Outside Inside by Bruce Davidson

Outside Inside by Bruce Davidson - Sean O'Hagan The Observer
"I view my work as a series," writes Davidson. "I often find myself as an outsider on the inside, discovering beauty and meaning in the most desperate of situations."

Steidl,  "Over the course of his long career Bruce Davidson has travelled the world making reportage stories both on assignment as a member of the Magnum agency and on subjects of personal interest. A few years ago he returned to his archive of negatives housed in a room in his Manhattan apartment and began a ritual of revisiting each and every one of the stories he had made, from his work as a student in 1954 to his urban landscapes in Los Angeles in 2009. Printing in his darkroom alongside the archive, he began to elaborate a very personal selection, discovering forgotten images and throwing new light onto some of his most famous series. Outside Inside is the result of this work, a sumptuous three volume box set with fifty-three chapters over 800 pages. Each chapter is introduced by a short text written by Davidson himself. The result is a celebration of the development of a master of the medium and an autobiography, a photographer’s life seen through his work.

Outside Inside by Bruce Davidson - Steidl

Furtive Photography, Tate Modern Exhibition: Exposed - The Daily Beast

From Furtive Photography by Philip Gefter a review of the Tate Modern's exhibition, Exposed,"Surveillance cameras are not only ubiquitous in our culture but ever more conspicuous in the course of our daily lives. No longer is it possible to avoid the gaze of global satellite monitors, building-mounted videocameras, or that beady little dot on our computer screens. Even cellphone images give spying new meaning: Their real-time portability can capture scenes and moments wherever you are. Still, despite these persistent new challenges to the ever-eroding “zone of privacy,” photographers have been violating personal space without consent since the medium was first invented."

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century by Peter Galassi - The Guardian

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century by Peter Galassi - Liz Jobey - The Guardian: "The small camera made it easy to capture subjects on the move, but just as crucially, it made it easy for the photographer to adjust his point of view. Anybody who has seen film of Cartier-Bresson at work will understand how important movement was to the making of his pictures. Truman Capote, who went on an assignment with him in 1946, described him as 'dancing along the pavement like an agitated dragonfly, three Leicas swinging from straps around his neck, a fourth one hugged to his eye: click-click-click (the camera seems a part of his own body) clicking away with joyous intensity . . . "

How we learned to love Photoshop - Charles Arthur - The Guardian

How we learned to love Photoshop -

Charles Arthur -

The Guardian: "How we learned to love Photoshop

"Photoshop has, like Google, transcended its origins in the world of ­computing, and become a verb. But whereas "to Google" is almost always used positively to express usefulness, Photoshopping is almost always a term of abuse: "That picture was Photo shopped" has become a shorthand way of saying it is untrustworthy and misleading (Adobe, the company that sells Photoshop, decries its use as a verb: "It must never be used as a common verb or a noun," it tuts. Too late.)"

From Instant Thrill of Polaroid, Enduring Art, Now for Sale - NYTimes.com

From Instant Thrill of Polaroid, Enduring Art, Now for Sale - Carol Vogel for NYTimes.com

"In the 1960s about half of all American households owned a Polaroid camera, according to the company’s own estimates. And while the instant thrill of having a tangible record of first birthdays, prom nights, vacations and Christmas dinners was the driving force behind the company’s success, its revolutionary product also changed forever the way many artists worked. Ansel Adams captured some fabled images of Yosemite National Park using a Polaroid; Andy Warhol and Chuck Close took Polaroid portraits — of themselves, friends and celebrities — and William Wegman used a Polaroid to shoot his beloved Weimaraners.

Now some of those works, as well as conventional prints that Polaroid’s founder, Edwin H. Land, brought together in one of the most storied collections in photography — a visual diary of 20th-century culture — are going on the auction block."

Sunil Gupta: Rewriting the history of photography

Sunil Gupta at Whitechapel: rewriting the history of photography - Telegraph

Telegraph, "Artist and curator Sunil Gupta has distilled the history of photography in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh into a landmark exhibition at London's Whitechapel Gallery. In a series of articles for the Telegraph.co.uk he picks his favourite images from a collection spanning 150 years."

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Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

William Eggleston: 21st Century - Exhibitions at the Victoria Miro Gallery

William Eggleston: 21st Century - Exhibitions at the Victoria Miro Gallery

From the introduction, "21st Century presents new photographs with increasingly abstracted compositions. Many have collage-like elements - a wreath-toting Santa Claus on a windowpane, close-ups of patterned rolls of vinyl - further manipulating the traditional understanding of "straight" photography. Through abstraction, Eggleston links his photographic work to his work in other mediums. In fact, his concern for a contained pictorial statement, as opposed to a documentary reflection of the world, more closely aligns him to a painter's artistic practice. His continued artistic exploration - in drawing and photography - informs an oeuvre rich with emotional sensitivity."