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Vivian Maier: Revealed: Selections from the Archives

2 July 2018 0

The exhibition features a selection of over 30 black and white photographs by American street photographer Vivian Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009). It is the first exhibition of Maier’s photography in Westchester County. Unknown during her lifetime,…

Black Resistance: Ernest C. Withers and the Civil Rights Movement

30 June 2018 0

Beginning in the 1950s, Ernest Withers (1922-2007) photographed Black resistance in Memphis – from pickets and sit-ins to court room scenes. Among his most famous images are those documenting the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike and the assassination of Dr. Martin…

Elliott Erwitt: Pittsburgh 1950

26 June 2018 0

In 1950 Elliott Erwitt, then just twenty-two years old, set out to capture Pittsburgh’s transformation from an industrial city into a modern metropolis. Commissioned by Roy Stryker, the mastermind behind the large-scale documentary photography projects launched by the US government…

Summertime Salon 2018 at Robin Rice Gallery

25 June 2018 0

The Robin Rice Gallery has brought together the works of 56 gallery artists and nearly a hundred photographs for this salon-style exhibition. From floor to ceiling, the walls of the gallery are a mosaic of various size photographs in sepia,…

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment

24 June 2018 0

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment examines Cartier-Bresson’s influential publication, widely considered to be one of the most important photobooks of the twentieth century. Pioneering for its emphasis on the photograph itself as a unique narrative form, The Decisive Moment was…

Michael Kenna: Abruzzo + New Photographs

22 June 2018 0

Photographs by Michael Kenna from Abruzzo, Italy + New Works. Michael Kenna Abruzzo + New Photographs June 8 – July 14, 2018 G. Gibson Gallery 104 West Roy Street Seattle, WA 98119 www.ggibsongallery.com

Saul Leiter: In My Room

17 June 2018 0

Saul Leiter’s intimate photographs of his muses over three decades will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery. Deeply personal and contemplative, many of the images in Saul Leiter: In My Room share tender moments underscored by the subjects’ trust…

Arnold Newman: One Hundred

9 June 2018 0

Photographs by Arnold Newman, one of the most influential portraitists of the 20th century, will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from May 10 through June 30, 2018. Celebrating the centennial of Newman’s birth, the exhibition of 45 works…

LIFE in Pictures

31 May 2018 0

Founded by Henry Luce, publisher of Time, it was long one of the most popular and widely imitated of American magazines, selling more than 13.5 million copies a week at one point. From its start, Life emphasized photography, with gripping,…

Through a Different Lens Stanley Kubrick Photographs

24 May 2018 0

Stanley Kubrick was just 17 when he sold his first photograph to the pictorial magazine Look in 1945. In his photographs, many unpublished, Kubrick trained the camera on his native city, drawing inspiration from the nightclubs, street scenes, and sporting…

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings

20 May 2018 0

For more than forty years, Sally Mann (American, born 1951) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature’s magisterial indifference to human endeavor. What…

Inge Morath: From a photographic cosmos

18 May 2018 0

When Inge Morath met the war photographer Robert Capa at the photo agency Magnum in Paris in July 1949, the life of the 26-year-old Austrian journalist took a new turn. It would still take a few years before Inge Morath…

August Sander: People of the 20th Century

16 May 2018 0

“We can tell from a facial expression the work someone does or does not do, if they are happy or troubled, for life leaves its trail there unavoidably. A well-known poem says that every person’s story is written plainly on…

Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903-93)

12 May 2018 0

Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903-1993) belongs to the generation of female photographers who took advantage of a wind of artistic freedom to unfold after the revolution in 1910 to 20 in Mexico. Along with her husband Manuel Álvarez Bravo belonged to…

Erwin Blumenfeld at Edwynn Houk Gallery

9 May 2018 0

Erwin Blumenfeld is regarded as one of the early pioneers of fashion photography alongside George Hoyningen-Heune, Cecil Beaton, and Horst P. Horst. He was known not only for his employment of experimental techniques in the darkroom, and Dada and Surrealist…

Sigrid Neubert – Photographs: Architecture and Nature

8 May 2018 0

For 30 years Sigrid Neubert (b. 1927) worked as a photographer for many leading architectural firms. In the process she developed a style characterized by images that present the structure and surface of the buildings through stark contrast and in…

Kim Yeong-Jea: Whispering Tranquility

6 May 2018 0

Kim Yeong-Jea’s minimalist photographs capture the airy, serene moments of sea. Kim investigates themes of time, empiricism, and metaphysics at the interface of evolving humanity and eternal nature. The seashore in Kim’s photographs has been turned into an intimate shrine…