Iconic artists, actors, musicians honored with plaque on Philadelphia Walk of Fame on Broad Street

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Iconic artists, actors, musicians honored with plaque on Philadelphia Walk of Fame on Broad Street

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — From doo-wop musicians to Broadway legends and beyond, iconic artists that have made their mark in Philadelphia were honored on Thursday with a special tribute.

Their plaques were unveiled on the Philadelphia Walk of Fame on Broad Street.

“I’m happy to have this honor because it’s a long time coming,” said Norman E. Burnett with The Tymes.

The Tymes, a doo-wop group from the 50s, was among the inductees.

Also honored with a plaque were former Governer Ed Rendell, The Bacon Brothers, James DePreist, radio host John DiBella, and Patty Jackson, among others.

“To be on this walk with so many greats, and to be the first woman in radio, because I stand on the backs of many great women,” said Jackson, WDAS-FM radio host. “I am overjoyed.”

Jackson told 6abc she’s currently writing a book about her life in radio, empowering others, and overcoming a major health scare.

“Eight years ago I suffered a stroke. I lost my vision, I couldn’t walk, but I never lost my ability to talk, and getting back on my feet made me even more grateful,” she said.

Leslie Odom Jr., a Philadelphia native and a breakout star in Broadway’s hit show ‘Hamilton’, was also honored with a plaque.

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“I was already coming for Patty and then they added me to the list, and I was like ‘Amazing!'” he said.

The Tony, Emmy, and Grammy award-winner had a message for Philadelphia’s youth.

“Allow the resources of this city to support you as they’ve supported me. You can go as far as you dream,” said Odom.

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 Winners and One Refused Prize |

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Sony World Photography Awards 2023 Winners and One Refused Prize |

During a special gala ceremony in London, the World Photography Organization announced the winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023. After the ceremony, German photographer Boris Eldagsen refused his prize, trying to discuss the role of AI in photography.

If you are not familiar with the Sony World Photography Awards, it’s a competition for photographers and photography artists that was established in 2007. Now, it’s one of the world’s biggest and most prestigious photography competitions in the world. It consists of four different competitions: Professional, Open, Student, and Youth.

The gala award ceremony was held in London on April 13, where the winners of the event were announced and awarded. The event was presented by broadcaster and art historian Kate Bryan.

There were over 415,000 images send in worldwide, from over 200 countries. From these contributions, photographer Edgar Martins from Portugal was awarded Photographer of the Year for his series “Our War.” The series was born from his search for the truth about the dead of his friend and photojournalist Anton Hammerl, who was killed in 2011 during the Libyan Civil War.

This year there was also a special Sustainability Prize, which was won by Alessandro Cinque from Italy. His series, “Atrapanieblas,” documents an innovative solution to tackle water shortages in Lima, Peru by special fog nets. Water is collected for the local residents by using these fog nets, which can collect up to 200 liters of water per day.

The Professional Competition Winners

The winners of the Professional Competition were selected from participants that submitted series of five to ten images. This year’s winners were:

  • Architecture and design: Fan Li from the China Mainland for his series “Cement Factory.”
  • Creative: Lee-Ann Olwage from South Africa for her series “The Right to Play.”
  • Documentary projects: Hugh Kinsella Cunningham from the United Kingdom for his series “The Women’s Peace Movement in Congo.”
  • Environment: Marisol Mendez from Bolivia together with Federico Kaplan from Argentina for their series “Miruku.”
  • Landscape: Kacper Kowalski from Poland for his series “Event Horizon.”
  • Portfolio: James Deavin from the United Kingdom for his submission ” Portfolio.”
  • Portraiture: Edgar Martins from Portugal for his series “Our War.”
  • Sport: Al Bello from the United States for his series “Female Pro Baseball Player Succeeds in All Male Pro League.”
  • Still Life: Kechun Zhang from the China Mainland for his series “The Sky Garden.”
  • Wildlife and nature: Corey Arnold from the United States for his series “Cities Gone Wild.“

Unfortunately, not all winners from the China Mainland were able to attend the gala award ceremony, but they did respond by a video message that was broadcast during the event.

All winning series can be found on the website of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023.

Photographers of the Year

There were 10 Open Category winners, from which Dinorah Graue Obscura from Mexico won the Open Photographer of Year Award with her photo of two caracara birds.

Student Photographer of the year is won by Long Jing of the Yunnan Arts University. Another Chinese photographer, the 19-year-old Hai Wang, was awarded Youth Photographer of the year. The Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi was rewarded for her outstanding contribution to photography, capturing intimate images of moments of everyday life.

