Thanks to Mikko Takkunen of Photojournalism Links for drawing attention to a nice series of stories on The New York Times, One in 8 Million, stories of New Yorkers (though treated rather differently from Weegee!). The latest, photographed by Todd Heisler, tells the story of Georgiana DePalma Tedone, a remarkable 90 year old who still gets up around 2.30am to make mozzarella for sale in her Brooklyn shop. Just a shame its such a long way for me to go to buy some (along with her Saturday roast beef, though you need to get there early to catch that.)
And there are some other great links on the page, including another New York Times feature, Great Performers by Paolo Pellegrin of Magnum, behind the scense images of eight of the current biggest names in film, including Kate Winslet and Bradd Pitt. Its a set of pictures I first heard about on the often interesting APhotoEditor site.
Frankly I can’t say all 48 of the images in the slide show excite me greatly – many without star names attached would not rate a second glance, but there are perhaps a dozen or so outstanding images, not a bad average, and its all a very welcome change from the standard views, although some of the success of the work perhaps owes a lot to the post-processing by Picturehouse in NYC.