Bob Gomel's photograph of Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) and Malcolm X is on the cover of the new book, "Blood Brothers".
LA Times Review
When Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali's friendship changed history: The new book 'Blood Brothers' explains
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Bob Gomel's Photograph on the cover of the new book "Blood Brothers"
Bob Gomel's photograph of Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) and Malcolm X is on the cover of the new book, "Blood Brothers".
LA Times Review
When Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali's friendship changed history: The new book 'Blood Brothers' explains
Friday, January 22, 2016
Visit us during Photo LA 2016 this weekend
photo l.a. celebrates super snapshots at The Reef from Jan. 22-24. (Photo: Stephen Wilkes, Serengeti, Tanzania, Day To Night, 2015, Courtesy of the Monroe Gallery of Photography)
January 21, 2016
Weekend: photo l.a.
Celebrated shutterbugs, collectors, galleries, and fans converge to buy, admire, discuss.
photo l.a.: The yearly gathering of galleries, fans, buyers, and lauded photographers who capture elaborate stories with one click has a big name for the bigness it encompasses. The Reef downtown is the setting for The 25th Annual International Los Angeles Photographic Exposition will be flush with photos and tours and panels and everything that has anything to do with the camera, the lens, and the eye. You don't have to buy or attend one of the programs to enjoy a day; a one-day ticket to the Jan 22-24 snapshot spectacular is twenty bucks.
Monroe Gallery is located in booth #205 /302, just to the right of the main fair entrance.
Friday, January 22, 11am - 7pm
Saturday, January 23, 11am - 7pm
Sunday, January 24, 11am - 6pm
More information here
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Exhibit | They Broke the Mold
Via CraveOnline
January 19, 2016
By Miss Rosen
©Amalie R. Rothschild: Janis and Tina at Madison Square Garden, November 27, 1969.
“Wrong is right,” observed Thelonious Monk. “I say, play your own way. Don’t play what the public wants. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you’re doing? even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.”Musicians of the past were not only artists—they were visionaries. Before video killed the radio star and digital replaced the analogue world, musicians like Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, and David Bowie were changing the cultural landscape. “They Broke the Mold”, a collection of classic music photographs, is currently on view at the Monroe Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, NM, through January 30, 2016.
©Art Shay: The Supremes, Hitsville, Detroit, 1965
As time goes by, we witness a radical cultural shift, perhaps beautifully exemplified by a photograph of the Beatles taken by Bob Gomel in Miami in 1964. Lying out on sun chairs, fully or partially dressed, the Beatles look like nothing so much as British lads unfamiliar with the idea of catching a tan. With this image, we see the British invasion in its most self-conscious form.
©Eddie Adams: Louis Armstrong, Opening Night, Las Vegas, 1970
As the 1960s transform into the early ‘70s, a new kind of artist arrives in the form of Tina Turner, Janis Joplin, and Freddie Mercury. The diva incarnate returns to the stage, capturing our imagination. “I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend,” Freddie Mercury said, playing the part to the hilt. He knew his time here would be brief, and like many others in “They Broke the Mold”, he lived it to the fullest. To one interviewer, Mercury replied, “What will I be doing in twenty years’ time? I’ll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?”
Such as it is with so many of the greats who live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse. But others live long and full lives, and it is here in the photographs that we can remember the very best of times.
“They Broke the Mold” is currently on view at the Monroe Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, NM, through January 30, 2016.
All photos courtesy Monroe Gallery of Photography.
Miss Rosen is a New York-based writer, curator, and brand strategist. There is nothing she adores so much as photography and books. A small part of her wishes she had a proper library, like in the game of Clue. Then she could blaze and write soliloquies to her in and out of print loves.
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Steve Schapiro remembers David Bowie, his muse
David Bowie in his dressing room while filming "The Man Who Fell to Earth" in 1975.
(Steve Schapiro)
The Chicago Tribune
By Rick Kogan
January 14, 2016
World-renowned photographer Steve Schapiro, who moved to Chicago with his wife, Maura, in 2007, has in his lengthy career taken millions of photos, many of them collected in stunning books.
