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Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
One Life: Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Bob Adelman (born 1930)
Bob Adelman (born 1930)
Via The National Portrait Gallery
Prologue
Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
Under the inspired leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), nonviolent protest became the defining feature of the modern civil rights movement in America. A brilliant strategist, King first demonstrated the efficacy of passive resistance in 1955–56, while helping to lead the prolonged bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, that succeeded in dismantling bus segregation laws. Fresh from the victory that brought him national recognition, the charismatic King cofounded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and took the lead in directing its civil rights initiatives. In a carefully orchestrated campaign of peaceful protest to expose and defeat racial injustice, King awakened the nation’s conscience and galvanized support for the landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s. Honored with the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, he took a public stand against American involvement in the Vietnam War and also became a vocal advocate for those living in poverty. King’s words were as powerful as his deeds, and his moving and eloquent addresses, which gave hope to millions, continue to inspire people throughout the world.
Unless otherwise noted, all images are from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy ride the first integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama Ernest Withers (1922–2007)
Gelatin silver print, 1956 (printed later)
King proved to be the ideal choice to orchestrate and sustain the Montgomery bus boycott. As a relative newcomer to Montgomery, he was able to bring together all factions of the black community without regard to past rivalries. Through inspirational addresses delivered at mass meetings in Montgomery’s black churches, King galvanized support for the boycott and clearly articulated the case for nonviolent action, declaring, “We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love; we must meet physical force with soul force.” He found a strong ally in fellow Montgomery minister Ralph Abernathy, and during the course of the boycott the two men forged a strong working relationship and a deep friendship. Continuing for an unprecedented 381 days, the bus boycott ended only after the United States Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional. When the first integrated bus rolled through Montgomery on December 21, 1956, King and Abernathy sat side by side. (Via National Portriat Gallery)
Selected Portraits / Curator's Statement
As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech, I believe it is important to remember King not merely as a dreamer but as a doer. In his thirteen years of public life as an advocate for civil rights, economic opportunity, and world peace, King motivated others not only by communicating his vision for a brighter future but by acting boldly to challenge injustice. Despite enormous odds and the ever-present risk of failure, King led by example, exhibiting courage and character as he maintained his steadfast commitment to nonviolent resistance and direct action. Anyone can dream of a better and more just world. Martin Luther King Jr. dedicated his life to making that dream a reality.
—Ann M. Shumard, Senior Curator of Photographs
Watch: Ann Shumard, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s senior curator of photographs, on the exhibit, “One Life: Martin Luther King Jr
This exhibition has been funded by the Guenther and Siewchin Yong Sommer Endowment Fund and an anonymous donor.
Visit the Exhibition: Information here
Martin Luther King Marching for Voting Rights with John Lewis, Reverend Jesse Douglas, James Forman and Ralph Abernathy, Selma, 1965
Monday, September 9, 2013
Thursday, September 5, 2013
"In a digital world, the pre-eminence of Vietnam-era photography is unlikely ever to be duplicated"
Eddie Adams/©AP Street Execution of a Viet Cong Prisoner, Saigon, 1968
Via The New York Times:
"Perhaps even more viscerally even than on television, America’s most wrenching war in our time hit home in photographs, including these three searing prize-winning images from The Associated Press newsmen Malcolm W. Browne, Eddie Adams and Nick Ut. They are the subject of retrospectives now, in a new book and accompanying exhibitions.
No single news source did more to document the bitter and costly struggle against North Vietnamese Communist regulars and Vietcong insurgents, and to turn the home front against the war, than The A.P." Full article here.
