Tickle Your Fancy #39 – #NSFW
Welcome back to our thirty ninth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of between three to five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art.
Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site.
This week we look at some incredible photographs by Peter Macdiarmid of locations in France and England matching archived images taken before, during and after the D-day landings – really incredible. This month also represents the 60th anniversary of the first civilian nuclear power plant, we view a selection of images – quite a spectacle. When Tomas van Houtryve sent up a drone to photograph US public spaces, it captured a series of haunting images from a unique perspective, very interesting! British photographer Jane Hilton’s exhibition at the Schilt Gallery in Amsterdam celebrates her love of the American West. Two bodies of work are being shown together for the first time. ‘Dead Eagle Trail’, Hilton’s first monograph, documents the struggle of the cowboy to preserve his way of life. Her later series ‘Precious’ consists of intimate images of working girls taken at eleven legal brothels in Nevada – we show you a selection of images. Fabulous read from American Photomag – ‘Long before Facebook, Sheila Metzner, 75, began creating vast crisscrossing networks of friends, coworkers who turn into friends, and family members. With a big personality and a penchant for travel, she has built a global network fortified by wide-ranging assignments that keep her on the move. “It’s amazing how many lines cross through one another—and they increase as you get older,” says Metzner, who met Ralph Lauren after writing him a fan letter and has been shooting his ad campaigns on and off for decades. “Photography is my whole life…’
I hope you enjoy these articles and images this weekend.
D-day landings scenes in 1944 and now – interactive
June 1944: German prisoners are guarded by British soldiers from the 2nd Army on Juno Beach. 8 May 2014: A view of the beach in Bernières-sur-Mer in Normandy today. Photographs by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty and Peter Macdiarmid/Getty
Peter Macdiarmid has taken photographs of locations in France and England to match with archive images taken before, during and after the D-day landings. The Allied invasion to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during the second world war took place on 6 June 1944. Operation Overlord was the largest seaborne invasion in military history, with more than 156,000 Allied troops storming the beaches of France.
Having personally visited many of the Normandy beaches, this is even more meaningful.
Sixty Years of Nuclear Energy – In Pictures
Inside the Thorp nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield Nuclear Power Station, in Cumbria, England, in 1993. Photograph by Peter Marlow/Magnum.
This June will mark the sixtieth anniversary of the first civilian nuclear-power plant, built in the Soviet city of Obninsk, in 1954. Several countries have recently started to phase out the production of nuclear plants due to the number of accidents, most notably the Three Mile Island meltdown, in the United States; the Chernobyl disaster, in the U.S.S.R.; and the Fukushima nuclear disaster, in Japan. Nonetheless, the size and complexity of the plants remains a spectacle. Above is a selection of photographs of the world’s nuclear-power plants, inside and out, from the Magnum archive.
Drones: an eye in the sky
Baseball practice in Montgomery County, Maryland. Photograph: Tomas van Houtryve
When photographer Tomas van Houtryve shows people his picture of a yoga class mid-pose in a San Francisco public park, half see people practicing yoga, the other half see people praying. It is this reaction to what drones capture that worries him.
“Imagine if all we knew about the way people in Pakistan lead their lives were derived from images of the tops of their heads, taken from 15,000ft (4,500 metres) in the air. It’s bound to be full of uncertainty. Is this the best way to fight a war?”
Cowboys and Call Girls: Jane Hilton on the American West
Image – ©Jane Hilton
British photographer Jane Hilton’s exhibition at the Schilt Gallery in Amsterdam celebrates her love of the American West. Two bodies of work are being shown together for the first time. ‘Dead Eagle Trail’, Hilton’s first monograph, documents the struggle of the cowboy to preserve his way of life. Her later series ‘Precious’ consists of intimate images of working girls taken at eleven legal brothels in Nevada.
Legends in the Field: Sheila Metzner
© Sheila Metzner “The Passion of Rome,” shot for Fendi, 1986
Long before Facebook, Sheila Metzner, 75, began creating vast crisscrossing networks of friends, coworkers who turn into friends, and family members. With a big personality and a penchant for travel, she has built a global network fortified by wide-ranging assignments that keep her on the move. “It’s amazing how many lines cross through one another—and they increase as you get older,” says Metzner, who met Ralph Lauren after writing him a fan letter and has been shooting his ad campaigns on and off for decades. “Photography is my whole life…
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
One Comment
Carlos
D landing is an excellent collection of images of before and after. The comments at the end of the article are very emotionally of relatives who were there. Bravo Joanne for sharing this.