Sept 9 - Sept 23, 2022
INTERESTING PHOTO NEWS & GREAT PHOTO LINKS
Great Photography Stories
The Guardian features Harvey Stein’s new photo book on Coney Island
Did you make pictures out in Coney Island this year? Harvey Stein’s been photographing the wonderful people and culture of Coney Island for fifty years now. His new book Coney Island People: 50 Years was recently featured in The Guardian:
“Stein is drawn to people and gesture and expression – and how authentic humanity reveals the most about the spirit of a place, and perhaps about life itself.”
Writer & Critic Lynne Tillman responds to the photographs of Dawn Kim
I’ve loved Dawn Kim’s photography and perspective on the world ever since I first heard her talk about her work a couple years ago. Recently Dawn was a 2021 Visual Arts Resident at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. Pioneer Works asked writer Lynne Tillman to reflect on Dawn’s work for their journal Broadcast.
“The word “obvious” shadows, even plagues, the art of photography. Obviously it’s an army barrack, a raging sea. In this picture, Kim is working with a set of forms, obvious objects—wall, mountain, grass—turning it toward something else that’s happening through its composition. A dissonance is constructed through formal means.”
Caroline Tomkins visits photographer David Brandon Geeting’s Studio
Photographer, Writer, and Photo Editor Caroline Tomkins visits and photographs David Brandon Geeting in this engaging piece for the photography journal 1854:
Unlike most people, Geeting does not feel paralysed by choice. Instead, he throws all the spices into the pot. “I’m not someone that likes to make a huge mess, especially at home, which is funny because my work is very messy,” he says. “I felt like if I had a studio, I could make work that was more challenging. Messier, in every sense of the word.”
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Loved this short skate video that vividly reveals the work that goes into a ‘polished’ skate video. (And suggests an interesting approach photographers might experiment with as well!)
EQUITY AND ETHICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Alice Zoo ‘In Defence of Portraits’
The brilliant UK photographer and writer Alice Zoo has started a Substack newsletter. I loved her first post where she wrote thoughtfully about the contemporary discourse around the ethics of photography portraiture.
“I believe that the instinct to depict people is innate and empathetic, and comes from a wish for mutual understanding. We are storytelling creatures, and we tell stories about each other: the things that move us, the things that cause us pain — it’s a rare novel that includes no human voices, no human stories. Most photographers I know began by taking pictures at home, of their friends and families; it is an instinct often born of love and wanting not to forget. Of course there are unethical photographers; but this does not mean that every portrait is unethical. There are egotistical photographers, just as there are egotistical writers, painters, doctors; but the instinct towards picturing others does not necessarily come from an egotistical, conquering place.”
Full post, In Defense of Photography: [here]
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Photo at the top of The Roundup: Track Record, Newark, June 2022 © James Prochnik