April 8 - April 22, 2022
THE WEEKLY ROUNDUP
Great Photography Stories
Kenneth Dickerman Reviews Tony Chirino’s new photo book ‘The Precipice’ for the Washington Post
The photos in Chirino’s book were made in operating rooms and morgues over the course of his career as a biomedical photographer. Read the full review and check out some of the incredible photos from the book here:
“It’s not that the photos are gory. They aren’t. But their heaviness makes the book a challenge to the reader. Fundamentally, it asks questions about the nature of life and death. As Chirinos said to me, “The truth is that living is both a luxury and a dilemma.”
The Guardian features Robbie Lawrence’s Northern Diary
Robbie Lawrence is a photographer whose body of work Northern Diary have an intensity of mood that stays in my mind long after I stop looking at the pictures. Click here to see the Guardian feature.
“Northern Diary brings together a selection of work that Robbie Lawrence has produced over the past seven years, many of which have never been seen before in a gallery setting. Subjects include landscapes, portraits and still lifes made across Scotland’s cities, rural locations and coastal towns. Northern Diary opens at Stills in Edinburgh on 1 April”
Portraits from a Chicago bar in the early 1970s
Loved this Blind Magazine feature on John Banasiak’s portraits and photos in a Chicago bar - images made from his perch as the bartender.
“Long before John Banasiak became a professor of photography at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion (where he’s taught for 42 years), he was a factory worker, a night watchman, and a bartender at George Brown’s Bar, a working-class drinking hole in one of Chicago’s Polish/ Ukrainian neighborhoods. It was there, in 1971, when Banasiak was just 21, that he made a series of tender, elemental pictures that capture a proud, hard-working community.”
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Check out this great 1994 BBC documentary on Cindy Sherman
“New York based artist, Cindy Sherman, is famous for her photographs of women in which she is not only the photographer, but also the subject. She has contributed her own footage to the programme by recording her studio and herself at work with her Hi-8 video camera. It reveals a range of unexpected sources from visceral horror to medical catalogues and exploitation movies, and explores her real interests and enthusiasms.”
It’s an age-restricted video, so you have to watch it on YouTube directly.
EQUITY AND ETHICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
The Daily Tar Heel, student newspaper of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill covers a controversy in their midst when photographer Cornell Watson’s work about the school was censored.
The Daily Tar Heel’s reporter Jade Neptune does a deep dive into what happened when an exhibition of photographer Cornell Watson's work, created as part of his artist residency, was canceled.
“In June, Watson was offered an artist residency at the Stone Center to create a body of work that captured spaces of memory for Black history.
Then, after six months of creating the photo story that would later be named “Tarred Healing,” a reflection of Black history through places, people and systems in Chapel Hill, the photos were pulled from display at the Stone Center in their solo exhibition set to open Feb. 22. This followed the images being featured in The Washington Post.”
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