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The Dapper Daredevil Who Documented America’s Skyline in the Making

Where do I start with this photograph? The dapper shoes? The Gene Kelly stance? The delicate ease with which he’s holding that enormous camera? Or the fact that all of this is happening at some unthinkable height above the streets of New York? This handsome fellow is American photographer, Charles C. Ebbets, the very same Charles C. Ebbets who captured one…

Almost in America: Portraits from Ellis Island

“Amidst crowds of anxious immigrants milling about, Hine had to locate his subject, isolate [them] from the crowd, and set the pose-almost always, because of the language barrier without words. He had to set up his simple 5 x 7 view camera on its rickety tripod, focus the camera, pull the slide, dust his flash…
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Faded Faces: The Recovered Archives of a Forgotten Photography Studio

The passing of time creeps up around her face like the long arm of a dark shadow trying to erase the memory of her existence. But her gaze remains fixed and strong, as if she refuses to be forgotten. For most of the faces in these photographs, time may soon be running out… We’re looking at the…

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The Man who Shot the Sixties (and burned most of his work)

“That’s the sort of turd David Bailey is”, says Duffy remembering David Bailey being ‘absolutely useless’ as they watched Duffy burning most of his life’s work in the back yard of his family home. If you want a candid, no-frills account of the legendary 1960s photography scene, revisit it through the eyes and words of…

The Photographer on the Bridge: 50 Years of Undiscovered Street Snaps

The photographs of Arthur Fields are hiding all over Ireland; perhaps buried in an old dusty box, forgotten in a once treasured photo album or still close to heart in the breast pocket of someone’s coat. For fifty years, seven days a week, 365 days a year, Arthur stood on the same bridge in Dublin taking…
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