John Edwin Mason: Documentary, Motorsports, Photo History

Updates (Finally!): Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks, Kamoinge, & En Foco

It's been a long time -- too long a time -- since I updated this blog. And I'm pretty sure that my regular readers (all three or four of them) have departed for more entertaining pastures. To them I say, please come back. Why have I been so silent? In... Read more →

Roy DeCarava, the Kamoinge Workshop, and Newsweek Magazine, 1964

It took a riot to get Roy DeCarava on the cover of Newsweek magazine. And that's no joke. DeCarava wasn't throwing stones. He was a photographer -- a great one. By 1964, when Newsweek hired him for the first time, he had already established himself as one of America's most... Read more →