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Mary Ellen Mark: 20X24 Polaroid

Mary Ellen Mark: 20X24 Polaroid

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In 1995, Mary Ellen was introduced to the 20×24 Polaroid camera. She has worked with it often since then—both for editorial and commercial assignments and for her own personal projects. There are only a few working cameras in the world, so she feels fortunate to have one nearby. One of the challenges of working with the camera is that there…
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Mind’s Eye

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Mind’s Eye

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Henri Cartier-Bresson’s writings on photography and photographers have been published sporadically over the past 45 years. His essays several of which have never before been translated into English are collected here for the first time. The Mind’s Eye features Cartier-Bresson’s famous text on “the decisive moment” as well as his observations on Moscow, Cuba and China during turbulent times. These…
Tomasz Gudzowaty: Synchronized Swimming

Tomasz Gudzowaty: Synchronized Swimming

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Synchronized swimming, once known as water ballet, has grown from its humble origins to become a fully organized, internationally competitive sport, reaching the Olympics in 1984. It’s a female dominated discipline, though men compete internationally. Competitions are organized into four categories: solo, duet, team (four to eight swimmers), and combination (ten swimmers). Although synchronized swimming is a graceful and gentle…
Kevin Bubriski: Look into My Eyes

Kevin Bubriski: Look into My Eyes

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Kevin Bubriski worked for nine years in Nepal, and has also photographed his numerous journeys to India, Tibet, and Bangladesh. Over the past decade Kevin has worked overseas in fifteen Muslim countries on photographic assignments concerned with Islamic culture and history. Bubriski’s fine art photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of…
Michael Kenna: Forms of Japan

Michael Kenna: Forms of Japan

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This beautiful book presents a meditative, arresting, and dazzling collection of 240 black-and-white images of Japan, made over almost 30 years by the internationally renowned photographer Michael Kenna. A rocky coast along the sea of Japan; an immense plain of rice fields in the snow; Mount Fuji towering over misty wooded hills; silent temples devoid of people but brimming with…
Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half

Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half

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Danish-born Jacob A. Riis (1849–1914) found success in America as a reporter for the New York Tribune, first documenting crime and later turning his eye to housing reform. As tenement living conditions became unbearable in the wake of massive immigration, Riis and his camera captured some of the earliest, most powerful images of American urban poverty. This important publication is…
Black and White Close-Up Nudes by Igor Amelkovich

Black and White Close-Up Nudes by Igor Amelkovich

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Igor Amelkovich live in Chelyabinsk, which is in southern Ural mountains in Russia. He studied radio engineering at the South Ural State University. From 1985 to 1987 he served in the Soviet army, near Vladivostok on the Pacific coast by the Chinese border. Photography has been his focus since 1999. He didn’t held a camera in his hands before and…
Christopher Thomas – Paris: City of Light

Christopher Thomas – Paris: City of Light

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Imagine an entirely empty Champs-Elysees, or the Eiffel Tower minus the lines of tourists waiting to ascend. By taking advantage of the late night and early morning hours of a notoriously busy city, Christopher Thomas is able to capture familiar sights devoid of people. Using a large format camera, long exposures, and the last of his remaining duotone Polaroid film,…
Tim Rudman – Iceland, an Uneasy Calm

Tim Rudman – Iceland, an Uneasy Calm

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‘Iceland, an Uneasy Calm’ is a series of photographs taken in Iceland over the last eight years by Tim Rudman who is acknowledged as one of the very finest landscape photographers working today. This stunning collection will be exhibited at the Fox Talbot Museum in Lacock, Britain’s birthplace of photography, from 9 January to 10 July. Tim Rudman is well…
Christian Cravo: Twenty Five Years

Christian Cravo: Twenty Five Years

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Throckmorton Fine Art is pleased to present TWENTY FIVE YEARS by Christian Cravo, the fifth exhibition at the gallery by the Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. Spencer Throckmorton is proud to have represented Christian Cravo for the past twenty years, saying that working with the third-generation artist is a unique privilege: “Christian grew up the son and grandson of legendary Brazilian artists,…
Monochrome Photography Awards 2015 – Winners Gallery

Monochrome Photography Awards 2015 – Winners Gallery

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Monochrome Photography Awards is proud to announce the winners of their photography contest! Australian photographer Luke Tscharke has been announced as the overall winner of Professional category with the title: Monochrome Photographer of the Year 2015 and $2000 prize money. His winning image, called ‘Barossa Bolt’ shows large storm and lightning strikes over the Barossa Valley, South Australia. Additionally, in…
Peter Hujar: Lost Downtown

Peter Hujar: Lost Downtown

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Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce Lost Downtown, the gallery’s first solo exhibition by acclaimed photographer Peter Hujar which will be on view at 297 Tenth Avenue from January 28 to February 27, 2016. The exhibition, presented in collaboration with Pace/MacGill, will feature over twenty photographs of the late photographer’s portraits which offer a fascinating glimpse of New York…
Dr. Dain L. Tasker: Floral Studies

Dr. Dain L. Tasker: Floral Studies

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Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition of an important collection of vintage x-ray photographs by Dr. Dain L Tasker. This exhibition will open on January 9th and continue through February 19th, 2016. A reception for the exhibition will be on Saturday, January 9th, from 6-8pm. Dr. Tasker was the chief radiologist at Wilshire Hospital in Los…
Giacomo Brunelli: Hamburg

Giacomo Brunelli: Hamburg

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At the invitation of the Hamburg Triennial of Photography, Italian photographer Giacomo Brunelli spent a residency in Hamburg in spring 2015. Brunelli had achieved international recognition for his series “The Animals”, published in 2008 by Dewi Lewis, and for the series “Eternal London” that the Photographer’s Gallery presented in London in 2014. Giacomo Brunelli has developed an individual, authentic visual…
Robert Adams: The New West

Robert Adams: The New West

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The open American West is nearly gone. A longstanding classic of photobook publishing, The New West is a photographic essay about what came to fill it-freeways, tract homes, low-rise business buildings and signs. In five sequences of pictures taken along the front wall of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, Robert Adams has documented a representative sampling of the whole suburban Southwest.…
Marc Krüger: Animato

Marc Krüger: Animato

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Animato evokes movement, flow, especially in the city, inert mineral structure contrasting with the organic and alive side of men crossing from side to side, like an arrow. The passage of man from one place to another, and all life and existence that can be part of this change of state. The crowd scenes disputing the quieter beaches where the…
The World of Fred Stein

The World of Fred Stein

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Rosenberg & Co. is honored to represent the estate of Fred Stein, and opens the exhibition, The World of Fred Stein, on Thursday, November 19. The solo show features approximately fifty vintage, gelatin silver photographic prints taken by Stein during his time in Paris preceding World War II, his subsequent life in New York City, and post-war journeys back to…
Eli Reed: Black in America

Eli Reed: Black in America

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Eli Reed has been documenting the black experience in America from the time he began taking pictures. This volume, “Black in America”, is his provocative and often poignant portrait of black life in America. As a photographer, Reed is known for his unflinching coverage of events both large an small. Here we see tender moments between parents and children contrasted…