For the Open Competition, the following winners were announced:

  • Architecture: Mark Benham  from the United Kingdom.
  • Lifestyle: Azim Khan Ronnie from Bangladesh.
  • Object: Mieke Douglas from the Netherlands.
  • Travel: Max Vere-Hodge from the United Kingdom.
  • Motion: Zhenhuan Zhou from the China Mainland.
  • Portraiture: Sukhy Hullait from the United Kingdom.
  • Landscape: Giorgos Rousopoulos from Greece.
  • Natural world and wildlife: Dinorah Graue Obscura from Mexico.
  • Street photography: Andreas Mikonauschke from Germany.

No Winner for the Creative Open Competition Category

If you search for the winner of the Creative Open Competition, you will find only a shortlist of photographers and not a winner. The award was first given to a German photographer named Boris Eldagsen for his image “The Electrician.” But after he was awarded, he took the stage just after the gala diner to decline the prize. He proclaimed it was an AI-generated image, part of a series called “Pseudomnesia: Fake Memories.” With his action, he wanted to give attention to the growing AI-generated images and to start a discussion on the role of AI in modern photography.

The photo is no longer shown or mentioned on the website of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023. 

Exhibition at Somerset House, London

From April 14th until May 1st, 2023, the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition can be visited at Somerset House in London. All winning photographs are showcased, including a curated selection of 20 photographs by photographer Rinko Kawauchi from Japan.  

There is also a solo presentation by Adam Furguson, the Photographer of Year 2022 winner. His series “Silent Wind, Roaring Sky” shows the remote lives of the communities in Australia’s Outback. For more information, you can visit the website of the World Photography Organization.

A Global History of Women’s Photography Includes Over 300 Artists

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A Global History of Women’s Photography Includes Over 300 Artists
Graciela Iturbide, “Our Lady of the Iguanas,” Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, Mexico (1979) (©Graciela Iturbide)

English readers looking to expand their knowledge of photo history are in for a treat. A World History of Women Photographers, freshly translated from French by Ruth Taylor and Bethany Wright and reissued by Thames & Hudson, is a new encyclopedia of the overlooked. The volume, which chronologically traces the work of 300 female photographers from the medium’s inception to the present day, attempts a global perspective of photography’s history. Editors Luce Lebart and Marie Robert employed 164 women writers from international backgrounds to assist in creating the book, expanding the work’s scope far beyond the biggest names of photography — and, perhaps most significantly, giving each artist equal real estate in terms of image quantity and word count.

Sponsored by the Rencontres d’Arles and Kering as part of their broader Women in Motion project, the volume both amplifies these forgotten visions and paints a decisive picture of the “historiographical vacuum” that allowed women’s work to be omitted and misattributed over the course of history. As the book’s breadth and depth demonstrates, “these women were everywhere and recorded everything,” pioneering some of photography’s most central movements. Why, then, are so few women mentioned in encyclopedic works like Raymond Lécuyer’s 400-page “definitive” Histoire de la photographie (1945), and not a single woman in Michel Frizot’s “comprehensive” Nouvelle histoire de la photographie (1994)? While the answers that Lebart and Robert provide will come as no surprise to any student of art history, their systematic approach serves as a necessary foundation for their efforts to “write another history, and to write it differently.”

In its early stages, the larger, formidable project of writing this history will inevitably raise more questions than it answers. For example, the volume — perhaps owing to constraints in both size and scope — contains major omissions when it comes to contemporary photographers. To name just a few, where is Deana Lawson? Catherine Opie? An-My Lê? But if A World History’s primary aim lies in correcting the past, such gaps can be forgiven; “history,” in this sense, is still being constructed.

Zanele Muholi, “Bona III, ISGM,” Boston, from the series Somnyama Ngonyama (2019) (© Zanele Muholi, courtesy Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York)

In working from a more global perspective, the volume’s scholarship also seems to suggest that in the 1800s, the first women who had access to making photographs in non-Western countries were White European colonizers of those lands. Elizabeth Pulman (1836–1900), possibly New Zealand’s first female photographer, took notable portraits of indigenous Māori leaders; Marie-Lydie Bonfils (1837–1918) co-founded one of the largest commercial photography studios in West Asia, marketing images that projected a sense of exoticism; Geraldine Moodie (1854–1945) photographed First Nations people while traveling alongside her husband, an officer in Canada’s Mounted Police. In order to “ensure that the history of photography also becomes the history of everyone,” as the book champions, it is crucially important that we examine the ways in which members of underrepresented groups can (even unwittingly) participate in and benefit from other oppressive systems like colonialism. That is not to say that these women should be lifted from obscurity only to be cancelled — on the contrary, their work warrants further study precisely because of the complex interplay of power and colonial hierarchy that such images demonstrate.

