I decided to venture onto the new LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google, to have a look around. So far about 2 million of the 10 million images in the archive have been uploaded…and soon they will all be available.  What an amazing treasure trove of images!
So of course I typed in “Thanksgiving” and here […]

While we are not an ad agency nor a magazine, we get our share of portfolio drop-offs (though unlike many agencies and magazines, we do not have a drop-off day…these are largely unsolicited.)
I try to look at as many as I can and when I do, I try to leave a note of some sort so […]

(Corinne Day)
Uber-stylist Melanie Ward is now with the Collective Shift.

Was dropped a line by photographer J Wesley Brown recently about a new blog that he has recently launched.
Manifesto:
The idea behind this blog is driven by my perceived lack of community for photographers and enthusiasts in Los Angeles (and on the west coast). The photography scene seems quite fragmented compared to New York, which is […]

Some upcoming things…first up, Norman Jean Roy takes a departure from the pages of Vanity Fair…
TRAFFIK by Norman Jean Roy
 
A MILK GALLERY PROJECT is pleased to present Traffik, a solo exhibition by photographer, Norman Jean Roy.  The show is open to the public at MILK Gallery, 450 W. 15th Street, New York, NY 10011.
Traffik presents […]

(From Los Alamos)
In case you somehow haven’t heard…William Eggleston is having his first retrospective in the United States at the Whitney (November 7th to January 25th)/
The man has come a long way from how his first show at the MOMA was viewed, back in 1976, which was described by one observer as “perfectly banal, perfectly boring”.
Reviews at New […]

 
So, before we start getting even more media coverage of the new President-Elect…from PDN Pulse, the 5 photographs that helped Obama the most.

(Chung Sung-Jin)
From TIME, an album of reactions from around the world.

And you’ve probably seen this elsewhere…but an insider’s Flickr album of Election Night.
 
(Eve Arnold/Magnum) 
And from Slate/Magnum Photos…a slideshow of the civil rights movement.
 

GO. VOTE. TODAY.

Walking up Lafayette from Chinatown I saw this little gem…no website yet but a new photography store and gallery in downtown Manhattan.