Living in rather warm Los Angeles, 'city of electric lights,' to quote my fave punk band, X (I have a long history with them), it's hard to see stars. I often…
Why words and photos matter. Interesting timing, on the eve of Hanukkah, first battle over religious freedom. Judy Glickman Lauder's revealing images in “Beyond the Shadows: The Holocaust and the Danish…
Illuminating Black Joy, Black Love and Resistance in Harlem. Photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes collaborated in this historically moving book about daily life in Harlem in the early 1950s. IF…
Photos to take your breath away! Wow, again I wish I knew something about photography and especially photographers BEFORE I shot rock. Legendary photographer Arnold Newman captured and expressed people's…
DO you know this FAMOUS photo? "Migrant Mother," during Great Depression, taken by Dorothea Lange. Seen in books, posters, clothes and so much more. Would this image be so widely…
Powerful, beautiful, mesmerizing historical photos. I loved the fashions, earrings and headdress, hair, the poses. The images are beautifully composed by a very talented photographer, Kwame Brathwaite. Most of all,…
Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950 exhibit at the National Gallery of Art reveals the birth of a major and influential artist, photographer and film director (Shaft, a revolutionary…
These rock photos by Mark Weiss from his new book The Decade That Rocked: The Photography Of Mark "Weissguy" Weiss are stunning. But Mark's text is what makes these photos even…