2013 Year in Pictures and the..."Best of " Everything Photographic 2013

Love them? Hate them? The lists have begun: everyone's photography "Best of" lists for 2013.  (Updated Jan. 1, 2014)


TIME LightBox: In Memoriam: Remembering the Photographers We Lost in 2013


Magnum Photos Blog: 2013 The Year in Review

The Guardian: Photographer of the year: Goran Tomasevic

Guardian picture editors' favourite photos of 2013

Stella Kramer: 2013 in Photography: First the Bad 
                        2013 in Photography: Now for the Good

Year in Photos 2013 by Pete Souza

Time Light Box: All the 2013 Photojournalismlinks posts

New York Daily News: Best of 2013: A look back at the top New York Daily News photos of the year

The Observer's 20 photographs of the year

dna's best pictures of 2013

LA Times: The Year in Pictures | 2013

Aljazeera: In Pictures: 2013 in review  CBS: 2013 The Year in Pictures Huffington Post:  The 52 Most Breathtaking Photos From Around The World This Year

Boston.com: Top Big Pictures in 2013

Pulitzer Center: 2013: A Year in Photos

New Yorker Photo Booth: The Year in Photojournalism

The New York Times: 2013: The Year in Pictures

Telegraph: World news pictures of the year 2013: part 1
                  World news pictures of the year 2013: part 2
                  World news pictures of the year 2013: part 3

The Guardian: The best photographs of 2013 – in pictures

The Paris News: 2013 in Pictures

ABC News: 2013 Year in Pictures

BBC: Year in pictures 2013

CNET: 2013: The year in pictures

BBC: The UK year in pictures 2013

CNN: 2013: The year in pictures

The Independent: In pictures: 2013 - The year in review

NY Daily News: Photos of the year 2013: Top 30 most striking news images from across the globe

The Week: 2013 The Year in Pictures

The Columbian: 2013 Year in Pictures

The Guardian: The best photography of 2013: Sean O'Hagan's choice

Politico: The 18 Best Washington Photos of 2013

The Guardian: 2013: the media year in pictures

The Daily Beast: 2013 The Year in Photos

Associated Press: AP's Top 10 photos of 2013

TIME Picks the Top 10 Photos of 2013

NBC News: The Year in Pictures: 2013

New Yorker Photo Booth: Thirteen Incredible Outtakes from 2013

The Guardian: Best portraits of 2013 – in pictures

WIRED: The Most Amazing Images NASA Took of Earth From Space This Year

Chicago Tribune/Shooting From The Hip: my best photos of 2013...iPhone edition

The Photoblographer: The Year in Photography Culture: Remembering Seven of the Best Moments

BBC: Press Association photographers' best shots of 2013

The Guardian: 2013: The year in pictures

The Denver Post: Photos of the Year 2013

Desert Sun Photo Staff’s Best of 2013

The Guardian: Wildlife and nature photography award-winning images of 2013 – in pictures

GIZMODO: The 100 Most Astonishing Images of 2013

Fast Company: The 16 Best Photo Essays Of 2013

TIME: David Guttenfelder is TIME’s Pick for Instagram Photographer of the Year

Times of Malta: Signs of the Times during 2013

Greenpeace: Greenpeace Photo of 2013

Huffington Post: 2013's Most Striking Fine Art Photography

Video: Reuters Pictures of the Year 2013

The Washington Post: The 18 best political pictures of 2013

TIME LightBox: Photos of the Year That Almost Got Away: Behind and Beyond 365

Boston.com The Big Picture: 2013 Year in Pictures: Part I
                                                2013 Year in Pictures: Part 2
                                                2013 Year in Pictures: Part III

The BagNews Top 10 News Photos of 2013

The Denver Post: Photos: Best of Getty Images 2013

The best Boston Globe photos of 2013

TIME’s Best Photojournalism of 2013

TIME’s Best Portraits of 2013

All of TIME's The Year in Pictures 2013

The Atlantic: 2013: The Year in Photos, January - April
                                The Year in Photos May - August
                                The Year in Photos, September - December

Doublemesh: The 40 Most Powerful Photos Of 2013

National Geographic: Travel 365: Best of 2013

Discovery Channel: Best Ocean Animal Photos of 2013

The Inertia: Monster Gallery: The 100 Best Surf Photos of 2013

Vanity Fair’s Year in Photographs, 2013

Wall Street Journal: Photos of the Year 2013
(You can also Share Your Top Photos from 2013 With #WSJbestphoto)

TIME Picks the Best Wire Photographer of 2013

TIME LightBox: The Most Surprising Photos of 2013

TIME LightBox: 2013: The Year in 365 Pictures

TIME Picks the Top 10 Photos of 2013

Reuter's: Best photos of the year 2013 (with the photographers offering a behind the scenes account of the images that helped define the year.)

