After in the region of 700 arrests in New York City this weekend, most of us are now familiar with the Occupy Wall Street movement. Local photographer
Adrian Kinloch was one of few recording the march who made it on to the Brooklyn Bridge and back without being detained.
Laurel Aitken, aka The Godfather of Ska, at home, Leicester, 1980 © Janette Beckman
I have known
Janette Beckman since the early 90s when I had the pleasure of being invited for a good rummage in her basement to unearth her colour trannies from the 1980s, which were then duped for resale at my agency. Over the years I've been amazed by the number of times I've said "JB shot that??" as I read the credits on an album cover or picked up an old copy of the Face.
For her second aCurator feature, Janette wanted us to focus on Style. She generously scanned a selection from her negative archives, some frames of which have never been published before.
"In 1979 I was living in South London, working for a weekly music magazine. Taking the bus to work through Brixton I would see the local youths, West Indian-style suits, narrow highwater trousers and trilby hats, hanging out by the underground station. At night I would shoot bands like The Specials, Dennis Brown and The Clash. Black culture had a big influence on the punk and skinhead scenes. British youth loved Soul, Rhythm & Blues, Reggae and Ska and combined the dress styles of the musicians with their Dr Marten boots, braces, Harrington jackets and loafers. For British working class youth trying to find an identity, clothes, fashion and music went hand in hand."
Emerge Portfolio Review June 2011 from NYCFotoWorks on Vimeo.
NYCFotoworks, November 1-3, is your chance to meet one-on-one with the cream of editors, art buyers, gallerists and agents. In June 2011, NYCFotoWorks hosted the Emerge Portfolio Review that brought more than 180 professional photographers together from all over the world to meet with 150 of the industry's top professionals.
"NYCFotoWorks was a huge success! After five meetings on the first day, my career took a complete change. Just imagine how long it would have taken me to arrange the meetings with all these significant reviewers. Impossible!"
Martin Dyrlov, Photographer, Denmark
"NYCFotoworks has been two of the most important days of my photography career."
Jeffery Tse, Photographer, Los Angeles
Use discount code JGFoto and get 5% off your review package. Don't delay, all artists are pre-screened and spots are selling out - you'll be choosing your appointments starting October 10th.
Here's a fascinating find I made at a discount clothing store: out of the corner
of my eye I spotted a photograph that looked familiar, only to
realize there's a whole dress of Peter Beard photographs. The label
says 'Blue Area Cashmere' and I've found one blog that lists it for sale in the Hamptons for $350. I can not find any other info but I find it hard to imagine the whole thing is ripped off. Multiple revenue streams, people!
© The Beautiful EyesHans Agterdenbos from the
Beautiful Eyes Gallery wrote about how he and his partner "created and run a fine art photography gallery in world heritage Stone Town in Africa with workshops and more much more. The idea to initiate 'The Beautiful Eyes' as a place to present art photography started in May 2008 when three photographers visited Zanzibar for a week of photography. They missed a place to talk, present and to even buy photography."
Visit their
website for info about the gallery and workshops; check out their
blog for stories such as 'Belly Dancing in Stone Town.'
All images © The Beautiful Eyes She asked, they told: a video collection of photographs and personal stories from
JoAnn Santangelo's long-term project featuring 65 gay people who were forced to served from the closet.
So long, Don't Ask, Don't Tell. May we never see the likes of you again.
Anderson Smith is, according to one of his clients "one of the best in Atlanta." His fashion photography is beautiful, nicely playful, but I chose some examples from his personal work for this blog. Not just a cool photographer, Anderson is also the smooth host of a weekly radio show
One Hour Photo: "Everything photography and more" on Armada FM - how clever!
Anderson
interviewed me and my
In The Loupe colleague Stella Kramer recently, posing some excellent questions and making the hour interesting and entertaining. We look forward to guesting again in the future.
All images © Anderson Smith 
Queer Kid Jonathan, from Texas, on a billboard in Amsterdam © M. Sharkey
News from Camp
Sharkey "Queer Kids goes global with features in The Guardian/Observer, La Repubblica in Milan and coming up, Paris' Têtu. Also, FIVE Queer Kids photos win a Pride Photo prize, get billboards in Amsterdam + exhibition."
Sharkey's feature ran in
aCurator last year: he's done an amazing job
at getting this important series published. Here's to many more!
© M. Sharkey
Plus a lovely new series on Brooklyn's mean, green hipsters.
"I might even show you my photograph album. You might even see a face in it which might remind you of your own, of what you once were. You might see faces of others, in shadow, or cheeks of others, turning, or jaws, or backs of necks, or eyes, dark under hats, which remind you of others, whom you once knew, whom you thought long dead, but from whom you will still receive a sidelong glance, if you can face the good ghost. Allow the love of the good ghost. They possess all that emotion... trapped. Bow to it. It will assuredly never release them, but who knows... what relief... it may give to them... who knows how they may quicken... in their chains, in their glass jars. You think it cruel... to quicken them, when they are fixed, imprisoned? No...no. Deeply, deeply, they wish to respond to your touch, to your look, and when you smile, their joy... is unbounded. And so I say to you, tender the dead, as you yourself would be tendered, now, in what you would describe as your life." Harold Pinter from 'No Man's Land' requested by Pinter to be spoken at his funeral. Via
Steve PykeLos Muertos, Mummies of Guanajuato, opens at
Art Jail, 50 Eldridge Street, NYC on September 23rd, 2011, with a reception on Thursday 22nd - hope to see you there.
Full the full screen magazine photo feature.
Read the story behind the photographs on Joerg Colberg's
Conscientious.
© Steve Pyke
I first heard about the impending release of the Jackie Kennedy tapes a few weeks ago when a tabloid called looking for Karsh photographs to illustrate an article. I declined and forgot about it until the tapes started to hit the news and I found myself listening agog.
Yousuf Karsh photographed Mrs Kennedy in 1957, and here is his story:
"Widowhood and adversity had not yet touched the glamorous young wife of
the handsome Senator from Massachusetts. Our meeting was at
Hammersmith, her mother's home in Newport. I photographed her against a
Coromandel screen that complemented her dark beauty. Weeks later, in New
York, she saw me walking down Fifth Avenue and rushed toward me to
inquire breathlessly about her photographs. Our last meeting was shortly
before her untimely death, when she came to my exhibition 'American
Legends.' She stood alone at the entrance, her quiet presence
penetrating the crowd."
Jacqueline Kennedy, 1957 © Yousuf Karsh
