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Gothicfest Couple

newberry — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:33:40 +0000

Gothicfest 2005, shot for Spin. I posted a few other pictures from that shoot a while back.

Lens: NYT debuts photojournalism blog today

newberry — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:27:17 +0000

Lens: photojournalism blog from the New York Times

The New York Times is debuting a photojournalism blog, and it looks like a winner.

Lens will be a showcase for the work of Times photographers, but it will also highlight the best images from other newspapers, magazines, news organizations and picture agencies, and from around the Web. It will point readers in the direction of important books, galleries and museum exhibitions. And it will draw on The Times’s own pictorial archive, numbering in the millions of images and going back to the early 20th century.

Osama Foods

newberry — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:06:45 +0000

This picture was taken for a Mike Sula article in the Chicago Reader, in October of 2001. Stay tuned—I’m going to go back to that address in the next day or two and see if they’ve kept the name. Maybe they changed that first “S” to a “B” by now. It seems like ages ago that I was regularly shooting and making prints from film…

Ali Farhan, Chicago

Life Magazine photo archive on Google

newberry — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:20:59 +0000

Millions of photographs from Life Magazine have been posted to Google Image Search, from the 1860s to the 1970s. Take a look–there are some amazing images.

Muhammad Ali in training. From Life Magazine, 1971. Photo: John Shearer

Korean official & aide, aboard USS Colorado. From Life Magazine, June 1871.

Today is World Press Freedom Day

newberry — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:35:00 +0000

Over at Slate, there is an inspiring series of photographs from the legendary photo agency Magnum, celebrating World Press Freedom Day. Shown above: KAESONG, North Korea—International Press photographers cover the Korean War, 1952. Photo © Werner Bischof / Magnum Photos