Familiar and previously unpublished images of a dynamic music scene by photographer and filmmaker Michael Grecco fill the pages of Punk, Post Punk, New Wave: Onstage, Backstage, in Your Face, 1977-1989. Whether an action shot from the stage wing or a quiet backstage portrait, the photographs provide another perspective on the bands and musicians that defined the energy, chaos, grit and creativity of punk, post-punk …
The inspiration for this week’s Image Net Roulette art installation, ImageNet operates as an online database of thousands of pictures, cataloged using 2,500+ tags. But, as this newfound popularity proved, the cataloging is steeped in systemic racism and bias. One tweet showed that no matter how many times a man uploaded his photo he was assigned “Black,” “Black African” or “Negroid”—when other options like “Doctor,” …
Once again, after sorting through thousands of photographs (nearly 18,000), National Geographic has selected the top 10 submissions from its 2015 Traveler Photo Contest. Participants entered their best work into four of the contest’s categories: Travel Portraits, Outdoor Scenes, Sense of Place and Spontaneous Moments, each vying for the first place prize: an eight-day National Geographic Photo Expedition to Costa Rica and the Panama Canal. …
