LOS ANGELES — Spring is upon us, and cherry blossoms are blooming around the world. It’s hard to take a bad picture of a cherry blossom, known as sakura in Japan, so how do you take a better one?
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LOS ANGELES — William Miller’s new Polaroid project explores the “ruined” photograph.
The content of Strauss’s individual photographs is not always disturbing, but paging through the entirety of 10 Years means talking a walk through neighborhoods and into situations that you might otherwise avoid.
This summer United Photo Industries is taking the next step in helping to create an extraordinary global community of artists.
Working in partnership with local galleries, national institutions and an international network of curatorial partners, United Photo industries is building Photoville — a unique, large-scale, photographic village built from more than 40 freight containers in the heart of Brooklyn Bridge Park, at the Pier 3 Uplands. For a taste of what’s to come, join us at photovillenyc.org.
LOS ANGELES — A book by Scott Pasfield explores the diversity of America’s gay male community.
Studio portraits do not document an event; the making of the photograph is the event. In order to create a series titled Free Sitting, artist Nora Herting got a job as a trade photographer at a portrait studio in a JC Penney department store in Ohio.
LOS ANGELES — One thing many Americans notice about first-tier Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai is that there are very few homeless people. Indeed, life on the margins in major Chinese cities often means life literally on the margins, away from the public eye.
LOS ANGELES — Some couples start to dress and look like each other over time, adopting each other’s personal styles and looks. Vancouver photographer Hana Pesut has set out to explore that visual relationship.
LOS ANGELES — Socotra. Most of us have never heard of it. Officially part of the Republic of Yemen, the island has long been isolated geologically from the rest of the world.
It’s unlikely, half a century from now, that a shadow oeuvre will appear among the personal effects of many contemporary artists, a secret body of work that parallels or even exceeds their public output. This is what happened with the Dutch painter George Hendrik Breitner (1857–1923), whose several thousand photographs emerged from obscurity only in 1961 and might plausibly have been lost forever.
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