From 1972-1979, a 30-something Stephen Shore traversed the United States by road, stopping along the way to set up his tripod and 8×10 camera. When he got tired over long drives, he recited Shakespeare to himself, often adopting the role of Hamlet as he m
Since 1986, when I began to work on the landscapes of France for the Mission DATAR with a panoramic camera, I’ve tried to show how contemporary man influences the landscape. But I’d never seen anything similar to this. From my point of view, I could not find a subject more powerful than the Wall that mutilates the Holy Land.
The World Press Photo contest winners were announced, with a moody black-and-white image depicting the hardship of the Syrian migration crisis winning photo of the year. The New York Times also won five awards.
I believe in going to the limit, and I also believe in what happens beyond the limit in the no-man’s land between various forms of description. This no-man’s land for me, with no labels and codes attached to it, is a free space in the gap between photography and film, literature, painting, art and journalism. Do I trust it? I think it is in the making.
Six New York Times photographers have blanketed the early presidential campaign states during the last three weeks, challenged by carefully constructed stagecraft.
Abbas and the Revolution is an attempt to showcase some of the photographs of one of the most important photographers of our time about one of the most important events of the 20th century. Having two “importants” in the first sentence of this introduction shows that we are quite aware of our monumental task. We know that we can never do justice to Abbas’s career as a photographer, and that despite our best efforts we may be able to tell only a small part of the story of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Legendary photojournalist and newspaper editor Bill Snead, 78, died Sunday in his hometown of Lawrence, KS, where he started his career as a photography assistant at the Lawrence Journal-World while he was still a 17-year-old high school student.
For a land so deeply entrenched with history and conflict, Israel is not an easy subject to approach in a photography project, especially from a single standpoint. Born out of an idea by Frédéric Brenner, a French photographer who has long explored Jewish
From the obsidian depths of the cosmos, the planet Earth is but a grain of blue, anchored only by the gravitational pull of the sun and sheltered merely by a slender membrane of atmosphere. In the 1980s, writer Frank White called it “The Overview Effect”: