The New York Times Tuesday May 28, 2024
The French film star Gérard Depardieu reapeatedly punched Rino Barillari, known as the “king of paparazzi,” last week in Rome, according to the photographer and a journalist who witnessed the altercation.The incident took place outside Harry’s Bar on the famed Via Veneto, the avenue that was ground zero for celebrity-hunting paparazzi decades ago, notes The New York Times. Seeing Depardieu, 75, and Barillari, 79, on the Via Veneto was like “a time machine,” noted Italian journalist Gianni Riotta, who said he saw the attack while he was having coffee at Harry’s Bar.
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Capture the Atlas Tuesday May 28, 2024
Travel photography site Capture the Atlas has published the seventh edition of its Milky Way Photographer of the Year feature—a collection of 25 images selected as the most spectacular of the past 12 months. This year’s winners come from the remote deserts of Chile, Yemen, Jordan, and Oman, as well as the “lost landscapes of Patagonia, Australia, and New Zealand,” notes the site. The best time to see and photograph the Milky Way is usually between May and June, when hours of visibility are at their maximum, adds The Guardian.
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Projections Tuesday May 28, 2024
A Projections event on May 29 will feature photographer Sandro Miller discussing a number of his acclaimed projects, including a series on American bikers and his John Malkovich sessions. (Miller’s recreation of famous portraits, featuring Malkovich as Yousuf Karsh’s Ernest Hemingway, Alberto Korda’s Che Guevara, Bert Stern’s Marilyn Monroe, Philippe Halsman’s Salvador Dalí and other iconic figures, "became one of the biggest viral photo stories of the past year,” we noted in a 2015 Profile. See also: Miller’s work from American Photography 37 at The Archive.) Time: 7:00 pm, EDT. Place: Zoom.
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David Schonauer Tuesday May 28, 2024
In 1970, at age 35, Jack Lueders-Booth left a job at an insurance company in Boston to take up photography. Soon afterwards he landed a job as an administrator for the photography department at
Harvard University, where later he also enrolled as a student. For his master's thesis, he submitted a proposal that would alter the course of his life. In 1977, he began … Read the full Story >>
