As an art school student at Cooper Union during the pre-digital era, I was given a twin-lens reflex camera to play around with. It was medium format and simple to use. One crisp autumn day I spooled in a roll of 120 Tri-X and headed to Washington Square Park. The camera didn’t have a light meter—and neither did I. All I knew about picture-making … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the pen or the brush? Veronica Miller Jamison: I love this question. Right now, for me, the brush comes first. I love putting down large strokes of color and the challenge of communicating objects with just a few passes of the brush. The way color behaves as you move the brush from one side of the page to the … Read the full Story >>
There's hardly anything more stately than a fabulous residence photographed by a great architectural photographer. Think of Julius Schulman's photographs of the Kaufmann Desert House designed by Richard Neutra in Palm Springs; or Todd Eberle's shots of Mitch Glazer & Kelly Lynch's equally grand house in the Hollywood Hills, designed by John Lautner. Anyone who enviously pours over the "Home" section of the … Read the full Story >>
The online world erupted yesterday when Vanity Fair released the cover of its new issue, featuring a portrait of Caitlyn Jenner, the former Bruce Jenner, shot by Annie Leibovitz. From BuzzFeed to the Wall Street Journal, the story of the day was the VF cover. The Huffington Post topped its front page with the cover and a single-word headline: "Herstory." Aside from Jenner's story … Read the full Story >>
PETA won't give up. And photographer David Slater says that has ruined him. Slater, who is defending himself against PETA's copyright infringement claim on behalf of a macaque monkey that hijacked his camera and shot selfies with it, has told the Telegraph newspaper that the lawsuit has left him penniless and that he is considering giving up his career as a wildlife photographer to … Read the full Story >>
Ink spots, scribbles, old papers, graphic fonts, vintage photos--all these elements and more can be found in the work of Brazilian illustrator and graphic designer Walter Vasoncelos. His two Latin American Ilustracion 2-winning pieces, both personal projects, are in fact perfect specimens of his creativity. "I use Illustrator and Photoshop, but I don't want my drawings to have a 'computer-made' look," he says. "I … Read the full Story >>
When something ceases to live, what is left behind? It's a philosophical question. It's a religious question. and for Chester Higgins, Jr., it's a photographic question. Higgins has been an esteemed figure in the New York photography world for decades: A staff photographer for the New York Times from 1974 to 2014, he has also traveled yearly to Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan to photograph … Read the full Story >>
It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization.—Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden Back in the 1970s, when Carl Sagan was musing on the history of mankind, the counties north of the Bay Area began to be populated by a new breed of first-generation farmers. They moved … Read the full Story >>
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Adrienne Salinger would approach girls in line for the toilet at shopping malls across America and do something that one might not today--she would ask if she could photograph them in their bedrooms. "Think of that! Now, can you imagine?" Salinger commented recently. Her images were collected in the 1995 book "Teenagers in Their Bedrooms," which achieved … Read the full Story >>
Photographer Nadine Boughton explores the pulp fictions of domestic life with vivid iconography from the past ... Instagram to remain independent of Facebook for a "long time" ... the European Publishers Award for Photography is accepting entries ... what the fiscal cliff means for art ... five not-so-common tip for photographers who travel ... the top viral photo projects of 2012, from diving dogs … Read the full Story >>
Twelve miles from the coast of Libya, Agence France-Presse photographer Aris Messinis witnessed the current migration crisis at its most desperate. On October 3, Messinis was aboard a rescue vessel in the Mediterranean that discovered wooden vessels and rafts overloaded with hundreds of migrants from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Nigeria and other sub-Saharan countries. In one boat, more than two dozen people were dead. Messinis's … Read the full Story >>
During his recent exhibition, “Dream Date”, at ClampArt, Joseph Desler Costa spoke with Gregory Eddi Jones about conditions that have influenced his highly polished, machine-made- and very expensive-looking photographs. Jones, Founding Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of In the In-Between, said, “The fabrication of your work gets me thinking about art as a product, and on how art pictures essentially act as advertisements for … Read the full Story >>
Q: HOW MANY MILK CRATES DOES IT TAKE to make an architectural statement? A: Exactly 1,025, if you’re talking about Praxis Studio’s installation at the Whitney Museum at Altria. Their latest project, Dreams and Possibilities, is a film-in-the-making that takes installation to a new level. Every aspect of the project is work in progress, from the filming and interviews to the assignment of jobs, … Read the full Story >>
Since the NYC Ferry system went into service last year, close to 3 million people have emerged from darkness to travel the city’s outer boroughs. Commuting to work or finding summertime bliss at the local beaches, they have come to appreciate the city as a vast archipelago. Well before the ferry service began, photographer Susannah Ray, a resident of Rockaway Beach, would cross New … Read the full Story >>
Matthew Brandt, Mary’s Lake MT 2; C-print soaked in Marys Lake Water, 2011; featured at The AIPAD Photography Show, Yossi Milo Gallery, Booth 203. The AIPAD Photography Show at The Park Avenue Armory runs from Thursday, March 29 through Sunday, April 1. Seventy-five of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work, including contemporary, modern, and 19th-century photographs, … Read the full Story >>
What does it mean to wave the flag? Who does it mean you are? "In these turbulent times, we have diverse opinions and beliefs, now amplified by media and social networks," writes New York-based photographer Steven Prezant of his series "Americans." Divided by values we hold dear and politicians who amplify divisions for their own ends, we nonetheless all metaphorically wave the same flag, … Read the full Story >>
At first, the Oscar-nominated short "Edith+Eddie" may seem to be another real-life feel-good film. The documentary focuses on two people, one white and one black, one aged 95 and the other 96, who find love over a shared lottery ticket and then get married. But then real-life and feel-good aspects of the story part ways: Edith has been diagnosed with mild dementia and is … Read the full Story >>
In 1963 LIFE Magazine published a photo by Charles Moore of a black man being arrested during a civil rights protest in Birmingham. Howardena Pinell (b. 1943 Philadelphia) proposed a video based on the photo, and others of Civil Rights clashes she saw as a child, to the AIR Gallery, in New York City. The gallery, which is the country’s first female-run, feminist co-op space, … Read the full Story >>
The Egyptian photojournalist known as Shawkan is free. Sort of. Shawkan, whose real name is Mahmoud Abou Zeid, was released this week by Egyptian authorities, five years after he was arrested while covering a 2013 protest in Cairo during which hundreds of demonstrators were killed by Egyptian security forces, notes CNN. Zeid's imprisonment was criticized by press-freedom and human rights groups. But his new … Read the full Story >>
"I always loved art but didn't really start before I was in my 20s," says freelance illustrator Pierre-Paul Pariseau. "I did a few clumsy oil paintings then but soon discovered the technique of photo-collages." Pariseau used cutout images, as well as watercolor and acrylic paint and a blast of Photoshopping, to create an illustration for a special issue of the Buenos Aires-based art and … Read the full Story >>
