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Pretend You Actually Like Each Other!

Posted on September 15, 2026 by Robert Basil

I always thought the reason people’s faces seemed stern and frozen in 19th-century photographs was the daguerrotype process, which required extended exposures – too long to keep a decent smile going. This common explanation is wrong, alas. In his article … Continue reading →

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Street Photography

Posted on August 13, 2026 by Robert Basil

This year’s “Pure Street Photography Awards” introduced me to some dazzling, indeed inspiring photographs. The one below, by Daniel Kashi of France, won the Grand Prize. It’s a mesmerizing triumph. “Chantilly June 2025,” © Daniel Kashi

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A Street Photography community

Posted on July 7, 2026 by Robert Basil

The day I started these new feeds, I came upon a video in Fstoppers by Peter Forsgård, a photographer from Helsinki, Finland, discussing what street photographers could learn from the musician Brian Eno. I watched it twice, the second time taking … Continue reading →

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Heroines Revisited

Posted on November 11, 2021 by Robert Basil

I saw the first photographs from Lincoln Clarkes’ monumental series “Heroines” the day after his initial exhibition closed. That was the day I met Lincoln as well. The curator at Vancouver’s Helen Pitt Gallery hadn’t taken the show down yet, … Continue reading →

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Picturing the news

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Robert Basil

Peter Maass of The Intercept asks a really good question: “Why have Americans seen relatively little imagery of people suffering from Covid-19? While there is a long-running debate over the influence of disturbing images of death and dying — whether … Continue reading →

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Flagging the #tags

Posted on August 16, 2020 by Robert Basil

It’s not just the photos available for viewing and sale by the Magnum Agency but how they are tagged: Magnum Photos, one of the world’s most celebrated photographic agencies, is to re-examine the content of its archive of more than … Continue reading →

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