PHOTOJOURNALISTS ON WAR AT 25TH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PHOTOJOURNALISM
KAMBER'S ACCLAIMED BOOK ABOUT THE IRAQ WAR TO BE FEATURED
AT 25TH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PHOTOJOURNALISM
VISA POUR L'IMAGE, PERPIGNAN, SEPTEMBER 5 AND 6,
2013
A
multi-media piece on Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories
from Iraq
(University
of Texas Press) by Michael Kamber with a foreword by
Dexter Filkins will be projected during the evening screening
tonight, Thursday, September 5, at this year's international
photojournalism festival at Perpignan in France. On Friday, September 6 at 16:00
hours, there will be a book signing with Michael Kamber and some of the
photographers featured in the book in the courtyard of Le Poudrière near
the Festival's bookshop, The Chapitre, where the book can be bought.
Photojournalists
on War (University of Texas Press), which published in May of 2013
and has been receiving critical acclaim worldwide, is a ground
breaking new visual and oral history of America's nine-year conflict in the
Middle East. With visceral, previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness
accounts by the world's top news photographers, Michael Kamber, a writer and
photojournalist for over 25 years, interviewed thirty nine colleagues for the
book, many of them from leading news organizations including Agence
France-Presse, the Associated Press, the Guardian, the Los Angeles
Times, Magnum, Newsweek, The New York
Times, Paris Match, Reuters, Time, The
Times of London, VII Photo Agency, and The
Washington Post.
Photojournalists
on War photographers are: Lynsey Addario * Christoph Bangert * Patrick Baz
* Nina Berman * Ben Brody * Andrea Bruce * Guy Calaf * Patrick Chauvel *
Alan Chin * Carolyn Cole * Jerome Delay * Marco Di Lauro * Ashley Gilbertson *
Stanley Greene *Todd Heisler * Tyler Hicks * Eros Hoagland * Chris Hondros
* Ed Kashi * Karim Ben Khelifa * Wathiq Khuzaie * Gary Knight * Yuri
Kozyrev * Rita Leistner * Benjamin Lowy * Zoriah Miller * Khalid Mohammed * John
Moore * Peter Nicholls * Farah Nosh * Gilles Peress * Scott Peterson * Lucian
Read * Eugene Richards * Ahmad Al-Rubaye * João Silva * Stephanie Sinclair *
Bruno Stevens * Peter van Agtmael
Michael Kamber (www.kamberphoto.com) was
the Times' principal photographer in Baghdad in 2007, the bloodiest
year of the war. Other conflicts he has covered for the Times include
Somalia, Afghanistan, the Congo, and Liberia. Kamber is an adjunct professor at
Columbia University, and has taught at the Corcoran College of Art and Design,
and the International Center of Photography. He is the founder of the Bronx
Documentary Center (www.bronxdoc.org) and is
the recipient of a World Press Photo and many other awards.
ISBN:
978-0-292-74408-0
$65.00
hardcover
10 x 12 inches, 288 pages
166 color and b&w photos
Publisher
Website: here
Media
Contact: Andrea Smith, andreasmith202@gmail.com;
646-220-5950
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Bob Gomel's 80th Birthday Photo Montage
A video that took 80 years to make. The LIFE and times of my father, Photographer BOB GOMEL. If he is not in the photo, he took the photo.
My dad was born (1933) and raised in New York City. After serving in the Navy, he began working for LIFE in 1959, producing many memorable images. When LIFE ceased being a weekly in the early 1970s, he began taking photographs for other major magazines. Also in the 1970s, he branched out into advertising photography.
--Cory Gomel
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Bob Gomel: “Photography is all about having something to say before you pick the camera up to your eye and push the button”
Friday, August 30, 2013
Weekend To Do: 3 Years of Le Journal de la Photographie
Last evening the shocking news hit our inbox, La Journal de la Photographie was shutting down:
Goodbye !
by Jean-Jacques Naudet
There are limits that should never be crossed: that of showing disrespect to co-workers. These limits have all been violated. Unfulfilled promises, and commitments, technological improvements ignored, payments due canceled or denied, the last six months have been a living nightmare .The Team of the Journal and I draw the line. It's over, this is our last issue.
