Category Archives: photographers & exhibitions

We learn more — straight from the subject — about Ruth Orkin’s famous 1951 photo. UPDATE 7/18/17: Seems the link placed above in 2011 is now dead. Here’s an alternative, albeit not in the actual words of the late photographer.

Moby gives us another free MP3 download, this an orchestral version of his The Day, included in a different arrangement on his new Destroyed album. Nice, peaceful, meditative. Along with the album is a selection of Moby’s own fine, mood-fitting photography, also shown on … Continue reading →

Back in December 2010, we talked about Vivian Maier. A traveling exhibition of her remarkable photographs is underway. The Vivian Maier website also is now showing quite a number of images, including one of my favorites, a self-portrait made in New York City in 1953, … Continue reading →

James Nachtwey’s work, last visited here over two years ago, registers again as he travels to Japan to document the earthquake/tsunami aftermath. See this Time slideshow.

Here’s something that doesn’t happen every day. Vivian Maier, a Chicago nanny who passed away in 2009, has been discovered to be a closet street photographer, working from the 1950s to 1990s. Based on a just a scratching of the … Continue reading →

If you are interested in jazz history, this piece from the ASC (American Society of Cinematographers) is a must-read. And, if like me, you also have forever admired and been inspired by the photography of W. Eugene Smith, you gotta … Continue reading →

I tried something like this in the pre-digital 70s, but, alas, couldn’t get past the first 30-some days.

The Denver Post’s always-interesting photo blog recently published an array of color photos, taken between 1939 and 1943, by photographers commissioned by the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information. See them all on the Denver Post’s Plog. The … Continue reading →