He is in his early 80s, and the list of his subjects is almost surreal in its breadth: Marlon Brando, Robert Kennedy, Andy Warhol, Martin Luther King Jr., Chevy Chase (Schapiro and his wife are the godparents of the actor's daughter), Jerry Garcia, Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, Johnny Depp, Mae West, Satchel Paige, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Ringo Starr, Ike and Tina Turner (together), Buster Keaton, Richard Pryor, Sophia Loren … It goes on.
He also shot David Bowie. One of his photos was used for the cover of 2014's "Nothing Has Changed" and, in the wake of the artist's death, Schapiro remembered:
"It was 1974 when I first photographed David. From the moment he arrived, we seemed to hit it off. He was incredibly intelligent, calm, and filled with ideas.
"He talked a lot about Aleister Crowley, whose esoteric writings he was heavily into at the time. And when he heard that I had photographed Buster Keaton, one of his heroes, we talked about him and immediately became friends.
"Our first session started at four in the afternoon. David would come out in incredible costumes, each seemingly turning him into a different person. I would raise my camera to shoot and he would say, 'Wait just a minute, I have to fix something,' and 20 minutes later he would come out in a totally different outfit.
"We decided to do a close portrait on a dark green background because we felt it would make the worst possible color for a magazine cover. We laughed about it, but eventually it did become a cover for People magazine (in September of 1976).
"That session lasted from four in the afternoon to four in the morning, and the last photograph of David was on his bike, lit by the headlights of a car.
"Over these many years I would find photos of David in my files, photos that I had totally overlooked, unexpected and pleasant surprises. Working with an amazingly talented person can be collaborative, often unspoken. The photographs I took were David's ideas, brought from his imagination into the real world. I was merely the conduit from genius into the light of day."
He is in his early 80s, and the list of his subjects is almost surreal in its breadth: Marlon Brando, Robert Kennedy, Andy Warhol, Martin Luther King Jr., Chevy Chase (Schapiro and his wife are the godparents of the actor's daughter), Jerry Garcia, Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, Johnny Depp, Mae West, Satchel Paige, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Ringo Starr, Ike and Tina Turner (together), Buster Keaton, Richard Pryor, Sophia Loren … It goes on.
He also shot David Bowie. One of his photos was used for the cover of 2014's "Nothing Has Changed" and, in the wake of the artist's death, Schapiro remembered:
"He talked a lot about Aleister Crowley, whose esoteric writings he was heavily into at the time. And when he heard that I had photographed Buster Keaton, one of his heroes, we talked about him and immediately became friends.
"Our first session started at four in the afternoon. David would come out in incredible costumes, each seemingly turning him into a different person. I would raise my camera to shoot and he would say, 'Wait just a minute, I have to fix something,' and 20 minutes later he would come out in a totally different outfit.
"We decided to do a close portrait on a dark green background because we felt it would make the worst possible color for a magazine cover. We laughed about it, but eventually it did become a cover for People magazine (in September of 1976).
"Over these many years I would find photos of David in my files, photos that I had totally overlooked, unexpected and pleasant surprises. Working with an amazingly talented person can be collaborative, often unspoken. The photographs I took were David's ideas, brought from his imagination into the real world. I was merely the conduit from genius into the light of day."
Copyright © 2016, Chicago Tribune
Steve Schapiro's photographs of David Bowie are included in the exhibition "The Broke The Mold", on view through February 7, 2016.
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
National Geographic PROOF Features Stephen Wilkes Day To Night Series
Photographing from the Desert View Watchtower, Wilkes made this image of the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in 27 hours. This vantage point allowed him to see the scale of the people along the overlook.
