Photographer Milton Rogovin Preserved the faces of Those With Silenced Voices - Randy Kennedy - NYTimes.com

Milton Rogovin Preserved the faces of Those With Silenced Voices - Randy Kennedy - NYTimes.com

Randy Kennedy for NYT.com, "Mr. Rogovin was an optometrist whose business was decimated and his children shunned after he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1958. An article published that year in The New York Times reported that friendly witnesses described him as “the chief Communist in the area.” He turned to photography because his “voice was essentially silenced,” as he once said. What followed was more than 40 years of powerfully straightforward pictures of others without voices: the poor and working class of Buffalo’s East Side and Lower West Side, Appalachia, Mexico, Chile and other countries."

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Photographic Links to Golden Age of Dutch Painting at the Museum of the City of New York - Martha Schwendener for NYTimes.com

Art Review - 'Dutch Seen' - Photographic Links to Golden Age of Dutch Painting at the Museum of the City of New York - Martha Schwendener for NYTimes.com:

Martha Schwendener for NYTimes.com, “Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered,” organized by Kathy Ryan, who is director of photography for The New York Times Magazine, takes the old Dutch-New York connection and runs with it. The show, at the Museum of the City of New York, is part of NY400, a series of exhibitions and events commemorating the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage on the Half Moon, financed by the Dutch East India Company."

Photographer Sited: Hein-kuhn Oh

Photographer Hein-kuhn Oh:

http://www.heinkuhnoh.com/

Related Link: Cosmetic girls
http://www.heinkuhnoh.com/index.html?d1=01&d2=02&d3=&lang=eng

Exhibition: Robert Mapplethorpe, perfection in form - Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze

Exhibition: Robert Mapplethorpe, perfection in form - Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze"An exhibition dedicated to great American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, in the twentieth anniversary of his death, at the Accademia Gallery of Florence until September 27,2009."

From the Exhibition site, "From its very title, Robert Mapplethorpe, perfection in form, exhibition curators Franca Falletti and Jonathan Nelson intend to express the profound principle that associates the artist of photography with the great Renaissance masters and, in particular, with Michelangelo: the search for balance, the precision and clarity inherent to 'Form' that tends toward perfection by means of the geometric rigour of volumes defined by line and sculpted by light."
http://www.unannoadarte.it/mapplethorpe/

Related Link: http://www.mapplethorpe.org/

Related Link: Model combination: Robert Mapplethorpe and Michelangelo

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/jul/29/robert-mapplethorpe-michelangelo

A photography companion volume to Imperial by William T. Vollmann

By Charles McGrath for The New York Times "A companion volume ( to Imperial by William T. Vollmann), to be published next month by powerHouse Books, contains some 200 photographs he took while working on "Imperial," for which he also wore a spy camera while trying to infiltrate a Mexican factory, and paddled in an inflatable raft down the New River in California, a rancid trench that is probably the most polluted stream in America. The water, he writes, tasted like the Salk polio vaccine."

..."Imperial," which is about Imperial County in California, the vast, flat and arid region in the southeastern part of the state, bordering Mexico, is an extreme Vollmann production: brilliant in places, practically unreadable in others. There are lyrical passages, and others edging over into magenta ("And change came; just as the urine of dehydrated people is turbid and dark, failing in transparency, so the evening sunlight, as if heated to exhaustion by and with itself, now lost the glaring whiteness which had characterized it since early morning, and it oozed down upon the pavement to stain it with gold"), along with scientific chapters, complete with graphs, on salinization and agricultural productivity, and 175 pages of notes. A page early on has a title warning of "Impending Aridity."

An Author Without Borders: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/books/29vollman.html

Related Link: A Drive Through 'Imperial'

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/28/arts/20090729_VOLLMAN_SLIDESHOW_index.html

Imperial. Photogarphs by William T. Vollmann. Powerhouse Books,

http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-William-T-Vollman/dp/1576874893/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1248874500&sr=8-1

Exhibition: Photographs by Rodolphe A. Reiss - The Scene Of The Crime - Musée de l'Elysée

From the Musée de l'Elysée, "As the investigators' artificial memory, the photographs were taken in a very formal style to document crime scenes and clues discovered as unemotionally as possible. They are all associated with Reiss's teaching or expert evaluations. They allow us to see unusual sites and environments and, paradoxically, are often formally very abstract."

"The boundary between reality and the imaginary remains unbroken here. Situated between the acts and their representation, these photographs are filled with unusual emotion due to the dramatic circumstances which they retrace."

http://www.elysee.ch/index.php?id=143&L=1&tx_exposition_pi1[expoUID]=98

Related Link- PDF Exhibition Document; The Scene of The Crime  Rodolphe A. Reiss (1875-1929)

http://www.elysee.ch/fileadmin/website/2009/THEATRE_DU_CRIME/Dossier_presse_Le_theatre_du_crime_Anglais.pdf

High Line Images

The High Line is located on Manhattan's West Side. It runs from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to 34th Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues.

http://www.thehighline.org/galleries/images



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http://blog.thehighline.org/

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