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Book, exhibit examine
lynching in America
A collection of photographs and postcards at The New-York Historical Society shows the terrible human toll taken by mob vengeance throughout the first half of the 1900s.
"Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America" presents the shocking images collected by Atlanta antique dealer James Allen over the past 25 years. The pictures in the exhibit show lynchings as public spectacles that attracted crowds that included boys, girls and sometimes even lawmakers. Many of the pictures were originally sold as postcards, providing terrible mementos of the killings.
The Village Voice said the images "may be too horrifying to contemplate, but they're too important to ignore." Earlier this year, the exhibit drew standing-room-only crowds at Roth Horowith, a tiny New York gallery, then moved to its current location, which will extend the run though Aug. 13, 2000. [2000.08] TOP
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Oprah, photographers
settle 3-year-old lawsuit
Oprah Winfrey settled a 1997 lawsuit brought by two photographers who charged that the talk-show host violated their copyright by using their images in her best-selling weight-loss book, Make the Connection, writes Tim Jones in a Chicago Tribune story.
Details of the Aug. 16 settlement were kept confidential, but both sides told the Tribune that they essentially got what they wanted. For photographers Paul Natkin and Stephen Green, that meant they would have access to some 60,000 pictures of Winfrey they made over the past decade. Winfrey, in turn, received an agreement that photos of her wouldn't be sold to tabloids without her consent. Neither side, however, would have to pay damages.
U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo told the Tribune: "This was a misunderstanding that seemed to get a little bit out of control." [2000.08] TOP
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'Mother Jones' names
2000 award winners
The Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography has selected Mark Asnin to recieve its Medal of Excellence for "Uncle Charlie," a 20-year project that spans two generations in telling the story of a schizophrenic uncle in Brooklyn.
SF Camerawork hosts an exhibit of work from the winners July 15 through Aug. 12 at its San Francisco gallery. Prints are also available for sale online.
Winners, who are selected from a worldwide pool of applicants, include Shehzad Noorani of Bangladesh, Andrew Moore of the U.K., Joseph Ouma of Uganda, Adriana Groisman of Argentina and Christian Cravo of Brazil. The fund's Lifetime Achievement Award went posthumously to Raghubir Singh of India, whose book, River of Colour: The India of Raghubir Singh, was published shortly after his death. [2000.08] TOP
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- Read a review of Raghubir Singh's life work.
- View work by the 1999 winners.
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Scenes of a hell on Earth
The horrifying scenes photojournalist James Nachtwey captured in Bosnia and Somalia during the past decade stand as a testament to the paradox of the human condition and our own frailty. "I am trying to upset people," Nachtwey is quoted in a recent Time magazine article.
"I am trying to interrupt their day." His new book, Inferno,
which brings together 382 oversized B&W images, does just that with starkness, truth and sometimes even beauty. TOP
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The rise and fall
of Class of 1989
Ten years after a poll of students at Belmont High School revealed some of their hopes and ambitions, the Los Angeles Times tracks down graduates to offer a glimpse of their struggles, their successes, their failures.
Staff photographer Wally Skalij provides a compelling portrait of life in and around Belmont High School in Los Angeles, while staff writers Rich Connell and Robert J. Lopez tell the stories of those who lived, and often succeeded, there.
The special report identified more than 800 students from the Class of 1989 and surveyed them, providing a profile of a larger trend, the Times writes. [2000.07] TOP
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Court OK's nude
N.Y. photo shoot
Spencer Tunick photographed 152 naked people lying on a street in downtown Manhattan on June 4, after the nation's highest court threw out New York's attempt to block him from assembling an unclothed crowd.
An Associated Press story in The New York Times says the 33-year-old artist has been arrested five times in New York for attempting to photograph nudes in public places. The Times added that Tunick's ongoing project began with a 1992 nude male portrait in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
"It's like when you watch those shows on the Discovery Channel and you see a herd of antelope," one model told the Times. "This is like a herd of naked people." TOP
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Taylor-Wood unveils
a two-ton panorama
British art photographer Sam Taylor-Wood debuted her 900-by-60-foot image at Selfridges department store in London's West End, writes Tamasin Day-Lewis in the May 2000 issue of Vanity Fair.
Taylor-Wood, a past finalist for the prestigious Turner Prize, employed such current cultural icons as Elton John and other musicians, actors, models and artists in the largest incarnation of her detailed panoramic images to date. She tells the magazine that the three 360-degree photographs joined to make a single, seamless image were concieved in the spirit of the "Elgin marbles on the Parthenon."
Free of what Taylor-Wood calls her "usual sprinkling of sordid sex scenes," the two-ton frieze was unveiled in May and will be on display for six months. [2000.06] TOP
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Edward Keating shares
his visions of Route 66
A staff photographer for The New York Times recounts the 1977 trip he took on the immortal highway though the soul of America, the legendary Route 66.
Edward Keating, who often provides images of the quiet, little-noticed moments at weddings featured in the Sunday Times, recently revisited the renowned road. His tale begins in a Flagstaff, Ariz., motel.
