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This week’s Questions with an Educator features Paul Shambroom. Paul is a photographer as well as an Associate Professor in Art at the University of Minnesota. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Creative Capital grantee. In addition to those honors, he has published two monographs and has another, Past Time, to be published this Spring. Here he describes how those monographs came about, how his work came to focus around American power and culture,…
The Palm Springs Photo Festival Connect 2020 will be held May 3 – 8. Don’t miss out on this year’s event – workshops, seminars, and presentations! The Palm Springs Photo Festival Connect 2020 offers professional, emerging professional and serious advanced amateur photographers the opportunity to study with legendary photographers, show portfolios in our celebrated portfolio review program, check out and shoot with the latest gear, attend cutting-edge seminars, symposiums, networking events and enjoy evening presentations…
Cross-posted from The New York Times. [By Arthur Lubow] “Shahidul Alam, the acclaimed Bangladeshi photojournalist and activist, pushes against the limits of his medium to cast light on what is suppressed or has vanished.” “Like Woody Guthrie, who called his guitar an anti-fascist weapon, the Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam has used his camera for 35 years as a tool to advance social justice. He began by documenting street protests in Dhaka, the capital, in the…
Cross-posted from The New York Times. “The jittery energy backstage at a Broadway theater 30 minutes before showtime, or in the seconds before the curtain rises at the Metropolitan Opera. Björk and Erykah Badu in all their regalia, and the happily-ever-after Swiss life of Tina Turner in retirement, but hardly retiring. Two lions in winter, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, remembering when they were cubs. These were some of the pictures that stayed with…
Cross-posted from Border Crossings. [By Paul Roth] Paul Roth, currently the director of the Ryerson Image Center in Toronto, with a long international curatorial career, writes about spending four years working on a Robert Frank retrospective, all the while in close contact with Frank and his wife, June Leaf. After a good look at Frank’s early work, Roth makes a convincing case that Frank’s post-“The Americans” work is just as significant as the book that…
Cross-posted from LenScratch. [By Aline Smithson] “Photographer Gary Beeber has knack for finding humor and pathos in the every day, especially in those places that have fallen into decline. He has an innate curiosity and the photographs in his series, Passages, reveal a sense of wonder and amusement about the deteriorating detritus of architecture and objects. He describes the beginnings of how he sees, ‘Influential in shaping how I see was the drawing class taught by…