Archive for February, 2010
Moments and missives from our world
February
21
2010
Kim & Langford, The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, SC
Sixteen family members joined Kim and Langford for an intimate wedding at the Inn at Palmetto Bluff on the first two days of 2010.
See the full weekend celebration here.
February
13
2010
Missing Rider
Georgia luger Nodar Kumaritashvili perished during a training accident on Friday afternoon on the Olympic track in Whistler.
Toronto Star photo editor Bernard Weil was covering practice runs on Wednesday afternoon when a riderless sled came tumbling through turn 16 on the course… with the Georgian flag at the front of the rig. Kumaritashvili had popped of his sled in his penultimate ride.
February
11
2010
In Paarl 20 Years Ago
Nelson Mandela walked as a free man for the first time in 27 years.
This image is from a rally in Johannesburg a few years later.
February
08
2010
One Play, Two Views
Al Tielemans and Streeter Lecka were two of the photographers kneeling in the corner of the end zone during last year’s Super Bowl. Santonio Holmes made the game winning catch, Al made the cover photograph for Sports Illustrated, and Streeter caught a defensive back in his lap.
February
07
2010
Barton Silverman – Game 39
Barton Silverman covered the first Colts Super Bowl appearance, and is in Miami this evening as well. In between, he’s shot 37 others. Here are 177 seconds of Images and Commentary.
February
01
2010
Moving History from Manhattan to Austin
The print archive from the Magnum Photos collective recently made its way to Austin, where it will be studied and exhibited for the next five years. Michael Dell, the computer maker, and two art collecting partners made the purchase, and insured the archive for $100 million as it was transported from Manhattan.
Randy Kennedy described the sale for readers of the the grey lady. “It is one of the most important photography archives of the 20th century, consisting of more than 180,000 images known as press prints, the kind of prints once made by the collective to circulate to magazines and newspapers. They are marked on their reverse sides with decades of historical impasto — stamps, stickers and writing chronicling their publication histories — that speaks to their role in helping to create the collective photo bank of modern culture.”