SFGate Tuesday September 24, 2024
A man and woman have been convicted of first-degree murder in the 2017 killing of a 71-year-old photographer on Twin Peaks, one of San Francisco's most popular tourist attractions. Fantasy Decuir and Lamonte Mims, both 27, were found guilty of shooting Edward French while robbing him of his camera at the sight-seeing area, reports SF Gate. French had gone to Twin Peaks on the morning of July 16, 2017, to take photographs of the city; surveillance cameras captured video of the pair approaching and robbing him at gunpoint.
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David Schonauer Tuesday September 24, 2024
"From the concrete jungles of the Northeast to the endless skies of the great West, and all that lays in between, the cowboy spirit thrives," notes Pulitzer prize-winning photographer Ron Tarver. His
new book, "The Long Ride Home: The Black Cowboy Experience in America," explores a narrative that, notes Tarver, has been "intentionally forgotten in the great American myth of the West." His images … Read the full Story >>
Center for Creative Photography Monday September 23, 2024
"My images convey the spiritual and cultural values of the Chicano experience.” So noted photographer Louis Carlos Bernal, whose work is featured in a landmark survey at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ, through March 15, 2025. Born in Douglas, Arizona, and based in Tucson,Bernal (1941–1993) was a pioneering Chicano photographer—among the first to envision his work in the medium not as documentation, but as an art form, notes the CCP. The exhibition includes more than 145 photographs and archival photographic equipment,
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Audubon Monday September 23, 2024
When Parham Pourahmad got wind of a red-tailed hawk fledgling that ended up in a bald eagle nest 45 minutes from his California home, he was eager to get a picture of the raptor rarity. But he had a problem, notes Audubon: At age 13, he couldn't drive himself to the eagle nest area in Joseph D. Grant County Park, just outside San Jose. Fortunately, his parents were happy to help, just as they have since Parham first fell in love with photography in the early days of the pandemic. Pourahmad shot the scene with Nikon D3500 and a Sigma 150-600mm lens.
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