The Washington Post Tuesday November 23, 2021
The acclaimed British photojournalist Tom Stoddart, who covered conflicts and disasters from Lebanon to Iraq to Bosnia and captured some of the first images of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, died Nov. 17 at his home in the English village of Ponteland, reports The Washington Post. He was 67. The cause of death was cancer, his wife, Ailsa, noted. Stoddart usually stuck to black-and-white images during a four-decade career in which he was a freelancer contributing to the Times and Sunday Times of London, Time and Newsweek magazines, wire services and other publications around the world. Read the full Story >>
JSTOR DAILY Tuesday November 23, 2021
You’ve seen in on television and in the movies and maybe in person, but how much do you know about the history of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade? JSTOR Daily takes a photographic trip back through time — back to 1924, when the parade tradition began. It wasn't until 1927 that helium books joined the procession through New York City. In 1937 and again in the mid-1940s photographer Carl Van Vechten took pictures of the old-school balloons. His work is part of the Museum of the City of New York collection. Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Tuesday November 23, 2021
By and large, the segregation of 20th-century America was documented in black and white, notes The Guardian. The late Gordon Parks, however, took a different approach when, in 1956, as the first Black staff photographer of Life magazine, he traveled to Mobile, Alabama, and chose to record the more vibrant and quotidian moments of Black American daily life in color. “His color renderings were beautifully poetic,” says John Maggio, the filmmaker behind the HBO documentary A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks. The film was coproduced in part by the art philanthropists Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz. Read the full Story >>
W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Tuesday November 23, 2021
The W. Eugene Smith Fund has presented more than $1 million to documentary photographers around the world. To help raise funds for future grant recipients, many of these photographers have donated photos for this year’s Smith Fund annual print sale (through Dec. 5), among them Donna Ferrato, Eugene Richards, Matt Eich, Darcy Padilla, Moises Saman, Peter van Agtmael, and Eugene Smith (archives). All prints will be issued as unsigned open editions and printed by Digital Silver Imaging as 11x14-inch archival pigment prints on Hahnemühle paper. Read the full Story >>
