Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Empty Yet Intimidating ‘Corridors of Power’ Photographed by Luca Zanier
Link: Corridors of Power opens together with Richard Ross’ Juvenile in Justice at Anzenberger Gallery in Vienna on March 14 and will remain on view through April 30, 2013.
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Extra! Extra! (7 Images)
Link: In 2011 Justin Maxon added the Cliff Edom “New America Award” to a fast growing list of accolades he started accumulating as a student at San Francisco State University. The photographs, made in Chester, Pennsylvania, a small city just south of Philadelphia along the Delaware River, were from an ongoing project exploring a community…
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Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen: Byker Newcastle
Link: This series by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen was shot in the working-class English neighborhood of Byker, east of Newcastle. Taken in the 1960s
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After Puberty and Before Manhood: A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ Mike Brodie is easy to mythologize. A teenager-turned-supertramp (a term usually used to describe youth eager to travel by whatever means and for as little money as possible) Brodie became a darling of the photography world after carting an old Polaroid…
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Munich: Rise and Fall of Apartheid
Link: Complex, vivid, evocative, and dramatic, “Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life” represents the most comprehensive exhibition of its kind, attempting to formulate an understanding of apartheid’s legacy in South Africa through visual records
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Boston: Bruce Davidson The natural soul
Link: His modern vision of documentary influenced generations of photographers. The American Bruce Davidson, now 79, a Magnum member since 1958, will have a retrospective at the Robert Klein Gallery in Boston until March 30
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Mike Brodie by Elizabeth Avedon
Link: Mike Brodie doesn’t have a telephone, so I asked someone who asked someone who asked Mike Brodie a few questions about how he taught himself to make such well-crafted photos when he had never trained as a photographer
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Mali Conflict Enters New Phase
Mali Conflict Enters New Phase via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/02/mali-conflict-enters-new-phase/100463/ Paolo Pellegrin attacked… everybody. He took no responsibility for his own actions. He constructs straw-men to whack down while at the same time blaming everyone but himself. My way, end of controversy. Paolo’s way, fuel on the fire
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Les Boutographies 2013 Gilles Picarel
Link: Because of their homosexuality, these young people have been disowned by their families. Living in the streets, marginalized, the threat of danger and insecurity is constant
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Justine Kurland’s Beautiful Photos Taken On a Five-Year Road Trip With Her Young Son
Link: Justine Kurland is a fine art photographer based in New York. The short essay above is excerpted from the book, How We Do Both: Art and Motherhood.
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Margaret Bourke-White: Photographs 1930 – 1945
Link: Her pictures testify to her “unquenchable desire to be present when history is being made”, as she herself put it. Bourke-White wanted to be the “eyes of the age”. For Life magazine, then one of the best known and most ambitious ventures in photojournalism, she travelled around the whole world.
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After 57 Years of Marriage, Evocative Photos Tell a Story of Love, Commitment and Repetition
Link: Italian photographer Marina Rosso shot this project from 2009-2011. We asked her how she managed such close access to her subjects. Turns out, Licia and Ryan are the photographer’s grandparents
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Magdalena Sole
Link: They were thought to be lost forever. After an incredible journey, 4500 negatives from the legendary photojournalist Robert Capa and his friends Gerda Taro and David ‘Chim’ Seymour, resurfaced in New York in 2008
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A Trip to Iran
Link: Amos Chapple is a travel photographer who made the following pictures over the course of three visits to the Islamic Republic of Iran between December 2011 and January 2013
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Intricate Photomontages of Famous Landmarks: From the Eiffel Tower to the Brooklyn Bridge
Link: German photographer Thomas Kellner has been producing large-scale works that piece together monuments, palaces, museums and landmarks in a signature style that he has been perfecting for years
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Aurélien Chauvaud Journeys
Link: Aurelien’s work is about projecting imagination upon existing situations. He’s interested in producing images at the boundary of documentary photography and a world of his own
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Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive
Distance & Desire: Encounters with the African Archive via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/distance-desire-encounters-with-the-african-archive The “Distance and Desire” series juxtaposes historical photography from southern and eastern Africa with the work of African and African-American artists who engage with the ethnographic archive
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Ackerman Gruber
Link: Limiting the edition size does help you sell a few more photographs—except in the case of your most popular photographs. Which are the ones that will make the lion’s share of whatever money you’ll ever earn from print sales
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Frédéric Huijbregts: Show must go on!
Link: On March 24 or 25, 2012, Frédéric Huijbregts took his own life, “aware that his illness would gradually rob him of his sight,” according to the Nogent Citoyen newspaper.