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The beautiful Eleanor Callahan, Harry Callahan’s wife and muse, passed away yesterday at the age of 95. Obituary and slideshow in the Times today.

“He just liked to take the pictures of me,” she told an interviewer in 2008. “In every pose. Rain or shine. And whatever I was doing. If I was doing the dishes or if I was half asleep. And he knew that I never, never said no. I was always there for him. Because I knew that Harry would only do the right thing.”-Eleanor Callahan (as reported in the Times)

Harry Callahan - from the New York Times

After countless phone calls with the Times and too many Sunday mornings waking up at 5am to essentially catch our delivery guy not delivering our paper, I begrudgingly canceled my Sunday paper subscription (you should have heard the phone call, there were tears in my eyes I tell you!) but now when I buy the paper its like a special treat — like getting a banana split after a breakfast of french toast. I only get it every few weeks because, since the birth of my iPad, I’m poor and feel like I should be using that instead. I was beaming on the subway yesterday morning that on the rare occasion of holding an actual issue, it was filled with Sebastião Salgado photographs. Made me a very happy commuter.

Slideshow here, Interview here.

Sebastião Salgado/from the Times site

Sebastião Salgado/from the Times site

Sebastião Salgado/from the Times site

Sebastião Salgado/from the Times site

Sebastião Salgado/from the Times site

Only because this has already been a long week.. Hilarious covers of Kerrang! – 30 years in the making.. super-ridiculous-in-the-best-way slideshow on the Guardian, here.

from the Guardian site

from the Guardian site

from the Guardian site

from the Guardian site

from the Guardian site

I was asked to write my thoughts on Eugene Richards book Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue by the lovely people over at the Photo Book Club. Happens to be my ultimate-favorite-masterpiece-love-of-a-book. I can’t promise it will blow your mind, the other reviews are far more juicy, but if you want to see what a photo crush looks like, you can read about mine, here.

Eugene Richards/ via the Photo Book Club site

I’m a big fan of all of Tanyth Berkeley’s work, but this project ‘The Fugitive’, portraits of transgender women in New York is really incredible. See more on VII’s site, here.

'Helena' - Tanyth Berkeley/from the VII site

'M to F' - Tanyth Berkeley/from the VII site

'M to F' - Tanyth Berkeley/from the VII site

'M to F' - Tanyth Berkeley/from the VII site

'Sweety' - Tanyth Berkeley/from the VII site