Category Archives: photographers & exhibitions

Photograher David Guttenfelder has been photographing the war in Afghanistan for the past seven years. Here, the Denver Post publishes a portfolio of his outstanding work on its Captured photoblog: http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/10/30/photographer-collection-david-guttenfelder-in-afghanistan/

Roy DeCarava, the first black photographer to be awarded a Guggenheim grant, died recently. I remember him mostly from his photographs of Harlem neighborhoods and jazz scenes, which I encountered during my early years in photography. NPR offers up this tribute … Continue reading →

Just learning today that Jim Carroll died on September 11, I slipped down to my basement vinyl music stash. There it was, his 1980 album, Catholic Boy, containing the only piece that I had remembered: “People Who Died”. Carroll may have … Continue reading →

Several months ago, niece-in-law and fabulous designer Chika told us about Isabella Rossellini’s wonderful scientifically-accurate videos of insect and marine sexual life. Here’s an example: See more: http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno/

Friend and fellow photographer John just helped me discover a great photojournalist in AFP’s prize-winning Olivier Laban-Mattei of France. See a sample of his work at http://portfolios.afp.com/photographer/olivier-laban-mattei.html. Also, his images from Iran following the recent election are appearing almost everywhere, including here.

This week we commemorated the 65th anniversary of D-Day in Europe. Most of us are familiar with the Omaha Beach landing photographs of Robert Capa, regarded as perhaps the greatest war photographer of the era.  One of my very favorite … Continue reading →

Friend John sends along a link — passed to him, I gather, by a participant in the photo shoot — of Felice Arenas’ portraits, coupled with appropo Ernest Hemingway quotes, that try to go beyond Hemingway’s challenge of avoiding big words to … Continue reading →

This one hit home. Literally. As a native rural Iowan and decades-long fan of Robert Frank (who wrote an introduction for this project, and whose The Americans book of mid-fifties photographs seems to be a definite spiritual predecessor), I was immediately taken away with … Continue reading →

This year’s Pultizer Prize in feature photography was won by Damon Winter of the New York TImes for his work covering the Obama campaign. Read about Winter and see a gallery of his work.