Category: Editor’s Choice
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The Decade in Pictures – The New York Times
The Decade in Pictures The New York Times pored over 10 years of images, of moments both fresh and faded, to tell the story of the past decade. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/world/decade-in-pictures.html If you’re a 500px member who hasn’t logged in to the photo sharing and selling service for a while, you may be asked to agree…
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Trump’s Napalm Girl: Consequences of a Drowned Migrant Father and Daughter – Reading The Pictures
Trump’s Napalm Girl: Consequences of a Drowned Migrant Father and Daughter – Reading The Pictures The significance of the drowning photograph: America at a tipping point. What it says about Trump. When a photo like this should be seen. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2019/06/migrant-father-daughter-drowning/ We cannot know in this moment, but I suspect that this…
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A Photographer’s Loving Ode to Small-Town Texas | The New Yorker
A Photographer’s Loving Ode to Small-Town Texas What interests Keith Carter more than the stories Texas tells about itself are the everyday figures—idle kids, blue-collar workers, animals both domesticated and less so—that contribute to the state’s mythology. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-photographers-loving-ode-to-small-town-texas The five decades that Keith Carter has spent documenting small-town Texas more than…
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You can now watch the entire “Everybody Street” documentary film for free on YouTube and Amazon Prime Video – Leica Rumors
You can now watch the entire “Everybody Street” documentary film for free on YouTube and Amazon Prime Video – Leica Rumors The full length “Everybody Street” documentary film is now available on YouTube (with ads). You can also stream it for free on Amazon Prime Video (or purchase the DVD from Amazon): EVERYBODY STREET, directed by…
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The best photographs of 2017 – by the people who shot them | Media | The Guardian
The best photographs of 2017 – by the people who shot them From Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, to the disaster at Grenfell Tower and a seahorse clinging to a cotton bud: photographers describe how they took some of the defining images of 2017. Selection by Sarah Gilbert via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/dec/28/the-best-photographs-of-2017-by-the-people-who-shot-them From Rohingya refugees in…
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David Hillard: Regarding Others | LENSCRATCH
David Hilliard: Regarding Others Photographer David Hilliard has a new exhibition, David Hilliard: Regarding Others at the Schneider Gallery in Chicago that runs through December 30th, 2017. There’s something about David’s cinematic large format photographs that stand apart–it’s a speci via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/11/david-hillard-regarding-others/ Photographer David Hilliard has a new exhibition, David Hilliard: Regarding Others at…
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Stephen Crowley: a Visual Historian in Real Time – The New York Times
Stephen Crowley: a Visual Historian in Real Time Stephen Crowley, who has retired after 25 years of photographing Washington and politics, on working for The Times, the changes he’s seen in the country, and on what’s next. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/08/09/stephen-crowley-a-visual-historian-in-real-time/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body After 25 years as a photographer for The New York Times based in Washington,…
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A Photographer’s View of a Battle to Destroy ISIS – The New Yorker
A Photographer’s View of a Battle to Destroy ISIS When the men died, I wanted to find them in a picture, as if seeing them right away would keep their memory from fading away. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-photographers-view-of-a-battle-to-destroy-isis?mbid=rss This fall, I spent six weeks with the writer Luke Mogelson, following an élite Iraqi police…
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Mark Peterson: Political Theater | LENSCRATCH
Mark Peterson: Political Theatre Every presidential campaign has a particular feel and color: the red, white, and blue days of JFK that ended in a sad pink boucle, the brilliant reds of Nancy Reagan, the rainbow spectrum of the Obamas. But this election is perfectly captured in black and via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/11/mark-peterson/ Every presidential campaign…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Jeff Brouws: Typologies, Projects & Portfolios
