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The Conscience of Nhem En

"The Conscience of Nhem En, explores conscience and complicity in the
story of a young soldier responsible for taking the ID photos of
thousands of innocent people before they were tortured and killed by
the Khmer Rouge.
 
Nhem En was 16 years old when he was the staff photographer at the
notorious Tuol Sleng Prison, also know as Security-21 or S-21, where,
from 1975 to 1979, 17,000 people were registered and photographed,
then imprisoned and tortured, before they were killed."
 
http://www.farfilm.com/web/title_cne.htm
 

     

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William Eggleston, In Full Color

© William Eggleston

From, William Eggleston, In Full Color by Claire O'Neill for NPR,
William Eggleston about his pictures, " I am often asked about the
meaning...I don't have any answers. They don't mean anything, they're 
just pictures..."
 
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106299805
 
Related Link: William Eggleston: Democratic Hellraiser?:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/06/the_colorful_world_of_william.html
 
Related Link: Gallery: The colourful world of William Eggleston:
http://www.npr.org/multimedia/pictureshow/2009/06/19b/index.html
 
Related Link: Official website of William Eggleston and the Eggleston
Artistic Trust.
http://www.egglestontrust.com/

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Anima/Persona - The photography of Brigitte Lacombe

©Brigitte Lacombe

From Claire O'Neill' s article for NPR, "Frank Rich of The New York
Times puts it well in his introduction:
 
"There is art, and there is show business. In a young century
overdosing on glossy and voyeuristic celebrity exploitation
masquerading as photojournalism, it's essential to keep the boundary
distinct. That is the key to appreciating the photography of Brigitte
Lacombe, whose work often takes her into the realm of show business
but whose pictures strip the commerce away from the artists until we
are face-to-face with what some of the seminal figures of our time are
trying to say to their audience."
 
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/07/janet_johnson_who_edited_photo.html?ps=bb2
 
Related Link: 

http://www.brigittelacombe.com/

Related Link: Lacombe anima l persona by Brigitte Lacombe steidldangin:
 
http://www.steidlville.com/books/812-Lacombe-anima-l-persona.html

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Napoleon III and Paris - Photography exhibition focusing on the changing shape of Paris during the Second Empire

Charles Marville (French, 1816–1879) Rue du Chat-qui-Pêche (from the Rue de la Huchette), ca. 1868 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift of Howard Stein (L.2001.13)

www.metmuseum.org, "This dossier photography exhibition will focus on
the changing shape of Paris during the Second Empire, when the city’s
narrow streets and medieval buildings gave way to the broad boulevards
and grand public works that still define the urban landscape of the
French capital. A prologue will introduce Napoleon III and his family,
and an epilogue will depict the ruins of Paris in the aftermath of the
Commune. Drawn entirely from the Metropolitan’s collection, the
exhibition will feature portraits of the Imperial family by Gustave Le
Gray and Benjamin Delessert; views of old Paris by Charles Marville;
photographs of the New Louvre by Edouard Baldus and of the Opera by
Delmaet and Durandelle; and scenes of the destruction of Paris and
Saint-Cloud during the Commune by Alphonse Liebert and Pierre-Ambrose
Richebourg. The exhibition will also include works in other media from
various departments of the Museum. "
 
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=%7B47E49A38-646C-4D09-A142-4DEAD1FBCDCB%7D
 
Related Link: Napoleon III and Paris Gallery:
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/napoleon_paris/images.asp
 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Napoleon III and Paris
June 9, 2009–September 7, 2009
The Howard Gilman Gallery

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Exhibition: In Focus: Making a Scene - The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center

"Photography, although commonly associated with truthfulness, has been 

used to produce fiction since its introduction in 1839. The acceptance
of staging, and the degree of its application, has varied greatly
depending on the genre and the historical moment, but it has persisted
as an artistic approach. The photographs in this exhibition, drawn
exclusively from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection, make no
pretense about presenting the world as it exists; instead, they are
the productions of directors and actors who rely on stagecraft and
occasional darkroom trickery to tell stories.
 
Spanning photography's history and expressing a range of sentiments,
the images in this exhibition are inspired by art history, literature,
religion, and mainstream media."
 
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/focus_makingscene/index.html

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Exhibition - Photographer Anthony Hernandez: Technological changes created a new photography style

"Pictures by Anthony Hernandez of people waiting for the bus in Los
Angeles in the early 1980s were part of the re-evaluation of
photography that was going on around the world during that period,
according to artist Jeff Wall.
 
Until the late 1970s, street photography meant trying to make a
composition very quickly of strangers in public spaces. But Wall said
at about that time, he was among a new generation of artists that
included German artist Andreas Gursky in Dusseldorf who were working
with photography but were interested in taking the medium somewhere
new.
 
What Hernandez did technically was change from using a hand-held 35 mm
camera to a large format camera on a tripod. This both slowed down the
way Hernandez took street photographs and opened up his work, Wall
said."
 
From, Tech change created new photography style, by Kevin Griffin,
Vancouver Sun:
 
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Tech+change+created+photography+style/1757747/story.html
 
 
Related Links: Anthony Hernandez - Gallery:
 
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Gallery+Anthony+Hernandez/1757770/story.html
 
Related Link: Vancouver Art Gallery
 
http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca

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Wim Wenders for Leica Camera

A very nice black and white ad for Leica featuring and directed by the
director and photographer Wim Wenders. The camera in question, the M8
has had its share of issues, and detractors. However, just about every
review gets back to Mr. Wenders' observation that what distinguishes
this camera above all, is it's handling, the way it feels in your
hands and the relationship between, as Mr. Wenders says, "what you saw
outside and the inner image that proceeds each image."
 
For an in-depth review of the M8, Mr. Phil Askey for Digital Photography Review: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/leicam8/
 
Link to Leica M8 product page: http://en.leica-camera.com/photography/m_system/m8/
 

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CBGB Virtual Tour

I unfortunately never had the chance to go to CBGB. However, now I can
at least have a virtual tour of the famed club. Appropriately, the
tour starts in the bathroom.... this ain't no disco....
 
http://www.bravadousa.com/cbgb/pano/pano.html

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TateShots: David Hockney Answers Your Questions

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An Air Force F-22 Raptor executes a supersonic flyby photo by Sonar Technician 1st Class Ronald Dejarnett

There is a magical, out-worldly quality to this image that elevates it
from its intended use.
 
 
"090622-N-7780S-014 GULF OF ALASKA (June 22, 2009) An Air Force F-22
Raptor executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the
aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). John C. Stennis is
participating in Northern Edge 2009, a joint exercise focusing on
detecting and tracking units at sea, in the air and on land. (U.S.
Navy photo by Sonar Technician (Surface) 1st Class Ronald
Dejarnett/Released)"
 
http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=73057

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