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Herb Ritts Exhibition Opens today and runs till May 19th at the Ringling Museum of Art. Herb Ritts (American, 1952–2002) was a Los Angeles-based photographer who established an international reputation for his distinctive photographs of fashion models, nudes, and celebrities. From the late 1970s until his untimely death from AIDS in 2002, Ritts’s ability to [...]

Fracture: Daido Moriyama April 7, 2012–July 31, 2012 Pavilion for Japanese Art, Level 3 Los Angeles County Museum of Art Photographer Daido Moriyama (Japan, b. 1938) first came to prominence in the mid-1960s with his gritty depictions of Japanese urban life. His highly innovative and intensely personal photographic approach often incorporates high contrast, graininess, and [...]

http://lensteckler.com/default.aspx In 2005, the artist Len Steckler lost his left eye to cancer. What would have been a devastating blow to most people instead made Steckler more obsessed with sight. His former binocular vision became monocular, and he started to see the world with more clarity and concentration. It shows in his photography of recent [...]

http://eleanorleonnebennett.zenfolio.com/p781025395 Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a 16-year-old internationally award-winning photographer and artist who has won first places with National Geographic, The World Photography Organisation, Nature’s Best Photography, Papworth Trust, Mencap, The Woodland Trust, and Postal Heritage. Her photography has been published in The Telegraph, The Guardian, BBC News Website, and on the cover of books [...]

March 18,2012  Born into a wealthy Jewish family in New York 89 years ago on March 14, 1923, Diane Arbus made her reputation photographing people on the margins of society: losers, misfits, nudists, transvestites, prostitutes, the mentally retarded, sideshow freaks, and almost anyone who seemed not to fit in easily with her upper middle class [...]

www.kazanjian.net Jim Kazanjian’s surreal landscapes offer phantasmagoric visions of a where-is-this world, defined by impossibly complex architecture and M.C.Escher-esque black-and-white graphics. Inspired by the imaginary realms of cult author H.P. Lovecraft—whose wild, cosmic short stories set the mold for much of the 20th century’s best science fiction—Kazanjian’s aim is to redress the “misunderstanding that photography has [...]