February 2012
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A New Trove From an Old Master
In 2008, Joanne Steichen, the widow of Edward Steichen, handed an old envelope to Howard Greenberg, a gallery owner. In it were previously unknown photographs and early prints of well-known images dating from 1915 to 1923, when Steichen was living in Voulangis, France.
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One Kiss, Many Meanings
A kiss is just a kiss - and yet so much more, as James Friedman learned over seven years asking friends, family, and strangers to kiss for him.
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“worriers and warriors!”
“O’ Great spirit, whose voice i hear in the winds… hear me…”
“childhood is the sleep of reason.”
– rousseau.
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January 2012
15 posts
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matthew stone - the body beyond
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no rent - valentina riccardi
No rent, no power, no faucets, and all this by choice. Water comes from a well, the washing machine runs with a pedal mechanism, power is a gift from the sun. Not far from drunken British tourists and disco boys and girls full of Ecstasy, this is a totally different world. It’s Pink Floyd 40 years later, but with a different dream: no more utopia, just life, essential life
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Coming of Age in America: The Photography of...
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Anonymous Tributes to Anonymous People
Women lie. Men lie. Women lie. Men lie. Abraham Lincoln doesn’t lie.
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how photographers actually spend their time?
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Eve Arnold: April 12, 1912—January 4, 2012
If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”—Eve Arnold
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Sculpting a Photograph With Light - harold ross
For more than 20 years, the fine art photographer Harold Ross has been making images using a technique known as “painting with light,” which involves casting light on and around subjects in the dark during a time exposure. Mr. Ross, who also does commercial and studio photography, prefers to call the process “sculpting with light.” Using a Phase One Back on a Hassleblad for still life...
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Iconic Scenes, Revisited and Reimagined - lens...
An empty road during the Vietnam War. A hilltop landscape in Spain. A nondescript motel balcony in Memphis.
These otherwise ordinary settings are the backdrops to photographs that have become icons of history.
Nick Ut’s Napalm Girl photograph changed American popular perception of the Vietnam War. Robert Capa’s Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death became a potent symbol of Republican...
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a picture for a day (poor old 2011)
2011 was packed with drama and shock, tragedy and surprise. How history will judge these 12 months is another question: historians usually come at things once all the men and women behind the news are gone. But those of us who have followed the twists and turns of 2011 know how much it has gotten into our sinews and our psyches—from the sting of tear gas to the ambivalence of long delayed...
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The Aesthetics of a Dictatorship: North Korea’s...
he authenticity of government-released photographs from North Korea has been questioned for years but not until this week, during the funeral of Kim Jong Il, was the issue as widely discussed and analyzed.
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Herb Ritts: Classical Eye
An Amazonian Cindy Crawford and Olympian Naomi Campbell feature alongside Johnny Depp, David Bowie and Karl Lagerfeld in this selection of previously unpublished shots from the late photographer Herb Ritts courtesy of Trunk archives. With an instinctive California-bred approach to light, expansive use of natural landscape and sculptural eye, Ritts set the tone for more than two decades of...
December 2011
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portraits of the artists - lens blog
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Ai weiwei's photographs
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The Body Beautiful: Arno Rafael Minkkinen’s...
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In Cairo, a Painterly Cast of Characters - Miguel...
The most recent images of Egypt’s ongoing upheaval depict chaotic crowds of anonymous young men and women. But since Miguel Angel Sánchez moved to Cairo in 2009, he has singled out the individual, bathing them in dramatic light and shadows like old master portraits.
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Soldier Down: The Portraits of Suzanne Opton
It’s difficult to make a new kind of portrait of a soldier in an age when they have been depicted in such iconic manner in the media. But in her new book Soldier/Many Wars (Decode, 2011), artist Suzanne Opton does so by staging slight performances in front of her 4×5 camera.
November 2011
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NAN GOLDIN’S SCOPOPHILIA
video by Nan Goldin called “Scopophilia,” a word Goldin defines as “the intense desire—and the fulfillment of that desire—experienced through looking.”
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cinemascapes - aaron hobson
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the brave couple
A young Egyptian couple, Alia Mahdi and Kareem Amer, are not only challenging the Egyptian military strategy, but also challenging social conservatism in their country. Kareem Amer is an Egyptian blogger who spent years in an Egyptian prison for criticizing ousted dictator Hussni Mubarak, and for insulting Islam by publicly declaring himself an atheist. Alia, Kareem’s girlfriend, is also an...
