Photographs from the Capital Pride Parade, June 12.

Lady Gaga © 2010 Matt Dunn

Barnes Dance in Chinatown.  Join the LOOKDC photo group.

Barnes Dance, Chinatown © 2010 Matt Dunn

The Guardian Angels were patrolling Chinatown on Saturday evening. 

Guardian Angel Recruit, Chinatown.  © 2010 Matt Dunn

This photo was shot on 35mm Kodak film with a Zeiss Sonnar 50mm lens.   Join the LOOKDC group.  

Brighid © 2010 Matt Dunn

Photo from the annual Smithsonian Kite Festival last Saturday on the National Mall.  Join the LOOKDC photo pool.

Child Watching Tinkerbell Kite © 2010 Matt Dunn

Arthur Blecher is an ordained Rabbi, author, practicing psychotherapist and advocate for marriage equality in DC.  Arthur was present at the DC Superior Court yesterday to witness some of the 151 same sex couples applying for marriage licenses.   More photos from outside the courthouse are here.

Arthur Blecher, Rabbi. © 2010 Matt Dunn

The Spring 2010 issue of Aperture Magazine has a feature on Japanese-American Photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto.  The photo below was taken in Chicago between 1959-1961.  Yasuhiro Ishimoto was born in San Francisco and raised Kochi City, Japan. In 1939, due to concerns of him being drafted he returned to the US where he studied agriculture at the University of California (1940-42). He moved to Chicago in 1944 and began to study architecture at Northwestern University in 1946 when he met photographer Harry Shigeta and took up photography seriously. Two years later Ishimoto transferred to the Institute of Design where he studied with Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Gordon Coster(1948-52). In 1961 he returned to Japan (Tokyo), where he has lived ever since. Ishimoto showed his devotion to his adopted city, Chicago, in his book, Chicago, Chicago (Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 1969). This book is often regarded as Ishimoto’s most personal statement – his bold use of contrast, the design of the frame, and the influence of his studies in architecture define his Chicago. Ishimoto has published many books and exhibited widely throughout Japan and the US. In 1999 he was the subject of a career retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Untitled from the Chicago photographs © 1961 Yasuhiro Ishimoto

Local photographer and Petworth native Kay Rousslang writes the A Flaneur in Washington blog.   The term flaneur, from the French verb flâner, means ”to stroll”.   In Charles Baudelaire‘s essay The Painter of Modern Life, Baudelaire describes the flaneur as the ideal modern man, one who “sets up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite.”  The flaneur “makes it his business to extract from fashion whatever element it may contain of poetry within history, to distil the eternal from the transitory.”

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© 2009 Kay Rousslang

In yesterday’s LOOK post,  most people commented on the context of the photo, the WAPO article, rather than the photograph itself.   Here’s another photo from the 2010 WHNPA awards.  The Pictorial Category awarded 8 photos.  Which of the eight photos is your favorite and why?  Ricky Carioti, from the Washington Post, won an award of excellence for the photo below.

UNTITLED © Ricky Carioti / Washington Post

A flock of birds swarm a field in Loudoun County, Va., during a light snowfall on Dec. 5, 2009.

Photographer Aziz Yazdani used a Leica M7 and Fuji Neopan for this night shot outside the Ottobar in Baltimore.

Outside Ottobar, © 2009 Aziz Yazdani

Photographer and blogger Katy Ray used a Holga and expired film for this photograph.   Submit your photos to the group LOOKDC.

© 2009 Katy Ray

Max Cook’s photo of the Washington Monument at night, shot with a Canon EOS 1D Mark III,  reminded me of the book, Washington By Night, by Volkmar Wentzel, of photos taken in the 1930′s.

Darkness Falls, © 2009 Max Cook

Dirk Mevis took this portrait with a Nikon D700.  Submit your photos to the group LOOKDC.

© 2009 Dirk Mevis

Alex Barth shot this with a Holga on Tri-X film,  during the snowstorm on December 19th.  This is a quiet moment on F street, a world away from the now legendary snowball fight at 14th and U.  Check out Alex’s whole set.

F Street.  © Alex Barth

Rebecca Drobisis a DC photographer specializing in photographing youth culture.  When not in DC, Rebecca is working on a long term project in Montana about children growing up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.  Rebecca also teaches kids to use their cameras to express themselves.

Horse Girls, Blackfeet Reservation in Heart Butte, Montana.  © 2009 Rebecca Drobis