Union Square, New York: Day To Night

 

 

The most recent addition to Stephen Wilkes "Day To Night" Collection

Day to Night, Union Square NYC from Stephen Wilkes on Vimeo.

Santa Fe University of Art and Design Photography Department Announces In/Visible Borders Fall Exhibition

Photo: Jamey Stillings


In/Visible Borders: New Mexico Photographers examines the cultural, political and economic realities of life in the contemporary Southwest.

Santa Fe, N.M. (PRWEB) August 19, 2013

 

The Photography Department at Santa Fe University of Art and Design (SFUAD) has announced a joint exhibition with the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission’s Community Gallery called In/Visible Borders: New Mexico Photographers. The exhibition, curated by SFUAD Photography Department chair Mary Anne Redding, will open to the public on Monday, Sept. 9, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. with a reception at SFUAD’s Atrium Gallery in the Marion Center for Photographic Arts. A complementary exhibition will open at the Community Gallery on Marcy Street Nov. 22.

This joint exhibition examines the cultural, political, and economic realities of life in the 21st century along the borderlands between the United States and Mexico. It also investigates the organic borderlands between cultures and economic status that define the state of New Mexico and the greater Southwest, and it explores the relationship of these invisible and visible boundaries.

Nineteen New Mexico photographers were invited to participate. Each photographer will show two images in SFUAD’s Marion Center and two in the Community Gallery. Exhibiting photographers include:

Tony Bonanno (Santa Fe)
Michael Borowski (Albuquerque)
David Bram (Albuquerque)
Lauren Greenwald (Las Cruces)
Kirk Gittings (Albuquerque)
Mindy Jean-Paul (Santa Fe)
David Michael Kennedy (El Rito)
Karen Kuehn (Peralta)
Greg Mac Gregor (Santa Fe)
Norman Mauskopf (Santa Fe)
Delilah Montoya (Albuquerque)
Patrick Nagatani (Albuquerque)
Teresa Neptune (Santa Fe)
David Robin (Santa Fe)
Sharon Stewart (Chacon)
Jamey Stillings (Santa Fe)
Martin Stupich (Albuquerque)
Carlan Tapp (Santa Fe)
Tamara Zibners (Albuquerque)

In addition to the exhibition, two free public lectures hosted by participating photographers will be offered to the community.

In/Visible Borders: New Mexico Photographers
Opening reception
Monday, Sept. 9, 4:30–6:30 p.m.
Atrium Gallery at the Marion Center for Photographic Arts
Santa Fe University of Art and Design
1600 St. Michael’s Drive, Santa Fe

The exhibition will run through Dec. 13, 2013. A complementary exhibition at the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission’s Community Gallery will open with a reception on Friday, Nov. 22, from 5 to 7 p.m. and run through Feb. 21, 2014.
Public Lecture: “Industrial Landscapes”

Featured speakers include photographers Martin Stupich and Jamey Stillings
Thursday, Oct. 24, 6 p.m.
Tipton Hall on the SFUAD campus
1600 St. Michael’s Drive, Santa Fe
Free and open to the public.

Public Lecture: “Environmental & Community Issues”
Featured speakers include photographer Carlan Tapp
Wednesday, Dec. 4, 6 p.m.
City of Santa Fe Arts Commission’s Community Gallery
201 W. Marcy St., Santa Fe
Free and open to the public.

About SFUAD’s Photography Department:
The Photography Department at Santa Fe University of Art and Design offers a comprehensive education in the theory, techniques, history and ethics of photography. This base, integrated with a strong foundation in other visual and liberal arts, provides students with the knowledge and perspective they need to pursue photography as a creative professional. The program, housed in the Anne and John Marion Center for Photographic Arts, encompasses both analog and digital technologies, giving students the chance to work in exemplary traditional and alternative process darkrooms and a state-of-the-art digital facility. Students also have access to the Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Library, an outstanding resource on the history, aesthetics and technology of photography.

About Santa Fe University of Art and Design:
Santa Fe University of Art and Design is an accredited institution located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, one of the world’s leading centers for art and design. The university offers degrees in arts management, contemporary music, creative writing, digital arts, graphic design, film, performing arts, photography and studio art. Faculty members are practicing artists who teach students in small groups, following a unique interdisciplinary curriculum that combines hands-on experience with core theory and prepares graduates to become well-rounded, creative, problem-solving professionals. As a Laureate International Universities Center of Excellence in Art, Architecture and Design, the university boasts an international student body and opportunities to study abroad, encouraging students to develop a global perspective on the arts. Santa Fe University of Art and Design is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association, http://www.ncahlc.org.

White House Photographer Eric Draper on New York Times Lens Blog

Eric Draper: Oval Office, January 26, 2001

Photo Editors Who Made a Difference

"Today and tomorrow on Lens, photographers recall and pay tribute to the photo editors who most influenced their careers. The people who pushed, pulled and occasionally strong-armed them into producing exceptional work. The people who believed in them when nobody else did — who recognized the photographer’s strength and took the time to develop it."

