Continuing: Christopher Wool | See Stop Run This survey exhibition takes place on the entire 19th floor of an unoccupied space in the heart of the financial district. The artist has chosen an independent venue in order to escape the presumed neutrality of the “white cube” as an idealized context. The city permeates the presentation through windows that wrap around the full 18,000 square … Read the full Story >>
Our series on work from Pro Photo Daily readers continues with two new exhibitions and two new projects of note: Documentary photographer Marissa Roth's epic project "One Person Crying: Women and War" goes on view this month at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles ... New York photographer Leland Bobbe is making waves with his "Half Drag" project ... Photographer Zachary Bako examines … Read the full Story >>
There's been crisis in photography in the past year. And not just the one caused by covid-19. The World Health Organization says approximately 450 million people currently suffer from mental health and neurological disorders. That's over three-and-a-half times the number that have have had covid-19. Within the photographic industry, noted UK photographer Ivor Rackham at Fstoppers recently, the rates of mental illness are higher … Read the full Story >>
Last spring, New York-based photographer and filmmaker Baldomero Fernandez was tapped by Temple University to create a short promotional film about the school's underrated football program. "It's not one of the premiere programs in the country, but the team is very good. The players and coaches all have a bit of a chip on their shoulder," says Fernandez. "They wanted to show the grittiness … Read the full Story >>
Photographs have long been connected to ideas of truth and used as evidence, shaping our understanding of the world. But right now the industry is having a crisis of conscience, and the past few years have seen a surge in online debate about ethics, as concerns have been raised about photographic practices across a wide range of industries, from fashion advertising to charity fundraising. … Read the full Story >>
The celebrated Cuban-born artist and illustrator Edel Rodriguez was a Marielito—one of 125,000 who migrated to the United States in 1980 during the mass exodus called the Mariel Boatlift. This took place during a short-lived thaw in relations between the U.S. and Cuba. Edel’s family was on one of the first boats that landed in Key West. They lived in close quarters with another family in Miami until his … Read the full Story >>
Last November we spotlighted the documentary "Visions of Warriors," from Los Angeles-based filmmaker and photographer Ming Lai, which tells the stories of four U.S. military veterans who participated in the Veteran Photo Recovery Project at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System in California. The project uses photography therapy to treat mental illness. Ming Lai recently contacted us to say that his film is … Read the full Story >>
The American photographer Brad Branson might not enjoy household name status like Herb Ritts, Mary Ellen Mark, and Brigitte Lacombe -- all of whom, like Branson, were represented by the renowned Los Angeles photographic agency Visage -- but thanks to a renewed interest in the creative output of the 1980s and 90s, this may be about to change. Branson, who photographed the likes of … Read the full Story >>
How do you frame a story as big as the refugee crisis in a photograph? The migration of millions is one of the defining narratives of an epoch. Photojournalists have documented the journey of people fleeing to Europe from Syria and Africa on land and sea, through international borders and in enormous camps. They have used their cameras to both describe the scale of … Read the full Story >>
Ellen Weinstein, whose editorial illustrations are something of a way of life for print readers, is also an in-demand speaker at workshops and events from Beijing to Bogota. Her recent book, Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity (MoMA 2017), is about to be partially eclipsed by Recipes for Good Luck: The Superstitions, Rituals and Practices of Extraordinary People (Chronicle 2018), which … Read the full Story >>
Mark Todd, an artist and illustrator whose work appears in all the right places, from Rolling Stone to Mtv to the New York Times, currently has a solo sow of his art at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in L.A. I caught up with him for an email interview this week; here’s what we wrote: Peggy Roalf: You have what many people – … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the brush or the pen? Anthony Freda: For me, the pen is the essential tool. It is a sixth finger that leaves a mark. PR: Please describe your work process—is most of your work done directly, or do you also use digital media? AF: Usually I start by working traditionally, then scan the piece and proceed to save the good … Read the full Story >>
Time marches on. But perhaps at a different pace in the suburbs. In 1997, Beth Yarnelle Edwards picked up a camera and began photographing friends and friends of friends in San Carlos, CA, a Bay Area suburb, documenting their everyday lives. In 2016 she returned to rephotograph many of her original subjects, now 20 years older. She was surprised by how little about their … Read the full Story >>
Last month an exhibition of Timothy Briner's Boonville series opened at Daniel Cooney Fine Art to acclaim. I was among those who became deeply engrossed in the nineteen photographs hung on the walls that night, and by the larger group collected in a limited edition book also on display. This collection reveals the soul of small-town America - in particular, the view by a … Read the full Story >>
I stumbled upon the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) in 2010 when I was looking for images of the West. Not the romantic West that was invented by Carleton Tompkins or Ansel Adams; more like what Robert Adams calls home, but worse. I discovered the CLUI’s residence program at Wendover, Utah, located on the Great Salt Flats, which is home of … Read the full Story >>
Mark Seliger has photographed presidents, actors, and rock-and-roll royalty over a celebrated 30-year career. His work has appeared in Italian Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, and other magazines - including Rolling Stone, where he was "chief photographer" for many years. He has also pushed himself creatively with a number of personal projects, the most recent of which is "On Christopher Street: Portraits." The series features … Read the full Story >>
Starting today, we can see Diane Arbus in a new way. Opening at the Met Breuer in New York is the exhibition "Diane Arbus: In The Beginning," which features more than 100 photographs from the artist's early work, many never seen before. Drawn from the Diane Arbus Archive acquired by the Metropolitan Museum in 2007, the images provide the first real glimpse of one … Read the full Story >>
The year was 2009. Photographer Emilio Morenatti and Freddie de los Santos were being treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Both had lost legs in Afghanistan -- one as a soldier fighting in the war there, another as a journalist covering the conflict. "A dozen years later, Freddie has a new life. He is a Paralympian," noted Morenatti recently in a moving … Read the full Story >>
An era in photography has come to an end: This week we learned that Visual China Group, an image-licensing company in China, acquired the digital and physical assets, names and trademarks of Corbis Images. We also learned that Corbis's longtime rival, Getty Images, will take on the distribution of those assets outside of China, including images from the vaunted Bettmann Archive of news photos. … Read the full Story >>
"It was a lark." That is how Ninalee Allen Craig describes the day in 1951 when she and photographer Ruth Orkin embarked on a photographic excursion through Florence that took them to the Piazza della Repubblica. There, Orkin shot a picture that would become an enduring emblem of post-World War II femininity--and male chauvinism. It showed the young American woman surrounded by a group … Read the full Story >>
