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Ara Guler by Emin Ozmen/Magnum Photos

Photographers

Man Ray - Magnolia from photography auctions

Photography Auctions

April 10, 2017 by A. Cemal Ekin

Photography auctions like the ones run by Sotheby’s, Christie’s, etc., present otherwise hard to see …

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Portrait Narratives by Jonathan Sharlin

Portrait Narratives – An Exhibit

March 5, 2017 by A. Cemal Ekin

I met the Rhode Island photographer Jonathan Sharlin at another photographer couple’s house at a pizza party. As …

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Restoration Next Door

Restoration Next Door

January 16, 2017 by A. Cemal Ekin

Restoration next door? No, not here on Spring Green Rd, but in Ayvalik, Turkey. Ergun sent me a few photographs last …

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Irving Penn Photographer

Irving Penn at Lesley University

November 28, 2016 by A. Cemal Ekin

Thanks to Lesley University and Smithsonian Museum, we were able to see the works of Irving Penn. Many were his platinum …

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Exhibit Hall

Pictures At An Exhibition

September 18, 2016 by A. Cemal Ekin

Sitting in a place for the first time for three hours with very little to do lets you observe and see many things in a …

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Art League RI President Paulette Miller

Art League RI Exhibit Opening

September 8, 2016 by A. Cemal Ekin

Today was the opening reception of the Beyond Choreography: Visual Interpretation of Movement juried exhibit. Art League …

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Providence

Gallery Hopping In Providence

May 26, 2016 by A. Cemal Ekin

The third Thursday of every month is the Gallery Night in Providence. All the galleries stay open and open to the public …

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Abelardo Morell - The Universe Next Door

Abelardo Morell Lecture

March 18, 2016 by A. Cemal Ekin

At the end of 2015, I wrote a post titled “A Gift Of Learning” to talk about several photographers and …

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Gregory Crewdson, Seated Woman on Bed. 2013

Answers or Questions

February 9, 2016 by A. Cemal Ekin

Do you want photographs to answer your questions, or question your answers? Answering the questions will address who, …

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Nicholas Murray, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Joan Crawford, 1929

Hear This Archive January 2016

January 21, 2016 by A. Cemal Ekin

A little while ago I started putting what I considered to be an interesting piece of information about photographers, …

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Photography for 2016

A Gift of Learning

December 28, 2015 by A. Cemal Ekin

This will likely be the last post of 2015. I wrote a little less than a year ago my wishes for 2015, some of which came …

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John Sexton

John Sexton Talks About Photography

December 25, 2015 by A. Cemal Ekin

Photography has always been a blend of art and craft and Ansel Adams has long embodied a good mixture of the two. One of …

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Wim Wenders and Sebastiao Salgado

Sebastião Salgado:
The Silent Drama of Photography

December 13, 2015 by A. Cemal Ekin

The Salt of The Earth I have been familiar with Salgado’s photography through magazines, newspapers, and the Web, …

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The Silent Drama of Photography
PSRI Group Show

Gallery Shows

December 7, 2015 by A. Cemal Ekin

(Photograph by Marion Faria, click to see the full poster) The Photographic Society of Rhode Island (PSRI) had the …

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Robert Frank

The Americans

July 13, 2015 by A. Cemal Ekin

Over 60 years ago Robert Frank photographed with an outsider’s eye the Americans as he traveled from coast to …

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Melancholic Tulip

Melancholic Tulip – Kertész André

July 10, 2015 by A. Cemal Ekin

André Kertész is one of the great photographers of the 20th century although he did not get the fame and recognition he …

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Art Wolfe - The Art of the Image

Learning To See with Art Wolfe

March 23, 2015 by A. Cemal Ekin

Speaking of training your eye to see more and to see better, listen to Art Wolfe, and find out how he finds the frames …

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LensWork Extended

Formulas For Success

January 19, 2015 by A. Cemal Ekin

I have been a subscriber to LensWork for quite some time and was honored to have my work published in it a few years …

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Somewhere Over the USA

Six Dollars and 50 cents, not $6.5 million

December 15, 2014 by A. Cemal Ekin

As you can tell from my previous post, the article by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian really ticked me off. Then I …

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Camera and Lens, Ansel Adams

Adams’ Foreword

December 5, 2014 by A. Cemal Ekin

I picked up one of my oldest photography books, Camera And Lens by Ansel Adams, to go through it with a new perspective. …

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Ernest Goh, Chickens on the Runway

Chickens on the Runway

November 2, 2014 by A. Cemal Ekin

Hard To Call These Chickens Chickens are the but of many jokes, but I dare you to stare down one of these chickens! …

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Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange

August 30, 2014 by A. Cemal Ekin

We watched an excellent documentary on an excellent documentary photographer, Dorothea Lange. I have found out that one …

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Cemal Ekin, MNEC

NECCC 2014, MNEC, Sam Abell

July 13, 2014 by A. Cemal Ekin

(Click the image for full letter) I have just returned from the 69th NECCC 2014 Annual Photography Conference held at U …

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Life Cover Issue #1

LIFE

May 30, 2014 by A. Cemal Ekin

For many years, nay decades LIFE was photography and photography was about life. The documentary below, America In …

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