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Old phototog sidekick Bill, himself a former pro surfing photographer, sends along this link to an article on the work of Doug Falter.  Just one example ….

Photo by Doug Falter in Huffington Post

The other evening we streamed from Netflix the 2013 film, “A Thousand Times Good Night”.  Juliette Binoche played the lead as a conflict-zone photojournalist who could not stay away from the action.  The director, Erik Poppe, was a photojournalist himself in the 1980s.  The visual aspects of the film are extraordinary — with the script less so, in my opinion — and featured the photographs of acclaimed photographers of humanitarian crises and war zones, Zoriah Miller and Marcus Bleasdale.

This is just one example of several famous photographs painstakingly recreated in miniature by Swiss photographers Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger.  

Writing recently in the New York Times Magazine, Teju Cole in his “A True Picture of Black Skin”, explores how Roy DeCarava in his lifetime captured something very special about black subjects and their lives in his photographs.  DeCarava, who passed away in 2009, worked for almost 60 years and has been quoted with thoughts like these:

“Going outside and meeting the challenge of taking what is and making it yours, that’s what photography does for me,  It’s not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject.”

“A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.“

In addition to the photos and slideshow that accompany Teju Cole’s piece, you can find more of DeCarava’s work in the New York Times LENS blog, at decarava.org and throughout the Web, just a Google search away.