PCPP's Weekly Favorites: September 4th, 2020

September 4, 2020 Karen Gaines

This week's favorites are packed with photography related archives, tips, and news.

Read about Emory University’s recent acquisition of the personal papers of Black Panther Party member and activist, Kathleen Cleaver.

Explore the important work American artist, Theaster Gates, is doing in preserving Black American history through his conceptual project, the Black Image Corporation, which highlights key works from the Johnson Publishing Archive.

Photo by Moneta Sleet Jr., 1968 | Gagosian Quarterly, Fall 2020

Take a look at the rare color photographs of the 1963 March on Washington captured by photographer, James P. Blair, and read about what it was like to document this iconic moment in history.

Read about the mission of photographers, Neil Hamamoto and Andre Wagner, to get 35mm film into the hands of young people around the world through the FREE FILM Project.

Gain advice from American photographer, Joel Meyerowitz, in the AnOther Magazine article covering his five key tips for making great street photographs.

Harry Benson Exhibition Opening at the Erarta Museum on September 2nd

August 31, 2020 Karen Gaines

Harry Benson. The Beatles and Beyond

02 September 2020 — 22 November 2020

“Erarta Museum presents an exhibition by the Scottish photographer Harry Benson who created the iconic portraits of every U.S. president from Dwight Eisenhower to Donald Trump, as well as The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Andy Warhol, and other global celebrities.”

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PCPP's Weekly Favorites: Friday, August 28th

August 28, 2020 Karen Gaines

Read about the discovery an Arkansas-based photographer named Rita Henry made when she found a shoebox full of negatives depicting Little Rock Nine members on the day Central High was desegregated in the late 1950s.

Image Credits: Walter Riddick Jr. ©Joanne Riddick

The legacy of the Hubble Heritage Project has been preserved online at the NASA Hubblesite where the public can now explore the complete collection of images taken of space. The Project, facilitated by a group of astronomers and image processing specialists from 1998 until 2016, utilized the imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope’s archive, together with new observation data, to create scientifically accurate color images of the universe.

Image Credits: ©Space Telescope Science Institute

Brooklyn-based software engineer, Julian Boilen, created a website titled 1940s.nyc to map street views of New York in the 1940s utilizing images taken by the city Tax Department and the New Deal-era Works Progress Administration.