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Lets go! Photographer and digital montage artist Stephen Marc has been named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in photography by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Marc is the fourth faculty member in ASUs photography program to be named a Guggenheim Fellow; he joins Mark Klett, Betsy Schneider and Liz Cohen. Black Lives Matters protesters march in the Chicago area. Photo by Stephen Marc Find out whats happening in Scottsdale with free, real-time updates from Patch. Lets go! "Steph...

How David Alekhuogie Navigates the Colonial Past The LA-based photographer speaks about Walker Evans, Black aesthetics, and how a frightening encounter with the police informed his thinking about art. David Alekhuogie, Interviews - April 30, 2021 For his recent exhibition at Yancey Richardson Gallery, David Alekhuogie worked with photography, collage, and sculpture to produce a visual meditation on his artistic and cultural lineage. His source materials—cotton jersey fabric, wax print fabr...

We meet the Sony World Photographer of the Year April 22, 2021 Perhaps surprisingly for someone who has just been named Photographer of the Year (POTY) at the 2021 Sony World Photography Awards (SWPA), Craig Easton is angry. This is not necessarily a concern because when Craig gets angry, he is often compelled to challenge what has caused it. In 2007, BBC Panorama made the programme, White Fright, tracking the ethnic and religious divide between Muslim Asian and white residents in Blackburn. Th...

Sarah Charlesworth, Herald Tribune: November 1977 (1977, printed 2008). © 1977 Sarah Charlesworth. Courtesy of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. “Fake news” will be a tempting aperture through which to approach “Off the Record,” a new group show at the Guggenheim that looks at the ways in which artists consider, critique, or otherwise manipulate “official” documents of history and state power.  It wouldn’t necessarily be wrong to take that tack. But it’s not what w...

Bitcoin Reaches $1 Trillion Valuation Twice as Fast as Amazon On 4/14/21 at 6:46 PM EDT Amazon required 24 years to reach the $1 trillion mark. Google took 21 years to achieve the lofty valuation. Crypto Parrott, a trading simulator based in Dublin, Ireland, said Microsoft achieved a $1 trillion market cap after 44 years while Apple needed 42 years to hit the milestone. Bitcoin, backed by investments from major institutions, outpaced the growth of major companies and achieved a $1 trillion mark...

Stepping out of the elevator and into the second-floor gallery of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, one catches a glimpse of the verdant sculpture garden below. Floor-to-ceiling windows frame an inviting landscape filled with native trees and spotted with intriguing forms. Ones gaze inevitably shifts to the large-scale paintings that line the gallerys walls. Grays, charcoals, and browns replace the bright greens and blue skies. You may even recognize a painting or two. Thats because wi...

The Guide by John Myers published by RRB Photobooks The Guide, John Myers. Softcover | 248mm x 285.2mm |116 pages | ISBN 9781916057579 LONDON .-The Guide combines some of the best-loved photographs from John Myers career with his unique and wry prose on the method and theory of his work. The photographs in the book are some of most familiar images from The Portraits, Looking at the Overlooked and The End of Industry alongside five previously unpublished works. The images are published alongside...

The World Revisited Is documentary photography dead? Recent years have seen a proliferation of work that intentionally subverts the genre – images that blur fact and fiction or are staged. But Still, It Turns: Recent Photography from the World, a group exhibition curated by Paul Graham (b. 1965) at the International Center of Photography in New York, shows another form of reportage is still possible, one that does not set out to tell a story or push a particular message, but – in so ...

Celebrating one of the greatest women documentary photographers March 8, 2021 Mary Ellen Mark was a highly influential and respected photographer during her 50-year-plus working career, which spanned from the mid-1960s till her death in 2015. She was a pioneer in the art of empathy and embedding herself with her subjects – from poverty-stricken families in the US to prostitutes in the brothels of Bombay – while never judging her subjects, purely telling their stories with her amazing photog...

Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White that appeared in Life magazine above the headline “The Flood Leaves its Victims on the Bread Line,” February 15, 1937. Photo: Getty Images. Disasters and Social Reproduction: Crisis Response Between the State and Community, by Peer Illner. London: Pluto Press, 2020. 208 pages.  Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next), by Dean Spade. New York and London: Verso, 2020. 128 pages.  IN ONE OF photojournalist Margaret Bourke-Whi...