Tag: Jason Eskenazi

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith – Photographs by Jason Eskenazi | Book review by Justin Herfst | LensCulture

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith – Photographs by Jason Eskenazi | Book review by Justin Herfst | LensCulture

Photographer Jason Eskenazi traveled throughout Russia before and after the fall of the USSR and created a remarkable photobook that reverberates with the classic structure of dark fairy tales

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jason-eskenazi-wonderland-a-fairy-tale-of-the-soviet-monolith

Photographer Jason Eskenazi traveled throughout Russia before and after the fall of the USSR and created a remarkable photobook that reverberates with the classic structure of dark fairy tales.

March 12, 2021
5B4: Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith (Reprint) by Jason Eskenazi

Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith (Reprint) by Jason Eskenazi

Originally Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith was published by De.MO but only half the print run was realized so it sold out q…

Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2010/01/wonderland-fairy-tale-of-soviet.html

The style of Eskenazi’s photography follows the lead of the likes of Gilles Peress — an accomplishment considering the plethora of bad photojournalism that is far too wrapped up in visual geometry and gymnastics at the expense of deeper content. Eskenazi has learned to make compelling photographs that have the strength of both form and content.

January 10, 2020
Jason Eskenazi’s Half-Exposures at Look3

Half Photos, Striving to be More

Jason Eskenazi’s orphaned, fascinating accidents provoke him to wonder if he should even bother looking through his camera’s viewfinder, and they will be shown at the Look3 photo festival in Charlottesville, Va.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/half-photos-striving-to-be-more/?pagewanted=all

After developing their film, most photographers snip off and throw away the double-zero frame, at the beginning of the roll, that is usually half-exposed.

Jason Eskenazi is not like most photographers (anyone who knows him will tell you that), and he’s been saving those frames for many years.

January 10, 2020
By the Glow of the Jukebox

By the Glow of the Jukebox

My backordered copy of Jason Eskenazi’s The Americans List finally arrived a few days ago, and I’ve been slowly pouring through it. It is …

Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2013/04/by-glow-of-jukebox.html

My backordered copy of Jason Eskenazi’s The Americans List finally arrived a few days ago, and I’ve been slowly pouring through it. It is a dense book, 83 pages exactly (!) of thick text printed at maybe 4 pt fontsize. I can do maybe 4 or 5 pages at a time before I get brainfreeze. I know what you’re thinking. Ugh! Do we really need another book about The Americans? How many is that now? And how many blog posts? Trust me, none of them are quite like this one. For starters, this one is only a few bucks and fits in a pocket.

April 16, 2013
Exploring the Great East-West Divide

Jason Eskenazi, formerly the most important photographer working as a museum guard (when we visited him in September 2009), is now the former museum guard with the most important photographic project: “The Black Garden” — a personal exploration of the great East-West divide in Eurasia.

Link: Jason Eskenazi Sets Out to Document an Ancient Chasm Throughout Eurasia – NYTimes.com

June 17, 2011
Russian Noir by Jason Eskenazi

Showcase: Russian Noir – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:

In the last 25 years, you might have run into Jason Eskenazi in Haiti, Afghanistan, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine or Dagestan. He may have been photographing on assignment for Time or The Times, or working on projects financed by a Guggenheim or a Fulbright grant. Today, if you want to see Mr. Eskenazi, you don’t have to go farther than the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He’s the short, middle-aged man in the guard uniform watching the sunlight fall on the statues in the Greek galleries.

July 7, 2009