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David Schonauer Tuesday October 29, 2024
Matthieu Nicol isn't especially interested in the military. "Actually, I'm a food photography collector and a picture editor," he noted recently. Nonetheless, his new book "Fashion Army" examines the
"evolution of military attire into iconic fashion." The book resulted from Nicol's discovery a few years ago of a vast archive of declassified pictures at the US Army's Natick Soldier Systems Center,
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KICKSTARTER Monday October 28, 2024
What were you doing in March of 2020, when the covid-19 crisis changed the world? Photographer Beth Galton took to her New York City apartment, along with a camera and some gear from her studio, and began making images that spoke to her own anxiety and the uncertainty of the time. The work has been collected in the book Covid Diary, now being funded via Kickstarter. Galton is also talking about how she turned a personal project into a book at an APA Zoom talk tonight, Oct. 28, at 7:00 pm. Read the full Story >>
Andy Mumford Monday October 28, 2024
YouTuber Andy Mumford set out to photograph Mount Fitz Roy in Los Glacia National Park, Patagonia, which he calls the world’s most beautiful mountain, but after a promising start he found the iconic peak to be obscured by heavy rain and cloud. In a new video, Mumford takes viewers along on his journey and describes how he overcame the weather by focusing on dynamic landscape elements. His ability to find beauty in less-than-ideal conditions serves as a lesson in resilience and creativity, notes Fstoppers. Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Monday October 28, 2024
Arthur William Hobart didn't own a drone: Back when he was shooting in the 1930s, making aerial photographs meant leaning out of a buzzing biplane. Likewise, the images he took featured a London that would vastly change. “There are striking images of industrial sites hemmed in by the terraces that housed their employees, and scenes of the British seaside that look a lot more genteel and less crowded than some of today’s brash resorts,” notes The Guardian. Hobart’s newly digitized mages have now been released by Historic England.
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