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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 Irish: the communities captured by Tony O’Shea – in pictures All images by Tony O’Shea…
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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 a lifetime when a shooting star appeared just as photographer Wil Cheung was snapping their photo. The…
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 | British Journal of Photograpy | Photos: Jim Heimann Photo Essay: When Architecture Went California Crazy…
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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 | Tim Gopsill | The Guardian Larry Herman, who has died aged 79, was a news…
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 Stoddart/Getty Images 06 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Berlin Wall to…
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 Media 31 MARCH 2018 HAWKINS BAY 31 March 2018 |Lara Marlowe | The Irish Times “The…
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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 Jeu de Paume. Susan Meiselas/© Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photosas/© Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos 05 March 2022 |…
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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 2019 HAWKINS BAY James Portoeus 10 September 2019 | Karen Wada | Los Angeles Times…
Lange’s work documenting the economic downturn was just one chapter in her prolific, four-decade career. Photo: The Road West, New Mexico, 1938 The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor 11 August 2020 | Nora McGreevy | Smithsonian Magazine In 1936, photographer Dorothea Lange made headlines with her stunning…
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A viral post claims thousands of “anti-vaxxers” in Germany staged a kissing protest, citing DW as the source. But the whole thing is fake. The photo was taken in Chile a decade ago. Fake Photo: This image was used to spread fake news about anti-vaccine protests in Germany 09 December 2021 | Joscha Weber |…
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Willy Spiller’s photos are a simple byproduct of photographing while he was a passenger like everyone else. Photo: Willy Spiller 11 May 2017 | Jessica Stewart | MyModernMet All images via Willy Spiller. Website The New York subway has fascinated street photographers for generations, never more so than in the 1970s and 1980s. Gritty and tinged with danger,…
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With her images of models on the streets of Paris and refugees fleeing the Algerian war of independence, the 96-year-old blazed a trail for female photographers Photo: Indira Gandhi boarding a plane, New Delhi, 1972. Photograph: Marilyn Stafford (cropped. see original below) 02 November 2021 | Marilyn Stafford | The Guardian Indira Gandhi speaking at…
