Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Tseng Kwong Chi, an “Ambiguous Ambassador” to Life in America | The New Yorker
Tseng Kwong Chi, an “Ambiguous Ambassador” to Life in America Tseng’s photographs stage imaginary scenes of cultural friction, craving, and interpretation. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/tseng-kwong-chi-an-ambiguous-ambassador-to-life-in-america On an evening in December, 1980, the photographer Tseng Kwong Chi gate-crashed the party of the year: the gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was the opening…
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John Sanderson: Carbon County | LENSCRATCH
John Sanderson: Carbon County At first glance John Sanderson’s series of images, entitled Carbon County, has the familiar cadence of American Western documentary photography. Broad sweeping landscapes with horizons that seem worlds away, lonely snaking roads and rugged men on horsebac via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/06/john-sanderson-carbon-country/ At first glance John Sanderson’s series of images, entitled Carbon County,…
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Celebrating “The Sweet Flypaper of Life” in Roy DeCarava’s Centennial Year – Feature Shoot
Celebrating “The Sweet Flypaper of Life” in Roy DeCarava’s Centennial Year – Feature Shoot Roy DeCarava, Boy in park, reading, 1950 Roy DeCarava, Swimmers, 1950 “We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/06/celebrating-the-sweet-flypaper-of-life-in-roy-decaravas-centennial-year/ “We’ve had so many books about how…
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‘Good morning, America’: The state of the union through the eyes of Magnum photographer Mark Power – The Washington Post
Perspective | ‘Good Morning, America’: The state of the union through the eyes of Magnum photographer Mark Power In Good Morning, America, Mark Power offers a wake-up call to a country that has grown more divided via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2019/06/17/good-morning-america-state-union-through-eyes-magnum-photographer-mark-power/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.36adfa277640 In “Good Morning, America,” published by GOST Books, Power offers a view, somewhat pessimistic, of…
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Larry Torno – Life in the Midwest
Larry Torno – Life in the Midwest It’s interesting to note that although it’s called “Life” in the Midwest, there is an obvious absence of humankind in these images. That’s because the “life” I am referring to is not humanity, but rather, my observations made as I absorb my surroundings.
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11 – INTERNET K-HOLE
11 Visit the post for more. via INTERNET K-HOLE: https://internetkhole.com/2019/06/12/11/ It’s one more crack in the fabric of reality as we know it: Researchers at the University of Washington and Facebook have described their work on software that can take any image containing a human body—whether in a painting or a photograph—and automatically create an…
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The visibility of photojournalism – The Leica camera Blog
The visibility of photojournalism – The Leica camera Blog On April 15, 2019, the Italian photojournalist Lorenzo Tugnoli was honoured with the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
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Michael Wolf’s homegoing comes after sunrise – Feature Shoot
Michael Wolf’s homegoing comes after sunrise – Feature Shoot When German photographer Michael Wolf died in Cheung Chau, Hong Kong, on April 24 at the age of 64, he left behind a prodigious body of work that spans 25… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/06/michael-wolfs-homegoing-comes-after-sunrise/ When German photographer Michael Wolf died in Cheung Chau, Hong Kong, on…
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Guy Mendes: The States Project: Kentucky | LENSCRATCH
Guy Mendes: The States Project: Kentucky I remember the first few weeks I started teaching at the University of Kentucky, I was walking around the art building which was my new home and I kept running into Guy Mendes. One has never encountered at more inviting and supportive fellow photographer. via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/06/guy-mendes-the-states-project-kentucky/ I remember…
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A Photographer’s Vision of Being a Mother and an Artist, Year After Year | The New Yorker
A Photographer’s Vision of Being a Mother and an Artist, Year After Year The Taiwanese photographer Annie Wang’s ongoing series “Mother as Creator” portrays how a parent imagines and reimagines her place in the world she builds with and for her child. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-photographers-vision-of-being-a-mother-and-an-artist-year-after-year In a 2001 series called “I Sign; I…
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Sarah Hoskins: The States Project: Kentucky | LENSCRATCH
