‘If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.‘ 
Clara de Tezanos is a Guatemalan photographer and the Director of La Fototeca. She tells us about her passion and how she started in the world of photography. 
Ever since that fateful day when I was mindlessly channel surfing while visiting my parents and came across a mesmerizing image of giant vats of liquid pink goo which, I was informed, would soon be candy canes, I’ve been hooked on How It’s Made. 
The first Paul Graham photographs I saw were images taken from his ‘Troubled Land‘ series. I was about twenty, and I remember the impression of contemporaneity and novelty (in comparison with other photographers working at that time in the field of landscape photography) that these subtle colored images produced on me. 
I love that this book, Where Children Sleep by James Mollison, is intended to show kids how children around the world live, yet no sacrifices were made in the quality of the photos. 
Léon Gimpel was one of the major photographers of the Belle Epoque. He collaborated with the renowned French weekly magazine L’Illustration where he firmly imposed his contemporary coverage of the news. 
I've been thinking a bit lately about what a useful history of contemporary photography for the recent decade (2000-2010) should or might look like, and I've come up wholly frustrated by the status quo. 
# What does it mean for photographers to be socially engaged? # That was the question posed at the North East Photography Network’s symposium on “Socially Engaged Practices” last Friday. 
Many years ago I was asked by Town & Country magazine to photograph an elderly Lady Caroline Blackwood at her home in Sag Harbor, Long Island. 
Automne 1971. Un an après la parution de son programmatique For a Language to Come, Takuma Nakahira était invité à participer à la 7e biennale de Paris. 
Last week’s post concerned itself with the academy as a mode of distribution for aesthetic discourse and how the inclusion of art within higher education has the potential to shift the understanding of intellectual research and debate, specifically... 
Bauhaus: Art as Life, currently on display at the Barbican Centre, explores the legendary modern art and design school from its inception in Weimar in 1919 until its eventual demise in Berlin in 1933. The exhibition is split into two parts: works on display on the upper level of the gallery represent the early stages of the school, while the lower level covers works produced by Bauhaus staff and students after the school moved to Dessau in 1925. |
In addition to being a great and iconoclastic photographer, Cecil Beaton was an inveterate diarist. He was also, for forty years, the premier royal photographer, having cemented his friendship with Elizabeth, The Queen Mother at his very first sitting, which was supposed to last 20 minutes but lasted 3 hours. 
I had some discussions about the theory of David Hockney that I wrote about in two recent posts - and it gives me the impression many people have a misconception about what makes realistic painting so tough. Not just people that are not painting, but even experienced artists fall for them. 
The golden age of Iranian photography began in 1997 when international magazines and editors frequently published pictures by Iranian artists, attracting the curiosity of museum curators and exhibition organizers around the world. 
Aletheia, in ancient greek, truth, in the sense of disclosure, meaning truth and reality at the same time. It is a greek word for truth that implies factual and reality. It means literally 'the state of not being hidden, the state of being evident', to discover or uncover. 
Suggested by Bernardo Santos
Clic Gallery presents “Show Girl”, Antoine Verglas ’ newest photography book from Gravure. An exemplifier of Verglas’ established mastery over the elegantly sensual image, “Show Girl” voyeuristically trails a vampish Lindsay Ellingson as she inhabits the role of a Las Vegas performer. 
"The suffering of light" exhibition at Forma, Milan, covers thirty years of work of the photographer in between photojournalism and artistic photography... 
I am joining Flak Photo and creator Andy Adams to host an online community conversation on the Flak Photo Books Facebook page focused on essays from Gerry Badger’s recently published book of essays, "The Pleasures of Good Photographs." This public discussion provides a structured setting for expanding our understanding of the essays by reading collectively. 
Elle 
For the past eight years, Stefan Ruiz has gained special access to Mexico’s Televisa studios, known as “The Factory of Dreams,” where nearly fifty thousand hours worth of telenovelas (soap operas) are produced and exported annually to more than... 
Who says a camera has to have a static body design? Not RED, not GoPro, and now not Digimo, whose Camera Concept is a modular wonder of design. Will the legacy manufactures figure it out? 
In Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, a group of middle-aged Las Vegas waitresses look straight into the camera as they are captured in time lapse. This brief scene in Koyaanisqatsi adds to the film’s complex montage of visually arresting sequences that explore the condition of late capitalism. 
There are two loves in Indian culture that everyone is born with… Cricket and ‘Bollywood’ … and this is not a sports book. Beyond the glitz and flashbulb glam, what do ‘Bollywood’ actors really do ‘day in and day out? |
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