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David Schonauer Tuesday February 16, 2016
In 2011, photojournalist and documentary photographer Jonathan Torgovnik relocated from New York to South Africa to launch a new chapter in his career. Instead of flying around the globe and
parachuting into big stories, he has staked out Sub-Saharan Africa as his beat. The move turned out to be a good gamble: While other journalists were covering migrants from the Middle East and Africa … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 8, 2010
Richard Renaldi bridges two classic photographic disciplines - portrait and landscape - in a way that creates a third genre, which reflects the American social landscape today.
Working with an 8 x 10 camera, he places the people he encounters squarely in the environments they occupy. Caught on the fly, they offer a momentary gesture, a look, elements of dress and posture
to the … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday January 15, 2021
On Jan. 6, a mob attempted to overthrow the US government. Urged on by President Donald Trump and others, the crowd stormed the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., as America looked on in shock. In
the following days journalists, including a number of photojournalists who were at the scene, told harrowing tales about their experiences. We featured their recollections on Monday. Poynter noted
that … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday August 1, 2019
In describing the
world, Caleb Cain Marcus dismantles the building blocks of visual processing by eliminating perspective, scale and implied narrative. Engaging with his work necessitates no prior knowledge which
forces the experience to be in the present and compels us to sense, see and feel the world in a new way. Cain Marcus' photographs are combined with layers of paint to create deep, complex and … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday September 22, 2015
Photography and filmmaking are related, certainly, but for Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, the two mediums are unusually and creatively entwined, and they have been so since the beginning of his career.
Best known for his portraits of artists, actors, writers, politicians and other luminaries, Greenfield-Sanders has also produced a series of acclaimed documentary films, the latest of which, "The
Women's List," airs this week on PBS. … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday February 2, 2016
Why do we find underground lairs to be so fascinating, thrilling and even, in some shadowy way, romantic? Perhaps it's some atavistic notion of the safety of the burrow. Or maybe its simply our
curiosity about what goes on in places that are hidden away from sight. (The Internet is filled with articles about real-life underground lairs that supervillains would love.)The underground landscape
is … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday October 12, 2017
It's been a week of nature at PPD: On Monday we featured winning work from the 2017 Bird Photographer of the Year competition, as well as work from finalists in the 2017 Wildlife Photographer of the
Year competition. We also noted that National Geographic is accepting entries for its annual Nature Photographer of the Year competition through November 17. And on Wednesday we spotlighted … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday July 24, 2019
For the astronauts of Apollo 11, July 24, 1969 was a busy day. Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins awoke at 6:45 in their Columbia command module and began preparing for the final
phase of their historic moon mission. Hours later, at 12:51 pm, the trio splashed down in the Pacific Ocean some 950 miles southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii. The world greeted … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday August 17, 2017
On August 12, Ryan Kelly went to downtown Charlottesville, VA, for one last assignment before leaving his staff photographer job at The Daily Progress, a newspaper in the city. There, he ended up
capturing an image that, said the Washington Post, "will define this moment in American history." Kelly was standing on a street corner when a silver Dodge Challenger crashed into a crowd … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday August 14, 2012
Geoff Hargadon, Cash for Your Warhol, installed last week on Boston’s Fan Pier in honor of the would-be 84th birthday of Andy Warhol. Read
Adam Reed Rozan’s interview with Hargadon. Photo: courtesy Gallery Kayafas.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 Debate, 7-9 pm: Planning for Olympic Cities |
with Noah Chasin, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Gary Hustwit, Jon Pack and Grace Tang. Storefront for Art & Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Colleen Blackard | Shifting … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday April 29, 2016
The Spring 2016 photo-awards season is drawing to a close, with the recent announcement of the winners of this year's Sony World Photography Awards. The top prize went to Iranian photojournalist
Asghar Khamseh for his series on victims of acid attacks. We also noted that the New York Times's virtual-reality documentary "The Displaced" - about three children uprooted from their homes by war
and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday December 19, 2024
Last week Pentagram, the largest design firm in the world—and widely considered the most prestigious—released a new website commissioned by the federal government, for which illustrations created using generative AI were central to the budget and the outcome. The story was immediately picked up and critiqued by Fast Company, Graphic Design USA and others. Following is a rundown of events as they unfolded, … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday October 11, 2016
When he was 11, Marc Yankus moved to a new home on East 79th Street in New York City and fell in love with its tall buildings. He still is. The photographer's latest project, called "The Secret Lives
of Buildings," goes on view this week at the ClampArt Gallery in Manhattan. Through digital manipulation and other means, Yankus captures an idealized New York, devoid … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday November 1, 2016
Paul Mobley has photographed hundreds and hundreds of faces - movie star faces, comedian faces, musician faces, athlete faces - and he knows what features make for a handsome portrait. "Sunken eyes,
big eyebrows, big chins and big ears," he says. "I really love big ears." Mobley's new book "If I Live to Be 100" features his portraits of centenarians from all 50 states … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 13, 2022
Wednesday, July 13, 6-8 pm: Power Tools at Candace Madey
Power Tools, an exhibition of artists who reference tools in their work, and by extension, explore a history of objects and their symbolic and practical importance for individual and collective agency. The exhibition further considers our dissociated relationship to tools and a consumer culture that has largely relinquished the skills required to make, repair, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday October 18, 2018
For the inaugural LES Art Week, the twenty-four participating galleries are featuring work by woman artists, both established and emerging—offering fuel for the blazing evidence for why there
have been, until now, “no great woman artists.” Linda Nochlin’s dramatic feminist rallying cry of 1971 is being proclaimed in venues from coast to coast,
and around the world, more so than ever this year. And … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday June 7, 2024
On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was scheduled to make an after-lunch speech to a group of labor leaders at the Washington Hilton hotel. Reagan, who'd been sworn into office only two months
earlier, would remember later that he had dressed that day in a "brand new blue suit." A young Associated Press photographer, Ron Edmonds, was assigned to cover Reagan's speech. It … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday June 13, 2025
Bill Luster, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for The Courier Journal of Louisville, Kentucky, died on May 29, the newspaper reported. He was 80. Luster won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for
Feature Photography along with eleven other members of the Courier Journal and Louisville Times photography staff for coverage of court-ordered busing. In 1989 the news and photography staff was
awarded the Local … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday September 16, 2014
The late Jim Marshall is known for his photographs of famous jazz and rock musicians of the 1960s--Coltrane, Dylan, Hendrix, and Joplin among them. But to call him a music-photographer, as he almost
always is, misses the nature of his work. "Jim loved music, and all kinds of music, but I think what drew him to this was what was going on at the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 20, 2022
The American Manifest is Charles Gaines’s first public art project, unfolding in three parts over the course of two years across three sites — Times Square, Governors Island, and the banks of the Ohio river in Cincinnati. Presented by Creative Time, Governors Island, and Times Square Arts and staged in three chapters, The American Manifest begins with a performance-based installation and sculptural series … Read the full Story >>
