Ok, so I am still not re-ordering the list for 2008, and I understand that lists are lists, but looking at the list again from 2005 (3 posts below) I really wanted to point out a few striking things.
- Steven Meisel at #89. The man IS fashion photography. He is our […]

Was googling a few names and this article from American Photo popped up…which I remember reading back in 2005.  It’s interesting to see now, 3 years later. 
By no means am I going to try and update the list (because I don’t have, oh, 8 spare hours) but I am a little perplexed (as I was before) by the […]

A massive one…some of these links you’ve probably seen elsewhere.
Fashion photography as art and reaction on Popphoto
Richard Prince in the New York Times, what came first? And again thoughts from Popphoto
New blog The Moment from the New York Times T people…and their redesigned site. Interviews with Terry Richardson and Katie Grand by the Proenza […]

Welcome back from Thanksgiving everyone.

This has been blogged elsewhere, but I’m finally getting around to it…Sorry!  Nutopia is the noted portraiture photographer Platon’s (of Art Department, represented by the highly respectable agent David Maloney) forum dedicated to reviewing and sharing new photography by up-and-comers, in a truly honest, everyone-is-equal, salon style setting. They have launched […]

Perhaps my opinion is slightly biased here but here is my friend Margo Silver’s website and I think it’s pretty damn nice.
Good layout, easy to navigate, well designed, good typography and it helps that the work is pretty yummy.
Also, she just recently got picked up for representation by Judi Shin, so congratulations!

I’m sure a good number of you were there, but Saturday Blind Spot magazine with Fred & Associates (the art division of MS Logan) presented the COLLAPSING IMAGES PHOTOGRAPHY FORUM in conjunction with the New York Public Library.
I didn’t make the talk between Jack Pierson and Jerry Schatzberg but managed to attend the next two […]

That is the presumption made by New York Magazine in light of a new exhibition of his work at the Matthew Marks Gallery.

Gursky’s May Day V (2006), at Matthew Marks.
(Photo: Andreas Gursky/Courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery)
To me, Andreas Gursky has always been able to take an image that would be fairly mundane under any other […]

As a fairly loyal reader of the Flavorpill network of newsletters, I was very happy and surprised to see this blog linked in the latest issue of Artkrush (Flavorpill’s newsletter devoted to contemporary art themes). So for any visitors coming over from there, welcome!
Beyond their normal, excellent art world round-up, this week’s newsletter is […]

(Portrait of Sam Wagstaff & Robert Mapplethorpe by Francesco Scavullo) 
People will have their opinions on Robert Mapplethorpe, one of the great photographers to emerge from the turbulent 70’s to put his own stamp on the photography-as-art movement, brought along by his friend, patron and lover Sam Wagstaff.  Now there is a documentary, Black White + […]

(Tod Papageorge’s Central Park, 1978, from the exhibition and book Passing Through Eden.)
Great article from New York Magazine on Tod Papageorge…the photographer turned professor who has taken Yale’s vaunted MFA photography program to new heights since taking over from Walker Evans back in 1975.  It’s amazing to see the branches of great photographers that this […]

(image of Alexander McQueen by Platon) 
The portraiture photographer Platon gathers in his Soho loft monthly with a group of aspiring photographers to share ideas, concepts and all things inspirational.
The group is called: Nutopia Forum - the term “forum,” which comes from the meeting of minds developed by Plato, for whom the half-Greek Platon was named. […]

As a new contributor to AVISUALSOCIETY I felt a little hesitant to speak my mind in my first post. I felt it better to ease into the blogging game and instead of offering my honest response to the show entitled FAMILY PICTURES; I played it safe, and simply posted a show announcement. […]