Tuesday, September 4, 2012
"I mean, photojournalism is not dead. I think we can agree on that."
Kadir van Lohuizen, interviewed on the New York Times Lens Blog as the NOOR photo agency is commemorating their fifth anniversary at the 2012 Visa Pour l'Image Festival.
Monday, September 3, 2012
DNC Exhibit showcases photos of RFK
Bill Eppridge, Senator Robert Kennedy at a rally in Sioux City, Iowa 1966
©Time Inc.
Via Charlotte Observer
By Claire McNeill
cmcneill@charlotteobserver.com
Magazine photographer followed Kennedy during 1968 presidential campaign
Life magazine photographer Bill Eppridge shadowed Bobby Kennedy on the 1968 presidential campaign trail, witnessing everything from quiet moments to massive rallies.
On June 5, 1968, Eppridge took a famous photo of Kennedy lying on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, moments after he had been shot.
“There is not a day that goes by that I don’t think about that man,” Eppridge said.
Now, with politics on center stage in Charlotte, a special exhibit featuring nearly 40 of Eppridge’s photos of Kennedy will be on display.
The show, “One America, One American,” is sponsored by The Echo Foundation and The Charlotte Observer.
Housed in the Observer’s lobby, the exhibition is open to the public Sept. 4-Oct. 19, following The Echo Foundation’s 15th annual award gala opening Monday.
Eppridge, born in 1938 and still taking photographs, will attend the opening, as will Kennedy’s oldest daughter, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a former lieutenant governor of Maryland. Townsend will accept the foundation’s inaugural Family Legacy Award on behalf of the Kennedy family.
Former presidential candidate and retired Gen. Wesley Clark will deliver the night’s keynote address, “Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times.”
Eppridge, a self-taught photographer and veteran of Life, National Geographic and Sports Illustrated, said the exhibit’s timing – coinciding with the Democratic National Convention – is “really special.”
“I think a lot of (delegates) don’t really know who he was or what he stood for or the importance of that man, and maybe this will get them thinking about where we’ve been or where we might be able to go,” he said.
Before Kennedy became a Democratic senator from New York, he was attorney general in the administration of his brother, John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963. Bobby Kennedy was an icon of the civil rights movement and took a strong stance against the war in Vietnam.
Eppridge said Bobby Kennedy’s importance lay in his honesty, popularity and dedication to getting troops home from Vietnam as soon as possible.
“I had quite unusual access to that man. I heard and saw and knew things that other people didn’t, and I realized that he was dead serious when he told us, ‘We are out of Vietnam on the day I take office,’ ” Eppridge said. “I don’t think anything was impossible to him.”
The Echo Foundation will also display the winning photographs from its international student photojournalism competition, which sought photography responding to the question, “What does democracy or tyranny; justice or injustice look like?”
From more than 500 entries from students across the globe, Tobin Jones, who attends the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom, was chosen as grand-prize winner.
Jones won the opportunity to travel to Charlotte during the convention and take photos alongside Eppridge for one day.
Want to go?
The free public exhibit, “One America, One American,” is open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 4-Oct. 19 in the Observer lobby, 600 S. Tryon St.
"labor Day and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers"
John Loengard: Ranch Foreman, Whistle Mills, Flagstaff, AZ, 1970
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.
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