ELLE Monday November 15, 2021
Actor Cole Sprouse (Riverdale) is no stranger to photography, having captured everyone from Kendall Jenner to Sophie Turner with his camera. Now, notes Elle, he is launching a website to showcase his art—while simultaneously saving the world. Sprouse says he’ll be donating 100 percent of proceeds from his print “Fallen Tree” to support two Canadian environmental groups: the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance and the Nature-Based Solutions Foundation. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Monday November 15, 2021
Annie Leibovitz’s new book Wonderland (Phaidon) is an anthology of fashion images shot mainly for Vogue. Still, notes The New York Times, Leibovitz strenuously notes that she is not a fashion photographer. “I’ve grown doing work in this genre,” she said, “but it didn’t go along with my perception about myself and my work,” she tells Patricia Morrisroe, author of the biography Mapplethorpe: A Biography. While Leibovitz is known for her portraiture, her fashion work may actually be her strongest, adds Morrisroe. Read the full Story >>
THE ART NEWSPAPER Monday November 15, 2021
A new edition of Robert Frank’s seminal book The Americans will be published by Aperture after the New York nonprofit publisher received a $1 million grant from a foundation the photographer set up for his late daughter, reports The Art Newspaper. The new edition of the book will be created from scans of Robert Frank’s own original prints and will be published in 2024, on the centennial of Frank’s birth. Aperture last published an edition of The Americans in 1968. That book is currently out of print. Read the full Story >>
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Monday November 15, 2021
London’s National Portrait Gallery has named Sydney, Australia-based photographer, David Prichard as the winner of the 2021 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize for his series “Tribute to Indigenous Stock Women.” His four subjects — Kurtijar women Merna Beasley, Shirley Mary Ann McPherson and Gloria Campbell, and Gkuthaarn woman Mildred Burns — have spent most of their lives working lives on Australian cattle stations. “I am only the vehicle for the women to tell their stories,” notes Prichard at The Guardian. Read the full Story >>
