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Sally Mann: Immediate Family

Sally Mann: Immediate Family

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First published in 1992, Immediate Family has been lauded by critics as one of the great photography books of our time, and among the most influential. Taken against the Arcadian backdrop of her woodland summer home in Virginia, Sally Mann’s extraordinary, intimate photographs of her children reveal truths that embody the individuality of her own family yet ultimately take on…
Pentti Sammallahti: Warm Regards

Pentti Sammallahti: Warm Regards

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photo-eye Gallery is delighted to announce Warm Regards, an exhibition of small-scale traditional black-and white gelatin silver prints by preeminent Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti. A traveler and a visual poet, Sammallahti has travelled widely from his native Scandinavia, photographing across Russia to Japan, India, Nepal, Morocco, Turkey, throughout Europe, and South Africa. Meticulously composed, the artist’s photographs are imbued with…
Buried Reflections in the Silo

Buried Reflections in the Silo

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Francesco Merlini, Samuele Pellecchia, Igor Posner and Devin Yalkin, four black&white photographers whose diaristic approach to photography has been recognized worldwide with exhibitions and publications. Four intimacies blended into a collective reflection that aims at using the visual result of their photographic quest in order to deeply explore the process and the meaning of using photography to transform reality into…
Vivian Maier: A Photographer Found

Vivian Maier: A Photographer Found

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The definitive monograph of American photographer Vivian Maier, exploring the full range and brilliance of her work and the mystery of her life, written and edited by noted photography curator and writer Marvin Heiferman; featuring 250 black-and-white images, color work, and other materials never seen before; and a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman. Vivian Maier’s story—the…
David Lykes Keenan: Fair Witness: Street Photography for the 21st Century

David Lykes Keenan: Fair Witness: Street Photography for the 21st Century

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Fair Witness presents the humorous and sometimes unsettling street work of New York City–based photographer David Lykes Keenan, whose black-and-white photos, taken with a Leica rangefinder, recall Frank, Winogrand, Friedlander and particularly Erwitt. David Lykes Keenan Fair Witness: Street Photography for the 21st Century Hardcover: 160 pages Publisher: Damiani (2015) Language: English ISBN-13: 978-8862083898 Order the book: www.amazon.com
Kenro Izu: Thirty Year Retrospective

Kenro Izu: Thirty Year Retrospective

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Born in Osaka, Japan in 1949, Kenro Izu moved to New York City in the early 1970s, where he quickly established himself as a master of still life photography. A chance viewing of the mammoth plate photographs by the Victorian photographer Francis Frith led Izu to travel to Egypt in 1979, to photograph the pyramids and other sacred monuments. Thus…
38 Black and White Winning Photos of the 2017 Fine Art Photography Awards

38 Black and White Winning Photos of the 2017 Fine Art Photography Awards

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Fine Art Photography Awards just announced the 2017 winners for its prestigious photo contest. Over 6000 submissions were received from 89 countries around the world. Winners were selected by highly acclaimed panel of international judges, including: Tim Franco, Nadia Dias, Liza Van der Stock, atilde Gattoni, Amélie Labourdette, Valery Klamm and Pierre Abensur. Ana Santos has won the title of…
Pieter Hugo: There’s a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends

Pieter Hugo: There’s a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends

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Pieter Hugo‘s There’s a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends is a series of close-up portraits of the artist and his friends, all of whom call South Africa home. Through a digital process of converting colour images to black and white while manipulating the colour channels, Hugo emphasises the pigment (melanin) in his sitters’ skins so they appear…
Sage Sohier: Americans Seen

Sage Sohier: Americans Seen

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Americans Seen will present a key selection of Sage Sohier’s black and white photographs of people in their environments. Taken in the late 1970’s to the early 1980s her portraits reveal a particular time and place. Distinctly American, yet collectively grounded in their expression of the human condition, her exceptional photographs show our often-strange expression of the daily rituals that…
Henry Horenstein: Animalia

Henry Horenstein: Animalia

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ANIMALIA is a collection of the best of noted photographer Henry Horenstein’s images of sea and land creatures. Described variously as evocative, mysterious, romantic, surprising, and weird, Horenstein’s abstract images will make the viewer see otherwise familiar animals in a new and different light. Printed in sumptuous sepia duotones, ANIMALIA will make an elegant gift book for the animal or…
Mark Steinmetz: South

