if costs continue to rise
forensic scientists will be
parried with insurgents there and
starkly different than the one at
His Agency
best for the long haul
Found Spine Poem #1
Sorting
Yesterday I was sorting through the category “Life in Conflict Zones,” and thought I had duplicates in the pile. On closer look, I realized that there were in fact different images, and I was noticing a new trope: bombed-out buildings with small figures making their way in the foreground. The front pages are 4 months apart and the photographs are taken in Syria. Devastating that it is a new normal – I fear that it does not make us look more closely.
Refugees Above the Fold
Photographs of Refugees & Migrants Above the Fold
New York Times 2000-2015
Making animations of select categories from Above The Fold to draw attention to what the media pays attention to when…. more to come.
ABOVE THE FOLD
What I am working on in my studio > November 2015
ABOVE THE FOLD: The front page section of the NY Times from the War in Kosovo in March 1999 to the present sorted according to the image above the fold. Read about the project.
Hand-Cut Newspaper Mosaics
To add to my list of artists making great work with newspapers as material:
Hand-Cut Newspaper Mosaics Slow Down Our Reading
When she approaches a newsstand, Montreal-based artist Myriam Dion often buys 20 copies of that day’s paper — at times, even more than that.
Women Mobilizing Memory
Women Mobiizing Memory: Collaboration and Co-Resistance Exhibition/Conference at Columbia University
Thrilled to have one of my images advertise the conference:
Looking through Old Files
Looking and re-thinking… searching for something else and found these photos. A few years ago I bought a digital projector and returned to my old method of working by projecting images – using the newspapers and their reference to history as a backdrop. Images interest me now that didn’t then….
In my studio
ABOVE THE FOLD
16 years of NY Times Front Page Sections categorized by content of the photo above the fold. Arranged chronically and then photographed, images in stacks play as slideshows. Twelve categories playing here: Men with Guns, Dead Bodies, Memorials, 911, Grieving, Domestic Protest, International Protest, Celebrations, Weather, Rescue, Refugees and Immigrants, and Photos of Photos
First Photograph of Electric Chair
From TIME Lightbox
Interesting story about this famous photograph and timely in that Tennessee is about to vote to reinstate the electric chair. Just voting on it is horrifying enough.
How the photo was taken: The New York Daily News knew that the prison was familiar with many journalists from their staff, so they hired someone from out of town, Tom Howard, a then-unknown local photographer from the Chicago Tribune. Knowing he would never be allowed in with a camera, Howard strapped a single-use camera to his right ankle and wired a trigger release up his pant leg. Remarkably, he was allowed in. From across the room, Howard pointed his toe at the chair and took but one photo as Snyder took her last breaths.
[Read more: The First Photograph of an Execution by Electric Chair – LightBox ]
… In my mind, this image is the one Andy Warhol used for his Electric Chair series, but no.
photographer Anja Niedringhaus
re-blogging this from the Lens Blog. Want to remember the post and her.
Parting Glance: Anja Niedringhaus
Anja Niedringhaus, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for The Associated Press, was killed in Eastern Afghanistan today when an Afghan policeman approached her vehicle at a security checkpoint and opened fire with a Kalashnikov assault rifle. The German native was 48 years old.
> also article @ British Journal of Photography
> and collection of images @ The Atlantic