Documentary Photography

I've let my camera rest these last two weeks while I've been editing the last project and sorting out the next. So, of course, I hav...

And how do you find the mystery in the banal? Garry Winogrand : Well, that's what's interesting. There is a transformation, you see,...

If there were an actual April Fool's Parade -- instead of just a way of looking at passing daily life -- it would be the perfect test fo...

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This weekend's viewing included visits to the International Center of Photography, the Neue Galerie and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ...

Popular Photography has an interesting tidbit on Henri Cartier-Bresson : The French photographer had been captured by Nazis in 1940, and he ...

Just finished reading "Two Jacks and a Jill: Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, and the Judgment Seat" by A.D. Coleman...

I love having something to anticipate. On October 15th a new Elliott Erwitt book will be released: Personal Best . Amazon says: "Ellio...

Just bought a bargain-priced book on Man Ray . It had some images that don't appear in my other Man Ray books, so I felt my $6.98 was we...

Three shows are about to close at International Center of Photography : Unknown Weegee Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne B...

On August 12th -- my one-year anniversary in Manhattan -- I shot the last photos needed to finish my first official New York street photogra...

Enjoyed The Fearless Reader 's post on Ruth Orkin , "a photographer and filmmaker whose pictures, since her death from cancer in 19...

Elliott Erwitt , in an NPR interview from Friday, March 7, 2003: "I deplore what's happened to our craft, which has been undermined...

Photographer who captured Henderson's winning goal dead at 79 (From CBC Arts.) Frank Lennon, 79: Captured Canada's joy (From The Tor...

Well, what is it about a photograph that makes it alive or dead? Garry Winogrand: How problematic it is! It's got to do with the conten...

Iwo Jima Photographer Rosenthal Dies From AP (via Yahoo News): "Out of the corner of my eye, I had seen the men start the flag up. I sw...

I'm a fan of the work of Joel Meyerowitz , so I'm very pleased to find that he's joined the fine folks at iN-PUBLiC . I remember...

On most days, my favorite photographer is Elliott Erwitt . His sense of humor is obvious. Unfortunately, it's easy to miss what's mo...

My first day in New York was August 12, 2005. One of the goals I arrived with was to go back to my roots: street photography . I have a coup...

On January 7, 1839, Louis Daguerre showed the French Academie des Sciences something he just knew they were going to love: some photographs...