Category Archives: photographers & exhibitions

From the PBS NewsHour:  “South African photographer and activist Zanele Muholi is on a mission to bring the experience of black lesbians in her home country to the forefront, as many members of the community face high rates of violence, … Continue reading →

Top photographer is Australian Luke Austin.  A sample of his incredible work, below:For more photographs and photographers in the competition, follow this link.

Finally … Eadweard Trailer V2 (7.14.15) from The Industry & Co on Vimeo. And, while we’re at it, let’s listen to Muybridge-inspired music.  One of my favorite albums from Philip Glass, “The Photographer”:

That’s the title of a fine piece, published today by the New York Times Magazine, and written by Nicholas Dawidoff, about legendary photographer and filmmaker, Robert Frank.  Recently I was showing some of my photography book collection to my daughter … Continue reading →

Berndnaut Smilde creates carefully controlled environments that let him produce a quickly-disappearing rain cloud that he captures in a photograph.  Read more here.

In a followup to an earlier notice of her death, I am linking here to what is said to be Mark’s most memorable LIFE magazine photo essay. http://time.com/3896742/mary-ellen-mark-streetwise/?xid=newsletter-life-weekly

Here is a 1967 photo of Mark (recently passed away), taken by one of my early mentors, Ralph Gibson (whose hand also appears with Mark’s in this photograph).  She refers to this photograph as “The Enchanted Hand”.  Mark says that … Continue reading →

Mark Ellen Mark died on Monday.  Her documentary work came along early in my photographic career — we were of the same generation — and served as a great influence to me.  This is just one of many images that … Continue reading →

Herman, an old friend from Kansas City, reminds me, following my posts about Lynsey Addario, that David Douglas Duncan came out of Kansas City and was recently the topic of this very interesting Kansas City Star piece: http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/books/article21602583.html Duncan was one of … Continue reading →