The New York Times Tuesday August 22, 2023
Frederick Eberstadt, a fashion and society photographer whose varied work encompassed the parlors of Park Avenue as well as the gritty performance spaces of downtown Manhattan during New York’s avant-garde era of the 1960s, died on July 29 at his apartment in Manhattan, reports The New York Times. He was 97. Eberstadt started on a career in banking, following in the footsteps of his father, Ferdinand Eberstadt, founder of the investment bank Eberstadt & Company. After a stint in television, he began an assistant to Richard Avedon.
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MY MODERN MET Tuesday August 22, 2023
New York-based street photographer Billy Dinh has amassed a large and loyal Instagram following with dramatic images filled with light and shadow, declares My Modern Met. “Whether it's a woman wiping tears from her eyes as her train is about to pull away, or a man staring out the window on an empty ferry, Dinh takes average moments and elevates them to high art,” adds MMM, noting that Dinh's training as an illustrator allows him to put together “captivating stories that pull the viewer in.”
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David Schonauer Tuesday August 22, 2023
There's bad news and worse news for consumers of news in Canada: In response to the country's newly passed Online News Act, which requires big tech companies like Google and Meta to negotiate with
publishers over use of their news content on platforms, Meta began the process of ending legit news availability in Canada. Links to disreputable purveyors of news may remain up, however. … Read the full Story >>
Phaidon Monday August 21, 2023
Photographer Nick Waplington rose to prominence in the early 1990s with Living Room—his wholly original documentary look at a working class Britsh family—and has since become known for his unfiltered depictions of people and places, and the sociopolitical backgrounds that define them, notes Phaidon, which is now publishing Nick Waplington: Comprehensive, the first retrospective to look back at the photographer’s 40-year career. The work “(in all its messy humanness) transcends stereotypes and confounds expectations,” notes Phaidon.
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