tintype by Joni Sternbach
I’ve been meaning to mention Joni Sternbach for a while now. Caddie and I were at the Edward Cella gallery back in August for a friend’s reception. While there I noticed Joni Sternbach’s book for sale. I asked about it and learned she’d just shown at the gallery and that there were still some tintypes in their storage. It was really cool to see them in person.
On a side note…recognize these guys?
All photos by Levon Biss.
There’s a book that’s taken up residence on a coffee table at our house. I’d seen it in a bookstore a few years ago and visited it from time to time before finally breaking down and bringing it home. It’s full of photos of soccer at both its highest and most basic levels. Every few pages there is quote about soccer, life, and the blurry line between the two.
A few samples are above and below, but Levon Biss‘ “One Love: Soccer for Life” is a better page one to three hundred and eighty one experience.
“I’m married to football and have an affair with my wife.” – Bobby Robson
“The ball gave me prestige, game me fame, game me riches, thank you, old friend.” – Alfredo Di Stefano
“Football is such a funny game. It’s a fairy tale really.” – Alex Ferguson
Photo by Damon Winter, The New York Times
The New York Times has a gallery of over one hundred photos taken during ten days in Haiti.
Donations can be made to Partners in Health.
All photos by Vincent Fournier.
Selects from Vincent Fournier’s “Space Project” series featuring the interiors of U.S., Russian, and Chinese space agencies, as well as the astronaut’s training grounds.
All of the above by Serena Mitnik-Miller
More of Serena Mitnik-Miller’s work can be found over on her site.
Photographs by Chris Jordan
Midway
Message from the Gyre
“These photographs of albatross chicks were made on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.
To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, none of the plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the untouched stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.”
-Chris Jordan
For more photos from this series and others visit chrisjordan.com.
Top Photo: RIchard Mack. Bottom Photo: Tohoku Color Agency
From The Life & Love of Trees, Lewis Blackwell, Chronicle Books (2009).
A fairly stunning group of images from The Life & Love of Trees is up at Seed Magazine.
Fish & Swimmers, Ironman Triathalon. Photo by Wayne Levin.
I recently came across Wayne Levin’s work through Say Mayday (by way of Shakas and Singlefins). Primarily an underwater photographer, Levin captures moments in which people appear to exist naturally in an alien world. It’s in sharp contrast with the Kuroshio Sea where the piece’s subjects exist in air and water, separated by glass.
Bryce Philips. Alta, UT. Photo by Grant Gunderson.
My sister Sarah recently tipped us off to photographer Grant Gunderson and wow. A Mt. Baker local, his work has been featured everywhere you’d want to be featured as a ski photographer; the covers of “Ski,” “Powder,” “Skiing,” the Patagonia catalog, etc, etc, etc. In addition to the portfolio site, he has a more personal blog. Check it out, he’s posting from Portillo.
Photo by Craig F. Walker
“This is how an American soldier is made.
For 27 months, Ian Fisher, his parents and friends, and the U.S. Army allowed Denver Post reporters and a photographer to watch and chronicle his recruitment, induction, training, deployment, and, finally, his return from combat.”
Truly amazing. Put a few minutes aside to scroll through the set.