Juxtapoz Magazine – Jeff Brouws: Typologies, Projects & Portfolios Jeff Brouws: Typologies, Projects & Portfolios, is currently on display at Robert Mann Gallery in New York. Practicing what he terms “visual anthr… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/jeff-brouws-typologies-projects-portfolios/ Practicing what he terms “visual anthropology” Brouws, over the past twenty-five years, has persistently pursued a body of work that closely…
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The PJ Circle Jerk – Vantage – Medium
The PJ Circle Jerk The PJ Circle Jerk is not a punk band or a new dance craze. It’s what happens when a group of people decide to join forces in order to… via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/the-pj-circle-jerk-701ac9883621#.qe7tgpsnn There’s no need for a new and improved photojournalism. It’s the Great White shark of visual communication. It doesn’t…
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Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart – The New York Times
Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart The story of more than a decade of war, terror and revolution in the Middle East, seen through the eyes of six people whose lives were changed forever. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/11/magazine/isis-middle-east-arab-spring-fractured-lands.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 Scott Anderson’s story gives the reader a visceral sense of how it all unfolded, through the eyes…
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Guest Post 23: Robert Dannin on Steve McCurry « Photocritic International
Guest Post 23: Robert Dannin on Steve McCurry Pressing McCurry for explanations when one already knows the reasons he used Photoshop — to create a more saleable, viewable image — evades more serious issues about who controls photography, and when and how to liberate it. via “Who controls photography…..and how to liberate it” – duckrabbit
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Stephen Crowley: Time Spent: Florida 1972-1984 | LENSCRATCH
Stephen Crowley: Time Spent: Florida 1972-1984 I discovered Stephen Crowley’s terrific exploration of Florida in the 1970’s and 80’s when jurying Photolucida’s Critical Mass Competition. Stephen’s project, Time Spent: Florida 1972-1984 went on to be selected as one of the Top 50 portfolios of 2015. At via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/06/stephen-crowley-time-spent-florida/ I discovered Stephen Crowley’s terrific exploration of Florida…
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L’ouvrage du World Press Photo 2016 – The Eye of Photography
L’ouvrage du World Press Photo 2016 Chaque année, l’un des plus attendus et plus importants Prix de Photographie de Presse publie son livre, le “World Press Photo Yearbook”. Cette année, l’ouvrage fait peau neuve, il est plus petit et comporte plus de pages tout en laissant une place importante à l’image ! Le livre est publié dans 6…
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The Fall of Flint — The Development Set — Medium
The Fall of Flint “You know what my biggest fear is? That people are going to forget about us.” via Medium: https://medium.com/the-development-set/the-fall-of-flint-2847187266a5#.bq2ooj110 Photographer Matt Black has profiled over 100 cities across 39 states for his project The Geography of Poverty. He recently went to Flint, Michigan, for The Development Set
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Aji Susanto Anom – Recollecting Dreams « burn magazine
Aji Susanto Anom – Recollecting Dreams Aji Susanto Anom Recollecting Dreams “Not all who wanders are lost” J.R.R Tolkien Question about home, dream and everything between, photography is my emotional escape, I use it as something to exp… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2016/01/aji-susanto-anom-recollecting-dreams/ Question about home, dream and everything between, photography is my emotional escape, I…
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Michael S. Williamson: Color My World — zPhotoJournal
Michael S. Williamson: Color My World I will say this; I do think there’s a teeny bit of a shortage of good ideas to be honest with you. Robert Gilka, then the Chief of Photography for National Geographic once said, “We’re up to our armpits in great photographers, but up to our ankles in good ideas.” So the…
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David Burnett: Marathon Man — zPhotoJournal
David Burnett: Marathon Man To be a photographer in this age, you have to really WANT to do it. Don’t do it just because you can’t think of anything else to do. Go to workshops, and perhaps more important, use your library and even the web to find work which inspires you. One of the…
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Magnum Photos Blog
Elliott Erwitt. Retrospective Elliott Erwitt has been taking pictures since the late forties. This exhibition is a unique and comprehensive survey of his work. Erwitt’s unmistakeable, often witty, style gives us a snapshot of the strange and the mundane over a period of more than half a century, through the lens of one of the…