Category: Editor’s Choice

  • PDN's 30 2011

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  • The Dissenting Photographer Or How American Photographers Turn To Intelligence In Times Of Intransigence « The Spinning Head

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    An European photo editor I met at Visa Pour L’image some years ago pointed out that there was very little in the way of dissident and critical photography in America. Recently the same question came up in a conversation with students at a social science institute in India. I think that this is too simplistic an argument. American photographers have been speaking out and offering resistance to the mainstream radicalization and militarization of the American public and political space. Tim Davis’ work of course is an example of a photographer confronting the dimensions of America as he sees it, and pointing out the dangers of its slide towards extremist consumerism, war and comic book political dialogue.

  • Rebuilding Lives in Former Soviet Lands: The Work of Bruce Haley – NYTimes.com

    Rebuilding Lives in Former Soviet Lands: The Work of Bruce Haley – NYTimes.com

    Rebuilding Lives in Former Soviet Lands

    “Sunder” is a collection of photographs by Bruce Haley documenting the former Soviet republics. Mathew R. Warren describes its origins.

    via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/rebuilding-lives-in-former-soviet-lands/

    “Sunder” was released last week. Fifty-five black-and-white photographs depict a people and a landscape in flux. The haunting images, which were taken in various countries throughout the former Soviet Union, show abandoned industrial sites and decaying towns and villages. Children play in bombed-out structures; families toil in rural wastelands. A panoramic photo depicts a young man about to dive into the ocean from the top of a partially sunken warship. A piece of the broken hull pokes out of the water.

  • A Photo Editor – Nina Berman Interview

    Nina Berman Interview

    Jonathan Blaustein interviews Nina Berman for us: JB: I was in New York in June, and I had a meeting at the Whitney with a curator and I had about 15 minutes to kill, so they let me go upstairs to …

    via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2011/03/07/nina-berman-interview/

    Has it made the world my oyster, in the sense that I have no financial difficulties, or I can do any project I want, or I have all of these amazing offers just dropping in my lap every day? No. It has not done that for me. Has it opened some doors? I think. I think, also, that the effect of the Biennial will be something maybe felt for quite a while, for me. It has given me a bit more confidence in the choices I’ve made and what I do. And so for all of those reasons, it was a beautiful experience.

    My work is still very difficult to look at. It’s very political work. If you look at what’s in museums these days, in the art world these days, it is not of such a direct political nature. At least, I haven’t found it.

  • Elegy to a Small Idaho Town: Steve Davis Photographs His Hometown – NYTimes.com

    Elegy to a Small Idaho Town: Steve Davis Photographs His Hometown – NYTimes.com

    Elegy for a Small Idaho Town

    On return visits to American Falls, the small Idaho town where he grew up, Steve Davis found a sadness that he was moved to document, Michael Itkoff reports.

    via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/elegy-to-a-small-idaho-town/

    “American Falls seems to be dying a death that is as slow as it is unspectacular.”

    Steve Davis, 53, is describing the Idaho town in which he grew up. He left when he was 18. The region, once known for small potato farms, is now home to agribusiness and big-box retailing. About 4,000 people live there today.

  • Legotron, Mark I — 4×5 Camera made of LEGO bricks | cary norton photographs

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    Back in August of 2009, I blogged about having an idea of making a 4×5 out of LEGO bricks. Ten days later I’d made some serious progress on it.

  • Rich Clarkson: Life behind the lens | Plog

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    For seven decades Rich Clarkson has had a front row seat to sporting history and through his eyes–or more precisely, through his camera lens–he has shaped the way the rest of us remember many of the game’s greatest moments. Clarkson has photographed all the greats. His photos have appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated 33 times, on the pages of Time and Life magazines, and as the cover art of countless books. Here Clarkson shows some of his favorite images and tells the story behind each one.

  • Charlie Kirk: Tokyo. Leica. Flash.

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    Charlie Kirk describes himself as “a 37-year-old English guy, working as a lawyer in Tokyo.” Based in Japan’s capitol for 9 years, he was educated at Sussex, Cambridge and Nottingham, and notes wryly “It’s a long process to become a lawyer.” A talented and avidly committed photographer with a knack for capturing the surreal quality of everyday life with his Leica MP and M9, he hopes to turn his newfound photographic passion into something more than a fulfilling avocation. Here, in his understated and commendably straightforward words is the fascinating story of his photographic adventure.

  • Captured: A Look Back at the Vietnam War on the 35th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon | Plog — World, National Photos, Photography and Reportage — The Denver Post

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    These photos offer a look back at the Vietnam War from the escalation of U.S. involvement in the early 1960′s to the Fall of Saigon in 1975.

