The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965
Conscientious (Free subscription) | yesterday
W. Eugene Smith was one of the greatest photojournalists of the 20th Century, but I think he would probably have a hard time if he was still alive and decided to enter World Press Photo , which just decreed that only "retouching which conforms to currently accepted standards in the industry is allowed." I had actually been thinking about this particular photo for a while (its title is "Madness,...
Conscientious (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
If something unites jazz and photography it is not just their fans' and practitioners' devotion to their respective art forms, but often the level of obsessiveness with which they are pursued. Long before I got interested in photography I noticed that about jazz: One of my best friends in high school used to frequently recite the names of the musicians on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue with a devotion...
Pig Sty Avenue (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The Wireless and Telly Twatter UpdatesTwitter UpdatesThe Boogie Woogie Man! ? I know how you feel, Nina. ? listening to "The Beatles-I Want To Hold Your Hand" ? Twittering from Flickr. Flittering? Twickring? "Where are the arms that held me?" ? Copenhagen: it'll be another shining example of political futility: Why am I being pestered by cyber-hoors? North Ayrshire Weather Moon...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
@Minori_okd points us to the photographic work MINAMATA by W. Eugene Smith and Ailejjen M. Smith that covers the Minamata Disease.
greg.org: the making of (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
I'm diggin' the crazy cats at WNYC and The Jazz Loft Project. After abandoning his family in Westchester, longtime LIFE photographer W. Eugene Smith wired his 6th Ave loft for sound and recorded the hell out it for several years...
Conscientious (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
"Two eighteen-wheel trucks delivered 44,000 pounds of his [W. Eugene Smith] things there when he died in 1978, at fifty-nine, according to his doctors of 'everything' (cirrhosis, diabetes, high blood pressure, an enlarged heart). There are hundreds of 10,000 word letters to friends as well as people he barely knew, 25,000 vinyl records, as many as a million negatives and contact sheets, thousands...
The Constitution Club (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.” [...]
virtualreview: china|blogs (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
China Hush has translated local online media Netease's interview with Lu Guang, who won this year W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography with a set of photos featuring “Pollution in China”.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
China Hush has translated local online media Netease's interview with Lu Guang, who won this year W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography with a set of photos featuring “Pollution in China”.
haha.nu (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.” Click to see more. Wow. @ haha.nu Related [...] Related posts: George Steinmetz...
Art reviw Alex Stalenbertg (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center presents "In Focus: The Worker", a photographic history of working people across a variety of cultures. Drawn exclusively from the Getty’s permanent collection , "In Focus: The Worker" includes photographs from the mid-nineteenth century through the late-twentieth century. The exhibition showcases more than forty...
MoPo | Geek News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.”Hit the link for more...
Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
18. There are over 100 chemical plants in Jiangsu province coastal industry district. (江苏滨海头罾沿海化工园区) Some of them discharge wastewater into the ocean; some heavily contaminated sewage is stored in 5 “Sewage Temporary Pools”. During the 2 high tides in every month, the sewage then gets discharged into the...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
On Oct. 14th, Chinese photographer Lu Guang won this year's $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his photos on China’s environment. The Fund’s website posts the following paragraph describing Lu Guang’s project: Lu Guang has been documenting the ecological disasters in China resulting from the rapid growth of the economy since 2005, focusing [...]
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