Lucie Foundation Monday March 13, 2023
The Lucie Foundation is accepting submissions to it new open call spotlighting portraiture. Fifty photographers will be featured in an online exhibition. There’s a cash prize of $1,000 for the grand prize winner and $250 for category winners. Enter in any of several categories, including Self (portrait); Together as One (relationships with friends and family); Candid; Black & White; and Abstract. Judges: Anne Morin (curator); Reid Callahan (founder, Santa Fe Workshops); and Lucia Torres (executive director, Las Fotos Project). Deadline: March 31.
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David Schonauer Monday March 13, 2023
Kristoffer Reinman, a 32-year-old music producer and investor, was scrolling through Instagram last fall when he began to encounter videos of people being shot and mutilated, posted by accounts he
said he doesn't follow. He isn't alone in having had the troubling experience, reports The Washington Post: Since Instagram launched Reels, the platform's TikTok competitor, in 2020, it has taken
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ARTnews Friday March 10, 2023
Thomas H. Lee, an iconic figure in private equity and a major art collector and patron, died on Feb. 23 at age 78, notes Art News. His death was ruled a suicide, reports Bloomberg. Lee was best known for one deal: acquiring Snapple for $135 million in 1992, taking it public only months later, and then selling it two years later to Quaker Oats for $1.7 billion. As a collector, he focused on contemporary art. In 1996 he married Ann Tenenbaum, with whom he built one of the most important collections of photography in the country. Their holdings were the subject of a 2020 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The Guardian Friday March 10, 2023
Peggy Nolan had just turned 40 when her father gave her a Nikon camera that had been left unclaimed in his pawnshop in Miami. Back then, in the early 1980s, she was raising seven children in a government-subsidized house. Since then, Nolan, has taken thousands of photographs of her family and taught as an adjunct photography professor. And now, at age 79, a her dream of having them collected in a book is coming true, with the publication of Juggling Is Easy, from TBW Books. The Guardian spotlights the book.
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