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# MONOVISIONS - Black & White Photography Magazine

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- [Eric Manigaud: Congo Océan](https://monovisions.com/eric-manigaud-congo-ocean/) - In his third solo exhibition at Gallery FIFTY ONE, French artist Éric Manigaud (°1971) presents the final piece of his intensive research into European colonial history. This show runs simultaneously with an exhibition at Galerie Sator in Paris. Belgian Congo being the subject in Paris and French Congo in Antwerp. Manigaud is interested in archival
- [Jason Langer: Friends and Lovers](https://monovisions.com/jason-langer-friends-and-lovers/) - CLAMP is proud to present “Jason Langer | Friends and Lovers”—an exhibition of the artist’s photographs on view on the gallery’s mezzanine. Included in the exhibition are two photographs from his most recent monograph, Berlin, published by Kerber Verlag, as well as several photographs that were deemed too provocative for the book’s publication. The creation
- [Lee Friedlander Framed by Joel Coen](https://monovisions.com/lee-friedlander-framed-by-joel-coen/) - Luhring Augustine is pleased to announce Lee Friedlander Framed by Joel Coen, opening in our Chelsea location. Curated by the widely acclaimed filmmaker Joel Coen, the exhibition showcases approximately 45 of Friedlander’s photographs that span the range of his 60+ year career, bringing into the equation many lesser-known images. Rather than focusing on a single
- [Alice Springs (June Newton): Retrospective](https://monovisions.com/alice-springs-june-newton-retrospective/) - While major Alice Springs exhibitions were already hosted at HNF in 2010 and 2016, many of the photographs in this new retrospective have never been seen by the public. Extensive research into the foundation’s archives, particularly the holdings recently transferred to Berlin from the Newtons’ apartment in Monaco, has provided new insight into the work
- [Hatami: Classic Films of the 1960s. Vintage Photographs](https://monovisions.com/hatami-classic-films-of-the-1960s-vintage-photographs/) - Hatami (1928-2017) – known primarily by his last name – started his sixty-year career as a writer in the 1950s for a newspaper in Tehran. Due to short staffing, the Editor required he also use his journalistic skills to photograph unfolding political events. Hatami’s keen eye and assertive nature allowed him to capture decades of
- [France in the Time of Manet and Morisot](https://monovisions.com/france-in-the-time-of-manet-and-morisot/) - Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot lived during a tumultuous yet fertile period in France. Events included war and the loss of territory; modernization and the rise of industry; and a shift from rural to urban living. As both artists were living in Paris, it became the largest city in continental Europe and the arts capital
- [Vintage: Historic B&W Photos of Victorian-Era Canterbury and Carlisle](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-victorian-era-canterbury-and-carlisle/) - Canterbury, known for its deep-rooted ecclesiastical significance, was a hub of religious devotion and economic activity in Victorian England. The Canterbury Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage site, remained the heart of the city, drawing pilgrims and tourists alike. Nearby, St. Martin’s Church, the oldest church in England still in use, stood as a symbol of
- [Emma Hartvig: Masks & Myths](https://monovisions.com/emma-hartvig-masks-myths/) - The Hulett Collection is proud to present Masks & Myths, a selection of works by Vienna-based contemporary artist Emma Hartvig. Blending cinematic atmosphere with emotional intimacy, Hartvig’s photographs explore womanhood through a deeply personal and evocative lens. Moving fluidly between portraiture, allegory, and autobiography, her images inhabit a space where vulnerability, transformation, memory, and myth
- [Lynn Adler: And So We Moved To Petaca](https://monovisions.com/lynn-adler-and-so-we-moved-to-petaca/) - Obscura Gallery is thrilled to present an exhibition and book signing for And So We Moved To Petaca: Portrait of a New Mexico Community, with photographs by Lynn Adler and curated by Bill Shapiro. The exhibition and recent book publication (University of New Mexico Press, 2026) is a sublime photographic chronicle of the efforts of
- [Biography: 19th Century Danish photographer Mary Steen](https://monovisions.com/biography-19th-century-photographer-mary-steen/) - Mary Dorothea Frederica Steen (1853 - 1939) was a Danish photographer and feminist. At the age of 28, she opened a studio in Copenhagen where she specialized in indoor photography. In 1884, at the age of 28, she opened her own photographic studio on Amagertorv in the centre of Copenhagen. At the 1888 Nordic Exhibition
- [Vintage: The Channel Islands in Victorian England](https://monovisions.com/vintage-the-channel-islands-in-victorian-england/) - Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands, was a vibrant hub of activity. Saint Brelade’s Bay, with its golden sands and rugged cliffs, became a favored destination for Victorian visitors seeking seaside leisure. Just a short journey away, Saint Aubin’s, once a bustling fishing port, transformed into a charming town with elegant Georgian and Victorian
- [Michael Kenna: Confessionali](https://monovisions.com/michael-kenna-confessionali/) - In 2007, Michael Kenna visited the Chiesa di Santo Stefano in Reggio Emilia and began a series of photographs that initiated a focused, contemplative body of work on confessionals, fixed wooden booths inside a Catholic church, designed specifically for the sacrament of confession. In Italian churches, confessionals are often more decorative than in many other
- [Meryl Meisler: Queer-Friendly Nightlife Now](https://monovisions.com/meryl-meisler-queer-friendly-nightlife-now/) - Nearly five decades after documenting disco-era revelry, photographer Meryl Meisler returns with a bold new body of work capturing the pulse of contemporary queer nightlife—its grit, glamour, and enduring sense of community. Meryl Meisler: Queer-Friendly Nightlife Now premieres the CPW's inaugural Upstate Photography Biennial, a new exhibition series featuring 39 artists from across the region,
- [Interview with Philip Shaheen](https://monovisions.com/philip-shaheen-interview/) - Philip Shaheen is an analog black-and-white landscape photographer based in Washington, DC. He works exclusively on medium and large format film - no digital capture, no post-processing — producing everything from negative to print by hand using techniques that predate the digital era. In the field, Shaheen controls tonality through Zone System metering, contrast filters,and
- [New York City Never Sleeps](https://monovisions.com/new-york-city-never-sleeps/) - Peter Fetterman is pleased to present a group show celebrating 20th-century New York City. Long recognized as the epicenter of street photography — a place where the medium expanded, redefined itself, and captured the pulse of American urban life, New York contains a full spectrum of human experience. Harsh light and deep shadow shaped the
- [Vintage: Victorian Life in Scarborough: A Seaside Town in Its Prime](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-victorian-era-scarborough/) - South Bay was the bustling hub of activity, where families and holidaymakers strolled along the promenade, taking in the salty sea breeze. Elegant ladies in crinoline skirts and gentlemen in top hats would visit the beach, where bathing machines allowed for modesty-preserving dips in the sea. The bay was lined with hotels, shops, and entertainment
- [Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum](https://monovisions.com/diane-arbus-sanctum-sanctorum/) - Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum, on view at Fraenkel Gallery from March 12 to May 22, 2026, gathers forty-five photographs made between 1961 and 1971 in spaces defined by privacy and trust. The title refers to a sacred inner room, a place not meant for casual entry, and the exhibition reflects Arbus’s rare ability to be
- [Helmut Newton x Steven Klein](https://monovisions.com/helmut-newton-x-steven-klein/) - In this exhibition, the photographic works of Helmut Newton and Steven Klein are united because they both share an inclination for the erotic, the fetishistic, the humorous, and the glamorous – elements which have universal appeal. Helmut Newton has long been known as an icon of fashion photography and scandalized magazine readers in the 1970s
- [Vintage: Historic B&W Photos of Victorian-era Bridlington, England](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-victorian-era-bridlington-england/) - The expansion of the railway network in the mid-19th century brought an influx of tourists to Bridlington, eager to experience the fresh sea air and therapeutic waters. Seaside promenades became lively centers of activity, with well-dressed Victorians strolling along the harbor and sandy beaches. Beach huts, bathing machines, and grand hotels catered to the growing
- [Philippe Halsman: Portraits](https://monovisions.com/philippe-halsman-portraits/) - Philippe Halsman: Portraits, on view from February 7 to March 28, 2026, celebrates the enduring legacy of one of the twentieth century’s most inventive portrait photographers. Born in Latvia and later working in Europe and the United States, Philippe Halsman developed a visual language that reshaped how public figures were photographed and perceived. His portraits
- [Brassaï: Secret Paris](https://monovisions.com/brassai-secret-paris/) - In 1933, bewitched by the city of Paris, the photographer Brassaï published Paris by Night, a groundbreaking photobook depicting the shadowed streets, cafés, lovers, and nocturnal wanderers that came to define the modern image of the city. A new exhibition at Howard Greenberg Gallery presents nearly 40 photographs from Brassaï’s celebrated Paris by Night series
- [Fragmentary Glimpses: Alfred Stieglitz and David Vestal in New York](https://monovisions.com/fragmentary-glimpses-alfred-stieglitz-and-david-vestal-in-new-york/) - One thing is certain about New York City—it is always changing. We know this on an instinctual level, but the art of the times is what reveals the city’s shapeshifting energy. As a versatile medium, photography both documents what a camera views while simultaneously revealing more than what is seen at any given moment. Robert
- [Vintage: Historic B&W Photos of Victorian-Era Bournemouth, England](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-victorian-era-bournemouth-england/) - During the Victorian era, Bournemouth transformed from a quiet coastal heathland into a thriving seaside resort, attracting visitors from across Britain. The town's rapid growth was driven by the Victorian fascination with sea air and its supposed health benefits, particularly for those suffering from respiratory ailments. Bournemouth's development was heavily influenced by Sir George William
- [Vintage: Historic B&W Photos of Victorian-era York, England](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-victorian-era-york-england/) - Victorian York was a city of contrasts. The wealthy elite resided in grand townhouses, enjoying luxuries such as gas lighting, fine clothing, and domestic servants. Meanwhile, the working-class population, including laborers and factory workers, lived in overcrowded slums with poor sanitation. The disparity between the rich and the poor was evident in living conditions, access
- [The Poetry of Everyday Life Master Photographers of the French Humanist Movement](https://monovisions.com/the-poetry-of-everyday-life-master-photographers-of-the-french-humanist-movement/) - Keith de Lellis Gallery is proud to present “The Poetry of Everyday Life – Master Photographers of the French Humanist Movement,” a landmark exhibition celebrating the timeless work of mid-20th century photographers who captured the heart and soul of post-war France. Featuring both iconic and little known works by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis,
- [Nouvelle Vague French Photography from the 1950s and 1960s](https://monovisions.com/nouvelle-vague-french-photography-from-the-1950s-and-1960s/) - Peter Fetterman Gallery presents Nouvelle Vague, an evocative survey celebrating the essence of French photography through the eyes of some of the twentieth century’s most admired artists. Bringing together works by Edouard Boubat, Raymond Cauchetier, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Sabine Weiss, and others, the exhibition pays tribute to a generation that
- [Melissa Shook: Freedom to Create](https://monovisions.com/melissa-shook-freedom-to-create/) - Stevenson Library at Bard College is pleased to present Melissa Shook: Freedom to Create, curated by Fiona Laugharn, an independent curator and Bard College alumnus. “I have begun to realize how important freedom is for the person who desires to create in any way.”- Melissa Shook (age 17), Bard College Application, 1956 Melissa Shook: Freedom
- [Stanko Abadzic: Portals](https://monovisions.com/stanko-abadzic-portals/) - Catherine Couturier Gallery is delighted to present solo exhibition Portals, with gallery artist Stanko Abadzic. Portals takes us on a journey of perception through the intimate motif of the female nude. Photographed at thresholds, windows, and in mirrors, the subject lingers in the in-between spaces of life, in transitory moments between realms of possibility. Abadzic
- [Photography´s New Vision: Experiments in Seeing](https://monovisions.com/photographys-new-vision-experiments-in-seeing/) - The New Vision movement of the 1920s and 1930s offered a revolutionary approach to seeing the world. It represented a rebellion against traditional photographic methods and an embrace of avant-garde experimentation and innovative techniques. László Moholy-Nagy, an artist and influential teacher at the Bauhaus in Germany, named this period of expansion the “New Vision.” Today,
- [Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell](https://monovisions.com/star-power-photographs-from-hollywoods-golden-age-by-george-hurrell/) - During the 1930s and early 1940s, George Hurrell (1904–1992) reigned as Hollywood’s preeminent portrait photographer. Hired by the Publicity Department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) when he was only twenty-five, Hurrell advanced rapidly to become the studio’s principal portraitist. With a keen eye for artful posing, innovative lighting effects, and skillful retouching, he produced timeless portraits that
- [Stephen Shore: Early Works](https://monovisions.com/stephen-shore-early-works/) - 303 Gallery is pleased to present Stephen Shore: Early Work, a selection of works from the artist’s teenage years between 1960 – 1965, coinciding with his newly released book, “Early Work”, published by MACK. The largely unpublished works predate his series The Velvet Years, taken at Warhol’s Factory, and offer a distinct account of early
- [ringl + pit](https://monovisions.com/ringl-pit/) - At the height of the Weimar Republic, an artist duo experimented with gender roles and consumer culture, subverting a commercial world dominated by cheerful faces and brightly illustrated pages. They photographed wigs, mannequins, and merchandise in unorthodox still lives, tapping into Berlin’s vibrant, avant-garde spirit. Their work transcended traditional advertising, highlighting touch, texture, and enigma.
- [Surrealism Exhibit](https://monovisions.com/surrealism-exhibit/) - When the French poet and theorist André Breton published his Surrealist Manifesto in 1924, he established a new artistic vision that tapped into the most electrifying dimensions of the human imagination. Celebrating the Manifesto’s centennial, Throckmorton Fine Art presents an exhibition showcasing the wide-reaching impact of Surrealism on photography. The show features photographs taken in
- [Vintage: The Channel Islands in the Victorian Era](https://monovisions.com/vintage-the-channel-islands-in-the-victorian-era/) - Guernsey, one of the larger islands, was a hub of maritime trade and fishing during the Victorian period. St. Peter’s Port, the capital, was a lively harbor town where ships arrived with goods from Britain and beyond. The view from Castle Cornet, which had stood guard over the bay for centuries, was a symbol of
- [Vintage: Historic B&W Photos of Victorian-Era Camberley, England](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-victorian-era-camberley-england/) - During the Victorian era, Camberley evolved from a relatively small settlement into a notable town, largely influenced by the presence of the Royal Military College (RMC) and the Royal Staff College. These institutions played a crucial role in shaping the town’s identity, economy, and daily life. The establishment of the Royal Military College in 1812
- [Interview with Jiri Wackermann](https://monovisions.com/jiri-wackermann-interview/) - Jiří Wackermann is a German scientist and artist of Czech origin. Born 1955, he studied psychology at the Charles University in Prague and has been then active in psychology and neuroscience research in Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and Germany. Since 1998 he is lives permanently in Germany. Already in his young years Jiří discovered photography as a
- [Vintage: Historic B&W Photos of Victorian-era Whitby, England](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-victorian-era-whitby-england/) - Nestled on the rugged Yorkshire coast, Whitby flourished during the Victorian era as a bustling maritime town, steeped in industry, tourism, and local traditions. Its narrow streets, lined with fishermen's cottages and elegant Georgian houses, bore witness to the daily lives of sailors, traders, and visitors seeking both business and leisure. The town’s dual identity
- [Diane Arbus: Konstellationen](https://monovisions.com/diane-arbus-konstellationen/) - Widely regarded as one of the most original and influential artists of the 20th century, Diane Arbus’ bold black-and-white photographs demolish aesthetic conventions and upend all certainties. With Diane Arbus: Konstellationen, Gropius Bau presents the most comprehensive exhibition of her work to date. Following a highly acclaimed debut at LUMA Arles and a stop in
- [Dialogues](https://monovisions.com/dialogues-helmut-newton-foundation/) - "With Dialogues. Collection FOTOGRAFIS x Helmut Newton", the Helmut Newton Foundation presents a fresh perspective on the work of its founder. This exhibition takes the form of a playful visual experiment – one that fully unfolds through the viewer’s on-site experience. On two occasions in recent years, the Helmut Newton Foundation has presented private photography
- [Vintage: Historic B&W Photos of Victorian-era Yarmouth, England](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-victorian-era-yarmouth-england/) - During the 19th cebtury, Great Yarmouth was a bustling coastal town, known for its thriving fishing industry, vibrant seaside tourism, and expanding infrastructure. As Britain underwent industrialization, Yarmouth too experienced significant changes that shaped the daily lives of its inhabitants. One of the primary economic activities in Yarmouth was fishing, particularly the herring trade. The
- [Vintage: Historic B&W Photos of Victorian-Era Worthing and Wroxham, England](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-victorian-era-worthing-and-wroxham-england/) - During the Victorian era, both Worthing and Wroxham experienced significant transformations that shaped their identities. While geographically distant, these towns shared common developments that linked their histories during this period. In the early 19th century, Worthing was a modest fishing village. However, with the advent of the Victorian era, it rapidly evolved into a bustling
- [Vintage: Historic B&W Photos of Victorian-era Worcester, England](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-victorian-era-worcester-england/) - During the Victorian era, the city of Worcester in England underwent significant transformation, shaped by industrialization, urban expansion, and social change. As one of the key centers of manufacturing and trade, Worcester experienced both the benefits and challenges of the Industrial Revolution. Worcester was renowned for its porcelain industry, with the Royal Worcester Porcelain Company
- [Interview with Maximilian Vermilye](https://monovisions.com/maximilian-vermilye-interview/) - Maximilian Vermilye (b.1993), also known as Max PhV, is a Swiss, British, and American digital artist based in Geneva specializing in psychodynamic photography, a conceptual approach to digital imagery that transforms everyday moments into emotionally evocative works of art. Holding a BA in Media Studies and Photography from Webster University, alongside certifications from the London
- [Vintage: Urban Life in Victorian England](https://monovisions.com/vintage-urban-life-in-victorian-england/) - During the Victorian era, Clacton-on-Sea transformed into a popular seaside resort, attracting middle-class holidaymakers seeking fresh air and leisure. The cliffs provided breathtaking views of the North Sea, with promenades and benches allowing visitors to enjoy the coastal breeze. Entrepreneurs established guesthouses, tea rooms, and amusement facilities to cater to the influx of tourists. Clevedon
- [Victorian Coastal Life: Brixham & Broadstairs in Black and White](https://monovisions.com/victorian-coastal-life-brixham-broadstairs-in-black-and-white/) - During the Victorian era, both Brixham and Broadstairs were bustling coastal towns that played important roles in Britain's maritime and leisure industries. Although they were geographically distant, they shared several key characteristics that defined their urban life and development during the 19th century. Brixham, located in Devon, was one of the most significant fishing ports
- [Interview with Agata Benhacoun](https://monovisions.com/agata-benhacoun-interview/) - Agata Benhacoun is Paris-based photographer. She holds a degree in philosophy and sociology. She studied photography at the Association of Polish Art Photographers in Warsaw. Over the past ten years, she has worked as a professional freelance documentary photographer. Her work has been published in polish daily newspapers, Business Traveller, and Vogue Italia, and exhibited
- [Nan Brown: Trailers Collected](https://monovisions.com/nan-brown-trailers-collected/) - Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming solo exhibition, Nan Brown: Trailers Collected. The show will run from June 7th through July 26th in the gallery’s Atrium space and will feature Brown's stunning typology of mobile homes. Her skillfully made, thiocarbamide-toned gelatin silver prints, in both 6 x 6 and 10 x 10
- [Vintage: Historic B&W Photos of Victorian-era Cambridge, England](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-victorian-era-cambridge-england/) - During the Victorian era (1837-1901), Cambridge experienced significant transformations, influenced by industrial progress, academic advancements, and social change. The city, renowned for its prestigious university, was a hub of intellectual activity, attracting scholars from across Britain and beyond. However, life in Cambridge was not solely defined by academia; it was also a place of bustling
- [Vintage: Steamships of Victorian-era](https://monovisions.com/vintage-steamships-of-victorian-era/) - During the Victorian era (1837–1901), steamships revolutionized maritime travel and commerce, transitioning from traditional sail power to steam propulsion. This period saw significant advancements in ship design and engineering, leading to the creation of numerous notable vessels. Below is an overview of several steamships from that era, accompanied by descriptions and historical context. 1. SS
- [Eric James Guillemain: Backstage Dreams: The Secret Door to Sets](https://monovisions.com/eric-james-guillemain-backstage-dreams-the-secret-door-to-sets/) - The first monograph by Eric James Guillemain, Backstage Dreams presents 200 works spanning 15 years of the photographer's career. This book documents intimate and privileged moments when the actor is at their most vulnerable―reserved and self-reflective before any performance―considering, contemplating and caught without preparation. Guillemain’s work creates a fascinating juxtaposition of empty theatrical sets with
- [Vintage: Historic B&W Photos of Victorian-era Isle of Wight, England](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-victorian-era-isle-of-wight-england/) - During the Victorian era, the Isle of Wight experienced significant transformation, evolving from a largely rural and maritime community into a fashionable destination for the British elite. The island, with its picturesque landscapes and growing urban centers, became a hub of social and economic activity, attracting visitors and new residents alike. The expansion of transportation,
- [METAMORPHOSIS: Heinz Hajek-Halke's Photomontages & New Image-Makers](https://monovisions.com/metamorphosis-heinz-hajek-halkes-photomontages-new-image-makers/) - To mark the 100th anniversary of Heinz Hajek-Halke's first photomontages, the group exhibition "Metamorphosis" celebrates the Berlin artist's early work (1925 - 1935), rediscovers it and brings it together with works from a range of contemporary photomontage and collage artists. Heinz Hajek-Halke (1898 - 1983) is an important photographic artist of the 20th century. While
- [Augusta Curiel: Yere Mi Sten](https://monovisions.com/augusta-curiel-yere-mi-sten/) - Foam presents the first retrospective exhibition in the Netherlands dedicated to the work of Augusta Curiel (Suriname, 1873-1937). With her sister Anna (Suriname, 1875–1958) as her assistant, Curiel ran a successful photography studio in Paramaribo, establishing herself as one of Suriname’s most prominent photographers. The exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of Curiel’s work, featuring over
- [Vintage: Historic B&W Photos of Victorian-era Chepstow, Wales](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-victorian-era-chepstow-wales/) - During the Victorian era, Chepstow, a market town on the banks of the River Wye, thrived as a center of trade, tourism, and industry. Nestled in the picturesque landscape of Monmouthshire, its strategic location near the Welsh-English border made it an essential hub for commerce and travel. The town's historical landmarks, including its grand castle
- [The Underground Camera](https://monovisions.com/the-underground-camera/) - In honor of Amsterdam’s 750th jubilee and the 80th remembrance of the Netherlands’ liberation, Foam presents The Underground Camera (De Ondergedoken Camera). The exhibition showcases images captured by the group of photographers who came to be known by the same name. They photographed the harsh realities of Amsterdam during the ‘Hunger Winter’ of 1944-1945, offering
- [Interview with Leigh Ann Edmonds](https://monovisions.com/leigh-ann-edmonds-interview/) - Leigh Ann Edmonds is a freelance documentary photographer that resides in a small town of central Alabama, USA. Edmonds’ work predominantly focuses on everyday life in and around these small rural communities with an underlying emphasis on human connection. Her work is often described as timeless, gritty and soulful. With a heavy emphasis on the
- [Vintage: Historic B&W Photos of Victorian-era Yorkshire, England](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-victorian-era-yorkshire-england/) - The Victorian era saw a growing interest in leisure and travel, particularly for those who could afford to escape the smog-filled cities. Seaside resorts like Saltburn-by-the-Sea and Redcar flourished as railways expanded, making it easier for city dwellers to enjoy the fresh sea air. Saltburn, designed as a purpose-built resort in the mid-19th century, attracted
- [Vintage: Historic B&W Photos of Victorian-Era Bristol, England](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-victorian-era-bristol-england/) - During the Victorian era (1837–1901), Bristol underwent profound changes, transforming from a historic port city into a thriving hub of industry, commerce, and culture. The city's population grew rapidly, and with it came both opportunities and challenges characteristic of the Industrial Revolution. Bristol’s economy in the 19th century was driven by its bustling docks, which
- [Arthur Elgort: Reverie](https://monovisions.com/arthur-elgort-reverie/) - The Fahey/Klein Gallery is honored to present Reverie, photographs by Arthur Elgort. To celebrate his long career, this exhibition showcases Elgort’s spontaneous energy through expertly crafted photographs that have the unforced look of a personal snapshot. Born in New York City in 1940, Elgort discovered his passion for photography after initially studying painting at Hunter
- [Michael Kenna: Venice](https://monovisions.com/michael-kenna-venice/) - On the occasion of the release of his new book Venice. Memories and Traces, Galleria13 offers a comprehensive and varied exhibition of the shots of Venice that Michael Kenna has collected over the years. Kenna's photographic technique is characterised by long exposure times, which can last up to several hours, revealing previously unseen details of
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Norderney, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/norderney-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - It is believed that the first durable settlements were established during the 13th and 14th centuries. A town developed in the western part of the island, protected by high dunes. The first documented mention of the island was in 1398. By 1650 the island was about 8.3 kilometres long and the town had about 18
- [Mark Laita: Soft White Underbelly](https://monovisions.com/mark-laita-soft-white-underbelly/) - The Fahey/Klein Gallery is pleased to present Soft White Underbelly, an exhibition of photographic works by Mark Laita. This powerful series reveals raw and real glimpses of humanity’s most vulnerable communities, encouraging a conversation around the individuals and realities that often go unseen. Soft White Underbelly, a metaphor for vulnerability, was born from Laita’s 2009
- [Xu Yong: Hutong](https://monovisions.com/xu-yong-hutong/) - In the exhibition Galerie Julian Sander is showing a selection of motifs from the extensive series "101 Portraits of Hutong" by Chinese photographer Xu Yong. In his series, created in 1989/90, he focuses on the history of Beijing's traditional residential areas with their centuries-old houses, backyards and narrow alleyways, the so-called hutongs. Xu Yong was
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/mecklenburg-schwerin-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - At the 1815 Congress of Vienna, Frederick Francis joined the newly established German Confederation, and like his Strelitz cousin Charles II, was elevated to the title of a "Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin". In 1819 serfdom was finally abolished in his dominions. The Mecklenburg governance was still determined by the 1755 inheritance agreement (Landesgrundgesetzlicher Erbvergleich), which
- [Interview with Ricardo Yamamoto](https://monovisions.com/ricardo-yamamoto-interview/) - Ricardo Yamamoto is a photographer based in Melbourne. Born in the South of Brazil to Japanese immigrants, he left the country in 1991 in the aftermath of the Brazilian military dictatorship and crippling economic crisis, a period locally known as The Lost Decade. Arriving in Japan as a factory worker, he experienced first-hand the commodification
- [Interview with John Martinotti](https://monovisions.com/john-martinotti-interview/) - John Martinotti is a distinguished contemporary fine art photographer and creative producer whose career spans over four decades. Renowned for his ability to seamlessly blend artistry with technical mastery, Martinotti has cultivated a body of work that resonates deeply with audiences, provoking thought, emotion, and connection. His commitment to pushing creative boundaries and his relentless
- [Frames of Mind: The Ramer Photography Collection](https://monovisions.com/frames-of-mind-the-ramer-photography-collection/) - Photographs can transport us to different times and places, offering a unique glimpse of the world through someone else’s eyes. In the mid-1970s, psychiatrist Dr. Barry Ramer and his wife Lois started building a collection of international photography. Diverse in subject matter, their collection is united by an engagement with the human condition and a
- [Monika K. Adler - Sick Bacchus: Luxury and the death-drive](https://monovisions.com/monika-k-adler-sick-bacchus-luxury-and-the-death-drive/) - “Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.” Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism Our wounds are invisible. They devour and lay waste to us. Consumerism’s death-drive creates a deadening of affect; there’s no room for human
- [Madame d'Ora (Dora Kalmus): Elegance and eccentricity](https://monovisions.com/madame-dora-dora-kalmus-elegance-and-eccentricity/) - Dora Kallmus (1881–1963), also known as Madame d'Ora, is one of the most important photographers of the early 20th century. From 1907 onwards, she ran a studio in Vienna under the brand name d'Ora, which was frequented by illustrious personalities from the aristocracy, art and society, and quickly became the first address for artistic portrait
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of the Rhine, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/rhine-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - The variants of the name of the Rhine in modern languages are all derived from the Gaulish name Rēnos, which was adapted in Roman-era geography (1st century BC) as Greek Ῥῆνος (Rhēnos), Latin Rhenus. The spelling with Rh- in English Rhine as well as in German Rhein and French Rhin is due to the influence
- [Interview with Bernard Drouillet](https://monovisions.com/bernard-drouillet-interview/) - Born in Paris in 1954, Bernard Drouillet divided his life between music and photography from the 80s after a school marked by the Latin Quarter, at the Henri Quatre high school and at the Sorbonne. In parallel to a career as a jazz drummer, which led him to play and record with various French and
- [Albert Watson: No Idle View](https://monovisions.com/albert-watson-no-idle-view/) - The Fahey/Klein Gallery is pleased to present No Idle View, Albert Watson’s first solo exhibition with the gallery in thirty years. To celebrate the storied legacy of acclaimed photographer Albert Watson, a career that began in Los Angeles in the 1970’s, this retrospective exhibition explores Watson’s rich body of work. The photographs on view showcase
- [Flor Garduño: Paths of Life](https://monovisions.com/flor-garduno-paths-of-life/) - Throckmorton Fine Art is honored to offer an exhibit of forty-five, black-and-white photographs by one of the world’s most renowned photographers, Flor Garduño. The exhibit takes its name from the title of Garduño’s latest book, which won a prize for best art book in 2024 in Garduño’s native Mexico, the Premio (Prize) A. García Cubas,
- [Nick Brandt THE DAY MAY BREAK](https://monovisions.com/nick-brandt-the-day-may-break-faheykleingallery/) - The Fahey/Klein Gallery is pleased to present SINK / RISE: The Day May Break, Chapter Three and THE ECHO OF OUR VOICES: The Day May Break, Chapter Four, an exhibition of new works, made as part of an ongoing global series of images portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and
- [Interview with Vera Saldivar de Lira](https://monovisions.com/vera-saldivar-de-lira-interview/) - Vera Saldivar de Lira (Aguascalientes, Mexico 1993) is a visual artist and photographer living and working in Southern California and New York City. She employs different mediums to explore the material realities and social relationships that define the perception and use of space, as well as the production process and materiality of the image. She
- [Interview with Dominique Philippe Bonnet](https://monovisions.com/dominique-philippe-bonnet-interview/) - Born in the 1960s, Dominique Philippe Bonnet is a photographer who was introduced to the darkroom and film photography techniques at an early age. He moved to London in the mid-1980s, where he exhibited his work in various shows and photography magazines, including the prestigious British Journal of Photography, which dedicated several pages to him
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Leipzig, Saxony, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/leipzig-saxony-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - The Leipzig region was the arena of the 1813 Battle of Leipzig between Napoleonic France and an allied coalition of Prussia, Russia, Austria and Sweden. It was the largest battle in Europe before the First World War and the coalition victory ended Napoleon's presence in Germany and would ultimately lead to his first exile on
- [Al Satterwhite: A Retrospective](https://monovisions.com/al-satterwhite-a-retrospective/) - For the first exhibition of the fall art gallery season, PDNB Gallery presents a solo show of photographs by Al Satterwhite (b. 1944, Biloxi, Mississippi), who has worked professionally in photography since he was a high school intern taking photographs for the St. Petersburg Times. The passion of capturing the decisive moment has never left
- [Masterpieces of Socialist Realist Photography](https://monovisions.com/masterpieces-of-socialist-realist-photography/) - Masterpieces of Socialist Realist Photography, 1930s, on view online from September 10 to November 16, 2024, presents a rare selection of vintage gelatin-silver prints by pioneers of Soviet photography, including such luminaries as Boris Ignatovich (1899-1976), Arkady Shaikhet (1898-1959), Georgy Petrusov (1903-1971), Sergey Shimansky (1898-1972), Naum Granovsky (1910-1984), Emmanuil Evzerikhin (1911-1984), and Yakov Khalip (1908-1980).