One should not scorn with impunity a great team who for nearly three years worked to help create the Journal , developed and led it to where it is today. The Journal was a concept, and it was mine, but above all it was a team who day after day showed passion, dedication and enthusiasm. There is sadness, bitterness, regret, of course. The Journal was you, every day more numerous and passionate.
Thank you, thank you to: Paul Alessandrini, Pauline Auzou, Elizabeth Avedon, Eliseo Barbàra, Karyn Bauer, Molly Benn, Frédéric Bourret, Marine Cabos, José Carlos Joaquim, Christian Caujolle, Céline Chevallier, Laurence Cornet, Jonas Cuénin, Stéphanie de Rougé, Gilles Decamps, Xavier Derache, Juliette Deschodt, Lola Dolfy, Virginie Drujon-Kippelen, Jeff Dunas, Wilfrid Estève, Sybile Girault, Eva Gravayat, Emmanuel Grynszpan, Sophie Hedtmann, Greg Hermann, Laura Incardona, Peter C. Jones, Fanny Lambert, Olivier Laurent, John Loengard, Christophe Lunn, Paul Melcher, Severine Morel, Yan Morvan, Magnus Naddermier, Patricia Nagy, Bernard Perrine, Anna-Maria Pfab, Michel Philippot, Michel Puech, Sylvie Rebbot, Damien Robert, Andy Romanoff, Miriam Rosen, Sara Rosen, Samantha Rouault, David Schonauer, Antoine Soubrier, Alison Stieven-Taylor, Emiliana Tedesco, Michael Verger, Ericka Weidmann.
And if I dare, it is only goodbye for now.
Jean-Jacques Naudet
julesnaudet@aol.com
We suggest you take the time to visit the archives and read 3 years of some of the best photographty related content.
UPDATE - Le Journal is off the internet as of Saturday, August 31. All links are now dead.
Full archive of posted articles here
and a few posts about our photographers
Santa Fe, rétrospective Bill Eppridge
LIFE : Robert Kennedy dying by Bill Eppridge
Santa Fe : Stephen Wilkes
Santa Fe: Mark Shaw The Kennedys
"This is the icon of the century, this flag”
Firefighters at Ground Zero, Sept. 11, 2001
© Bergen Record
© Bergen Record
Via CNN
‘THE FLAG’ Pursues the Mystery of a Missing 9/11 Icon
The First Commissioned CNN FILMS Documentary Debuts Wednesday, September 4
A vibrant American flag, flying from the back of a boat moored very near the Twin Towers, managed to survive the destruction of the World Trade Center 12 years ago. Someone removed the flag from the boat on September 11th. Thomas Franklin, a photographer for the New Jersey newspaper The Record, took a searing photograph of that flag as it was raised by three fire fighters above the smoldering rubble on the evening of the terrorist attacks. That image immediately became one of the archetypical photographs of the disaster.
Shortly after the iconic photo was taken, the whereabouts of the original flag became a mystery. Who would keep it – and why?
The flag that toured the country to reassure the nation, flew over Yankee Stadium as a patriotic rebuke to terrorism, and flew over the USS Roosevelt as the battleship carried troops to Afghanistan in response to the attacks, was represented as the same flag that was raised at Ground Zero. It turns out the original flag disappeared shortly after it was photographed.
Tucker and Epperlein interviewed the owners of the original flag, Shirley Dreifus and Spiros Kopelakis. They reveal key details about their flag that distinguish it from the imposter.
“That’s not the flag that they raised on 9/11. The flag that went to Yankee Stadium, or was on the ship [the USS Roosevelt], could not have been the flag that was in the photograph,” Dreifus says in the documentary.
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, as well as fire fighters, police officers, photographers who were at Ground Zero, the makers of the flag, editors who used the Franklin photograph, and others, all speak about their memories of that day for the documentary. Each discusses also his memories of the famous flag.
