It’s not unreasonable to expect that almost every person reading this has seen ‘nanny photographer’ Vivian Maier’s work. Whether in galleries, online or
A copyright infringement lawsuit against Google that began with a bang in 2010 and plenty of bluster by trade groups about protecting the rights of their members has finally ended with a whimper. The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), Nationa
A group of photographers, visual artists and affiliated associations have reached a settlement with Google in a lawsuit over copyrighted material in Google Books. The parties are pleased to have reached a settlement that benefits everyone and includes fun
For Legacy of the Mine, photographer Ilan Godfrey explores the human cost South Africa’s monolithic mining industry, tracing the threads of exploitation and oppression that run through the country’s lucrative mineral trade.
A recently-released product by Microsoft that allows content creators to embed digital images on their websites is being called a “massive infringement”
In Gomorrah Girl, Valerio Spada tells the story of the murder of Annalisa Durante, a young woman caught in the crossfire of a Mafia shootout, and the problems of growing up in a crime-ridden area. Bound together through an innovative, book-within-a-book design, are Spada’s photographs documenting adolescence in the land of Camorrah (the name for the Mafia in Naples) and pages detail the police investigation.
Jean-Pierre and Eliane Laffont arrived in America in the mid-1960s. In 1969, they opened the Gamma news agency bureau, then the Sygma news agency bureau in 1973 following the split. They’ve just published Photographer’s Paradise: Turbulent America 1960-1990 (Glitterati). The book, one of the most important of the season, will be “screened” at Visa pour l’Image
On May 12th, 2013, the photojournalist Camille Lepage was killed in the Central African Republic. She was 26. At this year’s Visa pour l’Image festival, the publisher CDP released a posthumous book entitled “République centrafricaine : On est ensemble” (“Central African Republic: We Are Together”).
The houses of wealthy Roma in Eastern Europe have a distinct architecture. They are memorable because they look extravagant and massive from the outside, often overly decorated with turrets, stairs…
30 years ago I went to my first punk show in the DC area. It was Naked Raygun, TSOL, MIA, Government Issue and the Cereal Killers at WUST Hall. Back then I didn’t have a camera nor the balls to photograph the bands, punks and skinheads at these shows, but I remembered the energy, the fun and the danger that swirled like a tornado at these events. For the last four years, I’ve been shooting the current hardcore and punk scene in DC and Baltimore which has been making waves in our area and beyond
Thought to possess two spirits, the transgender women of Venezuela’s Warao people are seen as being close to the ancestor spirits that roam the jungle.
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has awarded the twenty-second Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to American photographer, filmmaker, and writer Jon Lowenstein for “South Side,” his testimony to the Chicago neighborhood where he has li