The New York Times Friday June 20, 2025
Beuford Smith, who created empathetic, abstract and sometimes shadow-filled images of life in Black communities in New York City, including jazz musicians at work and the aftermath of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died on June 7 in Brooklyn, notes The New York Times. He was 89. Smith came of age in the early 1960s, when Black photographers had scarce opportunities to be hired by mainstream publications. He eventually became a prominent member of the the Kamoinge Workshop, a networking group that offered encouragement to Black photographers. Read the full Story >>
It’s Nice That Friday June 20, 2025
In an age of Ai-generated and Photoshopped perfection, scuffs, scratches and scrapes on cars have offer slurring drama, notes It’s Nice That, which spotlights photographer Lycien-David Cséry’s book Cracks And Dents. With photos focusing on mangled car parts, Cséry focuses on materiality, traces of use, and visible signs of transformation, adds INT. “I think a lot about what we choose to live with: the pristine or the broken, and how form, color, and surface speak to us over time,” says the photographer.
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npr Friday June 20, 2025
The Los Angeles Press Club and the investigative reporting site Status Coup have filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles and the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department in federal court, alleging that officers at demonstrations are routinely violating journalists' rights. Freelance photographer Michael Nigro tells NPR he was taking photos of Los Angeles Police Department officers pushing back protesters when he was grazed by a non-lethal round. "It felt very very intentional," Nigro says.
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THE ART NEWSPAPER Friday June 20, 2025
A newly launched initiative from Cindy Sherman allows for the assessment and “controlled replacement” of damaged prints of her images. In a statement to The Art Newspaper, Sherman Sherman described the project as “a mechanism that will ensure the integrity of my work is protected in perpetuity.” The launch of the Cindy Sherman Legacy Project (CSLP) reflects Sherman’s long-standing concern about the fragility of photographic materials, says Margaret Lee, the CSLP’s director,
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