Tag: Matt Black
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Un-american Dream: Watch a New Documentary on Photographer Matt Black
Juxtapoz Magazine – Un-american Dream: Watch a New Documentary on Photographer Matt Black Between 2014 and 2020, photographer Matt Black traveled 100,000 miles across 46 American states to look behind the veil that keeps America’s poor in t… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/un-american-dream-watch-a-new-documentary-on-photographer-matt-black/ Between 2014 and 2020, photographer Matt Black traveled 100,000 miles across 46 American states to…
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Matt Black Documents the Geography of Poverty in America | Blind
Matt Black Documents the Geography of Poverty in America — Blind Magazine For six years, and over 100,000 Miles through 46 States, Matt Black crisscrossed the United States by car and bus looking at America while recording the lives of rural and working-class Americans living in poverty in the richest country in the world. via…
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Matt Black’s American Geography: A Tale of Two Countries | Magnum Photos
Matt Black’s American Geography: A Tale of Two Countries | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos via Magnum Photos: https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/society-arts-culture/matt-black-american-geography-tale-two-countries/ A body of work made over six years — and a new photography course — shows how a commitment to social causes in photography can effect change
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15 Photographers on How Imagination Shapes Their Work – Aperture
15 Photographers on How Imagination Shapes Their Work Dawoud Bey, Nan Goldin, KangHee Kim and more reflect on the photograph’s potential to influence social and artistic images. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/15-photographers-on-how-imagination-shapes-their-work/ From the Magnum Square Print Sale in Partnership with Aperture, Dawoud Bey, Nan Goldin, KangHee Kim and more reflect on the photograph’s potential to influence…
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13 Photographers on Turning Points in Their Work – Aperture Foundation NY
13 Photographers on Turning Points in Their Work Elliott Erwitt, Zun Lee, Alec Soth, and more on the turning points in their photographs—from global and national events to the most personal moments. via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/13-photographers-on-turning-points/ Turning points in the lives and works of photographers often span the extremes—from global and national events to…
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Magnum Photos Blog
Link: Michael Christopher Brown has been made an Associate Member Carolyn Drake has been made a Magnum Nominee Matt Black has been made a Magnum Nominee Newsha Tavakolian has been made a Magnum Nominee Max Pinckers has been made a Magnum Nominee Richard Mosse has been made a Magnum Nominee Lorenzo Meloni has been made…
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Matt Black Awarded 2015 W. Eugene Smith Grant | American Photo
Link: Photographer Matt Black has been awarded the 2015 W. Eugene Smith grant for his long-term documentary project The Geography of Poverty. Black started the project nearly two decades ago in California’s Central Valley, where he grew up, and in 2014 set out on a cross-country trek to document poverty across America. He utilized Instagram…
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Magnum Photos Blog
[contentcards url=”https://pro.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_4&VBID=2K1HZOQ0TK4782&IID=2K1HRG9VS5OY”] Geography of Poverty by Matt Black – Magnum Photos Blog Matt Black’s ongoing project The Geography of Poverty, looks at designated “poverty areas” — with poverty rates of above 20 per cent as defined by the US census—and examines the conditions of powerlessness, prejudice, and pragmatism among America’s poor. Having travelled 100,000 miles…
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Depicting Poverty: Matt Black Pushes Documentary Photography to its Fullest Range – Reading The Pictures
Depicting Poverty: Matt Black Pushes Documentary Photography to its Fullest Range – Reading The Pictures Creating images that double as fine art, Matt Black is mapping how poverty is a major problem today, now, this minute and every minute. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2018/02/poverty-documentary-photography/ We know what poverty looks like: unpainted boards, empty windows and…
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Depicting Poverty: Matt Black Pushes Documentary Photography to its Fullest Range – Reading The Pictures
Depicting Poverty: Matt Black Pushes Documentary Photography to its Fullest Range – Reading The Pictures Creating images that double as fine art, Matt Black is mapping how poverty is a major problem today, now, this minute and every minute. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2018/02/poverty-documentary-photography/ Enter Matt Black, who has been doing really good work to…
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A Photographic Chronicle of America’s Working Poor | History | Smithsonian
A Photographic Chronicle of America’s Working Poor Smithsonian journeyed from Maine to California to update a landmark study of American life via Smithsonian Magazine: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/photographic-chronicle-america-working-poor-180961147/?preview Smithsonian (Matt Black) journeyed from Maine to California to update a landmark study of American life
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Magnum Gets an Injection of New Talent From Six Photographers | American Photo
Magnum Gets an Injection of New Talent From Six Photographers This year the organization is considering a record number of new Magnum associates to potentially join their ranks: Matt Black, Carolyn Drake, Sohrab Hura, Lorenzo Meloni, Max Pinckers and Newsha Travakolian. To celebrate the history-making occasion Milk Gallery is currently hosting, Magnum Photos: New Blood,…
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The Fall of Flint — The Development Set — Medium
The Fall of Flint “You know what my biggest fear is? That people are going to forget about us.” via Medium: https://medium.com/the-development-set/the-fall-of-flint-2847187266a5#.bq2ooj110 Photographer Matt Black has profiled over 100 cities across 39 states for his project The Geography of Poverty. He recently went to Flint, Michigan, for The Development Set
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The 2015 W. Eugene Smith Grant Recipients Matt Black, Marcus Bleasdale, Mary F. Calvert – The Eye of Photography
The 2015 W. Eugene Smith Grant Recipients Matt Black, Marcus Bleasdale, Mary F. Calvert
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W. Eugene Smith Grants Honor Humanistic Photography – The New York Times
W. Eugene Smith Grants Honor Humanistic Photography In the tradition of W. Eugene Smith, the winners of this year’s prizes have devoted themselves to documenting poverty in the United States, sexual assault in the military and the crisis of a failed state. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/14/w-eugene-smith-grants-honor-humanistic-photography/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Matt Black received this year’s W. Eugene Smith Grant…
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Matt Black Wins the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography | TIME
Matt Black Wins W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography And Mary F. Calvert and Marcus Bleasdale share the Smith Fund Fellowship via Time: http://time.com/4073718/eugene-smith-2015-matt-black/ Mary F. Calvert and Marcus Bleasdale share the Smith Fund Fellowship
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2015 Magnum Nominees : The Future of Photojournalism – The Eye of Photography
2015 Magnum Nominees : The Future of Photojournalism From film-inspired Max Pinckers to war reporter Lorenzo Meloni, from Newsha Tavakolian’s insider’s view to the conceptual work of Richard Moose, from the lyrical Carolyn Drake to the classic approach of Matt Black, the six Magnum nominees for 2015 cover the full range of current documentary trends
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Guerrero and the Disappeared – The New Yorker
Guerrero and the Disappeared Matt Black’s portraits of life in Mexico’s poorest state since forty-three students went missing. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/guerrero-and-the-disappeared For years, the photographer Matt Black has been documenting life in impoverished indigenous communities of southern Mexico, for an ongoing project called “The People of Clouds.”