Via National Geographic PROOF Picture Stories
January 5, 2016
Piecing Together Time in the ‘Ultimate Brain Puzzle’
"A single image in Stephen Wilkes’s “Day to Night” series is composed of an average of 1,500 frames captured by manual shutter clicks over a period of anywhere from 16 to 30 hours. During this process, Wilkes must keep his horizon line straight and maintain continuity, which means keeping his camera perfectly still.
He then spends weeks in postproduction, piecing the best frames together into a final composite of layered images, essentially compressing time. For Wilkes, the excitement is in showing people something more than a photograph, something that provides a multidimensional experience, a window, as he describes it, into a world where the full spectrum of time, light, and experience plays across the frame. We’re treated to a view we’ve never seen before—one our eyes could never take in on their own." Full post here.
Wilkes and his assistant spent 30 hours perched on a platform 18 feet in the air, behind a crocodile blind so the animals wouldn’t see them. The elephant family marched across the frame just as he and his assistant had resumed shooting after taking a break to backup their files (each shoot takes about 20 gigabytes of storage). Had they passed five minutes earlier, he would have missed them
Monroe Gallery will be exhibiting Stephen Wilkes’ "Day To Night" photographs featured in the January, 2016 issue of National Geographic during photo l.a. 2016, as well as selections from Wilkes' recent Remnants collection.
Related: Nationally recognized photographer Stephen Wilkes has turned his lens to our national parks, commemorating their 100th anniversary
Saturday, January 2, 2016
MONROE GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY AT PHOTO LA 2016
Happy 2016!
We are delighted to return and be exhibiting at Photo LA, January 21 – 24, held again this year at The Reef/LAMart.
This year the fair celebrates its 25th annual edition, and
Monroe Gallery will be in our same location, booth #205/302, just to the right of the main fair
entrance.
The gallery will be exhibiting a wide variety of classic photography, including never-before-seen historic vintage photojournalism prints and dramatic photographs documenting the Civil Rights movement in America from the 1950's to the present day. A special selection of Spider Martin’s photographic record of the pivotal “Bloody Sunday” will
be included.
Monroe Gallery will
also be exhibiting Stephen Wilkes’ "Day To Night" photographs from
the January, 2016 issue of National Geographic, as well as Wilkes' recent Remnants collection.
We look forward to seeing you in Los Angeles!
Information, directions and ticket information.
Related: Nationally recognized photographer Stephen Wilkes has turned his lens to our national parks, commemorating their 100th anniversary
We look forward to seeing you in Los Angeles!
Information, directions and ticket information.
Related: Nationally recognized photographer Stephen Wilkes has turned his lens to our national parks, commemorating their 100th anniversary
Friday, January 1, 2016
Monday, December 28, 2015
WCSU exhibit features Eppridge photo chronicle of Beatles’ 1964 US visit
Via WCSU.edu
DANBURY, CONN. — A remarkable photographic chronicle by legendary Life Magazine photojournalist Bill Eppridge of the Beatles’ historic 1964 visit to the United States will be featured in a Western Connecticut State University Art Gallery exhibition that will open Tuesday, Jan. 19, and continue through Saturday, March 13, 2016, at the university’s Visual and Performing Arts Center.
A collection of 55 black-and-white photographs taken by Eppridge during his coverage for Life of the British rock group’s visit to New York and Washington from Feb. 7 through 12, 1964, will be shown in the exhibition, “The Beatles: Six Days That Changed the World,” sponsored by the WCSU Department of Art. An opening reception will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 23, in the Art Gallery at the arts center on the WCSU Westside campus, 43 Lake Ave. Extension in Danbury. Reservations to attend the free public reception may be made on the VPAC events Web page at www.wcsuvpac.eventbrite.com.
Eppridge, who resided in New Milford in his later years, died in October 2013 in Danbury after an extraordinary career as a photojournalist spanning 60 years. He is widely recognized for capturing iconic images of contemporary history including the Beatles’ Feb. 9, 1964, appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” and the poignant image on June 6, 1968, of a busboy kneeling beside the mortally wounded Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen moments after his assassination. “You are not just a photojournalist,” he said in recalling the Kennedy image. “You’re a historian.”
