Category: Editor’s Choice
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The War Photo No One Would Publish – The Atlantic
The War Photo No One Would Publish When Kenneth Jarecke photographed an Iraqi man burned alive, he thought it would change the way Americans saw the Gulf War. But the media wouldn’t run the picture. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/08/the-war-photo-no-one-would-publish/375762/ When Kenneth Jarecke photographed an Iraqi man burned alive, he thought it would change the way…
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The Last Sentimentalist: a Q. & A. with Duane Michals
The Last Sentimentalist: A Q. & A. with Duane Michals Michals talks to Siobhan Bohnacker about his early work, and about his dream-like portraits of Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, and Andy Warhol. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/sandbox/portfolio/michals-empty-ny/ The photographer Duane Michals is perhaps best known for his “fictionettes”: dream-like stagings in which Marcel Duchamp, René…
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World Press Photo Winners Gallery
Link: View the entire collection of winning images from the 57th World Press Photo Contest. The winners were selected from more than 90,000 images submitted to the contest.
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Christine Osinski: Shoppers, Chicago, and Swimmers 1980-1996
Christine Osinski: Shoppers, Chicago, and Swimmers 1980-1996 When I first encountered Christine Osinski’s Staten Island work at Photo Nola last year it was love at first sight and I featured it on Lenscratch. As I shared in Monday’s post, not only did Christine go on to win a spot in the 2013 Critical Mass Top…
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Q&A: Robert Nickelsberg on a Distant War
Link: Q&A: Robert Nickelsberg on a Distant War | PROOF In his new book, Afghanistan: A Distant War, veteran photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg offers a vivid close-up of the past quarter-century of Afghan history. As a photographer for Time Magazine, Nickelsberg first observed Afghanistan emerge from an eight-year war against the Soviet Union and then descend…
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9 Eyes – Best of Google Street by Jon Rafman
jon rafman Link: http://9-eyes.com/ 9 Eyes – Best of Google Street by Jon Rafman
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airscapes | tampa, florida
Link: airscapes | tampa, florida | Redlights and Redeyes Client: ”Want to spend five hours in a helicopter for us over Tampa?” Me: ”Sure, what do you want me to shoot?” Client: “Whatever you want.” Me: Big smile.
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Dominic Nahr Is a Master of Photographing Human Eeriness
Dominic Nahr Is a Master of Photographing Human Eeriness I interviewed him about life in Eastern Africa and nuclear exclusion zones. via Vice: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/dominic-nahr-magnum?Contentpage=-1 For this round of VICE Loves Magnum we spoke to Dominic Nahr, who – unlike previous interviewees – is still running the gauntlet of selection before becoming a full Magnum member.…
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Red Bull Illume Photo Contest 2013
Red Bull Illume Photo Contest 2013 via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/08/red-bull-illume-photo-contest-2013/100568/ “An artist may create and sell a work of art that resembles an individual without his or her written consent,” Judge Rakower wrote in her decision, underscoring a central principle of the case.
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London Stencil Artist Taunts Man Who Buffed His Work
London Stencil Artist Taunts Man Who Buffed His Work Earlier this month, British stencil artist DS painted one of his signature characters, an old Hello Kitty spoof he'd long ago dubbed Bad Kitty, on an Islington wall along Essex Road. The next morning, the 28-year-old saw someone buffing the figures an via Gawker: http://gawker.com/london-stencil-artist-taunts-man-who-buffed-his-work-979652040?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gawker%2Ffull+%28Gawker%29
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Bruce Gilden Takes Street Photos Like You’ve Never Seen Before
Bruce Gilden Takes Street Photos Like You’ve Never Seen Before Whether they’re of Haitian hurricane survivors or Yakuza gang members. via Vice: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/bruce-gilden-is-comfortable-taking-photos-of-strangers I wouldn’t call it challenging, but a little annoying. In Paris, you’ll always have one person who comes over and gives you the, “Why’d you take the picture, why’d you take the…
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Tickled by America’s Quirky Coincidences
Tickled by America’s Quirky Coincidences Joshua Yospyn, a Washington-based photographer, has a knack for capturing the gleefully odd juxtapositions of America’s weird cultural and political landscape. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/haunted-by-americas-quirky-coincidences/ That project, “American Sequitur,” is a series of gleefully odd juxtapositions. It’s a photo set whose sequencing is essential to the humor, and understanding, of…
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Gavin Watson – Chroniques anglaises
Link: Gavin Watson Chroniques anglaises | Le Journal de la Photographie Born in 1965 in northwest London, Gavin Watson started taking pictures at an early age. By the time he was 14 he was a skinhead, immersed in the world of Madness and Two Tone, and set about documenting the antics of his friends and…
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Ponte City: An Apartheid-Era High Rise Mired in Myth
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/05/20/ponte-city-an-apartheid-era-high-rise-mired-in-myth/ The work, honored with the Discovery Award at Recontres d’Arles in 2011, is comprised of more than 600 photographs presented in an installation of three light boxes towering over viewers at a height of 13 feet
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Platinum Palladium Printing with Leica M Monochrom
Platinum Palladium Printing with Leica M Monochrom Footage, edition and film direction by LUÍS OLIVEIRA SANTOS Music by: BEN SERETAN http://bser.tumblr.com/ http://benseretan.bandcamp.com/ SOL REZZA http://radio-arte.com https://soundcloud.com/solrezza ALONEFOLD http://www.alonefold.com http://alonefo via Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/66352973 Manuel Gomes Teixeira, photographer and Platinum Palladium printer, usually uses traditional methods, with photographic film in medium and large format cameras. Invited by…
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Building a Human: new retrofuturist short by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz
Building a Human: new retrofuturist short by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz Robert Popper (electrocuted) and Peter Serafinowicz (electrocuted) are back with a new “instructional film made by The Visitors for Human Collaborators on Edité-Frignim (Earth).” … via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/04/27/building-a-human-new-retrofut.html Robert Popper (electrocuted) and Peter Serafinowicz (electrocuted) are back with a new “instructional film…
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A Decade of War in Iraq: The Images That Moved Them MostLightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/03/18/a-decade-of-war-in-iraq-the-images-that-moved-them-most/#1 In the five years Baghdad was my home, I got to work (or just hang out) with some of the finest news photographers in the world: Yuri Kozyrev, Franco Pagetti, Kate Brooks, James Nachtwey, Robert Nicklesberg, Lynsey Addario, the late Chris…
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2013 – the year we lost sight of what photography can achieve
Link: Editorial Photographers UK | 2013 – the year we lost sight of what photography can achieve This year’s announcement of the winners of two major competitions for photojournalists, World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International, created more than the usual fire storm. Raking through the ashes, Graham Harrison looks for a way…
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Christian Houge’s Photos of Wolves
In the Shadows of Wolves and Man The Norwegian photographer Christian Houge’s project “Shadow Within” takes a close look at wolves, which he says can teach humans a lot about the instincts and impulses surpressed by culture. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/in-the-shadows-of-wolves-and-man/ “They say you don’t start living until you step out of your comfort zone,”…