Have a look at the “trailer” for Stanley Greene’s new book Black Passport, a deeply personal journal of life and a career in conflict. Or perhaps it is, as compiled by Teun van der Heijden, a biography.
Category: Editor’s Choice
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Stanley Greene’s Black Passport | dvafoto
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photo-eye | THE BEST BOOKS OF 2009
Welcome to the Best Photobooks of 2009. Continuing were we left off last year, we’ve expanded this long photo-eye tradition to include top 10 photobook lists from a group of prominent photographers, bookmakers, editors, publishers and critics. Above you’ll find a complete list of the contributors, each linking to that individual’s list. The range of books selected for 2009 is vast — spanning continents and genres, and together they form a powerful survey of contemporary photography. Since our very format denies the idea of an over-arching and objective top 10, below you’ll find a more modest “master list,” made up of the books that appear on at least three individual lists
Link: photo-eye | Magazine
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FOTOFORUM: Indelible Image II «
FOTOFORUM: Indelible Image II
Because we had so many responses to last month’s FotoForum: The Indelible Image, we decided to run a second column this month. So for January, we are featuring the indelible image choice of …
Link: http://webbnorriswebb.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/fotoforum-indelible-image-ii/
we are featuring the indelible image choice of noted Aperture editor Denise Wolff, who has worked with some of the world’s most widely acclaimed photographers, including Mary Ellen Mark, Stephen Shore, Martin Parr, and Eugene Richards. Originally a photographer herself, Denise is joined by six other photographers from five different countries around the world for this column, all of whom have chosen to write about a photograph that they responded to strongly as young photographers –– an indelible image that still lingers with them today
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Showcase: No Relief and Little Attention – Lens
Showcase: No Relief and Little Attention
Sexual violence, child soldiers, wounded refugees and malnutrition — there is no shortage of suffering in Congo. Amber Benham says that’s why Cédric Gerbehaye is there.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/showcase-105/
Sexual violence, civilian casualties, child soldiers, wounded refugees and malnutrition — there is no shortage of suffering in Congo.
And that is what engaged the attention of Cédric Gerbehaye, 32, who left journalism school with some basic photography skills, determined to pursue conflicts like the brutal fighting among militias and the Congolese army, which has been going on more than a decade with little interest from Western journalists.
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igor posner – notes from underground | burn magazine
igor posner – notes from underground
[slidepress gallery=’igorposner_notesfromunderground’] Hover over the image for navigation controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Igor Posner Notes from Underground play multimedia &n…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/01/igor-posner-notes-from-underground/
“Leningrad creates a feeling of a lost and a haunted city, an open nerve, where little tragedies of every day life that seem universal are so acutely brought to surface…with its bars, streets, drunks, communal apartments this place creates a sense of an inexistent dream within an authentic nightmare, and yet paradoxically conveys a feeling of poetic nostalgia and melancholy.”
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The Independent Photo Book
The Independent Photo Book
a self publishing free zone
Link: http://theindependentphotobook.blogspot.com/
THE INDEPENDENT PHOTO BOOK ANNOUNCES INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED AND/OR PRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS OR ZINES, WHICH ARE NOT AVAILABLE VIA AMAZON OR OTHER STANDARD OUTLETS.
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The Online Photographer: A Gift Waiting at Every Corner: Notes from a Life in Photography
A Gift Waiting at Every Corner: Notes from a Life in Photography
By Peter Turnley When I review my life as a photographer, I feel blessed and fortunate to have experienced so many wonderful emotions, the most significant being the sense of being alive, powerfully alive. These beautiful experiences began with a…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/01/a-gift-waiting-at-every-corner-notes-from-a-life-in-photography.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29
When I review my life as a photographer, I feel blessed and fortunate to have experienced so many wonderful emotions, the most significant being the sense of being alive, powerfully alive.
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Dreams in the Shadow of Plenty | 100 Eyes Photo Magazine
In much of the world men and women remain economic refugees, whether they be in Israel, South Africa, Russia, China, Bengladesh, or in the United States. With an growing world population and an increased competition for limited resources, the exploitation will inevitably increase, just as the backlash against them will become more severe.
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Pictures of the Year: The Photographers' Choice
Opinion
The best opinions, comments and analysis from The Telegraph.
via The Telegraph: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/lucydavies/100005959/pictures-of-the-year-the-photographers-choice/
I asked a number of photographers and curators to name their image of 2009 for the Sunday Telegraph magazine end of year issue. In case you missed it, here they are:
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The Online Photographer: A Visual Interview with Peter Turnley
A Visual Interview with Peter Turnley
Peter Turnley is by any measure one of the most accomplished photographers of his generation. My interest in his work—and hence what you’ve read about him here on TOP—has centered around his personal work, in books such as Parisians and…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/01/a-visual-interview-with-peter-turnley.html#more
Recently, I got wind of the fact that Peter Turnley is now teaching photo workshops in various locations around the world—workshops that people like you and I can attend—and that reports from participants had been, in a word, glowing. So I approached Peter (through my friend Steve Rosenblum, who has collected some of Peter’s work) and asked him about an interview.
