Maybe the greatest living documentary photographer working today and this folks is Sebastião Salgado’s magnum opus: Genesis-Earth Eternal
via the web site
Archives For Documentary
The Pulitzer Prize 2013: Feature Photography Award goes to Javier Manzano (a freelance photographer).
Congratulations and thank you for bringing the world your incredible images.
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The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking news photography has been awarded to Rodrigo Abd, Manu Brabo, Narciso Contreras, Khalil Hamra and Muhammed Muheisen of the Associated Press for their compelling coverage of the civil war in Syria, producing memorable images under extreme hazard.
Congratulations to all the AP photographers and thank you for bringing us these incredible images for the world to see.
via the Pulitzer Prize web site
Best known for her American Girls series. She also did a great series of portraits for the New York Times of Cowgirl’s…
Ilona Szwarc is a photographer, who lives and works in New York City. She was born and raised in Warsaw, Poland.
Her work examines gender, identity and beauty in the context of American culture.
Her project “American Girls” has received worldwide recognition, having been highlighted in The New York Times Lens Blog, MSNBC Today.com and The Huffington Post, among others.
via her web site
Known for his cool, calculated abstractions of apartment building facades titled: Architecture of Density
And the haunting and claustrophobic series of people smashed up against the windows in Tokyo’s sardine packed subways titled: Tokyo Compression
But don’t miss these shots from his Real Fake Art Series documenting the huge industry of art forgers that work there.
Abbott’s famous series shot durring the fall of the Berlin Wall – now in a new musical format. This should be a very special event.
Under the baton of Conductor Laureate Ignat Solzhenitsyn, we journey to a historic moment in time with a program that commemorates the demolition of the Berlin Wall in 1989, leading to Germany’s reunification. Performed in collaboration with a solo exhibition of photographs by James B. Abbott at the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, The Fall: A Photographic Portrait of Berlin and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Abbott will collaborate with Jorge Cousineau and the Chamber Orchestra to present a multi-sensory experience for the concert at the Kimmel Center.
April 07
$24.00-$81.00
Verizon Hall
300 S. Broad Street
Phila, PA 19102via the web site