Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Ralph Gibson – The Leica camera Blog
Ralph Gibson – The Leica camera Blog When Ralph Gibson’s first major work “The Somnambulist” was published in 1970, it marked a monumental moment in the evolution of photography. At a time when the medium was essentially defined by its ability to document reality in the form of photojournalism, Gibson was one of the first…
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Nathan Lyons: An Irresistible Passion for Photography – The New York Times
Nathan Lyons: An Irresistible Passion for Photography Nathan Lyons worked outside mainstream aesthetics, eschewing pomposity, while capturing wonderment amid everyday banality. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/lens/nathan-lyons-an-irresistible-passion-for-photography.html Over the course of six decades, Nathan Lyons’s innovations as a curator, teacher, collector, publisher and writer shaped the course of photography.
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Helen Levitt’s Street Photos Blend the Poetic With the Political – The New York Times
Helen Levitt’s Street Photos Blend the Poetic With the Political Examining the overlooked work of a photographer whose images brought awareness to social issues. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/lens/helen-levitts-street-photos-blend-the-poetic-with-the-political.html New York City’s doorways, storefronts and cascading fire escapes were the grand backdrop to Helen Levitt’s photos. In the Lower East Side and Harlem, children pretended to be bride…
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The Best Work I Saw at the Medium Festival of Photography: Part 1 | A Photo Editor
The Best Work I Saw at the Medium Festival of Photography: Part 1 – A Photo Editor My kids are 6 and 11. Right in that sweet spot where all the older people you meet say, “Cherish this time. It goes by so quickly.” Seriously. I’ve heard that a lot. My wife and I…
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Lee Friedlander’s Intimate Portraits of His Wife, Through Sixty Years of Marriage | The New Yorker
Lee Friedlander’s Intimate Portraits of His Wife, Through Sixty Years of Marriage Friedlander’s style of photography is usually cool, winking, and gamesman-like, but his pictures of his wife thrum with gentle affection. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/lee-friedlanders-intimate-portraits-of-his-wife-through-sixty-years-of-marriage Lee Friedlander once slyly assessed his promiscuous eye by saying, “I tend to photograph the things that get…
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Photos from Inside a Bloody, Sweaty, Glorious Indie Wrestling School – VICE
Photos from Inside a Bloody, Sweaty, Glorious Indie Wrestling School Photographer José Alvarado Jr.’s new series follows the students of The House of Glory wrestling school in NYC. via Vice: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa55bv/photos-from-inside-a-bloody-sweaty-glorious-indie-wrestling-school Photographer José Alvarado Jr.’s new series follows the students of The House of Glory wrestling school in NYC.
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Graciela Iturbide’s Photos of Mexico Make ‘Visible What, to Many, Is Invisible’ – The New York Times
Graciela Iturbide’s Photos of Mexico Make ‘Visible What, to Many, Is Invisible’ Over the past 50 years, Ms. Iturbide has captured layers of Mexico’s diverse cultures and practices, as well as the struggles and contrasts across the nation. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/lens/graciela-iturbide-mexico-photos.html Over the past 50 years, Ms. Iturbide has captured layers of Mexico’s diverse cultures and…
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Voices of African Photography: Finding the answer to the most personal question, ‘Who am I?’ – The Washington Post
Voices of African Photography: Finding the answer to the most personal question, ‘Who am I?’ Voices of African Photography is a 10-part series that highlights the work of African photographers and photojournalists. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2019/01/07/voices-of-african-photography-finding-the-answer-to-the-most-personal-question-who-am-i/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f904c446361a Voices of African Photography is a 10-part series presented in partnership with the African Photojournalism Database, a joint project…
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A Portrait of Life Secluded in the Ozark Mountains | The New Yorker
A Portrait of Life Secluded in the Ozark Mountains Matthew Genitempo’s photo series “Jasper” is an idiosyncratic travelogue, combining elegiac black-and-white landscapes with portraits of the men and women he encountered deep in the Ozarks. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-portrait-of-life-secluded-in-the-ozark-mountains It was the poetry of Frank Stanford that first drew the photographer Matthew Genitempo to…
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Magic in the mundane: candid shots on the streets of Japan
Magic in the mundane: candid shots on the streets of Japan Travelling back and forth between Tokyo and Kamakura, photographer Shin Noguchi seeks out the extraordinary moments that often go missing. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/huck-tv/photography-huck-tv/street-photography-japan-shin-noguchi/ Travelling back and forth between Tokyo and Kamakura, photographer Shin Noguchi seeks out the extraordinary in the everyday. “I want…