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births and rebirths
In the 1960s photographer Kishin Shinoyama was the Japanese equivalent of David Bailey—a media star known for his iconic images of the celebrities of the time. Born in Tokyo in 1940, at the age of three Shinoyama underwent ordination rites to be a Buddhist priest. At the age of 10 he was given his first camera and was so taken with it he built his own working darkroom. His...
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yuma - gustavo jononovich
I traveled to Cuba because my girlfriend decided to do an internship in a hospital in La Havana, she’s a Doctor. Until then, I had always made photographs guided by a specific theme, trying to tell something about other people’s misfortunes. I decided to experience photography in a different way this time. I wasn’t interested in telling or describing anything about the well-known political and...
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trading war for waves - guillermo cervera
“In between conflicts, I go and photograph surfing,” he said. “I’ve always been scared by colleagues who are obsessed with war. I did not want to be like that. So I go make photos of something beautiful.”
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Found and Photographed: Baseballs at Barrett Park
When Don Hamerman walks his dog on a baseball field near his Stamford, Conn. home—where most people spot torn cowhide—the freelance photographer sees something more charming. “The simplest thing to say is that they look pretty,” Hamerman says of the used baseballs he started collecting and photographing seven years ago. “They’re intriguing, interesting. They speak of memory, all the stuff you...
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why is everyone so scared? - nightmares fear...
October 2011
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great mistakes - vanessa winship
Vanessa Winship is the recipient of the 2011 Henri Cartier-Bresson International Award for her new project “Out there: an American Odyssey.” She shares the story of her favorite accidental photograph for our inaugural Great Mistakes post.
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instrumenthead - michael weintrob
INSTRUMENTHEAD is a photographic series created to tell the story of the musicians in a surrealistic style without showing their faces. This is a project five years in the making with over 150 musicians to date.
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Urban Quilombo - sebastian liste
I have been working in this project since 2009, living with the families and their daily dramas. Documenting the daily life inside of this community, where the life moves between the universal bipolarity of harmony and chaos, hope and despair. sebastian liste
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Capturing the Architecture of War Before It’s Gone...
Since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, NATO and Afghan troops have relied on outposts, tiny bases erected in some of the least hospitable terrain to ever see combat. The outposts are places of refuge; the troops sleep, fight and sometimes live behind their makeshift walls. Many are no bigger than a tennis court and could only hold perhaps a dozen troops at a time. To...
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A Long and Distant War: Photos from Afghanistan,...
Photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg has also found it impossible to leave. Since he first trekked into Afghanistan with the mujahedin in 1988, Nickelsberg keeps going back. He does so out of curiosity, duty and obsession. He was there for the Soviets’ withdrawal—flowers for tank gunners until the Red Army rumbled into the hairpins of the Hindu Kush and fell prey to ambush. He was there for the...
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diary - tim hetherington
Tim Hetherington
Tim Hetherington’s video diary shows unpublished work from Liberia, Afghanistan and other places the late war photographer covered.
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now you are free to touch the precious pieces....
Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.
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and emmy goes to ...
On Monday night, The New York Times’s multimedia project “A Year at War“ won an Emmy Award in the “New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming” category for current news. The interactive series chronicles the lives of a single American battalion over their yearlong deployment in Afghanistan.
September 2011
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Saturday Nights on St. Mary Street
After having spent five boisterous years wandering the Saturday-night streets of Cardiff, Wales, Maciej Dakowicz’s bar for amusement is set pretty high.
“If I see a guy wearing a Superman suit, it’s very normal for me,” Mr. Dakowicz said by phone recently. “I need to remind myself that this is notvery normal for other people.”
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the robert mappelthorpe foundation
His vast, provocative, and powerful body of work has established him as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Today Mapplethorpe is represented by galleries in North and South America and Europe and his work can be found in the collections of major museums around the world. Beyond the art historical and social significance of his work, his legacy lives on through the...
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Composite Characters: Peter Funch’s Fictionalized...
The question “What if?” became the driving force behind the series: “What if people where doing the same thing, looking up at the same place, what if it was only kids, what if everyone was behaving within the same phenomenon,” Funch said.