Photographing Hip-Hop’s Golden Era
The Smithsonian’s Museum of African American History and Culture has acquired Bill Adler’s extensive archive of hip-hop photos.
The Smithsonian’s Museum of African American History and Culture has acquired Bill Adler’s extensive archive of hip-hop photos.
The British photographer died at age 63
If the past several years of camera introductions have proven anything, it’s that there’s a hunger for dials, knobs and large image sensors among the camera buying public. Not one to miss the boat, Nikon is delivering all of the above in its new DL series
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/02/nikon-dl-advanced-compact-cameras.html
Photographer Paolo Marchetti has won Reportage Photographer of the Year in the 73rd annual Picture of the Year International competition. His portfolio, selected as the winner over the weekend, includes stories about exploited and abused children around t
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/02/paolo-marchetti-carolyn-van-houten-and-al-bello-top-poyi-winners-so-far.html
Magnum today is in shock after the sudden passing of Peter Marlow, 63, who died in London yesterday after a painful struggle with bone marrow cancer (myeloma).
Gillian Laub’s decade-long project Southern Rites focuses on documenting a long-standing tradition of a segregated prom and tragedy for one high schoo…
Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/gillian-laub-s-southern-rites/
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/in-sin-city-with-hillary
The award winners bring us closer not only to the world as it is, but also to the world as it is unfolding from past to present to future.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2016/02/world-press-past-future/
It has been observed that some photography critics seem to actually rather dislike the medium, but it might equally be said that many of those who work directly with photography are prone to operat…
via Disphotic: http://www.disphotic.com/journalism-at-the-limits-of-visibility/
Warren Richardson has won the World Press Photo of the year for his photograph depicting refugees crossing a razor wire border fence as they travel deeper into Europe. This grainy, blurred image sh…
via Disphotic: http://www.disphotic.com/crystallization-or-simplification-world-press-photo-2015/
New regulations will forbid any foreign company from publishing online content in China without the government’s consent.
World Press Photo yesterday announced the winners of its 2016 contest, honoring the best news photos captured in 2015. Above is a breakdown of the cameras
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/02/19/here-are-the-cameras-that-won-world-press-photo-2016/
The photographs in Lee Friedlander’s book “Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom” are of a subject not usually associated with him: the civil rights movement. Among his earliest and least typical images — the photographer was only 22 when he made them — they document a historic, if lesser known, event in the struggle for racial equality and justice.
Daniel Ochoa de Olza’s photographs from Paris were entered by error, says the AP
via Time: http://time.com/4231350/world-press-photo-associated-press/
“The authority of images is at risk,” said photographer David Hartt, one of 19 artists featured in “Ocean of Images.” “So through consuming and discarding images so rapidly, are we diluting them?”
What I most admire in Richardson’s World Press winning photo is how much story it brings to the table.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2016/02/world-press-2015/
members of the jury … spoke about the winning photograph
Inside the CNN photography department
The winning entries of the 59th annual World Press Photo Contest have just been announced.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/02/winners-of-the-2016-world-press-photo-contest/463431/
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/afp-winners-at-world-press-photo-2016