Podcast: The Strange Lure (and Joy) of Other People’s Photos

Is Alberto di Lenardo the next Vivian Maier? Prior to his death, di Lenardo showed his granddaughter a “secret room” filled with the negatives ...

Is Alberto di Lenardo the next Vivian Maier? Prior to his death, di Lenardo showed his granddaughter a “secret room” filled with the negatives of over 8,000 photos which she edited into a new book entitled “An Attic Full of Trains.”

Also, Aaron Siskind’s “Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation,” Hannah Beachler requests that we use color photos from the Civil Rights era, and Bill Shapiro on the strange lure of other people’s photos.

We mention the following photographers, articles, and websites in this episode:

Entirely unseen colour photographs by an unknown Italian photographer, discovered by his granddaughter. (via The Guardian)
Is This the New Vivian Maier? In a Secret Room, a Woman Discovered 8,000 Remarkable Photos Taken by Her Grandfather (via Artnet)
An Attic Full of Trains Alberto di Lenardo, Carlotta di Lenardo (ed.)
Aaron Siskind’s Pleasures and Terrors of Levitatio n (via New Yorker)
Photo League (via Wikipedia)
Olympic divers’ funny faces
Snapped: the extraordinary story behind the Barcelona 1992 diving images
Brad Harris’s Photos of Divers Caught in the Act
Richard Drew’s The Falling Man (via Esquire)
Hannah Beachler tweets “Can we stop showing Black and White pictures of the entire decade of the 1960s so people thinking it was 1000 years ago.“
This is How Press Photos Were Transmitted Back in the 1970s (via PetaPixel)
The Strange Lure of Other People’s Photos (via NYT)

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