The New York Times Photographs
Easily one of the most impressive photography books of the year, "The New York Times Photographs", published by Aperture and edited by Director of Photography Kathy Ryan, brings together a collection of four hundred photographs shot for The New York Times Magazine from the late 1970′s to 2011.
In an insightful foreword Kathy Ryan explains the unshrinking approach to assigning photographers that the New York Times Magazine has become known for: "Why not send a veteran war photographer to photograph the Oscar- worthy actors one year? Or commission a gallery of Olympians by an artist with a very personal iconography, rather than by a sports photographer? "Cross-assigning" is a signature of this magazine, an approach that came clearly into focus with the publication of the "Times Square" issue in May 1997—an issue devoted entirely to images by a group of photographers working within all genres of photography."
As Kathy Ryan notes, cross-assigning takes faith. Of course this approach can be risky, but perhaps no more hazardous than always doing the expected. Turning the glossy pages of this substantial book, the reader will see that its rewards are rich and varied.
Ryan McGinley, Courtesy the artist/Team Gallery, New York. Emily Cook, 2010 Olympic freestyle skier (aerials). From "Up!," published February 7, 2010.
Lars Turnbjork, 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue. March 23, 1997.
Malick Sidibé, Courtesy André Magnin. Assitan Sidibé in Marni polka-dot top, Christian Lacroix striped top, Marc Jacobs dress, and Christian Louboutin.
Laura Letinsky/Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
Simon Norfolk/Institute, One section of a particle detector in the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, 2006.
Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas images
Stanley Greene/NOOR, the road to Samashki in Chechnya, 1996.
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