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Sports Shooter Newsletter Decade Collection
Photo By Matt MendelsohnCLICK NOTE: Of anything I’ve posted all week, these are fascinating looks into the experiences behind photographs by great photographers. You’ll all fixate on different photographers, but each of these is worth taking a minute of your day for. And they’re not all sports, by the way.
As this decade ends, I wanted to commemorate its passing by collecting images from these special people that have helped me over the years. I asked them to select an image of theirs that is historic, unique, revealing or memorable.
Most of all, I wanted the image to be something personal … an image special to them.
Link: Sports Shooter Newsletter Decade Collection
Here are direct links to each photographer’s story: Robert Hanashiro, Robert Beck, Matt Brown, Dave Burnett, Darren Carroll, Bob Deutsch, Dave Honl, Chuck Liddy, Brad Mangin, Rod Mar, Matt Mendelsohn, Don Miralle, Peter Read Miller, Paul Morse, Trent Nelson, Anne Ryan, Robert Seale, Wally Skalij, Pete Souza, Jack Gruber and Vince Laforet
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The Visual Student » Photos of the Year/Decade: Part 2
Part two of The Visual Student’s roundup of photos of the year and photos of the decade galleries from around the world. Highly recommended.Link: The Visual Student » Photos of the Year/Decade: Part 2
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The Visual Student » Photos of the Year/Decade: Part 1
Below are galleries for photos of 2009 and of the decade. You can view each gallery by clicking on the screenshots or the captions below each screenshot. If you know of a gallery you want to see on this blog, please post the link in the comments section at the bottom of this post. More galleries will be posted next week.
Link: The Visual Student » Photos of the Year/Decade: Part 1
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lenscratch: Rafal Milach
I finally found some time to look at the 2009 Photography Book Now winning publication, Black Sea of Concrete, by Polish photographer, Rafal Milach. Rafal won $25,000 for his grand prize winning submission about the Black Sea. He works as an editorial photographer and is the co-founder of SPUTNIK, the collective of photographers from Central-Eastern European region, but he continues to work on fine art projects and essays.
Link: lenscratch: Rafal Milach
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Clicks of the Year: 2009 In Review
While the economic situation for photojournalism in 2009 was miserable, the work produced was amazing. Here are some of my favorite stories, sites, and essays, listed chronologically through 2009.
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The decade in news photographs – The Big Picture
The decade in news photographs
Call it what you will, “the noughties”, “the two-thousands” or something else, the first decade of the 21st century (2000-2009) is now over. Looking back on the past ten years through news photographs, it becomes clear that it was a dramatic, often brutal
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/the_decade_in_news_photographs.html
Call it what you will, “the noughties”, “the two-thousands” or something else, the first decade of the 21st century (2000-2009) is now over. Looking back on the past ten years through news photographs, it becomes clear that it was a dramatic, often brutal decade.
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Video: Trent Parke and Narelle Autio | dvafoto
we see Trent Parke and Narelle Autio (and check out her previous agency Oculi for more down-under goodness) working together and on their own personal projects
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The Year in Media Errors and Corrections | Regret the Error
Regret the Error Archives – Poynter
Craig Silverman reports on trends and issues regarding media accuracy and the discipline of verification.Stories about errors, corrections, fact checking and verification
via Poynter: http://www.regrettheerror.com/2009/12/16/crunks-2009-the-year-in-media-errors-and-corrections/
This year’s winner is without question amusing — not to mention embarrassing for the news organization the published it — in that it demonstrates a certain amount of cultural/musical ignorance. But it earns Correction of the Year honors because of what happened after it was published. This Washington Post correction inspired an amusing Twitter hashtag, which saw people come together to come up with imagined corrections. It’s Correction of the Year because it communicates that people notice and care about corrections, and because it demonstrates the participatory potential being unleashed by the Internet.
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2009 in photos (part 3 of 3) – The Big Picture
2009 in photos (part 3 of 3)
The year 2009 is now coming to a close, and it’s time to take a look back over the past 12 months through photographs. Historic elections were held in Iran, India and the United States, some wars wound down while others escalated, China turned 60, and the
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_3_of_3.html
The year 2009 is now coming to a close, and it’s time to take a look back over the past 12 months through photographs. Historic elections were held in Iran, India and the United States, some wars wound down while others escalated, China turned 60, and the Berlin Wall was remembered 20 years after it came down. Each photo tells its own tale, weaving together into the larger story of 2009.
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Showcase: West Into East – Lens
Showcase: West Into East
Frederic Lezmi is seeking to find the subtle bridge between Central Europe and the Middle East, Daniel J. Wakin reports; moments where the two blend.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/showcase-92/
He said he was seeking a third way of depicting the Middle East; neither in romanticized, Orientalist, picturesque photographs nor in “crisis photography” — images of destruction, fighting and privation.