PBS program "Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America" features Bill Eppridge's photograph of the Chaney Family

 

Via PBS

The key art for the new PBS film "Driving While Black" features Bill Eppridge's photograph of the Cheney family driving to James Chaney's funeral in Meridan, Mississippi, August, 1964

Discover how the advent of the automobile brought new mobility and freedom for African Americans but also exposed them to discrimination and deadly violence, and how that history resonates today.

A ground-breaking, two-hour documentary film by acclaimed historian Dr. Gretchen Sorin and Emmy–winning director Ric Burns– will air on PBS on Tuesday, October 13, 2020 at 9:00 p.m. ET

   

View the full film here

 View the full press release here. 

View Bill Eppridge's photography here.

 

Via TED Countdown Global Launch

October 10, 2020

24 hours on Earth — in one image

Stephen Wilkes • Countdown • October 2020

"Nature reveals itself to us in unique ways, if we stop and look at the world through a window of time," says photographer Stephen Wilkes. Using a special photographic technique that reveals how a scene changes from day to night in a single image, Wilkes exposes the Earth's beautiful complexity and the impacts of climate change — from the disruption of flamingo migrations in Africa to the threat of melting ice — with unprecedented force.

"Watching the Earth Melt Away", directed by Joe McNally, at the Ridgefield Independent Film Festival

Via Ridgefield's Hamlet Hub

October 9, 2020

"Watching the Earth Melt Away" directed by Joe McNally, an internationally-acclaimed, award-winning photographer and filmmaker will screen live on Friday, October 16 @ 4:00 pm at the Ridgefield Theater Barn and is also available to screen virtually.

Watching The Earth Melt Away is a wake-up call to climate change. In 2001, McNally covered a story about George Divoky, an ornithologist who, at that time had spent three months every summer for the past 28 years, living on a Cooper Island, a forbidding stretch of ice north of Alaska, where he studied artic seabirds. Over the course of his study though, which has now spanned 46 years, Divoky had inadvertently amassed one of the world’s largest experiential accounts of global warning. In 2001, McNally took a breathtaking photo of Divoky standing on a stretch of ice with the artic sky behind him. When McNally returned to Cooper Island in 2019, he recreated the photograph. The glaring difference between the two said it all—Divoky was standing knee deep in water. The magnitude and speed with which the landscape had melted and changed is heartbreakingly evident in the haunting film, Watching The Earth Melt Away.

Bones to pick: Obscure items in the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

 

Via Pasatiempo

The Santa Fe New Mexican

September 25, 2020

Georgia O'Keeffe: Pelvis Series, Red with Yellow, 1945

©Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

...“I think, in particular, of the way she uses the pelvis bone,” (Museum Fellow Victoria) Plotek says. “It becomes a device she uses to frame her compositions. One of the centerpieces of her New Mexico paintings is a pelvis painting where the pelvis is sort of framing this oval of blue sky. It would be impossible for anyone to know what the motif was without looking at the label. But it becomes a recurring motif for her.”

Take, for example, Pelvis Series, Red with Yellow (1945). It looks like an abstraction: a yellow ovoid form surrounded by a nebulous, organic shape rendered in shades of pale white and ochre. Once it registers that the pale-and-ochre shape is a pelvic bone, you no longer view the painting as an abstraction but as a painting of a representational form.

“That painting, where O’Keeffe abstracts the bone, is the subject of a very famous photograph by Tony Vaccaro,”  ...

©Tony Vaccaro: Georgia O'Keeffe with painting, New Mexico, 1960

Full article here.

BOB GOMEL: EYEWITNESS NOW AVAILABLE

 

When history was made, Bob Gomel was there. This documentary examines the stories behind the stories of some of the most significant events in the 20th century. Hear and see the history unfold from the perspective of a legendary LIFE Magazine photographer.

Now available from Amazon Prime

View a selection of available Bob Gomel prints.

Photograph Daily Podcast: Meet Ryan Vizzions

 

Via Photograph Daily


September 16, 2020

Meet Ryan Vizzions, a photographer who started making pictures at the most difficult time of his life after losing his father to suicide. He quit his job at a Fortune 500 company, travelled half way across the world to Bangkok, a place chosen randomly from the spin of a world globe, to find himself alone in the midst of civil unrest in Thailand during the 'Red shirt protests' of 2010. It was to be a trip that shaped his photographic future covering stories of injustice and protest.

