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Image Conscious (3rd segment)

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Image Conscious

Longtime photography specialist James Danziger is obsessed with images. He has run a New York gallery (presently called Danziger Projects) for much of the past 20 years and served as the U.S. director of the Magnum Photos agency. These days he spends a lot of time on photo blogs, including his own, TheYearInPictures.net. Blogs are an amazing resource for discovering talent and keeping up with news in the photo world. Danziger shares five of his favorites.

1. CONSCIENTIOUS What started out in 2002 as a hobby for German-born research scientist Jörg Colberg has turned into the grandfather of photo blogs. It deals with contemporary fine art photography, but Colberg is really a champion of the unknown and unrepresented. Generous in its links, geographically diverse in its picks, Conscientious is a trusted pipeline to all that’s new and good in the photo world. Conscientious
2. PDN PULSE Produced by Photo District News, the leading trade magazine, this blog reports on equipment, business, art, and issues such as copyright and usage. Here you’ll also see great examples of how pictures are shown a particular way in one magazine and are cropped or altered by another for a totally different effect. The blog may not look ****, but its inside scoop on all things pertaining to photography quickly becomes addictive. PDNPulse
3. I ♥ PHOTOGRAPH With pictures that combine the energy of Flickr and artistic quality control, this curated blog is updated every day by Laurel Ptak. It’s known for visually and conceptually challenging work, mostly by young and unknown photographers. Many are questioning the medium and how we see photography in a digital world, where so many of our experiences are mediated by a computer screen. i heart photograph
4. THE SARTORIALIST This well-known blog is run by Scott Schuman, a great photographer himself. He records superstylish men and women on the streets of the world’s fashion capitals. Shooting digitally, he posts his photographs on the site, which is visited by more than 70,000 people a day. Last year Time magazine named The Sartorialist to its Style & Design 100, and this winter I organized a successful show of Schuman’s blog photographs in my gallery. Untitled Document
5. ALEC SOTH Though he posted for only a year, Alec Soth, a young Magnum photographer now represented by powerhouse gallery Gagosian, wrote one of the most interesting, knowledgeable, and eclectic photo blogs. Mixing the personal and the professional, Soth gives an inside view of his day and what goes through an artist’s head when he’s at the top of his game. Fortunately, it is still easily accessible and feels completely timeless. alecsoth.com/blog