Links: SVA in MoMA bathroom, Cindy Sherman in the NY canon, Pulitzer Prizes announced, Legos, photography auctions, and Juergen Teller tells Marc Jacobs what to do

  • The New York Times reports that MFA students at SVA show at the MoMA. In the bathroom. The show lives on, online.
  • In the 40th anniversary of New York Magazine, they attempt to define a New York Canon from 1968-2008, and they also run a few Q&As with “iconic New York artists about creating their masterworks.” Mark Stevens talks to Cindy Sherman about her Untitled Film Stills. She discusses process, character creation, and, to some extent, intent.
  • Earlier this week, the Pulitzer Prizes were announced. Adrees Latif of Reuters won for Breaking News Photography “for his dramatic photograph of a Japanese videographer, sprawled on the pavement, fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar.” Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor won the Feature Photography category “for her intimate chronicle of a family coping with a parent’s terminal illness.”
  • Mike Stimpson uses Legos to recreate famous photos from Robert Capa’s Death of a Loyalist, to Cartier-Bresson’s Behind the Gare Saint Lazare. “Strobist.com taught me everything I know,” he says.
  • It’s photo auction time. Controversy over the oldest — or just an old— photo. Even Gawker’s covering the photo auctions, drawn to the nudes. Phillips de Pury canceled a sale of Diane Arbus prints because of concerns about a recent lawsuit. There was even a Fine Photobooks Auction at Christie’s.
  • Cathy Horyn discusses Juergen Teller’s role in Marc Jacobs’ ad campaigns. How great is it to see a photographer so in charge of a commercial campaign? Small thing: the NYT blog swapped out the photo they initially had (Teller’s ad that featured Victoria Beckham’s legs splayed out of a shopping bag) at the top of the post. Why?

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