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Erwin Blumenfeld: From Dada to Vogue

Erwin Blumenfeld: From Dada to Vogue

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Osborne Samuel Gallery is delighted to announce Erwin Blumenfeld: From Dada to Vogue, highlighting rare works from one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century, Erwin Blumenfeld. This exhibition, curated by Lou Proud, brings together a collection of Blumenfeld’s early photographs, some of which have never been exhibited in the UK before. Shedding light on his seldom explored…
Andrew Savulich: The City

Andrew Savulich: The City

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Social and cultural transition is often hard to gauge. New York in the 1980s and the first half of the 90s was clearly a different place than it is now: the city was more violent, the streets stranger, and Times Square still wonderfully sleazy. Andrew Savulich’s (born 1959) subject is this perpetually changing metropolis, and his images are a unique…
Lewis Hine: The National Research Project 1936–1937

Lewis Hine: The National Research Project 1936–1937

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Hine revealed America’s working conditions in both old and new industries throughout the Northeast In 1936, science teacher turned photographer Lewis Hine was commissioned by the National Research Project, a division of the Works Project Administration, to produce a visual document of the industries that the US government hoped would provide the jobs that would lift the country out of…
Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century

Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century

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Cheating Death presents more than 50 portraits from the medium’s first 50 years, almost all drawn from the museum’s extraordinarily rich holdings of 19th-century photography. In our selfie-besotted age, it is hard to believe that until 1839 only the upper-class could own a likeness of themselves or of their families or friends. That year brought the announcement of the invention…
Antoine Le Grand: Portraits

Antoine Le Grand: Portraits

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French photographer Antoine Le Grand (born 1956) is widely known for his striking portraits of celebrities–filmmakers, actors, actresses, musicians and architects. He has photographed countless major stars of stage and screen, from Iggy Pop to David Lynch, from Charlotte Rampling to Al Pacino. Le Grand started out working for dailies such as Libération and Le Monde, and went on to…
Edward Steichen: Twentieth-Century Photographer

Edward Steichen: Twentieth-Century Photographer

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DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is pleased to present the upcoming exhibition Edward Steichen: Twentieth-Century Photographer. Edward Steichen (1879-1973) is known for his role in expanding the breadth of twentieth-century photography through his memorable images and his work as a gallery director and museum curator. Steichen was a painter, horticulturalist, museum curator, graphic designer, publisher, and film director. He also…
Disco: The Bill Bernstein Photographs

Disco: The Bill Bernstein Photographs

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Containing many previously unpublished photographs, Disco takes the viewer on an access-all-areas tour of late-’70s New York nightlife. “Who were these people of the night … ? It was the Posers. The Watchers. The Posers watching other Posers watching the Watchers, watching the Dancers, watching themselves.” Bill Bernstein’s eye was drawn to the characters that lived for the night, rather…
Fred Lyon: San Francisco, Portrait of a City 1940-1960

Fred Lyon: San Francisco, Portrait of a City 1940-1960

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With a landmark around every corner and a picture perfect view atop every hill, San Francisco might be the world s most picturesque city. And yet, the Golden City is so much more than postcard vistas. It s a town alive with history, culture, and a palpable sense of grandeur best captured by a man known as’san Francisco s Brassai.…
Muhammad Ali: Fighter’s Heaven 1974

Muhammad Ali: Fighter’s Heaven 1974

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In October 1974, Muhammad Ali attempted to regain the world heavyweight boxing championship title that was stripped from him when he refused the Vietnam draft seven years earlier. He faced the brutal, undefeated George Foreman in Zaire, Africa, the fight he had dubbed “The Rumble in The Jungle.” Only weeks before, on August 11–12, photographer Peter Angelo Simon was invited…
Eugene Richards: Below the Line: Living Poor in America

Eugene Richards: Below the Line: Living Poor in America

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It’s been almost thirty years since the publication of Eugene Richards’ landmark book, Below the Line: Living Poor in America. The book, though acclaimed at the time, was also controversial. Critics applauded the revealing nature of the stories, but often added, as if in the same breath, that what was being shown was a negative view of the country, one…
Photogrvphy Grant 2016 – Best Black & White Winning Entries

