Sally Mann doesn’t believe in talent. She believes in hard work. The kind of work it takes to ride unruly horses, to hoist an 8×10 camera, to constantly fend off controversy, and to write an honest book about a complicated existence.
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Valerio Bispuri: Life Behind Bars in South America « The Leica Camera
A world of anarchy and chaos – correctional facilities in South America are considered among the toughest in the world. The inmates themselves are often in control of daily life within the walls of the miserably overcrowded prisons. Valerio Bispuri visited over 70 of them, resulting in haunting black-and-white images that offer a glimpse at life behind bars – images as full of contrasts as life itself.
You can see a comprehensive series of Valerio Bispuri’s images in issue No. 2 of the M Magazine, which is available today, Friday, May 15.
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Tina Barney Talks to Us About Her New Exhibition, The Passage of Time, and the True Meaning of Portraiture – Feature Shoot
Tina Barney Talks to Us About Her New Exhibition, The Passage of Time, and the True Meaning of Portraiture
In decade in which we obsess over change, be it catastrophic or fortuitous, the photographs of Tina Barney continue to remind us of that which is constant. Beginning the 1980s, she has captured the world, her world, in large-scale analogue photographs, laying bare the push and pull of tension and familiarity that run beneath domestic life. Since then, her imagery has invited us not only into private interiors of life for affluent New Yorkers and elite New Englanders but also into the palatial homes of European aristocrats and small town American communities. Throughout it all, she has returned time and again to the family, to the home, and to the ubiquitous and essential need to belong.
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2015/05/tina-barney-talks-to-us-about-her-new-exhibition-the-passage-of-time-and-the-true-meaning-of-portraiture/
In decade in which we obsess over change, be it catastrophic or fortuitous, the photographs of Tina Barney continue to remind us of that which is constant. Beginning the 1980s, she has captured the world, her world, in large-scale analogue photographs, laying bare the push and pull of tension and familiarity that run beneath domestic life. Since then, her imagery has invited us not only into private interiors of life for affluent New Yorkers and elite New Englanders but also into the palatial homes of European aristocrats and small town American communities. Throughout it all, she has returned time and again to the family, to the home, and to the ubiquitous and essential need to belong.
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Book : Last Best Hiding Place by Tim Richmond – The Eye of Photography
Deserted streets with beer cans blowing down the road…a cowboy washing his shirts…a train on its way into a million acres of emptiness…a Vietnam vet who lost twenty years of recent memory…a whole town for sale…meth warnings…a tattooed waitress in neon light. All of these inhabit the Last Best Hiding Place.
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Tanzania Burundi Refugee Crisis | AP Images Blog
As a teenager Joseph Nakaha fled with his parents to neighboring Tanzania when ethnic-based fighting erupted in Burundi after independence in 1962. In 1972, he was a refugee again and then in 1993 when civil war broke out, he and his wife and grandchildren again fled the country.
Now 67, Nakaha is a refugee once again.
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Sam Harris – The Middle of Somewhere | LensCulture
The Middle of Somewhere – Photographs and text by Sam Harris | LensCulture
A celebration of childhood and family life through a collection of simple yet beautiful moments of two sisters growing up in the remote Australian wilderness
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/sam-harris-the-middle-of-somewhere
“The Middle of Somewhere” is from my ongoing visual family diary, which revolves around my two daughters growing up. After leaving behind my photographic career (and life) in London in 2002, we passed several nomadic years before settling down in a remote part of Australia where this series began.
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Dialogues: 36 Photographs & 20 Poems – The Eye of Photography
Dialogues: 36 Photographs & 20 Poems
Dialogues: 36 Photographs & 20 Poems is a new publication from 205-A and the first book in a series that explores the intersection between photography and poetry. The publishers, Aaron Stern and Jordan Sullivan worked in collaboration with poets Tom Sleigh and Will Schutt to bring together these unique pairings. The book features the photography of Ed van der Elsken, Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, Alain Laboile, Emma Phillips, Mark Borthwick, Brian Merriam, Coley Brown, Jordan Sullivan and Aaron Stern.
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Past and Present Collide in Pittsburgh – NYTimes.com
Past and Present Collide in Pittsburgh
The Carnegie Museum of Art enlisted writers to reflect on the archives of the pioneering African-American photographer Charles (Teenie) Harris to better understand Pittsburgh today.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/past-and-present-collide-in-pittsburgh/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog
Sometimes it takes a connection to the past to better understand the present. For essayists exploring African-American life in Pittsburgh, a trove of 80,000 photos taken by Charles (Teenie) Harris allowed them to immerse themselves in everyday life from the 1930s through the 1970s.
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Sean Gallagher – Desertification in China | LensCulture
Desertification in China – Photographs and text by Sean Gallagher | LensCulture
20% of China is desert—and that percentage is growing
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/sean-gallagher-desertification-in-china
By traveling on China’s “desertification train” that bisects China’s major northern deserts (The Gobi, Taklamakan and Badain Jaran), photojournalist Sean Gallagher reports on the various implications of desertification on people’s lives across the breadth of China.
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A New York Dive Bar’s Last Call – NYTimes.com
A New York Dive Bar’s Last Call
Timothy Fadek, who used to go to the bar, on East 60th Street and Lexington Avenue, felt a twinge of melancholy when he learned it was to close last December and be replaced by — what else? — condos. He set about to chronicle the last days of the place that had been a regular stop on his way home from the School of Visual Arts in the late 1990s.
