Category: Editor’s Choice
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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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Brian Ulrich: Copia—Retail, Thrift and Dark Stores (8 Photos)
Link: Later this month the Cleveland Museum of Art will present the first major museum exhibition of work by contemporary photographer Brian Ulrich. “Copia—Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores, 2001-11,” is a decade-long examination of the American consumer psyche. From the Latin word for “plenty,” the artist’s “Copia” series explores economic, cultural and political implications of…
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Picturing the American Drought: George Steinmetz
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ TIME commissioned renowned aerial photographer and photojournalist George Steinmetz to document the effects of the drought in Texas, New Mexico, and Georgia. On his journey, Steinmetz quickly found that even in the driest sections of the country, the cliched idea of the…
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Composite Characters: Peter Funch’s Fictionalized New York
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ As a Danish transplant living in New York, photographer Peter Funch began creating a series of panoramic, composite images on the streets of his adopted city in 2006. The result is his project Babel Tales Redux, now on display at the…
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sebastian liste – urban quilombo
Sebastian Liste – Urban Quilombo Sebastian Liste Urban Quilombo ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT This work is a witness about a place that no longer exists. I lived there almost everything that one can live. I learned there the dar… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/sebastian-liste-urban-quilombo/ Eight years ago sixty families occupied the “Galpao da Araujo Barreto”, an…
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Halloween Photos of New York, Not on Halloween
When the City Was a House of Horrors In the late 1970s and early 1980s New York as a whole resembled a haunted house. The photographer John Conn spent those years documenting the subway system — which is to say, the dungeon in the haunted house’s basement. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/when-the-city-was-a-house-of-horrors/ The late 1970s and…
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Bamako 2011 – Kiripi Katembo
Link: This project simply takes a look at a very visible fact of life in the city I live in: the pollution of the urban environment. With pollution comes sickness: malaria and typhoid fever.
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Rodrigo Abd’s Photos of Guatemala
In a Fragile Nation, Visible Realities The Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd sees the photos in his projects on Guatemala — many of which are shot alongside traditional wire assignments — as chapters in the history of the country’s postwar period. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/in-a-fragile-nation-visible-realities/ Rodrigo Abd seeks out the places in Guatemala that most…
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An Invisible Epidemic
Link: Misha Friedman has been photographing humanitarian crises around the world, with a recent focus on documenting the tuberculosis epidemic in the former Soviet Union
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2011: The Year in Photos, Part 1 of 3
2011: The Year in Photos, Part 1 of 3 via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/12/2011-the-year-in-photos-part-1-of-3/100203/ 2011 was a year of global tumult, marked by widespread social and political uprisings, economic crises, and a great deal more. We saw the fall of multiple dictators, welcomed a new country (South Sudan), witnessed our planet’s population grow to 7 billion,…
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Magical Photos From a Small Town in Northern Russia
Siberian Memories, Warm and Real Evgenia Arbugaev returned to her childhood home intent on recapturing the memories of a snow-covered landscape that loomed large in her life. But as she traveled to Siberia she wondered, was it real? via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/siberian-memories-warm-and-real/?pagewanted=all Evgenia Arbugaeva has warm memories of a very cold place. She grew up…
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Portraits of Congolese Wrestlers
Link: Winner of several awards in Belgium and France, Delfosse won the PDN photo annual award in 2011 for this work on Congolese wrestlers.
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Happy Birthday Duane Michals
Link: For eighty years—eight decades—he gave it his all, selecting his own (mostly unknown) images and writing his own texts. He loves to write and he does it well. As a protean artist, Duane has played many characters in his life. That’s only natural for someone who claims that photography is nothing but a lie.
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Quirky Photographs of a Fictitious Olympic Team
Link: Oli Kellett is a London-based photographer who earned his degree from St. Martins Art College. He worked at several London ad agencies as an art director before leaving in 2008 to pursue photography full time. His recent project is entitled ‘Team Vodkovia’ and features a digitally-designed team of olympic hopefuls from the fictitious country…
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Video: 34 Award-winning photographers & multimedia makers
Link: A 22-minute presentation of the winners of the Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2011 — some of the best in global photography and multimedia today.
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Russian Photographers Featured at FotoFest 2012
A Festival for Talent and Possibility After decades of research and carefully nurtured relationships, Fred Baldwin and Wendy Watriss are mounting an ambitious exhibition of contemporary Russian photography at FotoFest 2012 in Houston. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/a-festival-for-talent-and-possibility/ Long interested in the tradition of photography in the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, they have…
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A rock is a roc is a roque
Link: Through June 15, the gallery Magasin de Jouets in Arles will welcome three talented young contemporary photographers who confront their worlds, attitudes and practices through complementary pieces of work. Ulrich Lebeuf, Stéphane C. and Olli Berry give us the world as they see it
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Tom Stoddart: The Siege of Sarajevo
Link: On this 20th anniversary of the conflict in Bosnia, Tom Stoddart shares the story of the siege he documented.
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Winners of Visa de l’ANI 2011
Link: The final selection included JP Lopez ’ reportage on starving children in Guatemala, Colin Delfosse on military sites in Kazakhstan, and Misha Freidman on the tuberculosis epidemic in former Soviet states. Their work will be exhibited at the Bar Floréal in Paris in September 2012.