The New York Times Monday January 3, 2022
Grace Mirabella, who as editor in chief transformed Vogue magazine from a glittery, color-splashed paean to the spirit of the 1960s into a more sensible adviser to women entering the work force in the 1970s and ’80s, died on December 22 at her home in Manhattan. She was 92, notes The New York Times. Mirabella went on to found Mirabella, a magazine for women as interested in culture and travel as in clothes and interior design. But she made her biggest impact at Vogue, from 1971 to 1988—a time that coincided with women’s increasing financial independence. Read the full Story >>
British Journal of Photography Monday January 3, 2022
Search “yoga” on Google images, and you'll see that ‘wellness’ culture is permeated by visuals of mostly slim and toned white women—which, notes the British Journal of Photography, is why Beijing-born, London-based photographer Sirui Ma “consciously stayed away” from the practice. “It felt exclusive,” she says. But a new collaboration between Ma and London-based yoga studio Stretch, titled “Hold Space,” sets out to redress the homogeneous aesthetics of yoga. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Monday January 3, 2022
A photographer hiking a popular trail in Los Angeles was shot and killed by a suspected sniper, and now his family is asking the public for help in finding the gunman and delivering justice to the victim, reports PetaPixel. On September 10, hikers came across the lifeless body of a man on a popular trail in Ernest E. Debs Park in the Montecito Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. The victim was identified by a family member as 29-year-old Jason Cortez, a newlywed photographer who had traveled from Virginia to shoot photos for a friend’s project. Read the full Story >>
AnOther Monday January 3, 2022
We are often taught to divert our gaze on the street, but photographer Bruce Gilden doesn’t abide by these rules, notes AnOther. Gilden’s latest book, Bruce Gildren: Cherry Blossoms, brings together his gritty black-and-white images of underground subcultures in Tokyo and Osaka, including members of the Yakuza (Japanese mafia) and the biker youth gang known as the Bosozoku. Gilden first traveled to Japan in 1995, after being inspired by the exhibition "New Japanese Photography" at MoMA. “[I]t blew me away,” he says. Read the full Story >>
