Category : photography

One of the world’s great street photographers, Helen Levitt has died at the age of 95. Listen to a 2002 NPR interview with Levitt and see a gallery of Levitt’s photos.

Bernard has seen the future.

Danish photographer Nicolai Howalts has taken some beautiful photos in several disparate series. In 3×1, his portraits of a family living in a Danish suburban counsel flat show a different kind of crazy. Other great series include his portraits of very young boxers taken before and after matches, and his How to Hunt photo series of a Danish bird hunt that looks like beautiful, detailed 19C paintings.

American photographer Anthony Suau has won the World Press Photo of the Year for 2008. Suau’s photo for a March 2008 Time Magazine article on the U.S. economic crisis, shows a Cuyahoga County Sheriff securing an abandoned home in Cleveland, after a mortgage foreclosure eviction. Take a look at the other World Press Photo winners gallery in 20 categories and stories.

Yale photography student Lucas Foglia has created an amazing portfolio of portraits of people who are re-wilding the way they live in the WildRoots ecovillage homestead of Western North Carolina and in other spots in the rural Southeastern U.S. Between the Depression 2.0, impending environmental collapse and all those broke-ass kids I see in my neighborhood, I’m thinking these ecovillage homesteads are the new TICs.

Here are some cool photos of an abandoned Japanese amusement park. Looks like the photographer’s name is Tadashi Taro Shibakoen (at least that’s what a Google translation says), and it looks he was even able to climb around on the coaster tracks– perhaps the liability laws are a little different over there. And here are more photos from abandoned spaces in Japan. I especially like this restaurant/banquet room place.

In Animalia, Basque photographer Mikel Uribetxeberria puts animals in domestic situations to nice effect. Reminds me of Doug Aitken’s amazing Migration installation at 303 Gallery in New York.

In Danish photographer Peter Funch’s series Babel Tales, you can see where Photoshop and street photography meet. See more of his work at the V1 Gallery in Copenhagen and Levine & Leavitt in New York.

You might like the bright, minimalist work from Spanish photographer Aleix Plademunt. I especially like espectafors where he turns some beautiful vistas into waiting rooms and his cult gallery and scotland grey too. See more at Galerie Waltman in Paris.

My favorite presidential portrait is here.

Sydney-based photographer Keith Loutit has created these cool little movies of Sydney Harbor using tilt-shift lenses and time-lapse photography. It all looks like toy boats in a bathtub. See more of his photos here.

New York photographer Joseph O. Holmes has created an amazing series of photos of the empty insides of CBGB’s. Beautiful and haunting with nothing but a few chairs and the richly stickered walls of the club left, the photo series is on view at the Wall Space gallery in Seattle through November 8. See more of Joe Holmes’ photos.

Check out these great photos from Will Govus. You’ll like his haunting, tense nighttime photos and his captures of teenage summer. You might also be impressed that he’s a teenager in North Georgia.

Chinese photographer Chen Jiagang makes large, beautiful images of the vacant factories and and scarred landscapes of what is the equivalent to China’s Rust Belt. If you want to see more of these photos or read about the Third Front, where these photos were taken in the Southwestern provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan and Yunnan, you should download the entire 79 page book Forbidden City (8MB .pdf) for free.

Scottish New Yorker Rory Donaldson is able to create really interesting imagery by digitally stretching the corners of his photos to make something entirely new and transformative. A show of his work just closed at the Winkleman Gallery in NY.

You should look at Elizabeth Fleming’s photographs. With beautiful photos of the smallest details of family life in her series Life is a series of small moments, it’s almost as if Fleming is answering Sally Mann’s rustic, humid Southern life lived outdoors with her own suburban New Jersey interiors that are no less delicate and attentive.

Philly-born photographer Ian Baguskas has some great pictures viewable online for his current exhibit at the Jen Bekman Gallery in NYC. I like the dry quiet in these. Also, you should really check out all the sets in his series South Korea: Below Line 38. Fantastic stuff.

Great article on Robert Frank by Charlie LeDuff.

At Fireman School in 1920 you had to jump off a few buildings. See more great hi-res old photos at Shorpy, the 100 year-old photo blog. The site’s also got a some nice collections from great photojournalists Walker Evans, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange.

Great photo by AP photographer Emilio Morenatti in the New York Times of a lawyer at a protest in Pakistan.