 

By YUNGHI KIM and KENNETH JARECKE

Via The New York Times Lens Blog, full post here.

Eric Draper

"Mike Davis hired me to work for the Scripps Howard afternoon daily, The Albuquerque Tribune, in 1990. It was my third newspaper job since college and my first real photo editor. I learned more from Mike in two and a half years than I did in my entire early career. Every photo editing session with him was an intense experience. We would sit at the light table and Mike would look at the images, just breathing in and out, and without small talk. He taught me to shoot strong photo stories. I learned layout and design. And with Mike, no assignment was too small to learn something important.

In 1992, he handed me my most challenging assignment ever up to that point. While watching my hometown of Los Angeles burn on television after the Rodney King verdict, Mike called to send me “back to L.A. to tell a personal photo story.” It worked. We produced a 12-page special section called “Seeing Through the Flames.” It was a profound experience, and I also won Scripps Howard Newspaper Photographer of the Year.

In 2001, I became the chief White House photographer for President George W. Bush. I didn’t skip a beat in asking Mike to join the team as my photo editor. We worked closely on the images of the events of 9/11, and we traveled the world with the 43rd president. Mike made me a better photographer in the president’s first term, and I am grateful. I will never forget what he told me during those early years in Albuquerque: “Never underestimate yourself.” I never did."

 

Tina Hager, courtesy of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and MuseumChief White House photographer Eric Draper, left, with his senior White House photo editor Mike Davis inside Draper’s West Wing office in 2003.

Magnificent Obsession: Robert De Niro on the Set of Raging Bull, Photos by Brian Hamill

Brian Hamill: De Niro, as LaMotta, screams aggressively, accusing his brother of sleeping

 with his wife.

Via Time LightBox

"If Robert De Niro never acted in any other movies besides those he’s made with his frequent director and collaborator, Martin Scorsese, he’d still be a film legend. Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, Goodfellas — the list goes on and on. Add to those his performances in movies as diverse as The Deer Hunter, The Godfather: Part II, Midnight Run, Cop Land and Silver Linings Playbook, and the scope of the man’s accomplishments comes into formidable focus.

Here, on the occasion of De Niro’s 70th birthday — he was born Aug. 17, 1943, in New York City — TIME presents a fittingly iconic portfolio of pictures by photographer Brian Hamill, made on the set of Raging Bull in 1979. De Niro’s riveting and at-times harrowing portrayal of world middleweight boxing champ Jake LaMotta won him a Best Actor Oscar, and raised the bar for onscreen Method performances when the actor famously gained 60 pounds to play a bloated LaMotta late in life."

--Full post with slideshow here.

Cirque du Soleil pulls Tiananmen image from China shows after 'collective gasp'

Via South China Morning Post



 

Cirque du Soleil has removed a photo of the Tiananmen crackdown from its show in China after surprising an audience of 15,000 in Beijing with the iconic "tank man" image, which remains banned and highly controversial in the country. Full article here.

A photo of the show shared by a member of the audience. Photo: SCMP Pictures




Jeff Weidener/AP
A lone man stops a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square, 1989 Beijing, China

50th Anniversary of the March on Washington

 

©Steve Schapiro: Jackie Robinson, March on Washington, 1963

 

On August 28, 2013 citizens from across this country will converge upon our nation’s capital to commemorate and celebrate the historic March On Washington which occurred 50 years ago on August 28, 1963.

 

This site provides information and updates on the numerous commemorative marches that are being planned throughout this country. In addition, this site provides citizens an opportunity to leave their remembrances and pictures of the march that changed the world.

 

Full details here.

 

 

 

Related: 

 TIME:  “One Dream” — a multimedia commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington and the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech

Exhibit: 1963

50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham

'One Night In Miami', More Than Clay Beats Liston

Bob Gomel: Black Muslim leader Malcolm X photographing Cassius Clay, Miami, 1964    

This morning National Public Radio did a piece on a new play, "One Night in Miami",  the premise of which is that no one knows where Malcolm X and Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) went after the February, 1964 fight in Miami

WE DO!

"The following day, bolstered by his mentor Malcom X, Clay stepped in front of a room of journalists to declare his conversion to the Nation of Islam. After fielding hostile questions, he voiced the words that would become his lifelong anthem and would forever change the world of sports: “I don’t have to be what you want me to be.”

 

Recently, Bob Gomel recalled: It was February 26, 1964 in a Miami restaurant after Clay won the heavyweight championship from Sonny Liston. Howard Bingham, Ali's personal photographer is seen at the far right above Ali.  Clay's brother Rahaman is seated to Cassius's left (only a fist is visible in the famous frame.) The name and exact location of the restaurant are paled into insignificance.”

 

"Breaking Bad's" creator, Vince Gilligan, talks about shooting the show in New Mexico, and exploring sights in the state

 

Ernst Haas: Route 66, Albuquerque, 1969

Via The New York Times
Sunday, August 11, 2013


"And in Albuquerque itself, what’s of interest?

