Vogue Friday December 20, 2024
The PHMuseum has announced the winners of its 2024 Women Photographers Grant program. Iranian photographer Sara Abbaspour recieves a €5,000 (about $5,250) grant for her project “Floating Ocean,” which explores Iran's socio-political transformation. The €2,000 Second Prize goes to American photographer Lisa Elmaleh for “Tierra Prometida/Promised Land,” an exploration of life along the U.S.-Mexico border. Bolivian photographer Marisol Mendez wins the €1,000 Third Prize for her project “Padre,” notes Vogue.
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David Schonauer Friday December 20, 2024
Polly Mellen, the irrepressible and indomitable fashion editor who was the last link to a long golden age when fashion editors were fearsome creatures who ruled by fiat and a photograph in Vogue
magazine, died on Dec. 11 in Salisbury, Connecticut, noted The New York Times this week. She was 100. With the photographer Richard Avedon, her longtime collaborator, Mellen created some of the … Read the full Story >>
MY MODERN MET Thursday December 19, 2024
If you like The Simpsons, you'll love the Instagram account known simply as Criminal Simpsons, which has compiled the art history references featured in the long-running animated sitcom. The referenced works include plenty of famous photographs, notes My Modern Met, including Hubert van Es’ s 1975 shot of people scrambling to board a helicopter as South Vietnam fell and Burke Uzzle’s 1969 photo of a couple huddled under a blanket at the Woodstock festival. The humorous references are a testament to the power of the original images to convey a feeling or mood, adds MMM.
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Digital Camera World Thursday December 19, 2024
When Gabriel Perez Silva moved from Florida to New York to pursue photography, he started as an unpaid intern at a modeling agency, where he received a $20 a day stipend to pay for lunch. Now, notes Digital Camera World, he is among the tech moguls, Hollywood stars, inventors, researchers and venture capitalists on the coveted Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2024. Perez Silva’s portfolio includes campaigns for Prada, Calvin Klein, and MAC Cosmetics, magazine jobs from GQ and Vogue, and an Art Basel exhibition.
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