ANSA presents top photos of 2013

Mashable: 100 Most Powerful Moments of 2013 in Photos

Milwaukee Business Journal: Best photos of 2013

2013 Year in Review: The year's most-viewed photo galleries on MassLive.com

The Brian Lehrer Show: Best of 2013: The Year's Best Pictures (That Are Sitting On Your Phone)

ESPN: Best photography of 2013

USA TODAY Sports' pictures of the year

Mashable: 50 Stunning Sports Photos From 2013

Forbes: The Most Science Fictional News Stories Of 2013 In Pictures

Vulture: 2013’s Best Entertainment Photography

LA Weekly: Best LA Concerts of 2013 in Photos

Salon: The most incredible nature photography of 2013                       

Pitchfork:  Year in Music Photos 2013

LA Times: The best political photos of 2013

The Post Game: Best Action Sports Photos From Red Bull In 2013

2013 Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Award Winners

The Telegraph: Royal Navy photographer of the year 2013


Books:

photo-eye: The Best Photo Books of 2013

Elizabeth Avedon: BOOKS 2013: My Top Ten and More

Conscientious:  My favourite photobooks in 2013

Telegraph: Inspirational photography books for 2014

photo-eye: photo-eye's Top-10 Bestsellers of 2013

LensCulture: 2013 Photobooks of the Year

New York Times' Sixth Floor: The Top 10 Photo Books of 2013

Photo District News: Best Photo Books of 2013: Part 1
                                  Best Photo Books of 2013: Part 2
                                  Best Photo Books of 2013: Part 3

Mother Jones' Photographers Picks the Best Photobooks of 2013

1000 Words Photography: Top photobooks of 2013

Slate: Eight Amazing Photo Books From 2013 You May Have Missed

Raw File: Holiday Gift Guide: A Photo Book for Everyone on Your List

The Guardian: The best independent photobooks of 2013

The Telegraph: Inspirational photography books for 2014

The Telegraph: Black and White Photography books of the year

The Guardian: Photography books of the year – review

Oh Top Book! Best Overlooked Photobooks of 2013

The Telegraph: Ten photography fanatics share their favourite books of the year

British Journal of Photography: The Best Photobooks of the Year: Martin Parr takes his pick

British Journal of Photography editor Simon Bainbridge's 10 favourite photobooks of the year

The Telegraph: Best photography books of the year

TIME Picks the Best Photobooks of 2013

Washington Post:  5 best photography books of 2013

Photo.net: Best Photography Books of 2013

The Telegraph: Alec Soth: My Top Ten Photo Books of 2013


Other categories:

Gizmag: The best cameras of 2013

BBC: Your pictures of the year

Digital Trends: Best photography product of 2013: Sony Alpha A7

New Yorker Photo Booth: The Weirdest Photo Research of 2013

Bag News Notes: The BagNews Best Posts of 2013

Gallerist: The Year in, and Beyond, the Galleries

PhotoShelter  54 Reasons to Love Photography in 2013

Tech 2: Gadgets of the Year: Best camera-centric smartphones of 2013

Ideas Tap: Our Favorite photography articles from 2013

PhotoShelter: Photo Projects That Made For A Better 2013

CNN: Best smartphone travel photos announced

The Guardian: Selfies of 2013 – the best, worst and most revealing

The Onion: Top Photojournalism Of 2013

TIME LightBox: Report from 2013 Paris Photo: 13 of the Best Exhibitions from the Fair

The Phoblographer’s Top Ten Stories of 2013

Imaging Resource:  Top 13 for 2013: the best cameras, lenses and technologies of the year

LA Times: Photography Christmas gift ideas 2013

Popular Photography:  2013 Camera of the Year: Sony a7R

Holiday Gift Guide 2013: The Phoblographer’s Editor’s Choice List

Here is the final edit of everyone's photography "Best of" lists for 2012

“LIFE magazine was a great success..."

“LIFE magazine was a great success. If a man hadn't seen a picture of a native in New Guinea, well, we brought him a picture of a native of New Guinea. We went into the homes of princes and Presidents and showed the public how they lived. The great thing about working with LIFE was that I was given all the support and money and time, whatever was required, to do almost any kind of work I wanted to do, anywhere in the world. It was like having a grant, a Guggenheim grant, but permanently." --John Dominis

The LIFE Photographers continues through Januray 26, 2014

Related:    “I had no idea what else was available, but I knew Life had to have it.” 

