Category Archives: Highlights from other photo blogs

Highlights from other photo blogs: Documerica, Eve Arnold, Edward Leida, and more

A treasure trove of images from a 1970s documentary project that brings to mind the work of the WPA photographers has been uncovered and is now available to view online at the National Archives’ site: “For the Documerica Project (1971-1977), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems, [...]

Highlights from other photo blogs

. Feature Shoot spotlighted Mahesh Shantaram’s photos of “the colorful remains of over the top Indian weddings.” Excerpt: “I have been documenting wedding sets and little associated details at weddings because I find them to be fascinating metaphors of my country’s penchant for order and chaos; colour and noise; and the peculiar sense of taste [...]

Highlights from other photo blogs

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… . . 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 [...]

Highlights from other photo blogs

The summer’s been a bit slow, so I haven’t done one of these roundups in a while. Here’s a look at some highlights from other photo blogs over the last couple of weeks: . . Sean O’Hagan of The Guardian penned a thought-provoking column on rock stars and photography asserting that “photography has often spoken [...]

This week’s highlights from other photo blogs

. At her eponymous blog, photographer Amy Stein wrote about “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sharing My Work Online.” Excerpt: “I fully support the proper attribution of images and have done so on my blog since day one. In the age of Google Image Search, there is absolutely no excuse for not [...]

This week’s highlights from other photo blogs

.. Julie Grahame at aCurator featured Leland Bobbé’s gritty b&w photos of “New York City’s Seamy 70s”—specifically, of the Bowery and Times Square. The images had been tucked away in Bobbé’s archives and are, writes Julie, “virtually unseen.” “The Bowery was the end of the line for many,” Bobbé says in the blog post. “Some [...]

This week’s highlights from other photo blogs

. Verve Photo, which is devoted to documentary photography, highlighted the image by young Belgian photographer Bieke Depoorter, along with a story about it written by Depoorter. Here’s an excerpt: “I took this picture during my second trip through Russia in the winter of 2008/2009. I met the woman a few days before, in the [...]

This week’s highlights from other photo blogs

I’ve been thinking about the overabundance of blogs and online magazines and wondering if print is the only way to stand out anymore. And I’m not the only who’s been pondering this, apparently. The Magculture.com blog excerpted this observation by Bec Brown, editor of the online art/design magazine Blanket: “‘Starting out online was financially easier [...]

This week’s highlights from other photo blogs

I follow somewhere around 80 photo-related blogs, and for a long time now I’ve been wanting to cull the best bits from each and collect them in one spot, sort of like a weekly snapshot of the photoblogosphere. Well, today’s the day to finally kick this thing off. Here’s “This week’s highlights from other photo [...]

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