Department Store 56 and the women workers at lunch in 1943 both resonated with. Great review, gonna look for more of these treasures. Thank you.
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The first picture titled "Department Store" with the COLORED ENTRANCE sign above the mother and daughter was taken by Gordon Parks on Conti Street in Mobile, Alabama. But this entrance is not to a department store. It is the side entrance to the Saenger theater, whose main entrance is around the corned behind the pair. The doorway is still there, but the sign is in the city's history museum. A department store was another block further behind them down the street. This error appeared in the Life magazine issue where the photo was originally published, and it has sustained a ghostly life ever since.
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At least half the time I spend on the NYTs app is in the LENS section. It’s the main reason I subscribe. Hoping for 10 more years and more!
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Its good to have place like Lens to show us what photography's potential can be. I was just discussing the other day with other photographers how the rise of the smartphone and digital cameras has lead to the end of photography as a craft. There are pros and cons to digital's approach but Instagram has flooded the field with so much junk that's its hard to filter out who actually has something special. Lens does a great job of showcasing it.
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Lens is glorious, stupendous, wondrous!
Cheers for [at least] another 10 years!
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I will always be grateful to Jim Estrin for being the first to show my self-portrait project of living with a disability, “Falling Into Place,” on Lens Blog in November 2009. His belief in the universal significance of this very personal project gave me the confidence to continue exploring this subject, eventually having the book published in 2013, and finding opportunities to enter into public dialogues regarding disability and creativity in high schools, universities, and communities across the country. I have Jim and Lens to thank for setting me on a personal and photographic journey that has allowed me to use whatever physical challenges I encounter in ways that can benefit myself and others.
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Very nice and thought provoking.
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Huge thanks to the team at Lens for sharing such powerful work over the last decade. Please come back soon! MediaStorm had the honor to pay tribute to the important work being done by Maurice Berger for Lens via his ICP Infinity Award. His insightful thoughts on Gordon Parks will stay with me forever: https://mediastorm.com/clients/2018-icp-infinity-awards-maurice-berger
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Why is photography not in the Arts section? Why is it relegated to the miscellaneous column?
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Especially in these days, I tire of words and so appreciate all the more the skill, artistry, and truth behind what I've seen in the Lens Blog.
Thank you.
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The Len is the main reason for my NYT subscription! Keep the good work.
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Please consider publishing many of the Lens photos in book form. I know that many of us who have enjoyed Lens over the years would love to have them in permanent form.
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@Richard - The book is the impermanent form, subject to fire and flood. I'm speaking as a book owner of unhappy experience.
As you allude to in the article, the rise of the cell phone as a legitimate photographic tool has created a tectonic shift in what is considered “legitimate” photography. I often wonder how the work of many of the famous street photographers of the second half of the twentieth century would stand up against many of the pictures that each of us carry around with us every day on our phones? What if Robert Frank had an iPhone XS? Would we still look at his photos as works of genius, if he shared his cell phone pictures with everybody else on Instagram?
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Please keep Lens. It is too valuable a resource and an inspiration to lose.
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I too am saddened to see Lens go... please reconsider. Photography from conceptual to photojournalism is an accessible art form, more easily shared and enjoyed in our digital lives. What a shame to lose a resource.
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Perhaps my favorite column. I especially enjoy photos of seemingly prosaic moments in times or places that are not my own... a contemporary Nigerian party, an office in 1979. Good stuff - thanks!
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Hi! I love this feature and looking at the photos. It would be helpful to me if the year the photo was taken could be more consistently included in the photo “description”.
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A reminder that so much has changed and yet, so little.
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Making a choice is like asking a mother which child she prefer's. It's a impossible question with no answer, following Lens for these past 10 years has always made me think what more can you ask. It will be missed but life goes on and all things have a life span, we all are born and grow up and then die no matter how long we want them to keep going.
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Brilliant!
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wonderful photos, that beautiful woman with her sweet daughter in front of the coloreds only sign needs to be on the front page to remind young people of the reality that black Americans had to deal with. Such evil captured in such a gorgeous photograph.
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I have enjoyed having the Lens Blog pretty much all its life. I heard the word that it would soon end which saddened me. I hope it will be a metamorphosis to something newer, better, bigger rather than an end to its successful run.
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Great photo collections. This section is the main reason I have my NYT subscription
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