Projections Monday August 14, 2023
A Projections event on August 16 will celebrate the work of photographer Mauro De Bettio, the grand prize winner of the American Photography Open 2022 competition for his photo “Gentlemen of Kibera”—a portrait of a resident of Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya. De Bettio, who travels the world year-round, will be talking about his entire career and his intimate focus on humanity. Time: 7:00, via Zoom. Projections is one of the sponsors of the American Photography Open contest. The deadline for this year’s competition is August 31.
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52 Walker Monday August 14, 2023
The models in photographer Heji Shin’s exhibition “The Big Nudes,” at the 52 Walker gallery in NYC, are probably all dead now, notes AnOther: The photographs of pigs from an upstate New York farm capture the porcine subjects playfully at ease, unaware of their impending slaughter. The images, and the show’s title, pay homage to Helmut Newton’s 1981 series of human female nudes. Shin’s images summon beauty, innocence, or sensuality “to push the viewer into contemplating disgust, brutality or sometimes simply sex,” adds AnOther.
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The Atlantic Monday August 14, 2023
The wildfires that devastated the island of Maui have killed at least 93 people, the county of Maui said late Saturday, making them the deadliest U.S. wildfires in more than 100 years. Fanned by winds driven by a distant hurricane, the fires forced thousands to flee; the historic town of Lahaina was hit especially hard as the fast-moving fires burned through buildings toward the waterfront, notes The Atlantic, which features a photo report. The Washington Postalso published a photo essay on the fires.
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David Schonauer Monday August 14, 2023
She was a former Ziegfeld Follies showgirl, a starlet at Metro Goldwyn Mayer, the heartthrob of "at least three titanic studio heads" (according to Vanity Fair), the close friend of Cole Porter and
Greta Garbo and the wife of a powerful Hollywood agent. Not bad for a girl born in Longview, Texas as Ernestine Hill. But today Jean Howard is best known as a … Read the full Story >>
