A retrospective of an Irish street photographer’s life works offers an unvarnished view of 1980s Dublin and beyond. The Light of Day by Tony O’Shea depicts Ireland’s working classes in gritty urban environments. O’Shea’s images have both religious and political themes.
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https://petapixel.com/2022/12/02/irish-street-photographer-reveals-incredible-lifes-work/
Photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals would haul her 8×10 glass plate camera around the streets of New York where she captured the bohemian Greenwich Village in the 1920s.
A treasure trove of pictures from the early 20th century.
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https://petapixel.com/2022/08/24/pioneering-photographer-captured-bohemian-area-of-ny-in-the-1920s/
From a patient in a TB tent to a birthday boy wearing a Stetson, Lora Webb Nichols captured the fleeting boom of Wyoming’s copper mining industry
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Historic England has announced funding for 57 creative projects that celebrate working-class history and untold stories. Among them is a project that aims to connect communities with the working-class history of Bodmin in Cornwall.
It will use unseen photographs of buildings and people from the George Ellis Collection – one of Cornwall’s foremost photographic collections – to inspire people to explore the town’s history
Historic England/Ellis Collection at Kresen Kernow
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2022/jul/26/cornwalls-working-class-history-in-pictures
Abandoned buildings and bridal gowns feature in this evocative depiction of the place where Magnum photographer Colby Deal grew up
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The Bronx Documentary Center’s 5th Latin American Foto Festival features large-scale photographs displayed in the Melrose neighbourhood by emerging and established photographers. The festival includes works from Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Mexico, El Salvador and more, representing long-term projects on family, memory, culture and other social issues
The Latin American Foto festival runs until 31 July at the Bronx Documentary Center, New York, and includes in-person workshops, tours, panel discussions and other community events
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From dancing pensioners to a mass baptism in the Thames, a new book collects seven decades of British documentary photography
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From documenting intimate relationships to exploring Buddhism, the German photographer has always been driven by a desire to learn
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Nineteen years ago, 24 photographers agreed to document New Year’s Day for the next 24 years. Each was allocated one hour of the day to record their surroundings and each moves forward one hour every year. The work is displayed in Soho Square, London, for 24 days until 19 March
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2022/feb/24/24-photography-new-horizons-in-pictures
Throughout the 20th century street photography proved more welcoming to women than other art forms – and has been was rewarded with an explosion of daring, perceptive and radical projects
This exhibition is in New York, but one of the photographers, Helen Levitt, has her own exhibition in London's Photographers Gallery until the 13th of February. I've seen it and it's well worth a visit, IMO.
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The activist, documentarian and photographer, who has died aged 87, captured the American civil rights movement while shooting the likes of David Bowie and Robert Kennedy
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Found in an overlooked photo archive, these images of Windrush arrivals and jazz club romances challenge the traditional narrative about what it means to be British
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The exhibition, curated in collaboration by not-for-profits Wildscreen and If Not Us Then Who, features a series of photographs taken by local and indigenous artists around the theme of ‘Community’. It was first on display at Wildscreen’s Communicating Cop26 event on Monday 15 November and is now travelling around local hospitals. The organisers say: “Indigenous communities are in a constant fight to protect ancestral land and the forests of which they have a deep knowledge and empathy. They are the guardians and the protectors of these vital ecosystems. Their stories are an essential component to the survival of our planet.” Prints will be available to pre-order from 12-28 November 2021
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War Memorial, 2019
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Documentary photographer Sophie Green is fascinated by the idiosyncrasies of under-represented communities. Her solo exhibition Showtime runs from 23 October at Messums Wiltshire, and explores the realms of street car culture, banger racing and Gypsy fairs
#photography #DocumentaryPhotography #culture #Britain
After more than a year of closure, the Spitalfields Trust has announced the reopening and renewal of Dennis Severs’ House. Severs came to Spitalfields in 1979 and bought a derelict house. He reconfigured it to tell the story of a fictional family who had lived there since its construction in 1724
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2021/jul/26/inside-dennis-severs-house-in-pictures
