In 1952, when the budding photographer Gerald Ratto was a 19-year-old student at the California School of Fine Arts, he spent much of his time in the Fillmore district of San Francisco. Wandering around the neighborhood with his Rolleiflex camera and a bottle of brandy, he shared drinks and conversation with the residents and snapped pictures of the local kids as they played in the street.
Is Britain’s war on photography coming to an end? After the Independent newspaper got senior officials to admit that anti-terror legislation was being “widely abused…to question a…
Writing in today’s Independent, he says: “Everyone… has a right to take photographs and film in public places. Taking photographs… is not normally cause for suspicion and there are no powers prohibiting the taking of photographs, film or digital images in a public place.”
Alec Soth is one of today’s most high-regarded photographers. His talent became widely recognized in 2004 when he was included in the Whitney Museum’s Biennial 2004 (the Biennial strives to showcase the state of art at that moment.) Actually, he wasn’t just in the Biennial, he was a standout: in addition to rave reviews, he was one of three artists highlighted by a Time magazine piece about the Biennial…and even the image-sparse Wall Street Journal showcased one of Alec’s images from the exhibition. (see the Biennial piece above)
Funny thing — when I was pulling together images I liked from the last several weeks, I noticed that each fit into one or another cliché I fall back on from time to time. We all have our own personal (and shared) clichés, and I find it an amusing (and, at times, frustrating) exercise to find all those instances where they pop up in our images.
The local Madison, Wisconsin, paper Isthmus picked up the story this week about an incident that happened in October where photographer Josh Zytkiewicz was questioned by a security guard outside th…
The local Madison, Wisconsin, paper Isthmus picked up the story this week about an incident that happened in October where photographer Josh Zytkiewicz was questioned by a security guard outside the federal courthouse. The guard told Zytkiewicz “security procedures” prohibited him from taking photos of the building and said he was calling the Madison police (which never arrived, if he did).
This fall, Steven Kasher Gallery in New York exhibited Josh Gosfield’s collection of memorabilia relating to Gigi Gaston, the French singer/songwriter of the 1960s. His reproductions of album covers, posters, tabloid newspaper articles, fan magazines and scandal sheets tell the story of Gaston’s rise to pop stardom, the car crash that killed her stepbrother and briefly halted her career, her 1969 world tour, her scandalous love affair with an Italian film star, and all the triumphs and tragedies that kept Gaston in the public eye for more than a decade.
Stephen Alvarez is obsessed with opening the world’s eyes to the border areas of Uganda and Sudan, torn apart for more than 20 years by brutal, interlocking wars.
Stephen Alvarez has also been obsessed with making sure that people see a different kind of dark and mostly unknown place: an area along the border of Uganda and Sudan that has been torn apart for more than 20 years by two brutal, interlocking wars.
That’s been apparent this week, as White House reporters have privately discussed and debated the recent addition of sites like Talking Points Memo and Huffington Post to the White House in-town press pool. It’s not that reporters are criticizing the work of either Christina Bellantoni or Sam Stein, but some have expressed concerns about pool reports coming from left- or right-leaning news organizations that will then be used by the rest of the press corps.
Also receiving votes were members Danny Gawlowski (92), Jack Zibluk (91), Jeff Gritchen (80), Gerald Williams (61), Pete Souza (1), Ken Irby (1) and Melissa Lyttle (1).
“I recently had a client show me an eCommerce site they wanted built. I replied that what they wanted is about a $20,000 web site. They later told me that they had a guy who lived in a cabin who just needed money who would do the whole site for $1,000. He didn’t work out.”
Reader’s Digest Publishing in Australia has a very ugly new contract that they’d like photographers to sign. I’m not sure if they are a franchise of the American Reader’s Digest, with some type of content sharing deal, or if they…
The subject of Oil is near and dear to Mr. Burtsynsky, as revealred in an article in the Arts Journal. He has an amazing ability to combine significant documentary work with beautiful imagery, that lures the viewer in for a closer look, only to realize he’s telling us something profound. His images taken in Australia are as beautiful as they are disturbing.
Behold NYC Bloggers Do the Holidays, a tour of goodies in list and link form. The WFMU contribution, courtesy of Otis Fodder, is a playlist packed with 80 tracks that will either make you freak out or keep you from freaking out, depending on your metaboli
Behold NYC Bloggers Do the Holidays, a tour of urban goodies in list and link form. The WFMU contribution, courtesy of Otis Fodder, is a playlist packed with 80 tracks that will either make you freak out or keep you from freaking out, depending on your metabolic set point.
Holiday Freak In (2002) and Holiday Freak Out (2006) are compilations Otis pulled together for his special people, and now you’re a special person, too. A guy who really likes Christmas music liked them a lot. You can read that guy’s interview with Otis and commentary while you download. Cuz that’s gonna take a while.
The photographers’ collective NOOR was founded in Amsterdam in 2007 with a mission to pool resources and interests to produce, exhibit and promote both individual and group projects by its members. Managing director Claudia Hinterseer recently spoke to PDN about a group project called “Consequences” that highlights the social impact of climate change in different parts of the world.
A French politician is creating a small furor with a proposal to require all digitally altered photographs of people used in advertising be labeled as retouched.
VALÉRIE BOYER is 47, a member of the French parliament and a divorced mother of three. She is tall, fashionable and, dare we say it, slim.
But she has also created a small furor here and abroad with her latest proposal: a draft law that would require all digitally altered photographs of people used in advertising be labeled as retouched.
Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has launched a series of web videos which tell the stories of people in Congo, an African country that has seen violence and human rights atro…
