A nice Larry Fink video Interview by John Thornton during his exhibition at Schmidt Dean Gallery in Philadelphia.
Archives For Documentary
Nick Brandt is one of the best nature photographers out there. His exquisite black and white photographs documenting the vanishing wildlife of East Africa are a wonder to behold.
His new series Across the Ravaged Land with a book by the same name will be on view at Hasted/Kraeutler in the fall of 2013
via the artists web site
Phylliss Galembo was born in New York but her heart rests in the the eerie depths of the masked ritual and masquerade cultures of Africa, South America and the Caribbean. Her deceptively simple portrait work is astounding.
This new platform is quite simply astounding. CrowdMedia just might change photo journalism forever with crowdsourcing news photography from anyone on the scene….
Interesting discussion regarding smartphone photojournalism with renowned photography theorist Fred Ritchin here
CrowdMedia’s premise is simple: Crowd sourced social photos shared on Twitter or Instagram are, more and more, becoming critically important to news coverage. So the startup offers an automated platform that gets those pictures out of social media and onto the front page of major news organizations, with rights cleared and money in the owner’s pocket … all within minutes.
“We want to completely crush today’s model of journalism,” co-founder and CEO Martin Roldan told me last night.
On June 7, literally 15 minutes after launching, the platform proved itself.
“There was a shooting incident at Santa Monica College, near where President Obama was. Within the first 15 minutes we were live,” Roldan said. “It was intense in the office.”
CrowdMedia’s platform, which combs through 150 million shared photos every day, searching for the .03 percent that are newsworthy, noticed the surge in attention, found the only photos from inside the locked-down Santa Monica college, cleared the rights with the student who took them, and sold them to publishers.
It’s not every startup that sees that instant kind of proof-of-concept. And the system, which is still in private pre-beta with a small group of media outlets, proved itself again last week during the Asiana crash at San Francisco airport.
“We got photos on the Huffington Post from people who were there,” Roldan said. “We caught these photos mostly by geolocation.”
This was THE landmark photography exhibition of all time. MoMA brings it back in all its glory.
Walker Evans American Photographs
July 19, 2013–January 26, 2014
This installation celebrates the 75th anniversary of the first one-person photography exhibition at MoMA, and the accompanying landmark publication that established the potential of the photographer’s book as an indivisible work of art. Together and separately, through these projects Walker Evans created a collective portrait of the Eastern United States during a decade of profound transformation—one that coincided with the flood of everyday images, both still and moving, from an expanding mass culture and the construction of a Modernist history of photography.
Comprising approximately 60 prints from the MoMA collection that were included in the 1938 book or exhibition, the installation maintains the bipartite organization of the originals: the first section portrays American society through images of its individuals and social contexts, while the second consists of photographs of American cultural artifacts—the architecture of Main streets, factory towns, rural churches, and wooden houses. The pictures provide neither a coherent narrative nor a singular meaning, but rather create connections through the repetition and interplay of pictorial structures and subject matter. The exhibition’s placement on the fourth floor of the Museum—between galleries featuring paintings by Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol—underscores the continuation of prewar avant-garde practices in America and the unique legacy of Evans’s explorations of signs and symbols, commercial culture and the vernacular.