What The Nanny Saw, And More Of The Best Photography Of The Week
Every week, we curate the best new photography and photojournalism on the web, so you can spend your weekend kicking back and enjoying some beautiful pictures. Here are this week's picks:
The Aspiring Actors Of Los Angeles
"What makes it worth waiting for?" This was the question editorial photographer Pete Bartlett was most curious to solve, after photographing actors at various stages of their careers for more than a decade. "It is such a precarious livelihood, but people are willing to stick with it for years," he continues. "Jobbing actors don't actually do a lot of acting, a lot of it is survival jobs in between."
[See the photos at British Journal of Photography]
What The Nanny Saw
[Vivian] Maier spent her working life caring for the children of families in New York and Chicago. What none of them knew is that she also took thousands of photographs that were discovered by chance and published after her death
[See the photos at The Guardian]
A Rare Look At New York City When It's Empty And Quiet
We think of New York as "the city that never sleeps," but photographer Duane Michals has shown a different side of the metropolis. In his series Empty New York, he presents pictures of Manhattan, shot in 1964 and 1965, like a ghost town.
[See the photos at My Modern Met]
These Pictures Show Just How Much Of A Shitshow Woodstock '99 Was
The Woodstock '99 music festival in Rome, New York, was meant to honor the 30th anniversary of the iconic 1969 Woodstock event — that was before the mud, fires, and rioting ruined all the fun.
[See the photos at BuzzFeed]
Dreamy Still-Life Portraits From Around The World
From New York and Dublin to Rome and Istanbul, photographer Evelyn Hofer took timeless snapshots of life around the globe.
[See the photos at Huck Magazine]
This Solar Eclipse Photograph Took Two Years To Capture
Reuben Wu spent nearly two years putting together the sponsorship deals that would enable him and a small team to travel to northern Chile to shoot this solar eclipse on July 2, 2019.
[See the photo at Wired]
Melancholia, Mystery, And Paradox Explored In ThePhotography Of Alexandre Souêtre
"I realized that I was, in fact, truly drawn to the still, the calm, the non-happening, the intimate, the subtle, the lost, the minimal, the ever-so-slightly off, and odd," he explains in an interview with Leux Magazine.
[See the photos at iGNANT]
Inside A Vanished Hub Of Beijing's Experimental-Art Scene
On July 11th, the Art Newspaper reported that scores of Chinese police in riot gear had descended on Roma Lake, a budding art district near the Beijing airport, and forced artists out of their studios […] According to the hastily posted eviction notices, which named artists as "security problems" and "unstable factors," the official reason for these raids is the government's ongoing crusade against organized crime. This mafia-crackdown angle is new, but the harassment of China's artists — evictions, arrests, studio demolitions — is a dispiritingly familiar story.
[See the photos at The New Yorker]
