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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, including incidents of so-called “corrective rape.” Muholi’s work is on display at the Brooklyn Museum through November. PBS NewsHour’s Tracy Wholf reports.”

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 …

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 and made special note of Frank’s landmark book, “The Americans“, when I came upon it, so I have something else now for her to see and appreciate.

Dawidoff suggests that Frank is the most influential photographer living today, and that would be hard to argue against.

This brings back memories, years ago, of the first time I visited S. D. in her small Los Angeles studio, and saw affixed to her bulletin board, a postcard from Robert Frank.

Find a copy of “The Americans” if you can, and study it, remembering that it dates back to 1958.  Or at least look at the NYT special feature on the book here.

 

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