#loop photography

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Photojournalist Kim Komenich talked to many Filipinos, took their photos for his American newspaper and won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution. But he forgot to say thanks to most of the people he had photographed. So 25 years later, he came back to the Philippines, tracked down the people in his photos, talked to them again and now he wants to show how grateful he is by going around universities and museums in the United States to show the photos that marked the highlight of his career and immortalized what he called the “grandfather” of people power revolutions. Read more.

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“Internet art” has been around as long as long as the Internet itself. A renegade thing, it’s always on the edge of new technology, with its medium functioning as its own platform. GIFs, CAPTCHA codes, found imagery, experimental social networks — the manifestations and run-off of our daily online experience is all ripe fodder for the net artist. There has been some exciting new work floating around lately, so instead of taking you back to some ’80s cave drawing era of net art, we’ll introduce you to a few fun recent net artists, ranging from the tongue-in-cheek early Internet throwbacks to the user-friendly art “tools” anyone can enjoy. Read more.

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Is he the greatest living painter in the United States? So asked the headline of an August 1949 LIFE magazine article that helped cement Jackson Pollock’s reputation. It was a question Pollock spent much of the rest of his life struggling to answer — while desperately hoping to show the skeptics why LIFE might be right ask the question in the first place. Read more.