The San Francisco Standard Friday March 15, 2024
David Johnson, a longtime San Francisco photographer who who captured the Fillmore District in stunning detail, died on March 1 in Marin County, reports The San Francisco Standard. He was 97. The first Black student of Ansel Adams, Johnson photographed some of the 20th century’s most notable leaders and personalities, including W. E. B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Thurgood Marshall and Jackie Robinson, as well as groundbreaking events like the 1963 March on Washington. “He was able to capture the poignancy of people,” said his stepdaughter Candace Sue. “You can see their desire for freedom.”
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The New York Times Friday March 15, 2024
What does the world look like to a bee? Craig P. Burrows’s book What the Bee Sees: The Honeybee and Its Importance to You and Me (Chronicle) offers a glimpse, notes The New York Times. Burrows’s ultraviolet-lit photographs mimic the fluorescence his botanical subjects emit when exposed to sunlight, revealing colors and textures usually obscured by the dazzle of visible light. Bees also see in the ultraviolet spectrum. His portraits of plants call for interspecies empathy at a time when bees are under attack on multiple fronts, notes The Times.
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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM Friday March 15, 2024
Acclaimed fine-art photographer (and Princeton University Professor Emeritus) Emmet Gowin has committed his archive to the Princeton University Museum. The Gowin archive spans six decades and holds thousands of objects, including more than 650 signed, finished photographs, approximately 500 unsigned test prints, some 7,000 rolls of film, 7,000 contact sheets, three handmade photographic albums, three book maquettes and more than 50 photographs by other artists, including Sally Mann, Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan, and Walker Evans, among others.
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World Photography Organization Friday March 15, 2024
The 2024 Sony World Photography Awards continues to announce the winners and finalists of its different competitions—including the 2024 Open Competition. The competition includes 10 categories: Architecture, Creative, Landscape, Lifestyle, Motion, Natural World & Wildlife, Object, Portraiture, Street Photography, and Travel. Each category winner receives gear from Sony and will compete for the title of Open Photographer of the Year, which will be announced in mid-April at a ceremony in London, notes My Modern Met.
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