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Of the many mysteries in photography culture, one question seized my attention recently: Why are so many photographers really into music, and conversely so many musicians really into photography? For an answer I called my friend Jeff Dunas, probably the most plugged-in photographer I’ve ever met. His collection of gorgeous musician portraits, State of the Blues, was published by Aperture in 2005. “Music and photography go hand in hand,” he said. “A third component is actually red wine.” After we stopped laughing, he continued: “We photographers create the visual aspect of the music, so we’re playing a pivotal role.” It’s true: Photographers are directly responsible for the rock iconography of the past halfcentury, and many of those shooters still live off their archives. Now that well is largely dry, in…

In early 2007, a 24-year-old Bryan Derballa arrived in New York City with little cash and big ideas. “I few into La Guardia with two suitcases, a skateboard, and a backpack, and I took a bus and subway from the airport,” he recalls. “On the stairs I’d take one heavy bag, then go back and get the other one, doing these shuttles every 20 feet. Finally this 6-foot-2 Puerto Rican transgender gal came up and said, ‘Honey, you look like you need some help!’ She got me to my friends’ house where I was staying. It was a great welcome to New York.” Thus kicked off the latest of Derballa’s grand adventures. At age 18 he trekked from his hometown of Asheville, North Carolina, to the University of California at…

BOYHOOD: TWELVE YEARS ON FILM Photos by Matt Lankes University of Texas Press $50 A hit with both critics and audiences, Richard Linklater’s Oscar-nominated movie Boyhood derives much of its depth and magic from the transformation of its main characters over a dozen years, which the director painstakingly captured by filming vignettes at various intervals. Linklater also had the foresight to invite photographer Matt Lankes along for the entire ride. The resulting volume combines pensive, 4x5 black-and-white portraits of the actors with more candid color documentation on set and behind the scenes. The book is set apart by its elegant presentation. In the film, we see the four major characters— Mason (Ellar Coltrane), mom Olivia (Patricia Arquette), dad Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke), and sister Samantha (Linklater’s own daughter Lorelei)— physically…

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PORTRAITURE NOW: STAGING THE SELF National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., through April 12 nationalportraitgallery.org Now in its ninth installation, NPG’s Portraiture Now series spotlights innovative contemporary work by six artists, selected by the gallery’s new curator of Latino art, Taína Caragol. The mixed-media group show considers the fluidity of identity and the use of theatricality and fiction in portraiture. Among these works, many of which also combine painting, drawing, or sculpture, photography stands out: Staged photos by Karen Miranda Rivadeneira deconstruct familial traditions and roles recalled from childhood; Rachelle Mozman’s enigmatic tableaux raise questions about class, privilege, and power; Maria Martínez-Cañas draws inspiration from her father with merged images of him and herself; and Carlee Fernandez creates self-portraits posing with photographs of important artists and their works. MODERN ALCHEMY The…

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Jill Greenberg: Paintings ClampArt Galllery, New York, NY, Feb. 19 – Mar. 28 clampart.com In a commingling of media, Greenberg photographs her own abstract paintings in oil, acrylic, and gouache on glass—often enhancing the color saturation, texture, and contrast of her captured surfaces through digital camera techniques. Mark Steinmetz: South Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, through May 10 ogdenmuseum.org Atlanta-based photographer Steinmetz’s lyrical and emotionally fraught black-andwhite images reflect his Southern literary influences, which include William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and Carson McCullers. Alec South: Songbook Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, through Mar. 28 fraenkelgallery.com In this series on community life and rituals across the country, South assumes the role of newspaper reporter to portray Americans coming together at meetings, dances, festivals, and gatherings. The show accompanies a…

WHERE ARE WE GOING IN 2015?

Experience a Mentor Series Trek and try out some of the latest equipment that Nikon offers including its high-performance DSLRs, NIKKOR lenses, the Nikon 1 System, and a variety of COOLPIX compact digital cameras. BOB SMITH COLORADO PHOTO WORKSHOP “The trekkers learned a lot about using light effectively, but ultimately we’re trying to get people to see better, to express their personal vision. It’s the hardest thing to teach— and the most fulfilling.” Renowned for his wildlife, environmental, and landscape photography, Bob Smith is a member of National Geographic’s Image Collection. “This was an awesome trek, despite the challenging weather,” he notes. “We first went to the Garden of the Gods with its vertical sandstone cliffs, where we focused on shooting dramatic landscapes. In Manitou Springs, an old mining town,…

WHERE ARE WE GOING IN 2015?

