Category: Photography
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Lee Miller: From Vogue to Buchenwald and Dachau — Blind Magazine
Lee Miller: From Vogue to Buchenwald and Dachau — Blind Magazine The exhibition at the Rencontres d’Arles retraces the most intense decade in the life of the American model and photographer Lee Miller, who became a war correspondent during World War II. via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/lee-miller-from-vogue-to-buchenwald-and-dachau/ Lee Miller possesses sculptural beauty, an unfathomable gaze, the…
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The Future of the Photo Festival in the Covid Age – LENSCRATCH
The Future of the Photo Festival in the Covid Age – LENSCRATCH If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry – Emily Dickinson As a photographer, editor, and publisher I have had the good fortune of seeing a lot of photography. I came to…
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Paolo Pellegrin’s Photographic Quest for the Sublime | The New Yorker
Paolo Pellegrin’s Photographic Quest for the Sublime For as long as the celebrated photojournalist has been doing his best work, he has been grappling with the threat of blindness. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/23/paolo-pellegrins-photographic-quest-for-the-sublime “To find silence, you need silence,” Pellegrin had observed, and as we drove in darkness no one spoke. An hour later,…
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The Dennis Hopper Photograph That Caught Los Angeles | The New Yorker
The Dennis Hopper Photograph That Caught Los Angeles The actor stopped at an intersection, took out his Nikon, and made history. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-dennis-hopper-photograph-that-caught-los-angeles “Double Standard” is probably the best known of the eighteen thousand images that Hopper created with his Nikon from 1961 to around the time he began shooting “Easy Rider,”…
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Jamel Shabazz: Proud Street Culture on Display – The New York Times
Jamel Shabazz: Proud Street Culture on Display He chronicled the fashion shifts of stylish young Black New Yorkers in the 1980s and ’90s in photographs celebrated at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/arts/design/bronx-museum-jamel-shabazz-photography.html When Jamel Shabazz was a teenager in Brooklyn, a gang member opened his eyes to the power of photography. Shabazz…
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She Took the White House Photos. Trump Moved to Take the Profit. – The New York Times
She Took the White House Photos. Trump Moved to Take the Profit. The former chief White House photographer made plans to publish a book of Trump photos. The former president had other plans. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/us/politics/trump-photographer-shealah-craighead.html But like so much else involving Mr. Trump, the plan by his chief photographer, Shealah Craighead, did not follow this…
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A Syrian Photographer’s Gift to Refugee Children | The New Yorker
A Syrian Photographer’s Gift to Refugee Children After fleeing his native country for Turkey, Serbest Salih created a mobile darkroom and went on the road teaching kids to make pictures. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-syrian-photographers-gift-to-refugee-children The Syrian photographer Serbest Salih had just finished university, in 2014, when the Islamic State laid siege to his home…
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Great Portrait Advice from Award-Winning Photographers, Part I – From past LensCulture Portrait Award Winners and Finalists | LensCulture
Great Portrait Advice from Award-Winning Photographers, Part I – From past LensCulture Portrait Award Winners and Finalists | LensCulture Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well as tips for advancing your career as a portrait-maker and photographer via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-great-portrait-advice-from-award-winning-photographers-part-i Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well…
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Great Portrait Advice from Award-Winning Photographers, Part 2 | LensCulture
Great Portrait Advice from Award-Winning Photographers, Part 2 | LensCulture Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well as tips for advancing your career as a portrait-maker and photographer via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-great-portrait-advice-from-award-winning-photographers-part-2 Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well as tips for advancing your career as a portrait-maker…
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Aperture’s Best Photography Features of 2021
Aperture’s Best Photography Features of 2021 From Judith Joy Ross’s timeless portraits to the “photobook phenomenon,” here are this year’s highlights in photography and ideas. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/apertures-best-photography-features-of-2021/ This year, we celebrated photography in New York and New Delhi, revisited Judith Joy Ross’s timeless portraits, considered the “photobook phenomenon,” and asked how images can tell…
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How Photographers Navigate the Challenges of Working on Assignment
How Photographers Navigate the Challenges of Working on Assignment Is it possible to retain an artistic vision—and ethical integrity—while making images for news media and fashion brands? Four photographers speak about responsibility, community, and the push for structural change. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/how-photographers-navigate-the-challenges-of-working-on-assignment/ Is it possible to retain an artistic vision—and ethical integrity—while making images for…
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The Artist Upending Photography’s Brutal Racial Legacy
The Artist Upending Photography’s Brutal Racial Legacy Deana Lawson’s regal, loving, unburdened photographs imagine a world in which Black people are free from the distortions of history. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/magazine/deana-lawson.html Deana Lawson’s regal, loving, unburdened photographs imagine a world in which Black people are free from the distortions of history.