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Liza Ambrossio – The rage of devotion – La ira de la devoción « burn magazine
Liza Ambrossio – The rage of devotion – La ira de la devoción Liza Ambrossio The rage of devotion – La ira de la devoción [ FUJIFILM / YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2018 FINALIST ] Some time ago I decided to change my life in the most extraordinary way possible. I… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2019/01/liza-ambrossio-the-rage-of-devotion-la-ira-de-la-devocion/ Some…
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A Photographer’s Insider View of Bohemian Life – The New York Times
A Photographer’s Insider View of Bohemian Life He’s 87, and his first photo book, “Ken Van Sickle: Photography 1954-2009,” captures the lives of artists and bohemians on both sides of the Atlantic. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/lens/ken-van-sickle-photos-bohemian.html At 87, Ken Van Sickle’s first photo book “Ken Van Sickle: Photography 1954-2009” captures the lives of artists and bohemians on…
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Photos: The Murmurations of Starlings – The Atlantic
The Murmurations of Starlings The simple beauty in the shapes formed by murmurations, captured by various photographers over the past few years via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/01/photos-murmurations-starlings/579286/ When starlings flock together, wheeling and darting through the sky in tight, fluid formations, we call it a murmuration. These murmurations can range from small groups of a few…
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Intimate Photos of Community and Resilience in New York’s Chinatown in the 1980s – The New York Times
Intimate Photos of Community and Resilience in New York’s Chinatown in the 1980s As waves of immigrants from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China arrived in Lower Manhattan, Bud Glick documented Chinatown and provided much needed detail and context for a community often reduced to clichés. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/lens/new-york-chinatown-1980s-bud-glick.html As waves of immigrants from Taiwan, Hong Kong…
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Picks of the bunch: Huck’s top ten photo stories of 2018
Picks of the bunch: Huck’s top ten photo stories of 2018 From the cab driver who snapped NYC for 30 years, to secret snapshots of Tokyo street life: we look back at this year’s most popular photography stories. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/huck-tv/photography-huck-tv/picks-of-the-bunch-hucks-top-ten-photo-stories-of-2018/ From the cab driver who documented NYC for 30 years, to secret snapshots…
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What the world looks like as history is being written
What it feels like to be a photographer in an age of unrest Natalie Keyssar’s photography uncovers the impact of social and political structures on everyday lives, capturing the messiness of uncertainty. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/natalie-keyssar-photography-reportage/ From the US to Latin America, Natalie Keyssar’s photography uncovers the impact of social and political structures on everyday…
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YOUR Favorite Photograph of 2018 Exhibition | LENSCRATCH
YOUR Favorite Photograph of 2018 Exhibition Happy New Year! A big thank you to our readers for your submissions but more importantly to the wonderful folks that keep this site alive: Val Patterson, Linda Alterwitz, Julia Bennett, Jonas Yip, Paula Riff, Patty Lemke, Brian Van de Wetering, Katie Harw via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/01/the-favorite-photograph-of-2018-exhibition/ Happy New Year!…
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Top Photos Of 2018 – Jonesblog
[contentcards url=”https://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/2018/12/top-photos-of-2018/”] Top Photos Of 2018 – Jonesblog Time for my annual New Year’s tradition, written in the wee hours of New Year’s Eve, reflecting back on the previous year through the context of the photographs I’ve created, and picking my favorite images.
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Betsy Karel: America’s Stage | LENSCRATCH
Betsy Karel: America’s Stage There is a bowtie-shaped intersection in New York city that draws tourists by the hundreds of thousands, particularly Monday night in anticipation of the infamous ball drop. If we can’t be there in person, we watch from the comfort of our couches as horde via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/12/betsy-karel-americas-stage/ There is a bowtie-shaped…
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Best photos of 2018: What history will remember about this year – The Washington Post
What the year’s best photos tell us about 2018 The year’s most profound pictures offer a window into what just happened — and what it meant for us. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/amp-stories/stories-year-in-photos/?noredirect=on In the digital age, locking down a sequence of images in print can seem like an act of resistance.