Here’s an interesting snippet from the New York Times blog this week about a bill introduced into the city council to ban voyeurism. I was surprised to read that the AP reported that voyeurism “is already illegal when the subject is unaware and the image is recorded on camera, but as the law stands now, […]
Chris Jordan has garnered a good deal of attention recently for his photographs depicting the scale of Western consumer culture. His works fetch widespread praise and serious prices, but Jordan is still dogged by the lack of penetration of his political message:
I decided to do the ugliest picture I could think of: an image […]
An article about children’s response to the horror of the bridge collapse in Minneapolis last week opened with the following sentence:
They all said the same thing: It was as if they were suddenly in a movie.
O’Connor, Anahad. “Schoolchildren Struggled to Escape.” New York Times.August 2, 2007.
It wasn’t the only story to focus on the movie-like […]
The last month or so has been a tough one for photography. Rather than dwelling on the deaths of John Szarkowski and Bernd Becher, I want to draw some attention to a young photographer who has been adopting terminology made famous by the Bechers for one of his most recent projects.
Mark Luthringer photographs the […]