- [In the Footsteps of Ara Güler: Exploring the Photographer’s Legacy](https://monovisions.com/in-the-footsteps-of-ara-guler-exploring-the-photographers-legacy/) - A special collaboration between the Ara Güler Museum in Istanbul and Qatar Museums, In the Footsteps of Ara Güler offers a glimpse into the life of the globally acclaimed photographer. Structured as an expansive journey into his career spanning over 70 years, the exhibition introduces Ara Güler's life, segueing into ‘Eternal Tapestry,' followed by ‘Echoes
- [Bevan Davies: New York Typologies](https://monovisions.com/bevan-davies-new-york-typologies/) - Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to open the fall season with the work of Bevan Davies. Bevan Davies: New York Typologies will feature vintage black and white photographs of lower Manhattan made in the mid-1970s. Davies utilized a large-format view camera to generate images of great depth and clarity, pursuing an approach to documenting the
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Towns in Switzerland (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/towns-in-switzerland-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - In 1798, the revolutionary French government invaded Switzerland and imposed a new unified constitution. This centralised the government of the country, effectively abolishing the cantons: moreover, Mülhausen joined France and the Valtellina valley became part of the Cisalpine Republic, separating from Switzerland. The new regime, known as the Helvetic Republic, was highly unpopular. An invading
- [Interview with Josep Reverendo](https://monovisions.com/josep-reverendo-interview/) - Josep has always been attracted to the plastic arts. He likes painting, cinema, comics, photography... When he was a teenager, he used to paint in oils, but he gave it up due to lack of time. Then he became interested in photography, first analog, then digital. Consciously or not, when we take pictures we are
- [Karla Guerrero: Blanco Universo](https://monovisions.com/karla-guerrero-blanco-universo/) - Fine art photogapher Karla Guerrero presents her latest project, "Blanco Universo," a visual diary that explores the complex psychological condition of "mental emptiness" and the therapeutic method of "grounding." Through her intimate and poetic vision, Guerrero uses photography to reflect on the alterations in visual perception and mental health. Through a series of black and
- [Akinbode Akinbiyi: Being, Seeing, Wandering](https://monovisions.com/akinbode-akinbiyi-being-seeing-wandering/) - Akinbode Akinbiyi (*1946 Oxford, England) will receive the Hannah Höch Prize 2024. For his street photographs, the internationally renowned photographer and author, who has lived and worked in Berlin since 1991, wanders through the world's metropolises. Lagos, Bamako, Berlin or Durban - the urban space is his workplace. A place that he perceives as a
- [Street Walker by Meryl Meisler](https://monovisions.com/street-walker-by-meryl-meisler/) - Street Walker is a captivating limited edition book taking us on a journey through the vibrant streets of America in the 1970s and 1980s with the evocative, candid, and eclectic photographs of renowned photographer Meryl Meisler. Known for her ability to blend street photography with documentary, Meisler’s work in Street Walker provides an intimate glimpse
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Hesse-Nassau, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/hesse-nassau-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - Hesse-Nassau was created as a consequence of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 by combining the previously independent Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), the Duchy of Nassau, the Free City of Frankfurt, areas gained from the Kingdom of Bavaria, and areas gained from the Grand Duchy of Hesse (including part of the former Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg from Hesse-Darmstadt).
- [Larry Fink: Social Graces](https://monovisions.com/larry-fink-social-graces/) - Larry Fink’s Social Graces series contrasts two social worlds that seem a world apart: those of Manhattan high society and Pennsylvania farm country. In the city, coiffed and bejeweled patrons of the arts dance and drink at gallery openings, benefits, and the famed Studio 54 nightclub; in Martin’s Creek, Pennsylvania, a farming family and their
- [Vivian Maier Unseen Work](https://monovisions.com/vivian-maier-unseen-work/) - Fotografiska New York presents the first major retrospective in the United States of invisible artist Vivian Maier’s extraordinary work through September 29, 2024. Born in New York in 1926, Vivian Maier spent her early years in the Bronx. Throughout her time in New York City, Maier began to photograph the world around her and develop
- [Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood](https://monovisions.com/moving-pictures-karl-struss-and-the-rise-of-hollywood/) - This multimedia examination of photographer and cinematographer Karl Struss celebrates his storied career and influence on American filmmaking during Hollywood’s Golden Age. Featuring archival materials, films, and over 100 photographs from the Carter’s extensive Struss Artist Archive, Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood highlights Struss’s innovations in image-making and unique contributions to
- [Foreign Exchange: Photography between Chicago, Japan, and Germany, 1920–1960](https://monovisions.com/foreign-exchange-photography-between-chicago-japan-and-germany-1920-1960/) - After World War I, a striking visual language came to prominence in photography, characterized by the use of multiple exposures, unusual vantages, and sharp focus. While this style is often associated with the Bauhaus, an influential German art school of the 1920s and early ‘30s, this exhibition—of nearly 100 works across four decades—explores this modernist
- [Frida Kahlo Forever Yours…](https://monovisions.com/frida-kahlo-forever-yours/) - Frida Kahlo, who lived from 1907 to 1954, and who spent nearly her entire life in Mexico City, was a visionaryartist. She remains enigmatic, yet her paintings, and her views of art, continue to inspire and influence all of us. Her art was deeply personal, but she illuminated emotional issues that resonate widely. Frida’s fears,
- [Printer Savant: Lumiere Press and the Art of the Photo Book](https://monovisions.com/printer-savant-lumiere-press-and-the-art-of-the-photo-book/) - An exhibition exploring the relationship between master book maker, Michael Torosian of Lumiere Press and gallerist Howard Greenberg will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery. Printer Savant: Lumiere Press and the Art of the Photo Book celebrates the decades long collaboration of Howard Greenberg Gallery and Lumiere Press. The exhibition will present a selection
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Halle and Madgeburg, Saxony (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/halle-and-madgeburg-saxony-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - Halle's early history is connected with the harvesting of salt. The name of the river Saale contains the Germanic root for salt, and salt-harvesting has taken place in Halle since at least the Bronze Age (2300–600 BC). Magdeburg was annexed to the French-controlled Kingdom of Westphalia in the 1807 Treaty of Tilsit. King Jérôme appointed
- [Interview with Keivan Cadinouche](https://monovisions.com/keivan-cadinouche-interview/) - Keivan Cadinouche is an internationally acclaimed photographer known for his exclusive use of analog black and white photography. His distinctive style, characterized by the beauty of natural light, has been recognizable in his images for over 20 years. At a time when digital manipulation is ubiquitous, Keivan's choice to meticulously develop his films by hand
- [Timurtaş Onan: Hans of Istanbul](https://monovisions.com/timurtas-onan-hans-of-istanbul/) - Renowned for his photography and documentary films on Istanbul's urban transformation, Timurtaş Onan dedicates his latest book to the inns and inhabitants of the Historical Peninsula and Sirkeci. "Occasionally, I catch snippets of music on the streets, scenes from films, or lines from poems.Sometimes, I see the characters from novels or movies in the people
- [Rock & Roll by Bob Gruen](https://monovisions.com/rock-roll-by-bob-gruen/) - Bob Gruen is one of the most well-known and respected photographers in rock and roll. From John Lennon to Johnny Rotten; Muddy Waters to the Rolling Stones; Elvis to Madonna; Bob Dylan to Bob Marley; Tina Turner to Debbie Harry, he has captured the music scene for over forty years in photographs that have gained
- [Alfred Ehrhardt & Rolf Tietgens: The Port of Hamburg and the Northern Coast of Germany](https://monovisions.com/alfred-ehrhardt-rolf-tietgens-the-port-of-hamburg-and-the-northern-coast-of-germany/) - Rolf Tietgens (1911–84) is regarded one of the most important photographers of the 1930s, but only a handful of people in Germany are familiar with his oeuvre. His work fell into obscurity after he emigrated to New York at the end of 1938, threatened with persecution as a homosexual artist in Germany. Since he never
- [Hippolyte Bayard A Persistent Pioneer](https://monovisions.com/hippolyte-bayard-a-persistent-pioneer/) - Parisian bureaucrat by day and tireless inventor after hours, Hippolyte Bayard (French, 1801-1887) was one of the most important, if lesser-known, pioneers of photography. During his thirty-year career, he invented the direct positive process and several other photographic techniques on paper. This exhibition journeys back to the 19th century to unveil a collection of Bayard's
- [“To Prove that I Exist”: Melissa Shook’s Daily Self-Portraits, 1972-1973](https://monovisions.com/to-prove-that-i-exist-melissa-shooks-daily-self-portraits-1972-1973/) - In December of 1972, photographer Melissa Shook (1939–2020) assigned herself a personal, artistic challenge: to take self-portraits every day for a year, in her own words, “to prove that I exist.” Struggling with self-identity and unreliable childhood memories, Shook undertook this conceptual exercise to see if she could remember to take pictures every day. The
- [Marilyn Stafford: A Life in Photography](https://monovisions.com/marilyn-stafford-a-life-in-photography/) - Marilyn Stafford (1925–2023) was born in Northeast Ohio, acted on the stage in New York City, sang for chic clubgoers in Paris, met celebrities and politicians, and traveled the world. Amid this fascinating life, photography became her passion, leading to a career that spanned four decades, from the 1940s until 1980. Opening in February, Marilyn
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Hannover, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/hannover-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - After Napoleon imposed the Convention of Artlenburg (Convention of the Elbe) on 5 July 1803, about 35,000 French soldiers occupied Hanover. The Convention also required disbanding the army of Hanover. However, George III did not recognise the Convention of the Elbe. This resulted in a great number of soldiers from Hanover eventually emigrating to Great
- [David Katzenstein: Distant Journeys](https://monovisions.com/david-katzenstein-distant-journeys/) - Lifelong chronicler of humanity throughout the furthest reaches of the world, David Katzenstein’s forty-nine-year artistic journey through thirty-seven countries is thoughtfully curated into Distant Journeys (Hirmer Publishers / distributed by University of Chicago Press). Drawn from an exhaustive body of work developed by Katzenstein, the 120 duo-tone images taken between 1974 and 2023 are thoughtfully
- [(re) Framing Conversations: Photographs by Richard Avedon, 1946–1965](https://monovisions.com/re-framing-conversations-photographs-by-richard-avedon-1946-1965/) - The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will open a second complete rotation of 20 extraordinary Richard Avedon portraits spanning two decades and curated from the museum’s extensive photo history collection. In November 1962, the National Museum of American History hosted Avedon’s very first one-man exhibition that included a range of photographic materials, including photographs,
- [Paul Hart: FRAGILE](https://monovisions.com/paul-hart-fragile/) - Paul Hart’s new series is a personal reflection on nature and was made in the landscape close to his home in England. The aesthetic is rooted in the notion of a heightened awareness of the natural world, of both a physical engagement and spiritual connection to the land. Whilst becoming absorbed in this instinctual, visceral
- [Vivian Maier at Howard Greenberg Gallery](https://monovisions.com/vivian-maier-at-howard-greenberg-gallery/) - Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) was an American street photographer whose massive, unseen body of work came to light when it was purchased from an auction in Chicago in 2007. Born in New York City, Maier spent some of her youth in France and then worked in Chicago as a nanny and caregiver for most
- [Michael Kenna: Reverie](https://monovisions.com/michael-kenna-reverie/) - Catherine Couturier Gallery is thrilled to announce Reverie, an exhibition of new work by gallery artist Michael Kenna. Renowned for his black-and-white landscape photography, Kenna employs prolonged exposure times, sometimes up to 10 hours, to capture ethereal scenes. Often working at dawn or under the cover of night, he reveals hidden dimensions beyond the ordinary
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Bolton Abbey, England (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/bolton-abbey-england-1890s-vintage-historic-bw-photos/) - The monastery was founded at Embsay in 1120. Led by a prior, Bolton Abbey was technically a priory, despite its name. It was founded in 1154 by the Augustinian order, on the banks of the River Wharfe. The land at Bolton, as well as other resources, were given to the order by Lady Alice de
- [Ellen Graham: Unscripted](https://monovisions.com/ellen-graham-unscripted/) - For over six decades, Ellen Graham has photographed actors, musicians, models, athletes, and royals at their most vulnerable: unplanned, unposed, and unscripted. Imbuing a sense of immediacy, showing moments of intimacy and humor, and celebrating her remarkable ability to disarm her subjects, Graham’s photographs provide unique insight into a person’s inner dimensions. This exhibition highlights
- [Conzo: A Look Back at the Bronx, 1977-84](https://monovisions.com/conzo-a-look-back-at-the-bronx-1977-84/) - Born in 1963 in the South Bronx, Joe Conzo Jr. acquired a passion for photography as a young boy. By some combination of luck and circumstance, as a teenager Joe found himself at the very center of cultural and activist movements changing the Bronx. His father was the personal confidant of Tito Puente, promoting some
- [Jeffrey Conley: An Ode to Nature](https://monovisions.com/jeffrey-conley-an-ode-to-nature/) - Peter Fetterman Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition, "Jeffrey Conley: An Ode to Nature" featuring the remarkable works of photographer Jeffrey Conley. The exhibition, opening on January 27th, 2024, promises to transport viewers to a world where nature's beauty takes center stage. "Jeffrey Conley: An Ode to Nature” is a retrospective showcase of
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Baden, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/baden-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - The margraves of Baden originated from the House of Zähringen. Baden is named after the margraves' residence, Hohenbaden Castle in Baden-Baden. Hermann II of Baden first claimed the title of Margrave of Baden in 1112. A united Margraviate of Baden existed from this time until 1535, when it was split into the two Margraviates of
- [Nick Brandt: The Day May Break](https://monovisions.com/nick-brandt-the-day-may-break-2024/) - Nick Brandt's "The Day May Break" is an ongoing global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. "Chapter One" was photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya in 2020, "Chapter Two" in Bolivia in 2022. The people in the photos have all been badly affected by climate change, from extreme
- [CHRONORAMA Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century](https://monovisions.com/chronorama-photographic-treasures-of-the-20th-century/) - The Helmut Newton Foundation and Pinault Collection proudly present CHRONORAMA. Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century. Following its highly successful premiere at Palazzo Grassi in Venice, the collaborative project will be shown at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin starting 15 February 2024. CHRONORAMA marks the latest partnership between the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin
- [D. J. Hinman: Japan Is Calling](https://monovisions.com/d-j-hinman-japan-is-calling/) - Photographer D. J. Hinman will hold an exhibit entitled “Japan Is Calling; the 47 Prefectures” at Roonee 247 Fine Arts in Tokyo on April 16-21, 2024. The exhibit features black-and-white film photographs from the backyards of Japan. D. J. Hinman spent several years wandering through the 47 prefectures of Japan, mostly by local train, to
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Upper Bavaria, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/upper-bavaria-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - After the founding of the Kingdom of Bavaria the state was totally reorganised and, in 1808, divided into 15 administrative districts (Regierungsbezirke (singular Regierungsbezirk)), in Bavaria called (Kreise (singular Kreis)). They were created in the fashion of the French departements, quite even in size and population, and named after their main rivers. In the following
- [Steve Geer: The Metropolitan Tower Collection](https://monovisions.com/steve-geer-the-metropolitan-tower-collection/) - A series of fifty-two 22” x 14” black and white Chicago-based photographs by photographer Steve Geer have been acquired for permanent display in The Metropolitan Tower, an iconic residential building in the heart of the city. Steve describes the series as follows: Chicago is one of the most photographed cities in North America, and the
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Unterwald, Switzerland (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/unterwald-switzerland-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - The name Unterwalden is first recorded in 1304, as the translation of Latin inter silvas, which together with in intramontanis was the name for monastery possessions in the area. In 1291, Rudolf I of Germany purchased the estates at Stans, Alpnach and Giswil. From 1304, the local bailiffs used their own seal. In 1309, Henry
- [Marcela Paniak: Lithanium](https://monovisions.com/marcela-paniak-lithanium/) - Marcela Paniak – founder of the Viva Archiva! Foundation dedicated to the creative uses of photographic and film archives, co-run with Miłosz Hermanowicz. Doctor of film art and graduate of Photography at the Film School in Łódź. She teaches archival photography at the same school and at the Warsaw School of Photography. Member of the
- [Sage Sohier: Passing Time](https://monovisions.com/sage-sohier-passing-time/) - Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, Sage Sohier: Passing Time. This solo exhibition will feature a remarkable selection of black and white photographs from Sohier’s recently published Nazraeli Press monograph of the same title. The images that comprise the exhibition are drawn from the photographer’s compelling and kindhearted portraits made between
- [Philip Flip Collier: Photographs from a Lifetime](https://monovisions.com/philip-flip-collier-photographs-from-a-lifetime/) - Philip Collier is an award winning photographer from Boston Massachusetts. He studied documentary photography at the New England School of Photography graduating in the class of 1975. After gradation he moved to NYC where he worked in several commercial studios, but his heart and soul were on the streets. He has spent his life traveling
- [Koichiro Kurita: Terrasphere Hydrosphere Atmosphere](https://monovisions.com/koichiro-kurita-terrasphere-hydrosphere-atmosphere/) - Japanese photographer Koichiro Kurita graduated from Kanseigakuin University in Kobe, where he studied perceptual psychology, using a camera extensively to simulate the function of the eye in his research that examined how people view moving objects under changing circumstances. He worked as a young man for a Tokyo advertising agency before becoming a successful independent
- [1964: Eyes of the Storm: Paul McCartney](https://monovisions.com/1964-eyes-of-the-storm-paul-mccartney/) - In 2020, an extraordinary trove of nearly a thousand photographs taken by Paul McCartney on a 35mm camera was re-discovered in his archive. They intimately record the months towards the end of 1963 and beginning of 1964 when Beatlemania erupted in the UK and, after the band's first visit to the USA, they became the
- [Fernand Fonssagrives: Photographs 1930s-1950s](https://monovisions.com/fernand-fonssagrives-photographs-1930s-1950s/) - Fernand Fonssagrives (1910-2003) was one of the most successful and highly paid fashion photographers of the 1940s and 1950s. His photographs were widely published in the editorial pages of Town & Country, Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Harper's Bazaar, and Esquire, where his pictures for Bergdorf Goodman also appeared regularly in the advertising pages. This exhibition will
- [Simpson Kalisher (1926-2023)](https://monovisions.com/simpson-kalisher-1926-2023/) - Simpson Kalisher, who liberated his lens from slick images in corporate reports and trade magazines to emerge as a discerning photojournalist whose street scenes froze the panorama of urban American life in the 1950s and ’60s, died on June 13 in Delray Beach, Fla. He was 96. A Bronx native, Mr. Kalisher “was one of
- [Lora Webb Nichols: Heap-O-Livin](https://monovisions.com/lora-webb-nichols-heap-o-livin/) - Heap-O-Livin features a selection of images by Wyoming photographer and diarist Lora Webb Nichols (1883-1962). Nichols created and collected approximately 24,000 negatives and 65 years of diaries throughout her lifetime in the town of Encampment. In addition to the industrial and economic aspects of this sparsely populated ranching and copper mining town, Lora’s images and
- [Deck the Walls 2023](https://monovisions.com/deck-the-walls-2023/) - Catherine Couturier Gallery is delighted to present our annual group show Deck the Walls. Deck the Walls is an exhibition of vintage and contemporary pieces that allows our gallery to showcase a variety of artists, prices, styles, and photographic mediums. This year's Deck the Walls will feature prints ranging from vintage black and white 20th
- [LIFE: Six Women Photographers](https://monovisions.com/life-six-women-photographers/) - The 20th century was defined by change. LIFE Magazine, the first publication to tell stories through images instead of mere text, acted as a window into many historic events for Americans. This exhibition follows the careers of six enterprizing LIFE photographers through the works they created and the stories they captured between the 1930s and
- [Michael Grecco: Punk, Post Punk, New Wave: Onstage, Backstage, In Your Face](https://monovisions.com/michael-grecco-punk-post-punk-new-wave-onstage-backstage-in-your-face/) - The multimedia exhibition “DAYS OF PUNK” by American photographer Michael Grecco presents in Cascais photographs of music icons such as The Clash, Johnny Rotten, Ramones, Wendy O. Williams (from Plasmatics), The Dead Keneddys, Billy Idol, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Adam Ant, Lene Lovich, Aimee Mann and many others, photographed without filters or artifice by photographer
- [Play the Part: Marlene Dietrich](https://monovisions.com/play-the-part-marlene-dietrich/) - Featuring 250 photographs taken from 1905 to 1978, Play the Part: Marlene Dietrich examines the multifaceted evolution of Dietrich’s (1901–1992) public persona. The exhibition features photographs by well-known artists such as Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, and Edward Steichen as well as photographers with whom Dietrich collaborated repeatedly throughout her life, including the noted Hollywood photographer
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Schaffhausen, Switzerland (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/schaffhausen-switzerland-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - Schaffhausen was a city state in the Middle Ages, documented to have struck its own coins from 1045. About 1050 the counts of Nellenburg founded the Benedictine monastery of All Saints, which became the centre of the town. Perhaps as early as 1190, certainly in 1208, it was an imperial free city, while the first
- [August Kotzsch: Nature, Landscape, Genre](https://monovisions.com/august-kotzsch-nature-landscape-genre/) - August Kotzsch (1836–1910), one of the early masters of German photography, offers a historical counterpart to Simone Nieweg. He takes us with him on his rambles through nature in his home region of Loschwitz near Dresden. Landscape scenes, garden corners, still lifes, and the fruits of his own harvest, but also houses and farms, were
- [New York Subways 1977: Alen MacWeeney](https://monovisions.com/new-york-subways-1977-alen-macweeney/) - Alen MacWeeney (b. 1939, Dublin) began his photography career in Ireland working as a press photographer and freelancing for fashion magazines, before moving to New York City in 1961 to be an assistant for the celebrated photographer Richard Avedon. Despite his early work in the worlds of fashion and studio photography, MacWeeney’s eye has always
- [Yamamoto Masao: Ambrotypes](https://monovisions.com/yamamoto-masao-ambrotypes/) - The emotional power of photography – and the ability of an image to evoke memories – will be illustrated in an exhibition of new photographic work by Japanese artist Yamamoto Masao. The artist’s exhibition, Ambrotypes, titled after a 19th century process that produces a one-of-a-kind image on glass, will be on view at Yancey Richardson.
- [Tina Modotti: Artist and Activist](https://monovisions.com/tina-modotti-artist-and-activist/) - Foam is delighted to announce a large overview and tribute to the work of the remarkable photographer Tina Modotti (1896-1942), an iconic figure in the world of photography, known for her unique blend of artistry and activism. She played an active role in the major political events of the 1920s and 1930s. Her portraits of
- [Michael Kenna: Trees](https://monovisions.com/michael-kenna-trees/) - Michael Kenna has been photographing trees for some fifty years. To celebrate this milestone in his career as a photographer, he put together select works in his book Arbres/Trees, just now published by Skira in Paris. We take this publication as an occasion to show some of his best photographs from this book in the
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Alsace Lorraine, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/alsace-lorraine-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - In 1871, the newly created German Empire's demand for Alsace from France after its victory in the Franco-Prussian War was not simply a punitive measure. The transfer was controversial even among the Germans: The German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, was initially opposed to it, as he thought (correctly) it would engender permanent French enmity toward
- [Bill Yates: Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink](https://monovisions.com/bill-yates-sweetheart-roller-skating-rink/) - Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming Bill Yates: Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink exhibition. The solo show will run from September 23rd – November 4th in the gallery's Atrium space. Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink features a selection of rare, vintage, and modern gelatin silver prints from the artist's archive. The exhibition is the
- [BAILEY: Photographs](https://monovisions.com/bailey-photographs/) - The Fahey/Klein Gallery is pleased to present selected photographs by David Bailey. This exhibition includes some of Bailey’s signature images of luminaries of fashion, music, and fine art. In portraits and little-known “torn” prints, he captures subjects including Jane Birkin, Michael Caine, David Hockney, Helmut Newton, Jean Shrimpton, and Mick Jagger. Bailey’s bold and iconoclastic
- [Vintage: SS Normandie](https://monovisions.com/vintage-ss-normandie/) - The SS Normandie was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire, France, for the French Line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. She entered service in 1935 as the largest and fastest passenger ship afloat, crossing the Atlantic in a record 4.14 days, and remains the most powerful steam turbo-electric-propelled passenger ship ever built. At 14:30 on 9
- [Jungjin Lee | Howard Greenberg Gallery](https://monovisions.com/jungjin-lee-howard-greenberg-gallery/) - Sublime views of the American West by Korean artist Jungjin Lee will be presented at Howard Greenberg Gallery from September 23 through November 21, 2023. The exhibition, entitled Voice, features large and monumental photographs of deserts, mountains, oceans, forests, and plains from 2018 and 2019. With an approach that combines the aesthetics of her heritage
- [Rodney Smith at Staley-Wise Gallery](https://monovisions.com/rodney-smith-at-staley-wise-gallery/) - his exhibition is Rodney Smith’s first in New York, and reflects a marriage of precise order and geometry with surrealism and eccentricity. Paul Martineau, Curator of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, describes Smith’s work “Like Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’, his photographs lead us down the rabbit hole to a fantastical place that
- [Wojciech Karliński: Between Seasons](https://monovisions.com/wojciech-karlinski-between-seasons/) - The Puppet and Actor Theater "Kubuś" in Kielce was founded in 1955. The theater was without a permanent venue for a long time and operated as a traveling theater. In 1965, it became a state institution, but it still didn't have its own stage. In 1992, a neglected building at 9 Duża Street was adapted
- [Eugène Atget: Highlights from the Mary & Dan Solomon Collection](https://monovisions.com/eugene-atget-highlights-from-the-mary-dan-solomon-collection/) - Around the turn of the 20th century, photographer Eugène Atget broke new artistic ground in his obsessive chronicling of Paris and its environs. Walking at dawn with his heavy camera, he captured the soul of the city by focusing on its old alleyways, picturesque shop fronts, architectural details, staircases, and street vendors. This focused exhibition
- [The Fashion Show](https://monovisions.com/the-fashion-show-2023/) - Peter Fetterman Gallery is proud to present The Fashion Show. The Fashion Show, curated from the gallery’s permanent collection, will feature an exciting display of fashions history, its elegance and its importance to the photographic medium. This exhibition is designed to explore how fashion photography transcends its commercial aspects and is a reflection of creative
- [David Rathbone: Big Water](https://monovisions.com/david-rathbone-big-water/) - Five years in the making, Big Water is a photographic ode to an often overlooked part of the world. Surrounded by the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean, Virginia’s Eastern Shore is a landscape that has been both changed and unchanged since Captain John Smith visited the area on his first explorations of North America. David
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Lucerne, Switzerland (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/lucerne-switzerland-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - It was during the latter part of the 19th century that Lucerne became a popular destination for artists, royalty and others to escape to. The German composer Richard Wagner established a residence at Tribschen in 1866 from which he lived and worked. The city was then boosted by a visit by Queen Victoria to the
- [Dan Budnik: Telling a Story Truthfully](https://monovisions.com/dan-budnik-telling-a-story-truthfully/) - Etherton Gallery is excited to announce the opening of its summer exhibition, Dan Budnik: Telling a Story Truthfully, which features a selection of photographs by renowned photojournalist, Dan Budnik (1933-2020), with mixed media works and photography by Caleb Gutierrez in the gallery pop-up, In the Cases. “After Dan Budnik passed away in 2020, I wanted
- [Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed](https://monovisions.com/ed-templeton-wires-crossed/) - Get a glimpse into the lives of skateboarders at a time just before mobile phones and social media changed society forever. You get behind-the-scenes access of this fascinating subculture through EdTempleton's unique position. From triumphs, disasters, boredom, self-medication and toxic masculinity, to sacrifice. Ed Templeton (1972, Garden Grove, California), one of the most influential skateboarders
- [Cyrille Druart: Plein Silence](https://monovisions.com/cyrille-druart-plein-silence/) - This new series spans three years, from 2019 to 2022, which has seen global production slow down and our lives become sedentary due to the pandemic. Mainly made during several trips through Europe right before and after the restrictions, this set is inspired by the silence of the global pandemic, our reclusive lives, the birth
- [Interview with Michael Dorohovich](https://monovisions.com/michael-dorohovich-interview/) - Michael Dorohovich is a portrait and documentary photographer. Born in the small town of Uzhgorod in Transcarpathia, Ukraine. Author of successful photo projects in Ukraine, such as "Famous and interesting personalities of Transcarpathia", "Cultural ethnos of Transcarpathia", which were noted and awarded on many world platforms. Laureate and prize-winner of the most prestigious awards in
- [Bruce Davidson: The Way Back](https://monovisions.com/bruce-davidson-the-way-back/) - Selected by the acclaimed photographer from his vast archive, this exhibition will present previously unpublished work dating from 1957-1977. The photographs represent the arc of Davidson’s versatile career with individual images that were overlooked at the time. Some are from Davidson’s most well-known series—East 100th Street, a look at one Harlem block in 1966-68; Brooklyn
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of the Isle of Rugen, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/isle-of-rugen-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - After the death of the last Slav prince, Wizlaw III, in 1325, the principality was acquired by Pomerania-Wolgast as a consequence of the 1321 inheritance agreement (Erbverbrüderung), and from 1368/72–1451 was part of the estate of a branch line, the House of Barth. This state of affairs, together with the disputes over the Danish throne
- [Mark Steinmetz: Summertime](https://monovisions.com/mark-steinmetz-summertime/) - Summertime will feature a selection of gelatin silver prints from the artist’s upcoming, revised, and expanded book of the same title to be published later this year by Nazraeli Press. Taken between 1984 and 1991, the images in Summertime capture the light, emotion, and possibility of an endless summer day. In addition, images from the
- [D. J. Hinman: Invisible Memories](https://monovisions.com/d-j-hinman-invisible-memories/) - Photographer D. J. Hinman has created another series of black-and-white photographs that burrows deeply into the subconscious, into places rarely visited during waking hours, rather like his earlier series, A Hole in the Universe (Monovisions, Jan 27, 2023). This new series probes invisible memories, which when captured on film can evoke a reality that maybe
- [Avedon's West](https://monovisions.com/avedons-west/) - Spring 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Richard Avedon, renowned fashion and portrait photographer. As part of a national celebration led by The Richard Avedon Foundation, the Carter is showcasing 13 works of art from the acclaimed project In the American West, which the Museum commissioned in 1979 and premiered in 1985.
