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Book Review: Beautiful, Still. by Colby Deal
Third Ward is one of 4 wards that originally made up the city of Houston, Texas, in the 1800s. Historically, whites lived in the southern part of the Third Ward, while African Americans were economically segregated and lived north of the Third Ward. In the 1930s, the black and white populations of the Third Ward
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Book Review: Invited to Life by B.A. Van Sise
“No matter how it might seem, this is not a book about the Holocaust. This is a story of overcoming.” Invited to Life contains 90 portraits, each with accompanying text by and/or about the person featured on the page, each of whom are Holocaust survivors. Three essays are included from contributors Dr. Mayim Bialik,
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Featured photographer Marna Clarke
Portraits that explore aging and acceptance Time As We Know It, Marna Clarke’s 12-year long project visualizes aging bodies, intimacy, determination, and self-acceptance. Work from this project is being featured for Issue 115 – Partnership. Clarke’s insightful photographs share aspects of her life, and her 20 year partnership with Igor Sazevich. Her images of daily
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Location: Online Type: Essay, Featured Photographer, Portraits
Interview with photographer Rick van der Klooster
The featured photographer for ‘Issue 114 – The Portrait 2022’ is Netherlands-based artist Rick van der Klooster. For this issue, contributors were prompted by: What makes a portrait a portrait? How is it different from a snapshot, still life or a landscape? Do we learn who a person is from a portrait or do we
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Reaching for Dawn by Elliott Verdier
Liberia’s population generally does not speak of the bloody civil war which took place from 1989-2003. No proper memorial has been built, no day is dedicated to the commemoration of the brutal conflict. The country largely refuses to officially condemn its perpetrators, which hinders the collective healing process, and possibility of social recognition of the
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Interview, Landscapes, Portraits
Book Review: Sleeping Beauty by Lydia Panas
The first line of the press release for Sleeping Beauty by Lydia Panas states: “Portraits of women and girls intertwined with the photographer’s gaze, in a rare subversion of photography’s power relations.” Panas is no stranger to subverting the power relationship (of photography’s male dominated history, we presume) as her work in The Mark of Abel,
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Book Review: Finding Home by Becky Field
Photographer Becky Field photographed and interviewed many of New Hampshire’s immigrants and refugees. She interviewed forty people, from different countries, with different stories. Some are men, some women, they differ in age and why they left their home countries, and how come they settled in New Hampshire. “The photographs were usually taken in a home
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6th Annual Creative Portrait Exhibition @ Los Angeles Center of Photography
6th Annual Creative Portrait Exhibition
October 24 – November 17, 2021
Location: California, Los Angeles Type: Exhibition, Portraits
Spandita Malik @ Baxter St
Spandita Malik – Vadhu: The Embroidered Bride October 13 – November 10, 2021 Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 13th | 5pm – 8pm “A New York-based artist from Chandigarh, India, Malik often addresses women’s rights and gendered violence through her lens-based interdisciplinary practice. The works in Vadhu: The Embroidered Bride use wedding portraits as a departure
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Location: New York, New York City Type: Exhibition, Portraits
BOOK REVIEW: What She Said by Deanna Templeton
When I first glanced through this book, I thought, well, I guess this is not for me. These youngsters live in a world that is surely totally foreign and very likely incomprehensible to me, a retired man living in Switzerland. Yet for reasons unbeknownst to me, I again and again turned to the pictures that
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