Los Angeles. Unlike Paris or New York City or Prague, the city of Los Angeles has a reputation among photographers for being notoriously difficult to photograph. That’s because LA exists as much in myth as in reality. It lacks a single identity. LA is the … Keep readingGuillaume Zuili
Portuguese photographer Edgar Martins takes photographs of anonymous places that hold no particular meaning to the viewer. Airport runways, vacant beaches, highway road barriers—locations and sites with which we’re all familiar, but which are largely barren of any personal connection. He then emphasizes the absence … Keep readingEdgar Martins
NUDES NUDES NUDES There is a forlorn and tragic rhythm to the life of Czech photographer František Drtikol. Born in 1883 in Příbram, a mining town in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire (and is now the Czech Republic), Drtikol rose to become a prominent … Keep readingFrantišek Drtikol
NUDES NUDES NUDES It’s got to be one of the most common visual tropes used by photography students in art schools: the attractive, thin, young woman posing nude in a rundown, dilapidated setting. An abandoned house, a derelict factory, a decaying former institutional structure such … Keep readingMiru Kim
In writing these salons I’ve noticed a commonality between many of the photographers featured. Time and again there seems to be a moment, an incident, a coincidence that sparks some sort of transformational shift in the person’s view of the world. Something happens that triggers … Keep readingHiroh Kikai
People who live in northern climates have a different relationship with the landscape. The reality of four very distinct seasons gives the natural world four very different faces, one for each season. Photographer Beth Dow, on the other hand, sees a fifth face. The face … Keep readingBeth Dow
I can’t say the photograph below was the first photo I saw by DeCarava, but it’s certainly the first of his photographs that I remember. More accurately, it’s the first of his photos that I’ve never forgotten. DeCarava had this to say about that photo: … Keep readingRoy DeCarava
Jan Saudek and his twin brother Karel were born in 1935 in the city of Prague in what was then called the Republic of Czechoslovakia. Four years later, Adolf Hitler’s army entered the city. Along with nearly 150,000 other Jews, most of Saudek’s family were … Keep readingJan Saudek
It’s a strange thing to do, when you think about it–using a large format camera to shoot relatively formal portraits of casual strangers in nondescript settings. Yet that’s what Rineke Dijkstra has done for the last decade and a half. And she does it so … Keep readingRineke Dijkstra
Masahisa Fukase is part of that strange generation of Japanese artists born before the Second World War and who came to maturity after their nation was defeated and devastated. They are, in a distinctly Japanese way, a lost generation. Fukase was born on Hokkaido, Japan’s … Keep readingMasahisa Fukase