“These people were speaking a language that was my language,” says Aaron Rose in the intro for his widely acclaimed 2008 film, Beautiful Losers.
Link: Juxtapoz Magazine – Beautiful Losers Full Length Film Now Online | Current
“These people were speaking a language that was my language,” says Aaron Rose in the intro for his widely acclaimed 2008 film, Beautiful Losers.
Link: Juxtapoz Magazine – Beautiful Losers Full Length Film Now Online | Current
German publishers are worrying that Apple’s desire to limit offensive material on its iPhone applications is spilling over into censorship.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/technology/15cache.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
As his private photographs show, there was rarely a dull moment in Warhol’s world. By Bob Colacello.
via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/7429937/Andy-Warhol-he-got-the-picture.html
* hat tip to Stephen Stills “Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay.” – Grant Wood In the course of my working
via Luminous Landscape: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/cant.shtml
The Nukak Maku people, a nomadic indian tribe from Amazonia, were violently driven out of the jungle by the Colombian guerilla and paramilitary squads. Since the time of the first contact, more than a half of Nukak have died of the western diseases like flu. Now, roughly cut off their original tribal lifestyle in refugee camps, they stuck between worlds. They learn from the (mainly Christian) aid workers to use clothes, to listen to the radio, to beg for money despite the fact they do not understand these concepts. Although their digestion suffer, they love to eat sweets, cookies and other western food. They have hunted out all the animals around and now there is nothing left for them. Nukak can not return to the jungle, their world has already passed through an irreversible change.
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Charles Moore died Thursday at his home near West Palm Beach, Fla.
Link: Photographer Moore dies at 79 | TimesDaily.com | The Times Daily | Florence, AL
When I was reading up on the brilliant Eric Ogden for this post, I came across sites where photographers were dissecting his approach to lighting. Everyone had a different idea as to his process, but truly, it’s not just the lighting that make these images special, it’s the quality of his subject matter, the feeling of ominous expectation and vulnerability.
Link: lenscratch: Eric Ogden
Amsterdam’s Foam Photography Museum announced this week that Alexander Gronsky has won their Paul Huf Award for 2010. I’ve heard his name before but this is the first time that I’ve really seen his work. Its spectacular.
Link: Alexander Gronsky wins Foam Paul Huf Award 2010 | dvafoto
The Washington Post just published an interesting article called “Pros and cons to Facebook’s fast-growing role in digital photography”, which contains
Attacks on the media along the border with the U.S. have resulted in what amounts to a news blackout.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/world/americas/14mexico.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
My flight back to the States was cancelled today so I’ve got a rare bit of time to slow down and think of things. There’s been a lot that I’ve wanted to post on in the past few weeks and I simply haven’t had time – so here goes
Brett is a staff photographer for the National Post newspaper, based in Toronto, Canada. His personal work leads him to themes such as race and social structure.
Link: Photos
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea’s state-run (and only) news agency, sporadically releases photos of reclusive 69-year-old leader Kim Jong-il as he makes “on-the-spot” guidance visits. Kim Jong-il, continuing a practice begun by his fath
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/03/on_the_spot_with_kim_jong-il.html
The Cloak Bag is a camera bag that lets you take pictures whilst your camera is still inside. It also doesn’t look anything like a normal camera bag, making it doubly secure if you’re a vulnerable traveler on vacation. Like all the best niche products, th
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/cloak-bag-shoot-with-the-camera-still-inside/
In their first full-length interview ever, Bernd and Hilla Becher talk about the collaborative project that has occupied them for more than four decades: photographing and classifying the industrial structures that are even now vanishing from the modern landscape.
Link: AMERICAN SUBURB X: INTERVIEW: “Interview with Bernd and Hilla Becher (2002)”
Huang Qingjun and Ma Hongjie decided to collaborate on this project, ‘Family Stuff’ in 2005. They have visited a number of areas in China for this project looking for typical Chinese homes to photograph by bringing the domestic objects used in everyday life outside.