UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism is presenting Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers | Photographs by Stephen Shames, with an opening reception and a talk with the photographer and Bobby Seale tonight. This historic exhibition is mounted on the 50th anniversary of the Party's founding. It is an in-depth chronicle of the controversial and revolutionary organization—presented at a time … Read the full Story >>
"The images from my 'Born to Run' photo shoot with Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons are some of the most recognizable images in the pantheon of rock photography; they are also some of the most blatantly misappropriated images on the web." So writes photographer Eric Meola in the latest edition of PPD's ongoing Public Eye series, which looks at new ideas and trends in … Read the full Story >>
DART honors National Hispanic Heritage Month [September 15-October 15] this week with a feature on Salvadoran-born muralist Josué Rojas. The story of how he found his way in life through painting unfolds in two recent articles about this San Francisco artist, who holds degrees from California College of the Arts and Boston University. Above: Josué Rojas, "Enrique’s Journey" (image courtesy Shane Menez) Rojas … Read the full Story >>
While sex in cinema [Hollywood-made anyway] has been nearly absent for more than a decade, it thankfully still maintains a home in the world of fashion. On a tip from a Paris cohort I am delighted to present a new book from Kahl Editions, Alice Rosati’s I am a Mermaid, prints from which are on display at Galerie Charraudeau, rue Bonaparte, … Read the full Story >>
In 1956, the sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was invited by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to submit a design for a monumental sculpture for the new International Arrivals Building they were designing for Idlewild Airport [now JFK], the world's first large-scale international airport. The totemic column he proposed (above, front) suggests human aspiration for the cosmos and was envisioned as carved from granite … Read the full Story >>
For the first DART Book Prize Essay Contest, students in Dr. Anastasia Aukeman’s Integrative Seminar 2: Visual Culture course at Parsons School of Design, in the School of Art and Design History and Theory, submitted their critiques of the Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial exhibition. Honorable Mention goes to Jaya Jankowski, in the morning section.—Peggy Roalf Beauty by Jaya Jankowski | In the exhibition Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, … Read the full Story >>
When Paul Buckley, Creative Director for Penguin Classics, sent me a copy of his new book, Classic Penguin/Cover to Cover, I jumped at the chance to slack off for a good read. It’s no lie that I’m a big fan of Paul’s work over the years [more]. It’s also true that I ran away from home at age 4.5 years to … Read the full Story >>
New York’s independent booksellers offer shelter from the storm of holiday shopping and plenty of eye candy in the form of photo books, illustrated books, prints and objects. DART’s list of NYC’s best follows, in geographic order [south to north, then east], with a few new entries this year, including two distinctly photo-centric spots. Downtown Tenement Museum Shop, 97 Orchard Street, NY, NY. Well chosen array of … Read the full Story >>
Smart phones and social media make it possible for anyone to become a celebrity—if only in their own minds and in those of their best “friends.” But while the book on celebrity culture is yet to be written, the photos have already been made. Annie Leibovitz, the photographer whose work for Rolling Stone (1970 to 1983) elevated the genre to an art form, will … Read the full Story >>
Horace Poolaw, of the Kiowa tribe, took thousands of photos of his multitribal community around Anadarko, Oklahoma, between the 1920s and 1950s. A selection of his images appears in a new volume, For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw (Yale 2014), which accompanies the National Museum of the American Indian’s exhibition of the same name, which opens next week. Info Spanning … Read the full Story >>
Currently on view at Japan Society, When Practice Becomes Form: Carpentry Tools from Japan, features a diverse array of hand tools—planes, axes, saws—and joinery techniques that have been used to build Japan’s wooden architectural masterpieces for hundreds of years—from temples and shrines to bridges. In the press release, gallery director Yukie Kamiya says, “This year is the 50th anniversary of the landmark building … Read the full Story >>
Independent photojournalist David Butow sensed a dark undercurrent in the American political psyche while covering the early days of the Trump campaign back in 2016. As he followed events in the upper Midwest rustbelt and rural towns, he concluded that the ever-changing narrative of the highly unpredictable candidate signaled dramatic times to come. So he moved to Washington, D.C. for an immersive experience … Read the full Story >>
Digital image-making and -sharing platforms, the ubiquity of social media and the camera in every pocket has radically altered today’s visual culture. With Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change, continuing through May 7, the International Center of Photography delves into the ways in which the immediacy of events alters individual perception of the world and, in a larger sense, speeds up the … Read the full Story >>
Not only can a blog increase your online presence, it's also the perfect opportunity to give your audience more background on you as a professional photographer and a person. Behind-the-scenes shots and fun stories help clients get a better sense of who you are and what it would be like to work with you. To some photographers, blogging comes naturally: The content flows like … Read the full Story >>
Amy Elkins exchanged letters with prisoners on death row, and she interspersed those letters with images created in an effort to capture the interior landscapes evoked in these correspondences: imagined seascapes; re-creations of items described by prisoners; a prison lunch tray purchased on eBay. She created color portraits of inmates by pixelating and obscuring their faces according to the amount of time each individual … Read the full Story >>
The noted video journalist and TV documentary maker Travis Fox was an early adopter of drone aerial photography, and has since gone on to teach City University of New York's first drone journalism course at the CUNY Newmark Journalism School. His new book, Remains to be Seen (Daylight 2020) explores a disappearing but still tangible American landscape. Amid abandoned industrial sites, amusement parks, and shuttered … Read the full Story >>
This week PPD will be devoting itself to looking back at the year in photography, pulling together images and stories featured in previous posts and adding some new ones. Today we look at a few of the trends in photography from 2015, from the top images on Flickr and the cameras they were made with to a list of the best and most popular … 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 >>
The exhibition Cine São José: 35 Years of Estúdio Campana, opening this week at Friedman Benda’s LA outpost, was planned before Fernando Campana passed away last fall, but it’s become an homage to him, and to the legacy of Estúdio Campana. For over 35 years, the brothers Fernando and Humberto pushed the boundaries of furniture design by combining unlikely, often found materials, … 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 >>
