Author: Trent
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Jeanine Michna-Bales and Adam Reynolds: Countdown – LENSCRATCH
Jeanine Michna-Bales and Adam Reynolds: Countdown – LENSCRATCH For those of you who may remember the days when your elementary school teacher instructed you in the “Duck and Cover” air raid drill triggered by a lonely siren where you dove under your desk, covered your head with your arms and were instructed not to lo…
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Doc Filmmakers Reckon With the Industry’s Murky Ethics
The Documentary World’s Identity Crisis The boom — or glut — in streaming documentaries has sparked a reckoning among filmmakers and their subjects. via Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/article/tv-documentaries-ethical-standards.html Documentary-making has never been ethically pure or entirely subjective. (“I’m working on a project that is the kind of documentary where you do six takes of the person putting…
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The Lost New Jersey Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson | The New Yorker
The Lost New Jersey Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson “Why New Jersey? Because people make such a funny face when you mention New Jersey.” via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/13/the-lost-new-jersey-photographs-of-henri-cartier-bresson In 1975, the renowned photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson received an invitation to travel from Paris to America for what would become one of his final photographic projects. Choose…
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Will Warasila: Quicker Than Coal Ash – LENSCRATCH
Will Warasila: Quicker Than Coal Ash – LENSCRATCH As the publishing and awards director/senior editor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, I first met Will Warasila when he was a graduate student in Duke’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts (MFA|EDA) program (he graduated in Ma via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/02/will-warasila-quicker-than-coal-ash/ Quicker than Coal…
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Joyce Dopkeen, Barrier-Breaking News Photographer, Dies at 80 – The New York Times
Joyce Dopkeen, Barrier-Breaking News Photographer, Dies at 80 In 1973, she was the first woman hired by The New York Times to be a full-time staff photographer. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/02/business/media/joyce-dopkeen-dead.html Ms. Dopkeen roamed widely with her camera for The Times, whether capturing Muhammad Ali squaring off against Joe Frazier, female prison inmates training puppies to be…
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Argus Paul Estabrook: Half Eye, Half I – LENSCRATCH
Argus Paul Estabrook: Half Eye, Half I – LENSCRATCH I met Argus Paul Estabrook through a mutual friend in my last year of undergrad at Virginia Intermont College back in 1997 or 1998. We didn’t reconnect until the invention of social media when I became much more aware of his work. Back in 2021, I…
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Advice for Portrait Photographers – Interview with Todd Hido | LensCulture
Advice for Portrait Photographers – Interview with Todd Hido | LensCulture One of America’s leading photographers offers his insights about making great photographic portraits via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/todd-hido-advice-for-portrait-photographers Todd Hido is one of the most interesting artists using photography today. We asked if he would be willing to share some insights and advice for photographers who…
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Richard Avedon’s Naked Murals | The New Yorker
Richard Avedon’s Naked Murals A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum showcases the terrific physical presence of a trio of the photographer’s large-scale works. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/richard-avedons-overwhelming-murals A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum showcases the terrific physical presence of a trio of the photographer’s large-scale works.
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I LOVE L.A.: Rick McCloskey: Van Nuys Blvd. 1972 – LENSCRATCH
I LOVE L.A.: Rick McCloskey: Van Nuys Blvd. 1972 – LENSCRATCH The idea of cruising is/was a national past time in small towns and big cities. I well remember the cool night air as a carload of girlfriends and I drove down Sunset Strip night after night in someone’s family station wagon, air thick with…
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Corky Lee and the Work of Seeing | Online Only | n+1 | Ken Chen
Corky Lee and the Work of Seeing | Ken Chen There is a symmetry between Corky Lee’s passing and the rise of Stop Anti-Asian Hate: the departure of Asian America’s greatest documentarian and its most visible recent efflorescence. Years earlier, the brief window of postwar Asian American radicalism s via n+1: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/corky-lee-and-the-work-of-seeing/ I DID NOT…
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I LOVE L.A.: Francesca Forquet: Santa Monica – LENSCRATCH
I LOVE L.A.: Francesca Forquet: Santa Monica – LENSCRATCH …it comes natural to me, as I try to get to know this country walking through the deserted alleys of Santa Monica, to notice these little clues, and to take pictures of them. I recently met Francesca Forquet while reviewing portfolios at the Palm Spring Photo…
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“Communism(s): A Cold War Album” by Arthur Grace – burn magazine
“Communism(s): A Cold War Album” by Arthur Grace “Communism(s): A Cold War Album” by Arthur Grace When I landed at West Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport just over 43 years ago, it marked the beginning of a 12-year exploration of life behind… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2023/01/communisms-a-cold-war-album-by-arthur-grace/ When I landed at West Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport just over 43 years…
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A photographer visited more than 100 newspapers in rural Kansas – Poynter
A photographer visited more than 100 newspapers in rural Kansas – Poynter Jeremiah Ariaz was looking for signs of democracy. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2023/jeremiah-ariaz-photographer-newspapers-kansas/ Leading up to the 2020 presidential election, photographer Jeremiah Ariaz wanted to make images that showed what democracy looked like in rural America. So he traveled across the country, from swing state…
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Marilyn Stafford, a Photojournalist Rediscovered, Dies at 97 – The New York Times
Marilyn Stafford, a Photojournalist Rediscovered, Dies at 97 She brought a narrative eye and a social consciousness to her work, whether covering refugee crises, celebrities or fashion. But much of it might have been lost. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/arts/marilyn-stafford-dead.html Ms. Stafford retired in the 1980s to learn Mandarin, write poetry and support human rights initiatives. Or maybe…
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Behind the LA Times’ decision to run a controversial photo with its coverage of the mass shooting in Monterey Park – Poynter
Behind the LA Times’ decision to run a controversial photo with its coverage of the mass shooting in Monterey Park – Poynter The front page of Monday’s Los Angeles Times featured a photo of the shooter dead in his van. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2023/los-angeles-times-front-page-newspaper-photo-mass-shooter/ The photo, taken by Times staff photographer Allen J. Schaben, is not…
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I LOVE L.A.: Aline Smithson: LOST Los Angeles – LENSCRATCH
I LOVE L.A.: Aline Smithson: LOST Los Angeles – LENSCRATCH Los Angeles or La Puebla de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles (The City of our Lady the Queen of the Angels) was founded by the Spaniards in 1781 and passed into American possession in 1846. It was however of no great importance until…
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Great Portrait Advice from Award-Winning Photographers, Part 2 | LensCulture
Great Portrait Advice from Award-Winning Photographers, Part 2 | LensCulture Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well as tips for advancing your career as a portrait-maker and photographer via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-great-portrait-advice-from-award-winning-photographers-part-2 As the deadline approaches for the LensCulture Portrait Awards (closing soon — February 15, 2023), we reached out to dozens…
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AI Art Platform Hit With Copyright Lawsuit
AI Art Platform Hit With Copyright Lawsuit Getty Images says it is suing Stability AI, creator of Stable Diffusion, alleging intellectual property right infringement. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/794294/ai-art-platform-hit-with-copyright-lawsuit-getty-images/ Getty Images says it is suing Stability AI, creator of Stable Diffusion, alleging intellectual property right infringement.
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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…
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Great Portrait Advice from Award-Winning Photographers, Part I – From past LensCulture Portrait Award Winners and Finalists | LensCulture
Great Portrait Advice from Award-Winning Photographers, Part I – From past LensCulture Portrait Award Winners and Finalists | LensCulture Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well as tips for advancing your career as a portrait-maker and photographer via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-great-portrait-advice-from-award-winning-photographers-part-i Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well…