John Loengard: Ranch Foreman, Whistle Mills, Flagstaff, AZ, 1970
US Department of Labor: The History of Labor Day
Labor Day 2011
Labor Day 2010
Monday, September 3, 2012
"labor Day and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers"
US Department of Labor: The History of Labor Day
Labor Day 2011
Labor Day 2010
Sunday, September 2, 2012
The Kennedys, By Mark Shaw
"These photographs were taken in order to catch and reflect the mood, the feeling of a given moment. If the viewer receives from these pictures an understanding of the affection of the Kennedys for one another, their high spirits and enjoyment of life, the book will have fulfilled its purpose." So wrote the Life magazine photographer Mark Shaw in the original 1964 edition of The John F Kennedys: A Family Album.
But in this new expanded edition, Shaw's widow reveals that the publication was also a coping mechanism; that Shaw had become not only the Kennedy's unofficial family photographer but a close friend. It explains why the work of this pre-eminent fashion and portrait photographer never recovered from Kennedy's assassination, but also how he'd been able to get such fresh, candid shots; shots that, with their vigour, vitality and promise of fresh hope for America's future, were arguably instrumental in Kennedy's election successes. Shown right, Jackie on the beach in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, with her daughter, Caroline.
Available from Reel Art Press $75
Fine art photographs available from Monroe Gallery of Photography
GQ (Germany) Article and Slide Show
BBC: As a new book of images of The Kennedys by Mark Shaw is published in the UK, we talk to the editor Tony Nourmand about how images help the political campaign. Listen here.
BBC: As a new book of images of The Kennedys by Mark Shaw is published in the UK, we talk to the editor Tony Nourmand about how images help the political campaign. Listen here.
Available from Reel Art Press $75
Fine art photographs available from Monroe Gallery of Photography
Saturday, September 1, 2012
News photographers gather in Perpignan for 24th Festival International of Photojournalism
Employees fix a photograph by Italian Alex Majoli prior to the opening of the exhibition devoted to the work of the World Press awarded photographers as part of the International Photojournalism Festival of Perpignan "Visa pour l'image" on August 31, 2012 in Perpignan, southern France. Majoli won the first prize in the general news singles category for this photograph featuring protesters in Tahrir square reacting to a speech by the former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. The festival takes place from September 1 to 16. AFP PHOTO PHOTO / RAYMOND ROI Via artdaily.org
PERPIGNAN.- VISA pour l’image is the premier International Festival of Photojournalism held in Perpignan, France. This festival is a unique event where you can join thousands of kindred spirits who share a love and passion for photography. View the greatest photojournalist work from around the world in exhibitions across the city. Experience the evening screenings in the dramatic open air medieval enclosure of the Campo Santo. Take part in symposiums and conferences and meet the foremost photo agencies and manufacturers of photographic related equipment.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions are open from September 1 to 16, 2012. They present stories or anthologies of a photographer's work, reporting on wars, nature, the environment, people, religious issues, and social phenomena, plus the great scourges of our time.
Screenings
Campo Santo is the venue for the evening screenings. The program includes a chronological review of the news stories from the previous year, reports and features on social issues, war, stories that have made the news and others that have been kept quiet.
Meetings
Perpignan is the place where professionals can discuss their problems, debating issues involved in producing and using pictures and the future of the profession. The symposium and "meet the photographer" sessions cover a wide range of questions.
Full program here.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Selections from People Get Ready: The Struggle For Human Rights
Cairo, Egypt — February 8, 2011
Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR for Time
"Beyond the revolutions in Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and Libya, I
also traveled to cover the protests in Moscow, Greece and Tunis. I came to the
conclusion that each revolution must be assessed in its own context, because
each had a distinctive impact. The drama of each revolution unfolded
separately. Each had its own heroes, its own crises. Each, therefore, demands
its own narrative. In the end, the differences between them may turn out to be
more important than their similarities, however. And the common thing about all these protests
is the number of young people who really want to bring changes to their
country. That’s what’s most incredible. We have a new generation of people who
are sick and tired of what’s going on. Call it the Jasmine Revolution, the Arab
Spring or the Facebook Revolution, there’s a powerful Sirocco blowing across
the world, and young people realize there’s another life and they want to live
differently." --Yuri Kozyrev
Previous Selections
People Get Ready: The Struggle For Human Rights exhibition continues through September 23, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
"Their deaths represent the slipping away of a generation of war reporters that brought the reality of the conflict to the living rooms of America in unprecedented detail and horrifying close-up"
"Nick, Eddie and Malcolm hold the first three places in the temple of the perfect photo. Nothing really comes close to the drama, the horror and downright importance of those images." David Hume Kennerly remembers Malcolm Browne via The Huffington Post.
