PUBLICATION Launches
There’s a new bi-annual magazine dedicated to street photography, called PUBLICATION. Nick Turpin’s brainchild, PUBLICATION features unbound photos, essays (and no ads!) and I’m looking forward to getting my hands on a copy. I wrote an essay about Garry Winogrand for the 1st issue. It’s not a typical essay, and in actuality it [...]

PapageorgeX2
A long, new interview with Tod Papageorge on foto8: “We truly live in Plato’s cave now in America, a reflected world of screens and monitors and second- or third-hand experience. At least the crowds filling my pictures from 1970 were out in the world, and, in their fashion, savoring it.” “I guess the only thing I’d insist [...]

Paul Nicklen on the Pleasures of Not Photographing
Before describing how a leopard seal tried to feed him live penguins, National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen spoke to Melissa Block on NPR about the pleasures of not photographing: “A lot of photographers see the world through their cameras. And I love these animals so much — I like to just sit there, and watch. [...]

Otto Snoek
I was familiar with Otto Snoek’s photography from in-public, but I’d never visited his site until this evening. The best of his work reminds me of the best street-inspired photography I’ve ever seen. from “millionair”

Takedown!
I received a copyright-infringement takedown notice from a lawyer from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to pull these three Robert Frank videos. When I posted the videos a year ago, I made a point to credit the Museum so that interested parties could follow-up with them (and perhaps even purchase copies: only $29.95!). If [...]