Surfer Monday August 26, 2024
Andrew Blauschild, who documented the surfing scene at Montauk and Long Island, New York, for 30 years, died on August 19 from a heart attack he suffered after coming in from a session in the waves, notes Surfer magazine. He was 53. Originally from the Bronx, Blauschild shot for high-end brands like Ralph Lauren and Oscar de la Renta. But it was the East End of Long Island and New York’s vibrant surf culture that captured his imagination, adds Surfer. Tributes from New York’s surfing community poured in after his death.
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Smithsonian Monday August 26, 2024
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Cultures is set to publish its first book of sports photography. The book, Game Changers: Sports Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture, includes photographs from the Johnson Publishing Company Archive, co-owned by the museum and the Getty Research Institute. “The Black athlete has long served as a symbol of excellence, a figure of change, and an image of the otherwise impossible,” noes Kevin Young, Director of NMAAHC.
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Forbes Monday August 26, 2024
Over the last four and a half years, LA-based photographer Zusha Goldin has built up an impressive reputation in the world of entertainment, brushing shoulders with the likes of Ben Stiller, Selena Gomez, Courtney Cox, Bryan Cranston, and Sydney Sweeney. Stunned by the amount of anti-Jewish vitriol he and his photographic subjects have sometimes faced online, especially in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack. Goldin hatched a plan to fight antisemitism, leveraging his industry connections, notes Forbes.
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Black and White Photo Awards Monday August 26, 2024
Who needs color? Photographer Haikun Liang is the “absolute winner” of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024 competition for his his photograph "Destroy together”—a raucous shot of firecrackers exploding during the the spring festival celebration in China, This year’s contest also featured a Special Prize for Creativity, sponsored by SanDisk, which goes to photographer László Tóth for the image "Spiral to the Tower"—a innovative shot of a flock of birds forming a spiral in flight.
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