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Interview with ASMP Founder Charlotte Brooks

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Editor’s Note: For National Photography Month, ASMP is featuring past interviews of the legends and influencers involved in the early years of the American Society of Magazine Photographers (name changed in 1992 to the American Society of Media Photographers to reflect the diversity of member work). Our second featured interview is photojournalist Charlotte Brooks. View timeline of ASMP history. Charlotte Brooks Bio Cross-posted from the Library of Congress Biographical Essays Brooks was born Charlotte Finkelstein in…

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May 13, 2021

All Available Light: The Life and Legacy of Photographer Ted Polumbaum

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The life, work, and enduring legacy of a social activist-photojournalist as reconstructed by a daughter.   ASMP Editor’s Note: Ted Polumbaum joined ASMP on October 1, 1958.  Over his highly successful four-decade career as a freelance photojournalist, Ted Polumbaum did about 400 assignments for the legendary LIFE magazine, on subjects ranging from politics, religion, science and medicine to natural disasters, sports, and the arts. He also worked regularly for Time, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, Look, The…

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May 12, 2021

Alfred Stieglitz – Camera Work Quarterly Available for Download.

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Cross-posted from Deborah Gilbert / Develop I’ve always loved treasure hunting at flea markets and antique shops and one of my fantasies has always been to come across an issue of Camera Work, the photography journal that Alfred Steiglitz started publishing in 1903. Unfortunately, no such luck. But now we’re all lucky because all 50 issues have been digitized and can be seen on the website Modern Journals Project! Alfred Stieglitz – Camera Work Quarterly…

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March 29, 2021

Where the Magic Happens: On Set with Mary Ellen Mark

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Cross-posted from The Criterion Channel.  [By Rebecca Bengal]   “When the photographer Mary Ellen Mark died in 2015 at age seventy-five from myelodysplastic syndrome, she left behind a vast and varied five-decade trail of portraits and documentary pictures, collected in twenty books and dozens of exhibitions, radical in their close, nuanced, and compassionate depiction of persons from all walks of life. Most of her work was shot in black and white and originated from magazine…

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March 22, 2021
Photo of Dorothea Lange in California

Trailblazers in Light – Celebrating Women in Photojournalism

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Image of Dorothea Lange: Library of Congress During Women's History Month, we celebrate the incredibly talented ASMP women photojournalists who blazed a trail and others who continue to blaze trails documenting the world around them. Legendary women photojournalists who were members of ASMP include Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke-White, Mary Ellen Mark, Eve Arnold, and Berenice Abbott among others. They are highlighted in the work of the team at Trailblazers in Light, a site established to...
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March 4, 2021

VIDEO: What Gordon Parks Saw

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Cross-posted from Nerdwriter via aeon. [By Evan Puschak]  “Gordon Parks found a ‘weapon’ against poverty and racism in a secondhand camera. ‘I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.’ – Gordon Parks (1912-2006) Born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, Gordon Parks was 25 when he arrived in Seattle, Washington with only…

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February 28, 2021

The World-Famous Couple That Changed Photography Forever

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Cross-posted from BBC Reels. Editor’s Note: Robert Capa was an ASMP Life Member. Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, the most iconic couple in the history of war photography, were not actually who they claimed to be. The Jewish immigrants, who met in Paris after fleeing persecution, created fake identities to break into the competitive French press. The couple went on to lead long and influential careers that changed war photography forever.

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February 22, 2021

And in the Beginning, There Was Gordon Parks

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Cross-posted from The New York Times. [By Guy Trebay] Gordon Parks was “the first Black member of the Farm Security Administration’s storied photo corps; the first Black photographer for the United States Office of War Information; the first Black photographer for Vogue; the first Black staff photographer at the weekly magazine Life; and, years later, the first Black filmmaker to direct a motion picture for a major Hollywood studio. By the standards of a Jim…

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February 16, 2021

‘Take Beautiful Pictures of Our People’

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Cross-posted from The New York Times and Twitter thread. [By Siddhartha Mitter and John Edwin Mason] “Born in 1960s Harlem, the Kamoinge collective was influential in Black photography but ignored by the mainstream until recently. This exhibition should change that.” “Influential in Black photography circles, Kamoinge is little-known beyond. “Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop,” now at the Whitney Museum after originating at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, is the first museum…

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January 7, 2021

Marc Riboud, Bearing Witness to the World

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Cross-posted from blind. [By Sophie Bernard]  “If we were to keep only one of Marc Riboud’s images, it would have to be this stand-off between soldiers pointing their bayonet rifles and a young woman handing them a flower. The year was 1967 in Washington, D.C., the country was bogged down by the Vietnam War, and American youth were calling for an end to the fighting. A kind of visual counterpart to their slogan “Make love,…

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December 16, 2020