Marvin Heiferman
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Curator and writer. WHY WE LOOK features news, stories and images about photography and visual culture.
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30 Years Ago, We Edited THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY on the floor of my loft. Time flies.
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WHY WE LOOK? How did Nan Goldin’s slideshow of hundreds of images, presented at bars and nightclubs, become an iconic photobook? Check out Aperture, where Elle Pérez speaks with Marvin Heiferman about the making of The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.
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WHY WE LOOK? When images are everywhere, what is the role of a photography museum? THE NYTimes critiques ICP's new home & opening shows
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WHY WE LOOK? Because, as the New Yorker reports today, after the writer and curator Maurice Berger died, in the early days of the pandemic, Marvin Heiferman started sharing his grief through images.
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WHY WE LOOK AND LISTEN? Because Pete Souza, Obama's White House Photographer, Suggests Trump Situation Room Photo of Unfolding al-Baghdadi Raid Was Staged (via Deborah Irmas)
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CA artist, Jennifer Bolande, covered billboards with photos of the views they're blocking: via
@people
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WHY WE LOOK? Because my interview with Elle Perez-"The Inside Story of How Nan Goldin Edited 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency'"-was one of Aperture's top stories in 2020
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WOW! Listen to Diane Arbus, interviewed in 1968 by Studs Turkel, as she speaks about her early life & photography:
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Nice to see SEEING SCIENCE (and me) profiled in Photograph magazine:
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WHY WE LOOK? Non-Black photographers need to step aside and let Black people tell their own stories. It's the most helpful thing they can do.
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WHY WE LOOK? Because In Deb Willis' new book, the often under-appreciated contribution that black soldiers made during the civil war is brought to light with a trove of unseen photos
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In making photography accessible to all, photography inadvertently killed itself:
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I was very happy to see the hand-bound, advance copy of this. The book--a rethinking of what science photography is and the multiple cultural roles it plays--is out in May and published by Aperture.
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WHY WE LOOK? If you see the cops, start recording. You have a right to record the police — and right now, a responsibility. via
@Verge
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Photo Credit: Negatives of the Bauhaus: The Story of Lucia Moholy's "Lost" Photographs: via Jeff Weiss
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WHY WE LOOK? Because He’s 83, She’s 84, and They Model Other People’s Forgotten Laundry. The owners of a laundry shop in central Taiwan have become Instagram stars for posing in garments left behind.
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NBA Legend Bill Russell Tweets Photo of Him Kneeling After Trump Cancels Eagles' White House Visit
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@people
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READ: The Falling Man. The photo people in the US have taken pains to banish it from 9/11 record: via
@Esquire
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READ THIS, it's brilliant.The Instagrammable Charm of the Bourgeoisie by Daniel Penny:
@dwpenny
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Why the Collectors Who Made Vivian Maier Famous Can’t Cash in on Her Work:
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WHY WE LOOK? Because six decades ago, Gordon Parks, Life magazine’s first black photographer, revolutionized what a crime photo could look like. A new book reexamines one of his most powerful and prescient projects.
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A Saudi woman tweeted a photo of herself without a hijab. Police have arrested her:
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WHY WE LOOK? Because Billboards in Kyiv Are Flashing Messages to Russian Soldiers: 'Go away without blood on your hands' 'How will you be able to look your kids in the eyes?' 'Go away! Stay human.'
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Donald Trump Said He Never Met His Sexual Misconduct Accusers. Here’s Photo Evidence That He’s Wrong:
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Photographer Files $1 Billion Suit Against Getty for Licensing Her Public Domain Images: via
@hyperallergic
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WHY WE LOOK? Because Martin Parr quits as director of Bristol Photo Festival over racism row because he wrote the foreword for a book that juxtaposed images of a black woman and a gorilla
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WHY WE LOOK? Because Polaroid instant photography changed the stakes for LGBTQ people, freeing them to be themselves and make pictures without having to drop off film to be developed by a third party.
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WHY WE LOOK? Because researchers have developed a tiny wireless camera that is light enough to be carried by live beetles.