- [Interview with Jonathan Bourla](https://monovisions.com/jonathan-bourla-interview/) - How and when did you become interested in photography? I became interested in photography in my teenage years, intrigued by my elder brother Michael’s photographic hobby. I joined a local camera club in North West London, and produced 35mm colour slides. I remember feeling in awe of the small number of people at the club
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Edinburgh, Scotland (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/edinburgh-scotland-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - Despite an enduring myth to the contrary, Edinburgh became an industrial centre with its traditional industries of printing, brewing and distilling continuing to grow in the 19th century and joined by new industries such as rubber works, engineering works and others. By 1821, Edinburgh had been overtaken by Glasgow as Scotland's largest city. The city
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/bromberg-bydgoszcz-germany-1890s-vintage-historic-bw-photos/) - In 1772, in the First Partition of Poland, the town was acquired by the Kingdom of Prussia as Bromberg and incorporated into the Netze District in the newly established province of West Prussia. At the time, the town was seriously depressed and semi-derelict. Under Frederick the Great the town revived, notably with the construction of
- [Ara Güler A Play of Light and Shadow](https://monovisions.com/ara-guler-a-play-of-light-and-shadow/) - This summer, Foam is thrilled to unveil the exhibition A Play of Light and Shadow, a tribute to Ara Güler, one of Turkey's most legendary photographers. His profound love for Istanbul and Turkey is evident from his evocative black and white photographs. The exhibition is a close collaboration between Foam, co-curator Ahmet Polat and the
- [Gösta Peterson: Fashion Photographs 1960s-1980s](https://monovisions.com/gosta-peterson-fashion-photographs-1960s-1980s/) - For the first time since his death, an exhibition of fashion photographs from the 1960s and 1970s by the trailblazing photographer Gösta (Gus) Peterson will be presented. One of the most innovative and progressive fashion photographers of the 20th century, Peterson (Swedish-American, 1923-2017) is known for breaking barriers and challenging conventional approaches to fashion photography
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of the Riesengebirge, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/riesengebirge-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - The modern names of Krkonoše (Czech), Riesengebirge (German) and Karkonosze (Polish) became widely accepted only in the 19th century. The range is also often referred to in English as the "Giant Mountains". The Czech name "Krkonoše" is first mentioned (in the singular, as "Krkonoš") in a 1492 record of the division of the Manor of
- [Ann Treer: A Moment in New York](https://monovisions.com/ann-treer-a-moment-in-new-york/) - It’s rare to come across an artist who has slipped into obscurity after gaining significant recognition. Such is the case for Ann Treer (also know as Agatha Reimann) a photographer of Hungarian descent who created a small but concise body of photographs during the 1950’s and 1960’s. Robert Mann Gallery is pleased to mount an
- [Be Who You Are: Portraits of Woodstock Artists by Harriet Tannin](https://monovisions.com/be-who-you-are-portraits-of-woodstock-artists-by-harriet-tannin/) - Tannin encouraged all her subjects to decide how they wished to be memorialized by her camera lens. At the conclusion of this project, Tannin returned to each photographed artist with two mounted prints: one for the participant to keep and one for them to sign—or, if they so desired, to add a simple thought in
- [László Moholy-Nagy at Fotografiska Stockholm](https://monovisions.com/laszlo-moholy-nagy-at-fotografiska-stockholm/) - In collaboration with The Moholy-Nagy Foundation, Fotografiska Stockholm is pleased to present Light Play, an exhibition devoted to the photography and film practice of pioneering multidisciplinary artist László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946). From formal experimentation to personal documentation, the 68 works in the show (including photography, photograms, photomontage, and moving image) collectively illuminate a novel side of
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Westphalia, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/westphalia-germany-1890s-vintage-historic-bw-photos/) - After the defeat of the Prussian Army by the French at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt, the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807 made the easternmost portion of today's Westphalia part of the French client Kingdom of Westphalia until 1813, when the kingdom was dissolved by the Russians. While this state shared its name with the historical
- [This Is Britain: Photographs from the 1970s and 1980s](https://monovisions.com/this-is-britain-photographs-from-the-1970s-and-1980s/) - Britain experienced profound changes in the 1970s and 1980s, when it was racked by deindustrialization, urban uprisings, the controversial policies of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Photography became a central form of creative expression during this period, supported and disseminated through new schools, galleries, artists’ collectives, magazines, and government funding.
- [Zanele Muholi exhibition at MEP](https://monovisions.com/zanele-muholi-exhibition-at-mep/) - The MEP is proud to present the first retrospective in France dedicated to Zanele Muholi, the internationally renowned South African photographer and activist whose work documents and celebrates the Black LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual+) community. This major event, which brings together more than 200 photographs and videos created since the early
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of County Dublin, Ireland (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/county-dublin-ireland-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - Despite harsh penal laws and unfavourable trade restrictions imposed upon Ireland, Dublin flourished in the 18th century. The Georgian buildings which still define much of Dublin's architectural landscape to this day were mostly built over a 50-year period spanning from about 1750 to 1800. Bodies such as the Wide Streets Commission completely reshaped the city,
- [Interview with Nenad Nikolic](https://monovisions.com/nenad-nikolic-interview/) - Nenad Nikolic MD was born in 1958, in Belgrade, Serbia. From an early age, he was interested in art, primarily in photography (mostly B&W), painting, music, and literature. By vocation and profession, he is a Doctor of Medicine (MD), and a Specialist in Occupational Medicine. He exhibited photographs in many showrooms in Serbia, but also
- [Roger Deakins: Byways](https://monovisions.com/roger-deakins-byways/) - The Hulett Collection is proud to present the second North American exhibition of acclaimed photographer and Academy Award winning filmmaker, Roger A. Deakins. Works on display will include photographs featured in Deakins’ monograph, Byways, as well as new, never-before-seen photographs. The exhibition will open to the public on March 4, 2023 with an opening reception
- [Marsha Guggenheim: Without a Map](https://monovisions.com/marsha-guggenheim-without-a-map/) - How does one move through life with the scars of the past? When I was ten, my mother died unexpectedly from a heart attack. I couldn’t understand where she went or when she would return. Just as I began to comprehend this loss, my father died. I was without support from my family and community.
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Marienburg (Malbork), Prussia (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/marienburg-malbork-prussia-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - It was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in the First Partition of Poland in 1772 and became part of the newly established Province of West Prussia the following year. Prussians liquidated the municipal government and replaced it with new Prussian-appointed administration. In the early 19th century, Prussian authorities acknowledged the town's Polish-speaking community, ensuring
- [Amanda Means: Leaves](https://monovisions.com/amanda-means-leaves/) - Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to present an online exhibition of Amanda Means' series, Leaves. These large-scale black and white camera-less photographs are delicately rendered through the artist's unique image-making process and beautifully printed by the photographer, who is a master darkroom printer. Amanda Means (American, 1945 - ) received a BA from Cornell University
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Stettin, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/stettin-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - Stettin developed into a major Prussian port and became part of the German Empire in 1871. While most of the province retained its agrarian character, Stettin was industrialised, and its population rose from 27,000 in 1813 to 210,000 in 1900 and 255,500 in 1925. Major industries that flourished in Stettin from 1840 were shipbuilding, chemical
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Bath, England (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/bath-england-1890s-vintage-historic-bw-photos/) - In the early 18th century, Bath acquired its first purpose-built theatre, the Old Orchard Street Theatre. It was rebuilt as the Theatre Royal, along with the Grand Pump Room attached to the Roman Baths and assembly rooms. Master of ceremonies Beau Nash, who presided over the city's social life from 1705 until his death in
- [Ellen von Unwerth: Bombshell](https://monovisions.com/ellen-von-unwerth-bombshell/) - The Fahey/Klein gallery is thrilled to present a selection of photographs from the queen of female sensuality, photographer Ellen von Unwerth. In her exhibition, “Bombshell”, the works on display revel in von Unwerth’s experimentation with archetypes and stereotypes that result in images that are spontaneous, playful, and alive. Ellen von Unwerth’s thirty-year storied career defined
- [Steve Fitch: Drive-in Theaters](https://monovisions.com/steve-fitch-drive-in-theaters/) - Drive-In Theaters will showcase a remarkable selection of vintage and modern gelatin silver prints representing the architecture of these distinctly American movie-viewing monuments. For more than forty years, Steve Fitch has been photographing the American West revealing its changing vernacular landscape and vanishing roadside attractions. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley in
- [Danny Lyon: American Odyssey](https://monovisions.com/danny-lyon-american-odyssey/) - Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to present American Odyssey: Birmingham to Bernalillo, a selection of Danny Lyon’s iconic vintage prints as well as rarely-seen photographs spanning the artist’s six decades as a photographer, filmmaker, and activist. From his earliest photographs made during the Civil Rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama to his most recent works in
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Valais, Switzerland (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/valais-switzerland-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - In the early 17th century, the aristocratic governors of the districts in the Upper Valais pressured the prince-bishop of Sion to abdicate secular power, which was achieved temporarily in 1613 and then permanently in 1634, when the country became the federal Republic of the Seven Tithings under the rule of a Landeshauptmann. The republic in
- [Dave Heath: Alone, together](https://monovisions.com/dave-heath-alone-together/) - For its spring 2023 programme, Galerie Miranda is delighted to present an exhibition of vintage photographs by Dave Heath (1931-2016, US/Canada), the first European gallery exhibition of Dave Heath's work. Entitled Alone, together, the exhibition at Galerie Miranda presents emblematic works that express Heath's central themes of loneliness and alienation in modern society. Influenced by
- [Josephine Sacabo: Moon Over Time](https://monovisions.com/josephine-sacabo-moon-over-time/) - Catherine Couturier Gallery is thrilled to present Moon Over Time, an exhibition of work by artist Josephine Sacabo. Sacabo is a photographer based in New Orleans and Mexico, whose roots are in photojournalism and who now works in a subjective, introspective style, using poetry as the genesis for her work. Born in Laredo, TX in
- [Arkadiusz Kubisiak: W-WA](https://monovisions.com/arkadiusz-kubisiak-w-wa/) - Arkadiusz Kubisiak photographed Warsaw for three years. He came there to photograph whenever he could find a couple of hours in the day. The trips were many. The city is uncontrollable, enormous. You have control over practically nothing. Yet he is not overwhelmed by that fact. It elicits in him a feeling of freedom, perhaps
- [Meg Turner: WET](https://monovisions.com/meg-turner-wet/) - This much-anticipated photo book contains a series of 45 tintype portraits created between New Orleans and New York City from 2014-2022. The images convey joy, fierceness, vulnerability, and an uncompromising gaze while exploding the notion that rest and security are deserved only after a lifetime of work. Drawing deeply from traditions of fashion and advertising,
- [Roger Mayne: What he saved for his family](https://monovisions.com/roger-mayne-what-he-saved-for-his-family/) - This exhibition features some of the most famous images from Roger Mayne's seminal body of work on the streets of West London and similar working-class neighborhoods of Britain in the 1950s and early 1960s that made him one of the most important post-war British photographers. The majority of prints in the exhibition comes from Ann’s
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Hartz, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/hartz-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - As a young man, the famous German poet, Goethe visited the Harz several times and had a number of important lifetime experiences. These included his walks on the Brocken and his visit to the mines in Rammelsberg. Later, his observations of the rocks on the Brocken led to his geological research. His first visit to
- [Kanoa Zimmerman: Free Dive + Bodysurfers](https://monovisions.com/kanoa-zimmerman-free-dive-bodysurfers/) - Casemore Gallery and Small Works present a collaborative exhibition of works by Kanoa Zimmerman from his series Free Dive and Bodysurfers. On view in the main gallery are seven large-scale optical silver gelatin prints from Free Dive; the smaller gallery room presents seven additional images from Bodysurfers. Kanoa Zimmerman’s work explores the underwater ocean environment,
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Danzig (Gdańsk), West Prussia, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/danzig-gdansk-west-prussia-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - Polish westerly Royal Prussia was annexed by the easterly Kingdom of Prussia during the late 18th century Partitions of Poland, with the city of Danzig becoming part of the Prussian Kingdom in 1793. The territory was administered in the new province of West Prussia (1772-1829, 1878-1920) and the new Province of Prussia (1829-1878). In 1815,
- [D. J. Hinman: The Hole in the Universe](https://monovisions.com/d-j-hinman-the-hole-in-the-universe/) - Photographer D. J. Hinman has created a series of black-and-white photographs that burrows deeply into the subconscious, into places rarely visited during waking hours. The theme originated from a nightmare about discovering a tiny hole at the edge of the universe where bits of reality were escaping in a slow but steady stream, a frightening
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of County Donegal, Ireland (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/county-donegal-ireland-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - The modern County Donegal was shired by order of the English Crown in 1585. The English authorities at Dublin Castle formed the new county by amalgamating the old Kingdom of Tír Chonaill with the old Lordship of Inishowen. However, although detachments of the Royal Irish Army were stationed there, the Dublin authorities were unable to
- [Bernd & Hilla Becher at SFMOMA](https://monovisions.com/bernd-hilla-becher-at-sfmoma/) - The renowned German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931–2007; 1934–2015) changed the course of late twentieth-century photography. Working as a rare artist couple, they focused on a single subject: the disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America that fueled the modern era. Their seemingly objective style recalled nineteenth- and early twentieth-century precedents but
- [Klavdij Sluban: EAST TO EAST](https://monovisions.com/klavdij-sluban-east-to-east/) - The exhibition "EAST TO EAST" presents a selection from the award-winning series by the Franco-Slovenian photographer Klavdij Sluban. Literature and travel are the basis of his poetic and magical black and white photographs. These journeys, starting in Paris, Klavdij Sluban's adopted home, take him to the Balkans and along the Trans-Siberian route to China and
- [Harry Benson: Four Stories](https://monovisions.com/harry-benson-four-stories/) - Scottish born photojournalist Harry Benson CBE came to America with The Beatles in 1964 and in his words, “never looked back.” In the decades since, the award-winning photographer has demonstrated incredible range. He photographed Civil Rights marches and the Watts Riots, was on the scene when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, and covered conflicts in Kosovo, Bosnia,
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of St. Gotthard Railway, Switzerland (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/st-gotthard-railway-switzerland-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - By the early years of the 1870s, northern Switzerland had a significant network of railways, with links to the adjoining railways of Germany and France. To the west, a line had reached Brig, in the upper Rhone valley, from Lausanne. In the centre north, lines linked Olten, Lucerne, Zug and Zürich. However no line had
- [Michael Kenna: Arbres](https://monovisions.com/michael-kenna-arbres/) - Michael Kenna exhibition featuring selections by his long time assistant Mark Silva. The exhibition will include 20 photographs by Michael Kenna with a selection of images form his new book Arbres. Michael Kenna (born 1953) is an English photographer best known for his unusual Black and white landscapes featuring ethereal light achieved by photographing at
- [Interview with David Nienow](https://monovisions.com/david-nienow-interview/) - David “Glamour Dave” Nienow is a photographer, TV Producer, & Show Host based in Medford, Oregon. David “Glamour Dave” Nienow started photography in high school photographing BMX races for his cousins. David was both webmaster & site photographer for fitness models Tara Caballero, Erin Ellington, Melissa Budreau, and Brandy Maddron. David’s fashion, glamour has been
- [Nenad Samuilo Amodaj: Hoop and Ball Photographic Series](https://monovisions.com/nenad-samuilo-amodaj-hoop-and-ball-photographic-series/) - Amodaj created the Hoop and Ball series of photographs in June 2010 with dancer and author Shawnrey Notto. The photographs were based on an earlier series of drawings Nenad made of Notto wearing parts of the deconstructed wedding dress during his figure drawing study in Michael Markowitz’s 23rd Street studio in San Francisco. The hoop
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Wernigerode, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/wernigerode-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - Wernigerode was the capital of the medieval County of Wernigerode and Stolberg-Wernigerode. In 1815, after the Napoleonic Wars, it became part of the Prussian Province of Saxony. The Hasseröder brewery was founded in Wernigerode in 1872. After World War II, Wernigerode was included in the new state Saxony-Anhalt within the Soviet occupation zone (relaunched in
- [Joan Myers: Devil’s Highway - On the Road in the American West](https://monovisions.com/joan-myers-devils-highway-on-the-road-in-the-american-west/) - Andrew Smith Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition: The Devil’s Highway: On the Road in The American West. For close to 50 years Joan Myers has been exploring and photographing the American West and has been showing at the Andrew Smith Gallery for nearly 30 years. Much of this time Myers lived in Santa
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Pomerania, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/pomerania-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - Prussia gained the southern parts of Swedish Pomerania in 1720, invaded and annexed Pomerelia from Poland in 1772 and 1793, and gained the remainder of Swedish Pomerania in 1815, after the Napoleonic Wars. The former Brandenburg-Prussian Pomerania and the former Swedish parts were reorganized into the Prussian Province of Pomerania, while Pomerelia was made part
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Towns in Bavaria, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/towns-bavaria-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - When Bavaria became part of the newly formed German Empire, this action was considered controversial by Bavarian nationalists who had wanted to retain independence from the rest of Germany, as had Austria. As Bavaria had a heavily Catholic majority population, many people resented being ruled by the mostly Protestant northerners of Prussia. As a direct
- [Vintage: Regrading in Seattle (1900s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-regrading-in-seattle-1900s/) - Seattle's first 58 regrades "consisted largely of cutting the tops off high places and dumping the dirt into low places and onto the beach". The most dramatic result of this was along that former beach, filling the land that constitutes today's Central Waterfront. Today's Western Avenue and Alaskan Way lie on this landfill. These informal
- [Interview with María Tudela](https://monovisions.com/maria-tudela-interview/) - – How and when did you become interested in photography? A little over a decade ago I began to photograph what caught my attention. But when I discovered that I could turn a thought into photography, that's when I really became captivated by photography. – Is there an artist/photographer that has inspired your art? Not
- [Miyuki Okuyama: At Dusk](https://monovisions.com/miyuki-okuyama-at-dusk/) - Photobook “At Dusk” (Photo and book design by Miyuki Okuyama, The Netherlands/Japan) is the winner of Fotografia Europea + SK BOOK AWARD FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA, Italy (2022). The book is published from Skinnerboox. “At Dusk” will be presented at Polycopies, a photo-book fair during Paris Photo 2022, and be a collection of TATE Library, London. “Dusk,
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Grisons, Switzerland (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/grisons-switzerland-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - In 1798, the lands of the canton of the Grisons became part of the Helvetic Republic as the canton of Raetia except Valtellina, which was separated in 1797 for joining the Cisalpine Republic. It was later part of the Empire of Austria in 1814 before joining the Kingdom of Italy in 1859. With the Act
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Harz, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/harz-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - Around 1800, large swathes of the Harz were deforested. The less resistant spruce monoculture, that arose as a consequence of the mining industry in the Upper Harz, was largely destroyed by a bark beetle outbreak and a storm of hurricane proportions in November 1800. This largest known bark beetle infestation in the Harz was known
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Blackpool, England (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/blackpool-england-1890s-vintage-historic-bw-photos/) - The most significant event in the early growth of the town occurred in 1846, with the completion of a branch line to Blackpool from Poulton on the main Preston and Wyre Joint Railway line from Preston to Fleetwood. Fleetwood declined as a resort, as its founder and principal financial backer, Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, went bankrupt. In
- [Tony O’Shea: The Light of Day](https://monovisions.com/tony-oshea-the-light-of-day/) - Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to present The Light of Day - the first retrospective exhibition of acclaimed Irish artist Tony O’Shea. A legendary figure in the context of Irish photography, O’Shea’s work occupies a pivotal role in the history of documentary practice in Ireland. Curated and produced by Photo Museum Ireland, this retrospective exhibition
- [Monika K. Adler: Nostalgia](https://monovisions.com/monika-k-adler-nostalgia/) - The photography series ‘NOSTALGIA’ tells the story of an immigrant’s remembrance of a life disrupted by war. Cold earth and blackened gun-metal. Taking with you only the most precious and essential. Cast alone amongst thousands; forced, overnight, to leave their home, their family, their animals, and the places they love; fractious, precarious, putting their lives
- [Vivian Maier. Street Photographer](https://monovisions.com/vivian-maier-street-photographer-2022/) - The exhibition "Vivian Maier. Street Photographer" at Deutsche Börse’s headquarters, displays more than 140 works and provides a comprehensive insight into the extraordinary photographic work that the artist has created with a visual language that is both individual and timeless. The exhibition is a cooperation between diChroma photography, Madrid, and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation.
- [D. J. Hinman: Bhaktapur Is Calling](https://monovisions.com/d-j-hinman-bhaktapur-is-calling/) - Photographer D. J. Hinman will hold an exhibit entitled “Bhaktapur Is Calling” at Roonee Gallery in Tokyo on November 1-6, 2022. The exhibit features 48 black-and-white film photographs of the ancient city of Bhaktapur, Nepal. D. J. Hinman photographed neighborhoods in Bhaktapur repeatedly over a period of 4 years. The series goes beyond the designated
- [Wojciech Karliński: The Big Dream of Small Towns](https://monovisions.com/wojciech-karlinski-the-big-dream-of-small-towns/) - Wojciech Karliński works in broadly understood photography: reportage, portraits, and book covers. I am an author of famous books like: Oskar and Mrs Rose by Emmanuel Shmitt, The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman, Here by The Polish Nobel Prize Winner Wislawa Szymborksa and his photos appears in books by polish authors: Szymon Hołownia, Andrzej Maleszka, Katarzyna
- [Vintage: Hooverville in New York City (1930s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-hooverville-in-new-york-city-1930s/) - Homelessness was present before the Great Depression, and was a common sight before 1929. Most large cities built municipal lodging houses for the homeless, but the Depression exponentially increased demand. The homeless clustered in shanty towns close to free soup kitchens. These settlements were often trespassing on private lands, but they were frequently tolerated or
- [Caleb Stein: Down by the Hudson](https://monovisions.com/caleb-stein-down-by-the-hudson/) - ROSEGALLERY is pleased to present, Down by the Hudson, an exhibition of photographs by Caleb Stein. The show exhibits a selection of works from Stein’s ongoing project of the same name. Wappinger Creek is a 41.7-mile-long creek that connects the waters of Thompson Pond to the mouth of the Hudson River in Dutchess County, New
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Lake Lucerne, Switzerland (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-lake-lucerne-switzerland-1890s/) - Lake Lucerne is singularly irregular and appears to lie in four different valleys, all related to the conformation of the adjoining mountains. The central portion of the lake lies in two parallel valleys whose direction is from west to east, the one lying north, the other south of the ridge of the Bürgenstock. These are
- [Baldwin Lee at Howard Greenberg Gallery](https://monovisions.com/baldwin-lee-at-howard-greenberg-gallery/) - In 1983, the photographer Baldwin Lee left his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, and set off on a road trip through the American South. He did not know what his subject would be, but during the trip, he found himself drawn to photographing Black Americans at home, at work and at play, in the street and
- [Allen Frame: Whereupon](https://monovisions.com/allen-frame-whereupon/) - Following the success of Allen Frame’s book Fever, (color photographs of his friends in New York in 1981), Gitterman Gallery presents rarely seen, vintage black and white prints from the same period in his career. Frame came to New York in 1977 and began to photograph his friends in his apartment and theirs — intimately
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Bavaria, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/rothenburg-ob-der-tauber-bavaria-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - Since 1803, the town has been a part of Bavaria. The famous German landscape painter Eugen Bracht visited Rothenburg in 1877; although he stayed only two days, he was clearly impressed. Some years later, especially artists of Romanticism, such as Hans Thoma and Carl Spitzweg, visited Rothenburg, too, followed by the first tourists. Laws were
- [Rodrigo Valenzuela: Afterwork](https://monovisions.com/rodrigo-valenzuela-afterwork/) - Asya Geisberg Gallery is proud to present “Afterwork”, the second exhibition at the gallery by Los Angeles-based Rodrigo Valenzuela. Recently the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a research fellowship at the Smithsonian Museum, Valenzuela has completed a photographic series based on the ghostly absence of workers in an indeterminate time and place, at once
- [Elaine Mayes: Haight-Ashbury: Portraits 1967-1968](https://monovisions.com/elaine-mayes-haight-ashbury-portraits-1967-1968/) - Elaine Mayes (born 1936) was a young photographer living in San Francisco’s lively Haight-Ashbury District during the 1960s. She had photographed the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and, later that year, during the waning days of the Summer of Love, embarked on a set of portraits of youth culture in her neighborhood. By that time,
- [Vintage: Oil derricks in California (1920s-1930s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-oil-derricks-in-california-1920s-1930s/) - Offshore drilling began in California in 1896, when operators in the Summerland Oil Field in Santa Barbara County followed the field into the ocean by drilling from piers built out over the ocean. At least 187 offshore oil wells were drilled in the Summerland Field by 1902. A number of other coastal fields were extended
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Colberg (Kołobrzeg), Pomerania, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/colberg-kolobrzeg-pomerania-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - In the early 19th century, the town's medieval fortifications were demolished and replaced by parks. The duke also started the collection of copperplate engravings that is today part of the Veste Coburg museum. Under his son, Ernest, the Schlossplatz with what is today the Landestheater Coburg was created. He also rebuilt the Ehrenburg in Gothic
- [Jay Dusard: Cowboy with a Camera](https://monovisions.com/jay-dusard-cowboy-with-a-camera/) - Etherton Gallery is excited to welcome visitors to see the work of one of the most influential photographers of the American West, Jay Dusard, in our new summer show, Jay Dusard: Cowboy with a Camera. Cowboy with a Camera features a selection of monumental scale, cowboy portraits most of which were made during 1980-1982. In
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Thuringia, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/thuringia-germany-1890s-vintage-historic-bw-photos/) - The modern German black-red-gold tricolour flag's first appearance anywhere in a German-ethnicity sovereign state, within what today comprises Germany, occurred in 1778 as the state flag of the Principality of Reuss-Greiz, a defunct principality in the modern state's borders. Some reordering of the Thuringian states occurred during the German Mediatisation from 1795 to 1814, and
- [Vintage: Old Cincinnati Library](https://monovisions.com/vintage-old-cincinnati-library/) - In 1874 the project of the "Old Main" Public Library was completed at 629 Vine Street with a capacity capable of holding close to 300,000 books. The interior was designed by J.W. McLaughlin and contrasted the bleak exterior of the library, by featuring checkered marble flooring, cast iron book alcoves, skylights and spiral staircases stretching
- [Tod Papageorge: “The Beaches 1975-1981”](https://monovisions.com/tod-papageorge-the-beaches-1975-1981/) - Danziger Gallery L.A. is pleased to present the first showing of Tod Papageorge’s photographs taken in the late seventies and early eighties of Los Angeles beachgoers. An early participant in the American school of street photography Tod Papageorge’s path has taken him from the streets of New York to the capitals of Europe, from black
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of County Cork, Ireland (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/county-cork-ireland-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - In the early 17th century, the townland of Leamcon (near Schull) was a pirate stronghold, and pirates traded easily in Baltimore and Whiddy Island. In the 19th century, Cork was a centre for the Fenians and for the constitutional nationalism of the Irish Parliamentary Party, from 1910 that of the All-for-Ireland Party. The county was
- [Roger A Deakins: BYWAYS](https://monovisions.com/roger-a-deakins-byways/) - This is the first monograph by the legendary Oscar-winning cinematographer Sir Roger Deakins, best known for his collaborations with directors such as the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes and Denis Villeneuve. It includes previously unpublished black-and-white photographs spanning five decades, from 1971 to the present. After graduating from college Deakins spent a year photographing life in
- [Pierre Fatumbi Verger: United States of America 1934 & 1937](https://monovisions.com/pierre-fatumbi-verger-united-states-of-america-1934-1937/) - Pierre Fatumbi Verger is considered one of the most outstanding photographers of the twentieth century as well as a recognized researcher in the field of African Diaspora and religion studies. Verger traveled to the United States of America in 1934 and 1937, during the Great Depression, producing a collection of stunning images that document the
- [Timurtaş Onan: İstanbul Timeless](https://monovisions.com/timurtas-onan-istanbul-timeless/) - Timurtaş Onan, who is considered as one of the important representatives of contemporary fine art photography, has published his new book ‘Istanbul Timeless’. The book includes 120 black and white photographs of the artist. ‘Istanbul Timeless’ is the third of Onan's five-book series dedicated to Istanbul. The first two books are ‘Istanbul Against All Odds’
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of County Kerry, Ireland (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/county-kerry-ireland-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - In the 17th and 18th centuries Kerry became increasingly populated by poor tenant farmers, who came to rely on the potato as their main food source. As a result, when the potato crop failed in 1845, Kerry was very hard hit by the Great Irish Famine of 1845–49. In the wake of the famine, many
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Bernese Oberland, Switzerland (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/bernese-oberland-switzerland-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - In 1729, Albrecht von Haller published the poem Die Alpen about his travels through the alpine regions. This combined with other reports and alpine paintings started the tourism industry in the Bernese Oberland. By 1800 there were resorts on Lake Thun and Lake Brienz (especially at Interlaken between the two lakes). Shortly thereafter the resorts
- [David Katzenstein: RITUAL](https://monovisions.com/david-katzenstein-ritual/) - These photographs by David Katzenstein emerged from his lifelong artistic journey as a visual chronicler of humanity. His mission led him to travel to many parts of the world to experience other cultures and peoples firsthand, capturing images that relate to the themes he is drawn to. In the process, he came to be fascinated
- [Vintage: "Black Tuesday", October 29, 1929](https://monovisions.com/vintage-black-tuesday-october-29-1929/) - Selling intensified in mid-October. On October 24, "Black Thursday", the market lost 11% of its value at the opening bell on very heavy trading. The huge volume meant that the report of prices on the ticker tape in brokerage offices around the nation was hours late, and so investors had no idea what most stocks
- [Vintage: WorldWar1 submarine U-118 at Hastings (1919)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-worldwar1-submarine-u-118-at-hastings-1919/) - U-118 was to be transferred to France, but while in tow from Harwich to Brest, in company with UB-121, in the early hours of 15 April 1919, she broke tow in a storm, and ran aground on the beach at Hastings in Sussex at approximately 00:45, directly in front of the Queens Hotel. Initially, there
- [William Klein: Afrique](https://monovisions.com/william-klein-afrique/) - In 1963, Klein traveled to Africa on assignment for the British men’s magazine, Town, and the Weekly Telegraph. From Dakar to Niger to Senegal, Klein made photographs with his bold inimitable style. Some of the images were published, but most remained as negatives and slides in storage and were never printed or exhibited to the
- [James Nachtwey](https://monovisions.com/james-nachtwey/) - Gowen is honoured to present James Nachtwey’s first solo exhibition at the gallery featuring a selection of his historical photographs from the 1980s onward. These iconic images serve both as a collective memory and as a meditative journey into the human soul. This is the very first exhibition of Nachtwey’s work in the French-speaking part
- [Donna Ferrato: Holy](https://monovisions.com/donna-ferrato-holy/) - Daniel Cooney Fine Art announces our first and very timely solo exhibition of photographs and unique collages by the feminist activist artist Donna Ferrato. Celebrated for her notorious photographs of domestic violence that were published in her iconic book “Living With The Enemy” (Aperture, 1991) Ferrato has photographed the complex lives of women for over
- [Herlinde Koelbl: Angela Merkel. Portraits 1991–2021](https://monovisions.com/herlinde-koelbl-angela-merkel-portraits-1991-2021/) - When Angela Merkel’s tenure as German chancellor came to a close in autumn 2021, it also marked the end of a project for Herlinde Koelbl that is without parallel in her own or any other photographer’s oeuvre. For three decades, the artist took, at regular intervals, the portrait of someone who became one of the
- [Vintage: Interiors of North German Lloyd ships (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/north-german-lloyd-ships-1890s-vintage-interiors/) - The German shipping company North German Lloyd (NDL) was founded by the Bremen merchants Hermann Henrich Meier and Eduard Crüsemann on 20 February 1857, after the dissolution of the Ocean Steam Navigation Company, a joint German-American enterprise. The new shipping company had no association with the British maritime classification society Lloyd's Register; in the mid-19th
- [Vintage: Princess May aground on Sentinel Island (1910)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-princess-may-aground-on-sentinel-island-1910/) - On 5 August 1910, Princess May, having departed from Skagway under the command of Captain MacLeod with 80 passengers, 68 crew, and a shipment of gold, was proceeding south down Lynn Canal in heavy fog. At a speed of about 10 knots (19 km/h), the ship ran aground on rocks near the north end of
- [Jon Lowenstein: South Side](https://monovisions.com/jon-lowenstein-south-side/) - Jon Lowenstein’s photographs show that photos are not stuck in a single moment, but can reveal a long and deeply felt story. His is a slow process built over decades. The documentary photographer’s themes are social injustice, racism, and systemic violence. With each project he develops deep, decades-long ties to the communities that he documents.