My name is Rachel Sussman. I live in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I am a contemporary artist. That’s what I do for a living—no day job, just what sometimes feels like a 24-hour on-call job. Of art. Of arting. Back in 2004 I took a trip to Japan. I had just finished an artist residency at the Cooper Union, and I had just purchased a new camera (a Mamiya 7ii, which would accompany me around the world and which I still shoot with). I went there without an agenda other than to continue making photographs about the relationship between humanity and nature. I ended up having this incredible adventure to a remote island where, I was told, there was a 7,000-year-old tree. Once you got to the island, it was a two-day…

When I caught up with Los Angeles– based photographer Lauren Dukoff, she was having a girls weekend in Palm Springs, California, but that didn’t stop her from graciously taking me on a tour through her fourishing photographic career. Her journey started with a chance teenage friendship with Devendra Banhart, who would later help define a folk music revival. Dukoff’s acclaimed book Family (Chronicle Books, 2009) documented him and his band of free-spirited collaborators. (Dukoff’s name also appears on the credits of a couple of Banhart’s albums as a flute player, which produces a burst of laughter when I ask her about it.) Her intimate reportage photography—reminiscent of an era when music photographers doubled as roadies—has since extended to many musicians, including Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Mary J. Blige, Katy Perry, Morrissey,…

Can’t Stop Won’t Stop

On November 4, 1984, Mark Seliger, all long limbs, wide eyes, and 24-year-old energy, arrived in New York City, where he began an extended stay at his brother’s place in Brooklyn. “I would get up in the morning, get on the train at 6 a.m., make it into the city, and have a coffee,” he says. “Then I’d start plugging dimes into the phone booth.” Every dime was a cold call to a photographer. He’d keep at it until one of them agreed to let him come and assist. Seliger is known for a work ethic that borders on terrifying. His is the kind of intensity that can’t be forced—not continuously for 30 years, anyway. And while that kind of drive can only come from inside, it’s hard not to…

Can’t Stop Won’t Stop

“I ’m a music fan,” says photographer Ian Witlen. As a kid wading into the crowd at punk and pop-punk shows with a camera in his hand, “never in a million years did I think I’d have the chance to work in the business.” Yet that’s how this South Florida–based pro (thecameraclicks.com), whose background is in photojournalism, makes his living now—not just with editorial portraits but with arresting in-yourface images that capture the visceral energy of live acts in venues from tiny clubs to big outdoor festivals. And, like many other pros, he also still shoots for his own pleasure, as a fan. That distinction is important, because professional photographers, when they’re on assignment (and sometimes when off duty), get access and opportunities at live shows that the audience does…

RESOLUTION RACE TO THE TOP Canon EOS 5Ds and 5DsR With these two entries to its popular EOS 5D line, Canon promises the highest pixel count of any full-frame (35mm-format) CMOS sensor—50.6 megapixels. Due to hit shelves in June, both are aimed at landscape photographers, commercial pros, and artists who plan to print on a large scale. Aside from the 5DsR’s low-pass filter cancellation feature, the cameras are identical. Each uses a pair of Canon’s fastest image processors: the Digic 6, to handle all that data. They take UHS-1 class memory cards, and a small RAW setting captures 12.4MB files when the full resolution is too much of a good thing. The cameras also add one-step mirror lockup that can be programmed for up to a two-second delay for critical…

Photographers not intimately familiar with Canon’s bevy of super-telephoto prime lenses may think the green stripe toward the front of the barrel of the company’s new EF 400mm f/4 DO IS II USM looks a little odd. Surely it’s supposed to be red, right? But this isn’t a typical piece of L-series professional-grade glass—it’s a long-awaited update to a rather unique lens. The DO in the lens name stands for Diffractive Optics, a technology that Canon has been using in its quirky 400mm lens for more than a decade. This arrangement of the internal elements changes the path of light traveling through the lens barrel, allowing for an overall package that’s substantially smaller and lighter than the typical telephoto bazooka. The shrink ray, however, does not come without side effects.…

In 2012, after American troops’ initial withdrawal from Iraq, National Geographic sent Carolyn Drake on a four-week assignment to document the repopulation by Marsh Arabs of the country’s southern wetlands. This desert oasis, which biblical scholars link to the Garden of Eden, was nearly wiped out by Saddam Hussein in the 1990s when he drained the marshes and bombed villages in retaliation for a Shia uprising. After the U.S. invasion in 2003, the displaced began breaking holes in Hussain’s levees to revive the marshes, now 40 to 50 percent restored. Drake sent back a large portfolio. Her photo of two of her subjects cutting reeds in Hammar Marsh (right) was chosen for the story’s opening spread, but in the end her photos never ran at all. As many magazines do,…

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