Tag: Gilles Peress
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What Gilles Peress Saw on 9/11 | The New Yorker
What Gilles Peress Saw on 9/11 The Magnum photographer looks back on capturing an “inconceivable event.” via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-gilles-peress-saw-on-911 A cop tried to stop me. He said, ‘You’re crazy, you’re going to die,’ and I said, ‘O.K.,’ and I bypassed him. I arrived as the second tower was falling. There were very few…
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Gilles Peress’ book The Rockaways distributed for free
Link: The imprint will distribute 3000 copies of the book for free with the stipulation that recipients donate money to a charity of their choice and then pass the book on to another person
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Envisioning Human Rights Part I Gilles Peress, Thomas Morley, Jean-Marie Simon – The Eye of Photography
Link: Gilles Peress raises the dilemma of human rights photography: “I keep asking myself the fundamental question: Can human rights photography, like 18th century novels, be a vehicle for empathy? Can photographs motivate viewers to engage with human rights issues and bring about real change? As we know, badly used photography can be a vehicle…
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Brooklyn : This place, Gilles Peress – The Eye of Photography
Brooklyn : This place, Gilles Peress 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…
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12 Photographers Turn Their Lens on Israel in ‘This Place’ – Feature Shoot
12 Photographers Turn Their Lens on Israel in ‘This Place’ – Feature Shoot 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…
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Gilles Peress Releases Free Photo Book Documenting the Devastation in Far Rockaway After Hurricane Sandy
Gilles Peress Releases Free Photo Book Documenting the Devastation in Far Rockaway After Hurricane Sandy In a uniting effort of remembrance and service, a group of talented individuals have come together to memorialize the tragic effects of Hurricane Sandy, the devastating storm that hit the U.S. east coast on October 29th, 2012. The Rockaways is…
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Review: The Graves by Eric Stover and Gilles Peress
Link: Conscientious | Review: The Graves by Eric Stover and Gilles Peress I think it’s fair to say that the time for the this-is-that game is up in photojournalism now (while the business model is imploding itself), so there are all kinds of attempts to re-play that game, by trying to make it look cool…
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Gilles Peress, Twenty Years After Bosnia
Gilles Peress, Twenty Years After the Siege of Sarajevo Twenty years ago today, Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sucic were killed by Serb snipers while at a peace rally in Sarajevo. Their deaths are considered by many… via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/04/farewell-to-bosnia-gilles-peress.html?currentPage=all Gilles Peress, who has worked with The New Yorker on many occasions, photographed in…
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Student Chat with Gilles Peress (1998)
AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: Student Chat with Gilles Peress (1998)”: On March 18, 1998, Gilles Peress participated in a chat with students of Gretchen Garlinghouse’s advanced photography class at College Preparatory School in Oakland. Preston Tucker, Technology Integrator at College Prep, was College Prep’s liaison with the Connecting Students to the World project. Students prepared for…
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Access to Life
In Access to Life, eight Magnum photographers portray people in nine countries around the world before and four months after they began antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Paolo Pellegrin in Mali, Alex Majoli in Russia, Larry Towell in Swaziland and South Africa, Jim Goldberg in India, Gilles Peress in Rwanda, Jonas Bendiksen in Haiti, Steve McCurry…
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Gilles Peress
Quote:”I don’t care so much anymore about ‘good photography’; I am gathering evidence for history”. Gilles Peress joined Magnum Photos in 1970 and is a Magnum Contributor. Check it out here.