March 2010
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“Pictures can absolutely make a difference that’s what photojournalism is....”
– Charles Moore in 1995 from “Charles Moore, I Fight With My Camera”
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Charles Moore 1931-2010
Charles Moore died last week at age 79, a photojournalist who both chronicled and helped alter the course of history through extraordinary photographs that reflected the brutal reality of the civil rights movement in the South.
BBC In pictures: Charles Moore’s powerful days
NY Times Lens Blog : Charles Moore Dies; Depicted Rights Battles
Charles Moore: I Fight With My Camera
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Slide Show: New York, Moody City
A new exhibition of street photography, “Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940–1959,” at the Milwaukee Art Museum, brings together work by photographers ranging from Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans to Helen Levitt, W. Eugene Smith, and Weegee; it also includes paintings by Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Richard...
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“Comments on the internet are the digital equivalent of a landfill. The author...”
– Michael Madrid (via dbox)
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Exhibition Review - BRYAN SCHUTMAAT →
of the Pioneers of Color exhibition in New York
Thanks Bryan
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German Photo Prize Goes to Stephen Shore
The 2010 Cultural Award of the German Society of Photography (DGPh – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie e.V.) is being awarded to Stephen Shore.
The prize has been awarded annually since 1959 in recognition of important contributors to the world of photography. Previous winners include Henri Cartier-Bresson, F.C. Gundlach, David Hockney, Man Ray, August Sander, and Wim Wenders.
The Awarding...
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Irving Penn - Portraits
Major retrospective of portraits by Irving Penn who died last year, from his early years capturing the glamorous celebs of the 1940s for Vogue, to portraits of current Hollywood stars at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
‘Irving Penn: Portraits’, National Portrait Gallery, London, to June 6.
Read more about the exhibition : Irving Penn retrospective
Irving Penn Ausstellung in...
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Fujifilm Distinctions Awards 2009 →
Ikuru Kuwajima, a photojournalist based in Ukraine who has been named the winner of the Fujifilm Distinctions Awards 2009.
My personal favorites; Langjiazi - I was far away be beautiful, Pat Moss - Untitled and Toby Smith - Drax from his recent work Light After Dark. Smith has visited every Power Station in England, shooting at night using long exposures.