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Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky is one of the most significant and influential photographers of the late 20th and early 21st Century. This book contains excellent reproductions of his best-known works as well as an interview with Gursky and commentary on his significance.
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Dawoud Bey

For Black History month we are looking at four great African-American photographers. This installment features Dawoud Bey, an artist whose portraits draw on the the documentary tradition.
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Books for Photographers (Part Two)

Need a gift idea for your favorite photographer? In this second column, I focus on some affordable book series that highlight individual photographers.
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Dawoud Bey on Photographing People and Communities

On Photographing People and Communities Aperture Photography Workshop Series Dawoud Bey on Photographing People and Communities is part of the Aperture Photography Workshop Series. As with Mary Ellen Mark on the Portrait and the Moment, the guiding concept behind the book is to mirror the experience of attending a workshop by a master photographer or […]
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Is Robert Adams the finest writer on photography?

Beauty in Photography, Robert Adams, Aperture The measure of a great essay is that after one reads it, there is simply nothing more to say. That is my reaction to Robert Adams’ Beauty in Photography. I have read it and re-read it. I want to comment on it, but frankly, I find it difficult to […]

Reinhold Marxhausen and Seeing

Something recently got me thinking about Reinhold Marxhausen and how he helped teach me to see. Marxhausen was an artist and photographer who spent most of his professional life as a professor at Concordia College in Seward, Nebraska. In the mid-1970s I had the good fortune to take a brief evening class from him through […]

2009 NPR Story about Robert Frank

One of the great things about Google and the Internet is that you never know when you might stumble upon a prize. This one comes via Google Alerts and is an NPR story from 2009 on Robert Frank. It’s pretty basic stuff, but I have a rule that virtually anything on Robert Frank that I […]