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Helgoland, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/helgoland-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - In 1826, Heligoland became a seaside spa and soon turned into a popular tourist resort for the European upper class. The island attracted artists and writers, especially from Germany and Austria who apparently enjoyed the comparatively liberal atmosphere, including Heinrich Heine and August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben. More vitally it was a refuge for revolutionaries
- [Vintage: Cliff House in San Francisco (1900s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-cliff-house-in-san-francisco-1900s/) - In 1896, Adolph Sutro rebuilt the Cliff House from the ground up as a seven-story Victorian chateau, called by some "the Gingerbread Palace", below his estate on the bluffs of Sutro Heights. This was the same year work began on the Sutro Baths in a small cove immediately north of the restaurant. The baths included
- [George Tice: Lifework](https://monovisions.com/george-tice-lifework/) - “It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal.” - George Tice The gallery’s current exhibition is a tribute to the lifework of George Tice,
- [Gordon Parks in Pittsburgh, 1944/1946](https://monovisions.com/gordon-parks-in-pittsburgh-1944-1946/) - Gordon Parks in Pittsburgh, 1944/1946 is an exhibition that offers an in-depth presentation of Gordon Parks’s (American, 1912–2006) photographs of the Penola, Inc. grease plant in Pittsburgh and its workers who supplied essential goods to US troops during World War II. This examination of an important chapter in Parks’s landmark career features more than 50
- [Paolo Gasparini: Field of Images](https://monovisions.com/paolo-gasparini-field-of-images/) - Paolo Gasparini is the photographer who has best portrayed the cultural tensions and contradictions of the South American continent. His images convey the harsh social reality faced by a region whose cultural authenticity is unquestionable, and where the past and local traditions parley with a clumsily imposed modernity. Gasparini creates an oeuvre with its own
- [Interview with Piotr Nalewajka](https://monovisions.com/piotr-nalewajka-interview/) - - How and when did you become interested in photography? When I was a child two cameras had been widely used by people around me: Zenit produced by ZSRR and Practica but the fact was nothing to me. Generally, my attention to photography started when I was getting older. I must add that two books
- [Peter Kayafas: Coney Island Waterdance](https://monovisions.com/peter-kayafas-coney-island-waterdance/) - This collection of 30 photographs by American photographer Peter Kayafas (born 1971) depicts people swimming in the ocean at Coney Island, a location that has long served as a source of inspiration and fascination for artists. Made over the course of many summers and one particular winter during which Kayafas was a member of Coney
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/schleswig-holstein-germany-1890s-vintage-historic-bw-photos/) - Contrary to the hopes of German Schleswig-Holsteiners, the area did not gain its independence, but was annexed as a province of Prussia in 1867. Also following the Austro-Prussian War in 1866, section five of the Peace of Prague stipulated that the people of Northern Schleswig would be consulted in a referendum on whether to remain
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Towns in Scotland (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/towns-in-scotland-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - Industrialisation, urbanisation and the Disruption of 1843 all undermined the tradition of parish schools. From 1830 the state began to fund buildings with grants; then from 1846 it was funding schools by direct sponsorship; and in 1872 Scotland moved to a system like that in England of state-sponsored largely free schools, run by local school
- [George Hoyningen-Huene: Allure: Platinum Prints](https://monovisions.com/george-hoyningen-huene-allure-platinum-prints/) - Often known simply as Huene, George Hoyningen-Huene worked primarily in Paris, New York and Hollywood and first gained international fame in the fields of sophisticated fashion and portrait photography. His carefully-lit studio compositions infused with elements of modernism, neoclassicism and surrealism made Huene one of the leading photographers at Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines from
- [Michel Ghatan: From Kilimanjaro to The Virunga Mountains](https://monovisions.com/michel-ghatan-from-kilimanjaro-to-the-virunga-mountains/) - Alon Zakaim Fine Art is delighted to present Michel Ghatan: From Kilimanjaro to The Virunga Mountains, a solo exhibition showcasing the majestic wildlife photography captured by Michel Ghatan. Curated by Helen Ho, this exhibition will span the photographer’s career to date, from his most celebrated image of the late big Tusker, Tim, to his most
- [Timothy Duffy Exhibition](https://monovisions.com/timothy-duffy-exhibition/) - A beautiful collection of 12 photographs by photographer Timothy Duffy. “Southern literature and music have long defined the cultural landscape of the South. Today, they increasingly share that landscape with photography. My recent books Blue Muse and Hanging Tree Guitars and my new work in progress Sacred Soul is an opportunity to reflect on how
- [Tomasz Gudzowaty: SUMO](https://monovisions.com/tomasz-gudzowaty-sumo/) - The Polish photographer and filmmaker Tomasz Gudzowaty is actually known for his perfection – clear compositions, precisely chosen image frames, carefully considered down to the last detail. However, the approach to his Sumo series is completely different. For his photographic tribute to the Japanese national sport Sumō, Gudzowaty confronts his subject with the rebellious aesthetic
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Anhalt, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/anhalt-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - After the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the remaining Anhalt divisions – Bernburg, Dessau and Köthen – were elevated to duchies by Napoleon while the Electorate of Saxony became a Kingdom; all were part of Napoleon's Confederation of the Rhine until 1813. In 1813 the Kingdom of Prussia occupied large amounts of
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Konigsberg, East Prussia (Kaliningrad, Russia) 1890s](https://monovisions.com/konigsberg-east-prussia-kaliningrad-russia-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - After the First Partition of Poland in 1772, Königsberg became the capital of the newly formed province of East Prussia in 1773, which replaced the Province of Prussia in 1773. By 1800 the city was approximately five miles (8.0 km) in circumference and had 60,000 inhabitants, including a military garrison of 7,000, making it one
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Nuremberg, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/nuremberg-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - After the Thirty Years' War, Nuremberg attempted to remain detached from external affairs, but contributions were demanded for the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War and restrictions of imports and exports deprived the city of many markets for its manufactures. The Bavarian elector, Charles Theodore, appropriated part of the land obtained
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Tessin, Switzerland (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/tessin-switzerland-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - In the early 19th century, the contemporary Franco-Danish scholar Conrad Malte-Brun stated that: "The canton of Tesino [Ticino] is the poorest, and the people the most ignorant of any in Switzerland. The finest silk in the district is obtained at Lugano, a small town situated on the banks of a lake." Until 1878 the three
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Lubeck, Germany (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/lubeck-germany-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - Humans settled in the area around what today is Lübeck after the last Ice Age ended about 9700 BCE. Lübeck is famous for having been the cradle and the de facto capital of the Hanseatic League. Its city centre is Germany's most extensive UNESCO World Heritage Site. While the city's symbol is the Holsten Gate,
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Towns in Wales (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/towns-in-wales-vintage-historic-bw-photos-1890s/) - Prior to the industrial revolution in Wales there were small-scale industries scattered throughout Wales. These ranged from those connected to agriculture, such as milling and the manufacture of woollen textiles, through to mining and quarrying. Agriculture remained the dominant source of wealth. The emerging industrial period saw the development of copper smelting in the Swansea
- [Willy Maywald: Paris - Haute Couture of the 50ties nd 60ties](https://monovisions.com/willy-maywald-paris-haute-couture-of-the-50ties-nd-60ties/) - Willy Maywald (1907-1985) was one of the most important photographers in Paris from the 1930s to the 1960s. His training at the Werkkunstschulen in Krefeld, Cologne and Berlin shaped his avant-garde formal language. In 1932 he moved to the Seine, where he made friends with many protagonists of artistic modernism. His range of subjects, which
- [Masterworks of Modern Photography 1900-1940](https://monovisions.com/masterworks-of-modern-photography-1900-1940/) - The extraordinary fecundity of the photographic medium between the first and second world wars can be persuasively attributed to the dynamic circulation of people, of ideas, of images, and of objects that was a hallmark of that era in Europe and the United States. Voluntary and involuntary migration, a profusion of publications distributed and read
- [Lois Conner: Flat Earth](https://monovisions.com/lois-conner-flat-earth/) - Robert Klein Gallery is pleased to present Flat Earth, a solo exhibition of vintage photographs by New York City-based artist Lois Conner, curated by Leandro Villaro of the Penumbra Foundation. Please join us on opening night for an exclusive in-person viewing, featuring an artist talk with MFA Curator Nancy Berliner. Conner has been photographing in
- ['From a Private Collection'](https://monovisions.com/from-a-private-collection/) - HackelBury Fine Art, London is pleased to present the exhibition “From a Private Collection” a group of photographs acquired by one collector over a decade, celebrating the work of some of the most important photographers of the 20th century. The collection was acquired over a decade from 2000 and reveals the individual taste and sensibility
- [Interview with Calvin Scott](https://monovisions.com/calvin-scott-interview/) - Calvin Scott is a New York City based photographer with a background as an ink-based surrealist artist. After attending The Savannah College of Art & Design, he has since trained under photographers Platon, Mark Seliger, and Annie Leibovitz. Calvin has embraced photography as a means of coping with the symptoms of his Bipolar Disorder, channeling
- [Mel D. Cole: American Protest. Photographs 2020-2021](https://monovisions.com/mel-d-cole-american-protest-photographs-2020-2021/) - In April 2020, during the early days of the COVID pandemic lockdowns, photographer Mel D. Cole started driving around New York City documenting the streets. This almost therapeutic exercise became a call to action upon the murder of George Floyd, and Cole dedicated the rest of 2020 to photographing the Black Lives Matter protests that
- [Ruven Afanador: Great Performers](https://monovisions.com/ruven-afanador-great-performers/) - The Fahey/Klein Gallery is honored to present “Ruven Afanador: Great Performers”, an exhibition of photographs by artist, Ruven Afanador, and curated by Kathy Ryan - Director of Photography for the New York Times Magazine. This exhibition features portraits of this year’s most heralded performers, such as: Ruth Negga, Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Kristen Stewart, Honor
- [Bill Brandt: The Beautiful and the Sinister](https://monovisions.com/bill-brandt-the-beautiful-and-the-sinister/) - Foam presents The Beautiful and the Sinister, an exhibition by one of the most critically acclaimed British photographers, Bill Brandt (1904- 1983). The exhibition demonstrates the close relationship between the art of the European avant-garde, in particular Surrealism, and his own work. From his earliest photographs in the nineteen-thirties, taken when he was still an
- [Barbara Wolff: Photographs](https://monovisions.com/barbara-wolff-photographs/) - In the exhibition "Barbara Wolff: Photographs" at the Goethe-Institut Bordeaux, works from the series "Biography" (1982 - 1989), "Metropolis" (2018 - 2020) as well as "Amazonia" (2019) will be shown in collaboration with Collection Regard Berlin. In the series „Biography“ she observed life on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Like few photographers, she has
- [Adolf Mas: The eyes of Barcelona](https://monovisions.com/adolf-mas-the-eyes-of-barcelona/) - The core of the exhibition features Mas’s photographs of Barcelona. His camera captured the architectural, social and cultural changes of the city in images that interweave a documentary record with the aesthetic lines of contemporary European artistic tendencies. a Barcelona of contrasts, stratified between the barraca shacks in the suburbs and the mansions of the
- [Jacques Sonck: Portraits](https://monovisions.com/jacques-sonck-portraits/) - FIFTY ONE TOO is proud to present ‘Portraits’ by Belgian photographer Jacques Sonck (°1949), an exhibition filled with unique individuals and accidental encounters. Sonck’s first solo show at the gallery, will focus on his purified black-and-white street portraits and will bring together both old and new work. Jacques Sonck shoots classical analogue black-and-white portraits with
- [Sylvie Blum: Naked Beauty](https://monovisions.com/sylvie-blum-naked-beauty-2022/) - Through a selection of her most iconic photographs from her Naked Beauty, Big Cats, and Animals series, this exhibition offers a transversal approach to the Los Angeles based artist’s career spanning over 20 years. Alike many female counterparts such as Sarah Moon or Ellen Von Unwerth, Sylvie Blum’s first steps into the world of photography
- [Michael Kenna: Northern England 1983-1986](https://monovisions.com/michael-kenna-northern-england-1983-1986/) - Robert Mann Gallery is pleased to present the works of celebrated photographer, Michael Kenna, known for his beautiful and sensitive black and white landscapes. Made over forty years ago, many stored away in a series of negative files come rediscovered images that reveal a Northern England from Kenna’s youth that has drastically changed over time.
- [The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch’s Photography](https://monovisions.com/the-experimental-self-edvard-munchs-photography/) - Internationally celebrated for his paintings, prints, and watercolors, Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863–1944) also took photographs. In 2017/18, the exhibition The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch’s Photography at Scandinavia House drew widespread acclaim for introducing audiences to his photographic and film work, emphasizing the artist’s experimentalism and examining his exploration of the camera as an expressive
- [Rodrigo Valenzuela: New Works for a Post-Worker World](https://monovisions.com/rodrigo-valenzuela-new-works-for-a-post-worker-world/) - In their projection of a post-worker’s world, Rodrigo Valenzuela’s Afterwork series and Weapons series speaks to the elimination not only of individual laborers but of the idea itself of the work force, pushed aside by the very shapes we see here: odd machines and automation, engines that no longer require an operator, but that rage
- [John Gutmann: Select Photographs](https://monovisions.com/john-gutmann-select-photographs/) - John Gutmann was born to prosperous German-Jewish parents, in Breslau, Germany (since 1945, Wrocław, Poland). At age twenty-two, he graduated from the regional Academy of Arts and Crafts, where he studied with leading Expressionist painter Otto Müller. In 1927 Gutmann moved to Berlin, where he taught art to schoolchildren, participated in group exhibitions, and in
- [Face to Phase - Me, Myself & Nobody by Marco Castelli](https://monovisions.com/me-myself-nobody-the-stanislavskij-situation-by-marco-castelli/) - Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going? / In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel. / What is important to me is not the truth outside myself, but the truth within myself. / The person you are is a thousand times
- [Ragnar Axelsson: Where the world is melting](https://monovisions.com/ragnar-axelsson-where-the-world-is-melting/) - "A letter to the future: Okjökull is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. It is anticipated that, in the next 200 years, all our glaciers will go the same way. This memorial intends to demonstrate that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know
- [Yo! The early days of Hip Hop 1982-84: Photography by Sophie Bramly](https://monovisions.com/yo-the-early-days-of-hip-hop-1982-84-photography-by-sophie-bramly/) - This book features many stunning and intimate images of a star-studded roll call of legendary hip-hop figures, many of whom were just relatively known at the time, and while all in their ascendency - including Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmixer DST, Jazzy Jay, Red Alert, Grandmaster Melle Mel, Kurtis Blow, Lisa Lee, the Fat Boys,
- [Ruven Afanador Torero Exhibit](https://monovisions.com/ruven-afanador-torero-exhibit/) - Throckmorton Fine Art is pleased to present its fifth exhibition of the photography of Colombian-born Ruven Afanador. This exhibit commemorates the second edition of the artist’s celebrated book, Torero. (Torero is the Spanish word for bullfighter.) While Afanador is an internationally acclaimed portrait and fashion photographer, he is also a fine artist. He has selected
- [Thomas Barrow: The Automobile](https://monovisions.com/thomas-barrow-the-automobile/) - During the mid-1960s, Thomas Barrow studied with Aaron Siskind at the Institute of Design in Chicago. While there he completed a visual study comprised of 115 photographs entitled, The Automobile. This series formed his thesis project and examined the role of cars in American culture. The series presented three individual yet connecting sections, which follow
- [Laurent Baheux: The Family Album of Wild Africa](https://monovisions.com/laurent-baheux-the-family-album-of-wild-africa-2022/) - Many have tried to convey the true spirit of Africa's animals in words, photography, or in music. There may be no challenge greater; Africa's fauna are vast in number and rich in diversity. In this finely crafted collection, French photographer Laurent Baheux uses the medium of black-and-white photography to capture the intricate details of both
- [Sue Kwon: Rap Is Risen: New York Photographs 1988-2008](https://monovisions.com/sue-kwon-rap-is-risen-new-york-photographs-1988-2008/) - The last decade of the 20th century into the first decade of the 21st represent a High Renaissance age of hip hop--an era in which rap music had reached critical mass and was exploding, and in which New York City itself witnessed the worldwide ascension and cultural domination of its powerful homegrown art form. In
- [Godlis Miami](https://monovisions.com/godlis-miami/) - In January of 1974, David Godlis, then a 22-year-old photo student, took a ten-day trip to Miami Beach, Florida. Excited to visit an area he had frequented a decade earlier as a kid, GODLIS set his sights on an area of slightly outdated efficiency art deco hotels that was then a busy Jewish retiree enclave
- [Nick Brandt: The Day May Break](https://monovisions.com/nick-brandt-the-day-may-break/) - The Day May Break, photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya in late 2020, is the first part of a global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. The people in the photos were all affected by climate change, displaced by cyclones and years-long droughts. Photographed at five sanctuaries, the
- [Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit](https://monovisions.com/ruth-orkin-a-photo-spirit/) - Ruth Orkin is a legend of street photography – her atmospheric pictures taken in cities such as Florence, New York and London still shape the image of these metropolises today. But Orkin’s specialty not only encompassed the urban but also the personal. This is evident in her unique eye that enabled her street scenes to
- [Frida Kahlo: Her Photos](https://monovisions.com/frida-kahlo-her-photos/) - When Frida Kahlo died, her husband Diego Rivera asked the poet Carlos Pellicerto turn the Blue House into a museum that the people of Mexico could visit to admire the work of the artist. Pellicer selected those of Frida's paintings which were in the house, along with drawings, photographs, books, and ceramics, maintaining the spaces
- [Vintage: General Motors streetcar conspiracy](https://monovisions.com/vintage-general-motors-streetcar-conspiracy/) - Between 1938 and 1950, National City Lines and its subsidiaries, American City Lines and Pacific City Lines—with investment from GM, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California (through a subsidiary), Federal Engineering, Phillips Petroleum, and Mack Trucks—gained control of additional transit systems in about 25 cities. Systems included St. Louis, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and Oakland. NCL
- [Maxime Crozet: Iraq, beyond the shores](https://monovisions.com/maxime-crozet-iraq-beyond-the-shores/) - From the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates, from the Chatt-el-Arab ("The Arabian shore") to the mountains of Kurdistan, Iraq, after 30 years of disaster, is today facing many social, economic and political issues, the continuing security threats and growing ecological challenges. From beyond the shores ... these are the murmurs of hope and
- [Vintage: Downtown Christmas Decorations](https://monovisions.com/vintage-downtown-christmas-decorations/) - Once reliant upon Germany for its ornaments, toys, and even its Christmas customs, America became self-sufficient in the post-War years with Christmas ornaments and toys being manufactured in the United States that were considerably less expensive than their German counterparts. American Christmas customs and traditions such as visits to department store Santas and letter writing
- [Mario Giacomelli – Figure/Ground](https://monovisions.com/mario-giacomelli-figure-ground/) - Mario Giacomelli (1925-2000) was born into poverty and lived his entire life in Senigallia, a seaside town along the Adriatic coast in Italy's Marche region. He purchased his first camera in 1953 and quickly gained recognition for the raw expressiveness of his images. His preference for grainy, high-contrast film and paper produced bold, geometric compositions
- [Paul Hart: Reclaimed](https://monovisions.com/paul-hart-reclaimed/) - Paul Hart s new book 'Reclaimed' concludes his three-part series on The Fens in the UK. The first two books 'Farmed' (2016) and 'Drained' (2018) have received several international awards and considerable critical acclaim. In 2018 work from the series was awarded the inaugural Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize (Austria/UK) and in 2019 it was shortlisted
- [Vintage: Christmas in New York City (1910s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-christmas-in-new-york-city-1910s/) - The date of Christmas and some American traditions have pagan roots. In the Roman Empire, December 25th was the day of “natalis solis invict” (the Roman birth of the unconquered sun), and the birthday of Mithras, the Iranian “Sun of Righteousness.” Saturnalia, a Roman festival that honored the sun, lasted from December 17th to December
- [Oliver Stegmann: CIRCUS NOIR](https://monovisions.com/oliver-stegmann-circus-noir/) - Extract from the essay «Behind the scenes» by Thomas Wiegand Circus – isn’t that a tent full of stereotypes about freedom, adventure and romance? A spellbound, excited, guffawing audience, bright-eyed children staring in wonder, the roll of drums and a brass band playing lively music, intrepid acrobats in colourful costumes performing aerial feats high above
- [Interview with Madhur Dhingra](https://monovisions.com/madhur-dhingra-interview/) - - How and when did you become interested in photography? Photography came to me as a fulfillment of a void that has plagued me since childhood because of certain family insecurities and turmoil. It started as a hobby in 1996, later to become an acute passion and profession. I studied photography at the prestigious art
- [HELMUT NEWTON. LEGACY](https://monovisions.com/helmut-newton-legacy/) - 31 October 2021 marks the opening of the expansive retrospective exhibition "HELMUT NEWTON. LEGACY" at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin. Originally scheduled to coincide with the photographer’s 100th birthday, it was postponed for a year due to the pandemic. Visitors can now look forward to seeing not only Helmut Newton’s many iconic images, but
- [Interview with Thomas Pohlig](https://monovisions.com/thomas-pohlig-interview/) - - How and when did you become interested in photography? My first memory of photography came at a young age, I think I was around 13 or 14. My parents bought me a cheap one time use camera - film in a box. I was so excited that I went outside and snapped all the
- [Paolo Gasparini](https://monovisions.com/paolo-gasparini/) - The exhibition Paolo Gasparini. Field of Images provides a comprehensive overview of the artist’s career, focusing not only on his photography but also another of his main expressive supports, the photobook, a crucial narrative mechanism for defining the history of photography in Latin America. His six decades as a photographer offer a broad itinerary through
- [Anja Niemi: The Rider Vol. 1](https://monovisions.com/anja-niemi-the-rider-vol-1/) - A woman stands turned away from us, dressed in classic black dressage pants - hair gently gathered under her helmet by a hairnet. The sleeves of her white blouse are rolled up, torso slightly arched, shoulders together. Her leather riding boots are securely grounded beneath her, preparing to confront the dark void ahead. The Rider
- [Gordon Parks: Pittsburgh Grease Plant, 1944/46](https://monovisions.com/gordon-parks-pittsburgh-grease-plant-1944-46/) - By 1944, Gordon Parks had established himself as a photographer who freely navigated the fields of press and commercial photography, with an unparalleled humanist perspective. That year, Roy Stryker--the former Farm Security Administration official who was now heading the public relations department for the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey)--commissioned Parks to travel to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
- [Barbara Niggl Radloff: Intimate Distance](https://monovisions.com/barbara-niggl-radloff-intimate-distance/) - Artist Barbara Niggl Radloff (1936–2010), after spending her youth surrounded by the ruins of the Second World War, discovered photography, seeing in it the ideal medium to document the story of the people of post-war Munich and the stark reality of their lives. Niggl Radloff left behind an impressive body of work from her early
- [Female Perspectives from Vivian Maier to Barbara Klemm](https://monovisions.com/female-perspectives-from-vivian-maier-to-barbara-klemm/) - "Female perspectives from Vivian Maier to Barbara Klemm" showcases works by nine female artists from the Art Collection Deutsche Börse. The presented contemporaries of Evelyn Hofer are Diane Arbus, Sibylle Bergemann, Barbara Klemm, Ute Mahler, Vivian Maier, Susan Meiselas, Helga Paris, Mimi Plumb and Christine Spengler. Their photographs from the second half of the 20th
- [Dawoud Bey: Street Portraits](https://monovisions.com/dawoud-bey-street-portraits/) - Stephen Daiter Gallery is pleased to present Dawoud Bey: Street Portraits. This exhibition coincides with the recent publication on the same series, Street Portraits by Dawoud Bey published by MACK (London, 2021). In the late 1980s, Bey began making portraits in his Brooklyn, Rochester, and Washington D.C. communities. This series marked the first time in
- [Interview with Karla Guerrero](https://monovisions.com/karla-guerrero-interview/) - Karla Guerrero's work emerged from visual abstractions and self-experiences in space. From the poetic and the phenomenological, her work is a combination of interior images and still life approaching concepts like the transient and the absent; memory, loss, and void. She obtained a Master's Degree in the Social Developments of Artistic Culture from the University
- [How She Sees: Several Exceptional Women Photographers 1919 – 1970](https://monovisions.com/how-she-sees-several-exceptional-women-photographers-1919-1970/) - Inspired by exhibition: The New Women Behind The Camera, the current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art jointly curated with the National Gallery of Art, How She Sees: Several Exceptional Women Photographers 1919 - 1970, seeks to highlight several female artists that all made significant contributions to the field of fine art photography and
- [Michael Bailey-Gates: A Glint In The Kindling](https://monovisions.com/michael-bailey-gates-a-glint-in-the-kindling/) - The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to announce A Glint In The Kindling, the first exhibition in Europe and at the gallery of American artist Michael Bailey-Gates. In A Glint In The Kindling, photographs are made to affirm a coming reality. Transgressing against set gender roles, Michael imagines new ways of being within the confines of
- [Georgy Petrusov: Selected Photographs, 1930s-1940s](https://monovisions.com/georgy-petrusov-selected-photographs-1930s-1940s/) - One of the most prominent pioneers of Soviet photography, Petrusov (1903–1971) was instrumental in documenting major accomplishments in Soviet industry, architecture, sport, and culture. Our exhibition includes works representative of the artist’s striking experimental style, which was characterized by both structured compositions and fresh new perspectives. For example, in his View from Maxim Gorky Airplane
- [Galerie Karsten Greve: Sally Mann](https://monovisions.com/galerie-karsten-greve-sally-mann/) - Galerie Karsten Greve is delighted to present its new exhibition dedicated to the work of the American photographer Sally Mann in its Parisian gallery. Following the success of her large retrospective Sally Mann: Mille et un passages (“Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings) at Jeu de Paume in 2019, the display is an opportunity to rediscover
- [Henry Leutwyler: Misty Copeland](https://monovisions.com/henry-leutwyler-misty-copeland/) - Henry Leutwyler is certainly no stranger to the art of ballet―for many years he photographed on stage and behind the scenes at the New York City Ballet, culminating in his book Ballet, since published by Steidl in two editions. Yet Misty Copeland pushes Leutwyler’s vision into a new direction: neither a strict portrait of the
- [Nan Goldin: 1972–1977](https://monovisions.com/nan-goldin-1972-1977/) - One of the most influential photographers of our time, Nan Goldin is widely known for her deeply personal photographs that unflinchingly document her life and the people in it. The fifteen images included here span Goldin’s shift from black-and-white to color photography and were all made in and around Boston, prior to her move to
- [Mike Smith: Streets of Boston](https://monovisions.com/mike-smith-streets-of-boston/) - This month, British publisher Stanley/Barker is releasing Mike Smith: Streets of Boston. In a recent interview, Mike discussed this 1970s work in relation to his later and more well-known photographs of Eastern Tennessee. “Of course…all experiences lead to the present. As an artist, I think change is important, so the work I am doing now
- [Focus: Power, Agency, and Objectivity in Early Photography](https://monovisions.com/focus-power-agency-and-objectivity-in-early-photography/) - British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) once asked: “what is focus, and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?” Cameron’s question lies at the heart of this exhibition, which traces the early history of photography while probing how myths surrounding the perceived objectivity of this new medium conceal the power
- [Bill Brandt](https://monovisions.com/bill-brandt-exhibition-2021/) - Bill Brandt is considered one of the founders of modern photography, alongside Walker Evans and Cartier-Bresson. Exploring English society, landscape and literature, his images are vital to our understanding of the history of photography and even the British way of life in the mid-20th century. Bill Brandt (born Hermann Wilhelm Brandt on May 3, 1904,
- [Bjoern Persson: Here Forever](https://monovisions.com/bjoern-persson-here-forever/) - Robert Klein Gallery is pleased to present a new exhibition of photographs by internationally acclaimed wildlife photographer and activist Björn Persson. Based in Sweden, Persson’s large format black and white photographs ennoble the spirit of Africa’s treasured species and threatened wildlife. The exhibition is on view from August 10 through October 10, 2021, at Robert
- [Roger Ballen: ROGER THE RAT](https://monovisions.com/roger-ballen-roger-the-rat/) - Throughout his career, Roger Ballen has pursued a singular artistic goal: to give expression to the human psyche—to explore visually, the hidden forces that shape who we are. In 60 black and white photographs a persona, Roger the Rat is created by Ballen, that is fundamentally archetypal even mythological, a half human, half animal character
- [A Timeless Allure: The Photographic Art of George Hoyningen-Huene](https://monovisions.com/a-timeless-allure-the-photographic-art-of-george-hoyningen-huene/) - Hoyningen-Huene, often known simply as Huene, epitomised the connections between art, fashion and cinema. He worked primarily in Paris, New York and Hollywood and first gained international fame in the fields of sophisticated fashion and portrait photography. His carefully-lit studio compositions infused with elements of modernism, neoclassicism and surrealism made Huene one of the leading
- [Chris Killip: Skinningrove](https://monovisions.com/chris-killip-skinningrove/) - Of all Chris Killip’s bodies of work, the photographs he made between 1982 and 1984 in the village of Skinningrove on the north-east coast of England are perhaps his most intimate and encompassing―of the community he photographed and of himself. “Like a lot of tight-knit fishing communities, it could be hostile to strangers, especially one
- [Mark Peterson: White Noise](https://monovisions.com/mark-peterson-white-noise/) - In White Noise Mark Peterson examines the rhetoric of the White House on immigration and Muslim bans, and how this echoes and intersects with nationalism, Western chauvinism, white supremacy, neo-Nazis, and all those calling for an ethnostate in America. Peterson began his project as a means to understand the divisive mood of the country following
- [Ken Light: Course of the Empire](https://monovisions.com/ken-light-course-of-the-empire/) - A decade ago, Ken Light traveled across the United States photographing the country, an empire he realized was the most fragile of organisms. The photographs of the earlier years in this book create the context for understanding how America lost its way. Light reached all four corners of the country to document people across race,
- [Heinz Hajek-Halke: Experiment, Vintage Photographs: 1950 - 1970](https://monovisions.com/heinz-hajek-halke-experiment-vintage-photographs-1950-1970/) - Heinz Hajek-Halke (1898 - 1983) is one of the most important German photography artists of the 20th century. Born in Berlin, raised in South America, his activities in Berlin during the 1920s and 1930s were numerous. He worked as a press illustrator, photo reporter, picture editor, and advertising photographer. During this period, the subject matter
- [Ernest C. Withers: I’ll Take You There](https://monovisions.com/ernest-c-withers-ill-take-you-there/) - The Fahey/Klein gallery is pleased to present “Ernest Withers: I’ll Take You There”, an exhibition hosted in conjunction with his recently published book, “The Revolution in Black and White” (CityFiles Press). This exhibition and publication are a record of African American life in the South during the mid-20th century. Withers’s photographs of Beale Street, family
- [Nadezda Nikolova Kratzer – Elemental Forms, Landscape](https://monovisions.com/nadezda-nikolova-kratzer-elemental-forms-landscape/) - HackelBury Fine Art, London is pleased to present: Elemental Forms, Landscape, a solo exhibition of new work by Nadezda Nikolova-Kratzer in which her love of nature and concern for the environment is reflected in her abstract landscapes which capture “the still point of the turning world”. (T.S. Eliot ‘Four Quartets’). Nikolova-Kratzer chooses a balancing act
- [Diane Arbus curated by Carrie Mae Weems](https://monovisions.com/diane-arbus-curated-by-carrie-mae-weems/) - Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of 45 photographs by Diane Arbus, curated by acclaimed contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems. A long-time admirer of Arbus’s work, Weems has selected images spanning Arbus’s fifteen-year career, from 1956 until her death in 1971. Weems has cited Arbus, along with David Hammons, as artists of paramount
- [Paul Ickovic: In Transit](https://monovisions.com/paul-ickovic-in-transit/) - Robert Klein Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition "In Transit: Photographs by Paul Ickovic" at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF) in Paris. The exhibition presents a selection of street scenes and improvised portraits made by Paul Ickovic (Czech-American, b. 1944) beginning in the 1960s. The exhibition also highlights through archival materials the close
- [Monovisions Awards 2021 Winners Announced!](https://monovisions.com/monovisions-awards-2021-winners-announced/) - MonoVisions Awards are proud to announce the winners of the 2021 photo contest, selecting the winning photographs from 3550 entries from across the globe! Japanese photographer Kohei Ueno won the single photo category. His entry, titled In My Own Bubble, which is an image of Thibault Guignes, one of the French national freediving champions, won
- [Stanko Abadzic: Aktovi](https://monovisions.com/stanko-abadzic-aktovi/) - The exhibition includes Stanko Abadžic’s silver gelatin prints of the nude, a sensitive subject that Abadžic frequently studies. In these works, the nude is rendered innocent as Abadžic emphasizes light and shadow in relationship to the female form. Finding solace in beauty, Abadžic creates harmonious opportunities for stillness and romance. Stanko Abadžic is a Croatian
- [Claudio Ahlers: The Locks of Lockdown](https://monovisions.com/claudio-ahlers-the-locks-of-lockdown/) - With his fine art photography series entitled The Locks of Lockdown, Bristol based German fine art photographer Claudio Ahlers attempts to express the multitude of feelings, and at times raw emotions, people around the world lived through during the many long months of lockdown. His enigmatic and mysterious photographs express this extraordinary experience of our
- [Flying Train "Wuppertal Schwebebahn" in Germany, 1902](https://monovisions.com/flying-train-wuppertal-schwebebahn-germany-1902/) - Construction on the actual Schwebebahn began in 1898, overseen by the government's master builder, Wilhelm Feldmann. On 24 October 1900, Emperor Wilhelm II participated in a monorail trial run. In 1901 the railway came into operation. It opened in sections: the line from Kluse to Zoo/Stadion opened on 1 March, the line to the western
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Brussels in 1908](https://monovisions.com/brussels-in-1908-vintage-historic-bw-photos/) - During the 19th century, the population of Brussels grew considerably; from about 80,000 to more than 625,000 people for the city and its surroundings. The Senne had become a serious health hazard, and from 1867 to 1871, under the tenure of the city's then-mayor, Jules Anspach, its entire course through the urban area was completely
- [Montagne Magique Mystique](https://monovisions.com/montagne-magique-mystique/) - Photography, born in the 19th century, accompanied the discovery of the mountains. The year following its invention, the first photographers set up their darkrooms in the middle of the Alpine landscape. Most of them were enlightened amateurs, passionate about the new medium, which offered images of extraordinary precision. To record and fix the image from
- [Philippe Chancel, Gary Green: Rebels & Dandys](https://monovisions.com/philippe-chancel-gary-green-rebels-dandys/) - The spring 2021 exhibition at Galerie Miranda brings together two historical and littleknown bodies of photography that capture urban underground culture in Paris and New York in the late seventies and early eighties. At the time, Gary Green (b. 1956, USA) and Philippe Chancel (b. 1959, France) were both young photographers, in their first jobs
- [Bernd & Hilla Becher: PHOTO & PRINTED WORKS](https://monovisions.com/bernd-hilla-becher-photo-printed-works/) - Photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher are juxtaposed with printed works from the context of presentations and publications that exemplify the development of their influential oeuvre as well as the history of its reception. The view on posters, art prints, books, brochures, magazines, invitation cards in combination with analogue photographs gives a vivid impression of
- [Michael Mulno: Facades](https://monovisions.com/michael-mulno-facades/) - In these exquisitely printed, 8x10 inch, gelatin silver contact prints, Michael Mulno depicts small industrial, commercial, and residential structures, using a direct, frontal approach that allows each subject to display their modest forms and adornments, often including simple signage. The photographs chronicle a disappearing type of prosaic architecture within a shifting urban landscape. His methodology
- [Lewis Hine: The WPA National Research Project Photographs, 1936-37](https://monovisions.com/lewis-hine-the-wpa-national-research-project-photographs-1936-37/) - A tale of collective ingenuity and individual perseverance in the shadow of national crisis is the subject of Lewis Hine: The WPA National Research Project Photographs, 1936-37, on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from April 15 through July 2. The Great Depression ravaged the United States in the 1930s, producing extreme levels of poverty and
- [Greg Gorman: It’s Not About Me](https://monovisions.com/greg-gorman-its-not-about-me/) - Greg Gorman’s exhibition is an assemblage of “outsiders” and auteurs who have come to define the cultural experience of a global audience. Gorman’s portraits not only reflect the true essence of these personalities, but also provide a record of the individuals that influenced and informed future generations. The works on display are a collection of
- [Timurtaş Onan: Istanbul - A City of Strange and Curious Moments](https://monovisions.com/timurtas-onan-istanbul-a-city-of-strange-and-curious-moments/) - As one of the key figures of contemporary photography in Turkey and known for his projects in different concepts on Istanbul, Timurtaş Onan offers us a retrospective selection of his works between 2000-2020 in his new book ‘Istanbul: A City of Strange and Curious Moments’. Since the 1980s, when he started taking photographs, he has
- [Przemysław Kot: Men's cloakroom](https://monovisions.com/przemyslaw-kot-mens-cloakroom/) - Przemysław Kot's photos from the "Men's cloakroom" set present portraits of men of different ages, specifically employees of a carpentry workshop. In addition to the characters shown, the background also becomes a silent hero. The title men's cloakroom is an intimate and hermetic world. This place is like a silent witness of situations from which
- [Diogo Baptista: Black Beast](https://monovisions.com/diogo-baptista-black-beast/) - The name of this festivity, originally in Galician language, is A Rapa das Bestas, which means “The Shaving of the Beasts” It is an 400-year-old festival that takes place over four days, on the first weekend of July. The first morning, at half-past six in the morning, the church bells start ringing and firecrackers are
- [Swee Sing Vincent Lim: Dancing Trees](https://monovisions.com/swee-sing-vincent-lim-dancing-trees/) - One of the famous beaches in East Sumba, Indonesia is Walakiri Beach. What attracted many professional photographers are this unique mangrove trees. Another uniqueness of Walakiri Beach is the beach sand that has a texture like powder or wet cement when the tide are low. Most beautifully about this beach is that it is East
- [Kevin Shi: Five Years Apart - A Boy's Grow Up in Western Mongolia](https://monovisions.com/kevin-shi-five-years-apart-a-boys-grow-up-in-western-mongolia/) - In 2015 Summer, I visited a nomad family in Western Mongolia. Lived with them at their summer camp side for few days. Quickly I developed a good relationship with their son Semeer and his sisters and cousins. At that time, Semeer was about 7-8 years old. They'd like to follow me everywhere and were very
- [Ragnar B. Varga: Lost in Spain](https://monovisions.com/ragnar-b-varga-lost-in-spain/) - The photo series Lost in Spain came to life during my time in Spain from 2014 to 2017. This series includes both traditional street photography and staged pictures. I like to use light and shadow to construct visual space and to introduce images of solitary figures – anonymous and alone. My subjects often seem all
- [Nina Borowsky: 'Girls and Dolls' (Isolation)](https://monovisions.com/nina-borowsky-girls-and-dolls-isolation/) - We find ourselves – as a global community – in a challenging and unprecedented situation. Faced with such unknowns, it is entirely natural to feel anxious or destabilised. My images was taking in Hampshire for the project ‘Girls and Dolls”(Isolation) Loneliness it’s an epidemic in our time but different kind. Many of us lacking of
- [Dirk Schlottmann: Korean shamanism - spirit possession](https://monovisions.com/dirk-schlottmann-korean-shamanism-spirit-possession/) - "Korean shamanism - spirit possession" show Korean shamans of the North Korean Hwanghaedo-tradition in liminal moments. Liminal moments are periods in which they experience ecstasy and trance because they seek contact with spiritual entities or are possessed by gods, spirits or ancestors. They are in an intermediate position “betwixt and between” that is very difficult
- [Franklin Liranzo: The Nude Yorker](https://monovisions.com/franklin-liranzo-the-nude-yorker/) - The following images are self-portraits that were shot in various parts of the world. In an attempt to unite or demonstrate the similarities we all share, I found a voice that I never knew existed. As a result I am now more confident, outgoing and outspoken. Franklin Liranzo is a professional photographer based in New
- [Tomasz Przychodzień: Stone Cathedrals of the Karakoram Range](https://monovisions.com/tomasz-przychodzien-stone-cathedrals-of-the-karakoram-range/) - “There is a mountain range ahead of me. Sometimes the sun burns it, sometimes it rains rain, it is often wrapped by fog. It never complains, never waits for acknowledgement. It is always majestic and always gives itself away.” – L. Boff When thinking about the Karakoram, colorful images never come to my mind first.
