Stella Kramer
“Working on a personal project is good break from reality, it’s a way of stepping back and taking a deep breath; it’s refreshing, it gives you the time to realize that War itself is just a frame to everything happening around.”
Bill Eppridge is one of the giants of photography. I can’t emphasize this enough: Bill Eppridge didn’t just photograph history, he made history (more on that later). As a LIFE photographer, in the days when photo essays would run for pages and there might be 20 or more photos, he was able to examine the world through his photographs. It’s a shame that this no longer exists.
Tagged: bill eppridge, life magazine, photography, robert kennedy
Eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, 1930s Charles Bittinger / National Geographic Society / Steven Kasher Gallery What a great way to start the New Year, with the National Geographic show, “The Past and Future Present” at Steven Kasher. Mixing vintage illustration with photography, we glimpse the beginning of the world, both real and imagined. From the bottom of the ocean to planets far away, we see things that no longer exist. What was once the ultimate source for…
So 2012 is finally drawing to a close, and I for one am not sorry it’s ending. In fact, good riddance! I always have ambivalent thoughts about the beginning of the New Year, but I do want to thank the people who made 2012 for me.
Tagged: aaron graubart, allegra wilde, andy lerner, angela cappetta, ashley gilbertson, axel kessler, barbara bordnick, beth chucker, bob stevens, calli macaw, chris buck, chris fitzgerald, christian kozowyk, daile kaplan, david bram, debbie zimelman, doug menuez, douglas ljunkvist, fadi asmar, fatima nejame, frank edie, gaia danieli, giovanni savino, graham jepson, heather brown, helen jones-florio, henry jacobson, Isa Leshko, isadora kosofsky, janette beckman, jasmes balog, jason florio, jason o'neal, jay trinidad, jeff jacobson, jennifer mcclure, jessie diamond, jocelyn baun, john edwin mason, joseph seif, julie grahame, julien mcroberts, kat kojic, katie baum, katrin eisman, leah nash, louie palu, lynn ursic, mackenzie edie, maiana becker pineda, mariana corporan, marko metzinger, maryann camilleri, matt slaby, micah diamond, michael shaw, mike hartley, mimi ko, noah fecks, paula tognarelli, photography, rita nannini, robert herman, roberto mata, rolando diaz, sam edie, sara terry, sarah fretwell, sari goodfriend, sean corcoran, sebasitano tomada picolomini, stella kramer, stellazine, steve giralt, terri gold, theron humphrey, tony gale, wally mason, wayne parsons
I suppose that we all look back at this point and try to remember the high points of the year. And so I asked around and these were the photo shows that people loved in 2012. The great thing about this list is that it spans the world. Enjoy!
Tagged: Abelardo Morrell, Alvin Baltrop, Barbara Bosworth, Chris Killip, ClampArt, Daido Moriyama, Edward Burtynsky, Eileen Neff, Eugene Atget, Francesca Woodman, George Bellows, Henry Horenstein, Iñaki Bonillas, Isa Leshko, Jerome Liebling, Jerry Uelsmann, Joel Sternfeld, Joni Sternbach, Lalla Essaydi, Mark Ruwedel, Mary Ellen Mark, MFA Houston, Nicholas Nixon, Nick Brandt, Occupy Wall Street photos, Photo League, photography, Photoville, Pimp the Timp, Richard Misrach, Rineke Dijkstra, Rinko Kawauchi, Rise and Fall of Apartheid, Robert Adams, South Street Seaport Museum, stella kramer, stellazine, The Radical Camera, Tim Hetherington, Vivian Maier, William Klein
How do you handle adversity? Do you lie down and accept the bad turn of events or do you mobilize against it and try things you’ve been afraid of to reap possible benefits? Your choice can be the difference between success and failure. In their APA presented talk, Recovery Act: The Restoration and Reinvention of a Photography Career, William and Susan Brinson give us a look at what can happen when you have nowhere to go but up. It was…
Until Hurricane Sandy came through New York, I always thought about climate change in a disassociated kind of way. It is obvious to me that it is a serious problem with catastrophic effects, but I don’t think I really grasped the full extent of what is happening to the planet until I saw “Chasing Ice,” Jeff Orlowski’s film about James Balog’s project recording the disappearing glaciers. I first came to photographer James Balog’s work when I saw his book, “Anima,”…
Photo of Crystal Dillman by Jacqueline Dormer, The Republican Herald. In David Turnley’s “Shenandoah“, a small town in eastern Pennsylvania is forced to deal with the fallout of a murder committed by several of its HS football players. In July 2008, Luis Ramirez, an undocumented immigrant from Iramurco, Mexico was chased, beaten, stomped and killed by a group of white teenage boys shouting racial slurs. The local police in the tight-knit town covered up the crime, not even investigating it.…
Tagged: David Turney, docnyc, documentary, filmmaker, murder, photography, photojournalist, Shenandoah, stella kramer, stellazine
The DOCNYC festival is back, and this year there are more documentaries about and by photographers. I’ve seen the first ones, VII Uncomissioned and Men At Lunch, one a selection of shorts by members of the photo agency, and the other dissecting the iconic photo of men sitting on a steel beam high above Manhattan in 1932. VII Uncomissioned begins with “On The Line,” a piece by Ashley Gilbertson about a suicide hotline for veterans. Using still images and audio,…
I was going to post a PhotoPlus Expo wrap up last week, but I, like many other New Yorkers lost power for nearly five days (and we know so many others STILL don’t have power). So it makes no sense now. What I would like to talk about it how to keep going when things seem bleak. We all lost whatever momentum we had prior to the storm, and in dealing with basic survival needs it was easy to feel…
Tagged: hurrucane sandy, photography, stella kramer, stellazine