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Paying it Forward: The BIPOC Mentorship Program Addressing Systematic Barriers Faced by Emerging Photographers – PhotoShelter Blog
Paying it Forward: The BIPOC Mentorship Program Addressing Systematic Barriers Faced by Emerging Photographers – PhotoShelter Blog A growing number of databases are championing the talents of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) photographers looking to get their foot in the door. Diversify Photo, Black Women Photographers, Indigenous Photograph, The Authority Collective and via…
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Magnum announces new Nominees, Associate and Member at its 74th AGM in Paris | Magnum Photos
Magnum announces new Nominees, Associate and Member at its 74th AGM in Paris | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos via Magnum Photos: https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/2021-magnum-photos-annual-general-meeting-new-nominees/ “It feels amazing, humbling, exciting and huge to think that I have been nominated by Magnum photographers, who have been among my favorite photographers since I started taking pictures. It also feels right…
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5 Benefits of Photography Mentorship – PhotoShelter Blog
5 Benefits of Photography Mentorship – PhotoShelter Blog Even though there are tons of us out there, being a photographer can, at times, be quite lonely. In an industry where so many of us are in direct competition, it’s hard to step back and remember that we’re all in this together. We’re all working to…
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Chester Higgins’s Life in Pictures | The New Yorker
Chester Higgins’s Life in Pictures All along the way, his eye is trained on moments of calm, locating an inherent grace, style, and sublime beauty in the Black everyday. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/chester-higginss-life-in-pictures Hanging in the fourth-floor study of the renowned photojournalist Chester Higgins’s Fort Greene brownstone is a bunch of large dead leaves,…
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“What If Indians Invented Photography?” An Exploration of Identity and Photographic Practices by Indigenous Photographer Will Wilson – PhotoShelter Blog
“What If Indians Invented Photography?” An Exploration of Identity and Photographic Practices by Indigenous Photographer Will Wilson – PhotoShelter Blog Today, on The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, we’re sharing the work of the talented Indigenous photographers in the industry. Last week, in anticipation for this celebration, I reached out to Will Wilson,…
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In Search of the Poets and New Masters of Street Photography – Interview by Alexander Strecker | Cover photo © Dimitri Mellos | LensCulture
In Search of the Poets and New Masters of Street Photography – Interview by Alexander Strecker | Cover photo © Dimitri Mellos | LensCulture Who are the next great street photographers? Where will we find them? Photo editor Olivier Laurent shares his insights via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-in-search-of-the-poets-and-new-masters-of-street-photography Who are the next great street photographers? Where will…
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New Guide! Photography Mentorship: Why You Need it and Why it Helps Everyone – PhotoShelter Blog
New Guide! Photography Mentorship: Why You Need it and Why it Helps Everyone – PhotoShelter Blog No matter your specialty, photographers have many shared experiences. We all remember getting our first cameras and where we were for that memorable photo. We’ve worried about whether or not our work mattered. At one point or another, we…
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Who Owns Mike Disfarmer’s Photographs? | The New Yorker
Who Owns Mike Disfarmer’s Photographs? Strangers made his small-town portraits famous in the art world. Decades later, his heirs want control of the estate. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/who-owns-mike-disfarmers-photographs That changed in 2019, when, on a family trip to New York, Miller stopped by Howard Greenberg Gallery and learned that it had recently received a…