Photographers and filmmakers are generally taught the vital importance of keeping horizons level. Failing to do so produces images that are unsettling to viewers. Of course, rules are made to be broken. A new video from Vox explores the origins of the tilted horizon, otherwise known as the Dutch Angle. Read the full Story >>
Imogen Cunningham “never hesitated to experiment, even if it meant sailing against the wind as a female photographer in a male-dominated industry,” notes Crosscut on the occasion of an expansive Cunningham retrospective at the Seattle Art Museum (through Feb. 6, 2022). Originally scheduled to open at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles but premiering in Seattle due to a pandemic planning shakeup, the show is the first exhibition of Cunningham’s photographs in the United States in more than 35 years. Read the full Story >>
It is difficult to quickly sum up the career of photojournalist Yunghi Kim—who, notes photographer and entrepreneur Peter Levitan at PetaPixel, “simply has too much personal energy” to make a short description possible. Along with her work as a photojournalist, Kim is known for her support of women photojournalists and the grant program for photojournalists that she established in 2015. Her new film Unflinching Grace chronicles the history of three leading woman photojournalists. Levitan talks with Kim about the film and her career. Read the full Story >>
Photographer David Godlis first went to Miami Beach in the 1950s, when he was a kid, visiting his grandparents who had retired there. Those trips down by train from New York, with his mom, were, he says, “like visiting Jewish Disneyland.” By the time he went to stay with his grandmother in 1974, some of that magic kingdom was starting to disappear. He took his camera out to capture the dream that his grandparents had lived, and that was becoming a memory. The work, notes The Guardian, is now collected in the book Godlis Miami. Read the full Story >>