"Rt. 66: A Journey Across America" includes an accompanying slide show that highlights the images Keating made while retracing the path he took as a younger man. [2000.07] | TOP
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The macabre finds
Witkin as a child
While still young, Joel-Peter Witkin witnessed a car accident in which a young girl was decapitated. In adulthood, he claims his camera was, in part, his response to that incident, according to a profile by Salon.com. In his illustrious career of creating images that include corpses found in a Mexico City morgue, monkeys and bearded women, Witkin has wrangled with mortality, religion, sex, excess and societal norms.
Excerpts from his 1989 book, Gods of Earth and Heaven, provide a peek at Witkin's sometimes nightmarish, sometimes beautiful vison, brought to you by Salon.com. [2000.05] TOP
Books by Joel-Peter Witkin
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Elián González photos
spark controversy
Federal agents raided the Miami home where the Cuban boy was being cared for by relatives, and Associated Press contract photographer Al Diaz was there to capture the sequence of events. But what would have otherwise been a straightforward news story became a point of controversy.
Here, the Poynter Institute examines media coverage of the April 22 event.[2000.05] | TOP
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See the sequence of images Diaz captured in those few seconds.
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U.S. researchers uncover
new views of Vietnam
Two U.S. researchers dug through Vietnamese government files to seek out images of the war and talk to the photographers who made pictures used for propaganda and documentary purposes.
"Some guys would just bring us plastic bags full of negatives, and we'd just hold them up to a [loupe] and go through them," one of the American researchers said in a New York Times story.
One North Vietnamese photographer is said to have been an expert in processing film on the battlefield, carrying chemicals with him, building earthen darkrooms and hanging film to dry on bushes. [2000.04] TOP
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Fotophile.com to open
Canyon Road gallery
Eight years after launching a web site offering galleries, links and resources for photography enthusiasts around the world, Fotophile.com announced 28 August 2001 that it has signed a lease agreement for gallery space on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, N.M.
"This has been a labor of love from the beginning," said founder Bruno J. Navarro, "and it's incredible to be able to take it to the next step."
The gallery will focus on contemporary art and photography, as well as photojournalism, highlighting new and emerging artists from around the world, the United States and Santa Fe, a popular tourist destination and a haven for artists.
Navarro said he expects to launch by late September.
Fotophile will be located at 708 Canyon Road, Suite 3, Santa Fe, NM 87501. [2001.08] TOP
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FBI investigates Hine
prints for authenticity
Allegedly signed after his death in 1940, prints by renowned American photographer Lewis W. Hine have raised suspicions against a former colleague.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced it was looking into a criminal complaint against photographer Walter Rosenblum, according to a 16 August 2001 story in The New York Times.
Rosenblum, 82, is a retired Brooklyn College professor and three-time president of the Photo League cooperative where Hine left his archives, according to the Times. Earlier this year, he settled a lawsuit by six dealers to reimburse clients who had purchased Hine photographs.
"To Mr. Rosenblum's knowledge, every print that he represented was vintage he believed to be vintage," Rosenblum's attorney, Mark J. Sugarman of Manhattan, told the Times.
Hine, worked primarily in the 1930s and 1940s, documenting images of steelworkers constructing the Empire State Building and of child laborers. [2001.08] TOP
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Selected images by Lewis W. Hine at the George Eastman House
Related books
Passionate Journey: Photographs 1905-1937 by Lewis W. Hine
Lewis W. Hine: Children at Work by Vicki Goldberg
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor by Russell Freedman, Lewis W. Hine (photographer)
More photojournalism books at Fotophile.com
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Early direction for Mark
Acclaimed documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark sought knowledge of the world outside her own at an early age, she says in a profile by Salon.com. "I really knew when I started photographing I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to be a voyeur." A stand-alone exhibit of her work is also featured. [2000.03] TOP
Books by Mary Ellen Mark at Amazon.com
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PhotoWorks, the company formerly known as Seattle FilmWorks, has been hit with a class-action lawsuit claiming a violation of the Consumer Protection Act for telling customers its film could only be developed by the Seattle-based company, according to The Seattle Times. The lawsuit also claimed the company passed along to consumers the cost of its free-film offer and seeks repayment of "ill-gotten gains." A spokesperson says the charges are unsubstantiated and promised that the company would fight the lawsuit. [2000.03] TOP
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Seattle photographer
wins $1 million prize
A 1983 image by Steve Ringman captured the top prize in the Million Dollar Moment contest held by PhotoPoint.com. Ringman, who now works at The Seattle Times, said he shot the picture of windblown Catholic schoolgirls from his car window.
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Magazine to focus
on digital imaging
Imagine Media launches the new monthly digitalFoto 9 May 2000. The publication, geared toward digital-imaging enthusiasts and professionals, will review equipment and provide tips. A free trial issue is offered through its web site, digitalfoto.com. [2000.02] TOP
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Kodak is using teenagers — in person and over the Internet — to design a camera-case/accessory set to go with its disposable cameras and sold for a premium price for the back-to-school season, according to The Wall Street Journal. For Kodak, which has struggled to shake off its Old Economy tag and look more innovative, teenagers have been identified as a target demographic group.
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