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The Life and Work of Sid Grossman

The Life and Work of Sid Grossman

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Sid Grossman (1913–55) and his work were largely forgotten after his untimely death in 1955. Labeled as a communist by the FBI after the war, his hard-earned reputation as a free-thinking photographer quickly fell into oblivion for the rest of the century and beyond. Grossman was one of the founders of the famous New York Photo League and a notoriously…
Monochrome Photography Awards 2016 – Winners Gallery

Monochrome Photography Awards 2016 – Winners Gallery

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Monochrome Photography Awards is proud to announce the winners of their 2016 photography competition! French photographer Michel Kirch has been announced as the overall winner of Professional category with the title: Monochrome Photographer of the Year 2016 and $2000 prize money. His winning image, called ‘Vertical Horizon’ shows Persian harmony in the town of Khiveh in Uzbekistan. Additionally, in Amateur…
Mark Seliger: On Christopher Street: Portraits

Mark Seliger: On Christopher Street: Portraits

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On Christopher Street is a portrait series of transgender individuals shot between 2013 and 2016 with a medium format camera in the West Village of New York City. Bree Benz is statuesque in a black shift dress posed calmly in the center of the road. M. David Soliven’s business casual cardigan catches a few rain drops outside a row of…
Michael Kenna – Robert Mann Gallery

Michael Kenna – Robert Mann Gallery

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When looking at the artist’s oeuvre and the myriad of subjects therein, it is not difficult to realize the acumen of Michael Kenna. The careful treatment of each composition is apparent from frame to frame, in which every detail is given its due consideration. For Kenna, his photographs are “visual haiku poems, rather than full length novels.” Though these works…
Henry Wessel: Traffic/Sunset Park/Continental Divide

Henry Wessel: Traffic/Sunset Park/Continental Divide

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This book presents three independent bodies of work by Henry Wessel (born 1942), each being a precise sequence arranged to give the viewer the experience of what it felt like to pass through the territory described. The first series, Traffic, shows Wessel’s photos of drivers stuck in traffic as he commuted in the early 1980s from Richmond, California, to San…
Michael Crouser: Sin Tiempo

Michael Crouser: Sin Tiempo

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Michael Crouser can make you fall in love with photography again (if you’ve ever fallen out of it in the first place). His carefully printed darkroom objects, slow creations, and long-term observations are a welcome break in the present era of quick consumption and overly produced images. Crouser knows just when to hit the pause button to reveal the poetic…
The Psychic Lens – Surrealism and the Camera

The Psychic Lens – Surrealism and the Camera

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A new exhibition of nearly 50 works at Atlas Gallery will explore how photographers responded to Surrealism over the course of over 50 years. The Psychic Lens: Surrealism and the camera, will include vintage photographs by well-known figures such as Man Ray, Andre Kertesz, Florence Henri and Bill Brandt alongside rarely seen works by artists such as Vaclav Zykmund, Franz…
Daniella Zalcman – Signs of Your Identity

Daniella Zalcman – Signs of Your Identity

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Across Canada and the United States, various iterations of Indian boarding schools were established in the 1800s to force the assimilation of indigenous children into Western culture. Children as young as two years old were taken from their homes and enrolled in compulsory education programs. Many would not reunite with their families for more than a decade; others would never…
Flor Garduño: Photography

Flor Garduño: Photography

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The exhibit will present 30 black-and-white images, highlighting her most recent work, but also including some of the most iconic images from her prolific career. Garduño was born in Mexico City in 1957. She studied visual arts at the San Carlos Academy of the Arts at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Although she was first attracted to drawing, she…
Cecil Beaton’s London’s Honourable Scars: Photographs of the Blitz

Cecil Beaton’s London’s Honourable Scars: Photographs of the Blitz

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The exhibition features 15 photographs from the London’s Honourable Scars series that document the devastating of London, capturing an era that Winston Churchull described as Britain’s “finest hour.” It was here in the throes of World War II that Britain stood alone against the German onslaught that rained down like clockwork. Between September 7, 1940 and May 21, 1941, more…
Ira Martin: The Family Archive

