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Ricky Powell, New York Icon and Hip Hop Photographer, Dies at 59
Ricky Powell, New York Icon and Hip Hop Photographer, Dies at 59
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Week of February 4, 2021
IN MEMORIAM
Ricky Powell, New York Icon and Hip Hop Photographer, Dies at 59
Ricky Powell (1961 – 2021) who died on Monday February 1, was the last of a dying breed — the man with a golden eye who hated to be called “a photographer.”
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Trent Parke: The Crimson Wind
Australian photographer Trent Parke, a member of Magnum Photos and winner of four World Press Photo awards, returns after a five-year hiatus with his first project since 2015.
DISCOVERY
Harry Wilks’ Iconic Car Pictures
American photographer Harry Wilks favors the everyday life. His project
The Car Picture
features a series of yearly photographs in front of the family car shot over a period of thirty years.
BOOK
Antoine Agoudjian: An Armenian Story
For over thirty years, photographer Antoine Agoudjian has been driven by a single obsession: to document the Armenian narrative, from the ghosts of the past to the conflicts of today.
BOOK
Soumya Sankar Bose: Anatomy of a Massacre
In a self-published book titled Where the Birds Never Sing, Indian photographer Soumya Sankar Bose looks at an event that the Indian government has erased from history.
BOOK
Revisiting New York’s Legendary Drag Explosion of the 1990s
Downtown New York nightlife icon Linda Simpson looks back at the way ‘90s drag culture transformed the way we think about gender, beauty, fashion, and glamour today.
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