Steve McCurry discusses The Tibetans
The Path to Buddha
Steve McCurry Exhibition
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL USA
November 3, 2007 - February 15, 2008
Born in Philadelphia, Steve McCurry studied history and cinematography at Pennsylvania State University. He worked at a newspaper for two years before leaving for India to freelance as a photographer. It was in India that McCurry learned to watch and wait on life. McCurry’s career was launched when he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled Afghanistan just before the Russian invasion. When he emerged, he had rolls of film sewn into his clothes; images that would be published around the world as some of the first to show that conflict. For more than 20 years he has covered areas of international and civil conflict, including the Iran-Iraq war, the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, Beirut, Cambodia, Yemen, the Philippines and the Gulf War. He continues to cover Afghanistan, focusing on the human consequences of conflict and war. Steve McCurry became a full member of the prestigious Magnum Photo Agency in 1986.
Steve McCurry: Arts and Minds
Buddha Rising
(Multimedia) National Geographic Magazine
Friday, February 22, 2008
Steve McCurry
Tambor de Crioula - by Marisol França
© Marisol França
Brazilian photographer Marisol França captured this dance group that studies folklore dance from the Northeast region of Brazil. The photographs were taken in the district of Santa Teresa in Rio de Janeiro during an exhibition in 2007. Tambor de Crioula is a dance of African origin, found in the state of Maranhão. Blessed by nature and located between the Northeast and the northern regions of Brazil, Maranhão displays a wide variety of ecosystems and unique history of music, traditions, and popular culture.
About Maranhão and Tambor de Crioula: (in English)
Maranhão Turismo
Blog dedicated to popular culture from Brazil: (in Portuguese)
Ritmos Brasileiros
Portraits from Rio de Janeiro - by Magnus Toledano
© Magnus Toledano
Magnus Toledano (b. 1977) is a Swedish-Brazilian visual artist. He initially got involved with photography back in 1997 when he traveled to Stockholm, Sweden to study photography at Folkuniversitetet for a period of one year. After two group exhibitions in Sweden, he went back to Brazil in 1998 to work as a photojournalist and fashion photographer assistant. Today, Magnus continues to work as a freelance commercial photographer for magazines, newspapers, and individual clients, while at the same time focusing on his personal work.
Exhibitions (Group)
2001 “Young Artist Rio”, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Exhibitions (Individual)
2003 “Pippi in Rio”, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2005 “In the Shadows of the Carnival", Stockholm, Sweden
Artist Website: //magnustoledano.blogspot.com
Diane Arbus Subjects Today - by Carlos Leal
Diane Arbus (American, 1923-1971) was a greatly talented photograper and artist. A figure in contemporary documentary photography, Arbus produced a substantial body of work before her suicide in 1971. The monumental Diane Arbus retrospective, “Diane Arbus Revelations” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2005) spawned a sort of “Where Are They Now” moment for some of her subjects, most of whom remained blissfully anonymous for decades.
© Helayne Seidman - For The Washington Post
Arbus found most of her subjects in New York, the city in which she was born, and a place that she explored as both a known territory and a foreign land. Her photographs of people who lived on the edge of society’s acceptance, as well as those images depicting supposedly “normal” people in a way that sharply outlines the cracks in their public masks, were controversial at the time of their creation and remain so today.
Her “contemporary anthropology” exploration of the relationship between appearance and identity, illusion and belief, and reality and society, stands as a sort of allegory to postwar America during the late 1960s and early 70s.
The Wade sisters, as they were known before they each married, recall nothing about the day when they gazed into the lens of Diane Arbus and became part of the American photographic landscape.
They were 7 years old in 1967, when Arbus found the girls at a Christmas party for local twins and triplets. Nobody is quite sure how Arbus heard about the gathering, but a few parents obliged when she asked their children to pose. This is how the Wade sisters wound up on a sidewalk, standing close enough to seem joined at the shoulder, their expression a kind of spectral blank.
Arbus biographer Patricia Bosworth says the photo encapsulates the photographer’s vision. “She was involved in the question of identity. Who am I and who are you? The twin image expresses the crux of that vision: normality in freakishness and the freakishness in normality.”
Tracking down the subjects of Diane Arbus photographs is tricky because the executors of her estate won’t disclose their names. However, the identities of some of her subjects are known because they stepped forward at some point and said, “That’s me.” Others are known because Arbus for years had a lucrative sideline shooting family portraits, and some of those subjects have provided copies of the photos, along with their names, to museums.
The kid with the grenade is 
Colin Wood, who is now 50 years old,
and an insurance agent living in Glendale, Calif. In reference to the photograph Wood recalls: “I’m sure that photo was a collaboration. I didn’t pose like that unless asked. I think I was imitating a face I’d seen in war movies, which I loved watching at the time.” Wood says he was a hyperactive child. He first learned of his notoriety, he explains, when he was 14, after his stepsister spotted the image in a book. He first learned of his notoriety when he was 14 years old after his stepsister spotted the image in a book.
The woman in “Albino Sword-Swallower” is Sandra Reed, who performed as Lady Sandra in touring shows throughout the 1970s, and retired her act in 1980.
“A very young baby, N.Y.C. 1968”, which ran in Harper’s Bazaar magazine in 1968 is none other than CNN anchorman Anderson Cooper. Cooper is the son of NY socialite Gloria Vanderbilt who was married at the time to author Wyatt Emory Cooper. Cooper was friends with Arbus, who in 1968 was looking for babies to photograph for a series she was assembling.
Complete Articles:
Double Exposure
By David Seagel - Washington Post
Revisiting Arbus
By Greg Williams - Tampa Tribune
© Diane Arbus Estate
NPR The Met Looks Over Arbus's Career (Audio & Article), NPR's All Things Considered
Arbus Reconsidered - New York Times
A Troubled Genius Frozen in Time - Washington Post
Diane Arbus - Fine Art Photography Gallery
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Garry Winogrand: 1964
© Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand with Bill Moyers PBS 1982
Garry Winogrand Images (Video Slide Show)
"Identical Twins" (Audio), NPR's Present at the Creation
As NPR's Madeleine Brand (Audio Link) describes the Diane Arbus' famous photo, it's "a portrait of two little girls -- maybe they're seven or eight years old. They're wearing matching outfits: white tights, corduroy dresses, and thick white headbands in their dark hair. The girls stand shoulder-to-shoulder, their light eyes looking straight into the camera -- straight at us. And the more you look back at them -- the more you stare -- the more you realize how different they are from each other."
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