Ira Martin: The Family Archive

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Rick Wester Fine Art proudly presents the first exhibition of vintage platinum and silver print photographs by Ira Wright Martin in New York since 1986, all culled from the holdings of the photographer’s descendants. This will be the first time these works have been publicly exhibited since prior to the photographer’s passing in 1960. The subjects include Pictorialist portraits and…
Robert Haas: Framing Two Worlds

Robert Haas: Framing Two Worlds

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Robert Haas (1898-1997) is among the great Austrian-American photographers of the twentieth century. He began his artistic career in Vienna as a graphic designer and typographer before studying photography with Trude Fleischmann. In the 1930s, Haas created stirring works of social reportage and sensitive depictions of everyday life, along with portraits and object studies. Beyond that, he spent several years…
Philippe Halsman: Facets and Faces

Philippe Halsman: Facets and Faces

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Photographers who capture an iconic image are often confronted with a paradox: the celebration of a single photograph overshadows the entirety an artistic oeuvre. Yet what happens in those rare situations when a single photographer is responsible for scores of iconic images? This question is explored by the Halsman: Facets and Facets exhibition. Philippe Halsman (b. Riga, 1906; d. New…
Léon Herschtritt: A life for photography!

Léon Herschtritt: A life for photography!

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With a passion for photography from an early age, Léon Herschtritt studied at the Ecole Nationale de la Photographie. Sent to Algeria to teach photography, Leon Herschtritt spent his days in idleness, but met Nicole, who became his wife, and photographed children in the streets of Algiers. With Les Gosses d’Algérie, his first series published in the magazine Réalités, he…
Lewis Baltz: Nevada

Lewis Baltz: Nevada

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Nevada is a central work of Baltz’s continued interest in the American West and its changing landscape. The photographs describe the development of the desert region of Nevada, near Reno: construction sites and their artifacts, vistas of newly built tract communities, and the desert environments that surround their imprint are traced with the high-key light of the western sun or…
Jacob A. Riis: Light in Dark Places

Jacob A. Riis: Light in Dark Places

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Kunstforeningen GL STRAND presents an exhibition about the Danish-American Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914), who is known for his ground-breaking photojournalistic work. His photos were part of his work to improve the living conditions of the many poor imigrants in New York. The exhibition tells the story of Riis’ pioneering work and an important part of American history through photos, texts…
Tomas van Houtryve: Blue Sky Days

Tomas van Houtryve: Blue Sky Days

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Anastasia Photo is pleased to present Tomas van Houtryve’s first exhibition at the gallery. Blue Sky Days presents a visual record of the drone war through aerial imagery that elegantly weaves together documentary and fine art. Starting in 2013, van Houtryve traveled across America to aerially photograph the kind of gatherings that have become habitual targets for drone strikes abroad…
Isaac Julien: Looking for Langston

Isaac Julien: Looking for Langston

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Galerie Ron Mandos is proud to present an exhibition on Isaac Julien’s seminal poetic film Looking for Langston (1989). The series is an homage by acclaimed artist Isaac Julien (1960, London) to Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance. This award-winning and strong-minded screening, on show as the restored 16 mm film, is accompanied by photographic work, that explore the fractured…
David Yarrow: Wild Encounters

David Yarrow: Wild Encounters

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Much like the photographs curated for the exhibition, Yarrow’s publication Wild Encounters, features a composite of his work captured over the years, containing exciting and fascinating tales of his adventures in the field. In the book, Yarrow chronicles his journeys, spanning all seven continents, through the utilization of map coordinates, allowing the reader to vicariously experience each species and culture…
UNSEEN: Silhouettes and Shadows

UNSEEN: Silhouettes and Shadows

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Peter Fetterman Gallery is pleased to present the first installment of a reoccurring exhibition platform titled UNSEEN. The presentation aims to show new artists, rare bodies of work, and singular gems from the gallery’s leading collection of fine art photography within the context of various curatorial approaches. This first edition is comprised of humanist, fine art and documentary photography representing…