What the world wants now ... are the 1990s. Why shouldn't our nostalgic attention turn to the era before the internet democratized everything and the iPhone turned everyone into a published pro photographer? It was a time when the high gloss of the '80s bumped into alt-rock grittiness and a new kind of glamour emerged. In fashion, the face of the era belonged to … Read the full Story >>
There were 58 seconds left in the game. The underdog San Francisco 49ers, trailing the Dallas Cowboys by 6 points in the 1982 NFC championship game, had the ball on the Dallas 6 yard line. It was third down with three yards to go when quarterback Joe Montana rolled to his right and threw a pass to the rear right of the end zone, … Read the full Story >>
April 23-27: AIPAD | The Photography Show at The Armory The Association of International Photography Art Dealers [AIPAD] was organized in 1979. With members in the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe and Japan, the Association has become a unifying force in the field of photography. AIPAD is dedicated to creating and maintaining high standards in the business of exhibiting, buying, and selling photographic … Read the full Story >>
Stock photography has become the stuff of memes. We recently spotlighted Dark Stock Photos, a popular Twitter account created by journalist Andy Kelly that features absurd and disturbing images gleaned from various stock agencies. We also looked at the history of the famous "Distracted Boyfriend" stock photo that launched a million memes. Aside from the jokes about bland and weird stock photos, the big … Read the full Story >>
Yesterday we featured predictions about the journalism in 2022. Today we're going farther afield, because right now everyone is talking about the metaverse. Someday, the metaverse-a a 3D online environment in which users can interact via avatars championed by Facebook owner Meta and other companies-might offer opportunities for creators and consumers of visual content. But all the hype might be premature because, as The … Read the full Story >>
Wangechi Mutu, an artist who divides her time between New York and her native Nairobi, has made her presence felt here since the late 1990s. Once moved in to study at the New School, then earning her BA at Cooper Union School of Art and later an MFA at Yale, she began making art that went against the grain of prevailing trends. She made … Read the full Story >>
In 2014, the Columbia Journalism Review published an article about the rise of a new journalistic storytelling movement called "Restorative Narratives," which relate tales of "recovery, restoration and resilience in the aftermath, or midst of, difficult times." Intrigued the by idea, Nicole Dahmen, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, began looking into the trend. Her … Read the full Story >>
What is the process of creativity? Where does it come from, and how does it evolve? Recently, photographer and PPD contributor Eric Meola raised those questions in an interview with photographer and educator John Paul Caponigro, whose work will soon be featured along with his father's in a major new exhibition at the Taubman Museum in Roanoke VA, "Paul Caponigro and John Paul Caponigro: … Read the full Story >>
The artistry of Milton Glaser is surely key to the mark he has left on our ways of looking at, and thinking about, the world we live in. In his seven decades behind a pencil, Milton looked/thought twice about more subjects than there is space here to mention. But just considering a few ideas that made New York Magazine completely unique when it broke … Read the full Story >>
Many people in Southeast Asian countries, especially those with lower incomes, wear knockoffs of luxury fashion brands such as Prada, Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Chanel, Versace, and Gucci. A study by Access Asia Consulting a few years ago found that almost half of the luxury brand clothing on sale in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, is counterfeit. Customers include many European and American tourists, as … Read the full Story >>
Listen, I have never had any hero in my life or in photography. I just travel, I look and everything influences me…. For 40 years I have been traveling. I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.—Josef Koudelka The Czech photographer Josef Koudelka (b. 1938) perhaps invented the road trip … Read the full Story >>
When we browse websites, we leave traces of ourselves -- not only digital traces about our identities, our travels, and of course our shopping habits, but also physical traces in the form of greasy finger prints left on the screens of smart phones and tablets. These prints are the subject of fine-art photographer Tabitha Soren's intriguing series "Surface Tension," on view at the Davis … Read the full Story >>
The image is among the most recognized and celebrated works of photojournalism of the 20th Century: Titled the "The Terror of War" and known popularly as "Napalm Girl," it shows Phan Thi Kim Phuc, a Vietnamese girl, running down a road near the village of Trang Bang after a napalm bomb was dropped by a plane from the South Vietnam Air Force. Taken on … Read the full Story >>
In the past 15 years Giant Robot has turned into its own name, or at least what it stands for: a big and heroic Asian icon. It started back in 1994 as a small photocopied zine, folded and stapled by hand by its two founders, Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong. Today, Giant Robot has expanded from a full-color magazine to a diverse … Read the full Story >>
Life isn't necessarily easy for farmers Catherine Mardosa and Matt Tracy of Red Planet Vegetables in Johnston, Rhode Island. But as Providence-based filmmaker and photographer (and PPD Reader) David Wells shows in his short documentary "Farm Time (A Year on the Farm with Red Planet Vegetables)," the work is rewarding beyond measure. Created over the course of four seasons and finished in March 2016, … Read the full Story >>
After more than two decades, Grammy Award-winning artist Christina Aguilera revisits her roots with a brand new Spanish album entitled "La Fuerza." As a part of her new wave of music, Christina (also known by her stage name Xtina) recently shot a music video for her single "Santo" featuring. Ozuna. Chicago-based celebrity photographer Zoe Rain was hired by the record company, Sony Music Entertainment … Read the full Story >>
Lynn Goldsmith is battling an unusual legal battle in an unconventional way. In April, Goldsmith, a renowned entertainment photographer best known for her pictures of musicians, learned that she was being sued by the Andy Warhol Foundation over her portrait of the rock star Prince, which Andy Warhol turned into a series of 16 prints in 1984. The lawsuit amounted to a preemptive legal … Read the full Story >>
Since the earliest days of the medium, photography has been used for criminal investigation, notes New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the exhibition "Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play" is on view through July 11. The exhibition explores the multifaceted intersections between photography and crime, from 19th-century "rogues' galleries" to photos by contemporary artists inspired by criminal transgression - work by Walker Evans, … Read the full Story >>
If you remember fashion in the'90s, you remember Claudia Schiffer. She was one of the supermodels who defined the supermodel era at its zenith, along with Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, and Christy Turlington. Now, with nostalgia for the '90s at an all-time high (per Harper's Bazaar, which should know), Schiffer is recapturing the glamorous glory of the era in a new book … Read the full Story >>
Don't take it from us. Take it from Yoda: "Learn control you must." That thought comes from photographer Marc Silber, who recently posted a YouTube vlog titled "Yoda's Photo Tips," in which he turns lessons imparted by Jedi master into wisdom that photographers can use. It's one of the articles we spotlight today in our semi-regular roundup of how-to guides. You'll also learn five … Read the full Story >>
