-era buildings of Tskaltubo, Georgia, he was struck by an overwhelming sense of stillness and silence. Though many of these spaces had…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2022/12/in-an-abandoned-soviet-era-town-the-scars-of-war-remain/When the photographer Hossein Fardinfard first visited the Soviet-era buildings of Tskaltubo, Georgia, he was struck by an overwhelming sense of stillness and silence. Though many of these spaces had been abandoned, there were, in fact, people living here–-all of them displaced by a war that changed everything more than 30 years ago. They opened their doors to him.
Simply wonderful work.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/12/02/irish-street-photographer-reveals-incredible-lifes-work/The Light of Day by Tony O’Shea depicts Ireland’s working classes in gritty urban environments. O’Shea’s images have both religious and political themes.
A visual love story to the most common automobile on the roads of Romania, and the people who drive them
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/horatiu-sava-dacia-chauffeurA visual love story to the most common automobile on the roads of Romania, and the people who drive them.
