A Canadian Photographer's Voyages of Discovery. Gregory Colbert has been photographing the mystical relationship between humans and animals for nine years. His images are being exhibited for the first time at the Venice Biennale. By Alan Riding. [
New York Times: Arts]
Russian Photographers Who Fell Out of History. A show last month at
Fotofest in Houston made clear that Russian pictorialism had goals and achievements that were quite unlike work of this style in other countries. By Vicki Goldberg.

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New York Times: Arts]
The Lost (or at Least Buried) Art of the Movie Still. What is a film still? And who cares? These are more searching questions than you might think, especially if you consider that a movie is nothing more than a collection of still photographs. By David Thomson. [
New York Times: Movies]