Tag: Eugene Richards

  • Episode 100: Eugene Richards (Documentary Photography)

    Episode 100: Eugene Richards (Documentary Photography)

    Episode 100: Eugene Richards (Documentary Photography) In celebration, our 100th episode is a conversation with the great Eugene Richards, truly a master of his craft, discussing controversy, truth and photography. via A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone – A Photojournalism Podcast by Photojournalists for Everyone: https://10fps.net/2024/04/02/episode-100-eugene-richards-documentary-photography/ In September 2023, Richards released his 17th book, In This…

  • A Small Voice Podcast – 196 – Eugene Richards

    Link: “You’re sitting there with thirty or forty contacts books all over the floor, and you find yourself staying up late into the night thinking ‘there has to be something there’ and finding nothing at all. And the people on Instagram write to you and say, ‘oh my God, I’d love to look at your…

  • The Art of the Personal Project: Eugene Richards – A Photo Editor

    The Art of the Personal Project: Eugene Richards – A Photo Editor

    The Art of the Personal Project: Eugene Richards The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own.  I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show … via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2021/08/05/the-art-of-the-personal-project-eugene-richards/ The town of Earle, Ark.,…

  • Still Lives – The New York Times

    Still Lives – The New York Times

    Still Lives In this unnatural state of isolation, photographers show us the things that bind. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/us/coronavirus-photographers-diary.html In this unnatural state of isolation, photographers show us the things that bind.

  • The Run-on of Time

    Link: After more than forty years as a photographer, I’ve been repeatedly told it’s time to consider  putting together a retrospective. But I remain hesitant. It’s not  the pictures, though there are a lot of ordinary ones. When you look back, you realize how many people you’ve lost touch with, how many people have either…

  • Eugene Richards’ Notes From the Road: The Bedroom

    Link: There was almost a pleading quality to Reverend Landers’s voice when he asked if I would take his picture. “It will go right there,” he said, pointing to a patch of wallboard hung with angel wings made of crepe paper and a cross fashioned from scraps of cardboard. “I’d be proud to be so…

  • World-Class Photojournalism, at Home in the South Bronx – The New York Times

    World-Class Photojournalism, at Home in the South Bronx – The New York Times

    World-Class Photojournalism, at Home in the South Bronx When the Bronx Documentary Center opened five years ago, Manhattan-centric curators scoffed. Not anymore. From Eugene Richards to emerging talents, the B.D.C. has created a diverse and dedicated community of photographers. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/world-class-photojournalism-at-home-in-the-south-bronx/ When Eugene Richards opens his next exhibit, it will not be at…

  • Eugene Richards, master of political photography – The Eye of Photography

    Link: Eugene Richards’s photographs speak to the most profound aspects of human experience: birth, death, and the grinding effects of systemic poverty. His style is unflinching yet poetic, and his photographs are deeply rooted in the texture of lived experience. Through his photographs, writings, and moving image works, Richards confronts challenging subjects with an impassioned…

  • Eugene Richards Looks Back at a Life in Photography – Feature Shoot

    Eugene Richards Looks Back at a Life in Photography – Feature Shoot

    Eugene Richards Looks Back at a Life in Photography – Feature Shoot Eugene Richards, Snow globe of the city as it once was, New York, New York, 2001. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Eugene Richards. Eugene Richards, Grandmother, Brooklyn, New York, 1993.… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2018/12/eugene-richards-looks-back-at-a-life-in-photography/ Like W. Eugene Smith before him, photographer Eugene Richards…

  • Eugene Richards: The territory of the destitute – The Eye of Photography

    [contentcards url=”http://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/12/05/article/159975084/eugene-richards-the-territory-of-the-destitute/”] Eugene Richards: The territory of the destitute – The Eye of Photography For over forty years, the photojournalist Eugene Richards has been tracking social deprivation, suffering, and death. La Grande Arche de la Défense in Paris holds a vast retrospective of his work.