Time LightBox: Malcolm Browne: The Story Behind The Burning Monk
The New York Times: Malcolm W. Browne, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Reporter, Dies at 81
The Guardian: Malcolm Browne obituary
Wall Street Journal: Burning-monk photographer Malcolm Browne dies
The Telegraph in Pictures: Malcolm Browne, Horst Fass and Roy Essoyan: the men who documented the Vietnam War (slide show)
Washington Post: Death of Malcolm Browne represents slipping away of Vietnam War generation reporters
Monday, August 27, 2012
August 26, 1970: The Women's Strike for Equality
The Women’s Strike for Equality was a strike which took place in the United States on August 26, 1970. It celebrated the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, which effectively gave American women the right to vote. The rally was sponsored by the National Organization for Women (NOW). More than 20,000 women gathered for the protest in New York City and throughout the country
At the march for Women’s Strike for Equality, the three preconditions for emancipation included child care, legal abortion and equal pay.
The Guardian: From the archive, 27 August 1970: US women find some advertising offensive, insulting and degrading
Ken Regan: Women's Liberation March, New York, August 26, 1970
Related: People Get Ready: The Struggle For Human Rights
Related: People Get Ready: The Struggle For Human Rights
Happy Birthday Man Ray
Loomis Dean: Man Ray Holding Up "Lips" Print
Today is the birthday of avante-garde photographer and painter who came into this world as Emmanuel Radnitzky, and left as Man Ray. The renowned Surrealist and Dada figure would turn 122 if he were magically still alive today. More
Friday, August 24, 2012
Selections from People Get Ready: The Struggle For Human Rights
© Bill Eppridge
Bill Eppridge received a call from his editors at Life magazine that Robert Shelton of the United Klans of America had consented to being photographed. He drove to Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Shelton allowed Eppridge to photograph him in his Imperial Wizard robes as he smoked a cigarette. Shelton drove him around town in a Cadillac that was equipped with police radios. Late in the afternoon, Shelton told Eppridge he knew a pilot and offered Eppridge a ride back to Birmingham in a small plane. Eppridge weighed his options - by the time he got to the airport, returned the rental car, checked his bags and re-packed his cameras, he thought it might take just as long driving back. He decided to drive and just kept going until he arrived in Birmingham a little over an hour later. Once back at his hotel, he went up to the room where the Life reporter was staying and knocked on the door. When it opened, the reporter's fave turned white and he said "You're dead!". "What are you talking about?" asked Eppridge. The reporter ten told him that he had received a phone call from Shelton telling him that Eppridge had been killed in a plane crash. Eppridge never found out if the crash was an accident, or if Shelton simply decided that he had revealed too much and wanted to get rid of the film and the photographer.
New York Times Obituary for Robert Shelton
Previous selections here.
Related: Echo Foundation presents Bill Eppridge exhibition.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
The Echo Foundation Presents Global Photojournalism Project; Bill Eppridge Exhibition
-Bill Eppridge Photographic Exhibit Highlighting the Legacy of Robert F. Kennedy
-International Photojournalism Student Competition Winners Announced
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Affirming the power of free speech and expression, The Echo Foundation celebrates powerful photojournalism with a two-part series that addresses justice, democracy and humanity. While honoring the work of a respected force in photojournalism, the foundation engages the next generation of emerging photographers.
Echo's election year series – "We the People. The Voices and Vision of Democracy." – proudly presents the extraordinary work of revered photographer Bill Eppridge and his exhibit entitled "One America, One American: Robert F. Kennedy Through the Lens of Bill Eppridge." Housed in The Charlotte Observer gallery, the exhibition is open to the public September 4 – October 19.
Eppridge, a veteran photojournalist, has worked for prominent publications including National Geographic, LIFE Magazine and Sports Illustrated. The exhibit contains nearly 40 intimate RFK photographs and reflections by Eppridge, who traveled the campaign trail with the senator in 1966-1968.
To inspire students worldwide, Echo's international photojournalism competition invited students to submit original photography responding to the question, "What does democracy or tyranny; justice or injustice look like?" More than 500 entries from students representing 40 countries across the globe were submitted.
New York Times Senior Photographer Tyler Hicks judged the competition and awarded the grand prize to Tobin Jones, a graduate student at the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom, who submitted a photo taken in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya.
The student photojournalist describes his photo, titled "Religious Healing," as a priest in a Kenyan slum trying to exorcise a demon tormenting one of his parishioners. Jones says, "In Kibera, religion, as a money-making opportunity, has taken on a whole new dimension; often cheating people in the slum of their hard earned money."
Hicks explains, "Telling the story succinctly in a single image, this photograph speaks not only to injustice in Kibera, but also to a larger audience about the endemic poverty crisis in Africa."
Jones will travel to Charlotte during the Democratic National Convention where his winning photograph will be on display next to Eppridge's iconic pieces in the exhibit. In addition, Jones has the opportunity to photograph for one day alongside Eppridge during the convention.
A special opening ceremony of "One America, One American" takes place on September 3, as part of Echo's 15th Annual Award Gala. To purchase tickets, please visit www.echofoundation.org.
About The Echo Foundation
The Echo Foundation was founded in 1997 to carry on the message Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel brought to Charlotte that year – a call to action for human dignity, justice and moral courage. Through comprehensive education programs, Echo equips individuals with moral and intellectual tools necessary to create positive change. For more information, please visit www.echofoundation.org.
