February 4 - February 11, 2022
THE WEEKLY ROUNDUP
Great Photography Stories
The New Yorker Looks At Daniel Arnold’s New Photo Book
Daniel Arnold is probably New York City’s most well-known contemporary working street photographer with more than 330,000 followers on Instagram and regularly published work in places like the New York Times and Vogue. Until recently though, he hadn’t published a collection of his work, but that changed in 2021 with the release of Pickpocket, his first monograph. The New Yorker talks to Daniel Arnold and shares a nice selection of images from the book here.
“Arnold is not a native New Yorker. He moved to New York from Milwaukee, when he was twenty-three years old, and his outsider’s perspective imbues his work with an avid, hypervigilant energy. ‘I have an obsessive relationship with the city,’ Arnold told me.”
Jonathan Blaustein With A Primer On How To Publish a Photo Book
Are you thinking about making a photo book of your work? Jonathan Blaustein from the popular photography blog aPhotoEditor published a post last week that looks at some of the conceptual, financial, and design issues you need to start thinking about.
“So today, I thought it might be a good idea to give you a primer on how the process works, because if I can do it for my clients, I should be able to share some of that info with you, my loyal audience.
The Guardian Looks At A New Gallery Show Featuring Female Street Photography in NYC
The Guardian has a gallery of 16 photos from Howard Greenberg Gallery’s Show on Female Street Photographers, ‘A Female Gaze: Seven Decades of (12) Women Street Photographer:
“Throughout the 20th century street photography proved more welcoming to women than other art forms – and has been was rewarded with an explosion of daring, perceptive and radical projects”
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Are you familiar with ‘Reading The Pictures?’ They’re a website with associated social media accounts dedicated to critical analysis of photographs that are making an impact in the news or culture spheres. Along with their written analyses, they also have a video series called Chatting The Pictures which are short, 3-5 discussions of one or two photos. I enjoyed this recent episode that features an incredible photo from inside a Denver, CO medical unit showing a surgical team looking out their window to fires burning in the suburbs outside. Check out the series full video playlist here.
EQUITY AND ETHICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Was British Vogue’s January Issue Celebrating African Models A Real Step Forward?
M Neelika Jayawardane and Rinaldo Walcott ask questions in this Aljazeera opinion piece about what British Vogue’s recent cover story on African models really accomplished in terms of improving non-Eurocentric representation in the iconic fashion magazine.
“In the story, Fetto invites readers to celebrate what she deems a “seismic shift” in the fashion industry. Spring/summer 2022 runways, she explains, have been “awash with dark-skinned models”. “For an industry long criticised for its lack of diversity, as well as for perpetuating beauty standards seen through a Eurocentric lens, this change is momentous,” she writes. The photographs accompanying her story, however, open up questions about what exactly we are being asked to celebrate.”
OPPORTUNITIES / CALLS FOR ENTRY
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