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David Schonauer Friday April 14, 2017
This was Pulitzer week: On Monday we learned that freelance photographer Daniel Barahulak won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for his New York Times story about Philippine
President Rodrigo Duterte's savage assault on drug dealers and users. Barahulak won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2015 for a Times story about the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
Meanwhile, Chicago Tribune … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday February 21, 2020
Santu Mofokeng was born in Soweto just months before the 1956 "Treason Trial" of Nelson Mandela and more than 150 others. Raised in an impoverished household by a single mother, Mofokeng attended
Morris Isaacson High School, which was a forge for the student uprising in Soweto in 1976: He witnessed his younger brother being beaten by white bullies retaliating for the protests against the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday November 11, 2021
Through January 10, 2022: Etel Adnan | Light’s New Measure, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The poet, novelist, journalist, and artist Etel Adnan grew up speaking Arabic and Greek at home, and was educated in French and English. She began to paint in the late 1950s, while working as a professor of philosophy in Northern California. It was a period when, in protest of … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday April 26, 2023
Skynet may ultimately take over, but for now artificial intelligence is not a photographic terminator. In a test of man vs. machine, Australian camera retailer DigiDirect launched a competition
inviting people to submit AI images and traditional photographs, to see which would be triumphant. In the end, a panel of judges (six Australian photographers) chose work made by a human named Keith
Costelo. His … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday May 4, 2016
Today's Pro Photo Daily gets back to nature, starting with a look at the winners of the seventh annual Audubon Photography Awards competition. More than 1,700 people entered the 2016 contest,
submitting some 7,000 images of birdlife in four categories: Amateur, Professional, Fine Art, and Youth. The grand-prize winner is photographer Bonnie Block, who is based in the Pacific Northwest
near Seattle. Block won … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday April 21, 2017
Sue before you're sued. That's the strategy being put to use by the estate of artist Andy Warhol, which recently launched an unusual legal first-strike by suing famed music photographer Lynn Goldsmith
over a photo she took of Prince in 1991. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Goldsmith believes that Warhol infringed on her copyright by appropriating her photo for his 1984 series of paintings … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday December 16, 2024
Decades come and go, and then often come back again. Thus it is with the 1980s, an era that seems to be circling around the modern zeitgeist. We recently spotlighted "The 1980s: Image of a Decade," a
new book by writer and photographer Henry Carroll. Now a massive exhibition at London's Tate Britain looks back at the decade in the UK--and at a pivotal … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday August 23, 2018
Who Is Afraid of Shahidul Alam? That was the question posed this week by The New York Times, in response to the August 5 detention of Bangladesh's most respected photojournalist. Alam, founder of the
Pathshala Media Institute school and the photo agencies Drik and Majority World, was dragged from his home by around 30 plainclothes policemen and taken into custody. The photo and art … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday October 20, 2021
Opening Friday, October 22: Felix Gonzalez-Torres | inbetweenness at the Judd Foundation. The exhibition comprises “Untitled” (Loverboy) (1989) and “Untitled” (1991 – 1993), works that engage the distinctions between art and architecture, the public and the private, and specificity and indeterminacy. Curated by Flavin Judd, the works were selected with consideration to how they would respond to the architecture of 101 Spring Street. … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday July 2, 2021
America is still coming to grips with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. This week a Pennsylvania woman was arrested and accused of recording and encouraging an assault on a New York Times photographer inside
the Capitol as supporters of former President Donald Trump attempted to stop Congress's certification of Joe Biden's electoral victory in 2020. Sandra Weyer was charged with obstructing Congress, a
felony, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday April 9, 2021
April 16, Film Forum, NYC and Laemmle NoHo, LA
Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts, a new documentary on the life and art of Bill Traylor, an American artist with a remarkable and unlikely biography, will be released next week, in person and online. Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama. After the Civil War, Traylor continued to farm the land as a sharecropper until … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday March 6, 2019
Art on Paper, this week at Pier 36Talks / Art Fairs / Book Events / Screenings / and
Beyond Wednesday, March 6 Art Talks, Stonewall 50: Love and Resistance | Photographs from the
Stonewall Era, 6:30 pm. New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Celeste Auditorium, Fifth Avenue at 42ndStreet, NY, NY Register Friday, March 8-Sunday, March
10 How We See: Photobooks … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday September 13, 2016
Special Events Thursday, September 15 – Sunday September 18
NY Art Book Fair 2016. MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, NY Info September 13-25 Taryn Simon | An Occupation of Loss. Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, NY, NY Info Continuing through November 18 Asian
Contemporary Art Week. Various locations in New York City. Info Books /
Talks / … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday October 24, 2017
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / Art Fairs / and Beyond Tuesday, October
24 Sale to benefit relief efforts in Mexico City and Puerto Rico, 6-8 pm. Baxter St / Camera Club of New York, 126 Baxter Street, NY, NY Info Optics: A New Way of Seeing Contemporary Culture | Protest, 6:30 pm. International Center of Photography, 250 Bowery, NY, NY Info NYU’s … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday November 17, 2023
George Sand (1804-1876), the French polymath so sure of her creative powers that she took a masculine name, wore bespoke frockcoats over her dresses and smoked cigars. She was adored by both men and women, and was held in high regard by cultural luminaries such as Flaubert, Victor Hugo and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Not only did she write novels (more than 70), plays (30), and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday July 26, 2012
Above: From Another Country in
New York. © Daido Moriyama, courtesy Galerie Alex Daniels/Reflex Amsterdam. 2012 can be called the “Year of Daido Moriyama,” starting with the ICP
Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement, in May. Even before that, the energy began to gather with the presentation
by Ivan Vartanian from Goliga Books of Printing Show—TKY at Aperture Gallery on the
weekend of November 4, 2011. … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday October 18, 2011
This
just in from Brian Palmer: Like several hundred others, I spent the early hours last Friday morning at the
Occupy Wall Street protest just a couple of blocks north of Wall Street, at Zuccotti Park. I saw clusters of grungy, crunchy kids lounging and talking, several long-haired and funky lefties closer to my age
holding forth, giddy tourists angling for photos, plus thousands … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday January 28, 2021
Legacy Russell on #GLITCHFEMINISM: In a society that conditions the public to find discomfort or outright fear in the errors and malfunctions of our socio-cultural mechanics—illicitly and implicitly encouraging an ethos of “Don’t rock the boat!”—a “glitch” becomes an apt metonym.
Glitch Feminism, however, embraces the causality of “error”, and turns the gloomy implication of glitch on its ear by acknowledging that an error … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday August 6, 2021
The headline and deck in the New York Times online article reads, “Hands Off the Library’s Picture Collection: Cornell, Spiegelman and Warhol browsed the famous collection of images in the New York Public Library. Now a century of serendipitous discovery will come to an end if the collection is closed off to the public.” Above:Jessica Cline, the current head of the Picture Collection; photo: … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday October 2, 2019
David Benjamin Sherry, from
American Monuments, courtesy of Salon 94 In the current issue of Photograph, Editor Jean Dykstra writes about the exhibition of Isa Leshko’s black-and-white
photographs of farm animals, opening this week at ClampArt Gallery, [her] “portraits bring to mind Peter Hujar’s photographs of
animals, which similarly captured the particularity of a dog or horse (or goose or goat), a sense of … Read the full Story >>
