Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Eric Tabuchi: FAT ( A French American Trip)
Eric Tabuchi: FAT ( A French American Trip) Eric Tabuchi has just released a new book, FAT, A French American Road Trip, published by Matmos Press in Montreal. It’s a wonderful collection of images that bring humor to the idea of our globalized world, where the homoginization of cultural landmarks via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/02/eric-tabuchi-fat-french-american-trip.html Eric is…
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Jim Kazanjian
Jim Kazanjian Link: http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/jim-kazanjian?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 Upon first look you’d think Jim Kazanjian was a photographer, albeit you’d probably also be scratching your head trying to figure out how the heck these photos have been made. I thought the same, but I was wrong – apparently he never touches a camera and would more readily call his…
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Lausanne: Aesthetics of the Photomaton
Link: La Lettre de la Photographie it is not surprising that the Elysée Museum of Lausanne organized this exhibition about the Photomaton five years after their exhibition “Tous Photographes”. It is part of the latest craze to attract people via their iPhone applications to seek out Photomaton machines both in Paris and New York, not…
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Photos of Abandoned and Mysterious Yugoslavian Monuments
Link: Feature Shoot Kempenaers undertook a laborious trek through the Balkans in order to photograph a series of these mysterious objects for his book Spomenik
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Photos From Jeff Goldstein’s Vivian Maier Collection
Link: Lens This weekend, The New York Times Magazine is running a series of the Goldstein photos — a collection that not only gives more insight into who Vivian Maier was, but further solidifies her place in the canon of photography.
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Mel Karch Moments suspendus
Link: La Lettre de la Photographie His photographs were praised for their combination of color and black-and-white, their biblical symbolism and their dream-like surrealism
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Photos: Lillian Bassman’s Take on Fashion
A Life Fashioning Art In her lifetime, Lillian Bassman’s photographs went from fashion to fine art. Yet Ms. Bassman – who died this week in New York at the age of 94 – showed all along a vision that was as ethereal as it was graphically striking. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/a-life-fashioning-art/?pagewanted=all In her lifetime, Lillian…
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Exclusive Syria Photographs by Alessio Romenzi
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/15/syria-at-war/#1 Meanwhile, in al-Qsair, a town south of Homs, government marksmen continued to take their toll. Says Alessio Romenzi, a photographer on assignment in the area for TIME: “The snipers do not sleep.”
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Sochi Singers is the latest self-published installment of Rob Hornstra’s long-term, crowdfunded Sochi Project
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/13/summer-songs-of-the-russian-riviera/#1 Rob Hornstra’s latest book is on the restaurant singers of Russia’s favorite Black Sea resort town of Sochi. Any self-respecting restaurant on the coast has a live house singer to belt out sappy Russian chansons—take a vodka-soaked ballad and drop in…
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Athens in Flames
Athens in Flames via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/athens-in-flames/100244/ Over the weekend, more than 45 buildings across Athens were set ablaze by violent protesters. The fires began as the Greek Parliament passed a strict package of austerity measures, in an effort to meet demands by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. The measures, which were…
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A Gun to Your Head: Inside Post-Soviet Interrogation Rooms by Donald Weber
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/13/a-gun-to-your-head-inside-post-soviet-interrogation-rooms/#1 In academic and literary criticism, the verb “to interrogate” is often a neutral term, stripped of its more violent, forceful resonance. But in Donald Weber’s new book, Interrogations, itself an “interrogation” of the way state power plays out across stretches of…
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scott dalton – so close, so far: daily life and cartel violence in ciudad jurez
Link: burn magazine As a photographer I am interested in the often-fragile relationship between people and the places they live, in how individuals, environment, and history combine to create a region with its own culture. In my project ‘So Close, So Far: Daily Life and Cartel Violence in Ciudad Juarez’, I am exploring these ideas…
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Lottie Davies: Memories and Nightmares
Lottie Davies: Memories and Nightmares Link: http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/lottie-davies-memories-and-nightmares?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 Come get lost in Lottie’s dreams…or are they nightmares?
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Zhang Xiao’s Photos of Chinese Coastlines
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/10/a-record-of-chinas-changing-coastlines/#1
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Photographs of Modern Witchcraft
Link: Feature Shoot Photographer Alice Smeets was born in the German speaking part of Belgium in 1987 and currently divides her time between Belgium and Haiti
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Andrea Bruce’s Photographs From Refugee Camps in Afghanistan
Uncovering the Sadness of Young Deaths At a refugee camp in Afghanistan, the photographer Andrea Bruce and the reporter Rod Nordland found it hard not to feel a sense of personal responsibility. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/uncovering-the-sadness-of-young-deaths/?pagewanted=all Inside the family hut, only women and close male relatives were allowed to mourn over the body of the…
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Photographing Amusement Parks: Roller Coasters in Rwanda; Fairy Tales in Turkmenistan
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/08/dream-city-anoek-steketee/#1 That visit spurred a four-year journey for photographer Anoek Steketee, documented in their series Dream City, through the world of carnies and Ferris wheels from Rwanda to Turkmenistan. The parks’ surreal fairy-tale settings, with perfectly manicured gardens in areas torn by genocide and…
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On the Road with the Tea Party Express
On the Road with the Tea Party Express The genesis for Jason Andrew’s current project, “Under the Banners of American Flags,” came in April, 2010, as he witnessed the growing momentum … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/02/on-the-road-with-the-tea-party-express.html?currentPage=all The genesis for Jason Andrew’s current project, “Under the Banners of American Flags,” came in April, 2010, as…
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Misha Friedman’s Photographs of Tuberculosis
Saving Lives or Photographing Them? Misha Friedman quit his job at Doctors Without Borders to freelance as a photographer. His images of tuberculosis in Russia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine are haunting. But Mr. Friedman isn’t sure how much good they have done. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/saving-lives-or-photographing-them/?pagewanted=all Misha Friedman’s photographs of tuberculosis are dark, black-and-white glimpses of…