The New Islamists: Photographs by Yuri Kozyrev

by Mário Pires 04.04.2012 Photography Now

Via Scoop.it – Photography Now Last month TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev and I went to Rabat and Casablanca to report on a story about the rise of Political Islam in the countries of the Arab Spring. Via lightbox.time.com

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The Day That Changed My Photographic Life: Part Four (The End…For Now)

by Mário Pires 04.04.2012 Photography Now

Via Scoop.it – Photography Now Everyday, for almost one hundred days, I walked, drove and ran all over Israel and occupied territories in my efforts to find pictures. I shot 88 rolls of film in 100 days (no bracketing then, less than a roll a day). Via rodneysmith.com

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Michel Philippot: photography is dangerous | La Lettre de la Photographie

by Mário Pires 04.04.2012 Photography Now

Via Scoop.it – Photography Now When it comes to photographs, we are all deconstructionists now. After thirty years of Derrida, Foucault, and Baudrillard, anyone can confidently (if incorrectly) proclaim that photographs lie, manipulate, oppress; that they are “fictive constructs” and “discourses of power”; that they reveal only their own prejudices, not objective reality; that they [...]

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Meditations on Photographs: Lewis Payne by Alexander Gardner

by Mário Pires 03.04.2012 Photography Now

Via Scoop.it – Photography Now Now here’s a picture for our times: A photograph taken by Alexander Gardner in 1865, a portrait of Lewis Payne, one of the men involved in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Via jmcolberg.com

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(re)SOURCE: Three Mile Island

by Mário Pires 03.04.2012 Photography Now

Via Scoop.it – Photography Now Rising from the Susquehanna River, within the bucolic countryside of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania lies the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station home to the worst accident at a commercial nuclear power plant in US history. Via luceoimages.com

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Graphic Images of Empty Sports Courts

by Mário Pires 03.04.2012 Photography Now

Via Scoop.it – Photography Now Courts examines representations of the enclosed spaces of sports courts. Via www.featureshoot.com

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Max Pam Travel diary | La Lettre de la Photographie

by Mário Pires 03.04.2012 Photography Now

Via Scoop.it – Photography Now Max Pam is one of Australia’s most important contemporary photographers. Working as a professional since the early 1970s he is among a handful of Australians to make a substantial impact on the intensely competitive international photographic scene. Via www.lalettredelaphotographie.com

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