Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Moises Saman’s Diary from the Middle East – The New Yorker

    Moises Saman’s Diary from the Middle East – The New Yorker

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    Moises Saman’s Diary from the Middle East The combat photographer Moises Saman’s new book captures the quiet moments peripheral to the action of a photojournalist. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/moises-samans-diary-from-the-middle-east in his new book, “Discordia,” which he is self-publishing this month, Saman collects images that convey a more personal and poetic account of his experience in…

  • Photographing Hip-Hop’s Golden Era – The New York Times

    Photographing Hip-Hop’s Golden Era – The New York Times

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    Photographing Hip-Hop’s Golden Era The Smithsonian’s Museum of African American History and Culture has acquired Bill Adler’s extensive archive of hip-hop photos. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/hip-hop-smithsonian-museum-photos/?&_r=0&module=Endslate&region=SlideShowTopBar&version=EndSlate&action=Click&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=Photographing%20Hip-Hop%E2%80%99s%20Golden%20Era&currentSlide=End Before today’s corporate-sponsored arena concerts and big-money endorsement deals, there was a time in hip-hop when its stars were not far from the people and places that gave rise…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Gillian Laub’s “Southern Rites”

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Gillian Laub’s “Southern Rites” Gillian Laub’s decade-long project Southern Rites focuses on documenting a long-standing tradition of a segregated prom and tragedy for one high schoo… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/gillian-laub-s-southern-rites/ Magnum today is in shock after the sudden passing of Peter Marlow, 63, who died in London yesterday after a painful struggle with bone…

  • Lee Friedlander’s Overlooked Civil Rights Photos – The New York Times

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    Lee Friedlander’s Overlooked Civil Rights Photos The photographs in Lee Friedlander’s book “Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom” are of a subject not usually associated with him: the civil rights movement. Among his earliest and least typical images — the photographer was only 22 when he made them — they document a historic, if lesser known, event…

  • Stephen Shore’s Lifelong Obsession with the Ordinary – Feature Shoot

    Stephen Shore’s Lifelong Obsession with the Ordinary – Feature Shoot

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    Stephen Shore’s Lifelong Obsession with the Ordinary – Feature Shoot From 1972-1979, a 30-something Stephen Shore traversed the United States by road, stopping along the way to set up his tripod and 8×10 camera. When he got tired over long drives, he recited Shakespeare to himself, often adopting the role of Hamlet as he m…

  • Brooklyn : This place, Josef Koudelka – The Eye of Photography

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    Brooklyn : This place, Josef Koudelka Since 1986, when I began to work on the landscapes of France for the Mission DATAR with a panoramic camera, I’ve tried to show how contemporary man influences the landscape. But I’d never seen anything similar to this. From my point of view, I could not find a subject…

  • This photographer was once lost to obscurity, but he is now legendary – The Washington Post

    This photographer was once lost to obscurity, but he is now legendary – The Washington Post

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    Once lost to obscurity, this photographer is now a legend The brilliant photographs of Saul Leiter. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/02/17/this-photographer-was-once-lost-to-obscurity-but-he-is-now-legendary/ Even after the plaudits started to rain down after the publication of his now essential book, “Early Color” in 2006, Saul Leiter was a reluctant legend. Born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Pittsburgh in…

  • Brooklyn : This place, Gilles Peress – The Eye of Photography

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    Brooklyn : This place, Gilles Peress I believe in going to the limit, and I also believe in what happens beyond the limit in the no-man’s land between various forms of description. This no-man’s land for me, with no labels and codes attached to it, is a free space in the gap between photography and…

  • Looking Beyond the Scripts of the Campaign Trail – The New York Times

    Looking Beyond the Scripts of the Campaign Trail – The New York Times

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    Six Photographers’ View of the Campaign Trail Six New York Times photographers have blanketed the early presidential campaign states during the last three weeks, challenged by carefully constructed stagecraft. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/presidental-elections-2016-new-york-times-photographers/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0 Photographing presidential campaigns takes patience and endurance: 18-hour days are the norm, and getting beyond the carefully constructed stagecraft and tightly scripted…

  • 12 Photographers Turn Their Lens on Israel in ‘This Place’ – Feature Shoot

    12 Photographers Turn Their Lens on Israel in ‘This Place’ – Feature Shoot

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    12 Photographers Turn Their Lens on Israel in ‘This Place’ – Feature Shoot For a land so deeply entrenched with history and conflict, Israel is not an easy subject to approach in a photography project, especially from a single standpoint. Born out of an idea by Frédéric Brenner, a French photographer who has long explored…

  • Mesmerizing Satellite Photos Show How Much We’ve Changed the Natural World – Feature Shoot

    Mesmerizing Satellite Photos Show How Much We’ve Changed the Natural World – Feature Shoot

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    Mesmerizing Satellite Photos Show How Much We’ve Changed the Natural World – Feature Shoot From the obsidian depths of the cosmos, the planet Earth is but a grain of blue, anchored only by the gravitational pull of the sun and sheltered merely by a slender membrane of atmosphere. In the 1980s, writer Frank White called…

