Shooting Wide Open

Weng Naiqiang A slim little book I picked up last year at 798 Photo. If you’ve ever see the drawings in elementary Chinese textbooks, some of the scenes Weng documented seem very familiar. I always thought those were idealizations, but from these photos, it looks like plenty were actually enacted. So sad that this year [...]

Andrew Hetherington Just saw this photo over at Jackonary. Awesome.

Stanley Greene The Lens Blog ran an interview with Stanley Greene: Stanley Greene’s Redemption and Revenge. Do you remember when you realized that the camera suited you better than anything else? Greene: I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix, but when I heard Jimi Hendrix, I realized I could never [...]

Alex Prager It’s irresistable, isn’t it? Though I dare say, strangely, the woman in the first picture looks incidental and inessential, which you can’t really say about any of the other work.

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Carlos Lobo

Ralph Gibson Ralph Gibson’s color is a little tamer than his black and whites, but there is something about a few of them that I love. But phew, his black and whites are so much more stylized and distinct though.