“I see the rebuilding starting with that photograph,” Giuliani says. “That was the moment on which, these three fire fighters, speaking for all New Yorkers – and all Americans – said: ‘Enough is enough. We’re going to fight back.’”
Tucker and Epperlein try to solve the mystery of the flag’s journey. Along the way, their interviews with key eyewitnesses from 9/11 reveal moving insights into the tragedy – and, highlight the enduring power that imagery holds for healing and national reconciliation that, for some, the original flag still represents.
“This is the icon of the century, this flag,” Kopelakis says emphatically, “and it is not any excuse, from any politician, not to try to find this flag.”
THE FLAG will encore on Sunday, September 8 at 9:00pm, 10:30pm, 1:00am, and 2:30am, and will broadcast again on Wednesday, September 11 at the same Eastern times.
As an original production for CNN FILMS, THE FLAG will air exclusively on CNN. It is the fourth CNN FILMS broadcast. ESCAPE FIRE, GIRL RISING, and OUR NIXON debuted earlier this year. CNN FILMS will mark its first anniversary in October 2013.
About CNN FILMS
CNN Films brings documentaries beyond the small screen by developing strategic partnerships to leverage distribution opportunities at film festivals and in theaters. Amy Entelis, senior vice president of talent and content development for CNN Worldwide, and Vinnie Malhotra, senior vice president of development and acquisitions for CNN Worldwide, oversee the acquisition strategy of documentaries for CNN Films. Malhotra manages the day-to-day operation of CNN Films, and works directly with filmmakers to develop original projects.
About CNN
CNN Worldwide is a portfolio of two dozen news and information services across cable, satellite, radio, wireless devices and the Internet in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Domestically, CNN reaches more individuals on television, the web and mobile devices than any other cable TV news organization in the United States; internationally, CNN is the most widely distributed news channel reaching more than 271 million households abroad; and CNN Digital is a top network for online news, mobile news and social media. Additionally, CNN Newsource is the world’s most extensively utilized news service partnering with hundreds of local and international news organizations around the world. CNN is division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company.
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Marcellus Shale Documentary Project Artist Panel: Today, August 29
Nina Berman: Apple Tree illuminated by gas flaring, Susquehanna County, 2011
Via Ithaca College Handwerker Gallery
Marcellus Shale Documentary Project
Curated by Laura Domencic
August 26–September 27, 2013
Work by Noah Addis, Nina Berman, Brian Cohen,
Scott Goldsmith, Lynn Johnson, Martha Rial
Artist Panel: August 29, 4.00 p.m.
Opening Reception: August 29, 5.00–7.00 p.m.
The six photographers of the Marcellus Shale Documentary Project have taken on the responsibility of telling, in the best traditions of social and environmental documentary, the complex story of Marcellus Shale gas drilling in Pennsylvania. For the best part of a year, they have traveled across the Commonwealth, meeting people and listening to and recording their stories.
The Marcellus Shale Documentary Project tells stories, through photographic images, of how the lives of Pennsylvanians are affected by the Marcellus Shale Gas Industry. By creating a visual document of the environmental, social and economic impact of drilling, the work aims to engage communities in the current Marcellus debate while providing important historical images for the future.
In capturing images of the people and places most affected by gas drilling, photographers Noah Addis, Nina Berman, Brian Cohen, Scott Goldsmith, Lynn Johnson, and Martha Rial examine both the positive and negative results of drilling and how the environment and the communities that live with the resources are being shaped. Organized by photographer Brian Cohen, and Laura Domencic, Director of Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, the project will compile the work into a traveling exhibition opening October 2012 at Pittsburgh Filmmakers with accompanying lectures, book and online archive.
The Marcellus Shale Documentary Project is generously supported by The Sprout Fund, The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, and by the individual gifts of Josh Whetzel, Nancy Bernstein and Cathy Raphael.
If you are interested in joining these supporters by donating to this important body of work, please contact Brian Cohen at info@the-msdp.us
http://www.the-msdp.us/
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
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