Archives
volume 9 (11.2006-2.2007)
The Lotus-Eaters
Jeff Cowen's latest body of work is a virtuoso performance of mural-size portraits and cinematic collages.
Color 1970-1980
Just one decade's work in the evolution of one of the masters of color photography, Joel Meyerowitz.
Adolescent Prisons
European photographer Klavdij Sluban conducts long-term photography workshops in prisons for adolescents. He gives the prisoners a new way to look at life, and he brings back some haunting images.
Las Vegas Quickie Weddings
Everything you need to get hitched at a moment's whim! Kate Nicholson documents a behind the scene's look at the other big business in Vegas.
photo
book reviewA Couple Ways of Doing Something
Artist Chuck Close starts with the 19th century Daguerreotype process to create stunning large format digital prints in this latest series of portraits.
After Katrina:
water-logged photos
After the hurricane and flood, Stan Strembicki found and photographed ruined books and lost family photo albums.
Month of the Photo in Paris
Every two years, the city of Paris hosts a city-wide celebration of photography. Here is an English-language guide to more than 65 photography events happening throughout November and beyond. Photo: Fading, 2006, Nicholas Comment.
Even more!
The Mois de la Photo-OFF is a fringe festival organized in parallel to the official Mois de la Photo festival. Their goal is to offer a dynamic selection of emerging photographers exhibited in young galleries and unexpected spaces, like a train station, a florist's and a butcher's. All exhibits are free... Check out the website!
Avedon's Private Collection
It's interesting to note what the great masters choose to have around to inspire them. Here's a brief look at what Richard Avedon liked to keep.
William Christenberry:
Audio commentary and new book review
A year-long retrospective of Christenberry's work is on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington. Aperture has also published a new book of his life's work. Here, we share a representative portfolio of his work, accompanied by a 17 minute audio commentary by Christenberry himself.
Simon Norfolk:
Forensic Traces of War
Acclaimed photographer Simon Norfolk is exploring the idea of "battlefields" and how that term has expanded in meaning in recent wars. Here we feature images from several bodies of work, plus an engaging audio interview with Norfolk.
Elaine Ling:
Cuba Inside and Out
Canadian photographer of Chinese heritage, Elaine Ling, travels the world alone with her 4x5 view camera and loads of polaroid film. On the road, she befriends strangers who invite her to document their personal, eclectic living spaces. The work shown here was taken over a two year span in Cuba.
Anna Puig Rosado:
Around the Black Sea in Winter
French photographer Anna Puig Rosado decided to follow the coast line of the Black Sea through all of the countries that border it. She had no guide, no timeline, no plans for lodgings — just a backpack, a camera and lots of color film. Here is her visual and poetic report.
Paris Photo 2006
The largest-ever Paris Photo featured 116 exhibitors showing the work of more than 500 photographers from 22 countries. Here is a selection of more than 80 near-random picks from the offerings. This massive exposition-marketplace-photo celebration took place November 16-19 in Paris. Plus, more than 100 other photo events continue to take place in Paris, alone. See our guide listings, on the left.
Audio Archives
William Christenberry speaks about his life's work17 minutes
Simon Norfolk interview
15 minutes
Archives
volume 8 (7.2006-10.2006)
Harry Callahan
An exhibition of 120 prints in Chicago, and a roundtable of old friends, brings some new insight into Callahan's working methods and his personality. Report by Victor M. Cassidy
Festival: Arles 2006
Curator Raymond Depardon took the reigns this year, and showcased the work of his friends, his personal influences, and those whom he considers to be at the cutting edge in the photography of Politics and Society.
Cold Defiance
British photographer Andrew Buurman documents the hearty souls who swim weekly in icy London waters.
Facade
Korean photographer Han Sungpil marvels at the elaborate photographic illusions erected to hide the construction and architectural face-lifts of buildings around the world.
DL 07
Jens Liebchen co-opts the visual language of war photography to create a menacing portrait of a town that is actually not engaged in war.
The Value of Space
An in-depth, illustrated essay by scholar Steve
Yates.
Unseen UK
In this photobook conceived and edited by Steven Gill, mail carriers from the Royal Mail share their unique views on British society and culture along their postal routes.
Buddhism
and AIDS in Cambodia
Photojournalist Bennett Stevens delivers a first-person report from AIDS treatment centers in Cambodia.
Joan Fontcuberta:
interview and retrospective
Artist, author, iconoclast and provocateur, Joan Fontcuberta has been playing with photography, media and authenticity since the mid-1980s. In an exclusive audio interview, he talks about his motives, methods, and why we should know that "every image is a trap."
Being in the World: a series of nightmare images by Isabelle Rozenbaum
Paris-based photographer Isabelle Rozenbaum uses her craft to try to come to terms with her personal family history, the Holocaust, and the insistent, visual murmurings of the unconscious.
Ingar Krauss: Portraits
Adolescents from orphanages and juvenile prisons in central and eastern European are the subjects of these powerful and revealing portraits. Book review and interview with the artist.
Audio Archives
Joan Fontcuberta interview22 minutes
Archives
volume 7 (2.2006-6.2006)
Cuba 2005
Jeff Cowen visits modern-day Havana and returns with timeless photographs — moody, resigned, and quietly emotional.
Ballet & Sport in the USSR
Russian avant-garde artists Natasha and Valera Cherkashin create photo collages interweaving modern imagery with Soviet-era public icons.
Defiant Portraits
Isabel Muñoz photographs warrior tribes of Ethiopia. In an audio interview, she talks about challenges, surprises and gaining trust.
Bodies and Abstract Art
Ernestine Ruben plays with shadow, light, cropping and framing to create dizzying abstract plastic space.
Breakfast
with Salgado
A personal report from a workshop with the master.
Essay by Bennett Stevens
Landscape with Figures
Massimo Vitali documents the places and postures of Europeans relaxing and at play in public.
William Klein Retrospective
An exhibition in Paris, and a new book, including some pithy quotes from the original bad boy of photography himself, and John Szarkowski.
Edward Burtynsky — China
From 2002 to 2005, Edward Burtynsky was granted unprecedented access to photograph inside China with a large format camera. His new book delivers a visual report on many aspects of contemporary China. In an exclusive audio interview for Lens Culture, he talks about his experiences there, and his fears for China and the world.
30 years of war: Christine Spengler
Since the early 1970s, war photographer Christine Spengler has put herself in the midst of conflicts and captured images of the women and children who are literally caught in the crossfire. Here are 46 photographs in a retrospective look at wars in Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Western Sahara, Beirut, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq. She also recounts several stories behind these pictures with an exclusive series of autobiographical audio recordings.
Lucia Nimcová — Instant Women
Slovakian photographer Lucia Nimcová has been documenting the everyday lives of women and girls in Central and Eastern Europe. Here are 20 photos from this engaging work in progress.
Audio Archives
Edward Burtynsky13 minutes
Christine Spengler
13 and 19 minutes
Massimo Vitali
6 minutes
Isabel Muñoz
10 and 3 minutes