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Capturing history as it was made: Los Angeles Times celebrates 130th anniversary

Photography

via Los Angeles Times: http://framework.latimes.com/2011/12/04/capturing-history-as-it-was-made-los-angeles-times-celebrates-130th-anniversary/#/1

In this gallery, you’ll be treated to an unforgettable walk through the history of Southern California; the opening of the California Aqueduct, the rise of Hollywood, natural disasters and the political careers of presidents. The Los Angeles Times is one of the largest and most-decorated photo staffs in the world. Their work has been honored with five Pulitzer Prizes and numerous other awards.

January 10, 2020
2011: The Year in Photos, Part 1 of 3

2011: The Year in Photos, Part 1 of 3

via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/12/2011-the-year-in-photos-part-1-of-3/100203/

2011 was a year of global tumult, marked by widespread social and political uprisings, economic crises, and a great deal more. We saw the fall of multiple dictators, welcomed a new country (South Sudan), witnessed our planet’s population grow to 7 billion, and watched in horror as Japan was struck by a devastating earthquake, a tsunami, and a nuclear disaster. From the Arab Spring to Los Indignados to Occupy Wall Street, citizens around the world took to the streets in massive numbers, protesting against governments and financial institutions, risking arrest, injury, and in some cases their lives. Collected here is Part 1 of a three-part photo summary of the last year, covering 2011’s first several months

January 10, 2020
Skateboarding culture photographed by Ryan Young

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This series of photos emphasizes the differences in mood held by each of the film’s personalities, uncomfortable travel situations and the relationships between skaters and terrains—a step in the opposite direction away from mainstream portrayals of what skateboarding is

January 10, 2020
Stanley Kubrick’s photographs of New York

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The Museum of the City of New York and VandM have recently chosen 25 of Kubrick’s photographs out of 10,000 negatives to sell with the majority of the proceeds going to the Museum of the City of New York.

January 10, 2020
Reuters Photographs of the Violence in Ivory Coast

From Bloody Conflict, a Trial Begins

The Reuters photographer Finbarr O’Reilly on covering the conflict in Ivory Coast.

via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/from-a-bloody-conflict-to-the-hague/

Covering the bloody conflict was hard. Mr. Gbagbo’s thugs and militant Young Patriots were violently opposed to any Western influence, which also meant foreign journalists. Reuters relied heavily on the Ivorian photographers Luc Gnago and Thierry Gouegnon to navigate through the local tensions, but often even they could not cover Gbagbo rallies without risk. An important photo of Mr. Gbagbo, defeated and grim-faced in the Golf Hotel room, was obtained from an Ivorian photographer who had been trapped there with Ouattara and his besieged entourage for weeks as food and water ran out (Slide 10). He still does not want his name used for security reasons.

January 10, 2020
Best of 2011 | Sports

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I also learned to work light – in two ways. First, while I’ve always been a chaser of color and nice light, my goal for the short year was to exploit every opportunity I had to work the aforementioned. Last year, I found myself converting everything in post, not so much this year. And second, I learned to ditch the extra gear and work with the bare minimum.

January 10, 2020
Russell Monk’s Open-Air Studio

Neighborly Portraits in Mexico

Captivated by the light in Mexico, Russell Monk set up an open-air studio in his backyard. The result is a series of whimsical black-and-white portraits.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/neighborly-portraits-in-mexico/?pagewanted=all

He had been living like the typical artsy expat in the center of San Miguel de Allende when he decided to uproot himself and buy a small house on the outskirts of town. There, he began doing portraits of his Mexican neighbors, starting with Isabel, the matriarch of a large family who lived on the other side of his back wall.

“People ask how you light those,” he said. “I don’t — they’re all natural light. You can’t beat that.”

January 10, 2020
TIME’s Best Photojournalism of 2011

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via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/

TIME‘s words offer the important facts, clear-eyed insights and sharp analysis needed to understand the story. Our photojournalism offers the chance to not only see, but also feel the story

January 10, 2020
Photos: 2011 The Denver Post Year’s Best Photos

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Denver Post photographers choose their best work and explain how they got the shot.

