An article and radio program today on NPR:

Sometimes, a journey of five years begins with a single hour. At least, that’s what happened to Stephen Wilkes. One assignment — to photograph the side of Ellis Island that no one sees — turned into an obsession, and now a book.

Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom documents the weather-beaten remnants of the immigration hub’s abandoned hospital buildings, where people who steamed past the Statue of Liberty on crowded ships were sometimes held back if they had an infectious disease or obvious disorder.

Also see http://www.ellisislandghosts.com/
—–

A tribute to Leonard Freed at Magnum.
—–

I see that Inge Fernau has posted a series of autumn photographs taken in Yosemite earlier this month at the Magical Glow Photography web site.
—–

A New York Times article on Jerome Liebling:

For much of a half-century of taking quiet, subtly powerful pictures that demand and reward long looking, Jerome Liebling has been known as a photographer’s photographer. The label is both a high compliment and an acknowledgment that Mr. Liebling, now 82, has not enjoyed the acclaim accorded to many of his contemporaries who first took their cameras to the streets of New York after World War II.

An advantage of being “untrained” in photography (my academic background is in a different field) is that I can still “discover” photographers that everyone else probably knows about already. This article (and the accompanying Ken Burns multimedia clip) introduced me to Liebling’s wonderful images. (Thank you to The Online Photographer for the link.)
—–