                  Bob Gomel got closer than he wanted to JFK’s funeral

To Do in Santa Fe: Renaissance to Goya: prints and drawings from Spain

Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664), Head of a Monk. Black chalk and grey wash, c. 1635–1655. Courtesy the British Museum


 Our View: Goya exhibition a coup for state
 Via The Santa Fe New Mexican

New Mexico’s state museums manage, despite tight budgets and many demands, to continually engage their audience.

That’s true for homegrown exhibits such as Cowboys Real and Imagined, now at the New Mexico History Museum, or New World Cuisine: The Histories of Chocolate, Mate y Más, at the Museum of International Folk Art, or Here Now and Always, at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. Then there are those inviting traveling exhibits. Who can forget the exquisite, hand-lettered exhibit featuring the St. John’s Bible, treasures from the court of Czar Nicholas or Gee’s Bends quilts, all of which have spent time in New Mexico?

Joining those stellar exhibitions starting Saturday is an exhibit featuring Spanish works — Renaissance to Goya: prints and drawings from Spain, at the New Mexico Museum of Art.

New Mexico is fortunate indeed to be the only location in the United States to exhibit this collection of drawings and prints — created at the British Museum and seen in Spain and Australia. Its chief attraction, naturally, is the opportunity to see work by the master Francisco de Goya. An Australian reviewer wrote, “Renaissance To Goya is stunning, packing that unique graphic punch across themes of religion, daily life, myth and — in the case of Goya — social commentary and insanity.” Museum director Mary Kershaw is to be congratulated for bringing the exhibition to Santa Fe. It’s an opportunity not just to see great works on paper, but to revisit what had been a settled question in art and discover new answers.
 

For whatever reason, the Spanish were not considered to excel at drawing in comparison with Flemish and Italian masters. This exhibition, gathering a range of drawings and prints from all across Spain from 1662 until the death of Goya in 1828, shows masters at work, presenting a rich body of pieces that encompasses religion and changing Spanish society. Many of these works haven’t been displayed — the British Museum is so rich in collections that exhibition curator Mark McDonald pulled these from the vaults. The previous view by some, that Spanish artists excelled more in color and painting, but not drawing, can be set aside.
 

In The Independent newspaper, reviewer Michael Glover had an interesting reaction, writing: “We go through it dutifully, glazed cabinet by glazed cabinet … And then, at a certain point, something marvellous happens. The year is 1762. The Tiepolos, father Giambattista and his two sons Domenico and Lorenzo, have just arrived in Madrid from Venice. The sheer brilliance of their etchings takes Spain by storm. … Then, alongside the brilliance of the Tiepolos, come other great practitioners — it all seems to happen in the last third of the show, after we have almost been lulled asleep — Ribera, Zurbaran and, greatest of all, selections from various suites of etchings by Goya, who is so wild and untrammelled and no-holds-barred emotionally that it is sometimes quite difficult to look without wincing.”
 

Until March, New Mexicans and other visitors (we trust both the city and the state are promoting the exhibition to travelers) will have the chance to gaze upon a Goya, and wince for themselves.

For New Mexicans, to see work made in Spain is particularly relevant. By 1662, when the exhibit opens, the settlers who had left Spain for Mexico and then traveled north to what is now New Mexico, had begun to put down roots in this new land. These great works are made by the contemporaries of the colonists; the beginnings of our own Spanish Colonial art tradition are linked to those artists of the mother country. This exhibition, in other words, will show New Mexicans more about their own origins, making it an even more essential offering. It is not to be missed.

Renaissance to Goya: prints and drawings from Spain
December 14, 2013 – March 9, 2014
New Mexico Museum of Art
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MARK SHAW: DIOR GLAMOUR

A collection of the lavish and iconic gowns of Christian Dior, from the 1950s and ’60s, captured by the legendary photographer Mark Shaw. Iconic photographer Mark Shaw documented the ultra-exclusive Parisian fashion world, focusing on Paris’s long-standing top couturier Christian Dior. Shaw’s photographs—some of the first fashion photographs ever shot in color—capture the most stunning and extraordinary fashion of the era. This lavish volume embodies the glamour of that time, from rare moments of Christian Dior during fittings to editorial-style photographs of models, socialites, and actresses posing in Dior’s ballgowns, day suits, and haute couture collections. Shaw’s photojournalistic style changed fashion photography forever: his approach was to photograph wide, giving the subject a sense of context, creating an environment as exquisitely transformative as the subject and garment. With an eye for intimacy and opulence, this book features more than 200 color and black-and-white photographs, many never published before, having only recently been found in a secret vault by his estate. Dior Glamour: 1952–1962 captures the drama and elegance of the period’s style and will be treasured by lovers of photography, fashion, style, history, and cultured living.

