Archive for August, 2008
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom was a journalist, social anthropiligist and photojournailst who spent five decades documenting the Mayan cultures of Chipas, Mexico, particularly the culture of the Lacandon Maya. She was also a pioneering environmental activist. Her home in San Cristobal de Las Casas has been preserved as a cultural and research ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Hello people,
This morning I was flicking through the tacky celebrity magazines and serious photography magazines. When I picked up the British Journal of photography and found Roof of the World in the number one exhibitions to see in the UK. My reaction was to yelp and to buy a copy. It's brilliant to have ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Margaret Bourke-White success was due to both her people skills and her technical skills. As she explains in Portrait of Myself, the Otis security people were reluctant to let her shoot for many reasons: First, steel making was a defense industry, so they wanted to be sure national security was not ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Mathew B. Brady, was one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and the documentation of the American Civil War. He is credited with being the father of photojournalism.
Brady was born in New York. By 1844, he had his own photography studio in ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist best known for her Depression era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography.When the Great Depression began, Lange turned her camera lens ...
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