Yet the WCSU exhibition of selections from his 1964 Beatles tour photo shoot, which consumed more than 90 rolls of film and 3,000 photographs, would have been impossible without the mysterious recovery of these images seven years after they went missing and the painstaking work of Eppridge’s editor and wife, Adrienne Aurichio, to review and organize this vast photo archive into a comprehensive record of the Beatles’ tour as it unfolded.
Aurichio recalled in a 2014 essay for CBS News marking the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ “Ed Sullivan Show” appearance that the 26-year-old Eppridge found himself in the right place on the morning of Feb. 7, 1964, to draw the assignment from Life Magazine photography director Dick Pollard to cover the Beatles’ arrival that day at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. He followed the Beatles as Life’s photo correspondent throughout the first six days of their U.S. tour, shooting spontaneous images documenting performances, rehearsals and private moments during the tour that established the group as an international rock ‘n’ roll sensation.
At the time, Life Magazine published just four of the images from Eppridge’s assignment, and the original film submitted to the Time-Life photo lab for processing could not be located when he attempted several months later to retrieve the images. By his account, at least seven years passed before the film turned up on his desk with no explanation of how it had been recovered.
Aurichio’s role in re-creating Eppridge’s Life photo chronicle of the 1964 Beatles tour began in 1993 when she came across one of his prints from the shoot while researching photographs for a magazine project. Intrigued at the prospect of discovering more photos from the Beatles visit, she soon learned the full story of Eppridge’s recovered film chronicle, which provided the images featured in the WCSU exhibition and in the book, “The Beatles: Six Days That Changed the World,” released in 2014 by Rizzoli Publishing. In his acknowledgments for the book, Eppridge noted that Aurichio played a critical part as co-editor in “piecing together my story. I relied on her vision and experience as an editor to research and unravel the photographs, and then pull them together in chronological order.”
Aurichio observed that Eppridge’s photographs of the Beatles’ 1964 visit reflect the fact that “he made pictures as they happened, never staging anything. The pictures are so personal. You know that there were other photographers and media around, but Bill had a way of focusing in on his subjects — excluding the distractions. You feel like Bill was the only photographer there.”
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1938, Eppridge grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, and became interested in photography at an early age, beginning his career as a sports photographer for a local newspaper at the age of 15. In 1959 he earned his first award for photography in the National Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year competition. The following year he graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism with honors as “College Photographer of the Year.” Upon graduation he landed an internship at Life Magazine, which led to a yearlong around-the-world photo assignment for National Geographic and a coveted position as staff photographer for Life from 1964 to 1972. During his tenure at Life, he covered many of the most noteworthy public figures and historical events of the era, from the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War to the Woodstock music festival and drug addiction in New York.
After Life closed at the end of 1972, Eppridge served as a photojournalist for other national publications including Time and Sports Illustrated magazines. The numerous professional recognitions for his work included the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award, the highest honor given by the National Press Photographers Association. His photographs have been shown in exhibitions across the United States, featured in a major show at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and included in shows at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
For more information, call the Department of Art at (203) 837-8403, the Art Gallery at (203) 837-8889, or the Office of University Relations at (203) 837-8486.
Western Connecticut State University offers outstanding faculty in a range of quality academic programs. Our diverse university community provides students an enriching and supportive environment that takes advantage of the unique cultural offerings of Western Connecticut and New York. Our vision: To be an affordable public university with the characteristics of New England’s best small private universities.
Bill Eppridges' photography will be included in Monroe Gallery's exhibit at photo la, January 21 - 24, 2016; and is available on line here.