January 10, 2020
Photographs of Trees Taken From All Perspectives

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In the project ‘Mapping’ I rearrange the already seen, creating a ’surrounding time landscape’. I experience and capture the different forms and characters of a tree, by walking around them. These different forms and characters together reveal the whole of the tree

January 10, 2020
Teenie Harris’s World (8 Photos)

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For over 40 years Charles “Teenie” Harris documented life in and around Pittsburgh’s Hill District for the influential black newspaper the Pittsburgh Courier. Affectionately called “One Shot” due to the brisk manner in which he photographed his subjects, Harris spent as much time shooting the everyday people of the neighborhood as he did the famous people who visited it. With close to 80,000 negatives in his archive, he is said to have best captured the urban African-American experience during the 20th century.

January 10, 2020
Battle of the Panoramas

Battle of the Panoramas

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/battle-of-the-panoramas

New York City is long and tall, and there are a million ways to slice it. In a show called “Widely Different,” part of the inaugural exhibition of the recently re-opened South Street Seaport Museum

January 10, 2020
Magical Photos From a Small Town in Northern Russia

Siberian Memories, Warm and Real

Evgenia Arbugaev returned to her childhood home intent on recapturing the memories of a snow-covered landscape that loomed large in her life. But as she traveled to Siberia she wondered, was it real?

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/siberian-memories-warm-and-real/?pagewanted=all

Evgenia Arbugaeva has warm memories of a very cold place.

She grew up in Tiksi, a port town on Siberia’s Arctic coast — to her, a magical realm of wonder and discovery where she reveled in the “little miracles” of her endless natural playground

January 10, 2020
Grozny: Nine Cities (10 Photos)

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Olga Kravets, Maria Morina and Oksana Yushko have been working on “Grozny: Nine Cities” for more than two years

January 10, 2020
Identical Twins Photographed by Martin Schoeller

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By using his signature Close-Up style, the portraits allow the viewer to explore the physical similarities between the pairs, complementing the story, which covered their psychological similarities

January 10, 2020
Scapes, Photo Collage Panoramas Taken From High Places

Scapes, Photo Collage Panoramas Taken From High Places

Wouter van Buuren climbs tall cranes, towers, and buildings and creates wonderful panoramic photo collages of the surrounding landscape.

via Laughing Squid: https://laughingsquid.com/scapes-photo-collage-panoramas-taken-from-high-places/

Dutch photographer Wouter van Buuren climbs tall cranes, towers, and buildings

January 10, 2020
Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny

A Testament From Guatemala’s War Years

As Guatemala brings genocide charges against a former military leader, Jean-Marie Simon prepares to reissue her seminal book of photographs from that country’s bloodiest era.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/a-testament-from-guatemalas-war-years/?pagewanted=all

This week, while Mr. Ríos Montt is under house arrest, Ms. Simon is reprinting her book “Guatemala: Eterna Primavera, Eterna Tirania,” a chronicle of the worst of the war years that builds upon her 1988 volume “Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny.” This time, she has raised $20,000 through Kickstarter to help produce 4,000 copies on glossy stock and with sewn bindings that will be sold for about $10 each. More important, she has set aside some 1,000 copies to be given away to schools and teachers in Guatemala.

January 10, 2020
Happy Birthday Duane Michals

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For eighty years—eight decades—he gave it his all, selecting his own (mostly unknown) images and writing his own texts. He loves to write and he does it well. As a protean artist, Duane has played many characters in his life. That’s only natural for someone who claims that photography is nothing but a lie.

January 10, 2020
Pays-Bas: Looking at jails

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Cruel and Unusual (Noorderlicht Photo Gallery) presents revealing, and quite unexpected photography dealing with life behind bars. For this exhibition the guest curators Hester Keijser and Pete Brook have brought together work by eleven women photographers, most of which has never before been shown in Europe. As background for the exhibition Noorderlicht is publishing a newspaper with articles, interviews and extra photo material.

January 10, 2020
Cuba: Ernesto Bazan’s Self-Publishing Photography Philosophy

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For every boon that Ernesto Bazan has received, he can point to a parallel moment where he gave to someone else. “I strongly believe that in life, the more you give, the more you get back,” the Sicilian-born photographer said. “There’s no doubt that that’s the way it should be.”

January 10, 2020