Quoted: Instead of spontaneity, Mr. Penn provided the illusion of a seance, his gaze precisely describing the profile of a Balenciaga coat or of a Moroccan jalaba in a way that could almost mesmerize the viewer. Nothing escaped the edges of his photographs unless he commanded it. Except for a series of close-up portraits that cut his subjects’ heads off at the forehead, and another, stranger suite of overripe nudes, his subjects were usually shown whole, apparently enjoying a splendid isolation from the real world.

includes a slideshow

Quoted: Lens is the photojournalism blog of The New York Times, presenting the finest and most interesting visual and multimedia reporting — photographs, videos and slide shows. A showcase for Times photographers, it also seeks to highlight the best work of other newspapers, magazines and news and picture agencies; in print, in books, in galleries, in museums and on the Web.

Quoted: His early themes of Sunday leisure and local tourism gave way to enormous industrial plants, apartment buildings, hotels, office buildings, and warehouses. Family outings and hiking trips were replaced by the Olympics, a cross-country marathon involving hundreds of skiers, the German parliament, the trading floors of international stock exchanges, alluring displays of brand-name goods, and midnight techno music raves attended by casts of thousands. Gursky’s world of the 1990s is big, high-tech, fast-paced, expensive, and global. Within it, the anonymous individual is but one among many.

faved from M

Quoted: Strolling the dark streets until dawn, a young photographer captured images of a world all but lost.

Quoted: work is full of tension between depicted reality and the actuality of painting: process and material.

to chew on later...

At New York galleries till Sat. Slideshow included in article.

Quoted: The elephant in the room in both cases is the German painter Gerhard Richter, especially his drizzly gray images of the members of the Baader-Meinhof ... straightforward history paintings based on news photographs depicting (by now) famous moments from the Bush administration...

check out "Bollywood"- his photos from the Indian film industry.

Quoted: Official Web Site Of Jonathan Torgovnik / Photographer

Quoted: Phaidon Press is the world's leading publisher of books on the visual arts