Monday, December 21, 2015
Here We Go: The "BEST" of Everything Photography 2015
The lists begin earlier every year: everyone's photography "Best of" lists. As 2015 comes to a close, below is what has become an annual tradition: our compilation of what the web selected as the "best" of all things photography 2015. Check back frequently as we update through the end of the year. Updated 1/1/16
The New York Times: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Top 10 Lists
Photographs
The Week: The year's best photojournalism
Slate: The Five Best Photo Stories You Might Have Missed This Year
TIME: In Memoriam: Remembering the Photographers We Lost in 2015
pdn: The Year’s Top 10 Photo of the Day Posts
LensCulture: Documentary Photography: Important Stories from 2015
The White House: Behind the Lens: 2015 Year in Photographs
By Pete Souza, Chief Official White House Photographer
BBC: Getty Images year in focus
UN News Centre: 2015 in pictures
LiveMint: Mint’s best photos of 2015
The Best WIRED Photo Stories of the Year
BBC: Year in pictures 2015
NBC: The Year in Space Pictures: 2015
The New York Times Magazine’s Best Photos of 2015
The Guardian: The best of the wildlife photography awards 2015 - in pictures
Boston Globe: The Big Picture 2015 Year in Pictures: Part I
2015 Year in Pictures: Part II
The Guardian: Five fake photos that went viral in 2015
news.com.au: The most powerful, newsworthy images of 2015
Tech Insider: The 50 most unforgettable photos of 2015
ABC News: Year In Review: Best News Photos of 2015
Pulitzer Center: 2015: A Year in Photos
The Guardian: The best photographs of 2015 – in pictures
BBC: UK year in pictures: 2015
Aperture’s 2015 Year in Review
The Guardian: The 20 photographs of the year
Vantage: The Best Street Photographer In San Francisco 2015: Troy Holden
The National: Year in review 2015: The pictures of the year
The Guardian: Stories behind the pictures of 2015: January to March
Stories behind the pictures of 2015: April to June
Stories behind the pictures of 2015: July to September
Stories behind the pictures of 2015: October to December
The Independent: National Geographic unveils the 'photo of the day' top images for 2015
The Guardian: The best photographs of America 2015 – in pictures
Politico Europe: Most powerful photographs of 2015
NBC: The Year in Pictures: 2015 See the most powerful images of the year.
The Telegraph's photographers choose their favourite pictures of 2015
The Telegraph's photographers choose their favourite pictures of 2015
The National: Best business pictures of the year 2015
The Guardian: The best portraits of 2015 – in pictures
PetaPixel: The Best iPhone Photos of 2015 by President Obama’s Official Photographer
CBS: 2015: The year in pictures
Rolling Stone's Best Photos of 2015
USA Today: The 26 best sports photos of 2015
CNN: Best travel photos of 2015
Esquire: The Best Drone Photos of 2015
The Guardian: National Geographic's best travel photos of 2015 – in pictures
The Guardian: Magnum photographers' best shots of 2015 – in pictures
PDN Pulse: Top Photo News Stories of 2015
Fortune’s Year in Photos
Euro News: 2015: the year in photos
amNY: Empire State Building 2015 year in photos
NJ.com: N.J. prom photos of 2015
The Globe and Mail: The Year in Photos: Events from around the world
The Globe and Mail: The Year in Photos: The best images from Globe and Mail photographer John Lehmann
USA TODAY's best photographs of 2015 (YouTube)
Reuters: 2015 Humanitarian year in pictures
Santafe.org: The Top Ten Santa Fe Instagram Photos of 2015
Telegraph: Weird, funny and bizarre photos of the year: Part 1
Weird, funny and bizarre photos of the year: Part 2
New York Times Lens: The Story Behind The Times’s Year in Pictures
Vogue UK: This Year In Pictures - 2015
TASS: Best Photos of 2015
The New York Times: 2015’s best graphics, visualizations and multimedia stories from The Times