Photogrvphy Grant 2016 – Best Black & White Winning Entries

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We bring you stunning collection of best black and white projects awarded in 2016 PhotogrVphy Grant. See full Winners’ Gallery here: grant.photogrvphy.com American photographer Drew Nikonowicz (born 1993) has been announced as the overall winner of this year’s Photogrvphy Grant and granted $1000 prize money to support his visual projects. His winning series, titled ‘This World and Others Like It” investigates…
Diane Arbus: In The Beginning

Diane Arbus: In The Beginning

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As part of the inaugural season at The Met Breuer, diane arbus: in the beginning will open on July 12, featuring more than 100 photographs that together will redefine one of the most influential and provocative artists of the 20th century. This landmark exhibition highlights never- before-seen early work of Diane Arbus (1923–71), focusing on the first seven years of…
Magnum On Set exhibition

Magnum On Set exhibition

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In times where it is no longer fiction meddling into reality but digital truth invading the territories of fiction, the exhibition of the snapshots that some great photographers dedicated to the cinema makes us reflect on the relationship between reality and fiction, between truth and illusion and between real life and reverie. The work done by the Magnum photographers has…
PLATINUM – Master prints by master printers

PLATINUM – Master prints by master printers

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A new exhibition at Atlas Gallery will showcase the beauty of the platinum print through the work of diverse international photographers and artists from the early 20th century to the present day. Platinum-palladium is a traditional printing technique, dating from the 19th century, favoured by photographers and collectors due to the tonal range of the prints. Platinum prints are amongst…
Disfarmer: The Vintage Prints

Disfarmer: The Vintage Prints

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Disfarmer: The Vintage Prints is the first exhibition in Switzerland of the vintage prints of Mike Disfarmer (1884-1959), one of America’s greatest portraitists. Posthumous prints, created from a cache of glass-plate negatives salvaged from his studio after his death, have been the subject of several books and numerous museum and gallery exhibitions since 1976, but original prints have been unknown…
Valentin Khukhlaev: IN MOTION

Valentin Khukhlaev: IN MOTION

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The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents an exhibition of a famous Soviet photographer Valentin Khukhlaev IN MOTION. The exhibition is based on the family archive, collection of The Lumiere Center and marks the centenary of the photographer’s birth. Valentin Khukhlaev (1916-2010) was a photo correspondent of the major Soviet news agency TASS for over 50 years. He made around…
Robert Mapplethorpe – On the Edge

Robert Mapplethorpe – On the Edge

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Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs have provoked debate. They have been the target of criticism and censorship. They have also been praised around the world with celebrated exhibitions in some of the most prestigious art institutions. ARoS Aarhus Art Museum now presents more than 180 photographs by one of the greatest masters of the art of photography. The exhibition ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE –…
Jon Savage – Uninhabited London

Jon Savage – Uninhabited London

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In the late 1970s, the streets that gave birth to Punk were a bleak and desolate playground for the imagination. These photos were taken on an old Pentax during January 1977. Their purpose was to serve as an image bank for the second issue of the fanzine London’s Outrage. The location was the square of North Kensington that lies between…
Roger Ballen and Asger Carlsen: NO JOKE

Roger Ballen and Asger Carlsen: NO JOKE

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Lars Dittrich and André Schlechtriem are pleased to present NO JOKE, the revolutionary collaborative series by Roger Ballen and Asger Carlsen. The self-contained series of 37 black-and-white photographs premieres in its entirety during Berlin Art Week, opening September 16 and running through October 22, 2016. A significant follow-up presentation has been selected to be featured at Paris Photo 2016 in…
Dan Winters: The Grey Ghost

Dan Winters: The Grey Ghost

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The Fahey/Klein Gallery is pleased to present The Grey Ghost, an exhibition of work by contemporary photographer Dan Winters. The exhibition coincides with the release of Winters’s latest publication, The Grey Ghost (Rocky Nook, 2016). This body of work is a highly personal collection of images that serves as a visual diary of the time Winters spent living and working…