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  • Haute Subculture

    A Museum School alumni magazine recently alerted me to the news that photographer Nan Goldin of The Ballad of Sexual Dependency fame was admitted to the French Legion of Honor this summer.
    • By Popphoto Staff on September 18, 2006

    A Museum School alumni magazine recently alerted me to the news that photographer Nan Goldin of The Ballad of Sexual Dependency fame was admitted to the French Legion of Honor this summer. (Visit the Matthew Marks Gallery for a refresher on Goldin's work.) I first imagined Nan donning red epaulettes and the white kepi with its neck flap, and shipping off to L'Afrique du Nord, but then I realized I was thinking of the French Foreign Legion.

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  • A.P. Photographer Held by U.S. Military as "Security Threat"

    As a matter of course, this serious debasement of personal rights is also an out-and-out attack on the freedom of the press to cover the war in Iraq.
    • By Popphoto Staff on September 18, 2006

    Today the Associated Press reported that the U.S. military in Iraq has held an A.P. photographer in prison for five months without filing charges against him. The military accuses the photographer of being a “security threat,” but so far has not permitted a public hearing on the matter.

    As a matter of course, this serious debasement of personal rights is also an out-and-out attack on the freedom of the press to cover the war in Iraq.

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  • Foreign Policy Meltdown

    We were recently alerted to a shoddy piece of manipulation on the cover of Foreign Policy, an inside-the-beltway magazine that publishes essays on serious political and social subjects.
    • By Popphoto Staff on September 18, 2006

    With all the negative attention being paid to photo manipulation these days, you'd think magazines would start to be a little more cauti

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  • A Wide Open Space

    Sarah Rosen, the company's blogger/magazine editor/PR woman extraordinaire, told me yesterday as we walked through the under-construction space that part of the impetus for a spate of new projects was simply an effort to fill the 5,000 square-foot Of course, it doesn't hurt to be a streamlined publisher with a young, passionate staff, either.
    • By Popphoto Staff on September 15, 2006

    As hip indie publisher PowerHouse Books gets ready to move into its giant new DUMBO space in early October, it's hard to tell which came first: the gallery or the projects.

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  • What is the proper position to assume when viewing a national tragedy?

    Although it's been a long four days since Frank Rich wrote his column (now behind the TimeSelect pay wall) in the Sunday New York Times—centering on Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker's comments in David Friend's book Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11 about his 9/11 photo of five people watching smoke billow from the place where the towers used to be—I was finally compelled to join the fray today by Friend's own blog.
    • By Popphoto Staff on September 14, 2006

    Although it's been a long four days since Frank Rich wrote his column (now behind the TimeSelect pay wall) in the Sunday New York Tim

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  • Manhattan Gallery Guide for Thursday, Sept. 14

    Our picks for tonight's openings after the jump.
    • By Popphoto Staff on September 14, 2006


    Thursdays in New York City during the fall months are sweet times for art lovers.

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  • Ann Richards Rides Her Last Harley

    Having grown up in Texas I'll always remember Richards as But in the photo community, Richards will be remembered for an unfortunate Texas Monthly cover in which her head was spliced onto the body of a model striding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
    • By Popphoto Staff on September 14, 2006

    Ann Richards, the flamboyant Texan, loyal Democrat, keen politician and all around good lady died Sept.

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  • Blogging by the Mississippi

    Alec Soth, the gifted Magnum photographer who lugs around the big 8x10 camera, has started a new blog. The reason, as he explains it in his inaugural post, is the birth of his second child, August William Soth, pictured here.A few weeks ago my wife gave birth to our 2nd child. Me thinks I won’t be leaving the house much for awhile. I doubt I’ll have an abundance of time to write, but I am hungry for a bit of interaction with the world (albeit virtual).
    • By Popphoto Staff on September 13, 2006

    Alec Soth, the gifted Magnum photographer who lugs around the big 8x10 camera, has started a new blog.

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    • By Popphoto Staff on September 12, 2006

    Nature photographer Frans Lanting — best known for his wildlife images in books and magazines such as National Geographic, Life, and Audubon — has recently completed a huge project that looks backward and forward at the same time.

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  • ICP Triennial Kicks Off This Week

    If you walk through the doors of the International Center of Photography's gallery space in midtown Manhattan this week you'll be assaulted by visions of land scarred by industry, made toxic for its animal and human inhabitants.
    • By Popphoto Staff on September 12, 2006


    If you walk through the doors of the International Center of Photography's

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