Moola © Kevin Horan — *Moola* © Kevin Horan

Last week we learned the sad news that Behold, Slate's photography blog, and one of our all time favorites had posted its last piece. If the buzzword "influencer" could be used sincerely to describe a photography blog writer, it couldn't more accurately epitomize David Rosenberg, the mind behind Behold's editorial direction. We've spoken to countless photographers whose work exploded after being featured on Behold by Rosenberg and staff writers Alyssa Coppelman and Jordan Teicher, and I can personally attest to seeing my own work take off after Rosenberg wrote about it. I'll never forget the knee-shaking feeling of receiving a call from Fox News asking to interview me after reading his piece. So I reached out to David to learn more about what drives his love for photography, and a bit about what's in store for the future. We've also included some of our favorite photographs from past Slate features, like Kevin Horan's series ChattelI above, and Corinne Botz' project Bedside Manner below.

PostedOctober 6, 2016

AuthorJon Feinstein

CategoriesArtists, Publications

TagsDavid Rosenberg, Behold Blog, Slate Magazine, Kevin Horan, Bill Sullivan, Photo Blogging, Endia Beal, Liz Obert, Corinne Botz

This weekend marks Printed Matter's annual New York Art Book Fair: a glorious, highly curated, jam packed, sweaty gathering of some of best mainstream and independent art book publishers. Hosted at New York City's MoMa PS1 in Long Island City, it's filled with frequent book signings, people watching and an opportunity to spend a downpayment on way too many photobooks (which you should.) We hope the renegade book appropriating bootleggers Flat Fix are back for an attack. Oh, and there's also the Independent Art Book Fair happening close by in Greenpoint, which is worth a walk over the Pulaski Bridge. Below are some of our anticipated favorites, in no particular order.

PostedSeptember 15, 2016

AuthorEditors

CategoriesPublications, Artists

TagsNew York Art Book Fair, Printed Matter, NYABF, Ben Alper, Nat Ward, A New Nothing, Ahndraya Parlato, Curran Hatleberg, Kris Graves, Giovanna Silva, Photobooks

© Christian Hendricks — © Christian Hendricks

In 2009, while still in college, Romke Hoogwaerts started Mossless, a thoughtfully produced, no-frills blog where he interviewed a new photographer every two days. By 2012, he was putting out books, and in 2013, while concurrently working as a New York City bicycle tour guide for the summer, began editing Mossless 3: The United States with Miriam Grace Leigh, a comprehensive photographic survey which landed itself on TIME, and unsurprisingly, Humble's best-of-2014 photobook lists. Hoogwaerts latest endeavor, Public, Private, Portrait, a collaboration with Charlotte Cotton and the International Center of Photography, is a portraiture focused parallel to ICP's upcoming launch exhibition of a similar name ("Public, Private, Secret"), with a glimpse into how the genre might address some of the blurry lines between these very issues. Working with editor Jonah Rosenberg and designer Elana Schlenker, it promises to be an immaculate publication, well worth funding through their current Kickckstarter campaign. We spoke with Hoogwaerts to get a better picture.

PostedApril 25, 2016

AuthorJon Feinstein

CategoriesArtists, Publications

Tagsphotobooks, contemporary portraiture, Romke Hoogwaerts, Charlotte Cotton, New Photography, selfies, Kickstarter Photography Campaigns

Through A Real Imitation, photographer T ommy Kha, a native Memphian of Chinese descent, uses performance, self portraiture and Memphis iconography to understand his experience and the nuances of feeling different. Obsessed with photography's tendency to reveal and conceal, and a nod to Diane Arbus' description of photography as a "purveyor of secrets," Kha pushes its function with quiet and sometimes humorous images that depict and exaggerate his alienation. Upon the release of his recent monograph published by Aint Bad, Kha spoke with friend Justine Kurland to dive deeper into his process and the psychology behind it.

PostedApril 7, 2016

AuthorEditors

CategoriesArtists, Portfolio, Publications

TagsTommy Kha, Justine Kurland, Aint Bad Books, A Real Imitation, Yale Photographers, New Photography, Narrative Photography, Large Format Photography, self portraiture

Photographic buzzwords are still some of the most heavily used, yet meaningless forms of journalism today. Possibly the "millennial" answer to The New York Post's historically obnoxious front page headlines, these "delicious" words continue to get our clicks, regardless of how hollow they might actually be. They make stories more "digestible" with language designed to entice even your feline friends. For many photo editors, this tendency towards linguistic carelessness also finds its way into image requests, and for the self-proclaimed intelligentsia, using art-speak can often seem a bit more "complex" than it actually is. Since we at Humble are guilty of all of the above, for the second time, we invited some of our favorite art and photography curators, writers, editors, and producers to share some of their most beloved/hated photographic buzzword pet peeves, which we illustrated using some of our favorite stock photos and illustrations of cats. Enjoy, and "please share this magical work" widely. Wanna see our 2015 list first? Click Here

PostedMarch 24, 2016

AuthorJon Feinstein

CategoriesPublications

TagsCharlotte Cotton, Liz Lapp, Elizabeth Renstrom, Ellyn Kail, Bryan Formhals, Stephanie Heimann, Jenna Garrett, Jordan Teicher, Jacqueline Bates, Toby Kaufmann, Paddy Johnson, Kate Osba

A Warm Goodbye to Behold: An Interview with Photo Editor David Rosenberg

Five Photobooks You Should Get at the New York Art Book Fair This Weekend

Public/Private/Portrait Might Be The Best Not-Yet-Published Photobook of 2016

A Real Imitation: Justine Kurland in Conversation With Tommy Kha

12 Click-tacular Buzzwords Photography Writers Need To Stop Using (part 2)