Shomei Tomatsu (1930-2012) was the face of postwar photography. His series Nagasaki and Scars can be seen in major museums across the world. He died on December 14 in Japan. The father of Japanese photography, laden with international awards, the author of seven...

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Every year since 2001 no less than 150 decomposed or skeletal remains of people crossing into the US from Mexico have been discovered in remote areas of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. Pima County Forensic Science Center in Tucson deals with most of them, analyzing and storing their re...

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Punk Passage: A Tragicomic Romp Thru the Hardcore Axis of the SF/LA Punk Scene 1977–1981 is Ruby Ray’s first book, as DIY as anything she has ever done. Produced exclusively as a photographic ebook, Ray has amassed the best of her archive into an explosive volume of s...

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This series introduces a man whose eccentric glories belong to a remote, ambiguous past. His convictions are just a cover-up for the absurdity of his everyday life. …He is the embodiment of the spirit and aspirations of a nation. This heroic figure is not history as it occurred; he is t...

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First published in July 2012, doc! photo magazine is a Warsaw(Poland) based online monthly focusing on contemporary documentary photography with a special stress on photo stories. Each month the magazine presents the work of eight photographers - some well known, others j...

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Last year, Greg Newton and his partner Donnie Jochum realized a horrifying fact: there was no longer a queer bookstore in New York… They immediately decided to remedy the situation by quitting their job and creating BGSQD: The Bureau of Gener...

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Steven Kasher Gallery presents the exhibition National Geographic: The Past and Future Present. It is the gallery’s fifth show of works from the National Geographic archives, but our first that presents vintage illustrations side by side with vintage photographs....

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My earlier works were more influenced by the connection between the Duesseldorf school of photography and the American New Color Photography. Since 2009 I am moving towards digital image manipulation. 2010 marks the beginning of a new serie called "Distortion". The radical editing in that ser...

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The photo series Performers portraits the unusual characters who acts in performance art. 
Performance art has grown out of the mainstream artistic expressions, with a small public and often with quite a difficult use of language. The conditions of direct intera...

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Swedish-born Australian photographer, Ingvar Kenne, captures both individuality and shared human experience in his ongoing portrait project Citizen. This collection of striking portraits was taken between 1997-2011 across Australia, USA, China, Laos an...

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While Raymond Depardon was roaming France in his van, waiting for the right light, sometimes for hours, his wife, Claudine Nougaret getting impatient, started her own project. After 25 years of working together—Nougaret recorded sound while Depardon took ca...

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