In the course of her half-century-long career, Iturbide has dedicated herself to documenting the daily lives, the mores, and the remarkable diversity of Mexican people, always with an eye for the dignity of her subjects.
Dementia is often ugly, stressful, and isolating; for the photographer Cheryle St. Onge, taking pictures of her mother is a way of expressing happiness, connection, and love.
From the eighties into the two-thousands, Sheron Rupp traversed the United States, with her camera, lingering in the yards of the small towns she visited and documenting the ways that private life can spill out into public view.
The photographer Andy Sweet’s images of Miami Beach in the seventies show that there can be, even in one’s later years, a distinct enjoyment to be found in the body and in the brilliant world around it.
I will forever remember the feeling of standing barefoot in that light-filled room while Avedon apologetically tilted his head toward the lens I kept ignoring, as if the camera were a socially inept friend.