CNN Thursday April 10, 2025
The unpredictable nature of film photography has been a powerful motivator for London-based photographer Aldridge across his three-decade career. “I like the rigor and tension of looking through the lens and seeing the picture,” he tells CNN. Aldridge rose to prominence in the mid-’90s when he began working with Franca Sozzani, the longstanding editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia. Now his work is going on view at Sotheby’s Story Café in London: The walls and accompanying furnishings will be covered with his imagery of women.
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The New York Times Thursday April 10, 2025
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’s full access to President Trump, finding that the effort to ban the outlet over objections to its coverage violated the First Amendment. Trump officials began barring AP reporters and photographers from physically covering events with the president in February, after the wire service refused to adopt Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Trump has moved to leverage access to presidential events as a way of asserting more direct control over how news organizations cover his administration, notes The New York Times.
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The New York Times Wednesday April 9, 2025
Paul McDonough, whose candid photographs captured what he called the galvanizing energy of turned-on New Yorkers and the West Coast venues where urbanites had fled to tune out, died on March 25 in Brooklyn, notes The NewYork times. He was 84. Armed with a Leica or a Siciliano camera custom-built by photographer Thomas Roma, who was head of the department of photography at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, McDonough often captured groups in which individual facial expressions projected multiple impressions.
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Indiewire Wednesday April 9, 2025
The legendary group photo “proving” that Jack Nicholson‘s Jack Torrance never really left the Overlook Hotel in The Shininghas finally been found in real life. New York Times reporter Aric Toler discovered that the original photo was taken from the BBC Hulton Archive, which was later purchased by Getty Images, notes Indiewire. Murray Close, a photographer who worked on Stanley Kubrick’s famed 1980 film confirmed to Toler that Nicholson’s face was “pasted on” on the body of famous jazz dance instructor Santos Casani.
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