I’ll admit that when you enter the city on either Interstate, 40 or 25 — they meet smack in the middle — Albuquerque doesn’t look, shall we say, particularly picturesque. It seems like lots of strip malls and chain restaurants. But it has a stealth charm. Once you get into the neighborhoods, you realize it possesses a great amount of culture and history and natural beauty surrounding it.

      

Central Avenue is a great drive. A part of Route 66, it’s still dotted with old neon motel signs like that great Ernst Haas photo. There’s a great art gallery called Mariposa Gallery and a restaurant we love called Zinc.

      

The Sandias, the mountains to the east, are omnipresent. Take the cable car up to a restaurant called High Finance, which is a good place to eat. It’s stark beauty up there; you can see for hundreds of miles."      

Stephen Wilkes' Day To Night Series Featured in Today's Newspapers

Via New York Daily News

Stunning! Timelapse photographs show city skylines in daytime and at night... all at the same time

Cities such as New York City and Shanghai get captured in unique images which show the glorious daylight and the glimmering night time lights.

CATERS NEWS
Wednesday, August 7, 2013, 7:21 AM

New York City’s Central Park during the day and at night.

Stephen Wilkes/Caters News Agency

 

These are the incredible images which show the world’s most iconic cityscapes by day and night — in just one picture.

The mesmerising images show the beautiful transition from day to night in some of the world’s most iconic cities from the Shanghai skyline to New York’s Central Park.

The unusual images were taken by photographer Stephen Wilkes who spent up to 15 hours and shot up to 1500 photos to create just one composite image.

 

Stephen Wilkes/Caters News Agency

Brooklyn’s Coney Island.

 

The collection entitled Day to Night features 15 images including works from Times Square, The Western Wall and The Capitol.

To create the images, Stephen, 55, from Connecticut, U.S.A., shoots across the entire landscape from sunrise to sunset — sometimes from locations that do not even have toilet facilities.

He then returns to his studio to blend around 50 of the best photographs to create one seamless image. Each piece takes around one month to edit.

Stephen Wilkes/Caters News Agency
Shanghai in day and night.

 

Stephen said he first came up with the idea of shooting multiple images across a landscape when taking the cast picture for Baz Lurman’s blockbuster Romeo and Juliet for Life Magazine, in 1996.
But it wasn’t until he was asked to shoot the High Line for New York Magazine that Stephen used this technique to show the passing of time.

Stephen said while he is fascinated by architecture, people and the cities of the world, what he really loves to shoot is history. And he has even shot Day and Night images of President Obama’s inauguration speech as well as New Year’s Eve in Times Square.

Stephen Wilkes/Caters News Agency
The Flatiron building in Manhattan.

 

There are currently 15 images in the collection but he is currently working on images from Chicago, and hope to add works from London and Paris in the near future.

Stephen wants to add as many images as possible to his collection.

He said: “I remember saying that New York was very active and busy at lunchtime and very spooky at night.

Stephen Wilkes/Caters News Agency

Capitol Hill shown in the day and at night.

 

“I like to say it’s a labour of love for you to stay 15 hours and shoot 1500 images where most of the time there is no bathroom.

“I am a street photographer by training and Day to Night is essentially all the things I love about photography; my son describes it as my symphony.

“The images are so layered; there are so many elements that I love about the medium: Street, history, people environment, narrative, and storytelling.

Stephen Wilkes/Caters News Agency

The Western Wall in Jerusalem.

 

“I’m drawn to cities that have not only fantastic architecture, but also fascinating street life.
“The human narrative is the subtext is in a lot of my photographs, so more you look at it, the more you are going to discover.

“There is a layered effect so you will discover something new whenever you view it.”

Related:

The Telegraph: Day-to-night in the city: Stephen Wilkes documents a day in one photograph

Stephen Wilkes DAY TO NIGHT  Feature On CBS News Sunday Morning Show

Huffington Post: Day To Night In The World's Most Iconic Cities

The Daily Mail: A day in the life of the city: Mesmerising photographs capture 24 hours in just one picture

Jeff Widener shares his experience in documenting a war-torn African nation after entering the country with a humanitarian visa

Via PetaPixel
Jeff Widener · Aug 02, 2013

My Journey to Angola

 

Africa started tugging on me again last year and when an opportunity to join an NGO to Angola surfaced, I quickly seized the opportunity. Non-government agencies like the Red Cross and Amnesty International offer a way for photojournalists to see parts of the world completely closed off to the average traveler. The Chicago based RISE International, a non profit organization that builds schools in Angola allowed me to join them in July to document their work. Full article and photographs here.

Jeff Widener is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated American photojournalist who’s best known for shooting the photo “Tank Man“. He has documented wars and social issues in over 100 countries, and was the first photojournalist to send digital photos from the South Pole. You can read our recent interview with him here.