CBS: The year in Google search 2015: the Top 30 News Subjects
Guardian photographer of the year 2015: Yannis Behrakis
BBC: Travel Photographer of the Year
CNET: Best science stories of 2015 (pictures)
VII 2015 Year in Review
The New Yorker: Our Favorite Documentary Photographs of 2015
The New York Times: The Year in Pictures 2015
The Guardian: Eyewitness: Guardian agency photographer of the year
The Guardian: 2015: Eyewitness accounts of the year’s most defining moments
Los Angeles Times: A Year in Focus | 2015
CNET's best photos of 2015
The Creators Project: [Best of 2015] The Year in Photography
Proof: Pictures We Love: Seeing Science
The Atlantic: The Most Powerful Images of 2015
Nature: 365 days: The best science images of 2015
MSNBC: This year in pictures: The best images from 2015
Baltimore Sun: 2015 Baltimore Sun pictures of the year
Gulf News: 2015 in review: The best photographs of the year
The Creator's Project: [Best of 2015] The Year in Photography
Huffington Post UK: Pictures Of The Year: The 12 Most Defining Photos Of 2015
Popular Science: The Best Science And Tech Images Of 2015
Wall Street Journal: Offbeat Images From 2015
Mirror: 2015 in incredible pictures: 28 stunning and spectacular photographs from across the globe
TIME’s Best Photojournalism of 2015
The Guardian: Sean O'Hagan's top 10 photography shows of 2015
USA Today: Image of crying children in migrant crisis wins UNICEF photo of the year
Euro News: 2015: The year in photos
The Telegraph: Weird, funny and bizarre photos of the year: Part 1
The Independent: The most stunning drone photos of 2015
Chicago Tribune's 2015 Photos of the Year
Christian Science Monitor: Our best photos of the year 2015
Business Insider: The 37 strangest photos of 2015
Mashable: The Best Photos of 2015
Twitter: Best Photos of 2015
The 405: In Photos of the Year: 2015 Special
NOOR: Best of 2015
ABC News: AP PHOTOS: Top Pictures in 2015 From Europe and Africa
Belfast Telegraph: Best images of 2015 by Press Association photographers
TIME Picks the Top 10 Photos of 2015
PhotoShelter: How Memorable are TIME’s Top 10 Photos of the Year?
BBC: The best images of 2015 by Press Association photographers
USA Today: 2015: The year in pictures
USA Today: Best USA TODAY photos of 2015
Alessandro Penso is TIME’s Pick for Photo Story of the Year
Velo News: Photo Essay: Best of 2015 — Battles and attacks
Wall Street Journal: Year in Photos 2015
BBC: Picture power: Eight photographers on their best image of 2015
Telegraph: Pictures of the year: January, February and March 2015
Pictures of the year: April, May and June 2015
Pictures of the year: July, August and September 2015
Pictures of the year: October, November and December 2015
Crave: Year In Focus: The Best Sports Photographs of 2015
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The Best of 2015 Photojournalism by J.B. Forbes
AAJ News: Top 10 pictures that remain In the news throughout the year 2015
News One: 21 Of President Barack Obama's Best Photos Of 2015
Mashable: These are the 10 worst selfies of 2015
InformationWeek: NASA's 10 Best Images Of 2015
CBS: Entertainment photos of the year
Tech Insider: 12 of the most breathtaking drone photos of 2015
Stacy Kranitz Is TIME’s Pick for Instagram Photographer of the Year 2015
Daily Star: Pictures of the Year 2015
Bloomberg's Best Photos of 2015
Independent: 95 incredible pictures that sum up 2015
Washington Post: The stories behind some of this year’s fascinating photos
The Guardian: Pictures of the year: January, February and March 2015
The Atlantic: 2015: The Year in Photos, January-April
2015: The Year in Photos, May-August
2015: The Year in Photos, September-December
Business Insider: The best US military pictures of 2015
The Atlantic: Top 25 News Photos of 2015
The Atlantic: Hopeful Images From 2015
The Big Picture: The best Boston Globe photos of 2015
NY Post: The 100 Best Photos of 2015
AP Photos Top 100 News Images of 2015
