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...
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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...
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...
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...
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.”...
