Harold Feinstein was born in Coney Island in 1931. He began his career in photography in 1946 at the age of 15 and within four short years, Edward Steichen, an…
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As a kid, I made snapshots with my mother’s inexpensive Ansco camera. I’d take the negatives to a small, sour smelling camera shop a few blocks away to be developed…
Into the 1970’s, many curators and gallery owners did not consider photography to be art. Photography was categorized as “old paper”- a term used in the antiques trade. Only a…
[...] In 1978, after ten years of exhibiting and publishing with regularity, my standard print price for an 8”x10” contact print was $350. I didn’t sell many, but I did…
Mr. Zuper is a “Frenchie” superhero, strong, handsome and intelligent—at least, he thinks so! But in his daily life he faces some serious existential questions: he’s only 4 inches tall…
In the summer of 2014 I spent 24 days in Iceland. I asked 24 of my friends to “commission” me to photograph what they wanted to see, after assigning each…
I first discovered Lebohang Kganye’s work through the black-and-white photographs taken from her series Ke Lefa Laka, where Kganye photographed herself wearing an oversized black suit and hat, posing in front of…
Their logo is a camera lens screwed onto the face of a hammer, and when the shutter clicks, the images are as striking as the subjects. Fractures Collective was…
It was in Ecuador, a country half the size of France, that Rolf Blomberg tried out the synthesis of what he had seen and experienced in countries as varied as Australia, Brazil,…
They flee their countries, sub-Saharan Africa ... fleeing from poverty, drought, war ... ultimately they flee hunger ... After a long and dangerous journey across the Sahara Desert, the one…