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Steve Banks: Nitro

Steve Banks: Nitro

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From the forthcoming book, NITRO: Drag Racing In The Sixties,1961-1966 by Nazraeli Press. Drag racing as we know it was born in Southern California. In the late 1930s, local automotive enthusiasts known as hot rodders began customizing their cars and informally meeting up at local drive-in stands to show off their souped up creations. They would issue the challenge “You…
Keith Carter: Fifty Years

Keith Carter: Fifty Years

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Dubbed a “poet of the ordinary” by the Los Angeles Times, Keith Carter came of age during the turbulent sixties and seventies. From his experiences, he has developed a singular, haunting style that captures both the grit and the glory of the human spirit. Showcasing a broad array of his work, Keith Carter: Fifty Years spans delicate, century-old processes as…
Benjamin Decoin: Atomic commuters

Benjamin Decoin: Atomic commuters

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I’ve traveled a few times in North Korea, and one of the only to photography ‘real’ people has always been through windows of buses. A lot of things are said through those faces and the way we look at each other. Born and raised in a family of artists, Benjamin Decoin has always been surrounded by visual arts. He started…
George Tice: 80th Anniversary

George Tice: 80th Anniversary

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Born on October 13, 1938 in Newark, New Jersey, George Tice was inspired as a young boy by his father’s photo albums to purchase a $29.95 Kodak Pony camera and begin taking photographs. At age fourteen, he became the youngest member of the Carteret Camera Club, and a few years later enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a photographer’s mate.…
Rui Caria: The refugrants

Rui Caria: The refugrants

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In October 2017 I happened to be lucky enough to be able to do something that could take about 2 years to get authorized. I boarded a Portuguese navy vessel for a month to provide full coverage of the Frontex – Triton mission. Today, despite having learned so much, I know less than I thought I knew before I went;…
August Sander: Masterworks – Photographs from “People of the 20th Century”

August Sander: Masterworks – Photographs from “People of the 20th Century”

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The current exhibition, featuring over 150 original photographs and numerous documents shown in display cases, presents a representative cross-section of the “People of the 20th Century” project. The portraits from August Sander’s epochal work are not only of fundamental importance for the history of photography; they are also highly exciting objects of study – masterpieces for anyone who has an…
Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting

Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting

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This exhibition explores the question of Homer’s relationship with the medium of photography and its impact on his artistic practice. As one attuned to appearances and how to represent them, Homer understood that photography, as a new technology of sight, had much to reveal. This exhibition thus adds an important new dimension to our appreciation of this pioneering American painter,…
Wei Tan: Waiting in Limbo: Kashmir’s Half-widows

Wei Tan: Waiting in Limbo: Kashmir’s Half-widows

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The violence of Kashmir’s armed conflict has given rise to a category of women known as “half-widows.” These are women whose husbands have ‘disappeared’ during the decades-long conflict or who have gone missing and are often presumed dead. Half-widows live their lives in limbo, oscillating between grief and hope. Even though there are no official records, it is estimated by…
A City Transformed: Photographs of Paris, 1850–1900

A City Transformed: Photographs of Paris, 1850–1900

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Paris transformed into the “City of Light” through grand-scale architectural renovations, demolitions, and new construction set in motion during the Second Empire (1852–70). With absolute power, Emperor Napoleon III remapped the French capital from the ground up, appointing civil servant Georges-Eugène Haussmann to redesign Paris toward improved safety, public health and sanitation, and traffic circulation. A self-described artiste démolisseur (demolition…
Abbas: Retrospective in Valladolid

Abbas: Retrospective in Valladolid

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The acclaimed photographer Abbas roamed the world for 45 years, covering major political and social events, and publishing his works widely in world magazines and newspapers. An Iranian relocated to Paris, he has been documenting the political and social life of societies in conflict since 1970. Through his early photojournalistic and other major works such as the Iranian Revolution and…
Rolfe Horn: Explorations

Rolfe Horn: Explorations

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New works from Rolfe Horn’s travels to Cuba, Hawaii and Belgium. Rolfe Horn Explorations June 23 – September 9, 2018 Weston Gallery PO Box 655, Sixth Ave and Dolores St Carmel, CA 93921 westongallery.com
Renato D’Agostin: METROPOLIS

Renato D’Agostin: METROPOLIS

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For this exhibition, works from several of his well-known series have been brought together under the theme Metropolis, showcasing his explorations of modern life in cities, as well as the way he captures how people relate to their environment and their intimate relationship with the space they inhabit. D’Agostin started his photography career in his hometown Venice, Italy in 2001.…
Arnold Newman: One Hundred

Arnold Newman: One Hundred

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Published to coincide with the centennial of Arnold Newman’s birth, Arnold Newman: One Hundred offers a celebratory look at 100 of the photographer’s most provocative and memorable images. Arnold Newman is widely renowned for pioneering and popularizing the environmental portrait. He placed his sitters in surroundings representative of their professions, aiming to capture the essence of an individual’s life and…
Danny Lyon: The Destruction of Lower Manhattan

Danny Lyon: The Destruction of Lower Manhattan

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Already a respected photographer at age 25, Danny Lyon returned to his hometown of New York in 1966 and settled in Lower Manhattan. After observing that half the buildings on his street were boarded up, he learned that a 60-acre area was slated for urban renewal—a wholesale leveling of several neighborhoods, including one of the city’s oldest. He realized that…
Luisa Lynch: Conversations

Luisa Lynch: Conversations

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This is a series of wild birds especially Canaries taken out in a pond, to get their reflection. To take these pictures, several flashes have been placed to stop the movement ‘Conversations’ was the Black & White Nature and Wildlife Series of the Year 2018 Winner in the MonoVisions Photography Awards. ‘Conversations’ was the Black & White Nature and Wildlife…
Susan Meiselas: Mediations

Susan Meiselas: Mediations

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From war and human rights to cultural identity and domestic violence, Susan Meiselas’s (American, b. 1948) work covers a wide range of subjects and countries. This retrospective brings together projects from the beginning of her career in the 1970s to the present day, including her iconic portraits of carnival strippers, vivid color images of the conflicts in Central America in…
Oriano Nicolau: Projections

Oriano Nicolau: Projections

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This creative project was born playing with the inexhaustible natural light and projector light source while using many resources like patterned curtains or window frames. The natural light is projected over the skin in a sublime way adding elements like figures, textures & shapes. The models are summited in a world of distorted light and shadows. Oriano Nicolau was born…
Arthur Griffin: The Divers

Arthur Griffin: The Divers

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We all remember that suspenseful moment. The one right before you jump, when your feet are still on the ground, and time slows down as you contemplate leaping into the unknown water below. For some, the experience is one of play and excitement. For others the recollection may incite different feelings, possibly of anxiety and fear or of wonder at…
Steam & Steel: Photographs by O. Winston Link

Steam & Steel: Photographs by O. Winston Link

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Best known for his photography and sound recordings of the last days of the steam railroad, and for pioneering night photography. As a teenager, Link developed early interests in photography, locomotives and rail yards. Amid the depression era, Link graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn with a degree in civil engineering. Soon after, he took a job as a…
Daniel Garay Arango: GRVTY2

Daniel Garay Arango: GRVTY2

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GRVTY2 is a series of deconstructed architecture that tries to show us what would happen if suddenly there wasn’t gravity anymore, what would the world look those first seconds when nothing is capturing us. Daniel Garay Arango is a colombian photographer, specialized in black and white, fine art architectural and street photography. Website: www.garayarango.com ‘GRVTY2’ was the Black & White…