The Village Voice’s Photographers Captured Change, Turmoil Unfolding on New York City’s Streets The Voice played an important role in promoting and publishing social documentary photography. We interviewed editors and photographers on its role. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/10/the-village-voices-photographers-captured-change-turmoil-unfolding-on-new-york-citys-streets.html Just as the photographs of Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis communicated the horrors of child labor and tenement…
A South Bronx Family Album For Ricky Flores, one of the photographers in a group exhibition at the Bronx Documentary Center, chronicling his South Bronx neighborhood transformed him from a hobbyist into an obsessive. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/raw-and-real-inside-the-south-bronx/ When Ricky Flores started taking pictures as a high school senior in 1980, he did what a…
Close-Ups of Puerto Rican New York Eight photographers captured what it meant to live in New York and call oneself Puerto Rican. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/close-ups-of-puerto-rican-new-york/ “Dia” embraces the period from the 1960s to the 1980s — when Puerto Rican New York was very much on the rise — with the work of eight photographers:…