Related posts: History, Lived and Documented
2011 Lucie Awards: Bill Eppridge is Honoree for Achivement in Photojournalism
Echo's election year series – "We the People. The Voices and Vision of Democracy." – proudly presents the extraordinary work of revered photographer Bill Eppridge and his exhibit entitled "One America, One American: Robert F. Kennedy Through the Lens of Bill Eppridge." Housed in The Charlotte Observer gallery, the exhibition is open to the public September 4 – October 19.
Eppridge, a veteran photojournalist, has worked for prominent publications including National Geographic, LIFE Magazine and Sports Illustrated. The exhibit contains nearly 40 intimate RFK photographs and reflections by Eppridge, who traveled the campaign trail with the senator in 1966-1968.
Installation photograph by Stephanie Ansaldo
To inspire students worldwide, Echo's international photojournalism competition invited students to submit original photography responding to the question, "What does democracy or tyranny; justice or injustice look like?" More than 500 entries from students representing 40 countries across the globe were submitted.
New York Times Senior Photographer Tyler Hicks judged the competition and awarded the grand prize to Tobin Jones, a graduate student at the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom, who submitted a photo taken in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya.
The student photojournalist describes his photo, titled "Religious Healing," as a priest in a Kenyan slum trying to exorcise a demon tormenting one of his parishioners. Jones says, "In Kibera, religion, as a money-making opportunity, has taken on a whole new dimension; often cheating people in the slum of their hard earned money."
Hicks explains, "Telling the story succinctly in a single image, this photograph speaks not only to injustice in Kibera, but also to a larger audience about the endemic poverty crisis in Africa."
Jones will travel to Charlotte during the Democratic National Convention where his winning photograph will be on display next to Eppridge's iconic pieces in the exhibit. In addition, Jones has the opportunity to photograph for one day alongside Eppridge during the convention.
A special opening ceremony of "One America, One American" takes place on September 3, as part of Echo's 15th Annual Award Gala. To purchase tickets, please visit www.echofoundation.org.
About The Echo Foundation
The Echo Foundation was founded in 1997 to carry on the message Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel brought to Charlotte that year – a call to action for human dignity, justice and moral courage. Through comprehensive education programs, Echo equips individuals with moral and intellectual tools necessary to create positive change. For more information, please visit www.echofoundation.org.
Related posts: History, Lived and Documented
2011 Lucie Awards: Bill Eppridge is Honoree for Achivement in Photojournalism
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
"the conference will reflect upon on how human rights and individual agency can be promoted and violated through the camera"
Via Jim Johnson at (Notes On) Politics, Theory, and Photography
(Highly recommend that you bookmark this blog)
Call For Papers: Picturing Others: Photography and Human Rights
Cardiff, 17-18 January 2013
This 2-day conference will bring together photography practitioners, academic researchers, press officers, journalists and members of community groups to discuss how photographs are used to represent people in situations of conflict or disaster, and to consider the real-world effects that photographic representation can have on the lives of people migrating from one country to another. The conference aims to create an initial forum for on-going dialogue between photographers, media officers, journalists and researchers on photography.
The conference will focus on the ways in which photographs from past times can affect how people are represented today; on the ways in which different sectors use photography to inform or educate; and on how the photographic images used in different sectors communicate with each other and with their publics. The conference will also engage with how people from areas of conflict or disaster view images of themselves by others, and how they use photography themselves. More broadly, the conference will reflect upon on how human rights and individual agency can be promoted and violated through the camera; and the choices that photographers, broadcasters and campaigners make when using photographic images.
We invite paper proposals of 200 words for submission by 8 October 2012 from all those with an interest in photography and human rights. Decisions on proposals will be communicated by e-mail by 22 October 2012. Proposals should be sent to the organising committee at migration@cf.ac.uk and may discuss any aspect of the questions suggested below.
We warmly invite presentations taking a practical, personal or theoretical approach, and referring to any historical period or geographical area. Conference presentations will be of 20 minutes’ length.
Topics for discussion may include, but are not limited to:
• Are there patterns in the ways in which people in conflict or distress elsewhere are represented in photography?
• How do these patterns of representation affect how people who migrate to other countries are perceived and how well they can integrate and settle?
• How do past photographic representations of people from elsewhere link to contemporary photographs of countries in conflict or disaster situations and the way they are presented?
• How do non-photographic media, such as text and radio journalism, affect responses to photographs of other people?
• How do photographed people in situations of conflict or disaster, or in peacetime, interact with their media representations?
• What kinds of images do indigenous media and NGOs use to represent people in situations of conflict or disaster in their own countries and localities?
• What are the decision-making processes used by photographers picturing conflict and disaster?
• How do image the choices made in news media affect how images are used by development organisations or community groups, and vice versa?
• Where migration is concerned, what are the effects of images on perceptions of migrants, on social integration in host countries, and on the resolution of conflicts at home and in host countries?
• How is the educational role that images of others can have connected to issues of wider power relations between the global South and the global North in making, publishing/broadcasting and viewing images?
Rachael Langford
School of European Languages, Translation and Politics, Cardiff University
Cardiff, Wales, UK
tel +55 2920 875643
Email: langfordre@cf.ac.uk
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