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The Photographer’s Non-photography Syllabus: Alec Soth

At long last, another installment of “The Photographer’s Non-photography Syllabus,” this one generously penned by Alec Soth. Check it out at the TIS books website.

trcarpenter

Great stuff from a great photographer.

wmagazine

Meet Agnes Lloyd-Platt, the Winning Photographer of W’s The Shot

26-year-old British photographer Agnes Lloyd-Platt is all about optimism and color.

katwardartist

Everything is suitable to be photographed.

Saul Leiter (via kat-ward)

mossfull

SFMOMA reopens with an epic show of photographs of the American West

aperture-foundation

Join Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo for a conversation about their upcoming book, “Border Cantos” including a performance by Galindo on Tuesday, April 26 at Nourse Theater in San Francisco.

Learn more about “Border Cantos” on the Aperture book page.

Image: Richard Misrach, Surveillance blimp, Marfa, Texas, 2013, from Border Cantos (Aperture, 2016)

Book Review: Stump

Essentially, the Photobook World is small, but it punches way above its weight just because there are so many people with so much to say involved in this world. And when that energy ends or shifts elsewhere, or if it gets too incestuous, pretentious or self-consciously cool, or if it just reduces into an essential pointlessness, as it will one day do, then something else will have a Golden Age; the exhibition, the print, the projection, the decorated plate, whatever. Except of course it won't be a Golden Age at all. It'll just be smoke and mirrors. Because that's all anything is.

Colin Pantall's blog: Live Mediocre, Love Mediocre, Be Mediocre.

There isn't much to learn about photography. Everything that you need to know you can find out by reading the instructions on the box. The rest is practice.

Elliott Erwitt

... the Syrian civil war may be the first truly postmodern conflict, at least when it comes to its images. Both sides are engaged in a perverse competition to show the world, and each other, how ruthlessly barbaric they can be. Aided by new technologies — the cellphone camera, YouTube, Instagram, social-media sites — these images of cruelty ricochet around the globe. The traditional role of war photojournalism has been turned on its head: Rather than expose atrocities, photographs now advertise them.

"Advertisements for Death" by Susie Linfield, New York Times

#photojournalism #war photography #syria