Photo by Richard Sandler
I make plugs here about the wide-ranging and far-flung photographic content at The New York Times, but TIME Lightbox also does a nice job. I got in the habit of ignoring them because early on I couldn't access them: some glitch in the Tubes of the Interwebs somewhere made it so the front page would open and then get stuck. So if I saw a link to TIME Lightbox I would ignore it.
Photo by Harry Kydonakis
No need now. Whatever was broke is fixed. And it's a good source for excellent, thought-provoking, eye-gratifying, mojo-revivifying slideshows. Consider these two: Richard Sandler, written about by Alexandra Genova, and Charalampos "Harry" Kydonakis, written about by Gus Powell. Harry Kydonakis is from the Greek island of Crete (home of the Minotaur and birthplace of Zeus) at the southern edge of the Aegean Sea. He's known as "Dirty Harrry" [sic] online, and a search will yield many breadcrumb-trails to follow if you're so inclined. Richard Sandler, who is currently a videographer, has been getting increasing amounts of attention stemming from a book of his classic street photography done in the 1980s and early '90s, mostly in New York City. There is more of his work at his website.
Stout stuff, both. Drink it in.
Mike
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Kenneth Tanaka: "Very compelling work samples by both Kydonakis and Sandler. Most interesting to me is the contrast in their styles of choices and presentation. Sandler's work reminds me a bit of Bruce Davidson's style, perhaps because of those trashed subway scenes. Kydonakis's work is much looser, not as generally figuratively impactful as Sandler's but much more conceptual. At least that's my take. Thanks Mike."
On the subject of Time magazine: one of my favourite photo essays is this one from many years ago (from 2002, I think) in Time magazine online by Monique Stauder called Latitude Zero (http://content.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2019167,00.html). It's always inspired the armchair adventurer in me as well as my appreciation for documentary photography. It appears that the project is now a book available on her website (http://moniquestaurder.com) and Amazon (https://www.amazon.ca/Latitude-Zero-Paul-Theroux/dp/9053307192/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1489119234&sr=8-5&keywords=latitude+zero).
Posted by: Phil | Thursday, 09 March 2017 at 10:16 PM
Yakimovich Is brilliant!
Posted by: Eolake | Friday, 10 March 2017 at 02:47 AM
My name is Jamal Clark aka Photo Genius
Posted by: Jamal Clark | Friday, 10 March 2017 at 06:58 AM
I like how Kydonakis often centers the subject. The squirrel had me laughing. The fish with teeth had me say "ewww" out loud.
Posted by: John Krumm | Friday, 10 March 2017 at 10:39 AM
The Richard Sandler portfolio at is web-site is great (and extensive, showing 116 images). Unfortunately the pictures are a bit too large and get truncated top/bottom on my HP XR22w monitor. I don't know of a way to size them down a little bit so I could see each one in full.
[Hi Kurt, I noticed that, but I was able to adjust the size by fiddling with the size of my browser window. Did you try that? --Mike]
Posted by: Kurt Kramer | Friday, 10 March 2017 at 10:39 AM
Back in 2006 at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, we had Mason Resnick curate a show of street photographers and Richard Sandler was one of the participants. I still have the mailer we produced with one of his images. That was a great show with photographers from all over the place.
Posted by: Jim Meeks | Friday, 10 March 2017 at 10:43 AM
Exceptional street photographers continue to capture the magic, serendipity and absurdity that is everyday life.
Posted by: Stan B. | Friday, 10 March 2017 at 12:25 PM
Following on from Kurt's issue not being able to see the images in full - try setting your browser software to view in "full-screen" mode. With most browsers on Windows PC's (and possibly Macs?) pressing the F11 key toggles between full-screen viewing and your normal view.
I was able to see them fully on a 22" screen.
Posted by: Dave Stewart | Saturday, 11 March 2017 at 07:30 AM