And yet again there is another multimedia essay published by Magnum. This time it's Paul Fusco's "Bitter Fruit" which shows photographs we weren't supposed to see. Fusco began his essay on the funerals of the American soldiers killed in Iraq in November 2003. Since then he traveled to some 27 different cities and towns.
This essay is going to accompany an exhibition by Paul Fusco which will be shown at this years VISA POUR L'IMAGE, the Perpignan International Photojournalism Festival.

To see more multimedia essays and hear the photographers comments visit the Magnum In Motion website for a listing of these essays.

Konijn Hok

A Half Moon

Salt

$6000 of stock

Charles Feltman

"The Gut"

The Bowery

And for an explanation of last week's EyeSpy clues...

Opening for a two-week exclusive run at the Film Forum on Wednesday, August 31st, WILLIAM EGGLESTON IN THE REAL WORLD.

Michael Almereyda's WILLIAM EGGLESTON IN THE REAL WORLD is an intimate portrait of the famed, yet notably reclusive photographer. William Eggleston's hallucinatory, Faulknerian images were featured in the Museum of Modern Art's first one-man exhibition of color photographs. He has been called "the beginning of modern color photography" (John Szarkowski, MoMA) and "one of the most significant figures in contemporary photography" (Charles Hagen, NY Times).

Amereyda, director of HAMLET, NADJA and THIS SO-CALLED DISASTER, tracks the photographer on trips to Kentucky, Los Angeles and New York, but gives particular attention to downtime in Memphis, Eggleston's home base. Almereyda sheds light on Eggleston's ability to point and shoot - to take a single shot and capture his subject without filling a contact sheet with dozens of images. The film shows a deep connection between Eggleston's enigmatic personality and his groundbreaking work, and also reveals his parallel commitments as a musician, draftsman and videographer. Artists from any number of fields credit the influence of this 65-year-old sphinx-like renegade.

For show times and ticket information, please continue reading.

Well this information comes a little late but I just found out about it... After some legal disputes the graffiti block party in Chelsea organized by the fashion designer Marc Ecko will take place tomorrow.

West 22nd Street between 10th and 11th Avenues from 10 am. to 6 p.m. will be closed for traffic. During the party 20 old-school graffiti artists will paint graffiti on metal panels made to look like the sides of the subway cars of the 1970's and 80's. Might give some interesting photographs.

More information can be found on the New York Times website here.

Artist Robert Smithson whose work is currently being shown at The Whitney had a plan to create a floating island. Smithson who is best known for his large scale sculptures such as the Spiral Jetty in Utah had drawn up plans for an island to be constructed that would be pulled by tugboat around Manhattan.

It seems that the Whitney along with Minetta Brook are going to realize Smithson's vision.

The launch party is scheduled for Sept 17.

Saturday, September 17, 2005 5–7 pm
Hudson River Park, Pier 46 at Charles and West Streets

Subway: Take the 1 to Christopher Street or the A, B, C, D, E, F, or V to West 4th Street and walk west to West Street. Turn right and head north to Pier 46.

Links:
Non Starving Artist
Minetta Brook (flash website)