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The Telegraph "Best Photography Books of 2013": "Dior: Glamour, 1952-62 shows off Mark Shaw’s photographs from the iconic fashion house, including some of the first fashion shots in colour."

Vanity Fair: Mark Shaw’s Dior Glamour, Photos from the Paris Fashion House’s Heyday

Paris Vogue: A Decade of Dior by Mark Shaw

Wall Street Journal: Photo-Op: Damsel in Dior

For information on Mark Shaw's photography prints, please contact the gallery.

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A Mushroom Cloud and the Twin Towers: the role of images in contemporary consciousness

 

Via CCA

Sunday, December 8, 2pm
LIVING ROOM
$5 Dollar Suggested Donation

 
How do images become placeholders for historic moments? What happens in the brain when images are no longer pictures, but rather icons loaded with emotion or politics? How is meaning-making changing as our world is increasingly flooded with images? This multi-media discussion event features short presentations by a panel of artists, journalists, and visual critics followed by a lively conversation about the ways that images (or the lack thereof) shape perception. Panelists include Nina Elder, Claudia X. Valdes, Dr. Khristaan Villela and others.

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1050 Old Pecos Trail Santa Fe

Happy Birthday, Alfred Eisenstaedt

In a photograph taken by LIFE colleague Bill Shrout, Alfred Eisenstaedt kisses an unidentified woman reporter in Times Square on VJ Day, August 14, 1945 — a powerful visual echo (in retrospect) of the now-iconic, era-defining "sailor kissing a nurse" picture that Eisenstaedt himself shot that very same day via vintageeveryday


Born on December 6, 1898 in West Prussia, Alfred Eisenstaedt received an Eastman Kodak Folding Camera when he was 14. Renowned as the father of modern photojournalism, Eisenstaedt’s career as a preeminent photojournalist spanned eight decades. “Eisie”, as he preferred to be called, began taking photographs in Germany in 1914. As a pioneer in his field, “Eisie” had few rules to follow.

Diminutive in stature, he worked with minimal equipment and was known for an aggressive yet invisible style of working. Regarded as an innovator of available light photography, Eisenstaedt dispensed with flash photography early on in order to preserve the ambiance of natural lighting.

He photographed throughout Europe, Africa, and the Middle East until he came to LIFE magazine in 1936. As one of the four original staff photographers for LIFE, “Eisie” covered over 2,500 assignments and created 86 covers for the magazine. Acknowledged as one of the most published photojournalists in the world, he took photographs at the first meeting of Hitler and Mussolini, of Albert Einstein teaching at Princeton, Churchill’s campaign and re-election, children at a puppet theater in Paris, Marilyn Monroe at home, and hundreds of other significant people and events around the world. He was an editor’s dream, and his work had what became known as “Eisie’s eye”. Portrait assignments became his specialty, and in the process he accumulated many little-known secrets about his subjects.

It is unlikely that anyone could have lived during the last 60 years without having been exposed to the photographs of Alfred Eisenstaedt. “Eisie” worked almost ceaselessly until his death in 1995, even photographing President Clinton and Family in 1993.

Alfred Eisenstaedt possessed the unique talent to capture a story in a single, tell-all moment. The photographer’s job, he once wrote, “is to find and catch the storytelling moment.” “Eisie” received awards and recognition far too numerous to list. His photographs have been exhibited in prestigious museums and galleries throughout the world and are in the permanent collections of many important art institutions. Several of his acclaimed photographs are featured in "The Great LIFE Photographers" exhibition at Monroe Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, through Januray 26, 2014.

Related:

This Week in Photography History: A Look Back at Alfred Eisendstaedt

Alfred Eisenstaedt's 112th Birthday

Save The Dates: photo la January 16 - 19, 2014

LOS ANGELES PHOTOGRAPHIC ART EXPOSITION ANNOUNCES NEW LOCATION FOR 23rd ANNUAL EVENT JANUARY 16th – 19th, 2014 AT THE HISTORIC LA MART BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES

 

