Charleston, South Carolina by Robert Frank 1955


Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans


This exhibition celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Americans, Robert Frank’s influential suite of black-and-white photographs made on a cross-country road trip in 1955–56. Although Frank’s depiction of American life was criticized when the book was released in the U.S. in 1959, it soon became recognized as a masterpiece of street photography. Born in Switzerland in 1924, Frank is considered one of the great living masters of photography. The exhibition features all 83 photographs published in The Americans and will be the first time that this body of work is presented to a New York audience.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
through January 3rd, 2010

Happy anniversary PHOTO/arts Magazine !...

Three years ago today I started this blog with the photograph below, which remains one of my favorites. A huge thank you to all who read this journal/magazine on a random or regular basis. I have tried very hard to maintain a balance between the unavoidable self absorption that all blogs inherently are, and topics beyond that myopia. I am very happy with the way this project has evolved in a short three years, and look forward to the road ahead. I hope you will continue to journey with me.


seed fury. 2006

Two of my favorite photographers from Flickr just happened to post independent images that work perfectly together as a strange diptych.

The top photo is by There's a Ghost in my Backyard

The bottom photo is by Salva Lopez

Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term- selectivity.

Berenice Abbott
Photography at the Crossroads

weegee at a murder. 1942


Subway Killing Captured by a Photo Student

macy's parade. 1929


more fantastic Macy's Parade images can be found here

charis . edward weston 1941


model, muse, lover..... Icon

Charis Wilson, Dies at age 95