Category: Good Work

This came across the transom recently … the Booth Museum, just north of Atlanta, has the Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office traveling exhibition through June and has three former presidential photographers coming in for talks. March 21 at 2 p.m. will be David Valdez, who worked for President George H.W. Bush. April 4 at 2 p.m. will be Bob...

The Washington Post has an interesting piece up this morning – coverage of the 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama, told in just seven photos. Are those the seven iconic images of the day? I’m not sure, but I like their admission that, “the story of the day is told even better in photos.”

A long-time British photojournalist with an emphasis on portraiture, Jane Bown’s style was clear and concise. Well worth studying. Jane was very reluctant to explain how she worked – her favourite mantra was “photographers should neither be seen nor heard”. But this did not mean that she would not emerge from the margins if the situation demanded it. A Robin...