- [Rita Santanatoglia: 1943, journey in a story](https://monovisions.com/rita-santanatoglia-1943-journey-in-a-story/) - This series is my free interpretation of bombing of Rome in Second World War. On July 19 ,1943, the entire working class district of San Lorenzo was destroyed, 3000 Italian civilians were killed in the raids over five residential/railway districts. In those pictures I propose a journey from the future in this past,I just wanted
- [Emanuele Vitale: Seeing Beyond – Discoveries](https://monovisions.com/emanuele-vitale-seeing-beyond-discoveries/) - A discovery destined to revolutionize the world, in 1954, thanks to Giulio Natta, found the definitive consecration with the discovery of "Moplen" (polyethylene). A material that will enter into daily life and revolutionize each of us' s customs and habits thanks also to the economic boom that will characterize the 50/60/70 years. The plastic, commonly
- [Joachim Schmeisser: The Last of Their Kind](https://monovisions.com/joachim-schmeisser-the-last-of-their-kind/) - From March 1st until April 25th and to celebrate the launch of the eponymous book, Echo Fine Arts is proud to present «The Last of Their Kind»: an online solo show featuring twenty-four large-format black and white animal portraits by German photographer Joachim Schmeisser. For years, the Hasselblad Masters winner has been photographing the last
- [Ramtin Firouzian: People](https://monovisions.com/ramtin-firouzian-people/) - I think separation and loneliness are the main themes of the century. Everyone either suffers from loneliness or worries about being alone or still doesn't realize they are alone. The reason I chose this collection was that these days I think the quarantine and social distancing of all people can comfort those who are always
- [William Mark Sommer: The Loneliest Highway](https://monovisions.com/william-mark-sommer-the-loneliest-highway/) - The empty stretch of road goes on for miles, nothing but the occasional sign or the passerby as the pavement beneath my tires breathes the melody of past motorists. The Loneliest Highway is my lyrical journey across Nevada finding solace in the emptiness along the Lincoln Highway in the wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic. This
- [Interview with Carl Battreall](https://monovisions.com/carl-battreall-interview/) - How and when did you become interested in photography? My interest in photography began as a teenager. My high school photography teacher encouraged me to pursue photography as a career. After graduation I started working at a commercial photography studio. I have been working in the photography industry ever since, thirty years! Is there any
- [Gary Krueger: City of Angels, 1971-1980](https://monovisions.com/gary-krueger-city-of-angels-1971-1980/) - Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to present Gary Krueger's City of Angels, 1971-1980, a collection of sometimes frenetic and often bizarre photographs of Los Angeles, California. Krueger's curiosity and instincts helped to create a remarkable body of street photography that he describes as "split-second juxtapositions in life." After graduating High School in 1963, Gary Krueger
- [Kurt Markus: A Life in Photography](https://monovisions.com/kurt-markus-a-life-in-photography/) - Kurt Markus was born in Montana in 1947 and lived there for most of his life until his recent move to Santa Fe. His deep western roots are reflected in his photographs. Among his varied subjects are landscape, dunes, fashion, travel, and portraiture, all of which are photographed with his unique and highly developed personal
- [Valeria Sacchetti: Journey to the Lowlands](https://monovisions.com/valeria-sacchetti-journey-to-the-lowlands/) - A road movie that tells the dream beyond the frontiers of the lowlanders, immersed in a microcosm, still unknown, in which time flows, slowly. There, time is fragmented, blurred and oniric where water has its own music and whispers the stories of the inhabitants. Family ties, my roots, the bucolic landscape, the abandoned places and
- [Manuel Micheli: ROTELLANDO VERSO SUD](https://monovisions.com/manuel-micheli-rotellando-verso-sud/) - ITALY. Approximately 1400 kilometres covered, 65 days of travel, 8 regions crossed and 56 stages completed. I could summarize this wonderful experience of "Rotellando verso sud" ("Rotating towards the south"). There are stories that need to be told. Stories of courage and optimism. Stories of example for all. Supported by an unshakable faith in one's
- [Swarat Ghosh: Beyond Street](https://monovisions.com/swarat-ghosh-beyond-street/) - When I first started the project there was no idea in my mind. In the beginning, the initial intent for me was to capture a nice frame (aesthetically). In my mind, it was always to capture one single image from my entire day/night outing. I used to walk miles after miles just waiting for the
- [Marco Barbera: Postures of the naked self](https://monovisions.com/marco-barbera-postures-of-the-naked-self/) - This series studies the symbolism of postures and geometries of the human body. It describes different characters whose nakedness forces them to confront to their own self and to what they really are, whether in their greatness or weakness. For me, nudity limits the human being to its true essence, thus it conveys transparency and
- [Artur Stankiewicz: Great Spectacle of Nature - Mara River Crossing](https://monovisions.com/artur-stankiewicz-great-spectacle-of-nature-mara-river-crossing/) - Crossings of the Mara River by hundreds of thousands wildebeests during their yearly migration routes have been documented by many photographers. The drama and the sheer size of this miracle of nature leaves lasting impression on anyone who witnessed thousands of gnu running, jumping and swimming through the river. It is also a 'photographers dream'
- [Holly Wilmeth: Sacred Nature](https://monovisions.com/holly-wilmeth-sacred-nature/) - This project portrays the deep connection between the nature surrounding us and our human nature. The images serve as an invitation to awaken to a place of sacred sanctuary. The harmony of the natural world is available to us in our own backyard through the powerful healing energy of traditional plant wisdom. I didn't go
- [Andrey Troitsky: Space - Metamorphoses](https://monovisions.com/andrey-troitsky-space-metamorphoses/) - Man and the external world. Space has his poetry. Space is dual in nature: on the one hand, it is the soil on which all plants grow, the air we breathe, and our home, but at the same time we also live in the space of our inner world, and we say this is me
- [Peter Schroyens: Serenity - Alien Cities](https://monovisions.com/peter-schroyens-serenity-alien-cities/) - Serenity reflects my imagination about an alien, architectural world, inspired by science-fiction stories of the early 20th century. Contemporary and modern architecture are detached from their environement and projected into a futuristic universe, entirely stripped of human noise. Surrounded by this visual silence, the buildings of Serenity demand a certain presence, enhanced by stark ligthing
- [Dolores Smart: Shadow Man](https://monovisions.com/dolores-smart-shadow-man/) - My husband is tall and loves to dress up, so I asked him to wear his authentic Derby hat on an evening walk in downtown Santa Fe. His shadow curved up the adobe walls in fantastical shapes. I played with them even more in post processing and came up with this series called 'Shadow Man.'
- [Interview with Guy Geva](https://monovisions.com/guy-geva-interview/) - For over ten years I have been doing photo workshops in the Israeli desert. Most of the workshops take place during the night because of the great heat that exists in the place. Summer heat may reach nearly fifty degrees Celsius in some places. Throughout the winter, I do workshops between the floods in the
- [Mario Algaze: Focus](https://monovisions.com/mario-algaze-focus/) - Mario Algaze’s family moved to Miami, Florida in 1960, at the age of thirteen. By his early twenties he knew his passion for photography would be his lifelong career. His approach as a photojournalist in his early years resulted in some well-known images of Latin American countries, he felt affinity with Argentina, Colombia, Perú, Guatemala,
- [Regina Schmeken: Black is White](https://monovisions.com/regina-schmeken-black-is-white/) - Regina Schmeken is one of Germany‘s most famous artists. Her photographs will be on show at the Goethe-Institut Bordeaux from October 14th 2020 through February 5th 2021. The exhibition "Black is White" presents figures and forms from various scenes. The selection from the past 40 years, curated by Luise Holke and the artist herself, invites
- [Laia Abril: A History of Misogyny, Chapter Two: On Rape](https://monovisions.com/laia-abril-a-history-of-misogyny-chapter-two-on-rape/) - Spanish artist Laia abril (1986) won the fourteenth edition of the Foam Paul Huf Award this year with her long term project A History of Misogyny. This prize is organised by Foam and annually awarded to a talented young photographer, by an independent, international jury. It consists of a cash prize of €20,000 and a
- [Clayton Anderson: Kicking Sawdust](https://monovisions.com/clayton-anderson-kicking-sawdust/) - Clayton Anderson was living the life of a 19-year-old, had secured a funky apartment near the water in Miami Beach, was waiting tables and hanging out with friends, when his life took a decidedly atypical turn. The courtyard payphone rang and his father on the other line said he needed to come help the family
- [Robert Frank: Memories](https://monovisions.com/robert-frank-memories/) - Robert Frank, who was born in Zurich in 1924 and died last year in Canada, is widely regarded as one of the most important photographers of our time. Over the course of decades, he has expanded the boundaries of photography and explored its narrative potential like no other. Robert Frank travelled thousands of miles between
- [Mark Ruwedel: Los Angeles](https://monovisions.com/mark-ruwedel-los-angeles/) - Mark Ruwedel’s new exhibition at Large Glass is a selection of photographs taken from his in-progress epic Los Angeles: Landscapes of Four Ecologies, a work funded by a Guggenheim Fellowship awarded in 2014. At a time when predictions of climate catastrophe are becoming ever more frequent, these gelatin silver prints, hand printed and mounted by
- [Stefan Moses: THE ANIMAL AND ITS HUMAN](https://monovisions.com/stefan-moses-the-animal-and-its-human/) - Anyone who observes Stefan Moses at work is suddenly drawn into the maelstrom of that quiet insistent madness with which a great photographer makes the living objects submissive, if not defenseless, to his desire. He smiles kindly. Many gentle, affirmative words create the deceptive impression of a conversation, as if the photographic victim still had
- [Interview with Odysseas Pappas](https://monovisions.com/odysseas-pappas-interview/) - – How and when did you become interested in photography? I first became intrigued by the picture making process as a child, seeing my father document family trips on his old Nikon SLR. My involvement with photography became more serious during my time at university, where I became an active member of the university’s photographic
- [Roger Ballen: THE PLACE OF THE MIND](https://monovisions.com/roger-ballen-the-place-of-the-mind/) - Roger Ballen’s errily beautiful photographs are populated by outsiders, animals, and enigmatic objects. With his photographic stagings, which create a strange and perplexing atmosphere, Roger Ballen dives into the abysmal depths of the human psyche. Born in New York in 1950, Roger Ballen is one of the most important and influential international art photographers of
- [Sebastião Salgado: EXODUS](https://monovisions.com/sebastiao-salgado-exodus-kunstfoyer/) - Sebastião Salgado. "EXODUS" is an exhibition that highlights how Salgado urgently campaigned for social justice and peace, and long before he gained wide public acclaim with his project "GENESIS" or the documentary, "The Salt of the Earth" (2014) by Wim Wenders. In the photographic series "EXODUS", Salgado documents the dark side of the modern age:
- [Louis Stettner: Early Joys](https://monovisions.com/louis-stettner-early-joys/) - "What a life - between photography and fine arts, sculpture and panel painting, France and America. A life between countries and cultures, languages and sensitivities. Not that Louis Stettner couldn't have made up his mind. But he probably needed this oscillation between the continents, the cities and disciplines in order to be able to re-enact
- [Jasmine Swope: Our Ocean's Edge](https://monovisions.com/jasmine-swope-our-oceans-edge/) - Jasmine Swope’s black-and-white photography deftly captures the beautiful, otherworldly essence of California’s marine parks and our 1,100 mile long coastline. California made history with the creation of the nation’s first statewide system of ocean parks − a network of 124 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) stretching from Oregon to the Mexico border. Like national parks on
- [Interview with Giannis Angelakis](https://monovisions.com/interview-with-giannis-angelakis/) - – How and when did you become interested in photography? My interest in photography started in a very early age. My father worked at a newspaper and it was natural to hang around there. There was a “dark room” for developing films from stories that photographers covered for the newspaper. And at that early age
- [Jerry Bernd: BEAUTIFUL AMERICA](https://monovisions.com/jerry-bernd-beautiful-america/) - The American photographer Jerry Berndt (1943–2013) documented the period between the 1960s and 1980s in America like no other photographer. By combining photojournalism with documentary and street photography, he succeeded in presenting a unique view of American society over a span of thirty years. Precisely because Berndt was part of the American protest movement, he
- [Johny Pitts: Afropean: Travels in Black Europe](https://monovisions.com/johny-pitts-afropean-travels-in-black-europe/) - In Afropean writer and photographer journalist Johny Pitts (Sheffield, UK) examines the life of black communities, travelling across Europe. In search of the "Afropean" identity he went across the continent travelling from London to Paris, via Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Stockholm, Moscow, Rome, Marseille, Madrid and Lisbon sketching an underexposed story about the continent in words
- [Art for the Community: The Met's Circulating Textile Exhibitions, 1930–40](https://monovisions.com/art-for-the-community-the-mets-circulating-textile-exhibitions-1930-40/) - In honor of The Met's 150th anniversary, Art for the Community will highlight a series of groundbreaking exhibitions organized by the Museum between 1933 and 1942. Almost a quarter of New York City's population visited "Neighborhood Circulating Exhibitions," which were developed in response to an inquiry from a Queens high school teacher. This remarkable initiative
- [Paul Jasmin: Lost Angeles](https://monovisions.com/paul-jasmin-lost-angeles/) - It is with great pleasure that the Fahey/Klein Gallery announces the new exhibition dates for Paul Jasmin: Lost Angeles, a selection of works celebrating Jasmin’s long career and the gallery’s first exhibition by the legendary Los Angeles photographer. Paul Jasmin’s photographs are a dreamy tableau that takes the viewer on a journey of seductive beauty
- [Tom Zetterstrom: Moving Point of View](https://monovisions.com/tom-zetterstrom-moving-point-of-view/) - Raising questions about established photographic realities, Tom Zetterstrom's silver prints, made throughout the 1970s and 80s, synthesize traditional landscape photography with a cinematic sweep of motion. Shot from a car, a train, or airplane, the unique combination of elements that results – some adrift, some still – makes the viewer acutely aware of his lagging
- [Cecil Beaton at Beetles+Huxley](https://monovisions.com/cecil-beaton-at-beetles-huxley/) - An exhibition of vintage photographs by Cecil Beaton will trace his career from his early works in the 1920s through to the 1960s. As a prominent member of the ‘Bright Young Things’ in London during the 1920s, Beaton was uniquely placed to photograph a generation of young socialites, avant-garde artists and writers. Stylish and experimental,
- [One Third of a Nation: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration](https://monovisions.com/one-third-of-a-nation-the-photographs-of-the-farm-security-administration/) - A tale of America, told through iconic photographs from the 1930s, is the subject of One Third of a Nation: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration, which depicts the challenges impoverished families were enduring with photographs by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks, among others. Taken together, the exhibition demonstrate the extraordinary power
- [Matt Lipps: Solve for X](https://monovisions.com/matt-lipps-solve-for-x/) - Over the past twenty years, Matt Lipps has developed a distinctive photographic practice that pays tribute to the history of twentieth century photography while also questioning the dominant myths that structure our cultural narratives. This exhibition presents new work from two related but distinct series, both of which incorporate analogue photography, collage and printed media.
- [Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography](https://monovisions.com/acting-out-cabinet-cards-and-the-making-of-modern-photography/) - Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography offers the first-ever in-depth examination of the photographic phenomenon of cabinet cards. Cabinet cards were America’s main format for photographic portraiture through the last three decades of the nineteenth century. Inexpensive and sold by the dozen, they transformed getting one’s portrait made from a formal
- [René Groebli: Platin Palladium Prints 1946 – 2006](https://monovisions.com/rene-groebli-platin-palladium-prints-1946-2006/) - The exhibition "René Groebli - Platinum Palladium Prints" introduces the viewer to the exciting work of Groebli with pictures that were created using the noblest, most stable and most exclusive process. Each enlargement is unique. Such a print loses none of its intensity over time and is not permanently damaged by exposure to light. The
- [Lee Miller: To believe it](https://monovisions.com/lee-miller-to-believe-it/) - More than 75 years ago Lee Miller accompanied the American troops as a war photographer on behalf of Vogue as they marched from Normandy via Paris, Alsace, the Rhineland, Hesse and Thuringia to the Elbe in Torgau (and then to Bavaria). The exhibition shows a selection of over one hundred photographs capturing scenes of the
- [Interview with Gee Hurkmans](https://monovisions.com/gee-hurkmans-interview/) - Gee Hurkmans (1952) is a self-taught landscape photographer based in The Netherlands. His work is best described as fine art minimalism. Main subjects are seascapes and desolate landscapes. In his style of photography, minimalism is "the art of less", of leaving out what can be left out, of negative space, of austere simplicity, of a
- [Thomas Barrow: Trivia and Trivia 2, The Verifax Prints, 1973](https://monovisions.com/thomas-barrow-trivia-and-trivia-2-the-verifax-prints-1973/) - Thomas Barrow’s distinguished career in photography is characterized by a remarkable range and complexity of imagery. As one who almost immediately abandoned the traditional approach to photography, Barrow has found inspiration in the work of experimental printmakers and painters and was deeply influenced by the Bauhaus approach of the Institute of Design, where he studied
- [Dimitris Yeros: A Lesbos Diary](https://monovisions.com/dimitris-yeros-a-lesbos-diary/) - Throckmorton Fine Art is pleased to offer an exhibit of over forty black and white photographs and some color by Dimitris Yeros, one of the most influential Greek artists of his generation. The images span over thirty years of the artist’s life on the island of Lesbos, during which he has taken many hundreds of
- [Hans-Christian Schink: 1h](https://monovisions.com/hans-christian-schink-1h/) - "1h" – One hour is the duration of Hans-Christian Schink’s gaze towards the sun, and the name of its pictorial representation through photography. He uses overexposures, called solarisations, which are only possible through analogue methods. The sun is rarely considered as a physical element. Its constant presence as a star is largely ignored by our
- [PERSPECTIVES: The new photography collection](https://monovisions.com/perspectives-the-new-photography-collection/) - For the first time an art exhibition in Düsseldorf is dedicated to photography from its early stages through to this day and sets out to unravel the medium’s many facets. This is made possible by the Kunstpalast’s acquisition in December 2018 of more than 3,000 photographs from the collection of Galerie Kicken. In the show
- [PERCEPTIONS: People in American Photography](https://monovisions.com/perceptions-people-in-american-photography/) - The exhibition "PERCEPTIONS" features works by American photographers, which concern themselves with issues like human contact, corporeality, intimacy as well as fragility. The photographs explore problems of everyday topics and situations, the necessity of which are made clear to us only at times marked by restrictions, distancing, and isolation. "PERCEPTIONS" aims to draw attention to
- [Monovisions Awards 2020 Winners Announced!](https://monovisions.com/monovisions-awards-2020-winners-announced/) - MonoVisions Awards are proud to announce the winners of 2020 photo contest, selecting the winning photographs from 3650 entries from across the globe! Czech photographer Tomas Tison won the single photo category; his entry, titled Star Hunter, which captures the night scene with a person on top of the hill, won the Black & White
- [Interview with Mattia Baldi](https://monovisions.com/mattia-baldi-interview/) - - How and when did you become interested in photography? I’ve dedicated the first years of my life to classical Art, drawing and painting. I discovered photography only when I met the masters like Avedon and Evans that shown me photography as Art. Today photography for me is a profession and my way to express
- [Interview with Michael Nguyen](https://monovisions.com/michael-nguyen-interview/) - Michael Nguyen has been living in Munich since 2007 and has dedicated himself entirely to art again since 2018. He is an artist, not a photographer but more a photographic poet or something he himself could not define. He moves away from the mainstream, at the same time blurs genres. Most of the time, he
- [Philadelphia - Portraits of the City](https://monovisions.com/philadelphia-portraits-of-the-city/) - How can we properly acknowledge Philadelphia as our inspiration? Philadelphia has been around a long time, long before Jerome and I arrived here to make a living. This book was a long time coming. The seed was planted a while ago. We lived and worked for years in Philadelphia and as keen observers of this
- [Peter Lindbergh: Untold Stories](https://monovisions.com/peter-lindbergh-untold-stories-2020/) - The exhibition "Untold Stories" is the first show curated by Peter Lindbergh himself. The photographer, who was born in 1944 and grew up in Duisburg, worked on the presentation for two years and completed it immediately before his death in early September 2019. Peter Lindbergh Untold Stories Exhibition: 20 June – 1 November 2020 Museum
- [Gilbert Garcin: Existence is Elsewhere](https://monovisions.com/gilbert-garcin-existence-is-elsewhere/) - Gilbert Garcin’s photographs engage us as philosophical archaeology, as surrealist theater, and as contemporary allegory. The artist himself, often portrayed in a dark overcoat, serves as an every-person character, his works honed upon humanity’s current, perhaps timeless, crisis of conscience: the unbearable frictions of our relationships to ourselves and one another in an overwhelmingly complex
- [Allan Teger: Bodyscapes](https://monovisions.com/allan-teger-bodyscapes/) - The artist in every culture takes on some of the roles of the shaman. The artist walks the fine line between the conscious and the unconscious, the obvious and the hidden. My background (Ph.D. in psychology) led me to the study of consciousness, meditation and spirituality. After years of teaching I left academics to apply
- [Vincent Peters: Selected Works](https://monovisions.com/vincent-peters-selected-works/) - Over the last quarter century, Vincent Peters's photographs have graced the pages of Vogue, Glamour, and GQ and defined fashion campaigns from Dior to Hugo Boss to Yves Saint Laurent. One of the most sought-after portrait and fashion photographers, Vincent Peters prints also have a significant following in the fine art market. Vincent Peters's photographs
- [Elliott Erwitt's Dogs](https://monovisions.com/elliott-erwitts-dogs/) - Elliott Erwitt's masterpiece is now available in a handy format and an unbeatable price - a treasure for both dog lovers and photography aficionados. In a heartfelt and original tribute to man s best friend, this photographic master captures all the diversity of the canine kingdom. We witness Fido s many moods from playful, perky
- [Laurent Baheux: Lions](https://monovisions.com/laurent-baheux-lions/) - The French photographer Laurent Baheux dedicates his new book to the "King of the Animals"-the lion. Breathtaking black-and-white images create a powerful portrait of one of the most majestic and endangered species in the world. For almost 20 years, he has journeyed across Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana to capture the wild lion
- [Paris: The City of Light in the 50s & 60s](https://monovisions.com/paris-the-city-of-light-in-the-50s-60s/) - Post-war Paris brought a blossoming of culture and thought. The Nouvelle Vague transformed French cinema, young couturiers reinvigorated French fashion, existentialism flourished in literature and philosophy, and the city swung and swayed to a vibrant jazz and rock 'n' roll scene. In the middle of it all, was Paul Almasy. The well-traveled photojournalist, born in
- [Alain Schroeder: Taekwondo North Korea Style](https://monovisions.com/alain-schroeder-taekwondo-north-korea-style/) - Although the origins of martial arts are shrouded in mystery, since time immemorial men have used their hands and feet for self-protection. Influenced by a combination of historical events in Korea and Japanese traditions, the modern incarnation of Korea’s national martial art Taekwondo ("way of kick and fist") was created in 1955 by General Choi
- [Steve Geer: One-Sixth of a Second – and the poetry of motion](https://monovisions.com/steve-geer-one-sixth-of-a-second-and-the-poetry-of-motion/) - “There is something wonderful about a great photograph of life on the street. I think it’s because we humans are naturally nosy. We like to stare, absorb the details and imagine the facts, but on the street, we don’t have permission to stare. All we get is a glimpse. The great thing about a street
- [Interview with Christian Zieg](https://monovisions.com/christian-zieg-interview/) - - How and when did you get interested in photography? My interest started by the love for nature. I wanted to conserve my impressions and since I never considered painting to be something I was capable of, I started to get to know my fathers camera. This happened in the late nineties. - Is there
- [Baldwin Lee: Black Americans in the South](https://monovisions.com/baldwin-lee-black-americans-in-the-south/) - When Baldwin Lee first arrived in the south, he did not know what he would photograph. He took a 2,000-mile exploratory trip on the back roads photographing anything that interested him with his 4 x 5-inch view camera. "My subjects included landscapes, cityscapes, close-up details, night studies, interiors of commercial and residential buildings, and portraits
- [Patrick Desgraupes: Unveiled Memories](https://monovisions.com/patrick-desgraupes-unveiled-memories/) - Sometimes Time seems to freeze. A deep sense of harmony and "déjà vu" can fill us. The impression of being inhabited by a sudden level of consciousness. Silence fills the space and becomes palpable. But silence, perhaps, is only the resonance of forgotten memories, and the veil, a manifestation of the persistence of this vision.
- [Hampus Danielsson: Sweet Dreams](https://monovisions.com/hampus-danielsson-sweet-dreams/) - What is a nightmare? Paralyzed by fear in the middle of the night, what is the culprit? Trauma, poor health, lousy self care, a malfunction of the amygdala (the part of your brain responsible for controlling anger and fear) or something much more ominous? Are these bumps in the night the product of Rapid Eye
- [Vintage: New York by Andreas Feininger (1940s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-new-york-by-andreas-feininger-1940s/) - In advance of World War II, in 1939, Andreas Feininger immigrated to the U.S. where he established himself as a freelance photographer. In 1943 he joined the staff of Life magazine, an association that lasted until 1962. Feininger became famous for his photographs of New York.