Indeed, the book succeeds in unearthing a canon’s worth of unseen images from the past two centuries, providing us with everything from lush Pictorialism to crisp abstraction. The work of Palestinian photographer Karimeh Abbud (1893–1940) remained almost entirely unknown until a large portfolio of her work was rediscovered in the early 2000s, and yet it is a striking departure from the style of the period; instead of employing European-inspired backdrops in her portraiture, Abbud photographed her subjects in their own homes or painted elements directly onto her prints and negatives. In her haunting “Portrait of a Woman” (undated), she paints the very tree that seems to steady her subject, complicating questions of “reality” and inviting symbolic interpretation. The German-Algerian photographer Zaida Ben-Yusuf’s (1869–1933) photograph “Untitled (Invitation to a private view of photographs)” (1899) strikes a similar tone. A fixture of New York City’s social scene at the time, Ben-Yusuf wrote the text of her invitation alongside the figure of a mysterious, solitary young woman who averts her gaze from us; the woman stands to the right of the text as if to give it room, while both are framed by an ornately patterned curtain. In both works, the artist’s intervention is indistinguishable from “real life,” as the elements produced by the camera interact with the hand-drawn ones, as if they inhabit the same universe.

And while the photographer Laure Albin Guillot (1879–1962) received recognition during her lifetime, “paradoxically, very little research has been carried out” on her career and work in recent years. Guillot’s work shows remarkable range, as she simultaneously embraced a Pictorialist classicism while pioneering a form of macro photography that she coined “micrographie.” Micrographie décorative, plate IX (1931) marries Man Ray’s cameraless “rayographs” with the Surrealist scientific documentation of the filmmaker Jean Painlevé, demonstrating Guillot’s rightful position alongside French photography’s most distinguished figures. Stories like these abound in A World History of Women Photographers, and a review of this length can only touch the tip of the iceberg; hopefully this volume will invite further waves of scholarship to carry these women’s work on into the future.

Anna Atkins, “Alaria esculenta,” from Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1849–1850) (© New York Public Library)

A World History of Women Photographers by Luce Lebart and Marie Robert is published by Thames & Hudson and is available in bookstores and online.


American Folk Art Museum Presents a Benefit Concert With Lonnie Holley, Special Guests

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A Stunning Timelapse of Ice Melting Ties the Climate Crisis to an ‘Eternal Spring’

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A Stunning Timelapse of Ice Melting Ties the Climate Crisis to an ‘Eternal Spring’



Melting mounds of snow, icicles dripping from gutters, and morning frost quickly disappearing from the grass are all telltale signs that spring is near. But what happens when the landscape is suspended in a perpetual state of thaw not tied to the change of the season? Christopher Dormoy wades into this question in “Eternal Spring,” a mesmerizing short film that magnifies the properties of melting ice.

Shot with a macro lens, the timelapse zeroes in small frozen pockets that appear like cavernous landscapes and vast tundras, tying the film to its large-scale concerns. “Melting ice is beautiful and symbolizes spring, but it can also symbolize the problematic aspect of our climate,” the Montreal-based art director says. Given the incredible loss of ice already happening at the poles, “Eternal Spring” takes on additional meaning when linked to the climate crisis and what it means to inhabit a rapidly warming planet.

The film is part of a larger archive of Dormoy’s experimental projects, which you can find on Vimeo.

 

A tunnel of ice opens upward to the nighttime sky with a bright moon at the center

an animated image showing a cavern of ice melting

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Photographers

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– Hourly median wage: $18.73

– Annual median wage: $38,950

Photographers capture moments in time with images using either a digital or film camera. There are over 9,000 photographers in the U.S. who work as freelancers.

Many choose several specialties, such as wedding, food, portrait, fashion, or travel photography. Other photographers work as photojournalists, typically freelance or for an agency or media outlet in print, online, or broadcast news. Photographers may work in studios or travel for specific shoots to indoor or outdoor locations.

While the pay for photographers is not at the top of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ salary list, “[e]mployment of photographers is projected to grow 9% from 2021 to 2031, [or 12,700 openings], faster than the average for all occupations,” the agency reports. However, the BLS points out that part of that growth stems from photographers leaving the field for other jobs or retiring.

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