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‘The Corridor of Death’: Along America’s Second Border | TIME
‘The Corridor of Death’: Along America’s Second Border
Kirsten Luce travels to Brooks County where illegal migrants face deadly odds
via Time: http://time.com/3898564/immigration-border-mexico/
Since 2006, when she became a staff photographer at The Monitor in the border town of McAllen, Tex., Kirsten Luce has been documenting immigration issues on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border
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A Nuclear Plant In My Backyard — Vantage — Medium
A Nuclear Plant In My Backyard
What can rural Indian villagers do to counter the development of a massive government-backed nuclear industry? Amirtharaj Stephen shows us.
via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/koodankulam-a-nuclear-plant-in-my-backyard-86cd8504f66
What can rural Indian villagers do to counter the development of a massive government-backed nuclear industry? Amirtharaj Stephen shows us.
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Santa Fe: Margaret Bourke-White, Pioneering Photojournalist – The Eye of Photography
Santa Fe: Margaret Bourke-White, Pioneering Photojournalist
Margaret Bourke-White was a pioneering figure in 20th century documentary photography. As a founding mother of LIFE, she became a world-famous symbol of globe-trotting photojournalism. And that she did it in a male world made her success even more spectacular
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Juxtapoz Magazine – The work of Noel Camardo
Juxtapoz Magazine – The work of Noel Camardo
Noel Camardo is watching American culture closely, analyzing and documenting its bizarre behavior with a sharp eye and his camera. Whether it’s…
Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/the-work-of-noel-camardo
Noel Camardo is watching American culture closely, analyzing and documenting its bizarre behavior with a sharp eye and his camera. Whether it’s our strange fascination with staring at phones in public while being unaware of our surrounding to income inequality or our government’s food regulation, Camardo’s photographs reveal the cracks and underlying issues in our infrastructre and society
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Photographer Hatnim Lee Captures All Walks of Life Inside Her Parents’ Liquor Store – Feature Shoot
Photographer Hatnim Lee Captures All Walks of Life Inside Her Parents’ Liquor Store – Feature Shoot
When Korean-born photographer Hatnim Lee was a child, her parents’ Washington, D.C. liquor store was a home away from home. She was an infant when her parents moved to the United States to open up shop, and she spent much of her childhood chipping in and
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2015/05/photographer-hatnim-lee-captures-all-walks-of-life-inside-her-parents-liquor-store/
When Korean-born photographer Hatnim Lee was a child, her parents’ Washington, D.C. liquor store was a home away from home. She was an infant when her parents moved to the United States to open up shop, and she spent much of her childhood chipping in and helping out. Their customers became a sort of extended family, popping by throughout the day to peer in and wave hello behind a layer of thick plexiglass. Plexiglass is Lee’s album of the community built by her parent’s liquor store, an ode to their hard work and to the people she has come to know both intimately and at a distance.
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Zsófia Pályi – Balaton, the Hungarian Sea | LensCulture
Balaton, the Hungarian Sea – Photographs and text by Zsófia Pályi | LensCulture
Emerald waters and sapphire skies—a former oasis of the Eastern Bloc, Lake Balaton forms the setting for this series of vibrantly colorful portraits
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/zsofia-palyi-balaton-the-hungarian-sea
During the 1960s and 70s, Lake Balaton, the biggest lake in Central Europe, was a major tourist destination for working-class Hungarians and people from the Eastern Bloc. It also served as a meeting point for Eastern and Western Germans, who were separated by the Berlin Wall until 1989, but could still travel and meet here.
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Grete Stern’s Interpretation of Dreams – The New Yorker
Grete Stern’s Interpretation of Dreams
The photographer Grete Stern interpreted the dreams of women’s-magazine readers with startling invention and not a little feminist verve.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/grete-sterns-interpretation-of-dreams
The photographers Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola met at the Bauhaus in 1932. The next year, they emigrated to London, where they married, and then to Coppola’s native Argentina, where they mounted the country’s first exhibition of modernist photography
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Jill Freedman: For Life – The Eye of Photography
Jill Freedman: For Life
These here are some real New York ladies.” Nobody had ever come to my defense like this. It was a snowy January afternoon. The weather was cold but the mood was cheerful. Jill and I had just left her apartment in Harlem, near West 100th street, Morningside Park and the majestic cathedral that overlooks it. We were headed to the other side of Central Park, towards 70th street. In New York, you can only tickets for the bus with small change, which you usually only need for laundromats. Standing across from the stony-faced driver, I was digging in my pockets for a few more coins. “Just take a seat,” Jill said. “The drivers won’t care, he’s used to it.
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Eight Norwegian Photographers You Need to Follow | TIME
8 Norwegian Photographers You Need to Follow
Norwegian Journal of Photography’s survey of documentary photography
via Time: http://time.com/3830557/eight-norwegian-photographers-you-need-to-follow/
The publishers — photographers and photo editors Rune Eraker, Laara Matsen and Espen Rasmussen — combed through close to 100 applications and submissions to arrive at its final list of eight photographers, using funding from the Fritt Ord Foundation, a non-profit devoted to freedom of expression, to produce the high-quality book.
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See the Hidden Images Lurking Within LED Billboards | American Photo
See the Hidden Images Lurking Within LED Billboards
Incredible split-second patterns in New York advertisements captured on large-format film