- [Tim Franco: Illicit Ink](https://monovisions.com/tim-franco-illicit-ink/) - A series of intimate portraits of the underground tattooist community in South Korea shot on paper negatives. An obscure South Korean law makes tattooing technically illegal. Although this does not stop a growing number of underground tattoo parlors to open in people’s home or in hidden rooms, it does pose a challenge for a young
- [Urim Hong: City Soleil: a melody of hope](https://monovisions.com/urim-hong-city-soleil-a-melody-of-hope/) - City Soleil is a small village within the Port-au-Prince in Haiti. Unlike its name–City of the Sun–however, it seems as though there is only a glimpse of light remaining. The city has become poor as its history of rebellion and conflict extorted its economic power. What is more, because the people were not able to
- [Alain Schroeder: Kim City](https://monovisions.com/alain-schroeder-kim-city/) - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) remains one of the most isolated and secretive nations in the world. Since its creation in 1948, the country has been ruled by three generations of the Kim dynasty currently under the control of his grandson, Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un. It is a self-reliant socialist society based on
- [Hugo Santarem Rodrigues: Interior](https://monovisions.com/hugo-santarem-rodrigues-interior/) - My name is Hugo Santarem Rodrigues, and in 2016 I took a global ancestry DNA test to know my origins. From the result of this test, I decided to travel to the interior of the countries where my ancestors came from. I have been to Kenia and Ethiopia so far. Deep down, the base of
- [Sampa Guha Majumdar: Childhood](https://monovisions.com/sampa-guha-majumdar-childhood/) - The children of the picture are staying beside this garbage and use this area for open toilet. Cows are moving freely there. These animals are also eating plastic waste. Children are very familiar with the pungent smell around everywhere. They are growing in this horrible environment. The stagnant water is very dirty and can spread
- [Karina Bikbulatova: The two parallel](https://monovisions.com/karina-bikbulatova-the-two-parallel/) - This black-and-white series of photos 'about two sisters abandoned by their father, a reunion which can be no question. Just because they don't know about each other the most important thing...' They meet once a year in a small village, - communicate, play, weave braids to each other, but don't know that they are sisters.
- [Bryce Morrison: Heavenly Bodies](https://monovisions.com/bryce-morrison-heavenly-bodies/) - Heavenly Bodies - the nudes, is a selection from a larger body of work. Throughout the series, each model is told to display themselves in front of the camera in the way they would like to be represented. Due to the lack of posing the images are raw portraits of individuals who are being captured
- [Elisabetta Gatti: Migration](https://monovisions.com/elisabetta-gatti-migration/) - By the end of November, Milan Central Railroad Station becomes the meeting point for starlings preparing to migrate. But the show lasts just a couple of days, and you have to be ready. The first sign is when you start seeing some coming here from the parks of the town. At the beginning, they are
- [Matthew Tuffield: Shapes of Architecture](https://monovisions.com/matthew-tuffield-shapes-of-architecture/) - Exploring Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne recently on my holidays with my camera and trusty tripod, enabled me to capture, with long exposure techniques, the most amazing and unique architectural designs Australia has to offer. The shapes, textures and design elements, mixed with perfect weather, helped me to create some of the beautiful long-exposure fine art
- [Vintage: Portraits by Ruth Harriet Louise (1920s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-by-ruth-harriet-louise-1920s/) - Ruth Harriet Louise (1903 - 1940) was an American professional photographer, the first woman photographer active in Hollywood; she ran Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's portrait studio from 1925 to 1930. Louise began working as a portrait photographer in 1922, working out of a music store down the block from the New Brunswick temple at which her father was
- [Vintage: Three Eyed Cats by Weegee](https://monovisions.com/vintage-three-eyed-cats-by-weegee/) - Arthur Fellig, known by his pseudonym Weegee was a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white photography. The three eyed cat meaning relates to the symbolism of the mythical creature that appears in many ancient spiritual texts. This creature appears as a cat with a third eye between its eyebrows, symbolizing the
- [Interview with Tatiana Kurnosova](https://monovisions.com/tatiana-kurnosova-interview/) - Tatiana Kurnosova is a fashion photographer, stylist and blogger with almost 10 years working experience in fashion industry. Tatiana’s career has begun since her first trip to Milan. Since then she has never stopped going forward and growing as an artist. Multiple awards – winner, published photographer and author of “All you need to know
- [Ted Witek: Power of Femininity](https://monovisions.com/ted-witek-power-of-femininity/) - Ted Witek was born and raised in the United States (Connecticut) and has since lived in Germany, Portugal and Canada. He now resides in Toronto and Lisbon. Having the artistic good fortune to travel widely, his photographs illustrate several chapters of his life. Ted’s work displays a unique visual curiosity and the ability to capture
- [Interview with Kaushik Dolui](https://monovisions.com/kaushik-dolui-interview/) - How and when did you become interested in photography? In my childhood days, I did the drawing and painting, later in my mid-twenties I developed an interest in photography .I joined in a short course in photography at that time. Later I participated in different photographic salons under FIAP and PSA patronages and won many
- [Han Shun Zhou: Frenetic City at Kickstarter](https://monovisions.com/han-shun-zhou-frenetic-city-at-kickstarter/) - Frenetic City is photobook that lets you experience the intensity and chaotic environment in one of the most densely populated cities in the world. This monograph consists of elaborated photographs of overpopulated city landscapes, depicting density, loneliness and loose of identity, created in the streets of Hong Kong from 2014 to 2019. With a population
- [Photographs from the Berlin University of the Arts 1850](https://monovisions.com/photographs-from-the-berlin-university-of-the-arts-1850/) - Paragons Afterimages, the exhibition title refers to correlations between images, but also their production, referring to the connections between images and a method of using existing images to produce new ones. In the art schools of the 19th and early 20th centuries, photographs served as models or paragons and were employed purely for teaching purposes.
- [Analogien: Bernd & Hilla Becher, Peter Weller, August Sander](https://monovisions.com/analogien-bernd-hilla-becher-peter-weller-august-sander/) - Remarkable pictures and sources of inspiration for Bernd and Hilla Becher are the focus of the presentation and at the same time enter into a dialogue with selected works by the photographer couple. The photographs of Peter Weller (b.1868 in Hommelsberg, d.1940 in Düsseldorf) and August Sander (b.1876 in Herdorf, d.1964 in Cologne) already inspired
- [Toni Schneiders: Schaut Her!](https://monovisions.com/toni-schneiders-schaut-her/) - Toni Schneiders is one of Germany’s defining photographers. Within the context of the group fotoform and the subjective photography movement, he significantly contributed to the renewal and expansion of the post-1945 avant-garde photographers’ visual language. In his immediate surroundings in the foothills of the Alps and on worldwide trips, Toni Schneiders captured striking moments of
- [Dawoud Bey at Rena Bransten Gallery](https://monovisions.com/dawoud-bey-at-rena-bransten-gallery/) - Rena Bransten Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of photographer Dawoud Bey, coinciding with the opening of his retrospective Dawoud Bey: An American Project at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on February 15, 2020 and traveling to the High Museum and the Whitney Museum. The gallery exhibition brings together four distinct bodies
- [Ida Wyman: Ida Wyman: Life With A Camera](https://monovisions.com/ida-wyman-ida-wyman-life-with-a-camera/) - Ida Wyman was one of the defining artists of early street photography that helped shape how we look at our world. Wyman’s photographic vignettes of life in urban centers and small towns in the United States, taken during the mid-twentieth century, illuminate the historical moment while providing a deeply humanist perspective on her subjects. The
- [Michigan’s Great Lakes: Photographs by Jeff Gaydash](https://monovisions.com/michigans-great-lakes-photographs-by-jeff-gaydash/) - Photographs of Michigan’s sprawling coastlines are the focus of a new exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), Michigan’s Great Lakes: Photographs by Jeff Gaydash open from November 16, 2019 through May 3, 2020. In his images of Lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan and Superior as well as Lake St. Clair and the Detroit and
- [Justyna Badach: Asymmetric Warfare](https://monovisions.com/justyna-badach-asymmetric-warfare/) - Asymmetric Warfare presents the work of Justyna Badach, who examines how modern-day military propaganda shapes our perceptions of war and conflict. The exhibition presents work from two ongoing projects: Land of Epic Battles and Proxy War, in which Badach uses her computer as a camera to capture screen shots from ISIS recruitment films and the
- [PROOF: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet](https://monovisions.com/proof-photography-in-the-era-of-the-contact-sheet/) - For much of the 20th century, contact sheets (also called proof sheets) were vital to the practice of photography. The rising popularity of roll film encouraged more and more exposures; the best frame would be chosen later. The photographer first saw positive images on the contact sheet, which was marked up for printing and served
- [Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things](https://monovisions.com/cecil-beatons-bright-young-things/) - Cecil Beaton (1904–1980) is one of the most celebrated British Portrait photographers of the twentieth century and is renowned for his images of elegance, glamour and style. His influence on portrait photography was profound and lives on today in the work of many contemporary photographers. Beaton used his camera, his ambition and his larger-than-life personality
- [Interview with Ricardo Canales](https://monovisions.com/interview-with-ricardo-canales/) - Ricardo Canales is a professional psychologist and self-taught photographer. He was born in Chuquicamata, Chile in January 1973. He grew up in a middle class family, whose father worked in the mining world and at the same time was interested in music, literature and photography; these were perhaps the first influences that Ricardo had on
- [Senta Simond at Danziger Gallery](https://monovisions.com/senta-simond-at-danziger-gallery/) - Danziger Gallery is pleased to announce the first American exhibition of work by the young Swiss photographer Senta Simond. Simond's work focuses on an intimate approach to the female body and portraiture. Her photographs – distinctive in their slightly off-kilter approach to composition and expression - feature a circle of acquaintances and respond to the
- [Wright Morris: The Home Place](https://monovisions.com/wright-morris-the-home-place/) - Foam will open 2020 with the first-ever exhibition in the Netherlands of the celebrated American author Wright Morris (1910-1998). As well as being a writer, Morris devoted a short period of his life to photography. In his own distinctive way, he portrayed the poverty and decline that plagued the United States in the 1930s and
- [Peter Lindbergh: Untold Stories](https://monovisions.com/peter-lindbergh-untold-stories/) - Untold Stories is the first ever survey exhibition curated by Peter Lindbergh himself. Born in 1944 and raised in Duisburg, the German photographer spent two years working on an uncompromising collection of 140 photographs that will offer a deep insight into his extensive oeuvre, spanning from the early 1980’s to the present day. The exhibition
- [John Cohen: Look Up to the Moon](https://monovisions.com/john-cohen-look-up-to-the-moon/) - In the summer of 1955 a relatively naive and uninformed John Cohen crossed the straits of Gibraltar. He arrived in Tangier with a handwritten note in cursive Arabic; the man who had composed it in New York had told him to “keep this paper far from your passport.” Cohen had no idea why or indeed
- [Anders Petersen: Stockholm](https://monovisions.com/anders-petersen-stockholm/) - Photographer Anders Petersen has spent four years documenting the people and urban spaces of Stockholm. The work is a unique document of our time, its hustle and bustle and tranquil spaces, its joy, sorrow and love. Following in a tradition of Stockholm photographers, this, however, is the first time Anders Petersen has chronicled his own
- [Antanas Sutkus: Children](https://monovisions.com/antanas-sutkus-children/) - This book takes us deep into Antanas Sutkus’ favorite motif as a photographer: children and their world. It is a theme he returned to again and again, presenting its myriad facets as well as the many interactions between the lives of children and adults. “Childhood is the most important platform for me as a photographer,”
- [Michael Magers: Independent Mysteries](https://monovisions.com/michael-magers-independent-mysteries/) - Photographs in which the documentary becomes poetry―that is one of Michael Magers’s trademarks. With his special eye for the unusual moment, the documentary photographer and journalist quickly gained international recognition. His pictures appear in prominent magazines and newspapers such as TIME, Vogue Italia, or Huck Magazine. Even outside of his commissioned work, which takes him
- [Jo Ractliffe: Photographs 1980s - now](https://monovisions.com/jo-ractliffe-photographs-1980s-now/) - Co-published with The Walther Collection, this book is the first to present a comprehensive selection of the work of South African photographer Jo Ractliffe. Looking back over the past 35 years, it brings together images from major photo-essays, as well as early works that have not been seen before. Described by Okwui Enwezor as “one
- [John Cohen: Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream](https://monovisions.com/john-cohen-do-not-disturb-my-waking-dream/) - One cold sunny morning in December 2018, Gerhard Steidl drove from New York City to see John Cohen at his rambling home in upstate Putnam Valley. The purpose of the visit was to pick up originals to be scanned for Cohen’s Look up to the Moon, his book of photos from Morocco in 1955 and
- [Peter Kayafas: The Way West](https://monovisions.com/peter-kayafas-the-way-west/) - The latest book from New York-based photographer Peter Kayafas (born 1971) presents photographs from ten years and thousands of miles of travel in the plains states. A continuation of his 30 years of work along America's backroads, Kayafas uses his camera to explore the present state of the histories and ritualized traditions of the people
- [Robert Adams: On Lookout Mountain](https://monovisions.com/robert-adams-on-lookout-mountain/) - The view from Lookout Mountain west of Denver is of natural forms and our imprint on them, of the timeless and the passing. Generations have made their way there to find perspective on the city and the plains beyond. Robert Adams photographed from the overlook in 1970, and again in 1984. For this volume, he
- [Robert Adams: Los Angeles Spring](https://monovisions.com/robert-adams-los-angeles-spring/) - Having lived in Southern California during his university years, Robert Adams returned to photograph the Los Angeles Basin in the late 1970s and early 1980s, concentrating on what was left of the citrus groves, eucalyptus and palm trees that once flourished in the area. The pictures, while foreboding, testify to a verdancy against the odds.
- [The Araki Effect](https://monovisions.com/the-araki-effect/) - Over 300 images by the most famous contemporary Japanese photographer from the 1960s to today. Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940) is known the world over for his controversial erotic portraits of Japanese women, often bound using the kinbaku (Japanese bondage) technique. A unique figure in contemporary photography, he has always found creative inspiration in his daily
- [The Life and Times of Alvin Baltrop](https://monovisions.com/the-life-and-times-of-alvin-baltrop/) - For 11 obsessive years in 1970s and ’80s, the Bronx-born photographer Alvin Baltrop documented the alternative world that existed in this once-run-down part of the city, capturing cruisers, sun-bathers, fornicators, and friends in that brief moment after the Stonewall riots and before the explosion of the AIDS epidemic. The book presents those photos and others
- [Daido Moriyama: A Diary: Hasselblad Award](https://monovisions.com/daido-moriyama-a-diary-hasselblad-award/) - With its generous image flow, this book celebrates Daido Moriyama as the 2019 Hasselblad Award winner and his highly influential, lifelong radical and authentic approach to photography. A Diary points to his continuous, daily photographic expeditions, resulting in an oeuvre charged with fragments, repetitions, chance and chaos. His production of images is enormous, and whereas
- [David Maisel: Proving Ground](https://monovisions.com/david-maisel-proving-ground/) - David Maisel's (born 1961) Proving Ground comprises aerial and on-site photographs made at Dugway Proving Ground, a classified military site covering nearly 800,000 acres in Utah's Great Salt Lake Desert. A primary mission of Dugway is to develop, test and implement chemical and biological weaponry and defense programs. After more than a decade of inquiry,
- [Fluence. The Continuance of Yohjl Yamamoto by Takay](https://monovisions.com/fluence-the-continuance-of-yohjl-yamamoto-by-takay/) - In his latest book, Takay presents photographs that pay homage to the creative power and style of the great Japanese designer, Yohji Yamamoto. Fluence was shot primarily in Tokyo, Japan. In it, Takay has captured the magic and mystery of artistic forces and his native country. The images in Fluence are shot in black and
- [Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures](https://monovisions.com/lead-belly-a-life-in-pictures/) - This is a new edition of Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures, the rich visual biography of legendary American folk musician Lead Belly, originally published by Steidl in 2007. Here is a treasure trove of rare photographs, news clippings, concert programs, personal correspondence (including letters from Woody Guthrie), record albums, awards and other memorabilia, some
- [Robert Adams: Summer Nights, Walking](https://monovisions.com/robert-adams-summer-nights-walking/) - In the mid-1970s, Robert Adams began recording nocturnal scenes near his former home in Longmont, Colorado. Illuminated by moonlight and streetlamp, suburban houses, roads, sidewalks and fields seemed transfigured. 25 years after first publishing a sequence of these pictures in 1985 as Summer Nights, he revisited his project, amending its title and completely re-editing its
- [Dorothea Lange: Words + Pictures](https://monovisions.com/dorothea-lange-words-pictures/) - Towards the end of her life, Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965) remarked that “all photographs―not only those that are so-called ‘documentary,’ and every photograph really is documentary and belongs in some place, has a place in history―can be fortified by words.” Though Lange’s career is widely heralded, this connection between words and pictures has received scant
- [Michael Kenna: Beyond Architecture](https://monovisions.com/michael-kenna-beyond-architecture/) - Patience and a willingness to be open to new visual possibilities are pre-requisites to fully appreciate Michael Kenna’s new book Beyond Architecture. For over forty five years Kenna's signature photographic works have concentrated primarily on the relationship between nature and the structures that humans have placed on the earth. “Architecture” can be considered a universal
- [Steve Geer: Skyscraper Magic](https://monovisions.com/steve-geer-skyscraper-magic/) - I live in Chicago, a city known for its skyscrapers. Of the forty tallest buildings in the city, half have been constructed since the year 2000. These impressive twenty-first century structures have mirror-like skins of glass. Those of us that have played with two or more mirrors know that certain arrangements can produce an optical
- [Interview with Daniel Castonguay](https://monovisions.com/interview-with-daniel-castonguay/) - How and when did you become interested in photography? In 1979, as a member of a youth association, I had to choose an activity for the upcoming session. Naturally interested in science and experimentation, photography seemed a very fascinating activity since I could have access to a dark room and improve my knowledge in that
- [Alexander Rodchenko: From the Still Art Foundation Collection](https://monovisions.com/alexander-rodchenko-from-the-still-art-foundation-collection/) - The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents an exhibition of photographs by the outstanding Russian avant-garde artist Alexander Rodchenko from the collection of the Still Art Foundation, established by Elena and Mikhail Karisalov. The exhibition will include Rodchenko's works of different years, from the first photographic experiments of the 1920s to the end of the
- [Witho Worms: When You Look at a Landscape](https://monovisions.com/witho-worms-when-you-look-at-a-landscape/) - L. Parker Stephenson Photographs is pleased to present When You Look at a Landscape…, its second exhibition with gallery artist Witho Worms. Photographed along the arctic coastline of Norway, the primeval, uninhabited panoramas of sea, glacier and mountain continue Worms’ fascination with the interplay between nature, vision and the camera. The images engage the infinitude
- [Early and Unknown: Photographs from the Archive of Joseph Sterling](https://monovisions.com/early-and-unknown-photographs-from-the-archive-of-joseph-sterling/) - Born in Texas in 1936, Joseph Sterling was an avid photographer as a teenager. After seeing an image by Harry Callahan, he made his way to Chicago to study with him at the now famed Institute of Design (ID). There he developed his vision and completed a master’s degree, culminating in his thesis project in
- [Aenne Biermann: Intimacy with Things](https://monovisions.com/aenne-biermann-intimacy-with-things/) - Aenne Biermann (1898–1933) is one of the major names of 1920s and ’30s photography. In just seven years, this self-taught artist became a well-known figure in German avant-garde photography, taking part in all the major exhibitions. With around 130 photographs – made up of a core of works from the collections of Museum Folkwang and
- [Interview: Human Rights photographer Josh McDonald](https://monovisions.com/josh-mcdonald-interview-with-human-rights-photographer/) - I grew up in rural Australia and so was overwhelmed with the wealth of photographic opportunities when I arrived in Europe in 2013. Populism was on the rise. The refugee crisis was arriving on the shores of Greece and Italy. UKIP had begun convincing Brits they’d be better off alone. I grew up with a
- [Mandy Vahabzadeh: Photographs](https://monovisions.com/mandy-vahabzadeh-photographs/) - Anita Rogers Gallery will present an exhibition of photographs by Mandy Vahabzadeh. The exhibition will include a selection of images from a period spanning almost thirty years, taken in India, Laos and Vietnam. Mandy Vahabzadeh is a Swiss American photographer of Persian origin residing in New York City. She attended Pratt Institute, Columbia University and
- [Ans Westra: Urban Drift: Aotearoa / New Zealand](https://monovisions.com/ans-westra-urban-drift-aotearoa-new-zealand/) - Ans Westra is responsible for the most comprehensive documentation of Māori culture over a 60 year period of significant political and cultural change in New Zealand. Regarded for their realism and spontaneity, Westra’s images bear witness to the post-war urban drift of historically rural Māori as they moved to urban areas and began living in
- [Stephen Shames: Vintages](https://monovisions.com/stephen-shames-vintages/) - For this first exhibition of the year, the Esther Woerdehoff Gallery is proud to present a selection of exclusive vintage prints by Stephen Shames, the renowned documentary photographer born in 1947. The young people that Stephen Shames photographed in the late 1970s, in the finest tradition of American documentary photography, were born poor in America,
- [Dennis Hopper: In Dreams](https://monovisions.com/dennis-hopper-in-dreams/) - The Fahey/Klein Gallery is proud to present Dennis Hopper: In Dreams, an exhibition of works that connect Hopper’s role as an actor, husband, father and photographer. Our exhibition in conjunction with the newly published book of the same name (by Damiani Publications) affirms the restless energy and curiosity of Hopper’s eye, as well as his
- [Marcus Leatherdale: OUT OF THE SHADOWS](https://monovisions.com/marcus-leatherdale-out-of-the-shadows/) - Throckmorton Fine Art is pleased to announce a special show of portraits and photographs by the accomplished photographer Marcus Leatherdale. Taken from his new book, Marcus Leatherdale, OUT OF THE SHADOWS – Photographs New York City 1980-1992, (ACC Art Books) the show features dozens of black and white portraits and photographs of the celebrities and
- [Veselin Atanasov: The busy train station](https://monovisions.com/veselin-atanasov-the-busy-train-station/) - The busy train station of the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka, in early January just before Istema 2018 when people from all over the world coming to join on festival. At this festival coming so many people that the arriving trains are crowded and many passengers travel on the roofs of the trains and there is a
- [Deck the Walls 2019](https://monovisions.com/deck-the-walls-2019/) - Deck the Walls is an annual group exhibition of vintage and contemporary pieces that allows Catherine Couturier Gallery to showcase a variety of artists, prices, styles, and photographic mediums. Deck the Walls is expected to feature works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Horst P. Horst, and Robert Doisneau. Other exhibited artists will include Maggie Taylor, Joyce Tenneson,
- [Mitch Dobrowner at Catherine Couturier Gallery](https://monovisions.com/mitch-dobrowner-at-catherine-couturier-gallery/) - Born and raised in Long Island, New York, Dobrowner began his photography career the moment his father gave him an old Argus rangefinder. At the age of twenty-one, he quit his job and toured the American Southwest, finding inspiration in the limitlessness of the natural landscapes and the photography of artists like Ansel Adams and
- [Arno Rafael Minkkinen: 50 Years](https://monovisions.com/arno-rafael-minkkinen-50-years/) - Celebrating fifty years since Minkkinen embarked on his epic exploration of the central theme of his nude body in nature, the exhibition illustrates his work’s continuous capacity for innovation and self-reflection. Relying purely on the primal abilities of his own body, Minkkinen contorts his limbs into gravity defying poses that often appear physically impossible. The
- [Jessica Lange: Highway 61](https://monovisions.com/jessica-lange-highway-61/) - Over the last seven years, Lange has revisited Highway 61 many times to photograph the historic route. Her photography series reveals the thoughtful and powerful connection Lange continues to maintain towards the people and places in this part of America. Lange has noted that "long stretches of 61 are empty, forlorn, as if in mourning
- [Emil Hoppe: Photographs from the Ballets Russes](https://monovisions.com/emil-hoppe-photographs-from-the-ballets-russes/) - In the 1920s and 30s Emil Otto Hoppé (British, German-born, 1878–1972) was one of the most sought-after photographers in the world. Hoppé’s studio in South Kensington was a magnet for the rich and famous, and for years he actively led the global art scene on both sides of the Atlantic, making over thirty photographically-illustrated books,
- [Michael Jang’s California](https://monovisions.com/michael-jangs-california/) - While Michael Jang has had a significant career as a professional portrait photographer, he has also been photographing people in the streets for over fifty years. As a student at California Institute of the Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1970s, he demonstrated an uncanny ability to capture both the idiosyncratic and
- [Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation](https://monovisions.com/francesca-woodman-portrait-of-a-reputation/) - Francesca Woodman took her first photograph at the age of the thirteen. From the time she was a teenager until her death at twenty-two, she produced a fascinating body of work exploring gender, representation, and sexuality by photographing her own body and those of her friends. Featuring approximately forty unique vintage prints, as well as
- [Interview with Anna Lazareva](https://monovisions.com/interview-with-anna-lazareva/) - Anna Lazareva is an artist working in Fine Art and Fashion photography. Her projects are focused on finding new innovative style both shooting and post processing. Aside from her photography she is a creator of photo magazine Fotoslovo. She lives and works between Moscow and Paris. - How and when did you become interested in
- [Interview with Andrzej Pilichowski-Ragno](https://monovisions.com/interview-with-andrzej-pilichowski-ragno/) - Andrzej Pilichowski-Ragno was born in Rome in 1967, lives and works in Krakow. He earned a liberal arts degree at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, where he later lectured on literary theory for several years. Pilichowski–Ragno studied photography at the Academy of Fine Art in Krakow. For 20 years he has been working as a
- [Vintage: Young Winston Churchill (1884-1904)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-young-winston-churchill-1884-1904/) - Churchill was born at the family's ancestral home, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, on 30 November 1874, at which time the United Kingdom was the dominant world power. Direct descendants of the Dukes of Marlborough, his family were among the highest levels of the British aristocracy, and thus he was born into the country's governing elite.
- [Vintage: The Forth Bridge Construction (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-the-forth-bridge-construction-1890s/) - Construction of the bridge began in 1882 and it was opened on 4 March 1890 by the Duke of Rothesay, the future Edward VII. The bridge spans the Forth between the villages of South Queensferry and North Queensferry and has a total length of 8,094 feet (2,467 m). When it opened it had the longest
- [Anja Niemi: THE BLOW](https://monovisions.com/anja-niemi-the-blow/) - Anja Niemi’s new, all black/white series shows an unaccompanied woman, dressed in black with a face that is turned away from the lens, driving to a solitary house in the desert. Here she trades her clothes for that of a boxer. The boxing paraphernalia builds upon the idea that each photograph and setting is a
- [Exhibition: LIFE](https://monovisions.com/exhibition-life/) - Atlas Gallery is pleased to present LIFE, an exhibition of photographs celebrating the golden age of the first American all-photographic magazine. LIFE’s photographers documented the most important events, memorable people and places in modern history. The exhibition will showcase the work of stellar names associated with the magazine, such as Andreas Feininger, Joe Rosenthal, Margaret
- [Sally Mann: Remembered Light & Landscapes](https://monovisions.com/sally-mann-remembered-light-landscapes/) - Jackson Fine Art is honored to celebrate the final stop of Sally Mann's celebrated retrospective, A Thousand Crossings, at the High Museum with a concurrent exhibition of Mann's 2016 series Remembered Light, as well as select southern landscapes spanning the artist's remarkable career. It is fitting that A Thousand Crossings, which was curated for the
- [Bastiaan Woudt: HIDDEN](https://monovisions.com/bastiaan-woudt-hidden/) - Bastiaan Woudt has enjoyed a meteoric rise to success within the world of contemporary photography. After starting his own photography practice from scratch a mere five years ago, with no experience or formal training, he has developed into a photographer with his own distinct signature style – abstract yet sharp, with a strong focus on
- [Vinatge: Portraits by Will Burgdorf (1920s)](https://monovisions.com/vinatge-portraits-by-will-burgdorf-1920s/) - Will Burgdorf (1905 - 1944) was a German photographer. Went to Dresden at the beginning of the 1920s, where he completed his training in the studio of Bruno Wiehr, back to his hometown in the late 1920s still a teenager. Burgdorf had specialized in portrait photography. Before his camera, which he also used for photographic
- [Vinatge: Portraits of Gloria Grahame (1940s-1950s)](https://monovisions.com/vinatge-portraits-of-gloria-grahame-1940s-1950s/) - Gloria Grahame (1923 - 1981), known professionally as Gloria Grahame, was an American stage, film, and television actress and singer. She began her acting career in theatre and in 1944 made her first film for MGM. Despite a featured role in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), MGM did not believe she had the potential for
- [Vintage: El Helicoide Construction (1950s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-el-helicoide-construction-1950s/) - El Helicoide is built on a hill in Roca Tarpeya between the parishes of San Pedro and San Agustín, in the extension of the avenues Armed Forces, President Medina Angarita, and Nueva Granada. It has the shape of a three-sided pyramid with curved points formed by elevated paved roads intended for vehicle traffic and parking
- [Vintage: Portraits of James Cagney](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-james-cagney/) - James Cagney (1899 - 1986) was an American actor and dancer, both on stage and in film. Known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing, he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances. He is remembered by some for playing multifaceted tough guys in films such
- [Vintage: Fiat Rooftop Test Track in Turin (1920s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-fiat-rooftop-test-track-in-turin-1920s/) - The Lingotto building in Turin, Italy, once housed a Fiat factory. Construction started in 1916 and the building opened in 1923. The design (by young architect Matté Trucco) was unusual in that it had five floors, with raw materials going in at the ground floor, and cars built on a line that went up through
- [Manuela Thames: Trauma](https://monovisions.com/manuela-thames-trauma/) - This self-portrait series aims to explore the themes of brokenness, the struggles of loss and grief, the regrets of past decisions and my personal experiences with generational trauma and mental health struggles. I was raised in Germany by parents who were born in the 1930s and both experienced significant trauma as children and young adults
- [Vincent de WILDE d'ESTMAEL: Ads and Street Art in Phnom Penh, Cambodia](https://monovisions.com/vincent-de-wilde-destmael-ads-and-street-art-in-phnom-penh-cambodia/) - This series of photographs taken on the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, explore the unintentional interaction between the people caught in their daily activities and modern advertising boards or street art. Behind the humour of some situations, they point at social inequalities. The photographs emphasise the high contrast between modern and traditional life, Western and
- [Marina Kazakova: The poetics of childhood](https://monovisions.com/marina-kazakova-the-poetics-of-childhood/) - The concept of the series is expressed in a mental journey through intimate visions of private life showing how often stories that worth to be told are very close to us. The poetics of childhood: boundless sensuality, confidence and a huge need for love, perhaps more than in any other period of life. Marina Kazakova
- [Mohammad Rakibul Hasan: Salt](https://monovisions.com/mohammad-rakibul-hasan-salt/) - Global warming seems to have more severe impact on certain countries than others because of the way it affects the world climate. An immediate effect of global warming is the increased natural disasters like storm surge and flood, while sea level rise is a slow, yet inevitable process. Bangladesh, the largest delta of the world
- [Murat Yazar: Shadows of Kurdistan](https://monovisions.com/murat-yazar-shadows-of-kurdistan/) - I was born and raised in a village near the city of Urfa. For us, Kurdish was the language used for communicating, until I went to school. The beginning of my education marked a point that changed my primary language from the language we spoke at home and in my community to the language we
- [Birgit Neiser: Oman desert](https://monovisions.com/birgit-neiser-oman-desert/) - The Sultanate of Oman is one of the driest countries in the world. These may be very harsh conditions, but at the same time it therefore is host to some of the most spectacular deserts in the world. The Empty Quarter and the Wahiba Sands deserts are the best known. Travelling in the desert when
- [Frank Loddenkemper: Rheinkniebrücke](https://monovisions.com/frank-loddenkemper-rheinkniebrucke/) - The Rhine bridges in Düsseldorf are an integral part of the skyline. One of them is the “Kniebrücke” from the 60s. It is a steel cable-stayed bridge whose access ramps were built of concrete. I photographed the bridge laterally in its entirety, as well as from below with its curved driveways. In this way of
- [Timothy Huyck: Powwow - Men's Dance](https://monovisions.com/timothy-huyck-powwow-mens-dance/) - There is tremendous movement and energy in American Indian dance. The men's dances often tell the story of a battle or a hunt. Timothy Scott Huyck was born in Inglewood, California and spent his early childhood there. A few years after the family moved to San Pedro, California, Huyck discovered photography in high school. He
- [Vintage: New York’s original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (1903)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-new-yorks-original-waldorf-astoria-hotel-1903/) - The original Waldorf-Astoria was among America’s first big hotels. When it was built during the Victorian era, and for years thereafter, it was considered the finest hotel in the world — and it soon became the most famous, for its reputation was carried wherever civilization had spread, and even where only explorers had gone. The
- [Fabrizio Quagliuso: ARITMIA](https://monovisions.com/fabrizio-quagliuso-aritmia/) - Aritmia is story about a dream and about a journey. The story has a main character: Mia. Floating in her dreams so as to overcome the boundaries of her mind, intimately entangled with nature, its heartbeat and the forces that shape and permeate life, Mia is an ethereal figure on a lone journey in search
- [Ole Brodersen: Flow](https://monovisions.com/ole-brodersen-flow/) - Ole Brodersen‘s work explores the landscape and the natural forces that animate it. He is attempting to show something beyond the appearances; the experience of the observer in the landscape. Ole is trying to capture the feeling of being present in the landscape, by making images that are, to an extent, a direct imprint of
- [Eric d Vries: 20 Years of Photographing Cambodia](https://monovisions.com/eric-d-vries-20-years-of-photographing-cambodia/) - 20 years of photographing everything Cambodia from the people, the cities, the countryside to the temples. First time I arrive in Phnom Penh, the capital, was in March 2000 during a 3-months trip to SE-Asia. The plan was to stay only a week because I didn’t know the situation back then. I stayed more than
- [Larry Towell: Vintage Prints](https://monovisions.com/larry-towell-vintage-prints/) - This survey exhibition highlights Larry Towell’s impressive 40-year career in photography and includes a selection of his earliest prints made of some of his best-known images, as well as previously unseen works. His archive of vintage prints includes rare photographs from his student days at York University in Toronto, where some of the themes he
- [Brigitte Carnochan: Emily’s Garden](https://monovisions.com/brigitte-carnochan-emilys-garden/) - My first photographs were of flowers and I suspect my last will be as well. I have been drawn to gardens and to flowers, their exotic geometry and sensuous rigor, as long as I can remember. It is a rare day that there are no fresh flowers on my breakfast table. I share these feelings
- [Josephine Sacabo: Moments of Being](https://monovisions.com/josephine-sacabo-moments-of-being/) - ”What would such an inexperienced soul do without the solution that a body had been” - Clarice Lispector Snapshots of the life within. Echoes of thoughts and feelings expressed in the only terms I really understand which are those of light and shadow and the softening of edges. The things expressed have already happened. Here
- [Vintage: America by Jack Delano (1940s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-america-by-jack-delano-1940s/) - After graduating from the PAFA, Delano proposed a photographic project to the Federal Art Project: a study of mining conditions in the Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania anthracite coal area. Delano sent sample pictures to Roy Stryker and applied for a job at the Farm Security Administration Photography program FSA. Through the help of Edwin Rosskam and
- [Vintage: Shropshire Shop Fronts by Joseph Lewis della-Porta (1888)](https://monovisions.com/shropshire-shop-fronts-by-joseph-lewis-della-porta-1888/) - Joseph (Lewis) Della Porta was from a family of shopkeepers. His father, also called Joseph, was an immigrant from Northern Italy. He settled in Shrewsbury in about 1848 and established a small shop on Princess Street. The business prospered and expanded into adjoining shops including Lloyds Mansion, the Tudor building which stood on the corner
- [Vintage: Hollywood actress Ella Raines (1940s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-hollywood-actress-ella-raines-1940s/) - Ella Raines (1920 - 1988) was an American film and television actress. Ella Raines studied drama at the University of Washington and was appearing in a play there when she was seen by director Howard Hawks. She became the first actress signed to the new production company he had formed with the actor Charles Boyer,
- [Fred Zinnemann: Talking Pictures](https://monovisions.com/fred-zinnemann-talking-pictures/) - With over twenty major films and an accolade-studded career spanning fifty years within the film industry, it would be short sighted to merely stop with Fred Zinemann’s filmmaking ability when understanding the depths of his creativity. Outside of film, Zinnemann was an equally gifted photographer, with the belief that every great director should have a
- [August Sander: 16 Portraits](https://monovisions.com/august-sander-16-portraits/) - When people speak about masterpieces of modern photography, when the question is which one is the pioneering incunabulum among them, and when talks is of singling out the most famous photographic project in history, then many would readily agree that August Sander’s "Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts" ("People of the 20th Century") merits that honor. Grisebach
- [Vintage: Alaska (1896 - 1899)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-alaska-1896-1899/) - Various scenes in Alaska in such areas as Devil's Lake, Skagway, Miles Canon, Chilcoot Pass, Lake Bennet, and Sitka by an unidentified amateur, taken between 1896 and 1899, and held by the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University.