Via photo la

 Los Angeles, CA, photo l.a. (www.photola.com), the longstanding photographic art exposition, is proud to announce its 23rd edition in a new location: downtown at one of the most distinctive venues in Los Angeles - the historic LA Mart (1933 Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90007) built in 1958. photo l.a. is joining the massive celebration of the arts throughout the downtown area, where the L.A. Art Show and a large number of popular galleries will all be working in unison to drive a massive collaboration of the arts downtown precisely for the weekend of photo l.a.’s exposition.

photo l.a. was the first, and is the longest running photographic art fair in Los Angeles. Beginning at Butterfield’s Auction House, then moving to the Barker Hanger and the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, photo l.a. has always been a destination event. Celebrating its 23rd year, photo l.a. 2014 is moving to the artistic hub that is now downtown Los Angeles, at the LA Mart building.

photo l.a. is excited to be a part of the growth of downtown L.A.’s artistic expansion along with major art establishments like the new Broad Museum, The Geffen Contemporary, MOCA, and the Japanese American National and Chinese American Museums, along with many new contemporary galleries. photo l.a. is connecting with this specific area to present a phenomenal art experience in 2014.

From January 16-19th, 2014, photo l.a. will present its widest collaboration of photography yet, exhibiting works dating from the 19th century, up through the most cutting edge contemporary photo-based art in LA Mart’s massive 60,000 square foot Exhibition Hall. photo l.a. 2014 will continue its celebration of the photographic arts, both through the exhibition of internationally renowned galleries and as a platform for education and discussion. Known for its excellent programing, photo l.a. will once again spearhead a unique series of lectures, roundtable discussions and docent tours as a valuable supplement to our exhibitions. 

photo l.a. 2014 will combine the photography and arts communities under one roof, truly raising the bar for both the cultural and collecting experiences in Los Angeles. This vast collection, along with a variety of outstanding programming and installations, promises an impressive 23rd edition of the fair.



Monroe Gallery of Photographjy will exhibitiong at photo la 2014.

To Do Wednesday: Ashley Gilbertson in conversation with VICE's Rocco Castoro

Via VII

Featuring Ashley Gilbertson
December 4, 2013
Brooklyn Brewery, 79 N. 11th Street
New York, NY
$25

For a discussion about war reporting, VII photographer Ashley Gilbertson will speak with VICE’s Rocco Castoro about his book Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, hosted by the Brooklyn Brewery.

Gilbertson’s book is a collection of images taken over the course of four years in Iraq. The book charts path of Iraq from the post-invasion excitement to the extreme violence that later occurred in the country.

The event will begin at 7:30 pm. Tickets are required to attend and include a free Brooklyn Brewery beer. All proceeds from the events in this series benefit RISC (Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues

More information here.

Giving Thanks for Photography

“Richard and Mildred Loving” (1965), by Grey Villet.

Courtesy of the estate of Grey Villet.

Via The New Yorker:  a selection of eight writers on photographs that they are thankful for.

Recently, I’ve been travelling in the Deep South, pausing at civil-rights sites along my reporting route—Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s’s bomb-pocked parsonage in Montgomery, Alabama, for starters, and Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Most of the landmarks that I’ve visited display iconic photographs of the movement’s labors, largely rooted in the politics and aesthetics of struggle: black youth and integrated Freedom Riders standing, disobediently civil, before snarling police dogs and sneering lunch-counter crowds. Here, though, I’ve plucked a photograph from the movement that draws its strength less from struggle than from domestic affection, which seems well-suited to file under “Thanksgiving”: an image from Grey Villet’s 1965 series, for Life magazine, on Richard and Mildred Loving, the interracial couple in Central Point, Virginia, who helped to end the interminable era of anti-miscegenation statutes. The power of the series lies in the quiet intimacies that it captures. Mostly, the photos depict everyday life: eating, idling, kissing, conferring. In this particular shot, the Lovings watch TV and laugh—a reminder that to lounge about in simple communion can sometimes be beautifully subversive, too.

—Sarah Stillman

The LIFE Photograpers Opening Reception Friday, Nov. 29, 5 - 7 PM

 Alfred Eisenstaedt ©Time Inc., President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office, Washington, D.C., 1961. Courtesy Monroe Gallery of Photography


Via Photograph Magazine Newsletter

Looking Back at Camelot: On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the country is remembering and paying its respects. At the Monroe Gallery of Photography in Santa Fe, The LIFE Photographers opens November 29, an exhibition concurrent with the publication of LIFE: The Day Kennedy Died: 50 Years Later LIFE Remembers the Man and the Moment. LIFE photographers had unusual access to the Kennedy family, and their photographs no doubt helped create the mystique surrounding the family. LIFE editor Richard Stolley will be at a reception and book-signing at the opening Friday, November 29, 5 - 7 pm.