KEN WEINGART Tuesday June 20, 2023
Photographer and podcaster Ken Weingart’s latest episode features an interview with Soo Kim, a Korean-American artist who currently works and teaches in Los Angeles. Her innovative art pieces have generated acclaim nationwide and have been on view at the LA’s Getty museum, the Julie Saul gallery in New York and other museums and galleries. She discusses her background and the labor-intensive process she uses to create one-of-kind photo artworks and installations. Read the full Story >>
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Wonderful Machine Tuesday June 20, 2023
In 2016, Creative and Marketing Consultant Gina Martin founded The Bob and Diane Fund in memory of her mother and father, who, in addition to 50 years of marriage, shared a five-year battle with
Alzheimer's. Each year, the non-profit gives a $5,000 grant to support visual storytelling about Alzheimer's and Dementia. This June, as part of the 12th annual Photoville Festival in Brooklyn, The … Read the full Story >>
USA Today Monday June 19, 2023
On June 19, 1865—two and a half years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and six months after the 13th Amendment banning slavery was ratified—Union troops under Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger informed a community of 250,000 enslaved people in Galveston Bay, Texas, that they were free. The date became known as "Juneteenth," now a federal holiday. USA Today features photographs of early Juneteenth celebration from the 19th century, drawn from various photo archives. Read the full Story >>
Music Row Monday June 19, 2023
The most important photographer in the history of country music has passed away, declares Music Row. Les Leverett, who died in Nashville on June 2 at age 96, was the staff photographer of the Grand Ole Opry for 32 years, archiving country music’s “golden age.” Among the musical icons he photographed: Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Bill Monroe, and Vince Gill. His pictures appeared in Ken Burns’s PBS opus Country Music and in magazines including American Heritage, as well as two books: Blue Moon of Kentucky (1996) and American Music Legends(2005).
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