Mark Steinmetz: South

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Yancey Richardson Gallery is pleased to present South, an exhibition of photographs by Mark Steinmetz. The exhibition is comprised of black-and-white photographs drawn from the artistʼs decades-long career photographing the southeastern United States, primarily in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. Steinmetzʼs images are imbued with an intrinsically Southern tenderness, melancholy and longing that is universally resonant. With his lens, Steinmetz…
Atget: Postcards of a Lost Paris

Atget: Postcards of a Lost Paris

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Few places on Earth have been as lovingly, almost fanatically, documented as Paris. Despite extraordinary growth and change, the Paris of the world’s imagination is still, to a remarkable degree, the Paris of the turn of the 20th century―the Paris captured by Eugène Atget. The postcards in this book, which were more or less Atget’s only publications during his lifetime,…
Emil Otto Hoppé: Unveiling a Secret

Emil Otto Hoppé: Unveiling a Secret

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The focus of the two new exhibitions at Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur is industrial photography with its various contexts of origin, its formal-aesthetic positing, and its content-related implications. Emil Otto Hoppé (*1878 in Munich) – his name is often abbreviated as “E. O. Hoppé” – was a prominent portrait photographer of the early 20th century. He also gained a…
Ryuji Taira: Vicissitudes

Ryuji Taira: Vicissitudes

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A true treat for the eyes is currently on view at the Clairefontaine gallery in Luxembourg: still life photographs from concentration and inner peace, which are printed with precious platinum palladium on a high quality Gampi paper. Ryuji Taira is a quiet observer, he loves nature and loneliness. He explains that, during hikes, faded plants or dead insects often fascinate…
Larry Fink: The Beats

Larry Fink: The Beats

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In the late 50s after an unsuccessful stint in college, master photographer Larry Fink dropped out and began an odyssey of hitchhiking through America. Starting out in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and moving on to Chicago, Larry travelled eastward through Cincinnati and finally back to his native soil on Long Island where his family waited with dismayed but open arms. Clearly…
Sebastião Salgado: Kuwait

Sebastião Salgado: Kuwait

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For his second solo exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Chelsea, world-renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado presents a selection of stunning monochromatic photographs from his landmark series Kuwait. Shot in 1991 as the Gulf War drew to a close, the images in this show chronicle the raging oil well fires ignited by Saddam Hussein’s forces as they retreated from Kuwait. This exhibition of…
Judith Joy Ross: Portraits of the United States Congress 1986-1987

Judith Joy Ross: Portraits of the United States Congress 1986-1987

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An exhibition of photographs by Judith Joy Ross (American, b. 1946), one of the most highly renowned and influential portrait photographers of our era, opened at Deborah Bell Photographs on Wednesday, February 1, and will be on view through April 29. The exhibition features the portraits that Ross made in 1986 and 1987 of members of the United States Congress…
Elliott Erwitt: Regarding Women

Elliott Erwitt: Regarding Women

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Photographic master Elliott Erwitt has created many noteworthy portraits of womankind over the years. In Regarding Women he presents us with an exceptional collection composed (almost) exclusively of black-and-white female portraits. This volume is Erwitt’s evocative personal tribute to female strength, intelligence, and beauty. The archival material spans several generations, with many images not previously published or rarely seen before.…
Light Frequencies: Camera Obscura Images of Hong Kong

Light Frequencies: Camera Obscura Images of Hong Kong

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Beijing and New York based artist Shi Guorui (b. 1964 Shanxi, China) uses early photographic technologies known as Camera Obscura to create large-scale pinhole photographs and photograms. Shi Guorui began working on this Hong Kong series in 2014, having worked on the project for more than 3 years shooting multiple facets of the city from various locations. The magnificent Hong…
Roger Ballen: The Theatre of Apparitions

Roger Ballen: The Theatre of Apparitions

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Hamiltons presents Roger Ballen’s most recent and highly anticipated body of work The Theatre of Apparitions for the first time as a series. In true Ballenesque style, the series takes the reader on a journey into their subconscious. Ballen’s choice of title is to convey the theatrical mechanics in which mental forms of life – dreams, the imagination and memories…