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Book Review: Linda Simpson’s The Drag Explosion
As famed drag queen Lady Bunny says in her foreword, “It was an era that took place entirely after dark.” These days our drag queens are very much out in the light of day. They star in prime-time television shows, where they find their way into even the most modest of American homes. Without minimizing
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Location: Photographer Type: Book Review, Lady Bunny, Linda Simpson, Portraits
Book Review: New Yorkers by Sally Davies
New Yorkers, is the first monograph from Sally Davies, despite her multi-decade career in the arts. A painter for many years, it was not until somewhat more recently that Davies took to the camera in a serious way. Thankfully, she did, as her photography is brilliantly unique. For much of her photography career, Davies has
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Location: Photographer Type: Book Review, Portraits, Sally Davies
Book review: Death Magick Abundance by Akasha Rabut
Death Magick Abundance, the first photo book by New Orleans photographer Akasha Rabut, is the culmination of her nearly ten-year collaboration with the people of New Orleans who invited her into their lives to photograph them. Her images celebrate the city’s thriving culture through the pink smoke of the Caramel Curves, the first all-female black motorcycle
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Location: Photographer Type: Akasha Rabut, Book Review, Portraits
Book Review: Growing Up Travelling by Jamie Johnson
How wonderful!, I thought when glancing through the pages of this book and experienced what I do not recall to have ever experienced when spending time with a photo book showing people: I liked every single one of these photographs, without any reservation. That might have to do with the fact that the ones portrayed
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Location: Photographer Type: Black and White, Book Review, Children, Ireland, Portraits
Book Review: The Ameriguns by Gabriele Galimberti
My first reaction to the pics in this tome was: These people are clearly nuts! How can you want to have your picture taken surrounded by your firearms? And not just one firearm, lots of them. Moreover, the guys and gals look seemingly proud. It is way beyond me what is going on in their
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Location: Photographer Type: Book Review, Gun Culture, Portraits
Book Review: What Does Photography Mean To You? By Grant Scott
Grant Scott is the founder of United Nations of Photography, and the associated podcast, A Photographic Life (included in my photography podcast article ‘Now Hear This’). Within each episode, Scott asks a photographer what photography means to them, and in roughly five minutes, the guest photographer gives their audio response. Each photographer answers in their
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Location: Photographer Type: Book Review, Grant Scott, Portraits
Book Review: All of Us: Portraits of An American Bicentennial by Richard Beaven
In All of Us: Portraits of an American Bicentennial there are only two portraits which don’t show us the entire person being photographed. The approach Richard Beaven takes to include the whole person in his his project photographing the community of Ghent, New York allows the viewer to get a feel for who each person
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Location: Photographer Type: Book Review, Portraits, Richard Beaven
Book review: The Morning Dip by Peggy Anderson
“What began as a project photographing Swedes wearing bathrobes, in the small coastal village of Torekov, has evolved into a deeper examination of my own heritage and relationship to a country where I lived as a child and now spend every summer. In Sweden, Torekov is known for it’s local pier, ‘Morgonbryggan’, so called for
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Location: Photographer Type: Book Review, Peggy Anderson, Portraits
Book Review: Self Evident Truths by iO Tillett Wright
“In the spirit of Richard Avedon, this book contains striking photographic portraits of 10,000 people from across the US, bringing readers face to face with LGBTQ America,” the press release lets me know. Patrisse Cullors, “the cofounder of several organizations including Dignity and Power Now, The Crenshaw Dairy Mart, and Black Lives Matter” characterises this
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Location: Photographer Type: Book Review, Portraits
Interview with photographer Emeke Obanor
Emeke Obanor is a Nigerian photographer whose series of portraits is featured in this month’s issue. His series “Heroes” is centered around a group of girls who were abducted by Boko Haram militants operating in northeast Nigeria. Some of these girls gained their freedom after the camps where they were held were raided by military
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Location: Photographer Type: documentary, Emeke Obanor, Interview, Portraits
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