What does America look like today? Or, more specifically, what does its image look like? That question, noted the AnOther blog recently, is the driving force behind a group show, "Photography Then," at Anonymous Gallery in New York. Featuring works by six photographers -- Buck Ellison, Jesse Gouveia, Jack Pierson, Alyssa Kazew, Chessa Subbiondo and Thomas Polcaster -- made between the mid-2000s up until … Read the full Story >>
The appreciation of Rodney Smith as an artist has had an upward trajectory over the years, steepening after Smith's death in 2016 and now with a wonderful new book, "Rodney Smith: Leap of Faith," published by the Getty Museum. "Like all great art, Rodney's had a look that was singular over time, and you could recognize it the moment you saw it," notes former … Read the full Story >>
Kwame Brathwaite, a photographer and activist whose stylish images forced many to see Black beauty anew, inspiring generations of artists who came after him, died on April at age 85, notes Art News. While Brathwaite’s work has only recently attained mainstream recognition in the form of museum retrospectives and monographs, his photography has acted for many decades as a guiding force to many. It has appeared in publications and on album covers, and has been credited with ushering in new forms of representation, particularly for Black women. Read the full Story >>
“I’m willing, more than most people, to go through some discomfort,” says wildlife photographer Tim Laman, explaining how he captured the images in his new book Bird Planet, which brings together Laman’s images of birds in flight. Laman has spent three decades photographing birds across six continents, notes CNN. He developed his lifelong obsession with tropical birds while carrying out research for his Ph.D. in the rainforests of Borneo, and from 2004 to 2012 he spent 544 days in New Guinea photographing bird-of-paradise species. Read the full Story >>
