From street photography and Brassai to the masked boy, a New Yorker exhibition, and a new technology that offers even easier access to photos available for licensing…
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As part of the Louisville Photo Biennial, which will be going on all next month, photographer Richard Bram has curated an exhibition of contemporary street photography from around the world. The show, called “From Distant Streets,” looks intriguing, based on the image he chose to promote it.
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2011/09/cities.html, via Blake Andrews‘ B blog
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Photo by Brassai, as seen at American Suburb X.
American Suburb X posted a 1970 interview with Brassai, conducted by Tony Ray-Jones. Here’s an excerpt:
T.R-J: Would you say that it’s more important for a student to get a general education in art and painting than it is to get an education solely in photography?
B: Yes, I think education and intelligence is important, but not art. Not artistic education, because when you take a photograph you may be very influenced by what you have seen in paintings and this happened to me often. Unconsciously I did something like Toulouse-Lautrec or Degas or perhaps Van Gogh. It was not voluntarily but because we have a culture in painting. It would not happen to a young American perhaps, who had never seen paintings and who did something with his or her sight absolutely fresh. It’s possible. But I think that it’s certain that one doesn’t only photograph with the eyes but with all one’s intelligence.
Link: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/08/interview-brassai-with-tony-ray-jones.html
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TechCrunch is not a photo blog, but this news will surely be of interest to photogs who license their work:
“Stipple, a technology that allows you to tag people, products, advertisements and more in images no matter where they reside on the web, is debuting a new product today—image licensing platform Stipple Marketplace. Instead of paying to license images and then running ads to hopefully offset the image’s cost, publishers can now license photos pre-loaded with revenue and interactive, searchable content. … Marketplace, which launches with more than 1 million images, allows publishers to search for and find real-time news, sport, celebrity, entertainment, and stock photos. Any semi-professional photographers can request access to connect their photos to the Stipple Cloud and make them discoverable by publishers in Marketplace.”
Link: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/20/stipple-debuts-image-licensing-marketplace-for-publishers/
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Reuters photographer Jason Lee wrote an account of his visit to the “Masked Boy,” who lives in a village outside Beijing. The child, who is just 6 years old, was severely burned and has to wear a surgical mask to prevent infection. His family is poor and has been struggling to pay for his treatment. The skin transplant surgery he needs, for instance, costs close to a million yuan, writes Lee in “Unmasking the masked boy.” “Wang Shouwu said his son didn’t gain enough support and proper treatment from the local community, most of the help came from ‘netizens’ who live in big cities,” Lee writes. “I was shocked to see that despite China becoming the world’s second largest economy, the insurance and social security system were still falling behind.” As for Lee’s photos, they are truly haunting.
Link to Lee’s post: http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/2011/09/15/unmasking-the-masked-boy/
Link to the slideshow: http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTR2R1DS#a=1
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From the exhibition "Beyond Words: Photography in The New Yorker."
The New Yorker’s Photo Booth posted selections from the exhibition “Beyond Words: Photography in The New Yorker,” which opened at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York last week. The show was curated by Elisabeth Biondi, who was the New Yorker’s visuals editor until recently. “In the magazine, the photographs often play second fiddle to the words they accompany,” Biondi tells Photo Booth. “This has been an opportunity to show that these images can stand by themselves—that they are strong enough to have their own identity and power.”
Link: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/09/beyond-words-photography-in-the-new-yorker.html
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