Photo News Blog

So apparently this Jill Greenburg crying baby thing that I blogged about in early April has caused quite a stir.

Jim Lewis at Slate.com posted his review of Greenberg’s End Times exhibit and gave this wonderful description on the meaning of photography: 

I don’t mean this as a condemnation of photography. On the contrary, I love the medium, and it fascinates me endlessly, precisely because it’s so freighted with the problem of power and responsibility. It is born in a bed of plunder and abuse; but in the right hands it can end in beauty, and how we get from one to the other is as profound a grace as any art can manifest.

Slate.com article 

Former Pittsburgh Pirates team photographer Les Banos became great friends with the team’s star Roberto Clemente. Had it not been for the Immaculate Reception that kept the Steelers in the playoffs, and thus kept Banos in Pittsburgh to work the game, Banos would have been on Clemente’s plane that crashed off the coast of Puerto Rico.

Banos and Clemente had a very close relationship, something that I think is rare for photographers and their subjects these days. That relationship gave Banos the access to make some great photographs. Beginning this weekend, many of those photos are being displayed at the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum in Pittsburgh.

Beaver County Times article

History Center website 

“I love the raw emotion of children, because it comes close to the anger and helplessness I feel about our current political and social situation,” says commercial photographer Jill Greenberg about her new exhibition running April 22 to May 27 at the Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

I feel the same way sometimes.

Exhibit site
Greenberg’s studio

This looks like an interesting exhibit about socially conscious photos at the Art Institute of Chicago for those in the Windy City area. Runs through June 11.

AIC - The Concerned Photographer 

Sun-Times review