TIME Picks the Top 100 Photos of 2015
TIME Picks the Top Magazine Covers of 2015
Boston Globe: The best Boston Globe photos of 2015
BGR: The most incredible and jaw-dropping photos from 2015
Buzzfeed: 18 Pictures From 2015 Guaranteed To Make You Sad
Rock and Ice: Photos of the Year 2015
Reverb: The best concert photos of 2015
weather.com's Top Photos of 2015
Outdoors: Best Outdoor Photographs Of The Year 2015
Super Sport: Golf year in Pictures: 2015
Dayton Business Journal: The Year In Pictures 2015
CNN: 2015: The Year in Pictures
Reuters: Pictures of the Year 2015
PhotoShelter Blog: 45 Reasons to Love Photography 2015
The Denver Post: A selection of Agence France-Presse photos of the year 2015
The New York Times: The Best in Art of 2015
National Geographic: The Pictures We Loved in 2015
TIME: The 50 most Instagrammed places in America
The Guardian: Photographer of the year – 2015 shortlist: atrocities in Paris and Syria, bodybuilders in Palestine
TIME Picks the Best Wire Photographer of 2015
PetaPixel: The Top Photos and Cameras on Flickr in 2015
The Arizona Republic: Year in Review 2015: David Wallace photography
CBC: The Canadian stories behind the best wildlife photos of 2015
FUSE: Photos of the Year: The Best & Memorable Pics of 2015
The Guardian: Wildlife photographer of the year 2015 winners - in pictures
Emirates 24/7 World's Best? Pictures that made 2015 the 'Year of the Photograph'
Audubon: 2015 Audubon Photography Awards Top 100
Photo Books
The FlakPhoto Photography Booklist is here to help
Elizabeth Avedon: BEST PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS of 2015....and Some Honorable Mentions
The Daily Beast: The Best Photography Books of 2015
The New York Times Magazine: The Best Photo Books of 2015
Prison Photography: Six Books Pete Picked Up This Year and Liked
Vogue: Picturing the American South: The Year’s Best Photo Books Reveal a Vast Portrait
The Daily Beast: The Best Photography Books of 2015
The Guardian: Shōji Ueda: the most beautiful, surprising photobook of the year
Telegraph: The best art photography books of 2015
Slate: The 10 Best Photography Books of 2015
Evening Standard: The best photography books of 2015
Conscientious Photo Magazine: My favourite photobooks in 2015 (and more)
American Photo: Best Photo Books of the year 2015
photo-eye: Best Books of 2015
1000 Words editor Tim Clark looks back over the year’s photo book releases: Top ten: the best photo books of 2015
Photo District News: Notable Photo Books of 2015: Part 1
The Guardian: The best photography books of 2015
blakeandrewsblog: It's that time of year again. Christmas lights are out. A chill is in the air. And the annual photobook list parade has begun
Smithsonian.com: The Best Photography Books of the Year
atsushisaito.blog: Best Photobooks of 2015
photolia: Lists of the Best Photobooks of 2015
PhotoBookstore Magazine: Photobooks of 2015
TIME Picks the Best Photobooks of 2015
The Wall Street Journal: The Best Books for Photography Lovers
Fotokritik: The Best Photobooks of the Year (This one is a must read!)
theloggingroad:13 Best Photobooks and 2 Worst Photobooks of the Year 2015: And There is the Cosmos, to Capture Her Soul
Crave: The Top 7 Photography Books of the 21st Century (So Far)
Media and Miscellaneous
PDN: Top Gear Stories of 2015
Poynter: A look at the front pages of 2015
Don't Take Pictures: The Best of 2015's "Best Of" Lists
PDN: Some (Mostly) Fun Photo Stats for 2015
Newseum: Remembering the Journalists We Lost
Popular Photography Camera of the Year 2015: The Nominees
CNET: The 20 most interesting cameras of 2015 (pictures)
Columbia Journalism Review: The best and worst journalism of 2015
British Journal of Photography: Winners of the BJP International Photography Awards 2016 announced
Poynter: #LoveWins, #BlackLivesMatter, #JeSuisCharlie among the news that dominated Twitter in 2015
Remember when? Here is "The Best" of yesteryear, 2014.
