Today, the International Center of Photography invites visitors to its new home on the Bowery, with free admission. Much of the first floor of the new space has been designed as a “village square,” a place for conversation on the subject of photography and visual culture. With windows opening onto the sidewalk diagonally across from the New Museum, a café with enough tables for … Read the full Story >>
Is camera technology changing the basic assumptions we make about photography? The iPhone and social media have already altered the nature of picture-taking, of course, and this week Google entered the fray by introducing a new smartphone, significantly named the Pixel because it's primary attribute is its camera. Meanwhile, Sony introduced a pair of cameras, the new APS-C flagship a6500 and the compact RX100 … Read the full Story >>
The photo news dominating internet buzz in the past week centered on two stories: The controversy surrounding Photoshopped images by photographer Steve McCurry and a legal case in France that had a photojournalist facing criminal charges over a picture she took following the terrorist attacks in Paris last November. McCurry's doctored images gave rise to an interesting conversation that, it seemed, the photo world … Read the full Story >>
Marshall Arisman (1937-2022), longtime chair of the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department at the School of Visual Arts, and a co-founder of American Illustration, will be honored by SVA in an exhibition opening next week at the Gramercy Gallery.Info Arisman began teaching at SVA in 1964 and founded the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program in 1984, of which … Read the full Story >>
This week we were given some insights into the state of photojournalism in 2017, thanks to a report published by the University of Stirling and the World Press Photo Foundation. Researchers surveyed 1,991 photographers who entered the 2016 World Press Photo Contest to find out how they feel about their jobs. The takeaway: Photojournalists feel they're at risk, but generally they're happy with what … Read the full Story >>
In recent days Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi army have made advances on different fronts in push towards the ISIS-held city of Mosul in northern Iraq. But they are facing stiff resistance and ISIS counterattacks elsewhere in Iraq. This week we featured a round-up of images from news service photographers covering the battle for Mosul. We also featured an interview with photojournalist Moises … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, August 9, 6-10pm: We Out Here | Hip Hop at Lincoln Center Plaza Celebrate 50 years of Hip Hop at this dance battle and silent disco. Different street and club styles will be on display as the invited Top 8 competitors will go toe to toe for a cash prize. Hosted by Rokafella and TDK Zone with DJs KS 360 and DP One, the … Read the full Story >>
Michael Hirshon is a Madison, Wisconsin-based illustrator. Although he creates his illustrations with a Wacom tablet and scanned-in backgrounds, his drawing has a hand-done, mid-century feel. It's smart and well-crafted, with a great sense of visual storytelling. In addition to working for a wide array of magazines and newspapers, Hirshon has been creating illustrations for a variety of brands, including popcorn and dog toy … Read the full Story >>
Tsuneko Sasamoto was a pioneering photographer. Considered to be Japan's first female photojournalist, she captured the lives of civilians under the country's tumultuous Showa era, noted CNN this week. Sasamoto died on August 15, just over two weeks before her 108th birthday. Born in Tokyo the year World War I began, Sasamoto originally wanted to be a painter but was discouraged by her father. … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: When did you know that you would become an illustrator? Davide Bonazzi: I’ve had an interest in drawing since I was a kid, so I can say I’ve wanted to become an illustrator my entire life! More specifically, I got interested in illustration around age 24, while attending a postgraduate course in illustration at the European Institute of Design, in Milan. At … Read the full Story >>
You might say that the art of photography is all about preservation-of history, of memories, of ideas. Blake Little has just taken that idea and run with it, spilling about three thousand pounds of honey along the way. The Los Angeles-based photographer's new exhibition, "Preservation," features beautiful images of human beings of all shapes, ages, and ethnicities encased in golden goo, and it all … Read the full Story >>
The hippie is back. So is the American mountain man. And everyone is thinking about bygone days when it was righteous to live in clothing-optional tree houses. The dream of living in a utopian community in touch with the natural world is as powerful now as it was when Henry David Thoreau spent some quality time at Waldon Pond, it seems. Photographer Stephen Shapiro's … Read the full Story >>
The historic James A. Farley Post Office Building, dubbed by the New York Times “the most elaborate post office in America,” and possibly the largest in the world, is poised to become the centerpiece of an expanded railroad center that will be named the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Hall under a $3 billion plan announced by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo last fall. Margaret Morton, … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: When did you get the idea that art and design would be your life’s work? Elisa Talentino: I have been drawing since I was a child. I was born and raised in Castellamonte, a city famous for its ceramics, in the province of Turin. My primary school was next to the Institute of Art, and I was always admiring the girls and boys with their … Read the full Story >>
Doreen Spooner made a famous picture from inside a ladies' loo. This week we noted that Spooner, the first woman to become a full-time staff photographer for a British national newspaper, died on April 20 in Esher, a town in Surrey, southwest of London. She was 91. She spent most of her career at The Daily Mirror, which she joined in 1949. In 1963, … Read the full Story >>
The world is struggling to come to grips with artificial intelligence. While Congress holds hearings on AI, the Biden White House this week issued a sweeping executive order that will, among other things, require developers of powerful AI systems to share results of their safety tests with the federal government before they are released to the public. The administration later announced other AI safeguards … Read the full Story >>
Social media apps regularly present teens with algorithmically selected content often described as "for you," suggesting, by implication, that the curated content is not just "for you" but also "about you" -- a mirror reflecting important signals about the person you are. All users of social media are exposed to these signals, but researchers understand that teens are at an especially malleable stage in … Read the full Story >>
More photography by women is making the front page. But not everywhere. And photography by men still predominates newspapers' A1 pages. According to data compiled by the organization Women Photograph, the San Francisco Chronicle was far and away the leader among major newspapers in publishing A1 lead photographs shot by women in 2018: Forty-one percent of the Chronicle's A1 images were shot by women, … Read the full Story >>
You never know what you'll find on the web. Today we feature another collection of insights and opinion gathered from around the internet over the past few weeks. Gizmodo reveals the secret history of Kodak's nuclear program - yes, the company had a reactor in the basement of its Rochester, NY, home - while Mashable suggests that Facebook start acting like the media company … Read the full Story >>
New York-based photographer Kristofer Dan-Bergman has enough personal projects going on to keep him busy for several years. Though each is distinct from the other, they are related in ways that are clear to Dan-Bergman. "My projects are about time and space," he says. Dan-Bergman's conceptual series "S_PACE" and "allONE" capture people living the the same confines, yet separated in some way. So does … Read the full Story >>
