SEAN ELLIS: YAKUZA, editorial for Arena Homme +, 1998
Tag Archives: Photography
SAUL LEITER: Man In Car, 1950
Malick Sidibé : Dolce Vita Africana, documentary by Cosima Spender, 2008, 80min.
Dolce Vita Africana is a documentary about the internationally renowned Malian photographer Malick Sidibé, whose iconic images from the late 1950s through the 70s captured the carefree spirit of his generation asserting their freedom after independence and up until an Islamic coup ushered in years of military dictatorship. The filmmaker travels to Sidibé’s studio in Bamako, Mali, to witness the artist at work and meet many of the subjects of his earlier photographs, whose personal stories also tell the history of Mali.
Commissioned by BBC’s Storyville.
NICO (Christa Päffgen), 1963 by John Claridge
ERNEST HAAS, photographer “I am not interested in shooting new things – I am interested to see things new.”
A group of women in santa costumes ride through the streets of New York in a red convertible, 1969. (Photo by Ernst Haas/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
A cracked pane of glass, March 1963. (Photo by Ernst Haas/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Buildings on Third Avenue, New York reflected in a shop window, 1952. (Photo by Ernst Haas/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
1953: On 5th Avenue, New York, pedestrians and buildings reflected almost perfectly in a window. (Photo by Ernst Haas/Ernst Haas/Getty Images)
Lights from a neon sign and a stained glass window, reflected in a swimming pool, California, USA, July 1977. (Photo by Ernst Haas/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Ernst Haas (March 2, 1921 – September 12, 1986) was a photojournalist and a pioneering color photographer. During his 40-year career, the Austrian-born artist bridged the gap between photojournalism and the use of photography as a medium for expression and creativity. In addition to his prolific coverage of events around the globe after World War II, Haas was an early innovator in color photography. His images were widely disseminated by magazines like Life and Vogue and, in 1962, were the subject of the first single-artist exhibition of color photography at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. He served as president of the cooperative Magnum Photos, and his book The Creation (1971) was one of the most successful photography books ever, selling 350,000 copies.
Haas was uninterested in learning photography as a child, though his father—an avid amateur—tried to share his interest. Upon his father’s death in 1940, however, Haas first entered the darkroom, learning to print old family negatives. His interest grew, and he soon began to take his own photographs.
MAN RAY :: Rayograph (The Kiss), 1922
A photogram is a picture made on photographic paper without the aid of a camera. To make this one, Man Ray exposed the paper to light at least three times. Each time a different set of objects acted as a stencil: a pair of hands, a pair of heads kissing (his and his lover, Kiki de Montparnasse), and two darkroom trays, which seem almost to kiss each other with their corner spouts. With each exposure, the paper darkened where it was not masked. Continue reading MAN RAY :: Rayograph (The Kiss), 1922
DAIDO MORIYAMA :: STOREFRONTS, SIGNS & SHOP WINDOWS
5.0.2 JP P1
Gregory Halpern, from his new book ZZYZX, a visual pilgrimage in Southern California
(republished from Time Lightbox, http://time.com/4476737/california-gregory-halpern/)
In Gregory Halpern’s new book, ZZYZX, the viewer is taken on what feels like a visual pilgrimage, exploring southern California both in and around Los Angeles. Shot between 2008 and 2015, Halpern’s images were directly inspired by the city itself, with the route beginning east of Los Angeles, in the desert, then traveling through the city, and eventually ending at the Pacific Ocean. This path can be likened to America’s Westward Expansion, while capturing the essence of Los Angeles’ unique diversity. Continue reading Gregory Halpern, from his new book ZZYZX, a visual pilgrimage in Southern California
BRUCE DAVIDSON :: BROOKLYN GANG, 1959
USA. Brooklyn, NY. 1959. Brooklyn Gang. The Statue of Liberty from a rooftop on Seventeenth Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues.
USA. New York City. 1959. Brooklyn Gang. Lefty showing his tattoo.
USA. New York City. 1959. Brooklyn Gang.
USA. New York. New York City. 1959. Brooklyn Gang. ©BRUCE DAVIDSON/MAGNUM
USA. Coney Island, NY. 1959. Brooklyn Gang.
USA. Coney Island, NY. 1959. Brooklyn Gang.
USA. Coney Island, NY. 1959. Brooklyn Gang. Bengie and friends at Bay Twenty-two, Coney Island. Clockwise from left: Bengie, Junior, Bryan, Lefty.
USA. Coney Island, NY. 1959. Brooklyn Gang. Benji in bathhouse.
USA. Coney Island, NY. 1959. Brooklyn Gang. On the boardwalk at West Thirty-third Street, Coney Island. Left to right: Junior, Bengie, Lefty.
USA. Coney Island, NY. 1959. Brooklyn Gang. Outside Mike’s tattoo shop in Coney Island.
USA. New York City. 1959. Brooklyn Gang.
USA. Brooklyn, NY. 1959. Brooklyn Gang.
USA. New York City. 1959. Brooklyn Gang.
USA. New York City. 1959. Brooklyn Gang. Backseat of a car.
USA. New York City. 1959. Brooklyn Gang. On a bus.
USA. New York City. 1959. Brooklyn Gang. Teenager couple smoking at a kitchen table.
USA. New York City. 1959. Brooklyn Gang.
USA. Brooklyn, NY. 1957. Couple necking on pole at basement party while girl looks on, from Brooklyn Gang.
USA. New York City. 1959. Brooklyn Gang.
USA. Brooklyn, NY. 1959. Brooklyn Gang.
USA. New York City. 1959. Brooklyn Gang.
USA. Brooklyn, NY. 1959. Brooklyn Gang. On a Brooklyn subway.
In 1959, photographer Bruce Davidson read about the teenage gangs of New York City. Connecting with a social worker to make initial contact with a gang in Brooklyn called The Jokers, Davidson became a daily observer and photographer of this alienated youth culture. The Fifties are often considered passive and pale by our standards of urban reality, but Davidson’s photographs prove otherwise. These photographs of Brooklyn gangs, Davidson’s first photographic project, were undertaken when he was not much older than the boys depicted in the work.
Davidson, a Magnum photographer, has recently published a monograph entitled Brooklyn Gang, containing 70 images from this documentary series and some interviews as well. These images had never been published together as a whole until the recent publication of this book.
The Incubator 