- [Isa Leshko: Allowed to Grow Old](https://monovisions.com/isa-leshko-allowed-to-grow-old/) - For nearly a decade, photographer Isa Leshko traveled to farm sanctuaries across the United States to create intimate portraits of elderly rescued farm animals. She began the project soon after caring for her mother, who had Alzheimer’s disease. Leshko writes: “The experience had a profound effect on me and forced me to confront my own
- [Vintage: Marlon Brando as Mark Antony in 'Julius Caesar' (1953)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-marlon-brando-as-mark-antony-in-julius-caesar-1953/) - Marlon Brando's casting was met with some skepticism when it was announced, as he had acquired the nickname of "The Mumbler" following his performance in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz even considered Paul Scofield for the role of Mark Antony if Brando's screen test was unsuccessful. Brando asked John Gielgud for
- [Lynn Davis: Landmark](https://monovisions.com/lynn-davis-landmark/) - Davis made her first voyage to Greenland in 1986, and has since traversed the continents seeking out majestic forms in landmarks of both natural and human achievement, from the Arctic Circle’s monumental ice formations and the world’s largest waterfalls in Brazil and Argentina, to the ancient pyramids of Giza and the architectural relics of Palmyra.
- [From the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Photographic Arts: Lou Stoumen’s New York](https://monovisions.com/lou-stoumens-new-york/) - Lou Stoumen’s New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen’s most iconic images. Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than
- [Peter Bush: MANA, 60 Years of All Blacks Photography](https://monovisions.com/peter-bush-mana-60-years-of-all-blacks-photography/) - In Māori culture, mana is honor. For the All Blacks and many New Zealanders, to have mana is to have one of the highest honors bestowed upon a person. Drawing upon the Māori concept of mana, the exhibition surveys the All Blacks, New Zealand’s male rugby union team and the most successful international sporting team
- [Sam Haskins: Cowboy Kate & Other Stories](https://monovisions.com/sam-haskins-cowboy-kate-other-stories/) - ‘Once upon a time was Kate. She was white as flowers, warm as sun-shine, wild as whiskey and swinging like a lamp.’ – Desmond Skirrow Atlas Gallery is pleased to present a selection of cinematic black and white prints from the historic photobook Cowboy Kate & Other Stories (1964) shot by South African-British photographer Sam
- [Harry Benson: The Beatles and more](https://monovisions.com/harry-benson-the-beatles-and-more/) - The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents the first exhibition in Russia by the photojournalist Harry Benson, who created the iconic photographs of The Beatles and the portraits of all the American presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to Donald Trump. The main part of the exhibition are photographs of The Beatles, with whom Benson worked from
- [Bruno Bernard (Bernard of Hollywood): Girls, Girls, Girls!!!](https://monovisions.com/bruno-bernard-bernard-of-hollywood-girls-girls-girls/) - The exhibition is dedicated to the exiting Pin Ups and girls' pictures of the german-american photographer Bruno Bernard, better known as Bernard of Hollywood (1911-1987). In 1934 Bernard promoted in criminal psychology in Germany and emigrated 1936 to the USA because of hisJewish ancestry. There he photographed in Los Angeles since 1938 and opened his
- [Interview with photographer Nicholas Brewer](https://monovisions.com/nicholas-brewer-interview-photographer/) - Nicholas is a photographer and educator based in London. Starting his career in the analogue age working as an assistant to many established photographers, he progressed to making work for editorial clients and record companies. After completing his MA at Falmouth College of Art, Nicholas started teaching. With a full-time teaching role Nicholas concentrates his
- [Vintage: Portraits of Vietnamese People by Émile Gsell (1880s)](https://monovisions.com/vietnamese-people-emile-gsell-1880s/) - Émile Gsell was born in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Haut-Rhin, France on 31 December 1838. He served in the military from 1858 to 1866, during which time he learned photography and travelled to Cochin China (now Southern Vietnam). In Cochin China, Gsell was hired by the Commission d'exploration du Mékong, directed by Ernest Doudart de Lagrée (b. 1823
- [Vintage: Lady Dancing With Skeleton by Franz Fiedler (1923)](https://monovisions.com/lady-dancing-with-skeleton-franz-fiedler-1923/) - Franz Fiedler (1885 - 1956) was a German photographer. Fiedler was born in Prostějov, near Olomouc in Moravia. Fiedler was a pupil of Hugo Erfurth. He was regarded as an eccentric during his apprenticeship in Pilsen, and worked in 1905 and again in 1912 with Rudof Dührkoop in Hamburg, and from 1908 to 1911 with
- [Vintage: Our Modern Maidens (1929)](https://monovisions.com/our-modern-maidens-1929/) - Our Modern Maidens is a 1929 American silent drama film directed by Jack Conway. Starring Joan Crawford in her last silent film role, the film also stars Rod La Rocque, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Anita Page. Heiress Billie Brown (Crawford), is engaged to marry her longtime sweetheart, budding diplomat Gil Jordan (Fairbanks). When Billie goes
- [A Lasting Memento: John Thomson’s Photographs Along the River Min](https://monovisions.com/a-lasting-memento-john-thomsons-photographs-along-the-river-min/) - Voyage into 19th-century China through one of PEM’s photographic treasures, John Thomson’s album Foochow and the River Min. This intimate exhibition features more than 40 striking landscapes, city views and portrait studies that Thomson captured as he traveled in the southeastern Fujian province. Photographs by contemporary artist Luo Dan, who was inspired by Thomson to
- [Constructing the Frame: Composition Among the Early Soviet Avant-Garde](https://monovisions.com/constructing-the-frame-composition-among-the-early-soviet-avant-garde/) - Constructing the Frame showcases exciting experiments with framing and composition among the leading avant-garde artists of the 1920s and 1930s, including Aleksandr Rodchenko, Boris Ignatovich, Petr Galadzhev, Gustav Klutsis, Arkady Shaikhet, Georgy Petrusov, and Yakov Khalip. By the mid-1920s, photography and cinema were at the forefront of the arts in the Soviet Union. In 1924,
- [Carleton Watkins](https://monovisions.com/carleton-watkins/) - Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of twelve rare, mammoth-plate photographs by Carleton Watkins, considered by many to be the greatest American photographer of the nineteenth century. Watkins was the focus of the gallery’s first exhibition in September 1979, and the present project marks the beginning of a season-long celebration of Fraenkel Gallery’s
- [Marianne Strobl: 1865-1917](https://monovisions.com/marianne-strobl-1865-1917/) - The legacy left behind by the Viennese photographer Marianne Strobl (1865-1917) proved to be a windfall for historians of photography. Strobl did not want to earn her money in a portrait studio like most of her female colleagues. Instead, between 1894 and 1917, she took her camera out to major construction sites and industrial facilities,
- [Vladimir Lagrange: LAGRANGE’S STREETS](https://monovisions.com/vladimir-lagrange-lagranges-streets/) - The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography opens a new exhibition season with a jubilee retrospective of Vladimir Lagrange, whose work has become the very image of the “thaw” of the 1960s. The photographer’s overwhelming desire to observe the world, his attention towards people, and the amazing sense of the spirit of the era have provided
- [2nd Kyiv Photo Book International Festival](https://monovisions.com/2nd-kyiv-photo-book-international-festival/) - The goals of festival are creating a place of intercultural exchange and developing photography art market in the country. The central event of the festival is a fair of photo books from photographers, publishing houses, art galleries, book distributors. Along with the fair, the festival will have an exhibition of private collections of photo books.
- [Interview with photographer Gregory Kramer](https://monovisions.com/gregory-kramer-interview-photographer/) - Gregory Kramer is a photographer based in New York City. He published his first book DRAGS in 2017. DRAGS documents NYC drag king and queen scene in classic black and white photographs. His follow-up project DOWNTOWN is a self published project documenting New York City’s downtown scene. Gregory draws his inspiration from the the people
- [Letizia Battaglia: Anthology](https://monovisions.com/letizia-battaglia-anthology/) - A large selection of Letizia Battaglia's iconic black and white images are presented in this catalogue, guiding the reader along a journey into one of post-war Italy's darkest periods. Drawing from Battaglia's personal archive, the book also includes some of the photographer's more recent projects. It offers a unique approach to her genre-defining work (often
- [Dennis Hopper: In Dreams: Scenes from the Archive](https://monovisions.com/dennis-hopper-in-dreams-scenes-from-the-archive/) - In Dreams. Scenes from the Archive adds to our understanding of Dennis Hopper’s personal vision as an artist by tracing the threads of Hopper’s life through photography, and connecting his roles as an actor, husband, father, and photographer. In Dreams eschews Hopper’s iconic stand-alone images and instead looks to distill the archive into a connected
- [Interview with photographer John R. Pepper](https://monovisions.com/john-r-pepper-interview-with-photographer/) - John Randolph Pepper (1958), is an American/Italian photographer. He was born and raised in Rome; lives in Palermo and works worldwide. Pepper started his career in Black & White analogical photography with an apprenticeship to Ugo Mulas at 14. He published his first photograph at 15 and had his first show at 17. He studied
- [Vintage: Paris by Émile Zola (1900s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-paris-by-emile-zola-1900s/) - Émile Zola (1840 - 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus,
- [Vintage: Italy (19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-italy-19th-century/) - In many ways, the roots of several well known aspects of Italian culture find their origin in the 19th century. The land, the food and the people were all shaped by warfare, struggle and the desire for independence. Most of the men who fought for freedom during this period were peasants, seeking a chance for
- [Vintage: R.M.S. "Mauretania" (1906)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-r-m-s-mauretania-1906/) - RMS Mauretania was an ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Wigham Richardson and Swan Hunter for the British Cunard Line, launched on the afternoon of 20 September 1906. Mauretania departed Liverpool on her maiden voyage on 16 November 1907 under the command of Captain John Pritchard, and on the return voyage captured
- [David Yarrow: It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere](https://monovisions.com/david-yarrow-its-five-oclock-somewhere/) - David Yarrow is now recognized as the worlds best selling fine art photographer of his genre. In recent years, he has found his true comfort zone in capturing the animal and human world in a fresh and creative way, with philanthropy and conservation central to his passion to document. In 2018, charitable donations from the
- [Michael Kolster: Take Me to the River](https://monovisions.com/michael-kolster-take-me-to-the-river/) - In the spirit of nineteenth-century photographers such as Louis Daguerre, Henry Fox Talbot, and Timothy O’Sullivan, the photographs on view are ambrotypes, unique glass-plate positives, made with the wet-plate collodion process in a portable darkroom Kolster sets up along the banks and overlooks of these rivers. The chemical slurries that develop and fix the image
- [Lee Friedlander: Signs](https://monovisions.com/lee-friedlander-signs/) - Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present Lee Friedlander: SIGNS, an exhibition examining the five-decade long obsession of this highly influential photographer. Since the early 1960s, Friedlander has focused on the signs that inscribe the American landscape, from hand-lettered ads to storefront windows to massive billboards. Made in New York, San Francisco, and dozens of cities
- [Victor Cobo: Remember When You Loved Me?](https://monovisions.com/victor-cobo-remember-when-you-loved-me/) - ClampArt is proud to present “Remember When You Loved Me?,” an exhibition of dramatic, black-and-white photographs by artist Victor Cobo. The show is Cobo’s first solo exhibition in New York City. Through his photography, Victor Cobo paints a dark, sometimes sinister world of ambiguity. At turns autobiographic and then entirely fabricated, he weaves blustery landscapes
- [MonoVisions Black and White Photography Awards 2019 Winners Announced!](https://monovisions.com/monovisions-black-and-white-photography-awards-2019-winners-announced/) - MonoVisions Photography Awards is proud to present the winners of 2019 photo contest, selecting the winning photographs from 2580 entries from across the globe. Swiss photographer Romain Tornay won the single photo category; his entry, titled “Elements”, which captures the “first sunshine following the snowstorm; Iceland”, won the Black & White Photo of the Year
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer Henry Taunt](https://monovisions.com/biography-19th-century-photographer-henry-taunt/) - Henry Taunt (1842–1922) was a professional photographer, author, publisher and entertainer based in Oxford, England. Taunt's black-and-white photographs are mainly views of Oxford, Oxfordshire and adjoining counties. The River Thames is a prominent and recurrent theme in his work. From childhood he loved the river, boating on it and frequently on Trill Mill Stream, a
- [Dona Ann McAdams: Performative Acts](https://monovisions.com/dona-ann-mcadams-performative-acts/) - In the 1980s I often attended performances at P.S. 122, the seminal venue for avant-garde performance in New York. As an artist and curator, I found inspiration, talent, and a community of intense purpose. Identity-based politicized work found its home there. Often times, I would notice a woman, unobtrusive, off to the side, seated on
- [Rick McCloskey: Van Nuys Blvd. 1972](https://monovisions.com/rick-mccloskey-van-nuys-blvd-1972/) - There was a time, lasting a full thirty years, when every main street in every town, and in every city in America was teeming with a celebration of young people and their automobiles. From the late 1940s through the end of the 1970s, the culture of ‘cruising’ captured and dominated the ‘public space’ during the
- [Christine Osinski: Summer Days Staten Island](https://monovisions.com/christine-osinski-summer-days-staten-island-2019/) - Taken in the “forgotten borough” of Staten Island between 1983 and 1984, Christine Osinski’s photographs create a portrait of working class culture in an often-overlooked section of New York City. Captured on Osinski’s large format 4 x 5 camera as she wandered the island, her candid portraits of strangers, vernacular architecture, and quotidian scenes reveal
- [Vintage: Midwest (1910s) Glass photo negatives](https://monovisions.com/vintage-midwest-1910s-glass-photo-negatives/) - Collection of antique glass plate negatives found by William Creswell. Most of these supposedly date from around 1913 and originate in the Midwest. At least one clue places these images in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area.
- [Vintage: Midwest (1910s) Antique glass photo negatives](https://monovisions.com/vintage-midwest-1910s-antique-glass-photo-negatives/) - Collection of antique glass plate negatives found by William Creswell. Most of these supposedly date from around 1913 and originate in the Midwest. At least one clue places these images in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area.
- [Vintage: Queen Christina (1933)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-queen-christina-1933/) - Queen Christina is a pre-Code Hollywood biographical film, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1933. It stars Swedish-born actress Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in their fourth and last film together. The film was directed by Rouben Mamoulian in 1933, and written by H. M. Harwood and Salka Viertel, with dialogue by S. N. Behrman, based on
- [Gavin Watson: Oh! What Fun We Had](https://monovisions.com/gavin-watson-oh-what-fun-we-had/) - Not just an ambitious restoration of a fascinating unseen archive, but a book that takes on the gargantuan task of shifting the collective memory around key moments in British youth culture history, with a mesmerizing force of honesty and humanity. By the man who’s previous books Skins (1994), and Skins & Punks (2008), have been
- [Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park](https://monovisions.com/kohei-yoshiyuki-the-park/) - For his notorious Park photos, taken at night in Tokyo's Shinjuku, Yoyogi and Aoyama parks during the 1970s, Kohei Yoshiyuki used a 35mm camera, infrared film and flash to capture a secret community of lovers and voyeurs. His pictures document the people who gathered in these parks at night for clandestine trysts, as well as
- [Beth Moon: Literary Chickens](https://monovisions.com/beth-moon-literary-chickens/) - Fierce, funny, and flamboyant, fifty-two heritage-breed chickens assess the camera with a keen gaze. By focusing on the faces of her avian subjects, Beth Moon reveals them to us not just as beautiful and exotic creatures, but as individuals in their own right. Moon’s intimate portraits capture a startling range of emotions and personalities, underscored
- [Don McCullin by Tate Publishing](https://monovisions.com/don-mccullin-by-tate-publishing/) - A native Londoner, McCullin (b.1935) began to take photographs in the 1950s documenting his surroundings and local community, including the gangs in his local area. In 1958 his photograph The Guvnors, a portrait of a notorious Finsbury Park gang who were involved in the murder of a police officer was published in the Observer, launching
- [Vintage: Portraits of Dolores Costello - Silent Movie Star](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-dolores-costello-silent-movie-star/) - Dolores Costello (1903 - 1979) was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies. She had a younger sister, Helene, and the two made their first film appearances in the years 1909–1915 as child actresses for the Vitagraph Film Company. The two sisters appeared on Broadway together as
- [Vintage: Portraits of Pola Negri - Silent Movie Star](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-pola-negri-silent-movie-star/) - Pola Negri (1897 - 1987) was a Polish stage and film actress who achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles. Raised in the Congress Kingdom of Poland, Negri's childhood was marked by several personal hardships: After her father was sent to
- [Vintage: Portraits of Vilma Bánky - Silent Movie Star](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-vilma-banky-silent-movie-star/) - Vilma Bánky (1901 - 1991) was a Hungarian-born American silent film actress, although the early part of her acting career began in Budapest. Her first film appearance was in the now lost film, Im Letzten Augenblick (In the last moment), directed by Carl Boese in Germany in 1919. On a trip to Budapest in 1925,
- [Vintage: Portraits of Norma Shearer - Silent Movie Star](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-norma-shearer-silent-movie-star/) - Norma Shearer (1902 - 1983) was a Canadian-American actress and Hollywood star. Shearer appeared in a few silent movies, but her time in Hollywood coincided with the transition from silent films to sound. She took the lead in MGM's second "talkie" in 1929. Its success bolstered her career, as did her 1927 marriage to studio
- [Vintage: Portraits of Betty Bronson - Silent Movie Star](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-betty-bronson-silent-movie-star/) - Betty Bronson (1906 - 1971) was an American television and film actress who began her career during the silent film era. Bronson began her film career at the age of 16 with a bit part in Anna Ascends. At 17, she was interviewed by J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan. Although the role had
- [David Plowden: Bridges](https://monovisions.com/david-plowden-bridges/) - Born in Boston in 1932, David Plowden spent over six decades photographing America’s disappearing landscapes and the vestiges of its industrial heyday — steel mills, locomotives, bridges, skyscrapers, small towns. He has, in his own words, “made a career of being one step ahead of the wrecking ball.” It so happens that Plowden’s initial foray
- [Alexander Ustinov: The power and truth of Alexander Ustinov](https://monovisions.com/alexander-ustinov-the-power-and-truth-of-alexander-ustinov/) - The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography returns to its study of Soviet-era photography with an anniversary exhibition of photographs by Alexander Ustinov to mark his 110th birthday. A legend of the most important newspaper of his era—Pravda—where he worked for more than 50 years, Ustinov became the face of photojournalism of that period. The material
- [Tomasz Załęski: Bird'](https://monovisions.com/tomasz-zaleski-bird/) - Bird' project I have been fascinated with instant photography all the time since the beginning of my fascination with photography. It is based on the use of Dr. Plague mask, in unusual places, with unusual gadgets. I am interested in industrial places, abandoned, forests which I try to use in the photos that I create.
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer Julius Strauss](https://monovisions.com/biography-19th-century-photographer-julius-strauss/) - Julius Strauss (1857 - 1924), known professionally as J. C. Strauss, was an American photographer who was known as an internationally renowned craftsman and the most famous photographer in St. Louis, Missouri, at the turn of the 20th century. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, this penniless son of a Bavarian-born tailor left home and sneaked into
- [Interview with photographer Troy Colby](https://monovisions.com/troy-colby-interview-with-photographer/) - Troy Colby was born in rural Kansas in 1975 and currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas. His work and research explores the delicate balance of family, fatherhood and the outcome of the family photo album. Motivated by intellectual and psychological inquiry of these intimate topics, Troy photographs his own family as a means of understanding the
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer Albert Southworth](https://monovisions.com/biography-19th-century-photographer-albert-southworth/) - Albert Southworth (1811–1894) operated Southworth & Hawes daguerreotype studio with Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901) from 1843 to 1863. Southworth was a student of Samuel F.B. Morse, who, in addition to his other more famous pursuits, was an avid daguerreotypist. The partnership's studio, located on the top floor of a Boston building, had enormous skylights to
- [Interview with photographer William Mark Sommer](https://monovisions.com/william-mark-sommer-interview-with-photographer/) - William Mark Sommer (b. 1990) is a film photographer from Sacramento, California. Traveling the many back roads through the Western United States for 10 years has let him explore the idea of American Dream. His travels brought him a closer understanding this nostalgic idea of America by seeing history in person and understanding its progressive
- [Ken Van Sickle: Photography](https://monovisions.com/ken-van-sickle-photography/) - Photographs is a collection of 140 of Ken Van Sickle favorite black and white photographs taken in various places around the world from 1952 to the present. Van Sickle evanescent photographs fulfill the time-traveling brief of all great photography, granting onlookers intimate, keyhole access to Paris in fifties, the New York Beat scene, Andy Warhol’s
- [John Cohen: Morocco](https://monovisions.com/john-cohen-morocco/) - In the summer of 1955 a relatively naive and uninformed John Cohen crossed the straits of Gibraltar. He arrived in Tangier with a handwritten note in cursive Arabic; the man who had composed it in New York had told him to “keep this paper far from your passport.” Cohen had no idea why or indeed
- [Pushing West: The Photography of Andrew J. Russell](https://monovisions.com/pushing-west-the-photography-of-andrew-j-russell/) - Travel back in time through Andrew J. Russell's epic photography of the Transcontinental Railroad’s western expansion, completed 150 years ago in 1869. Though commissioned to document the railroad and its successful development, Russell’s photography reveals the tensions between the economic and technological advances and the Railroad’s significant impact on western lands and Native peoples. His
- [Nino Migliori at Keith de Lellis Gallery](https://monovisions.com/nino-migliori-at-keith-de-lellis-gallery/) - Keith de Lellis Gallery features the mid-century work of Italian photographer Nino Migliori (b. 1926) in this summer’s exhibition. Self-taught, Migliori began making photographs in 1948, documenting his familiar and beloved Italy as it emerged from the second world war. The artist traveled throughout his homeland, from the impoverished south to the more affluent and
- [Jerry N. Uelsmann: Magician of the Darkroom](https://monovisions.com/jerry-n-uelsmann-magician-of-the-darkroom/) - Parallel to our main exhibition, we are showing photographs by Jerry Uelsmann in our cabinet. Uelsmann is one of the most influential photographers of his generation, because he did not only challenge with his montages the prevailing canon of his chosen medium, but he also anticipated an image language that came only into fruition in
- [Vintage: Portrait Photos of the Dare Sisters: Phyllis and Zena (early 20th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portrait-photos-of-the-dare-sisters-phyllis-and-zena-early-20th-century/) - Two of the most stunning and popular actresses of Edwardian England were the sisters Dare, Phyllis and Zena, who for decades delighted audiences in London's West End and on tour. At the height of their fame, their likenesses graced hundreds of picture postcards, which were sold across the country. As a boy, the famed critic
- [Interview with photographer Gary Beeber](https://monovisions.com/interview-with-photographer-gary-beeber/) - Gary Beeber is an award-winning American photographer/filmmaker who has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe. Solo exhibitions include two at Generous Miracles Gallery NYC and "Personalities" (summer, 2017) at Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA. Beeber’s work has also been included in juried exhibitions throughout the country. Among Fortune 500
- [Interview with photographer Genesis Cabrera](https://monovisions.com/interview-with-photographer-genesis-cabrera/) - Genesis Cabrera is an Artist - Photographer born in Venezuela and living in New York City. Her work emphasizes her passion for portrait and fashion where through portraits she reflects personality, moods, natural and raw imagery. Genesis deconstructs her own images adding different elements to create multiple artworks collages and to show different perspectives of
- [Vintage: Portraits by James Abbe (1920s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-by-james-abbe-1920s/) - James Abbe (1883 - 1973) was an American photographer. His career as international photographer was first boosted by the Washington Post, which commissioned him to travel and take photographs of a 16-day voyage with the American battleship fleet to England and France in 1910. Many years later he traveled throughout Europe as a young photojournalist
- [Vintage: Thylacine, Tasmanian tiger (1930s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-thylacine-tasmanian-tiger-1930s/) - The thylacine, now extinct, is one of the largest known carnivorous marsupials, evolving about 4 million years ago. The last known live animal was captured in 1933 in Tasmania. It is commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger because of its striped lower back, or the Tasmanian wolf because of its canid-like characteristics. It was native
- [Vintage: Glass Plate Negatives of Norfolk, Virginia (1919)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-glass-plate-negatives-of-norfolk-virginia-1919/) - In the 1980’s 46 glass plate negatives were found in the attic of a Norfolk home. The plates measured 8.5” x 6.5”. Through the generous support of the Norfolk Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Old Dominion University, and Colorcraft Corporation, ten portfolios were created. The contact prints were archivally processed. The photographer remains anonymous.
- [Vintage: Glass Plate Negatives of Norfolk, Virginia (1919)](https://monovisions.com/1919-vintage-glass-plate-negatives-of-norfolk-virginia/) - In the 1980’s 46 glass plate negatives were found in the attic of a Norfolk home. The plates measured 8.5” x 6.5”. Through the generous support of the Norfolk Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Old Dominion University, and Colorcraft Corporation, ten portfolios were created. The contact prints were archivally processed. The photographer remains anonymous.
