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May 11, 2008

BIG APPLE GOES SNAPPY

The photography community descends in droves on New York City this week. The First Annual New York Photo Festival will sprawl across DUMBO, in Brooklyn. The International Center of Photography hosts its 24th Annual Infinity Awards. Photo gallery openings are scheduled by the score, from the “Humankind” exhibition at Hasted-Hunt, dedicated to the work of photojournalists from the VII photo agency, to the Saul Leiter show at Howard Greenberg Gallery. Contemporary art and photography auctions are being held as well. Please, come to New York and join us. And make it snappy.

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COPYRIGHT FIGHT GOES ON. The National Press Photographers’ Association and the Advertising Photographers of America are helping to spearhead opposition to the House and Senate “Orphan Works Bills” which, because of their radical recasting of copyright protection provisions, have the potential to seriously undermine the rights of photographers, artists, illustrators, and other visual creators. This week’s Photo District News Newswire has a comprehensive look at the ongoing battle royal.

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ESQUIRE OVERSIGHT. Photographic eminence Helen Marcus, past president of both the American Society of Media Photographers and the W. Eugene Smith Fund, wrote an important letter that The New York Times published this week, in which she pointed out that in many of the articles about MoMA’s new show on classic Esquire covers of the 1960s - conceived and designed by master art director George Lois – few of the reviews seem to mention the photographer who created the cover photographs: Carl Fischer.

Says Marcus, “It is akin to publishing pictures of the Sistine Chapel and mentioning the pope who paid for them but not the painter.”

Ah, Michelangelo? Who he?

DISPATCHES. Finally...check out the new magazine-manifesto, Dispatches, created by Gary Knight, Giorgio Baravalle, and friends. The first issue has offerings from the likes of Antonin Kratochvil, Paul Theroux, John Kifner, Muzamil Jaleel, Samantha Power, and the illustrious, over-the-edge British illustrator Gerald Scarfe. Way impressive.


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