This week showcases Andrew Bush’s series, Vector Portraits. Project description, courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery: “Begun in 1989, Andrew Bush’s series Vector Portraits was taken while the artist drove the city streets and freeways of Los Angeles. Either stopped in traffic or traveling at speeds of 20 to 70 miles per hour, the artist took portraits of other drivers using a medium-format roll-film camera and flash attached to the passenger side door of his car. Extended titles note particulars of speed, location or time with scientific precision while leaving other details unclear, such as “Man traveling southbound at 67 mph on U.S. Route 101 near Montecito, California, at 6:31 p.m. on or around Sunday, August 28, 1994”.”
Category: Editor’s Choice
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Sunday Showcase: Andrew Bush
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Alec Soth: ‘Ash Wednesday, New Orleans’ – Opinionator
In the first installment of “Continental Picture Show,” the photographer Alec Soth explores cycles of sin and redemption in the aftermath of Mardi Gras.
Link: ‘Ash Wednesday, New Orleans’ – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com
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3 new diptychs from Scott Strazzante « shooting from the hip
from the archive
I slapped together a trio of new diptychs. ©2010 Scott Strazzante
via shooting from the hip: http://strazz.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/from-the-archive/
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Civil Rights Battles, in Black and White – Lens
Some of the most gripping images in “Road to Freedom” went unseen for decades. Pictures showing a mob attacking and setting fire to a bus carrying Freedom Riders in Anniston, Ala., are chilling in their step-by-step precision. Yet they were locked away in the files of a law firm.
Link: Civil Rights Battles, in Black and White – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
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Jim Marshall was a bad ass – Mangin Photography Archive
I have fought hard to own all or most of my images that I have produced over the past 20 plus years. The older I get the more and more I grow to appreciate Marshall and what he stood for. This man fought hard for everything he had, and no way in Hell was he ever going to let anyone fuck with him or his pictures.
Link: Jim Marshall was a bad ass :: Mangin Photography Archive
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Narelle Autio – The Summer of Us
Narelle Autio describes in this Floor Talk podcast how she hit on the idea for her new project and how her family got involved despite the growing stench of rotting sealife in her garden shed.
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l e n s c r a t c h: Paul Octavious
For the past 2 years I have visited a beautiful mound of earth that I have come to call “the hill.” Each time I have come to the hill a new story is told to me as if the hill is my stage and the locals are the actors in this daily play.
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A Photo Student › Interview: Frank Horvat with Josef Koudelka
Me, I do not try to understand. For me, the most beautiful thing is to wake up, to go out, and to look. At everything. Without anyone telling me “You should look at this or that.” I look at everything and I try to find what interests me, because when I set out, I don’t yet know what will interest me. Sometimes I photograph things that others would find stupid, but with which I can play around. Henri as well says that before meeting a person, or seeing a country, he has to prepare himself. Not me, I try to react to what comes up. Afterwards, I may come back to it, perhaps every year, ten years in a row, and I will end by understanding.
Link: A Photo Student › Interview: Frank Horvat with Josef Koudelka
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Sun City: Enjoy Your Youth | Luceo Images
I happily sent myself back to Sun City for a third trip this month (the second trip in January is still under wraps for the client). I can’t tell you how much I am enjoying this project. I’ve got 13 miles of city to wander with my camera about in, and on the last go, the rental car people gave me a yellow VW bug.
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Little Water, and Less, Along the Jordan – Lens
In his first assignment for National Geographic, the Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin has explored what happens when one of the world’s most critical issues — climate change — is superimposed on one of the world’s most volatile regions.
Link: Little Water, and Less, Along the Jordan – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
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Legal Left, Meet Creative Right –Work for Hire | Luceo Images
Contractually speaking, companies have found a number of ways to circumnavigate having to pay photographers for additional use of their images. In the ugliest instances, they also manage benefit by reselling the photographer’s images without any further compensation to the photographer. Although there are a number of ways for this to occur, one of the most commonly recognized forms of a ‘rights grab’ happens by way of a ‘Work For Hire’ clause.
Link: Legal Left, Meet Creative Right –Work for Hire | Luceo Images
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What the Still Photo Still Does Best – NYTimes.com
What the Still Photo Still Does Best
Thoughts on the enduring power of photojournalism — and on the death of Charles Moore, one of its great practitioners.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/weekinreview/21klibanoff.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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James Nachtwey Fights TB, With Pictures – Lens
James Nachtwey Fights TB, With Pictures
When James Nachtwey won a $100,000 prize to help change the world, Niko Koppel reports, he chose to document tuberculosis.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/behind-37/
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Pockets and Purses Give Up Their Secrets – Lens
Pockets and Purses Give Up Their Secrets
Since you can’t judge a book by its cover, Francois Robert asks his portrait subjects to empty the contents of what they’re carrying, Candice Chan reports.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/showcase-136/
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Why we must see – Conscientious
First of all, what everybody needs to realize is that many, if not all, of the photographers who record horrendous events experience them more or less the same way we would experience them, if we happened to be there. What was going through the mind of the photographer who was watching a man get stoned to death and actually photographed it happening? Well, the photographer was probably mortified and shocked and sickened just like most people would be.
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Vee Speers, Paris – Feature Shoot
Vee Speers was born in Australia and has been living in Paris since 1990. Her portraits have been exhibited and published world-wide. Speer’s most recent work ‘The Birthday Party’ is a series of short stories linked by the theme of an imaginary birthday party.
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Showcase: An African Panorama – Lens
Showcase: An African Panorama
Take fresh art. Season with food. That’s the Slideluck Potshow formula. Kerri MacDonald describes what happened when it was tried in Kenya.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/showcase-133/
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Human-flesh Search Engines in China – NYTimes.com
China’s Cyberposse
Internet users are hunting down and punishing people who have attracted their wrath.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Human-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
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The Shooting War: Images from the World's Most Acclaimed Conflict Photographers | Foreign Policy
The Shooting War
An exclusive collection of work by the world’s most acclaimed conflict photographers.
via Foreign Policy: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/02/22/the_shooting_war