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Bill Cunningham

I know you like to take pictures of your fellow New Yorkers, now here is your chance to do something with that. Like something that is cooler than just posting it on your blog.

Legendary New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham—now entering his ninth decade and still riding his Schwinn around Manhattan, snapping pictures of the people and events that captivate our city—stands out in a city of dedicated originals. He’s also the subject of the opening night film of New Directors/New Films 2010, jointly presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA. Now MoMA and FLSC want to give one lucky reader a chance to discover fresh work by emerging filmmakers with a series pass to the festival!

Here’s how it works: You take a picture of your fellow New Yorkers, inspired by Cunningham’s off-the-cuff, street-level style. (Think colorful, spontaneous—cell phone pics welcome!) We’ll pick one at random, and award the lucky photographer a series pass*, plus two tickets to see Bill Cunningham, New York at FLSC on Thursday, March 25. 

To enter: Post your picture on the New Directors/New Films Facebook wall (please include the caption “NDNF Contest”) or tweet the URL of your picture to @NDNF using hashtag #ndnfcontest. You must post by midnight EST on Tuesday, March 23.

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March 17, 2010, 2:12pm  

Rumi Neely Untitled (Neon Tokyo) 2010

March 16, 2010, 9:30am  

Matthew Porter Empire 2010

March 15, 2010, 2:11pm  

Alex Prager Beth 2009

March 15, 2010, 1:36pm  

Alexander Gronsky, Less Than One, Komsomolsk on Amur 2007

Gronsky, who is a spry and obviously talented 30, just won the Foam Paul Huf Award. Congratulations!

The annual prize, is given to a young international talent in photography under 35 years of age.

The jury was impressed by the quality and diversity of the submitted portfolios from around the world. Out of 81 nominees, 31 are from Europe, 14 from Asia, 13 from the United States, 15 from South America, 3 from Africa, 3 from Australia and New Zealand and 2 from the Middle East.

The diversity of approaches used by the nominees, and notably the use of new technologies, raised a heated debate among the members of the jury in order to attend a new signification of what photography is and could be in the years to come. via…

March 12, 2010, 2:47pm  

Oliviero Toscani, Kissing nun, 1992

Since its invention in 1839, photography has provoked numerous legal, ethical and political controversies. A history of these conflicts reveals how society and ordinary people have related to the image of their time. In every area and genre – art, politics, science, journalism, fashion or advertising – photography has been subjected to the judgements of law courts, public opinion or private individuals. It is at the crossroads of opposite rights, such artistic license and the rights of individuals to control the use of their own image. Photographs have therefore regularly been confronted with censorship, destruction or manipulation and most of the major photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries have had to face legal proceedings.

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March 04, 2010, 9:12am  

Alex Prager Rachel and Friends, 2009

March 02, 2010, 2:11pm  

Dennis Darzacq is exhibiting at Laurence Miller Gallery in New York through March 27.

Darzacq brings street dancers, mostly young men and women in their late teens and early twenties into these stores and asks them to perform their leaps, jumps, twirls, and other gravity-defying movements. Darzacq’s working methods are wonderfully captured in a documentary film by Marie-Clotilde Chery. The photographs explore the tension between being and having, between the human body and the built environment. They offer a fresh, witty and intensely colorful commentary on global consumerism and freedom of spirit. via…

March 01, 2010, 12:45pm  

Elisa Sighicelli

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February 25, 2010, 11:13am