Business Insider Monday October 21, 2024
Australian wedding photographer Joshua Huggett admits that most couples want candid photos of their big day. But he says that after the wedding, “when it comes down to picking their favorites, those aren't the ones that get framed or hung on the wall.” In the end, he tells Business Insider, “couples truly want the big, polished, beautiful shots — the ones where they're posed just right, standing in front of a breathtaking backdrop, looking their absolute best. Those are the images that last.” What's your opinion? Read the full Story >>
DAZED Monday October 21, 2024
In the spring of 1984, Andrea Modica went to Brooklyn to see her old art teacher, the abstract painter Len Bellinger, at Modica’s alma mater: a largely Italian-American Catholic school for girls in Bay Ridge. Though she was then in grad school at Yale, the return to Brooklyn triggered “all those emotions of being in high school,” Modica says. She began wandering the school grounds, recording what Dazed calls the “defiant style of Catholic schoolgirls in 80s Brooklyn.” Her work in now collected in the book Catholic Girl, published by L’Artiere Edizioni.
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Associated Press Monday October 21, 2024
Taliban run-media have stopped showing images of living beings in some Afghan provinces to comply with new morality laws, reports AP. In August, Afghanistan’s Vice and Virtue Ministry published laws regulating aspects of everyday life, including the publication of images of living beings, sparking concerns about the consequences for Afghan media and press freedom. No other Muslim-majority country imposes similar restrictions, including Iran and Saudi Arabia. During their previous rule in the late 1990s, the Taliban banned most television, radio and newspapers altogether.
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British Journal of Photography Monday October 21, 2024
Paris’s Grand Palais, which closed for renovations in 2021, will officially reopen in 2025, but photography aficionados can get an early peek at it when the Paris Photo art fair returns there, from Nov. 7 to 10. This year, hosting displays on the first floor will allow visitors to look down on the main section of the event on the famous ground-floor nave, notes the British Journal of Photography, which has a preview. What to look for: Pace, Galerie Thomas Zander and Steidl will celebrate of the 100th anniversary of Robert Frank’s birth.
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