LEICA Thursday September 21, 2023
Leica Camera USA has announced a call for entries to its fifth annual Leica Women Foto Project Award, produced in partnership with Photoville and Women Photograph. This year's theme, "Perspective is Power,” encourages applicants to share a photo essay connected to topics of reclamation, resilience, or rebirth and will accept entries from the United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, and Canada (excluding Quebec). Four photographers will receive $10,000 grants to help progress an in-progress, personal photo project expressed through the feminine point of view. Deadline: November 7.
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David Schonauer Thursday September 21, 2023
It's a big time of year for photography in the New York art scene. The Armory Show, which ran from Sept. 8 to 10, has long had its share of photo-centric presentations, but, as The Art Newspaper noted
recently, this year it shared the Javits Center with the inaugural edition of Photofairs, a spinoff of a Shanghai art fair that showcased photography and related … Read the full Story >>
Blind Wednesday September 20, 2023
Henri Dauman, who escaped the Nazis as a child in Paris and went on to become an acclaimed photographer in America shooting for Life magazine, died on Sept. 13 in New York. During his career he captured life in the Bronx, documented the civil rights movement, and photographed the likes of Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. “One of his first photographic exploits consisted in capturing the dramatic expression of Jackie Kennedy, underscored by her black mantilla, as she walked during the funeral procession behind John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s coffin,” notes Blind.
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L'Oeil de la Photographie Wednesday September 20, 2023
It was called the “Fight of the Century,” and it took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City on March 8, 1971: Joe Frazier held the heavyweight champions belt, but Muhammad Ali, after more than three years of government-imposed exile, wanted what had been stripped from him when he refused to fight in the Vietnam War. So notes photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont, whose images of the momentous confrontation are featured in an inaugural exhibition at PICTO New York’s new space in Brooklyn. L’Oeil de la Photographie has the story.
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