This Week in Photography: Wrestling in Queens

      When I was growing up, Mike Tyson was the baddest dude around. (Bar none.) I watched the Buster Douglas fight live on HBO, and was witness to the dethroning of the king. At the time, my brain could not fathom Mike Tyson getting his ass kicked, but there it was.     […]

This Week in Photography: Hitting the Beach

    “There is something deeply Universal about this human instinct to rest and rejuvenate by the sea.” Jonathan Blaustein, January 5, 2022.           I’ve never quoted myself to open the column. (That’s a new one, for sure.) But there’s a reason, I promise, and we’ll get to it.     […]

This Week in Photography: Sitting for a Virtual Portrait

  All ________ people look alike. We’ve all heard the racist expression before, which has been applied to a host of ethnicities, and is clearly untrue. So it’s ironic that my doppelgänger in the photo world doesn’t resemble me at all. Like, we could not look much more different, while still being similarly sized humans. […]

This Week In Photography Books: Eric Etheridge

by Jonathan Blaustein Remember when people used to talk about the 24 hour news cycle? How quaint. These days, we’ve got a 60/60/24/7/365 news cycle, brought to you by the fine folks at Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc. Personally, I don’t submit to the Borg all the time. I jump off email and social media each […]

This Week In Photography Books: Bruce Morton

by Jonathan Blaustein Whether you realize it or not, this column has undergone a sizable change over the last few months. For five years, almost all the books we reviewed were borrowed from photo-eye in Santa Fe. They have a great selection of photo-books, for sure, but the types of books I wrote about were […]