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Photography and Corrosion

By Ryan • Jan 31st, 2008

By Adam Fifield for the Daily Utah Chronicle:
“Chic, young consumers are snapping photos of each other at the clubs on razor-thin camera phones, but some local photographers are resisting these digital and social trends by revisiting the original art of photography that is tied up with chemical processes and the balance between exposure and corrosion.
Jesse [...]



76 KISSES: Snapshots from the Collection of Lori Baker and David E. Brown

By Ryan • Jan 31st, 2008

From ArtDaily.org:
“BROOKLYN, NY.-A soldier’s parting kiss, a summer kiss at a picnic, a midnight kiss on New Year’s Eve, a lusty kiss not meant to be seen. Luckily, a camera was present to capture all of them. 76 KISSES, an exhibition of snapshots at The City Reliquary, presents an intimate and compelling look at the [...]



The Schirn Presents Today All-Inclusive. A Tourist World

By Ryan • Jan 30th, 2008

From ArtDaily.org:
“FRANKFURT.-Tourism has long since become a crucial phenomenon of today’s mobile world society. The traces left by travelers all over the Earth give evidence of a continually growing tourist industry and mark the beginning of a global movement that drastically transforms present-day man and the spaces he passes through. The exhibition “All-Inclusive. A Tourist [...]



Behind the Lens with Brian Skerry

By Megan • Jan 29th, 2008

Zach Honig reports for Pop Photo: 
“The photographic community is incredibly diverse, made up of photographers that shoot from the sky to the sea and everywhere in between. Each month we’ll focus on a different segment of the industry, interviewing top professional photographers about life, their careers, and what sets their piece of the photographic industry [...]



Charlie Cho, Photographer: Self Portrait Series #3

By Jason Moriber • Jan 29th, 2008

Charlie Cho is a night-based (black & white) photographer living in LA. He sent us 11 images to be included in this series. LINK



Angela Datre Photography featured on Juxtapoz.com

By Wise Elephant • Jan 28th, 2008

Angela Datre’s music photography is featured on Juxtapoz.com.



Kolmanskop, a ghost town buried in the sand

By Ryan • Jan 28th, 2008

From the blog, Fogonazos:
Photography by Richard Ehrlich
Kolmanskop is a ghost town in southern Namibia, a few kilometres inland from the port of Lüderitz. In 1908, Luederitz was plunged into diamond fever and people rushed into the Namib desert hoping to make an easy fortune. Within two years, a town, complete with a casino, school, hospital [...]



The Capa Cache

By Ryan • Jan 28th, 2008

By Randy Kennedy of the New York Times:
“TO the small group of photography experts aware of its existence, it was known simply as “the Mexican suitcase.” And in the pantheon of lost modern cultural treasures, it was surrounded by the same mythical aura as Hemingway’s early manuscripts, which vanished from a train station in 1922.
The [...]



Irvine Contemporary Presents Phil Nesmith, My Baghdad : New Ambrotype Photographs

By Ryan • Jan 24th, 2008

 Reported by ArtDaily.com:
“WASHINGTON, DC.- Irvine Contemporary announced the opening of Phil Nesmith’s first solo exhibition, My Baghdad, a series of photographs shot in Baghdad and produced on glass plates using a dry plate ambrotype process. A set of editioned C-print enlargements from the glass plates will accompany the unique images in the exhibition. The exhibition [...]



Photographer Bernie Boston, known for iconic Vietnam-era ‘Flower Power’ photo, dies

By Ryan • Jan 24th, 2008

Reported by the Associated Press:
“BASYE, Va. – Bernie Boston, a newspaper photographer best known for his iconic 1960s picture of a Vietnam War protester placing flowers in soldiers’ gun barrels at a rally, has died. He was 74.
Boston died Tuesday of a rare blood disease at his home in Basye, where he retired in 1994 [...]