The International Center of Photography has a show up Weegee: Murder is My Business that looks incredible.

Weegee (Arthur Fellig) was a street photographer’s street photographer and photojournalist.

This is an excellent video of both portraits and behind the scenes process of how photographer Peter Hapak put together his collection for an issue of Time Magazine.

Reminds me of Irving Penn’s traveling studio (below):

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Alan Taylor has put together an amazing collection of images that document a tough year on planet earth. Part 3 coming tomorrow.

I’ve been following Scott Schuman’s Sartorialist blog for a while. This video shows him shooting in Tokyo.

At a glance his blog and the video might look like simple documentary of street fashion of the upwardly mobile but in fact if you follow it for a while it’s like watching live, current urban anthropology. He has a knack for mining the good stuff, both in faces and clothing.

I’ve posted about Scott’s work before, here, here, and here.

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Fantastic series of landscape photographs.

[via Steve Splonskowski]

The PBS NewsHour had a great piece last night produced by Tom Bearden: A Life Under Fire: Combat Photographer Captures, Carries Wounds of War.

Her photography is first rate, especially her portraits, they’re some of the finest portrait work I’ve ever seen. And her story is compelling: she’s a vet herself who was wounded numerous times in Iraq.

You can see more of her work at her photo shelter site: Stacy Pearsall.

She has a show up for another few weeks at the Montclair Art Museum (New Jersey) that I hope to get down to see so I can see some of her printed work in person.

More of Alan Taylor’s excellent collection of World War II in Photos.

Many of us have seen numerous collections of photographic documentation of Nazi Germany’s “final solution” of concentration death camps and have little interest in seeing more. Alan Taylor is an excellent photo editor and has put together a well-captioned collection that should send chills down anyone’s spine, Jew and non-Jew.

Human beings are capable of terrible things and it’s important to look carefully at images like these to burn that idea into our brains so that we don’t find ourselves in the same place, yet again.

Given our short cultural memory, coupled with the number of people who have no clue that this ever happened, I’m not confident we won’t repeat it in one form or another.

The Denver Post has a nice collection of images of the building of Hoover Dam on the Colorado River.

Alan Taylor at The Atlantic puts together another great collection in his ongoing series on World War II in Photos. This one is particularly good, especially image #42 of the invasion of Okinawa.

Joel Meyerowitz has a show up at the Tremaine Gallery at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut that’s well worth seeing if you’re in the area: The City Resilient. The images are spectacular: the superb photography and large scale increases the dramatic impact of the scale of the destruction at ground zero.

Amazon has the book of these images: Aftermath and the hardback is priced very reasonably.

Here’s a second video on how Meyerowitz got entry to the site which no press was allowed in to at the time.