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06/19/2013
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Marie Lechowicz
36 articles written by this author

Cuartoscuro

Marie Lechowicz | 06/12/2013 | Magazines
A photographers’ magazine. This is how Cuartoscuro defines itself. With 111 issues to date and a circulation of 10,000 copies, Cuartoscuro (a portmanteau word for dark room) is succeeding in its mission to promote “quality Mexican photography”. Printed on thick, matted paper, the bimonthly magazine...
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The Magnum Foundation

Marie Lechowicz | 09/27/2012 | Foundations
In 1947, George Rodger, funding member of Magnum Photos, was absent from the foundation meeting on the grounds that the idea was “too halcyon to be true”. The subsequent decades of Magnum success and renown proved him wrong. Magnum Photos is one of the earliest photography cooperatives in history....
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SlowExposures Photography Festival: 10th anniversary

Marie Lechowicz | 09/05/2012 | Festivals
How about spending the last two weeks of September amid the centuries-old cotton fields of Georgia’s Lower Piedmont… SlowExposures is about just that – and photography, of course. A one-of-a-kind festival, SlowExposures is to photography what Slow Food is to gastronomy. And when it comes to...
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Emphas.is: crowdfunding for photojournalism

Marie Lechowicz | 08/27/2012 | Business
In 2010, photojournalist Karim Ben Khelifa was angry. After 12 years spent roaming the world’s most war-ridden regions, he, like everyone in the field, was watching the inexorable melancholy ending of the epic of photojournalism – assignments dwindling by the day, and hopes of earning support for...
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Dalpine: independent and self-published books

Marie Lechowicz | 08/19/2012 | Books
Book readers and lovers are increasingly indisposed by the Amazonification of their world, and as Facebook Timeline exhibits succumb to the standardizing domino of buzz, all of us yearn for that strike of originality and authenticity that will let our own aura shine above the twitting mass. At the...
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The F-STOP

Marie Lechowicz | 07/11/2012 | Blogs
The F STOP - Professional Photographers Discuss Their Craft What is behind the image? Who is behind the image? Who is doing what behind the image? These questions pop into our heads whenever we look at photography. And, in the age of digital photography, with post-production becoming increasingly...
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MA in International Multimedia Journalism

Marie Lechowicz | 06/12/2012 | Education
In 2010, a Master of Arts in International Multimedia Journalism was opened at the University of Beijing. Not strictly speaking a photo school, the program caters to post-graduate students and is the only such course in China to be taught in English. The project stems from a novel collaboration...
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The Richard Avedon Foundation

Marie Lechowicz | 06/04/2012 | Foundations
When Richard Avedon was a little boy, his parents would orchestrate a yearly family picture to be taken on somebody else's (better) front lawn, with borrowed dogs. Maybe this recurring pictorial lie is what prompted Avedon to look for truth in each and every one of the countless portraits he shot...
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Foam Magazine

Marie Lechowicz | 05/18/2012 | Magazines
International Photography Quarterly “What’s next?” is the question asked by the latest issue of Foam magazine. For its 10th anniversary, the magazine stepped away from its usual format and recounted a year spent asking “photographers, critics, writers, academics, researchers, curators and media...
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The Singapore International Photography Festival

Marie Lechowicz | 05/08/2012 | Festivals
The 3rd Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) will launch on October 5th, 2012. With its exhibitions, workshops, portfolio reviews, slideshow screenings and public forums, SIPF looks just like another photo festival. However, what distinguishes it from other photo festivals is not...
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Eddie Adams Workshop

Marie Lechowicz | 04/10/2012 | Workshops
Barnstorm: the Eddie Adams workshop. Building an elite photojournalism community. In 1976, when Pulitzer Prize winner Eddie Adams bought a bygone dairy farm in Jeffersonville, New York – only 15 miles away from where the Woodstock festival had been held 7 years before – he said he wanted to create...
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La Lettre de la Photographie

Marie Lechowicz | 04/02/2012 | Blogs
Daily coverage of everything photographic. To cover everything photographic that is happening in the world on a daily basis – that is the undertaking of La Lettre de la Photographie , and, so far, La Lettre has been doing a good job out of it. Only 9 months after the site was launched in October...
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Sally Mann

Marie Lechowicz | 03/16/2012 | Websites
Intimate, controversial, thorough, Sally Mann stands out among late 20th century American photographers. Her rare and remarkable work earned her Time magazine’s recognition as Photographer of the Year 2001. Born in Lexington, Virginia, in 1951, the South is the background of her life, the...
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The Sartorialist

Marie Lechowicz | 03/15/2012 | Blogs
Who would guess, when stumbling upon The Sartorialist , that the eye which spotted these anonymous icons of chic on the streets of New York, Milan and Paris is a stocky bloke from Indiana? The Sartorialist is entering its seventh year and, at 13 million visitors a month, it could well hit one...
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Lux Archive

Marie Lechowicz | 03/04/2012 | Galleries
From The F-STOP's publisher Zach Seckler comes a new online photo gallery called Lux Archive. Like Seckler, Lux Archive is based in New York, although it does not have a physical retail location. Instead, the gallery has been carving its niche on the burgeoning online art market, where there is...
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International Center of Photography

Marie Lechowicz | 02/08/2012 | Exhibitions
Back in grimmer days, Grace Plaza in New York was a notorious drug hub to say the least. Today, it is better known as the home of the International Center of Photography, which moved here from its prominent but crammed location on Fifth Avenue in the year 2000. The glassy 17,000 square-foot gallery...
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sueño de la razón

Marie Lechowicz | 01/31/2012 | Magazines
Foto grafia, Nuestra Mirada, sueño de la razón , all these projects coincide in two ideas: cooperative is good, free is good. With, again, humility, discretion and tenderness, sueño de la razón goes about interpreting South American reality through South American photography and vice-versa.
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Nuestra Mirada

Marie Lechowicz | 01/31/2012 | Websites
José Martí’s “nuestra America” (“our America”) did not die with its author. Latin Americans – sometimes assisted by North Americans – work transnationally and collectively in many initiatives, celebrating the continent’s unity of soul and diversity of spirit in a constant assertion of its...
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Foto Grafia

Marie Lechowicz | 01/30/2012 | Websites
“Access, read, contribute, publicize” is the motto of Foto Grafia , an online initiative launched in 2010 by Brazilian publisher Lapis Comunicação e Cultura. The digital publication can be viewed online (hosted on issuu) or downloaded in PDF format – both options free of charge.
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Life

Marie Lechowicz | 01/30/2012 | Websites
“Where can I get the latest issue of Life magazine?” Is the first question in LIFE.com ’s FAQ. The answer, many of us lament, is: nowhere. After an almost 30-year long revival, Life officially died in May 2000, accompanied only a month later by George Story, the then adult toddler whose pictures...
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