A child crying, 1967- Diane Arbus

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”

Young people on the Brooklyn waterfront on Sept. 11. © Thomas-Hoepker.

Probably one of the astonishing picture of 9/11. Read the incredible story of this photo in The Guardian : “The meaning of 9/11’s most controversial photo”.

Wayne Lawrence: Orchard Beach

Summer is back! Wanna go to the Riviera ? Not the French Riviera, but the Bronx Riviera. I’ve discovered this work of Wayne Lawrence on Orchard Beach in the Bronx.

In an interview, he says : ‘When I started photographing at Orchard Beach, it was at a time when I was getting to know New York, having moved here from California, and I needed a place where I could grow as a photographer and where I knew that I wouldn’t mind spending a lot of time. So going to the water felt natural. I was drawn to Orchard Beach in particular because it’s man-made and has a reputation for being one of the worst beaches in New York. But to most of the people who go there, it’s the best thing happening during the summer’.

David Hockney : composite Polaroids

Great artist. I’m surprised that there is no iPhone app with such effect.

(Source: hockneypictures.com)

Irina Werning : Back to The Future

Irina Werning, a photographer born in Buenos Aires, started an interesting project called “Back to The Future” where she takes someone’s old photo and recreates the same old scene with the same person many years later. While it might not sound too complicated, she is unbelievably accurate – it seems that she just found some old and young look-alikes and shot two pictures on the same day.

(Source: irinawerning.com)

Weapons Platoon « Why are you a Marine ? » by Stephen Dupont

“I choose to take a simple and intimate path in this project and simply asked all the Marines in the platoon to write their answers to the question ‘Why are you a Marine?’ in a small journal that I kept while I was embedded with them. While in the field I took the Polaroids of each Marine and gave them the positive as a reciprocal gesture for their participation and honesty and later back in Sydney printed from the negative.”

Martin Parr, “The Artificial Beach Inside the Ocean Dome, Miyazaki, Japan

In Small World, published in 1995, Parr tackled mass international tourism, the subject that has most preoccupied him ever since. He has travelled all over the world, even to North Korea, and no longer takes holidays as such. “I just go on work trips with my camera and, sometimes, my wife.” His mission is, again, to combat propaganda. “Tourism is the biggest industry in the world. You can’t ignore it. I like to explore the problem with it, which is the difference between the myth and the reality of the place. The purpose of most travel photography is to sell travel adverts, which doesn’t interest me at all.”