Steve Appleford

Emilio Morenatti; Credit: Unique Jenkins Courtesy of the Annenberg Space for Photography

Featured Photographer Emilio Morenatti Injured in Afghanistan

Steve Appleford
Emilio Morenatti was a reluctant visitor to L.A. last month, here to accept his award as Pictures of the Year International’s 2009 Newspaper Photographer of the Year. The Spanish-born photojournalist was uncomfortable being away from his post in Pakistan. “You want to be everywhere that things are happening,” he told......
Kaufmann House

Photographer: Julius Shulman 1910 – 2009

Steve Appleford
Photographer Julius Shulman lived high up in the hills of Laurel Canyon, where visitors to his landmark 1947 steel-frame modernist house would usually find chocolates and a big jar of peanuts amid the organized clutter of his office. That’s how Shulman, who died in his sleep July 15 at age......
One of Morenatti’s compelling images of everyday violence in Pakistan: A lawyer runs for his life.

Annenberg's Showcase for Pictures of the Year International

Steve Appleford
The war photographer looked uneasy. Sitting at a café, sipping a cold beer beneath the glass towers of Century City, where the tables around him were filled with afternoon chatter, laughter and booze, Emilio Morenatti nevertheless seemed to be counting the minutes. At 40, he has seen the world’s trouble......
Marked man: Marlon Brando on the set of Apocalypse Now

Seen Behind the Scene: On the Set with Mary Ellen Mark

Steve Appleford
His face watches us from the gallery wall, a grim black-and-white visage with a shaved head and a large beetle crawling across his hard, fleshy dome. The subject of the photograph is Marlon Brando, slouching heavily on the set of Apocalypse Now, still a smoldering chameleon in 1976 as he......
Malcolm X; Credit: Photos courtesy Steidl

Power and Performance: Richard Avedon, Master of Cruel

Steve Appleford
The question was always a problem for Richard Avedon. Even in the final decade of his life and career as the most celebrated, ridiculed, honored, debated portrait and fashion photographer of his time, journalists and critics would posit the same intolerable, unbelievable notion: Is photography really art? And it didn’t......
Annie Leibovitz At Work by Annie Leibovitz

Now We Sample the Season's Picture Books …

Steve Appleford
Carlos Gallegos carried a pair of photographs with him during two tours in Iraq. One was of his young son, and the other was an idyllic snapshot of his parents from the late ’70s, the two of them just sitting together, hugging affectionately, happy. “This is the greatest photo ever......
Paul Auster; Credit: Lotte Hansen

Paul Auster on his Man in the Dark

Steve Appleford
The mind of Paul Auster goes blank at night. He lies down to sleep in his Brooklyn home after a long day with pen and legal pad, or bent over the same manual Olympia typewriter he’s used since the 1960s, tangling with characters and ideas that can inhabit his imagination......