  • The Unknown Eye and the Eugenes. – The Eye of Photography

    [contentcards url=”http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/06/30/article/159958492/the-unknown-eye-and-the-eugenes/”] The Unknown Eye and the Eugenes. – The Eye of Photography The Call for Entries for the 2017 W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund just ended for this year, and it happened on the same day the great Eugene Richards’ first museum retrospective and tour opened. The Eugenes, Smith and Richards, make for good company because they…

  • Eugene Richards Reflects on His Job | PDN Online

    Eugene Richards Reflects on His Job | PDN Online

    Eugene Richards Reflects on His Job; “The Run-On of Time” Exhibition On the eve of a museum retrospective, “The Ron-On of Time,” Eugene Richards discusses people and stories he’s photographed over four decades. via PDN Online: http://www.pdnonline.com/features/photographer-interviews/eugene-richards-reflects-job/ We asked Richards to discuss his experience of sifting through nearly 50 years of photos and memories during…

  • Eugene Richards: A Life in Photography – The New York Times

    Eugene Richards: A Life in Photography The George Eastman Museum in Rochester will open the first museum retrospective of the work of the photographer Eugene Richards on June 10. The exhibit, “Eugene Richards: The Run-On of Time,” covers his career as a photojournalist and documentary photographer from 1968 to the present and was produced in…

  • The third edition of Eyes on Main Street – The Eye of Photography

    The third edition of Eyes on Main Street Focusing on the theme of “Main Street: a Crossroad of Cultures,” the exhibition, curated by Jerome De Perlinghi and co-curated by Catherine Coulter Lloyd and Régina Monfort, features the work of 100 photographers from 31 countries with an equal number of men and women. Among the artists…

  • Revisiting Eugene Richards’s Sweeping Portrait of Life Below the Poverty Line – The New Yorker

    Revisiting Eugene Richards’s Sweeping Portrait of Life Below the Poverty Line – The New Yorker

    Revisiting Eugene Richards’s Sweeping Portrait of Life Below the Poverty Line Richards was aware of the clichés of poverty journalism—the posed portraits of dignified despair. He was looking for something else. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/revisiting-eugene-richardss-sweeping-portrait-of-life-below-the-poverty-line?mbid=rss Thirty years ago, when Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, commissioned the photojournalist Eugene Richards to travel through fourteen American cities and towns…

  • Eugene Richards: Looking for Lincoln’s Legacy | PROOF

    Eugene Richards: Looking for Lincoln’s Legacy | PROOF

    Eugene Richards: Looking for Lincoln’s Legacy This video is part of our Exposure series, in which National Geographic photographers share the stories behind their images. Listen to photographer Eugene Richards talk about his assignment: looking for Lincoln’s legacy in our modern times. *** You may fi via Photography: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/08/eugene-richards-looking-for-lincolns-legacy/ This video is part of our…

  • Eugene Richards Receives 2014 Missouri Honor Medal | NPPA

    Eugene Richards Receives 2014 Missouri Honor Medal Documentary photojournalist and filmmaker Eugene Richards has been named as one of seven recipients of the 2014 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/eugene-richards-receives-2014-missouri-honor-medal The other medalists this year are veteran editor Byron E. Calame; long-running NPR host Audie Cornish; The Guardian, a 193-year-old…

  • Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down: Eugene Richards’ Return to the South

    Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down: Eugene Richards’ Return to the South

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/10/01/red-ball-of-a-sun-slipping-down-eugene-richards-return-to-the-south/#1 With a recent announcement on the crowd funding platform Kickstarter, award-winning photographer Eugene Richards speaks to LightBox about his latest book, Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down, and his motivation to self-publish the project. The following text is adapted from…

  • Life in a Circle

    Link: Life in a Circle | The Run-on of Time A couple of years ago I was photographing an annual report for a pharmaceutical company and ended up in a hospital in downtown Guatemala City, where I was privileged to witness one of those mostly unnoticed and un-newsworthy events that speak of how giving some…