  • Untouchable blood-camera goes to Africa for HIV portrait series

    Untouchable blood-camera goes to Africa for HIV portrait series

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    Wayne Martin Belger created the blood camera, which incorporates HIV-infected blood that acts as a red filter for portraits of HIV+ people.

  • The LENSCRATCH Self-Portrait Exhibition 2011

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    Welcome to the 2011 LENSCRATCH Self-Portrait Exhibition. I am always excited to see how photographers choose to express themselves through self portraiture. A big thank you to all the contributing photographers for sharing your inner and outer selves, your humor, your life, and revelations. The genre of self portraiture is a universal expression of our humanity and ourselves. So express yourself!

  • Russian criminal tattoo documentary on YouTube

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    Alix Lambert’s fascinating documentary from 2000 about Russian criminal tattoos, The Mark of Caïn, is available under a Creative Commons license and viewable in full on YouTube.

  • Adam Magyar

    via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2011/05/on-flickrs-change-in-data-retention-policy-and-twitters-new-photosharing-service.html

    I think this is great for a couple of reasons. First the leading player in the Twitter photo space twitpic is a total ripoff for photographers. When you use it you are giving them the right to sell your photos through some fine print in the TOS. Many people don’t read TOS agreements and twitpic doesn’t really advertise or clearly disclose that they can screw you over and steal your rights.

  • INTERVIEW: "Interview with Raymond Depardon" (2001)

    via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2011/05/on-flickrs-change-in-data-retention-policy-and-twitters-new-photosharing-service.html

    I think this is great for a couple of reasons. First the leading player in the Twitter photo space twitpic is a total ripoff for photographers. When you use it you are giving them the right to sell your photos through some fine print in the TOS. Many people don’t read TOS agreements and twitpic doesn’t really advertise or clearly disclose that they can screw you over and steal your rights.

  • EPF 2011 Winner – Irina Werning's Back to the Future

    EPF 2011 Winner

    Emerging Photographer Fund – 2011 Recipient [slidepress gallery=’irinawerning_backtothefuture’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICI…

    via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/epf-2011-winner/

    I love old photos. I know I’m a nosy photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for those old photos. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me it’s imagining how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today… A year ago, I decided to actually do this. So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future.

  • Great! All pictures into one…

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    German photographer Peter Langenhahn has specialized in capturing a particular aspect of sports events in a single photo collage. Langenhahn takes as many as three thousand pictures and then puts them together on his computer to create a single image. One of his compositions documented all the fouls in a football match.

  • Loli Kantor: There Was a Forest (4 Images)

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    In There Was a Forest, Loli Kantor’s palladium prints document the parallel lives and rituals of the disappearing enclaves of Jews in rural Ukraine and the simultaneous, slow reemergence of Jewish culture and identity that is gradually transforming some of the larger communities there today.

  • Leica & Magnum — Portrait of Alex Majoli

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    On Thursday, June 9, 2011, we had the pleasure of hosting a live judging of our 2011 Student Project Award that was open to the public at The Bridge Public Arts Initiative in Charlottesville, Virginia. Lead Judge Michael Wichita of the AARP Bulletin led a panel of Gillian Laub (Photographer), Larissa Leclair (Indie Photobook Library) and Molly Roberts (Smithsonian) through the difficult task of selecting one winner from our ten talented finalists. We are very fortunate that one of our finalists, Maddie McGarvey was secretly in the small audience, and when she was selected as the winner it was a very sweet moment. Maddie selected LUCEO photographer Kendrick Brinson (Atlanta) as her mentor. 

  • ED RUSCHA: "One-Way Street" (2005)

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    Edward Ruscha arrived in Los Angeles in 1956, delivered by the car trip he and high school friend Mason Williams took in Ruscha’s black 1950 Ford from Oklahoma to the suburban-like stretch of a rapidly developing L.A. Over the next seven years, Ruscha drove the distance between L.A. and Oklahoma City several times, often documenting it by taking snapshots of gas stations along U.S. Route 66 that record the experience of the drive. Although many of the photographs were shot from across the road, several of the images are framed by the visual parameters set by a car window. They appear to be taken from the spatial perspective of the dashboard.1

  • The Photojournalist’s Canon: Part Two — Early 20th Century

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    So here’s part two, the photographers that opened the 20th century. This is the generation of photographers who picked up the new small cameras that shot roll film and started documenting life in action. They created what we consider photojournalism out of a near vacuum: