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Tina Barney Talks to Us About Her New Exhibition, The Passage of Time, and the True Meaning of Portraiture – Feature Shoot
Tina Barney Talks to Us About Her New Exhibition, The Passage of Time, and the True Meaning of Portraiture In decade in which we obsess over change, be it catastrophic or fortuitous, the photographs of Tina Barney continue to remind us of that which is constant. Beginning the 1980s, she has captured the world, her…
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Book : Last Best Hiding Place by Tim Richmond – The Eye of Photography
Link: Deserted streets with beer cans blowing down the road…a cowboy washing his shirts…a train on its way into a million acres of emptiness…a Vietnam vet who lost twenty years of recent memory…a whole town for sale…meth warnings…a tattooed waitress in neon light. All of these inhabit the Last Best Hiding Place.
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Contemporary Iranian Photography : Babak Kazemi – The Eye of Photography
Link: once something is posted or uploaded onto Facebook it becomes Facebook’s property. So if the original photographer uploaded the photo first onto Facebook and then others have taken it from there and uploaded it to their pages or profiles, this is legal and within policy, there’s nothing I can do about it unfortunately even…
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Sally Mann Chases Ghosts and Buries the Hatchet in New Memoir, Hold Still | American Photo
Link: Sally Mann doesn’t believe in talent. She believes in hard work. The kind of work it takes to ride unruly horses, to hoist an 8×10 camera, to constantly fend off controversy, and to write an honest book about a complicated existence.
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Tanzania Burundi Refugee Crisis | AP Images Blog
Link: As a teenager Joseph Nakaha fled with his parents to neighboring Tanzania when ethnic-based fighting erupted in Burundi after independence in 1962. In 1972, he was a refugee again and then in 1993 when civil war broke out, he and his wife and grandchildren again fled the country. Now 67, Nakaha is a refugee…
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Sam Harris – The Middle of Somewhere | LensCulture
The Middle of Somewhere – Photographs and text by Sam Harris | LensCulture A celebration of childhood and family life through a collection of simple yet beautiful moments of two sisters growing up in the remote Australian wilderness via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/sam-harris-the-middle-of-somewhere “The Middle of Somewhere” is from my ongoing visual family diary, which revolves around…
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Dialogues: 36 Photographs & 20 Poems – The Eye of Photography
Dialogues: 36 Photographs & 20 Poems Dialogues: 36 Photographs & 20 Poems is a new publication from 205-A and the first book in a series that explores the intersection between photography and poetry. The publishers, Aaron Stern and Jordan Sullivan worked in collaboration with poets Tom Sleigh and Will Schutt to bring together these unique pairings.…
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Past and Present Collide in Pittsburgh – NYTimes.com
Past and Present Collide in Pittsburgh The Carnegie Museum of Art enlisted writers to reflect on the archives of the pioneering African-American photographer Charles (Teenie) Harris to better understand Pittsburgh today. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/past-and-present-collide-in-pittsburgh/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Sometimes it takes a connection to the past to better understand the present. For essayists exploring African-American life in Pittsburgh,…
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Sean Gallagher – Desertification in China | LensCulture
Desertification in China – Photographs and text by Sean Gallagher | LensCulture 20% of China is desert—and that percentage is growing via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/sean-gallagher-desertification-in-china By traveling on China’s “desertification train” that bisects China’s major northern deserts (The Gobi, Taklamakan and Badain Jaran), photojournalist Sean Gallagher reports on the various implications of desertification on people’s lives…
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A New York Dive Bar’s Last Call – NYTimes.com
A New York Dive Bar’s Last Call Timothy Fadek, who used to go to the bar, on East 60th Street and Lexington Avenue, felt a twinge of melancholy when he learned it was to close last December and be replaced by — what else? — condos. He set about to chronicle the last days of…
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‘The Corridor of Death’: Along America’s Second Border | TIME
‘The Corridor of Death’: Along America’s Second Border Kirsten Luce travels to Brooks County where illegal migrants face deadly odds via Time: http://time.com/3898564/immigration-border-mexico/ Since 2006, when she became a staff photographer at The Monitor in the border town of McAllen, Tex., Kirsten Luce has been documenting immigration issues on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border
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A Nuclear Plant In My Backyard — Vantage — Medium
A Nuclear Plant In My Backyard What can rural Indian villagers do to counter the development of a massive government-backed nuclear industry? Amirtharaj Stephen shows us. via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/koodankulam-a-nuclear-plant-in-my-backyard-86cd8504f66 What can rural Indian villagers do to counter the development of a massive government-backed nuclear industry? Amirtharaj Stephen shows us.
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Santa Fe: Margaret Bourke-White, Pioneering Photojournalist – The Eye of Photography
Santa Fe: Margaret Bourke-White, Pioneering Photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White was a pioneering figure in 20th century documentary photography. As a founding mother of LIFE, she became a world-famous symbol of globe-trotting photojournalism. And that she did it in a male world made her success even more spectacular
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Juxtapoz Magazine – The work of Noel Camardo
Juxtapoz Magazine – The work of Noel Camardo Noel Camardo is watching American culture closely, analyzing and documenting its bizarre behavior with a sharp eye and his camera. Whether it’s… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/the-work-of-noel-camardo Noel Camardo is watching American culture closely, analyzing and documenting its bizarre behavior with a sharp eye and his camera. Whether it’s our…
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Photographer Hatnim Lee Captures All Walks of Life Inside Her Parents’ Liquor Store – Feature Shoot
Photographer Hatnim Lee Captures All Walks of Life Inside Her Parents’ Liquor Store – Feature Shoot When Korean-born photographer Hatnim Lee was a child, her parents’ Washington, D.C. liquor store was a home away from home. She was an infant when her parents moved to the United States to open up shop, and she spent…
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Zsófia Pályi – Balaton, the Hungarian Sea | LensCulture
Balaton, the Hungarian Sea – Photographs and text by Zsófia Pályi | LensCulture Emerald waters and sapphire skies—a former oasis of the Eastern Bloc, Lake Balaton forms the setting for this series of vibrantly colorful portraits via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/zsofia-palyi-balaton-the-hungarian-sea During the 1960s and 70s, Lake Balaton, the biggest lake in Central Europe, was a major…
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Grete Stern’s Interpretation of Dreams – The New Yorker
Grete Stern’s Interpretation of Dreams The photographer Grete Stern interpreted the dreams of women’s-magazine readers with startling invention and not a little feminist verve. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/grete-sterns-interpretation-of-dreams The photographers Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola met at the Bauhaus in 1932. The next year, they emigrated to London, where they married, and then to…
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Jill Freedman: For Life – The Eye of Photography
Jill Freedman: For Life These here are some real New York ladies.” Nobody had ever come to my defense like this. It was a snowy January afternoon. The weather was cold but the mood was cheerful. Jill and I had just left her apartment in Harlem, near West 100th street, Morningside Park and the majestic…
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Eight Norwegian Photographers You Need to Follow | TIME
8 Norwegian Photographers You Need to Follow Norwegian Journal of Photography’s survey of documentary photography via Time: http://time.com/3830557/eight-norwegian-photographers-you-need-to-follow/ The publishers — photographers and photo editors Rune Eraker, Laara Matsen and Espen Rasmussen — combed through close to 100 applications and submissions to arrive at its final list of eight photographers, using funding from the Fritt…
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See the Hidden Images Lurking Within LED Billboards | American Photo
See the Hidden Images Lurking Within LED Billboards Incredible split-second patterns in New York advertisements captured on large-format film