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Odd Books
If you’re like me and you’ve been in photography for a while, you have more than a few photography books on your shelves. Some you bought because you like the artists, some you got in a yard sale, or found them remaindered in a second hand bookstore. Some were gifts and some just appeared there [...]
Don Donaghy, Photographer, 1936-2008
This seems to be the Summer for eulogies…
Don Donaghy, 1991 by George Krause
I first met Don Donaghy, the photographer, when he was taking pictures in the early 60s. We met again in his last years when he had returned to photography after many years of pursuing other arts such as film-making and sculpture.
All photos by Don Donaghy [...]
Coming of Age
When we are 15, we all feel as if we are beginning to become somebody else. Lise Sarfati
Lise Sarfati, Magnum
… the rites of passage, the birthdays, the bat mitzvahs, sweet sixteen parties, proms, online diaries, the first bra, whispered secrets…The stammers, the pimples the awkwardness, the flush of embarrassment..
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The Lost Continent
Jeffrey Gettleman has written a very disturbing article for the New York Times ( June 8, 2008) about the plight of albinos in Tanzania, Africa.
Two paragraphs from Gettleman’s story sum up the incredible situation:
“…at least 19 albinos, including children, have been killed and mutilated in the past year, victims of what Tanzanian officials [...]The Artist and the Artisan, part II
In my post on Pascal Dangin, image-enhancer ( The Artist and the Artisan) I said:
But with the advent of so-called ‘photo-based art’ it has become increasingly evident that the photographer steps aside after taking the picture; the making of the fine-art object involves the handiwork of a shadowy coterie of retouchers, printers, exhibition designers [...]