Category: photography
William Henry Jackson: Photographer of the American West
William Henry Jackson was an American photographer, Civil War veteran, painter, and an explorer famous for his images of the American West. Photo: William Henry Jackson aboard the Detroit Photographic Co.’s special railroad car, 1902. Library of Congress. William Henry […]
Photo Essay: The Look of the Irish: Tony O’Shea
Photo: Good Friday, North Inner City, Dublin 1984 (cropped. full image below) Four decades of work by the Irish photographer whose dignified images, according to his former editor Colm Tóibín, offer ‘a hesitant window into the soul’ Look of the […]
A Family Portrait of a Lifetime
An evening of stargazing has left a Morpeth family with a photo which is simply out of this world. Photo: Copyright Wil Cheung 16 March 2022 | Jessica Stewart | My Modern Met A lucky family got the portrait of […]
Photo Essay: When Architecture Went California Crazy
Over-sized owls, dinosaurs, coffee-pots, and even a Mexican giant standing on a roof serving nachos and beer – California Crazy! Photo: © Jim Heimann Collection/Courtesy TASCHEN 30 MAY 2018 HAWKINS BAY James Porteous 29 May 2018 | Marigold Warner | […]
Obituary: Larry Herman – Photographer (79) (2022)
Larry Herman was a photographer who aligned himself with his subjects – mainly poor and working communities Photo: © Larry Herman, Clydeside 1974-76, Estate of Larry Herman Photos: National Galleries Scotland © Estate of Larry Herman 02 March 2022 | […]
Photos: Tom Stoddart’s career in pictures
For four decades, photojournalist Tom Stoddart covered Lebanon, apartheid’s end, the Berlin Wall, Sarajevo, Gulf Wars… He worked in B&W throughout his career. Photo: The first section of the Berlin Wall is pushed down by crowds, November 1989. Photograph: Tom […]
Robert Doisneau: the humanist photographer who loved Paris
Robert Doisneau‘s work reminds us how much our world has changed and forms a tender memory of a romantic Paris Photo: Les Freres, rue du Docteur Lecene Paris, 1934, by Robert Doisneau 05 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper […]
Susan Meiselas: Molotov men, war widows and carnival strippers
Susan Meiselas has spent over five fearless decades at the frontline of history, photographing revolutionaries, teenagers and risque carnival dancers. Photo: Six weeks at the frontline … a detail from Molotov Man, Estelí, Nicaragua, which appears in Mediations a the […]
Obituary: Robert Frank – photographer (94)
Robert Frank was a the fiercely independent photographer and filmmaker whose bleak yet poetic book “The Americans” jolted the nation’s self-image and sparked a photographic revolution 28 February 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Orignally published: 11 SEPTEMBER […]