Mark Ruwedel talks about uncovering the traces of illegal migration in Mexico. …
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 Mark Cohen, a self-described “surrealistic action photographer,” is profiled in this episode of “Profiles in Excellence.” Cohen pioneered street photography, capturing the real, spontaneous moments in the public life of a city. He continues working today. Penn State – On Demand Tweet…  Eyes Wide Open: John Szarkowski – An influential photography curator and writer discusses some of the medium’s key figures and exhibitions By Mark Durden, Art in America, May, 2006 Mark Durden: Could you say something about how you saw your role at MOMA when you were appointed as Edward Steichen’s successor in 1962? You came to the post as a successful practitioner. Is it appropriate to see your role as continuing the concer… INTERVIEW: “Eyes Wide Open: Interview with John Szarkowski” (2006) … to their destinations (Virilio 1994: 59). But five years later it emerged that while the weapons certainly “saw” something, they were no more accurate than traditional munitions in actually hitting their intended marks. In September 1996, American cruise missiles struck Iraqianti-aircraft defences twice in two days, only for American planes to be fired at by the Iraqis several days later. Did the Gulf War never happen as Jean Baudril… THEORY: "Nicholas Mirzoeff: An Introduction to Visual Culture" (1999)  Intangible and mysterious, familiar yet obscure, the Shipping Forecast is broadcast four times a day on BBC Radio 4. Power’s photographs are a response to the clash between the pictures built up in his imagination since childhood and the reality of the places he found. …  ISBN: 978-1-59005-259-4 marksteinmetz.com/ nazraeli.com/ Caskets / Damien Jurado …  Leading LA-based photographers on the influence of “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape,” an exhibition first seen in 1975 at the George Eastman House of Rochester, New York, and restaged at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2010. …  Director Cheryl Dunn was commissioned by the Seaport Museum New York to make a documentary about photographers who have used New York City street life as a common thread in their work. Produced by ALLDAYEVERYDAY, Everybody Street premiered at the museum in conjunction with the exhibit Alfred Stieglitz New York and was released in segments by The New Yorker magazine. …  …n look at for more than 2 minutes but it’s extremely long. Any photograph you can look at over and over again….not many, not many. The most difficult thing for me, that’s a portrait. It’s very difficult. It’s a question mark you put on somebody trying to say, who is it, what does it amount to, what’s the significance of that face? And the difference between a portrait and a snap shot is that a portrait is a person agreed to be photographed…. HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson” (1973) | ||||||||||||||
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