Best Grammy nominee: The Johnny Cash Project
Fantastiske farvebilleder fra The Denver Post: “These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.”
Alexander Gronsky - ham kan jeg godt lide.
Engelsk plakat til ny zombiefilm fra Mexico. “Somos lo que hay” er et helt almindeligt familiedrama bortset fra, familien kun spiser kød, kød og kød.
At home in the heartland
At the end of October, more than 100 journalists from across the United States descended upon Elizabethtown, Ky., just south of Louisville.
What was the big story? There wasn’t any.
The journalists were simply doing the same thing they’ve done for so many years: getting together to document daily life in a town as a means to cultivate their story-telling skills. This week-long summit, called Mountain Workshops, is run by Western Kentucky University, a school known for its photojournalism program.
“Marwencol” A Must-See!
After being beaten into a brain-damaging coma by five men outside a bar, Mark built a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard. Mark populated the town he dubbed “Marwencol” with dolls representing his friends and family and created life-like photographs detailing the town’s many relationships and dramas. Playing in the town and photographing the action helped Mark to recover his hand-eye coordination and deal with the psychic wounds from the attack. Through his homemade therapy, Mark was able to begin the long journey back into the “real world”, both physically and emotionally - something he continues to struggle with today.
