Tag: Larry Towell

  • A Decade Among the Mennonites

    A Decade Among the Mennonites

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    A Decade Among the Mennonites Larry Towell’s images reveal a little-seen, isolated world and raise questions about the unforgiving impact of tradition on families. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/744838/larry-towell-a-decade-among-the-mennonites/ The Mennonites (GOST Books, 2022) records Towell’s decade among the Mennonites as they struggle to hold on amid changing times and hard luck. Out of print for the…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Larry Towell’s Friendship with the Old Colony Mennonites

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Larry Towell’s Friendship with the Old Colony Mennonites “In 1989, I discovered them in my own back yard, land-hungry and dirt poor. They came looking for work in the vegetable fields and fruit orchards of L… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/larry-towell-s-friendship-with-the-old-colony-mennonites/ Larry Towell photographed the Old Colony Mennonites in rural Ontario and Mexico between 1990…

  • Turning Points: Life-Changing Moments by Magnum Photographers – Photographs and texts courtesy of Magnum Photos | LensCulture

    Turning Points: Life-Changing Moments by Magnum Photographers – Photographs and texts courtesy of Magnum Photos | LensCulture

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    Turning Points: Life-Changing Moments by Magnum Photographers – Photographs and texts courtesy of Magnum Photos | LensCulture From iconic images of major world events, to intimate moments of pleasure and delight — here is an outstanding selection of remarkable images from Magnum Photos — each with a personal story via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/magnum-photos-turning-points-life-changing-moments-by-magnum-photographers From iconic images…

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    Link: Growing up as a young Jewish boy In Iowa Jeff Jacobson was always drawn to uncovering an alternative history. “I was born in 1946, so I grew up in the ‘50s,” says Jacobson. “It was Eisenhower, it was McCarthy, and I knew that there was an alternative narrative that wasn’t being told, that was…

  • Land, Loss and Rebirth in Standing Rock – The New York Times

    Land, Loss and Rebirth in Standing Rock – The New York Times

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    Land, Loss and Rebirth in Standing Rock Photos taken by Larry Towell at Standing Rock over a period of six months are being exhibited at the Visa Pour l’Image photo festival in Perpignan, France, this month. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/09/04/land-loss-and-rebirth-in-standing-rock/ PERPIGNAN, France — Larry Towell watched as the remains of the main protest campsite at…

  • Picturing Afghanistan – The New Yorker

    Picturing Afghanistan – The New Yorker

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    Picturing Afghanistan The most powerful and long-lingering images in Larry Towell’s monumental new book, “Afghanistan,” are those in which the war is entirely invisible. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/picturing-afghanistan So it’s fitting that the photographer Larry Towell begins his monumental new book, “Afghanistan,” more or less where Ishmael’s “programme of Providence” left off: the endpapers…

  • Towell from Kiev (and Canada): the Cream Rises to the Top

    Towell from Kiev (and Canada): the Cream Rises to the Top

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    Towell from Kiev (and Canada): the Cream Rises to the Top – Updated – Reading The Pictures this photo is jarring for the  woman in the fashionable jacket putting her hand to the shield — as if pushing (or pushing back) with the strength of modernity. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/02/towell-from-kiev-and-canada-the-cream-rises-to-the-top/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 I’ve been hearing a…

  • A Postcard From Rochester

    A Postcard From Rochester

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    A Postcard From Rochester Last May, five Magnum photographers (Paolo Pellegrin, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Mikhael Subotzky and myself) and the writer Ginger Strand, set out from San Antonio, Texas in an RV named Uncle J… via LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG: http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/a-postcard-from-rochester/ Ten Magnum photographers will be working in Rochester. Two of these photographers have already…

  • Another Side of Afghanistan by Larry Towell

    Another Side of Afghanistan by Larry Towell

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/23/larry-towell/#end Through five harrowing videos (three of which are shown here), Towell gives viewers a comprehensive look at life for citizens inside conflict-riddled Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the photographs from this project are on display for the first time in Larry Towell: Danger and Aftermath at the…

  • Gone City: Larry Towell needs an ass-kicking

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    His just-published series of photos of topless Haitian women receiving care in makeshift “emergency tents” after the earthquake is gratuitous, racist and disgusting. Link: Gone City: Larry Towell needs an ass-kicking via: Photography Prison

  • Magnum Blog / Transcript of Larry Towell Interview on Twitter

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    Larry Towell twittering in the Magnum NY office. Photograph taken by Meagan Young Check it out here.

  • Access to Life

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    In Access to Life, eight Magnum photographers portray people in nine countries around the world before and four months after they began antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Paolo Pellegrin in Mali, Alex Majoli in Russia, Larry Towell in Swaziland and South Africa, Jim Goldberg in India, Gilles Peress in Rwanda, Jonas Bendiksen in Haiti, Steve McCurry…

  • Magnum Blog / Larry Towell's Indecisive Moments Documentary

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    Initially Larry Towell wished to document the birth of a nation, following the Oslo-Agreement. Instead he ended up documenting what he would later refer to as “the World’s largest open-air prison”. In 2001 he was given a small video camera and began to maintain a video diary while working in Israel and Palastine. In his…

  • The World From My Front Porch – Larry Towell

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    A mid-career retrospective, this exhibition explores the issues of land and landlessness in two parts. The first section reveals Larry Towell’s family and their relationship to their land in Ontario. Most of the photographs in this section were taken within 100 yards of his front porch. The second section reviews Towell’s work over the past…

  • Living with AIDS: Peru, by Larry Towell

    Living with AIDS: Peru, by Larry Towell

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    From Magnum Photos, part one of photographer Larry Towell’s Living With AIDS photo essay, this one in Peru. As always, Towell’s eye is sharp. Here.