Sony owns the Columbia catalogue. Check the fourth paragraph.
http://www.sonypictures.com/corp/press_releases/2015/08_15/080515_milesahead.html
It’s A Be-In! Be In The Group Portrait!
We have an affinity for group portraits, and here’s an opportunity for you to be in an historic gathering TOMORROW outside the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Chicago.
Jason Lazarus says: “I want to ask impossible questions by attempting a photo like this: What does the Chicago art community look like? What kinds of communities make up this group? Who identifies as a Chicago artist? What can a group portrait tell us about artists in 2015? What might we learn from this image 10 years from now? How about 50? With these in mind, I am thrilled to invite any and all of you to stand for a group portrait, rain or shine, on the steps of the MCA at 11:30 am on Saturday, June 20!”
You’re a photographer, right (or a painter, or a musician, or a jeweler, or a ceramicist)? Drop everything and go. For more salient details, look here: http://www2.mcachicago.org/2015/an-invitation-to-the-chicago-artists-group-portrait/
A Plethora of W. o’ W.: Mary Ellen Mark, 1940-2015
…via Kyle Cassidy.
Small samples: talk to people. Don’t editorialize.
Guggenheims
The 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation grants were announced yesterday. The grants are awarded to over 175 applicants from the Arts and Humanities each year, and (currently) the average grant is a gift (in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service) of at least $43,000. These are the photographers (some of whom are FBFs).
Gary Briechle:
Miles Coolidge:
Susan Lipper:
Susan Meiselas:
Arno Rafael Minkkinen:
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/arno-rafael-minkkinen-video-art-is-risk-made-visible
Richard Renaldi:
Stuart Rome:
Richard Rothman:
Moises Saman:
William S. Sutton (hey, you look up his pictures);
Terri Weifenbach:
Three others, musicians (known to us) and a music essayist:
Darcy James Argue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q9ezXTYZUM
Etienne Charles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yASatU_DThw
George Lewis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x09K4BXcE4c
Alex Ross: http://www.therestisnoise.com
Husks Aglow
“The Government protected rolls of film, but not the lives of our kids. There is something wrong with this picture.” -Senator Tom Harkin
a la Weegee
“It was a bellows-type camera — you know, the bellows on an accordion?”
Happy 216, Anna Atkins
The first photographer to be AA (born Anna Children) made the First. Photobook. Evarr, from her cyanotypes. (As always, click on ’em to enlarge.)
Creative Camerawork 