Tuesday, March 30, 2010

American Photographers on Stamps, Part II

Here are the rest of American photographers stamps. I didn't have much luck finding source photos.




W. Eugene Smith, Self-portrait, 1944




Albert Sands Southworth by Southworth & Hawes




Self-Portrait with studio camera, 1917




Stieglitz by Carl Van Vechten, 1935




Strand by Walter Rosenblum, 1973




Self-Portrait














White by Robert Haiko, 1973



Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Mary Ellen Mark in Avant Garde magazine

Originally shot for Look magazine: "I suggested another story, on drug addicts and junkies in London. It's funny because I shot it predominantly in black and white, but on the last day I shot a couple of rolls of color, and they ended up using the color pictures. Anyway it was a very solid story--I still count some of my black-and-white pictures taken on this assignment as being strong statements about drug addiction."

Avant Garde 14, Summer 1971.





Also in the issue is a photo-essay by Leonard Freed about an artist's commune in Lower Manhattan and the "Belles Lettres" alphabet of naked women that Ed van der Elsken was involved in as story teller. And no, I don't know what that means.