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Read Maurice Berger on "Reconsidering the Black Panthers Through Photos" on NYT's Lens Blog: via
@nytimesphoto
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Read Fred Ritchin's "Where Do We Go From Here? A wake-up call for visual journalism in the 'post-factual' era.”
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In Rihanna Photoshoot for Vogue Paris, Juergen Teller Cribs Imagery from Mickalene Thomas
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A photographer asked teenagers to edit their photos until they thought they looked 'social media ready,' and the results are shocking via
@thisisinsider
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WHY WE LOOK? Because YouTubers are upscaling, colorizing and cleaning up the past to 4K. Historians want them to stop.
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In The Guardian today: "Seeing science – in pictures. Photography and science have long been intertwined, helping to shape the way we look at the world, as Marvin Heiferman shows in Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe"
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Madonna Shares Pubic Hair Pic to Promote Anti-Trump March:
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WHY WE LOOK? Because these are the only known photos from Hiroshima taken on Aug. 6, 1945 of people who had been exposed to the atomic blast.
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“Infrared photos of 1940s movie audiences are a candid study of American voyeurism” by
@riandundon
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A Lawyer Digs Into Instagram’s Terms of Use:
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How Instagram Is Changing the Way Brands Look at Photography, Online and Beyond:
http://t.co/phuuz0l5eh
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After 6 Years & 720,000 Attempts, Photographer Finally Takes Perfect Shot Of Kingfisher:
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WHY WE LOOK? Because Chris Killip, hard-hitting photographer of Britain's working class, died...
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WHY WE LOOK? Because Frederick Douglass stated: “What was once the... luxury of the rich and great is now the privilege of all. The humblest servant girl may now possess a picture of herself such as the wealth of kings could not purchase fifty years ago.”
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WHY WE LOOK? Because a stunning 85-megapixel photograph of the moon was made from 24,000 shots taken within 45 minutes and combined in post-production. via
@mymodernmet
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WHY WE LOOK? Because Tyre Nichols’s photographs - taken in Memphis, where he was fatally beaten by police officers - will be featured on billboards in California's Desert art exhibition
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Nude portraits without nipples challenge social media's sexist censorship policies: via
@HuffPostArts
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WHY WE LOOK? The Hottest Gen Z Gadget Is a 20-Year-Old Digital Camera. Young people are opting for point-and-shoots and blurry photos. “We’re so used to our phones,” said a college freshman. “When you have something else to shoot on, it’s more exciting.”
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An Estonian gallery is told to remove fake Trump and Diana billboard images advertising an exhibition of
photographs’ by UK artist Alison Jackson, which are deemed to have broken law
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“This queer Jewish photographer resisted the Nazis and escaped death—and made great art”
@riandundon
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WHY WE LOOK? Because this interesting exhibition, opening on Saturday, includes images and texts from
@whywelook
, my ongoing Instagram project...
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Hey, it's already here! But do read Stephen Mayes' essay "The next revolution in photography Is coming"
http://t.co/4cV1NZi83B
@timepictures
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'Racism' of early colour photography explored in Broomberg and Chanarin's London exhibition:
http://t.co/w5qNfDl6
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@guardian
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WHY WE LOOK? Because a photographer's created a series of mesmerizing pictures that depict the complex flight path of different kinds of birds by taking hundreds and stacking them into one image.
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The pioneering photographer, Raghubir Singh, who influences almost every Indian Instagram user:
http://t.co/pFxoBfbi5N
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@qzindia
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An Annual Compendium of Black Photography in the 1970s Was a Revolutionary Act: via
@hyperallergic
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Read what Jessica Helfand has to say about THIS PICTURE:
http://t.co/S8IN6bPwFK
@jessicahelfand
@DESIGNOBSERVER
@CMOA
http://t.co/0kXyLLjL9q
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A neuroscientist on why pictures trigger buried memories much faster than words:
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WHY WE LOOK? Because Baldwin Lee - with a new book out and exhibitions of his extraordinary photographs from the 1980s up - talks about starting and then ending his career in photography
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Moon photos from the 1960s were developed in space—here's how. To find safe places for Apollo astronauts to land, NASA designed five survey satellites carrying classified defense technology.
via
@NatGeoScience
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WHY WE LOOK? Because Facebook’s algorithm rejected a photo of some onions for being too sexy.
