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Disco Nights, Strip Clubs & Punk Bars: Meryl Meisler’s New York in the 1970s
Disco Nights, Strip Clubs & Punk Bars: Meryl Meisler’s New York in the 1970s
Photography at First Sight
EXHIBITION
Disco Nights, Strip Clubs & Punk Bars: Meryl Meisler’s New York in the 1970s
Meryl Meisler revisits the start of her photography career when she moved to New York and reveled in the pleasures of the city’s decadent nightlife scene.
BOOK
Tracing Photography’s Rise in the Contemporary Art World
In a new book that combines art, history, and memoir, critic Andy Grundberg looks back at photography’s meteoric rise in the 1970s and ‘80s.
BOOK
Susan Kandel’s Domestic Worlds
Shooting for a decade in various homes in Massachusetts, Susan Kandel found whole universes opening up behind every front door she entered. Her new book,
At Home
, records family life in all its messy, multifarious glory.
DISCOVERY
From the Edge of Independent Wrestling Rings
Professional wrestling has been a mainstay in Pittsburgh for more than a century. The first reference to matches in the region dates back to 1860. Photographer David Aschkenas has dedicated a long project to it.
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TUTORIAL
Shooting Portraits With Artificial Light, by Sanne de Wilde
A member of NOOR Images, Sanne De Wilde explores the medium of photography and effectuates this in regards to subjects related to the role genetics, identity and perception play in people's lives and how this shapes and affects communities and makes people vulnerable in the eye of society. In this 4-chapter course, she will give you her advice on taking portraits with artificial light.
TUTORIAL
Shooting Indoor Architecture Photography, by Francesco Zizola
Francesco Zizola has documented the world's major conflicts and their hidden crisis, focusing on the social and humanitarian issues that define life in the developing world as well as in western countries. In this 4-chapter course, he will give you his advice on how to produce indoor architecture photographs, and you will follow his steps in the heart of the MAXXI Museum, in Rome, Italy.
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