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Nationally recognized photographer Stephen Wilkes has turned his lens to our national parks, commemorating their 100th anniversary
‘Herculean’ process produces ‘Day to Night’ images of national parks
Stephen Wilkes: Grand Canyon National Park, Day To Night, 2015
Via The Albuquerqe Journal
By Kathaleen Roberts / Journal Staff Writer
Sunday, December 20th, 2015
Invisible layers of time move Old Faithful from sunrise to sunset, ringed by a walkway of people rendered microscopic by its grandeur.
Nationally recognized photographer Stephen Wilkes has turned his lens to our national parks, commemorating their 100th anniversary in four-page gateway covers in both the January 2016 national and international issues of National Geographic. Santa Fe’s Monroe Gallery of Photography is showcasing the works beginning Saturday through Jan. 10, 2016.
Wilkes focused his discerning eye on Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon, as well as the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and Tanzania’s Serengeti.
What may appear to be time-lapse photography at first glance actually isn’t, Wilkes maintained.
Stephen Wilkes: Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Day to Night, 2015
(Slide Show Link)
Working from a fixed camera angle, he captures the fleeting play of shadow and light as the sun shifts from dawn to dark. A single print may coalesce from 1,500 to 2,300 images. He uses a large format digital camera.
“I photograph from a single perspective, usually elevated, anywhere from 12 to 30 hours without moving my camera,” Wilkes said in a telephone interview from his Connecticut home.
“It’s quite Herculean. I’m actually studying a place for 30 hours.”
Launched in 2009, the parks project is an offshoot of a similar body of work on cities. He edits and blends the images into seamless works of art in post-production, a process that takes about a month.
“I look for very iconic places where everybody goes, ‘I’ve been there,'” he explained. “These places are part of our collective memory. When I do that, some kind of magic happens. Time becomes compressed.”
Stephen Wilkes: Yosemite, Tunnel View, Day To Night 2014
At Yellowstone, he photographed Old Faithful from the old crow’s nest atop the inn of the same name, capturing both the sun and the moon peaking above the foothills.
“It’s the most active place on the planet geologically,” Wilkes said. “It goes off every 90 minutes. When you look at that picture, you realize the enormity of just how big it is.”
Long a fan of the Hudson River School painter Albert Bierstadt, famous for his highly romanticized views of the West, Wilkes thought he could never capture the artist’s sweeping aesthetic.
“He painted it from the opposite view,” Wilkes said. “It was if I was channeling him at that moment. Yosemite is as close to being a religious experience as a landscape. When you look at the people in that photograph you realize how insignificant we are as a species.”
In Washington, he spent his preparation time following the cherry blossom handlers checking the petals for signs of peak bloom. Wilkes photographed them between the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial using an 80-foot crane.
Stephen Wilkes
Cherry Blossoms, National Mall and Memorial Parks, Day to Night, Washington D.C., 2015
The Serengeti offered a breakthrough, both aesthetically and philosophically. Wilkes arrived during the peak migration of the wildlife, but the animals had stopped due to a five-week drought. He began studying a watering hole and waited in hope. He had no idea if any creatures would appear.
“We started at 2 a.m. with an 18-foot platform with a crocodile blind,” he said. “We essentially became invisible.”
He witnessed something miraculous. The creatures arrived slowly, carefully taking turns without fighting over the precious resource.
“All these competitive species shared water,” Wilkes said. “It sort of speaks to you. They say the single resource we’ll go to war over is water. We have to hear what the animals know already.”
Stephen Wilkes: Serengeti, Tanzania, Day to Night, 2015
Wilkes came to New Mexico last fall to check out the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. He plans to return and shoot the most photographed event in the world next year.
-- Stephen Wilkes Day To Night photographs will be exhibited by Monroe Gallery at the photola fair, January 21 - 24, 2016.
See the National Geographic article on-line here.
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