Link: Atlanta: Arthur Grace America 101 | Le Journal de la Photographie
In America 101, Grace draws 101 pictures from his rich personal archive of the United States to assemble a visual crash course on what defines and represents us as Americans.
Category: Editor’s Choice
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Atlanta: Arthur Grace America 101
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The Street Gangs of Caracas
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/10/04/the-street-gangs-of-caracas/#1
The black-and-white photographs of Oscar B. Castillo, a Caracas-based photojournalist, accompany Padgett’s bleak dispatch. Documenting the violence of the barrio put Castillo at immense risk—from both gang members and the police.
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Brenda Ann Kenneally’s Photos of a Young Bushwick Neighbor
In Drug-Riddled Bushwick, Revisiting a Steadfast Friend
Brenda Ann Kenneally moved to crime-ridden Bushwick, Brooklyn, in the ’90s, and befriended a troubled but sweet boy named Andy, whom she photographed for a time. Now an adult, he is her subject once again.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/in-drug-riddled-bushwick-revisiting-a-steadfast-friend/
When he first saw the book “Money Power Respect,” it was a source of pride. He enjoyed the recognition. Now, when Andy looks at the photographs of him as a child, he mainly thinks of his daughter: “I see all the troubles my family went through,” he said. “I don’t want my daughter to go through that.”
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30 Years of BAD Pictures (Bruce Albert Dale)
30 Years of BAD Pictures (Bruce Albert Dale) – A Photo Editor
Relive the glory days though Bruce Dale’s career at Geographic.
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/10/02/30-years-of-bad-pictures-bruce-albert-dale/
Relive the glory days though Bruce Dale’s career at Geographic.
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25 Years of the Eddie Adams Workshop
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I was an 18 year-old kid from the sticks who had discovered photography a couple of years before. It seemed like a chance at a little adventure. But those few days in upstate New York were when I started to realize that photography could be something else, something more. Eddie Adams, and the people he brought to the workshop, valued substance and convictions. They spoke of commitment. They believed photographs had great power. I brought that good advice with me right back to the sticks.
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Visions of a Blind Photographer
Visions of a Blind Photographer
Seeking to cope with immense personal tragedy, Sonia Soberats, who lost her vision in between losing a son and daughter, turned to photography.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/visions-of-a-blind-photographer/
Sonia Soberats does not rely on capturing a decisive moment. Instead, her technique, called light painting, involves careful planning and imagination.
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Convention Storybook
Convention Storybook
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/17/us/politics/convention-storybook.html#/?slide=index
The New York Times has assembled a “Convention Storybook,” an online archive of the conventions. It is a look inside the two parties as they sought to articulate their platforms and positions as clearly as possible, without interference.
The “Convention Storybook” presents photographs by Stephen Crowley, Josh Haner, Todd Heisler, Doug Mills, Damon Winter, Mike Appleton, Travis Dove, Edward Linsmier, Luke Sharrett, Robert Stolarik, Max Whitaker and Jim Wilson. Michael Barbaro provided audio and it was produced by Nick Corasaniti, Jacqueline Myint and Cornelius Schmid
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At Water’s Edge: Paul Blackmore
Link: Melbourne: Paul Blackmore | Le Journal de la Photographie
This body of work – spanning 11 years and 14 countries – explores the intimate relationship between humanity and its most vital natural resource. Blackmore’s photographs poignantly illustrate the unfolding drama of the global water crisis and how it is affecting those caught up in it; a billion people without access to clean water, another four billion without an adequate supply. Against this dire backdrop, the work also celebrates our primal and spiritual bond with nature’s essential resource.
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Dan Winters Retrospective by Nick Offerman
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I arrived at the location with a canvas army backpack filled with ice and a case of Coronas. To my relief, my new compatriots quickly confirmed that I had acted appropriately in the arena of refreshments, then Dan took one look at my vintage World War 2 backpack and told me the exact Allied campaign in which it had been utilized, as well as the year the Swiss switched over from canvas to leather shoulder straps. A crush began to blossom in the springtime of my heart. He said, “C’mon. You guys are gonna love this place.”
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Through a Thwarted Cinematographer’s Eye, China’s Cultural Revolution
A Panoramic View of China’s Cultural Revolution
The photographer Li Zhensheng documented China’s Cultural Revolution for his local paper in Harbin, but soon started taking pictures that didn’t align with the Community Party dogma and, fearing retribution, hid them.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/through-a-thwarted-cinematographers-eye-chinas-cultural-revolution/
Li Zhensheng’s photographs of the Chinese Cultural Revolution are perhaps the most complete and nuanced pictorial account of the decade of turmoil ignited by Mao Zedong.
