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Bruce Berman Shoots Juárez
Posted by bruce in Conflict, Documentary Photography, Mexico, Photojournalism, The Human Condition, Uncategorized, War on October 8, 2011
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Bruce shoots Juárez. Reluctantly and with remorse.
Since 2008 the photographer has been documenting the aftermath of violence in the troubled northern Mexico city. His interest is in the effect of the Cartel War on the population of the city, particularly the effect on the children of the city who have grown up knowing little else.
His current work is in a mental institution in the city, what he refers to as “The House Of The Abandoned.”.
The body of work -The Other Truth- will appear on this site on November 18th.
Henri Rocks
Posted by bruce in Uncategorized on August 4, 2011
Is Photojournalism Dead Yet?
by Bruce Berman
A whole generation of street photographers have emerged in the digital era.
In fact there is a book dedicated to the subject that has over one hundred street photographers published.
I do not know one name.
What one can glean from this book and the plethora of postings on Facebook, Flickr, and other social media sites is that there are still photograp0hers who go into the streets with intention, commitment and courage and dance with the uncertainty of the randomness of street photography.
For a very good example of this work, visit http://www.street-photographers.com.
The work is good!
Another interesting site is on Vimeo and is produced by the prodigious street photographer Chris Weeks:
Street Photography: Documenting the Human Condition – Part One of Three from Chris Weeks on Vimeo.
But, in the end -and most street photographers acknowledge this- there is still the master of the Decisive Moment, The Man (!), Henri Cartier-Brsson. His work is still fresh, still charming, still brilliantly composed and still a model for a generation, shooting now, who’s grandparents were barely born when Henri was snapping away with his new found Leica.
For a thrilling and significant look at Bresson’s work, view the video below.
Contacts Henri Cartier Bresson english subbed from Ricardo J. Martins on Vimeo.
The next post will be an in depth look at street photography in thjis era, the era of post 9/11 street paranoia, digital speed and, seemingly, the “we have already seen everything,” media.
For now, Henri still rocks.
Joel Myerowitz:Wild Man On The Streets of NYC
Posted by bruce in Uncategorized on March 20, 2011
This is a presentation of MagRack and is a lot of fun.
If you’ve seen the serene images he has done on Cape Cod or the somber and meditative images from Ground Zero, here is another aspect of Meyerowitz. His roots. New Yorker on the prowl where almost anything is game.
Sara Terry: The Aftermath
Posted by bruce in Uncategorized on December 26, 2009
Women returning home from a visit to the homes they fled
in 1995 in Srebrenica, Bosnia, September 2000
SEE: http://www.bosniaaftermath.com/widows.html#
These images from Sara Terry document the aftermath of the war in Bosnia. They are classic documentary images in that they take us to where we have not gone and they show us the meaning of a situation by isolating its moments, by cutting to the essential. This story goes deep because the photographer goes deep. These photographs stay with us because the “moment,” was stopped for us.
James Natchtway Accepts TED Award
Posted by bruce in Uncategorized on January 31, 2009
This is as eloquent a lecture about the “Why,” of doing documentary photography that you will find. Listen to Natchway. He’s earned the world’s ear:
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Border-Blog- Lost And Looking For Redemption In The Mountains of JuarezMan#26, The Other Truth series, Juarez, May 2011 Christmas Eve/El Paso A Personal Narrative Lost and abandoned. Christmas Eve reminds me of that, right now, as I look out my south-facing window to Juarez (three blocks away) across the valley of Juarez, to the foothills of the Sierra Madre, where Creamac sits, CREAMAC, the “mental […]
- Crossing the Rio without ConfusionUndocumented Women CrossingThe R2, Juraez-El Paso, 1984 Text and photograph by Bruce Berman The river with two names: Rio Grande/Rio Bravo del Norte. Depends where you begin and where you end and where you return to. These women are heading north. It was a long time ago. Everything has changed and nothing has changed and […]
- Man In The SegundoMan in the Segundo, El Paso — Sept. 2011 Photo and Text by Bruce Berman Man from Anthony, New Mexico, describing his younger days in the Segundo barrio. The Segundo barrio is El Paso’s most historic neighborhood, hugging the border with Juarez, Mexico and architecturally intact from the 1880’s “railroad boom,” that brought fired […]
- Robot Geeks Attack El PasoV.I.P. at Robo-Geek Fest, El Paso, Texas all photographs by Bruce Berman Robots at Robo-Geek Fest, El Paso, Texas Robot attacks little girl at Robo-Geek Fest, El Paso, Texas Story by Bruce Berman El Paso —- Four-wheeled robots wielding paintball guns took over the Western Technical College Northeast campus on October 15, when students […]
- Night Out With The Man Who Loves DogsThe man who loves dogs (who doesn’t?), Las Cruces, New Mexico, September 2011 FOR SLIDESHOW: Photos and Text by Bruce Berman Las Cruces NM — Gary Bailey. Mensch (in Yiddish it means “a person of integrity and honor”). He is the man who loves dogs. One of them. He rescued all five of these. The […]
- House of the AbandonedMaria Full Of Grace, from The Other Truth (T.O.T.) series, Juárez, May 2011 Photo and Text by Bruce Berman Juárez — Maria. Full of grace. And other emotions. A permanent resident of CREAMAC, in the hills of Juárez, way up there, near the Guadalupe, the last place on one of the last streets, near the […]
- An Iconic Survey of the Border Funklands:1975–2011Teepee on the Carlsbad Highway, from the Funklands Project ©Bruce Berman FOR SLIDESHOW: […]
- The Heart of El Paso/Alligators And Kids With HeartLuis Jimenez’ Largartos (Alligators) in San Jacinto Plaza, El Paso, Texas, July 2011 by Bruce Berman El Paso – by Bruce Berman This is what kids do on their Quincineras in El Paso. They go to the heart of El Paso. They go to the downtown plaza, the “San Jacinto Plaza.” This is […]
- Prom Night: The Boogie Man Is A Long Way AwayProm Girl, El Paso, Texas –May 2011 Murder schmurder! It’s Prom Night in El Paso. Those buildings in the background are downtown El Paso. The space behind, the mountain, that’s Juarez. That girl there, in the foreground, the one with the whimsy and the joy and the hopes and the fragility, she’s a […]
- Waiting For WorkThree guys waiting for work, El Paso , TX. May 2011 by ©Bruce Berman […]
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