Category Archives: Photography
THOMAS HOEPKER, Clown at a diner on Thanksgiving in Reno, Nevada, 1963
STEPHEN SHORE, Turkey Dinner, New York, 1972
LARRY SULTAN, Thanksgiving Turkey, 1985
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO :: LIGHTNING FIELDS, 2009
IN 2008, acclaimed japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto bypassed the use of his camera and exposed his Lightning Field series directly onto film. In order to witness what early scientists like Benjamin Franklin saw upon the discovery of electricity, Sugimoto used a Van de Graaf generator to send up to 400,000 volts through film to a metal table. Continue reading HIROSHI SUGIMOTO :: LIGHTNING FIELDS, 2009
PHILIP LORCA-diCORCIA :: Mike Vincetti, 24 years old, New York, New York, $30
From Philip Lorca-diCorcia’s 1990-92 series, Hustlers.
Bruce Davidson :: London, 1960
Bruce Davidson (b. 1933)
London
1960
Gelatin silver print
8 5/8 × 12 7/8 in.
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
© Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos
Bruce Davidson: Arrest Of A Demonstrator. Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 1963.
Bruce Davidson Arrest of a demonstrator. “Damn the Defiant!”. Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 1963. © Bruce Davidson | Magnum Photos
EL HADJ TIJANI ÀDÌGÚN SITOU, Photographer, Mali, (1932-1999)
Tijani Sitou, of Yoruban ethnicity and born in Nigeria, apprenticed with a Malian photographer in the eastern city of Gao. He eventually settled in Mopti, Mali, in 1971, opening Photo Kodak, where he ran a thriving business until the 1990s. The studio proved so successful that Sitou funded a 1978 journey to Mecca, earning him the title El Hadj. Continue reading EL HADJ TIJANI ÀDÌGÚN SITOU, Photographer, Mali, (1932-1999)
Jack Kerouac & Neil Cassidy
The Incubator 