Archive for September, 2019

A Social Reformer, Lewis Hine, Photos of Child Labor, Immigrants

Thursday, September 26th, 2019
  • History Place – Child Labor

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    (Italian Family in the baggage room Ellis Island 1905.)

  • March 1937 Scott’s Run, West Virginia Johnson Family. is a photograph by Lewis Hine

  • Lewis Hine

    Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing child labor laws in the United States.

    The Passing of Gianfranco Gorgoni Land Art/Avant Garde Photographer at 77

    Sunday, September 22nd, 2019
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    Photo of Robert Smithson by Gianfranco Gorgoni

    Gianfranco Gorgoni

    Obit from the art newspaper
    Artsy obit

    Gorgoni came to the US in 1968 to produce a photographic essay. His stay was intended to last just a few months, but, after a chance encounter with Robert Rauschenberg in 1969, Gorgoni spent the better part of the next 50 years in the United States floating in circles that included Richard Serra, Robert Morris, Andy Warhol, Walter de Maria, Bruce Nauman and other artists.

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    Portraits of artists by Giafranco Gorgoni at Whitney

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  • (Ed Ruscha photo by Gianfranco Gorgoni)


  • Robert Rauschenberg (photo by G. Gorgoni)

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    Portrait of an artist by Gorgoni (Nature Means Everything)


  • El Savador 1982(Bomb)

    Cuba, El Salvador: Gianfranco Gorgoni by Betsy Sussler

    Occupy Wall Street -2019

    Tuesday, September 17th, 2019
  • Bread And Puppet Theater presents: A celebration of the Occupy Wall Street movement. (Photo by Erik McGregor)


    See more photos here.

  • We are (still) the 99 percent

    Occupy Wall Street was seen as a failure when it ended in 2011. But it’s helped transform the American left.

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    Merrill Lynch Wall Street Waltz (Digital photo collage by Fung Lin Hall)

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  • Robert Frank – Pioneer Photographer, Documentary Filmmaker Dies at 94

    Tuesday, September 10th, 2019
  • (Delphine Seyrig from Pull My Daisy)

    Pull My Daisy Robert Frank, Albert Leslie, USA, 1959, V’08, Tribute to Bob Dylan

    Pull My Daisy is a 1959 American short film directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, and adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation. Kerouac also provided improvised narration

  • The Unseen photos: Outtakes From ‘The Americans

  • Guardian obit

  • How Robert Frank’s Book The Americans Redefined American Photography


    Robert Frank – 20 years in Mabou, Nova Scotia (Repost)

    Andrea Mabou
    Looking again at Robert Frank

    The Fire Below Mabou January 1980
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  • Paris photos (youtube)

  • Robert Frank
    and his wife June Leaf. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe
    Shooting from the hip..

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    (From Detroit to L.A.)

  • From Pina to Greta, Film Stills & Photographs of Peter Lindbergh

    Monday, September 9th, 2019

  • (Marion Cortillard – Paris 2007)
    Remembering Peter Lindbergh

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  • (Lindbergh shows Greta Thunberg some options in Stockholm.)

    Vogue 2019
    (“School strike for the climate” the sign said.)

    Obit via

    His pictures look like film stills, with action and time stopped, and he also directed several successful documentaries, including Inner Voices (1999), winner of best documentary at the Toronto film festival the following year, and a film about his friend the choreographer Pina Bausch(2002).

    The Birds by Peter Lindbergh

    One of the most respected and widely emulated photographers working today, Peter Lindbergh has been described as a “poet of glamour.” Since 1978, when Stern Magazine published his first series of fashion photographs, his work has been published by every major international fashion magazine and commissioned for the influential campaigns of the worlds leading fashion designers.

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    Francisco Toledo -the Passing of one of Mexico’s most influential artists.

    Saturday, September 7th, 2019
  • Fransico Toledo dies

  • Francisco Benjamín López Toledo, one of Mexico’s most influential artists, has died. Born in Oaxaca on July 17, 1940, the painter, sculptor and activist was 79.
    Toledo studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Oaxaca and the Centro Superior de Artes Aplicadas de Bellas Artes. He incorporated his Zapotec heritage in his work, whether that was through prints, collages, ceramics or paintings. Toledo also included a lot of the animals that he grew up seeing. He particularly focused on animals – such as bats, frogs, lizards and cows – that others don’t always value.

  • Afgan Photographer Abdul Haq Baratali and His Box Camera

    Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019
  • Abdul Haq Baratali

    Afgan Box Camera

    Has the Afghan Box Camera Finally Met Its Match?
    The unique portrait-maker has survived wars, invasions, and fundamentalist tyranny. But digital photography may be too much to overcome.
    by Lynzy Billing

    The 69-year-old photographer is sitting on the porch outside his cluttered one-story house on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, remembering when he was six years old. Back then he had to use whatever was on hand—usually cameras from the Soviet Union, which he borrowed from his sister’s husband.

  • Baratali has photographed thousands of people over the years, from generals and children to popular singers and police officers. Lynzy Billing


  • The Taliban banned photography in the 1990s, calling it an affront to Islam. Displaying an image became a crime punishable by beating or imprisonment. Robert Nickelsberg / The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images