MINOR AT HEART
Photographer Gordon Parks and Harlem gang leader Leonard “Red” Jackson
In marking a forthcoming remake of Shaft, Maurice Berger at the New York Times reports that Gordon Parks hoped to "challenge how mainstream media portrayed African-Americans and crime.”
Bossa nova's break and a question of cover art
What's cover art got to do with it? Author Bryan McCann on bossa nova LP Getz/Gilberto and Pete Turner's iconic photography
Lewis Hine’s photography: Camera as social reform tool
Wisconsin-born photographer Lewis Wickes Hine used his talent for the common good.
Vivian Maier in color
At Chicago magazine, critic Claire Voon writes about a new monograph for photographer Vivian Maier
Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rear Window' setting dissected by Jeff Desom
Jeff Desom deconstructed the backdrop of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window for a 2012 Vimeo Awards-winning short film essay.
Meags Fitzgerald's 'Photobooth: A Biography'
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Dominic Umile lives, writes, and drinks in Brooklyn, NY. His criticism and features have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Reader, Hyperallergic, and more. Get in touch.