Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Gordon Parks’s Alternative Civil Rights Photographs

    Link: Gordon Parks’s Alternative Civil Rights Photographs – NYTimes.com While 20 photographs were eventually published in Life, the bulk of Mr. Parks’s work from that shoot was thought to have been lost. That is, until this spring, when the Gordon Parks Foundation discovered more than 70 color transparencies at the bottom of an old storage…

  • Monica Denevan

    Monica Denevan

    Monica Denevan: Burma Sometimes a photographer finds a part of the world that resonates so completely with their sensibilities that the marriage of the place and the person results in perfection.  Monica Denevan has been creating photographs in Burma (and China) for many years via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/07/monica-denevan.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 Sometimes a photographer finds a part of the world…

  • Happy Birthday, Larry Sultan

    Happy Birthday, Larry Sultan

    Happy Birthday, Larry Sultan On this day in 1946, one of photo history’s greatest shooters was born: Larry Sultan, who died in 2009. In 1977, Sultan published “Evidence,” with … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/07/happy-birthday-larry-sultan.html?currentPage=all On this day in 1946, one of photo history’s greatest shooters was born: Larry Sultan, who died in 2009. In…

  • The 2012 Tour de France, Part 1 of 2

    The 2012 Tour de France, Part 1 of 2 via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/07/the-2012-tour-de-france-part-1-of-2/100337/ The 99th Tour de France cycling race began on July 1, as 22 teams of nine riders raced first through parts of Belgium, then on to France in stage three. Switzerland’s Fabian Cancellara held the overall lead until stage six, when Team…

  • Stirring Photos Chronicle the Final Years of the Space Shuttle Program

    Stirring Photos Chronicle the Final Years of the Space Shuttle Program Philip Scott Andrews’ ongoing photo series Last Days documents the end of NASA’s space shuttle program. For three years Andrews has had unprecedented access to Cape Canaveral and he’s made good use of it by capturing a side of this facility the public is…

  • Portraits of a Middle Class Childhood

    Link: Portraits of a Middle Class Childhood | Feature Shoot ‘In Umbra I seek to explore the collapse of reality into the fantastic. I use a set cast of characters, my family, which repeat and become confused with one another throughout the series. This creates the idea that the events and people that are in…

  • After the Spring: Women of the Arab Revolution

    After the Spring: Women of the Arab Revolution

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/07/09/after-the-spring-women-of-the-revolution/#1 Witnessing the upheaval firsthand, photojournalist Sarah Elliott set about documenting those who have had most to gain — and to lose — from the transformations of the Arab Spring: women. The revolutions in both countries, which were aimed at toppling an…

  • Tour de Panoramic (8 Photos)

    Link: Tour de Panoramic (8 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day In Paolo Pellizzari’s The Broad Way,” the photographer captures bright-colored panoramic landscapes around the world. He uses a Noblex camera, which captures a 135 degree view that corresponds to the natural sweep of the human eye. Rich in detail, each photograph illustrates a…

  • Les Russie(s): Stanley Greene and Yuri Kozyrev

    Link: Les Russie(s): Stanley Greene and Yuri Kozyrev | Le Journal de la Photographie From Stanley Greene’s “Red October”, a post-cold war period dating back to 1993 to the tragic events of Bezlan in September, 2004, photographed by Yuri Kozyrev, the exhibition also demonstrates the different subjects covered by these photographers, otherwise known for their…

  • Youth, Freedom, Love and Summertime Photographed in Los Angeles

    Link: Youth, Freedom, Love and Summertime Photographed in Los Angeles | Feature Shoot ‘Stay Cool is a collection of an entire summer’s worth of images. The idea behind it was not simply to document subjects or happenings but to document the essence of an experience, to try and capture the feelings of youth and freedom…

  • André J. Hermann’s Street Photography, Hidden on the Street

    André J. Hermann’s Street Photography, Hidden on the Street

    Hiding, and Seeking, a Photo Book The street photographer André J. Hermann takes Instagram pictures, prints them and binds them in a book. Then he hides them, leaving photo clues for enterprising followers. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/hiding-and-seeking-a-photo-book/?pagewanted=all For the past two months, he’s been taking his Instagram images, printing them, bundling them into books, and…

  • Rock ‘n’ Roll Legend: Jim Marshall’s Musician Portraits

    Rock ‘n’ Roll Legend: Jim Marshall’s Musician Portraits

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/07/04/rock-n-roll-legend-jim-marshalls-musician-portraits/#1 Amelia Davis is now the manager of Marshall’s estate and has spent the past two years going though his massive archive. The decision to release new work, Davis said, came from her desire to share the pictures, which Marshall referred to…

  • 2012 LENSCRATCH Americana Exhibition Part 1

    2012 LENSCRATCH Americana Exhibition Part 1

    2012 LENSCRATCH Americana Exhibition 4th of July is America’s official day to celebrate our amazing country, a country founded on equality, open mindedness, on progress, and possibility.  I must admit, I tear up when I think about the waves of immigrants that have found their way to our shor via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/07/2012-lenscratch-americana-exhibition_6922.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29

  • Danielle van Ark

    Link: Danielle van Ark | JENREN

  • Thobias Fäldt

    Link: Thobias Fäldt | JENREN

  • American Flags for the Fourth of July

    American Flags for the Fourth of July

    Flags for the Fourth In celebration of Independence Day, a selection of photographs of the American flag. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/07/fourth-of-july-flags.html?currentPage=all

  • Arles 2012: Erwan Morère

    Link: Arles 2012: Erwan Morère | Le Journal de la Photographie Coming across a photograph by Erwan Morère is no light matter

  • Dreams and Dread in Afghanistan: Photographs by Zalmai

    Dreams and Dread in Afghanistan: Photographs by Zalmai

    Dreams and Dread in Afghanistan How does one photograph a story that has not yet occurred? How does one evoke a sense of what might happen, or of what could? This was the challenge for … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/07/zalmai-photographs-from-afghanistan.html?currentPage=all How does one photograph a story that has not yet occurred? How does one…

  • danny wilcox frazier – lost nation: america’s rural ghetto

    Danny Wilcox Frazier – Lost Nation: America’s Rural Ghetto Danny Wilcox Frazier Lost Nation: America’s Rural Ghetto [ EPF 2012 FINALIST ] For ten years now, I have photographed throughout the Midwest, the agricultural and industrial heart of America.… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/epf-2012-finalists/2012/07/danny-wilcox-frazier-lost-nation-americas-rural-ghetto/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29 Rural America has lost over twelve million people since 2000, with the…

  • Simple Act of Waiting – STEVE MCCURRY

    Link: Simple Act of Waiting – The Photo Society Often the act of waiting is anything but simple. Many people hate to wait because they are waiting to do something, get something, or go somewhere