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Olive Pierce: Children, Cambridge, Iraq

September 13, 2016 by William Eaton

By您好, yangyang Geng   Memory heals the scars of time. Photography documents the wounds. — Michael Ignatieff[1] It requires constant vigilance to see people as they are. — Olive Pierce    The Portraits of the Jefferson Park Housing Project in Cambridge and No Easy Roses Olive Pierce was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1925 and died on May 23, 2016. She was a lifelong photographer and political activist. She was educated at Vassar College and, in 1948, she traveled with […]

Categories: Article • Tags: adolescence, childhood, children, girls, Iraq, photography, war

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Very little is known about the photographic practices of people under 18

March 16, 2015 by Alexia Raynal

In an article published in 2008, sociologist Penny Tinkler argued that “Very little is known about the photographic practices of people under 18 — that is, the range of ways and media through which they take, feature in, and use photographs.” Today, her words might make readers chuckle. Anyone looking at teenagers’ current photo uses would be surprised at how quickly Tinkler’s concerns are no longer valid. According to KPBC’s Internet Trends Report, over 1.8 billion new photos were shared every day on social media in […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, Penny Tinkler, photography, social media

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Steven Hirsch, Photographs of the Contemporary Sublime

December 11, 2014 by William Eaton

(Note: For clarity and focus of the photographs described, and at the request of the photographer, we refer you to his website and the individual links to see images for this piece: stevenhirsch.com.) The Gowanus Canal The recent exhibit Gowanus: Off the Water’s Surface of Steven Hirsch’s photographs, at Lilac Gallery in New York City, reminded me of Edmund Burke’s famous definition of the sublime in the 18th century: The passions which belong to self-preservation turn on pain and danger; […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz, ZiLL • Tags: photography, Steven Hirsh

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Thomas Struth on The Lure of Technology

December 4, 2014 by William Eaton

It isn’t often that one sees at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art an image that shocks. When I first viewed Thomas Struth’s photograph Figure II, Charité, Berlin 2013 (further reproduction not authorized by the subject), no text, except the title accompanied the image, and I spent a lot of time contemplating its subject: a person in a hospital, wrapped and entangled in myriad tubes and machines. Was she alive was? my question. And was all this stuff the result […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz • Tags: art, photography, Thomas Struth

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“There is nothing remotely objective about photography”

July 27, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link] (1) The quotation of the title, the photograph at right, and the words below are from Object Lessons, an article by the photojournalist Nina Berman, who also teaches at the Columbia University Journalism School.  The article caught my eye because it features some powerful images and also because, concurrently, I was reading an intriguing Zeteo submission about how news stories fit within long-long-standing narrative traditions (e.g. of parables or moral tales). That said, I turn you over to Professor Berman, from the […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Africa, art, corporations, crime, journalism, photography, women

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The Groups We Belong To

April 21, 2014 by Walter Cummins

The Groups We Belong To   By Walter Cummins   Review of The Big Picture: America in Panorama, from the collection of Josh Sapan (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2013) {Click for pdf wherein, inter alia, the pictures are larger}   The Big Picture: America in Panorama celebrates both the possibilities of the panoramic camera and the manner in which the United States organized itself during the decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The people pictured are arranged […]

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Photographing the Soul

October 1, 2013 by Walter Cummins

Photographing the Soul A review of The Iconic Photographs by Steve McCurry (Phaidon reprint edition, 2012; first published by Art and Architecture, 2011) By Walter Cummins [click for pdf] Two-thirds into Steve McCurry’s Iconic Photographs I thought I was encountering a group of happy men, their smiling faces lined in a row. Then I realized those smiles were painted-on masks, not real expressions. The photo’s title is “Young Wadair Men, Niger 1986,” and the explanatory note at the end of […]

Categories: Review • Tags: National Geographic, photography, poverty, soul

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A Week of Reading: 14-20 October 2012

October 14, 2012 by William Eaton

From Keyonna Hayes, Zeteo Assistant Editor 14 October 2012                                                                                                         Here is a quote from Kahlil Gibran, one of my favorite authors: I am happy now because I have […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: art, Asian culture, fairy tales, Italy, knowledge, marine biology, photography, poetry, psychology

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Zeteo is for people who are readers, lookers, listeners, thinkers. Increasingly we are interested in short texts that call attention to other texts, works of art or music that deserve more attention than they are getting. And we are interested similarly in historical phenomena, ignored aspects of contemporary life, . . . We look forward to hearing about your ideas, your reading, what you’ve seen . . .

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