Ryan has since photographed protest and the plight of protestors whilst building what you could describe as a more ‘regular’ successful commercial photography business, but it’s clear where his passion lies, in making photo documentaries about social injustice. It’s a journey as you’ll hear in the continuation (part 2) of this story that has landed him with a government agency file. Today he is one of the growing voices in the photography community that believe it has become harder to tell photo stories with the freedoms once enjoyed.

Ryan Vizzions: "Defend The Sacred", Standing Rock, Cannon Ball, 

North Dakota, 2016

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Photographs copyright Ryan Vizzions. Not to be reproduced or used without express permission of the photographer.

FURTHER REFERENCE:

Thailands reds and yellows, a story published on the BBC website and a further article on the protests of 2010

NPR’s report on COINTELPRO

Jürgen Schadeberg, Whose Photos Chronicled Apartheid, Dies at 89

 

                 ©Jurgen Schadeberg: Nelson Mandela's return to his Cell on Robben Island 1994

The New York Times

Jürgen Schadeberg, a German-born photographer who survived the turmoil of wartime Berlin, then emigrated to South Africa, creating some of the most potent and enduring images of Nelson Mandela and chronicling the increasingly violent imposition of apartheid on Black lives, died on Saturday at his home in La Drova, Spain. He was 89.

Independent Online

Jürgen Schadeberg, the photographer who took the iconic picture of former president Nelson Mandela looking through the bars of his cell on Robben Island, has died. He was 89 years old.

The Citizen

With a large body of work and critical acclaim internationally, Schadeberg will be most remembered by younger generations for his famous photograph of Nelson Mandela looking through the bars of his Robben Island prison cell.

Arts 24

The things we will remember about Jürgen Schadeberg

MONROE GALLERY LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE

Santa Fe, NM -- Monroe Gallery of Photography proudly announces the launch of its new website www.monroegallery.com with a short video “Photography: The medium of our time”. 

 The new site has been completely revised for easier viewing of exhibitions and photographer’s collections. A new short video highlights Monroe Gallery of Photography’s specialized focus of 20th and 21st Century photojournalism—images that are embedded in our collective consciousness and which form a shared visual heritage for human society. Many of these photographs not only moved the public at the time of their publication but maintain the power to stir the consciousness (and conscience) today. These images set social and political changes in motion, transforming the way we live and think—in a shared medium that is a singular intersectionality of art and journalism. 

 Monroe Gallery of Photography was founded by Sidney S. Monroe and Michelle A. Monroe in 2001, following decades of experience in New York City. The Gallery is currently open to the public and is New Mexico Safe Certified in Covid-19 operating procedures. Current modified Gallery hours are 10 to 3 daily, admission is free. In accordance with mandated health guidelines face masks are required and visitors must maintain social distancing of at least 6 feet. The gallery is limiting the number of visitors to approximately 10 people at a time. Private viewing is available by appointment. 

The new website was created by WebSight Design, a Bay Area web development company that provides clients with creativity, dependability, and value since 1995.

Photographer Stanley Forman discusses his iconic Anti-Busing photograph with subject Ted Landsmark

 

Ted Landsmark was an attorney going to a meeting at City Hall who came face-to-face with protesters. The clash was captured in this iconic photo by now WCVB photojournalist Stanley Forman.

Men behind iconic Boston photograph to be part of Antique Roadshow special

Hide Transcript Show Transcript -- THAT TOOK THAT PICTURE NEWSCENTER 5 PHOTOJOURNALIST STANLEY FORMAN MET UP AT THE , SPOT WHERE THAT PHOTO WAS TAKEN. NEWSCENTER 5'S MATT REED WAS THERE. >> IT'S FUNNY LOOKING BACK THE PICTURE, TAKES ME BACK TO THAT DAY MORE THAN MY MEMORY DOES.

Ashley Gilbertson: 'I am here today because another man died'

 

Via BBC

 

 Iraq War: 'I am here today because another man died'

At the start of the Iraq War in 2003, over 600 journalists and photographers are given permission by the US government to follow the conflict as embedded reporters.

Photographer Ashley Gilbertson is working for The New York Times when he enters the city of Fallujah with a US marine battalion.

Fallujah, 40 miles outside Baghdad, would be the deadliest battle the marines would fight since the Vietnam War.

Just over a week after entering the city, a small group of them is ordered to escort Ashley on a recce of a local minaret - what happens next will change their lives forever.