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Visa pour l’image 2012: Stephanie Sinclair
Link: Visa pour l’image 2012: Stephanie Sinclair | Le Journal de la Photographie
Stephanie Sinclair’s first encounter with child marriage occurred in 2003 while doing a story on self-immolation in Afghanistan. All the victims she met had been married very young, some only 9 years old, and to much older men. Meigon in Herat told how her drug addict father sold her into marriage when she was 11, and detailed the rape by her husband. That was when Stephanie decided to devote herself to the subject, covering Afghanistan, Nepal, Ethiopia, India and Yemen. She was determined that her images would have an effect on people’s understanding of the issue, highlighting the urgent need to work within these communities for change.
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Joseph Michael Lopez’s “Dear New Yorker”
Breaking Down the Beast
Joseph Michael Lopez’s New York street photography shows the city as a beast of chaos that New Yorkers attempt to contain, or at least live with, on a daily basis.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/breaking-down-the-beast/
Joseph Michael Lopez’s photography is fundamentally about his New York. He presents street scenes, people and everyday objects without any semblance of objectivity.
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alejandro olivares – living periferia
Alejandro Olivares – Living Periferia
Alejandro Olivares Living Periferia ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT How many times can a person face death in their lives? Sense it. Feel it. Smell it. Maybe once? Twice? Four times? The people cap…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/08/alejandro-olivares-living-periferia/
The people captured in “Living Periferia” live with it every day of their lives. The violence, the drugs, the weapons, the lost bullets which take dozens of lives every year… The fights, the battles with the police. Some barely escape. Others fall in the street law and to save them from oblivion their friends and family draw enormous pictures of them on the walls of the shantytown. It’s a posthumous tribute to their courage, their way to remember them as local heroes.
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The New Economics of Photojournalism: The rise of Instagram
The New Economics of Photojournalism: The rise of Instagram
Instagram, the brainchild of software engineers Kevin Systrom and Michel Krieger, was launched in October 2010 to almost little notice. At the time, the iPhone app was competing against Hipstamatic, which enjoyed particular popularity even in the photojou
via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/report/2202300/the-new-economics-of-photojournalism-the-rise-of-instagram
Instagram has enjoyed unprecedented success, with more than 80m users that now include some of the world’s most renowned photojournalists. Olivier Laurent speaks with them about Instagram’s potential and how it is shaping the photographic industry
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Instagram and Murder
Instagram and Murder – Reading The Pictures
There has been quite a bit of discussion about the Instagram photos of shooting victims at the Empire State Building yesterday, with as much debate on the actual photo threads as off. Much of the discussion involves propriety, with suggestions in media th
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2012/08/instagram-and-murder/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29
There has been quite a bit of discussion about the Instagram photos of shooting victims at the Empire State Building yesterday, with as much debate on the actual photo threads as off. Much of the discussion involves propriety, with suggestions in media the images were too immediate, too numb, too insensitive.
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Gregory Heisler Interview
Link: Gregory Heisler Interview
Grayson: On the opposite side of the spectrum from being subject-proof, do you have photo shoots that fail from time to time?
Gregory: I think they all suck. The picture I was hoping for is never the picture I get, but yeah, I think they fail all the time. Fortunately my clients don’t think they do, so I can continue to have a career. But I just look at them and think, ugh. -
The Afronauts : Christina De Middel
Review Santa Fe: Cristina De Middel
Over the next month, I will be sharing some of the photographers who attended Review Santa Fe in June. Review Santa Fe is the only juried review in the United States and invites 100 photographers to Santa Fe for a long weekend of reviews, insights, and c
The Afronauts: In 1964, still leaving the dream of their recently gained independence, Zambia started a space program that would put the first African on the moon catching up the USA and the Soviet Union in the space race.
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David Griffin – What it Takes
Link: David Griffin – What it Takes – The Photo Society
There are many people taking photographs. There are some who are very good. But there are only a few who are great. Your first task is to move yourself from the many, to the few, since NGM only works with the latter. To become a great photographer is your first task
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American Photographs by Walker Evans
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/08/15/walker-evans-american-photographs/#1
Like the work of most great artists, the best of Walker Evans’ pictures are marvels of contradiction. Or, rather, they acquire their power through the contradictions they deftly reconcile. One especially striking example: a photograph from 1930 (slide 11 in this gallery) comprised of elements so incongruous that, taken together, they really should not bear scrutiny for more than a few moments before the viewer, shrugging indifferently, moves on.
