Howard Greenberg Galleery Monday September 30, 2024
Way back when—that is, in the 20th century—the big news was to be found on the front page of newspapers, which were actually printed on paper. The exhibition “Extra! Extra!: News Photographs from 1908-1975” at New York City’s Howard Greenberg Gallery (through Nov. 16) presents images from a range of historical events, from the arrival of the first Ford car to the detonation of the atom bomb, political assassinations, Woodstock, and the Vietnam War. The images form a visual history of the United States during the last century, notes the gallery.
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World Food Photography Awards Monday September 30, 2024
The competition formerly known as the Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year, and now known as the World Food Photography Awards, is accepting entries. “This name change reflects the prestige, diversity, and global reach of the Awards as we enter our 14th year,” explains Caroline Kenyon, founder of the competition. The awards, she notes, symbolize “the aspiration to establish itself as the global benchmark for culinary photography.” Bimi, a company owned by Japanese seed producer Sakata, has become the main sponsor of the program.
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David Schonauer Monday September 30, 2024
The acclaimed American photographer Stephen Shore made news recently by walking out of a lecture he was giving at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, after noticing that a number of people in
the audience were more engrossed with their mobile phones than they were with the event. Shore's work is currently on view in a retrospective exhibition in Beijing. "I saw … Read the full Story >>
Kyodo News Friday September 27, 2024
Eikoh Hosoe, one of Japan's most important post-war photographers, died on Sept. 16 in a Tokyo hospital due to an adrenal gland tumor, reports Kyodo News. He was 91. In his most celebrated photographic series, Hosoe worked with a succession of highly influential creative contemporaries to deliver extended collaborative portraits. The series “Barakei" (“Ordeal by Roses”) was born out of Hosoe’s friendship with writer and controverial nationalist Yukio Mishima. Hosoe also worked with iconoclastic ankoku butoh dancer Tatsumi Hijikata, notes the Michael Hoppen Gallery.
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