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Selectism.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Robert Frank’s The Americans opened at the MET in late September and I had the opportunity to walk through last month. It remains on view until January 3, 2010, and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the suite of photographs Frank produced during a cross-country road trip in the mid-1950s. Criticized at time of publication, the [...] This article originally appeared on Selectism.com . Robert...
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The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | yesterday
The legendary photography collective Magnum returns to its Parisian roots with a new gallery and an exhibition celebrating its photographers of tomorrow. VIEW OUR PHOTOS. Magnum Photos, the celebrated photojournalism cooperative founded in 1947 by...
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nexgenlife.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
It wasn’t too long ago that Google Maps took to the streets with its army of camera-equipped cars as it embarked on its quest to photograph every avenue in the world. As they archived all these random images of daily life and human existence, they captured more than their fair share of comedic, and [...]
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The Fader Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
On Tuesday, December 15, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will celebrate the tradition of The Moth, a non-profit with undeniable dedication to narrative performance, with The Moth at the Met: American Stories. Storytellers will use the portraiture in two current exhibitions, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans and American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, [...]
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Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Pop Culture Photographer Ken Regan promised himself that he would never shoot certain kinds of events. However when Keith Richards asked him to document some big events in his life, Regan just couldn't refuse. "I did Keith Richards' wedding, and the three things I said to myself when I got into photography that I would never do were weddings, bar mitzvahs...
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Swisster (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Gerhard Steidl, one of the world’s most prolific independent publishers of photography and art is offered a major exhibition at the Elysée museum in Lausanne. The list of artists he publishes is like a celebrity roll call and includes the fashion diva Karl Lagerfeld and the legendary Robert Frank. But Steidl is not out to impress. He only wants to share his passion for images and get us...
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Island Med Student (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Yesterday was a great day. I started the morning off with a nice run into Manhattan and back. After catching up on a few errands, Micah and I decided to go visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art to check out the Robert Frank exhibit. It ended up being a bit disappointing but all was well [...]
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Robert Frank's candid images exposed the underside of midcentury America and were initially reviled.
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Twenty-Cent Paradigms (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
At project syndicate, Keynes' biographer Robert Skidelsky revisits " Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren ." While we have achieved economic growth even slightly better what Keynes hoped for, our attitudes towards work and wealth have not changed in the ways he predicted. In particular, the fact that we can now afford what would be a very high material standard of living in Keynes'...
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Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
An artist interested in tackling a big subject -- a subject such as mankind's dependence on oil -- has a tough job: You can't do it in one picture. Photographer Edward Burtynsky understands that. For the last 12 years he's taken hundreds of pictures in an effort to document our relationship with oil. A thrilling, haunting exhibition of 56 of them, "Edward Burtynsky: Oil," is on view now...
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KentNewsNet.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Students may be rewarded for faculty's hard work - at least that's what the faculty union is urging. The American Association of University Professors is asking the 819 tenured and tenure-track faculty members who are set to receive the $2,855 bonus checks to consider donating the money to a worthy cause: student scholarships or local charities.
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Noded (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Reading Stuff: I've pick up a copy of The Americans by Robert Frank. It is an absoute marvel. From what I been able to research he did all the images with a Leica and one or two lens (50mm and 90mm). Sekret Project Stuff:I really like playing with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and have been thinking about a CSS...
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Personal Cyber Botanica (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
His characters are nameless, yet each of us… dancer… boxer… prisoner… trumpeter… dreamer… runner…. juggler… invisible painter… Vita Precarie by Danijel Zezelj taken from Globalproject He was influenced a lot by painters and photographers such as Velasquez, Caravaggio, Cezanne, Vermeer, Diane Arbus and Robert Frank. Wordz by Octavio Paz,...
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The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Before I pushed the pause button on this blog yesterday—to share a Veterans Day sign of peace—you may remember I was fantasizing about hustling Johannes Vermeer, the Sphinx of Delft, into the small elevator at the back of the Metropolitan...
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Lens Culture (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
We were thrilled to hear about this new exhibition, Three Concerned Women , opening this week at the Griffin Photography Museum in Massachusetts. Susan S. Bank, Stella Johnson and Rania Matar share an interest in a humanist approach to photography. Their long-term projects have taken them to Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Susan Bank 's self-published book, Cuba: Campo Adentro drew praise...
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