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WHY WE LOOK? Because when A.I. can make a movie - not by recording, but by rendering ideas - what does “video” even mean?
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Luc Sante's NY Times Book Review piece on 'Vivian Maier: A Photographer Found,' (which I wrote the text for) & more:
http://t.co/HkbVR59zYz
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WHY WE LOOK? Because Nan Goldin is going to the Oscars, and she wants to win
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WHY WE LOOK? Because In the seemingly simple gesture of photographing Black subjects in everyday life, Dawoud Bey helped to introduce Blackness in the context of fine art long before it was trendy, or even accepted.
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WHY WE LOOK? Because with their marriage of art and activism, LaToya Ruby Frazier’s searing photographs reveal the human toll of economic injustice.
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Concert photographer calls out Taylor Swift for her own contracts with photogs & her "hypocritical" Apple open letter
http://t.co/NABJHzLJEF
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The story behind the unsung woman who transformed fashion photography:
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WHY WE LOOK? Because here are photographs from behind the barricades at Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall takeover
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WHY WE LOOK? Because Facebook's guidelines prohibiting “uncovered female nipples,” make a female-presenting body twice as likely as a male-presenting body to be flagged as obscene.
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Want to Know What Virtual Reality Might Become? Look to the Past:
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WHY WE LOOK? Because nearly 5 million negatives from the Chicago Sun-Times photo archive have been rescued and are being restored by the Chicago History Museum via
@SunTimes
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WHY WE LOOK? Because faced with overcrowding, some National Parks in the US have begun to install “selfie stations” to help redistribute visitors and promote less-well-known vistas and areas.
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25 years later: Cincinnati, Mapplethorpe and the culture wars:
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Facial recognition software is being used to help identify Civil War soldiers
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WHY WE LOOK? Because you look at this photograph of the murmuration of starlings once, then twice and with rising awe, because something else astonishing is happening in it.
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WHY WE LOOK? Because of the unsettling story of a Creative Commons photo scam: photographer Kyle Cassidy released one of his images into the public domain. Years later, someone else took credit for it.
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The scientists who are rethinking/remaking photography. Making the Invisible Visible: Matter, Methods and Minds:
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WOW! Read and watch video. Scientists construct first map of how the brain organizes everything we see,
http://t.co/clwiPAgH
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How Do You Take an Uninteresting Photo? The Twitter account,
Uninteresting Photographs, makes me ask a lot of questions: Am I missing something by documenting only the things in my life that are beautiful and interesting?
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Consent Matters for Photos, Too:
Photography professor is accused of violating rules of consent surrounding women's photos in a new book on fraternity life.
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Ida Wyman, Whose Camera Captured Ordinary People, Dies at 93
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WHY WE LOOK? Because A Woman Renewed Her Drivers License Online and It Came Back With a Picture Of an Empty Chair.
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WHY WE LOOK? Because here's what the History of ‘Spirit Photography’ Portends for the Future of Deepfake Videos
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It's always interesting to know what Andy Adams is up to. Read: Five Minutes With: Andy Adams, Director, FlakPhoto Projects
@FlakPhoto
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WHY WE LOOK? Because if you want to use intriguing photographs to help students practice visual thinking and close reading skills, use this ‘What’s Going On in This Picture?’ strategy.
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Crowd turns its back on Hillary Clinton as photo captures the age of the selfie: via
@telegraphnews
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WHY WE LOOK? Because the Vera List Center is presenting a 3-part online tribute to Maurice Berger today. For info and to register:
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The Troubling Contradictions of Dronestagrams:
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WHY WE LOOK? Because Photographs by William Camargo Place Orange County’s Racist History in High Relief
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