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Charlotte Dumas has a knack for getting close to animals—she’s photographed tigers, wolves, service dogs, and strays. Her close-range portraits tend to show otherwise intimidating animals in tender moments. Her latest project, commissioned by the Corcoran Gallery, looks inside the stables at the Arlington National Cemetery, in Virginia. Dumas photographed the service horses, who pull caissons in military funerals after a day’s work, resting in their stalls. “The bond between mankind and animals, and the extensive history that it accompanies, is my great interest.” says Dumas.
Click-through for a slideshow, and more from Maria Lokke on Dumas’s exhibit, Anima: http://nyr.kr/13tGizZ
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This past weekend, back when Banana Joe’s victory was just a whisper in his owner’s heart, the photographer Landon Nordeman found himself holed up in the Pennsylvania Hotel, where hundreds of dogs and their owners were gathered in preparation for the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and the events that surround the annual competition. In the course of three days, Landon and his team produced studio portraits of the hotel’s canine guests. Nordeman, who regularly photographs for The New Yorker’s Goings On About Town section, is no stranger to dog photography; in fact, his first assignment for the magazine was to photograph a border collie for a story by Susan Orlean. This is his third visit to Westminster (we published sets of his photos from the show in 2010 and 2011), and, last fall, he travelled to Romania to photograph Euro Dog 2012. Click-through for a slideshow of portraits from his weekend at the Hotel Pennsylvania: http://nyr.kr/XAlAqd
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In the next few weeks, the cardinals of the Catholic Church will prepare for a conclave that will transform one of them into a pope. Early talk encompasses a wide range of candidates, from Milan and Ghana to New York and Argentina, challenging the traditional picture of the pope. But how much of that image is a retrospective one, shaped by the one we already have of the pope in his ceremonial guise? Are we so sure we know what any future pope looks like? Click-through to see the last half-dozen, photographed before they ascended—as a child, a young soldier, a priest shaving outdoors… http://nyr.kr/XxjFXd
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“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
Picasso giving a drawing lesson to his children Paloma and Claude, and two friends. Photograph by Rene Burri/Magnum.Happy Birthday, Pablo Picasso! See a slideshow of portraits of the artist.
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“There is a fundamental belief by the American people that we need to have a balanced government, and it began with our founding, the fact that we have three parts of our government that it’s set up not for things to happen immediately but over a period of time and that there’s an appeal process to it. So I don’t get caught up in a lot of the teeth gnashing that I hear from certain people now that politics is the worst ever. Because it’s not. Go back and look at what was said about George Washington, or Jefferson, or Lincoln.” —Robert M. Duncan, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, who now heads a group that promotes coal-generated electricity.
Click-through for a slideshow of Platon’s portraits of some Washington’s leading political warriors: http://nyr.kr/PORYYT
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“We’ve always had a difference of opinion in our political world. We are a democracy, so we don’t all think alike and we have the opportunity to express that. But I think the stagnation that exists now is quite new, and the way to get beyond it is for the Republicans to take back their party from the extreme radical anti-government ideologues who have taken control of it…. So I say to my Republican friends, take back your party. We need that for our democracy.” —Nancy Pelosi, leader of the House Democrats and former Speaker of the House.
Click-through for more of Platon’s portraits of some of Washington’s leading political warriors: http://nyr.kr/PORYYT
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Muscle-Bound
From this week’s issue: James Wood reads Tom Wolfe’s new novel, “Back to Blood”: http://nyr.kr/SzKvxA
Photograph by Henry Leutwyler.
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“In Afghanistan, everyone has war-related stories to tell,” the photographer Mikhail Galustov told me. “Every family has been hurt by the war in one way or another, and I wanted to find a language of photography that would be different from what I had done before.” In this portrait series, which Galustov began in 2009, he tells the story of war through Afghan faces.Since he moved from his longtime base in Moscow to Kabul three years ago, Galustov’s work has focussed on NATO’s military intervention in Afghanistan, and on what might happen to the country as the international coalition drawns down. He isn’t surprised by recent reports that the U.S. has effectively abandoned what was once the cornerstone of American military strategy in Afghanistan—brokering a peace deal with the Taliban. “Afghans are very pessimistic about 2014,” he said. “The Taliban realize that victory is close, and they don’t need to negotiate. They don’t have to accept compromises. Afghanistan is falling into their hands anyway.”
Which leaves many Afghans desperate to flee before the foreign troops leave. “But most of Afghan society is extremely poor, and they won’t have a chance to leave,” he said. “My subjects are like that. They are ordinary people. They will stay and try to survive and live through the changes. Like they did before, like their parents and grandparents did too.”
Click-through for a slideshow of Mikhail Galustov’s Afghan Faces, and their stories: http://nyr.kr/VlWaAx
(Source: newyorker.com)
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In a series of portraits, Davide Monteleone captures the activists taking part in the “new kind of protest movement” sweeping through Russia. Click-through for a photo slideshow of a selection of his works: http://nyr.kr/JTUw0r
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