Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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The unforgettable images of legendary photographer Bruce Davidson – The Washington Post
The unforgettable images of legendary photographer Bruce Davidson Davidson’s work has been collected in a new retrospective book. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/09/15/the-unforgettable-images-of-legendary-photographer-bruce-davidson/ Photographer Bruce Davidson was shooting scenes of urban poverty on East 100th Street in New York, when a woman asked him why he was there. When he said he was shooting images of…
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FotoFirst — Philipp Gallon, a German in the US, Shows Us the Face of Rural America | FotoRoom
FotoFirst — Philipp Gallon, a German in the US, Shows Us the Face of Rural America As a European, Philipp Gallon found that much of America is very different than what the US is typically portrayed like in movies and TV shows. via FotoRoom: http://fotoroom.co/anthology-common-conversation-philipp-gallon/ 37 year-old German photographer Philipp Gallon presents his outsider’s view of…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Stacy Kranitz’s “Speak Your Peace” published by Here Press
Juxtapoz Magazine – Stacy Kranitz’s “Speak Your Peace” published by Here Press Stacy Kranitz has developed an extensive body of work over the past six years while she has been living and working in the Appalachian mountains of No… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/stacy-kranitz-s-speak-your-peace-published-by-here-press/ Stacy Kranitz has developed an extensive body of work over the past six years…
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In Conversation: The Photographs of Alice Austen and Christine Osinski | LENSCRATCH
In Conversation: The Photographs of Alice Austen and Christine Osinski – LENSCRATCH Although the world has changed dramatically over the past century, there are some things that have remained very much the same. A new exhibition makes that point with a series of photographs by two photographers who captured daily life on Staten Island one…
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Todd Hido’s “Intimate Distance” – The New Yorker
Todd Hido’s “Intimate Distance” Hido’s images are sumptuous and full of things to look at, but they suggest untold tales and possibility. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/todd-hidos-intimate-distance The photographs gathered in Todd Hido’s new book, “Intimate Distance,” were made over the course of the last twenty-five years. During that time, Hido has worked on several substantial groups…
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Bill Yates, Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink – The Eye of Photography
Link: The photographer’s iconic series of gelatin silver photographs were shot in 1972-1973 and for nearly 40 years, the project lay untouched in a box. At his family’s urging, Yates began to show the work and was met with immediate success, becoming a top 50 winner 2013 of PhotoLucida Critical Mass Award
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Guy Le Querrec, In Brittany – The Eye of Photography
Link: Magnum photographer Guy Le Querrec produced more than five thousand photos in Brittany between 1965 and 1980. This month, three exhibitions in Brest, Lannion, and Lorient and a book are paying tribute to this long-term work.
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FotoFocus, An alternative understanding of the documentary photograph – The Eye of Photography
Link: it might be forgiven if not every last one of the thousands of images presented quite fit the biennial’s theme, “the Undocument,” which is meant to explore, according to biennial literature, “alternative understandings of the documentary photograph—its claims to objective realism and simultaneous potential for pure fantasy.
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Franck Vogel, Transboundary Rivers : Will war for water happen? – The Eye of Photography
Link: Franck Vogel proposes a photographic itinerary to discover four iconic rivers, from the Brahmaputra to the Nile, the Colorado and the Jordan River. Brahmaputra becomes an economic and energy issues for India and China, which have engaged in a race to the construction of hydroelectric dams
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Simon Kossoff: The States Project: Kansas | LENSCRATCH
Simon Kossoff: The States Project: Kansas – LENSCRATCH Simon Kossoff is my neighbor. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas: a quaint but progressive college town situated at the base of Mount Oread, home to the University of Kansas. Kossoff lives in the Sunflower state but finds his inspiration on the road. I discovered his work two…
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On the Ground in Hurricane-Wrecked Haiti | TIME
On the Ground in Hurricane-Wrecked Haiti “Everything is broken and scattered for as far as the eye can see,” says Andrew McConnell via Time: https://time.com/4526988/haiti-hurricane-matthew-andrew-mcconnell/ Irish photographer Andrew McConnell was in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, for an assignment about education when forecasters started to track a powerful hurricane forming off of the coast of the…
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A Taxi Driver’s Photos of New York – The New York Times
A Taxi Driver’s Photos of New York Ryan Weideman, a photographer who took a taxi shift to make ends meet, turned his camera on his fares during the 1980s and ’90s. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/a-taxi-drivers-photos-of-new-york/ The inside of a New York taxicab is a place where the public realm blurs with the private, especially on…
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Sylvia Plachy: “I look for visceral connections” – The Eye of Photography
Link: I search to photograph people and places that carry some memory of another event and lead me, like stepping stones, back and forth in time and space, between dreams and reality. I look for visceral connections, a chemistry of sorts, an essence or spark, the spirit of the thing.
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Lewis Baltz, Nevada – The Eye of Photography
Link: The Joseph Bellows Gallery, in California, presents the entire portfolio of 15 black and white photographs created for Nevada by Lewis Baltz in 1977
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Karoliina Paatos: The American Cowboy | LENSCRATCH
Karoliina Paatos: The American Cowboy – LENSCRATCH What compels a photographer from Finland to make work about the American West? Seven years ago, Karoliina Paatos began to make photographs in Idaho, Nevada, and Oregon in search of the American cowboy. Over the years, she built a series that is at once cinematic, majestic, and intimate,…
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Justine Kurland, The call of the road – The Eye of Photography
Link: Published by Aperture, Highway Kind allows us to (re)discover the impressive body of work of the American photographer Justine Kurland, from her early series, such as This Train is Bound for Glory, to the most recent Sincere Auto Care.
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Tales from the Cold Wilderness of the Russian Far North – Feature Shoot
Tales from the Cold Wilderness of the Russian Far North Elena Anosova pays an unusual and meticulous attention to textures. via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2016/11/tales-from-the-cold-wilderness-of-the-russian-far-north/ Elena Anosova pays an unusual and meticulous attention to textures. Their feature throughout her project, Out-Of-The-Way, is striking and varied; the patterns of a wallpaper not quite the same as the…
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The abstraction of reality – The Leica Camera Blog
Link: David Adam Edelstein grew up in Hawai’i and China, and currently lives and works in Seattle, Washington with his brilliant daughter and smart, beautiful wife, neither of whom take any of his whiny artistic crap. He has had a camera with him at all times since his parents made the expensive mistake of giving…