Sarah Hoskins: The States Project: Kentucky I was recently introduced to Sarah Hoskins’ work as a fellow Lexington photographer who imbeds themselves into communities for their practice. I was immediately intrigued by her ability to get access to these small communities and show their intimate mome via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/06/sarah-hoskins-the-states-project-kentucky/ I was recently introduced to Sarah…
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Chernobyl Disaster: Photos From 1986 – The Atlantic
Photos From the 1986 Chernobyl Disaster Thirty-three years ago, a series of explosions destroyed Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4, starting a blaze that burned for 10 days and sent a plume of radiation around the world—and that was just the beginning of the disaster. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/06/chernobyl-disaster-photos-1986/590878/ As the HBO miniseries Chernobyl comes to a…
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Afro-Ecuadoreans Maintain Identity Through Spiritual Practices – The New York Times
Afro-Ecuadoreans Maintain Identity Through Spiritual Practices The photographer Johis Alarcón documented not just the indelible influence of African culture in Ecuador, but also how the descendants of enslaved women maintained their culture. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/lens/afro-ecuadoreans-identity-spiritual-practices.html The photographer Johis Alarcón documented not just the indelible influence of African culture in Ecuador, but also how the descendants of…
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Graciela Iturbide’s Art of Seeing Mexico | The New Yorker
Graciela Iturbide’s Art of Seeing Mexico In the course of her half-century-long career, Iturbide has dedicated herself to documenting the daily lives, the mores, and the remarkable diversity of Mexican people, always with an eye for the dignity of her subjects. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/graciela-iturbides-art-of-seeing-mexico Four years ago, at the age of seventy-three, the…
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A scroll through Jerry Hsu’s bizarre camera roll
A scroll through Jerry Hsu’s bizarre camera roll Back in 2006, skateboarder Jerry Hsu got a Blackberry. He began taking notes, snapping visual one-liners, jotting down locations and references that he’d send by BBM to friends. “By today’s standards, those photos are really bad but back then it was like, via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/a-scroll-through-jerry-hsus-bizarre-camera-roll/ In…
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Rediscovering Garry Winogrand’s long forgotten color work – Feature Shoot
Rediscovering Garry Winogrand’s long forgotten color work – Feature Shoot Garry Winogrand (American, 1928-1984). Untitled (Cape Cod), 1966. 35mm color slide. Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. During the 1950s and ‘60s, Garry Winogrand made… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/05/rediscovering-garry-winogrands-long-forgotten-color-work/ Known best for his black and white photographs that pioneered a…
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Ashly Stohl: The Days are Long and the Years are Short | LENSCRATCH
Ashly Stohl: Days & Years I remember a day long ago, when I was cleaning out my purse, removing such items as a rotten banana, a half eaten protein bar, wads of kleenex and a few other sticky and seen-better-days items, plus numerous happy meal toys, all co-mingled with my adult p via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/05/karen-navarro/…
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Pieter-Jan De Pue : Kings of Afghanistan
Pieter-Jan De Pue : Kings of Afghanistan Filmmaker and photographer Pieter-Jan De Pue spent almost eight years in Afghanistan. There he worked on his award-winning film The Land of the Enlightened. As well as researching, preparing and making his film, PJ also continued to take photographs. His photos are portraits of people and landscapes, as…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Travis Jensen Explores One of the Last Real San Francisco Neighborhoods In Stunning Black & White
Juxtapoz Magazine – Travis Jensen Explores One of the Last Real San Francisco Neighborhoods In Stunning Black & White San Francisco seems to be the “example” city these days. The example of gentrification, of tech booms, of extreme wealth, of extreme poverty, of liber… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/travis-jenson-explores-one-of-the-last-real-san-francisco-neighborhoods-in-stunning-black-white/ For seven years, Travis Jensen has embedded himself in…
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These Portraits of Metalheads Go to 11 – The New York Times
These Portraits of Metalheads Go to 11 Returning to venues where he attended metal shows years ago, Matthew DeFeo captures the vulnerability behind these artists’ angsty facades. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/lens/these-portraits-of-metalheads-go-to-11.html Returning to venues where he attended metal shows years ago, Matthew DeFeo captures the vulnerability behind these artists’ angsty facades.