Beyond Matt Black’s Poverty Percentages
If you simply relate to Black’s poverty or class imagery in the broad brush, it’s a prolific view. But, in most every frame, the deeper power and reward is that further question or allegation.
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A Demanding Photo from Lynn Johnson’s National Geographic Cannabis Feature
What's powerful about the photo is how it functions as testimony.
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Ode to Light: Making Street Photography in a Cynical Age — by Amy Touchette
I know that if I’m to continue making photographs of the general public, I need to be aware of the context in which we live. I’m ready to explain to people that they are beautiful, that they are unique, and that they are worthy of being recognized, even if...
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Lynsey Addario and that Audi Commercial: Reframing the War Photographer — (Postscript Added)
My first and second thoughts on a set of commercials featuring a famous war photographer.
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Stacy Kranitz: The Spectacle of Violence (GRAPHIC)
I awoke late that afternoon to find everyone begging to see pictures of Scott’s bloody hand. I could not fault them for their obsession. This is what my photographs are about, fetishizing violence.
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BagNewsSalon: "Unnecessary Roughness: Football as a Reflection of American Culture"
This BagNews Salon features a distinguished panel of sports scholars and photojournalists analyzing a select edit of media photos dealing with football and American culture.
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"Victim of Beauty": Glamour of Violence (Once Again)
Given the dismal commonness of images like these, the only thing “cutting edge” about them is the cuts that are left on the edges of the models’ skin.
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Fashion Of The Times
Courtesy of this livejournal community, we have access to the fashion spread from September's Vogue Italia. One person who wrote me described the images as evoking rape fantasies and, conversely, the expression of female power. Well, I think that misses the point. What we have here is a very...
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