  • From Black-and-White Negatives, a Positive View of Harlem – The New York Times

    From Black-and-White Negatives, a Positive View of Harlem – The New York Times

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    From Black-and-White Negatives, a Positive View of Harlem In these previously unseen photographs, the former New York Times photographer Don Hogan Charles Jr. reveals Harlem’s residents as fully rounded people — counter to the fearful perception that was reported in the 1960s. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/15/don-hogan-charles-harlem-photos-new-york-times/?&_r=0&module=Slide&region=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-13&action=Escape&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=From%20Black-and-White%20Negatives%2C%20a%20Positi Don Hogan Charles, then 27 years old, was assigned…

  • Hot, free and dangerous: A train ride in Mauritania – The Washington Post

    Hot, free and dangerous: A train ride in Mauritania – The Washington Post

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    Hot, free and dangerous: A train ride in Mauritania On board the ‘Iron Train’ in Mauritania. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/02/12/hot-free-and-dangerous-a-train-ride-in-mauritania/ Photographer Daniel Rodrigues rode back and forth twice, climbing onto the mounds that sank beneath his weight and turned his clothes burnt orange. Fellow passengers wrapped their heads and faces with long pieces of cloth to ward…

  • Paris: Muriel Bordier, winner of the Eurazéo Prize – The Eye of Photography

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    Paris: Muriel Bordier, winner of the Eurazéo Prize The sixth Eurazéo Prize went to Muriel Bordier for her series Les Thermes. Her images are on view at the Espace Central Dupon Images until March 11th. In addition to the exhibition, the winner has been awarded a cash prize of 10,000€.

  • On the Edge on Staten Island – The New York Times

    On the Edge on Staten Island – The New York Times

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    On the Edge on Staten Island When Christine Osinski moved to Staten Island in the 1980s, she found the long-overlooked borough with a tough edge gave her a sense of freedom and distance from Manhattan. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/christine-osinski-staten-island-summer-days-photos/?&_r=0&module=Slide&region=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-5&action=Escape&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=On%20the%20Edge%20on%20Staten%20Island&currentS Christine Osinski, a photographer and Cooper Union professor, came to know the borough’s otherworldliness in the…

  • The forgotten Mari pagans of the Volga – The Washington Post

    The forgotten Mari pagans of the Volga – The Washington Post

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    Rare photos show the lives of Russia’s forgotten Mari pagans The Mari pagans have lived in peace for several millennia on either side of the Volga, practicing their animist faith. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/02/11/the-forgotten-mari-pagans-of-the-volga/ When Mari pagan priest Albert Rukovishnikov was a boy, he and his grandmother would sneak down under cover of the night…

  • Steven Kasher Gallery presents the exhibition, “PM New York Daily: 1940-48.”

    Steven Kasher Gallery presents the exhibition, “PM New York Daily: 1940-48.”

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    This 1940s New York Paper Wasn’t a Top Seller, but It Ran Great Photographs During its brief lifetime, there was no mistaking PM New York Daily for any other newspaper. via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/02/10/steven_kasher_gallery_presents_the_exhibition_pm_new_york_daily_1940_48.html During its brief lifetime, there was no mistaking PM New York Daily for any other newspaper. The tabloid, which existed between…

  • Robert Mapplethorpe: In Search of Perfection – The New York Times

    Robert Mapplethorpe: In Search of Perfection – The New York Times

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    Robert Mapplethorpe: In Search of Perfection A two-part show of Mapplethorpe’s work reveals an artist who pursued perfection from his models, subjects and even his prints. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/robert-mapplethorpe-getty-homosexuality-the-perfect-medium-lacma/?&_r=0&module=Slide&region=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-3&action=Escape&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=Robert%20Mapplethorpe%3A%20In%20S How should we think about the work of Robert Mapplethorpe today — post-sadomasochism, beyond the culture wars and after the first wave of the AIDS…

  • Inside the Bizarre World of a Religious Trade Fair – Feature Shoot

    Inside the Bizarre World of a Religious Trade Fair – Feature Shoot

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    Inside the Bizarre World of a Religious Trade Fair – Feature Shoot While wandering the streets of Rome, Berlin-based photographer Louis de Belle was intrigued by the abundance of clergy apparel shops surrounding the Vatican, and after some investigation he discovered the existence of the religious trade fair which forms via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2016/02/inside-the-bizarre-world-of-a-religious-trade-fair/ While…

  • The Living Artist – The New York Times

    The Living Artist – The New York Times

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    The Living Artist In spaces intimate and public, LaToya Ruby Frazier reveals ongoing life in the steelworking ‘‘ghost town’’ of Braddock, Pa. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/magazine/the-living-artist.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 Until LaToya Ruby Frazier got hold of a disposable camera in high school, her great passion was drawing and water color. In the shadow of the Edgar Thomson Steelworks, Frazier began…