Tag: Jimmy Nelson

  • Getting Others Right – The New York Times

    Getting Others Right – The New York Times

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    Getting Others Right Four photographers — three outsiders, one insider — and the perils of appropriation. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/magazine/getting-others-right.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 But for outsiders to any culture, the situation remains tricky. Take the British photographer Jimmy Nelson, whose “Before They Pass Away” was published as a lush large-format coffee table book in 2013 and has since become ubiquitous…

  • Portraits of the Authentics: Photographing Ancient Cultures Before They Pass Away

    Portraits of the Authentics: Photographing Ancient Cultures Before They Pass Away

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/10/31/portraits-of-the-authentics-photographing-ancient-cultures-before-they-pass-away/#1 Jimmy Nelson is about to release Before They Pass Away, a massive book—both physically and thematically—that’s the result of three-and-a-half years spent documenting vanishing cultures. In what is perhaps the most comprehensive contemporary look at some of the world’s last remaining…