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Two New Shows Spotlight the Gracefully Geometric Images of Marc Riboud
Steve Meltzer  |  Nov 04, 2014  |  0 comments

Through his camera viewfinder Marc Riboud sees a world of gestures and graceful movements framed by elegant geometrical spaces. For over sixty years, he has photographed people and places with eyes full of wonder. Now in both New York City and his hometown of Lyon, France his delightful images from nearly sixty years of photography are on exhibit.

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Photography Loses Another Giant: Rene Burri, Photographer of Pablo Picasso and Che Guevara, Is Dead at 81
Steve Meltzer  |  Oct 23, 2014  |  0 comments

Swiss photographer Rene Burri died at age 81 on Monday in Zurich after a long illness. Burri was one of the last of the major photographers of the post World War II generation and was best known for his photographs of artist Pablo Picasso and Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara.

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Art Photographer Ray Metzker Who Crafted Beautiful and Challenging Landscape Photos Is Dead at 83
Steve Meltzer  |  Oct 15, 2014  |  0 comments

Ray Metzker was an extraordinary photographer whose work is in the collections of dozens of art institutions. During his photographic career he had more than 50 one-person museum exhibitions and was the recipient of two Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships. His photographs are in museum and art institution collections all over the world. When he died last week on October 9, 2014 his hometown newspaper, The Inquirer (Philadelphia), wrote that, “Ray K. Metzker, 83, (was) widely considered one of the nation's greatest photographers.”

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Check Out the Most Extensive and Interactive Collection of Photos of America in the Depression-Era 1930s
Steve Meltzer  |  Oct 01, 2014  |  0 comments

If, like most of us, you think that you know all about the Dust Bowl/Depression Era photography of the Farm Security Administration, think again. While you may have seen some of the FSA’s greatest hits, like Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother,” there is a rich vein of images still to be discovered.

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For a Few Dollars Less: Photojournalists Risk Their Lives and the Pay Grows Smaller
Steve Meltzer  |  Aug 13, 2014  |  0 comments

In just two weeks on August 30th, Visa Pour L’Image, the international festival of photojournalism kicks off in the Southern French city of Perpignan. In its 26th year the festival is both a celebration of photojournalism and an homage to the photojournalists who have died in the last 12 months.

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