- [Katerina Kouzmitcheva: Dreamy world](https://monovisions.com/katerina-kouzmitcheva-dreamy-world/) - Dreamy world is a project of Katerina Kouzmitcheva, a Belarusian photographer from Minsk. Dream has always been constant source of inspiration for her. She is fascinated by its nature. How all the images – real, remembered and invented – come together into one piece? Illusory way of reshaping life captures her and she is often
- [Letizia Battaglia: Fotografia come scelta di vita](https://monovisions.com/letizia-battaglia-fotografia-come-scelta-di-vita/) - From 20 March to 18 August 2019, the Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice will be hosting a large-scale anthological show of the work by Letizia Battaglia (Palermo 1935), one of the most significant protagonists of Italian photography, and it will range over her whole career. The show, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti, organised by
- [Brian Griffin: Work and other stories](https://monovisions.com/brian-griffin-work-and-other-stories/) - MMX Gallery is delighted to be showing a selection of Brian Griffin’s early work from the 1970s and 1980s. Exhibited prints will include images from his books Moscow, 1974; Copyright, 1978; Power, 1981and Work, 1988. Inspired by fine art movements; from Renaissance to Symbolism, Expressionism and Surrealism film and literature, Griffin began his career taking
- [Vintage: Greece (late 19th Ccentury)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-greece-late-19th-ccentury/) - Greece remained a very poor country throughout the 19th century. The country lacked raw materials, infrastructure and capital. Agriculture was mostly at the subsistence level, and the only important export commodities were currants, raisins and tobacco. Some Greeks grew rich as merchants and shipowners, and Piraeus became a major port, but little of this wealth
- [Vintage: Portraits of Geraldine Farrar (1910s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-geraldine-farrar-1910s/) - Geraldine Farrar (1882- 1967) was an American soprano opera singer and film actress. Farrar was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, the daughter of baseball player Sidney Farrar, and his wife Henrietta Barnes. At age 5, she began studying music in Boston and by 14 was giving recitals. Later she studied voice with the American soprano Emma
- [Sunil Gupta: Christopher Street](https://monovisions.com/sunil-gupta-christopher-street/) - Hales is delighted to announce Sunil Gupta’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Christopher Street. Over a career spanning four decades, Gupta has remained dedicated to advocating the visibility of queer identity, cultivating a compelling practice which is simultaneously political and deeply personal. The artist lives and works in London. Sunil Gupta was born in
- [Marvin E. Newman: On the Avenues](https://monovisions.com/marvin-e-newman-on-the-avenues/) - Marvin E. Newman is one of the great and underappreciated post-war photographers. He, along with Aaron Siskind and Edward Wallowitch, was one of three photographers known to be a member of the Photo League, and attend Chicago’s Institute of Design (ID). By the Mid 20th century, these institutions were the most important places to receive
- [Timothy Duffy: Blue Muse](https://monovisions.com/timothy-duffy-blue-muse/) - For the past several years, Timothy Duffy (American, born 1963) has created one-of-a-kind direct positive tintype portraits of American musicians. Despite the importance of these musicians and the national legacy they represent, most remain little known. Duffy’s masterful photographs, shot with a large camera, big enough to hold the plates you see in this gallery,
- [You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place](https://monovisions.com/you-are-here-a-brief-history-of-photography-and-place/) - You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place both embraces and challenges the photograph’s role as a faithful record of place, examining photography’s successes and failures in rendering, and sharing, fragments of the world. Drawn almost exclusively from NOMA’s permanent collection, the exhibition traces a history of photography from the origins of the
- [Diane Levell: Intrepid Alchemist: Diane Levell’s Bucks County](https://monovisions.com/diane-levell-intrepid-alchemist-diane-levells-bucks-county/) - This exhibition features an extraordinary series of landscapes by master photographer Diane Levell (American, born 1946), whose works are marked by poetic beauty, coupled with technical prowess. A selection of more than 20 photographs from Levell’s Bucks County series (2015 –) will illuminate her ability to seemingly transform the familiar into the magical. Born in
- [Joel-Peter Witkin: From the Studio](https://monovisions.com/joel-peter-witkin-from-the-studio/) - For more than 60 years, Joel-Peter Witkin has stayed true to his mission: to create photographs that show the beauty of marginalized people by placing them into art referential tableaus, often laced with Catholic overtones. His work features hermaphrodites, post and pre-op individuals, and people born with physical abnormalities. In his eyes, all people are
- [Constantin Brâncuși: Brâncuși’s Flowers](https://monovisions.com/constantin-brancusi-brancusis-flowers/) - Brâncuşi’s Flowers offers an unprecedented opportunity to view eight of the sixteen known images on the subject matter. Each photographed and printed by the artist in his darkroom during the 1920s and 1930s, these still lifes, or “nature’s readymades”, served dual purposes for the artist. Firstly, they were created as gifts for friends and lovers
- [Gil Rigoulet: Deaf Love](https://monovisions.com/gil-rigoulet-deaf-love/) - “But soon there will be nothing left. Traces of lipstick on a glass remind us that only a few moments before, bodies were intertwined, each lusting for the other. Only objects remain. Now left to their own demise. Vases, glasses, full of words and clues and gasps and sighs from vanished passions. Objects placed in
- [Francesco Bosso: WATERHEAVEN](https://monovisions.com/francesco-bosso-waterheaven/) - Water, with its constant flow and its strength, models, transforms and creates, in this continual and eternal act of becoming, where everything stems from water and everything returns to it. "WATERHEAVEN" is a journey across the captivating creative power of Water, between vision and reality, a sequence of evocations and fragments of memories. Bosso with
- [Chris Simpson: Carnets de Voyage](https://monovisions.com/chris-simpson-carnets-de-voyage/) - Atlas Gallery is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition of photographs by Chris Simpson in London. Simpson’s Carnets de Voyage series of images taken during his years travelling the world capture the beauty of the places he went ­­- including Madagascar, Namibia, Cuba, the UK and the people he met there. The clean lines
- [Vintage: Vietnamese Lunar New Year - Tet Holiday (1920s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-vietnamese-lunar-new-year-tet-holiday-1920s/) - Vietnamese Lunar New Year or Tet Holiday, is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture. Vietnamese people usually return to their families during Tết. Some return to worship at the family altar or visit the graves of their ancestors in their homeland. They also clean the graves of their family as a sign of respect.
- [Vintage: Douglas County, Colorado (19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-douglas-county-colorado-19th-century/) - Douglas County was one of the original 17 counties created in the Colorado Territory by the Colorado Territorial Legislature on November 1, 1861. The county was named in honor of U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, who died five months before the county was created. The county seat was originally Franktown, but was moved
- [George Platt Lynes: Portraits, Nudes, & Dance](https://monovisions.com/george-platt-lynes-portraits-nudes-dance/) - Keith de Lellis Gallery showcases the portrait photography of noted fashion photographer and influential artist George Platt Lynes (American, 1907–1955) in its spring exhibition. Though largely concealed during his lifetime (or published under pseudonyms), Lynes’ male nude photographs are perhaps his most notable works today and inspired later artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe and Herb
- [Vintage: Nazi Propaganda Film Director Leni Riefenstahl (1930s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-nazi-propaganda-film-director-leni-riefenstahl-1930s/) - Leni Riefenstahl (1902 – 2003) was a German film director. Riefenstahl heard Nazi Party (NSDAP) leader Adolf Hitler speak at a rally in 1932 and was mesmerized by his talent as a public speaker. Describing the experience in her memoir, Riefenstahl wrote, "I had an almost apocalyptic vision that I was never able to forget.
- [Interview with photographer Leon W Syfrit](https://monovisions.com/leon-w-syfrit-interview-with-photographer/) - How and when did you become interested in photography? I discovered photography, in the summer of 2008, while I was an art student at the Delaware College of Art and Design in Wilmington, DE. I was actually studying painting, but I was curious about photography. When an introductory photography course was offered at school, I
- [Bill Owens: Altamont 1969](https://monovisions.com/bill-owens-altamont-1969/) - Bill Owens: Altamont 1969 presents a new and previously unpublished series of photographs of the Rolling Stones’ infamous concert at the Altamont Speedway in California. The Altamont Speedway Free Festival has become an emblem of the upheavals and aftershocks of a decade of change. At Altamont, Owens captured a generation’s desire to stand up and
- [A Vision Shared: A Portrait of America 1935–1943](https://monovisions.com/a-vision-shared-a-portrait-of-america-1935-1943-2019/) - Featuring the work of the 11 photographers who worked for the Farm Security Administration--perhaps the finest photographic team assembled in the 20th century--A Vision Shared: A Classic Portrait of America and Its People 1935–1943 was first published in 1976 to great acclaim, and was named one of the 100 most important books of the decade
- [Lee Friedlander: The Mind and the Hand](https://monovisions.com/lee-friedlander-the-mind-and-the-hand/) - In the 1960s and '70s, Lee Friedlander (born 1934) developed his signature approach to documenting the American “social landscape”: deadpan, structurally complex black-and-white photographs of seemingly anything, anybody or anyplace that passed in front of his lens. But as he was making his name as a documentary photographer capturing the look and feel of modern
- [Frances Benjamin Johnston: The Hampton Album](https://monovisions.com/frances-benjamin-johnston-the-hampton-album/) - Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952), credited as the first female photojournalist in the United States, was commissioned in 1899 to photograph the Hampton Institute, then a 30-year-old institution dedicated to the education of young African American and Native American men and women. What became known as the Hampton Album―comprised of 159 luxurious platinum plates that offer
- [Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes](https://monovisions.com/hiroshi-sugimoto-seascapes-2019/) - This edition of Hiroshi Sugimoto's popular photography series is expanded and updated from the out-of-print first edition, including five previously unpublished photographs. For more than 30 years, Sugimoto has traveled the world photographing its seas, producing an extended meditation on the passage of time and the natural history of the earth reduced to its most
- [Berenice Abbott: Portraits of Modernity](https://monovisions.com/berenice-abbott-portraits-of-modernity/) - This handsome publication presents legendary American photographer Berenice Abbott’s work in three categories: her portraits, photographs of the city and scientific photographs. The opening section presents Abbott’s portraits of mold-breaking individuals who changed the world from the mid-1920s onward such as Djuna Barnes, the New Yorker's Janet Flanner, Jean Cocteau and James Joyce. The second
- [Mimi Plumb: Landfall](https://monovisions.com/mimi-plumb-landfall/) - Landfall offers an uneasy view into a world seemingly under threat and on the brink of nuclear war. Plumb’s dystopian images provide the viewer with a narrative that is as much ominous as it is seductively mesmerizing and compassionately human. Landfall exquisitely interweaves its storyline through strangely alluringly peculiar landscapes, video arcades, dioramas, and mysterious
- [Arkady Shaikhet, Boris Ignatovich, Alexander Rodchenko, Georgy Petrusov: Masters of 20th Century Soviet Avant-Garde Photography](https://monovisions.com/arkady-shaikhet-boris-ignatovich-alexander-rodchenko-georgy-petrusov-masters-of-20th-century-soviet-avant-garde-photography/) - Masters of Early 20th-Century Soviet Photography presents a rare selection of vintage gelatin-silver prints from the latter group, including work by such luminaries as Boris Ignatovich (1899-1976), Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956), Arkady Shaikhet (1898-1959), and Georgy Petrusov (1903-1971). These artists reached the zenith of their careers immediately after the 1917 Russian Revolution, during a historic moment
- [Dawoud Bey: Birmingham, Alabama, 1963: Dawoud Bey/Black Star](https://monovisions.com/dawoud-bey-birmingham-alabama-1963-dawoud-bey-black-star/) - The exhibition Birmingham, Alabama, 1963: Dawoud Bey/Black Star responds to the September 15, 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama—an event that resulted in six deaths of black children by white supremacists. Organized by Dr. Gaëlle Morel, exhibitions curator at the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto, the exhibition pairs Dawoud Bey’s
- [Bob Gomel at Monroe Gallery of Photography](https://monovisions.com/bob-gomel-at-monroe-gallery-of-photography/) - Bob Gomel was born in New York City in 1933 and honed his photography at NY University. After 4 years with the US Navy during the Korean War, he was offered a photo job with the Associated Press, but turned it down and waited a full year before joining LIFE magazine. In addition to LIFE,
- [Chris Killip: Skinningrove 1982 - 84](https://monovisions.com/chris-killip-skinningrove-1982-84/) - The village of Skinningrove lies on the North-East coast of England, halfway between Middlesbrough and Whitby. Hidden in a steep valley it veers away from the main road and faces out onto the North Sea. Like a lot of tight-knit fishing communities it could be hostile to strangers, especially one with a camera. “Now Then”
- [Timothy Duffy: Super Spirit](https://monovisions.com/timothy-duffy-super-spirit/) - A Gallery for Fine Photography is pleased to present, Super Spirit, a collection of twenty stunning pigment prints by contemporary artist Timothy Duffy. In this collaboration between photographer and artist, music and image meet around a history of struggle, adaptability, and creativity. It is this ethos that Duffy captures in his tintypes. The show will
- [Han Nguyen - Nude Compositions](https://monovisions.com/han-nguyen-nude-compositions/) - The exhibition will present a selection of Nguyen’s small-scale black and white photographs, which are comprised of varying layers of imagery that present the nude figure within a field of relating forms and tones, while referencing art history. Included in the exhibition will also be a large-scale color piece from the series. Nguyen’s delicate and
- [Vintage: The Last Laugh (1924)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-the-last-laugh-1924/) - The Last Laugh is a 1924 German silent film directed by German director F. W. Murnau. Jannings' character is a doorman for a famous hotel, who takes great pride in his work and position. His manager decides that the doorman is getting too old and infirm to present the image of the hotel, and so
- [Yamamoto Masao: Bonsai](https://monovisions.com/yamamoto-masao-bonsai/) - Jackson Fine Art is excited to announce our spring exhibitions of new work by Masao Yamamoto and Carolyn Carr, two artists whose innovative interpretations of the cultivated landscape usher one of photography’s foundational subjects into the 21st century. Photography and florals have a rich history, with early artists depending on florals to communicate symbolism and
- [Herb Ritts: The Rock Portraits](https://monovisions.com/herb-ritts-the-rock-portraits-2019/) - Known for his elegant and minimalist work, photographer Herb Ritts (1952-2002) had a gift for turning stars into icons. See how he captured the likes of David Bowie, U2, Cher, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Madonna, and many more—the world’s biggest music stars—and in the process, helped define their iconic status for generations of fans. Stage costumes
- [Robert McCabe: Chronography](https://monovisions.com/robert-mccabe-chronography/) - On the occasion of the 180th anniversary of the Archaeological Society at Athens, an exhibition of photographs by Robert McCabe called “Chronography – An Exhibition for the 180th anniversary (1837-2017) of the Archaeological Society” is currently on at the Society’s headquarters at 22, Panepistimiou Street. It includes 53 black and white shots taken mainly in
- [Steve Geer: Discarded](https://monovisions.com/steve-geer-discarded/) - In Chicago, behind the shops and restaurants, there are service alleys. These narrow canyons are lined with dumpsters which are filled each day and emptied each night. Sometimes discarded things spill out of the dumpsters and into the alley. There are plastic knives and forks and cups and cigarette lighters. There are disposable gloves in
- [Svetlana Tarasova: Italy. Immersion](https://monovisions.com/svetlana-tarasova-italy-immersion/) - She is traveling to Italy – a beautiful country where new impressions, meetings and acquaintances are awaiting her. "It smells like sunshine here" is printed on her ticket. That's exactly what she needs; there are too few sunny days in Russia in the end of October. Her first impressions of Italy are bright shop windows,
- [Florin Firimita: She Said / He Said](https://monovisions.com/florin-firimita-she-said-he-said/) - Dear Florin, You told me that you once thought that if you were to point your camera lens at a human being, you would somehow cause their disappearance. This thought makes me laugh because, I, being one of the subjects you often point your lens at, have at times only felt life through your lens.
- [Into the Light: The Music Photography of Jérôme Brunet](https://monovisions.com/into-the-light-the-music-photography-of-jerome-brunet/) - In this stunning collection, Into the Light: The Photography of Jérôme Brunet, renowned music photographer Jérôme Brunet reflects on twenty years of photographing some of the world’s biggest musicians. Brunet got his start in the music world early, playing cello at four years old and continuing on to the guitar in his teens. His early
- [Interview with Landscape photographer Martin Henson](https://monovisions.com/interview-with-landscape-photographer-martin-henson/) - My name is Martin Henson, was born in 1952 in West Yorkshire. I now live in a place called Otley a small market town in Wharfedale also in West Yorkshire. The Start My first camera was bought for me when I was 12 years old and was a Kodak 120 roll film, which I still
- [Alys Tomlinson: Ex-Voto](https://monovisions.com/alys-tomlinson-alys-tomlinson-ex-voto/) - In Ex-Voto Alys Tomlinson explores Christian pilgrimage sites in Lourdes in France, Ballyvourney in Ireland and Grabarka in Poland. Shot on a large format 5×4 film camera, the works evoke stillness and reflect the mysterious, timeless quality present at these sites of great contemplation. The works in Ex-Voto encompass formal portraiture, large format landscape and
- [Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing](https://monovisions.com/dorothea-lange-politics-of-seeing-2019/) - Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) is widely recognized as one of the most important documentary photographers of the twentieth century. She was a prominent advocate of the medium’s power to effect change and used her camera as a political tool to expose what she saw as injustices and inequalities. Lange was also a formidable woman of remarkable
- [Vintage: Pandora's Box (1929)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-pandoras-box-1929/) - Pandora's Box is a 1929 German silent melodrama film based on Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (1904). Lulu (Louise Brooks) is the mistress of a respected, middle-aged newspaper publisher, Dr. Ludwig Schön (Fritz Kortner). One day, she is delighted when an old man, her "first patron", Schigolch (Carl
- [Unlimited: Recent Gifts from the William Goodman and Victoria Belco Photography Collection](https://monovisions.com/unlimited-recent-gifts-from-the-william-goodman-and-victoria-belco-photography-collection/) - This exhibition celebrates a major gift of photography, donated over a period of several years, from Berkeley collectors William Goodman and Victoria Belco in memory of their daughter Teresa Goodman. While the exhibition features some historical photographs, such as pictures by the early twentieth-century French photographer Jacques-Henri Lartigue (most of whose work was made between
- [Victor J. Blue: Cities in Dust](https://monovisions.com/victor-j-blue-cities-in-dust/) - Victor J. Blue’s panoramic photographs of the destroyed cities of Raqqa, Syria, and Mosul, Iraq, navigate a landscape of devastation from aerial bombardment scarcely seen since World War II. Between October 2016 and October 2017- from the beginning of the campaign for Mosul until the end of that for Raqqa- the US-led coalition dropped 46,683
- [Henri Foucault: THE BODY, INFINITELY](https://monovisions.com/henri-foucault-the-body-infinitely/) - Though the artist will exhibit for the first time at the Galerie Thierry Bigaignon, Henri Foucault’s work is already well-established. This show, starting on April 4th, will thus be a great opportunity to discover or rediscover the artist’s specific universe - that of a photographer-sculptor or sculptor-photographer - through a selection of new works focussing
- [Oliver Abraham: Freedom of Speech](https://monovisions.com/oliver-abraham-freedom-of-speech/) - Gallery Julian Sander shows a series of portraits of extraordinary contemporary personalities by Oliver Abraham. Among them are journalists, musicians, philosophers, representatives of the "New Left" as well as artists and writers. Everyone deals with the topic of surveillance and press freedom and expresses their political attitude artistically. The photographs are accompanied by a text
- [Fan Wu: My Land](https://monovisions.com/fan-wu-my-land/) - I love this land because it's where I live. I often walking in the time tunnel, I look for news about this land inside my heart. Person and things here, as well as everything is filled with the familiar smell. So I haven’t any grand willingness to let the valuable of what I photographed more
- [Bart Krezolek: Child Inside](https://monovisions.com/bart-krezolek-child-inside/) - 'Child Inside' is a photographic exploration of the reality perceived by the child. The world on the borderline of realism and fantasy, truth and fiction. The little man is discovering the world, experiencing admiration, horror and surprise. Photographs are taking us onto a journey of an early childhood. They wake up dreams of the inner
- [Grzegorz Sikorski: Let there be light!](https://monovisions.com/grzegorz-sikorski-let-there-be-light/) - Photography has always been Grzegorz Sikorski passion which over the years has turned into his profession and another source of income. As he admits, photographing people gives him a unique satisfaction of capturing facial expressions, gestures and feelings of models, not always professional, on a digital matrix. As a result, he specializes in portrait, beauty
- [Javiera Estrada: SALT + SEA](https://monovisions.com/javiera-estrada-salt-sea/) - SALT + SEAis a homologous study between the feminine form and the complex ecology of the ocean and it's surrounding environment. Our planetary bodies of water are known to be affected by the lunar cycles. The changing moon is particularly associated with women because its regular twenty-eight day cycle so closely matches the cycle of
- [Olivier Robert: Huang Shan](https://monovisions.com/olivier-robert-huang-shan/) - This series of photographs is part of a long-lasting project dedicated to the Yellow Mountain in China. The classical Chinese landscape painting has been an important source of inspiration in my photography for more than 20 years and has drastically affected the way I consider a landscape as a subject. My work consist in pushing
- [Levi Mendes: Swedish Mountains](https://monovisions.com/levi-mendes-swedish-mountains/) - Getting lost along your path is a part of finding the path you are meant to be on. SWEDISH MOUNTAINS is the name of my new series which I invite you to take a look and travel with me through the unique landscapes that northern Sweden has to offer. I walked with backpack and my
- [Ron Kusina: Wonders of the Vermillion Cliffs](https://monovisions.com/ron-kusina-wonders-of-the-vermillion-cliffs/) - These images were made while exploring the North Coyote Buttes region of the Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness, located along the Southern Utah/Northern Arizona border in the U.S. Images of "The Wave" and the "White Pocket" are included. This area is now accessible only by permit, and I feel exceptionally fortunate to have been successful in being
- [Jeniffer Andrea Tobón Bedoya: The life knots](https://monovisions.com/jeniffer-andrea-tobon-bedoya-the-life-knots/) - These photographs were taken during a process of change, where I experienced a depression, due to this; I managed to show through the photographs the changes, tests and knots I had to release. I realized, the challenges that we all have to live day by day and how we can overcome them. Followed by this,
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer George Shadbolt](https://monovisions.com/george-shadbolt-biography-19th-century-photographer/) - George Shadbolt (1817–1901) was a British writer, editor, student of optics and photographer with a strong interest in innovative techniques, who was active during the 1850s-1860s. Reported to have made the first microphotograph, he was also an early advocate of photographic enlargement, as well as compound and combination printing. Shadbolt's dislike of the glare of
- [Biography: human rights photographer Alice Seeley Harris](https://monovisions.com/alice-seeley-harris-biography-human-rights-photographer/) - Alice Seeley Harris (1870–1970) was an English missionary and an early documentary photographer. Her photography helped to expose the human rights abuses in the Congo Free State under the regime of Leopold II, King of the Belgians. In 1889, aged 19 yrs, Alice entered the Civil Service and was later appointed to the Accountant General’s
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer Emma Schenson](https://monovisions.com/emma-schenson-19th-century-photographer-biography/) - Emma Schenson (1827–1913) was a Swedish photographer and painter. She was one of the earliest professional female photographers in Sweden. Schenson was the daughter of the academy treasurer John Schenson and the school administrator Maria Magdalena Hahr. There are no records of her education or of how she became familiar with photography. By the 1860s,
- [Biography: 19th Century Portrait photographer Walery Rzewuski](https://monovisions.com/walery-rzewuski-19th-century-portrait-photographer-biography/) - Walery Rzewuski (1837 - 1888) was an early Polish photographer. He is considered one of Poland's most important 19th-century photographers. He was the author of many portraits of leading lights in the world of culture and science of his time. He also took pictures of the nobility, entrepreneurs and members of government. The State Museum
- [Phil Penman: "Street" on Kickstarter](https://monovisions.com/phil-penman-street-on-kickstarter/) - Leica photographer Phil Penman understands New York City as a “kind of living thing in itself.” For over two decades, he has kept his fingers on the pulse of the city as a portraitist of local personalities, fine art photographer documenting the cityscape, and a paparazzo, chasing the celebrity buzz. From the mundane to the
- [Florence Henri: Reflecting Bauhaus: Photographs & Paintings](https://monovisions.com/florence-henri-reflecting-bauhaus-photographs-paintings/) - Atlas Gallery are pleased to announce an exhibition of photographs by Bauhaus artist Florence Henri (1893-1982). Having featured in major exhibitions worldwide, this will be the first time in many years that such a large body of her work is available for sale. Although originally trained as a painter under Fernand Léger, Henri turned to
- [Taca Sui: Grotto Heavens](https://monovisions.com/taca-sui-grotto-heavens/) - In the five years since his first exhibition, Odes (2013), Taca has traveled extensively throughout China in search of remote locations that resonate in Chinese history through their association with important religious and philosophical traditions. In Odes, he presented a body of work that was inspired by the ancient poetic heritage of China, specifically the
- [André Kertész: Window Views](https://monovisions.com/andre-kertesz-window-views/) - Following his move in 1952 to a 12th story apartment overlooking Washington Square Park, the 56-year-old Hungarian emigrant André Kertész would begin a series of modernist masterworks shot from his window that he would continue until his death in 1985. From the privacy of his home, Kertész honed his lens on anonymous city dwellers, capturing
- [Albert Watson: INK](https://monovisions.com/albert-watson-ink/) - Kahmann Gallery is proud to present works from Albert Watson’s newest project, ‘INK’. Watson has reimagined his own work, by incorporating and superimposing textured ink patterns on top of work he created separately. Watson delved into his own archive to find works he could reimagine and give a literal new layer of meaning by using
- [Vintage: Broken Blossoms (1919)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-broken-blossoms-1919/) - Broken Blossoms is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by D.W. Griffith. Cheng Huan (Richard Barthelmess) leaves his native China because he "dreams to spread the gentle message of Buddha to the Anglo-Saxon lands." His idealism fades as he is faced with the brutal reality of London's gritty inner-city. However, his mission is finally
- [Vintage: Sherlock Jr. (1924)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-sherlock-jr-1924/) - Sherlock Jr. is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton. A movie theater projectionist and janitor (Buster Keaton) is in love with a beautiful girl (Kathryn McGuire). However, he has a rival, the "local sheik" (Ward Crane). Neither has much money. The projectionist buys a $1 box of chocolates, all
- [Vintage: Greed (1924)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-greed-1924/) - Greed is a 1924 American silent film, written and directed by Erich von Stroheim and based on the 1899 Frank Norris novel McTeague. John McTeague is a miner working in Placer County, California. A traveling dentist calling himself Dr. "Painless" Potter visits the town, and McTeague's mother begs Potter to take her son on as
- [Vintage: The Wind (1928)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-the-wind-1928/) - The Wind is a 1928 pre-code American silent romantic drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. An impoverished young woman named Letty Mason (Lillian Gish) travels west by train from Virginia to live at her cousin Beverly's isolated ranch in Sweetwater, Texas. On the way, she is bothered by the constantly blowing wind. Fellow passenger and
- [Vintage: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans-1927/) - Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans is a 1927 American silent romantic comedy-drama directed by German director F. W. Murnau (in his American film debut) and starring George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, and Margaret Livingston. A vacationing Woman from the City (Margaret Livingston) lingers in a lakeside town for weeks. After dark, she goes to a
- [Vintage: The General (1926)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-the-general-1926/) - The General is a 1926 American silent comedy film released by United Artists. Western & Atlantic Railroad train engineer Johnnie Gray (Buster Keaton) is in Marietta, Georgia to see one of the two loves of his life, his fiancée Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack)—the other being his locomotive, The General—when the American Civil War breaks out.
- [Oscar Rejlander: Artist Photographer](https://monovisions.com/oscar-rejlander-artist-photographer/) - Often referred to as the “father of art photography,” Oscar G. Rejlander has been praised for his early experiments with combination printing, his collaboration with Charles Darwin, and his influence on the work of Julia Margaret Cameron and Lewis Carroll. This exhibition is the first major retrospective on Rejlander, highlighting new research and a selection
- [Karl Blossfeldt and Jim Dine: Poetry of Plants](https://monovisions.com/karl-blossfeldt-and-jim-dine-poetry-of-plants/) - Nature continually beguiles us with its wonders – the proliferating vegetation with myriad plant species and forms, their spatial disposition, the light that plays across them and the overall effect – and capturing them photographically is at the heart of the exhibition. The works on view manifest close observation and sensitive perception of flora and
- [Jason McGroarty: Totem](https://monovisions.com/jason-mcgroarty-totem/) - Through Totem I wanted to capture the heart-stopping moment when the wild breaches the barriers of the city and reminds us that the line between humans and wildlife is not as clear-cut as we would like to believe in, and that in the animal kingdom, the only thing we can count on is unpredictability, that
- [Nofar Horovitz: Ties of perception](https://monovisions.com/nofar-horovitz-ties-of-perception/) - I decided to express in this project my view of humans and their desires, the glass walls that we erect in our way when we are prevented from achieving our dreams and ambitions. Compromising on the mediocre, the norm, the ordinary instead of setting ourselves goals that we perceive as daydreams, with only a rare
- [George Digalakis: Silent Waters](https://monovisions.com/george-digalakis-silent-waters/) - Minimalism, both as a philosophy of art and life, has deeply influenced my work. I draw inspiration from various objects, like the sea and the sky and from my emotional response to them. It is in the simple feelings that they evoke to me—vastness, quietness, tranquility, symmetry, and balance—that I find beauty. The water, an
- [Patrick Desgraupes: Voodoo Spirit](https://monovisions.com/patrick-desgraupes-voodoo-spirit/) - It was in Togo and Benin that Voodoo was born, but from the 17th century, black people enslaved spread Voodoo in America and in the Caribbean. For historians, the immense suffering of slaves deported to America is undoubtedly at the origin of the transformation of Voodoo on the American continent, towards practices more related to
- [Vahid Babaei: The wind will carry us](https://monovisions.com/vahid-babaei-the-wind-will-carry-us/) - Wind is fertilizer. Wind is offspring of many legends and historical stories. Wind sometimes covers, sometimes naked. Involving human feelings with natural phenomena is full of enjoy for me. Concealing human feelings behind a mask and compelling contact thought, and think about who are they? How they living? and what do they think about? 'The
- [Oscar Alcantara: Conceptual Photocompositions](https://monovisions.com/oscar-alcantara-conceptual-photocompositions/) - Photocompositions based on author's photos, each one taking care of the quality, the composition and especially the speech, addressing topics of human and daily interest, as well as magical and full of contrast. Website: http://www.oscaralcantara.com.mx/ 'Conceptual Photocompositions' was the Black & White Series of the Year Honourable Mention Winner in the MonoVisions Photography Awards 2018.
- [Vintage: Claude Monet in His Studio at Giverny](https://monovisions.com/vintage-claude-monet-in-his-studio-at-giverny/) - Monet's ambition of documenting the French countryside led him to adopt a method of painting the same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. From 1883, Monet lived in Giverny, where he purchased a house and property and began a vast landscaping project which included
- [Vintage: Daily Life of Suffolk, England (Edwardian Era)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-daily-life-of-suffolk-england-edwardian-era/) - By the fifth century, the Angles (after whom East Anglia and England are named) had established control of the region. The Angles later became the "north folk" and the "south folk", from which developed the names "Norfolk" and "Suffolk". Suffolk and several adjacent areas became the kingdom of East Anglia, which later merged with Mercia
- [Sabine Weiss: la vie](https://monovisions.com/sabine-weiss-la-vie/) - The great French photographer Sabine Weiss is considered the grande dame of humanistic photography and has been compiling a life's work in over seven decades, centering on photographs from Paris. She lives there since 1946. As a trained portraitist, she has not only created timeless character studies of celebrities, but she has also repeatedly photographed
- [Christopher Thomas: Cities in Silence](https://monovisions.com/christopher-thomas-cities-in-silence/) - Christopher Thomas, born in Munich in 1961, a graduate of the Bavarian State School of Photography, has become has become very popular with his city portraits. His cityscapes are recorded with the large-format camera and printed on handmade paper. The footage is a Polaroid type 55 black and white film. The city views were opened
- [John Eaton: A Game of Buzkashi](https://monovisions.com/john-eaton-a-game-of-buzkashi/) - Buzkashi is a favorite game of the Tajik people living on the high, dry Pamir plateau, between the Pamir and Karakoram mountains in the Himalayas. It is played on horseback on a vast, ill-defined plain, "the pitch", to celebrate an important village event -- in this case a wedding. The objective is for one of
- [Vintage: Hurricane Camille, 1969](https://monovisions.com/vintage-hurricane-camille-1969/) - Camille is one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded and the most devastating natural disaster in Virginia's history. The storm formed over the Gulf of Mexico on August 14 and quickly developed, reaching a category 3 hurricane over Cuba. Making landfall on the U.S. Gulf Shore as a category 5, Camille caused catastrophic damages
- [Vintage: Glass plate negative Family Portraits by Michael Miley Studio (early XX Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-glass-plate-negative-family-portraits-by-michael-miley-early-xx-century/) - Michael Miley (1841-1918) was a popular commercial photographer based in Lexington, Virginia. He is acclaimed for bringing artistry to the medium of photography and often sought to capture his subjects in more candid poses.
- [Vintage: Devon, England (1900s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-devon-england-1900s/) - The name Devon derives from the name of the Britons who inhabited the southwestern peninsula of Britain at the time of the Roman conquest of Britain known as the Dumnonii, thought to mean "deep valley dwellers" from proto Celtic *dubnos 'deep'. Since the rise of seaside resorts with the arrival of the railways in the
- [Vintage: Victorian Play “Death and the Lady” (1906)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-victorian-play-death-and-the-lady-1906/) - A vaudeville performance based on the old English ballad “Death and the Lady.” Photographed by Joseph Hall, 1906. In 1906, The Journal of the English Folk Song Society published a piece on the old English ballad “Death and the Lady.” Some enterprising female entertainer encountered the article and realized the story might be used as
- [Vintage: Calcutta by Clyde Waddell (1945)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-calcutta-by-clyde-waddell-1945/) - Mr. Waddell was a military photographer. Many of his captions seems like annotations that would be found in a typical military magazine. The album begins with several general long shots of Calcutta and ends with a picture of dhobi-s (washermen) washing clothes. The text accompanying the last photograph also sounds as if the author intended
- [Birney Imes: Found these pictures](https://monovisions.com/birney-imes-found-these-pictures/) - For more than 20 years in the 1970s and 80s, Birney Imes roamed the countryside of his native Mississippi photographing the people and places he encountered along the way. Working in both black and white and color, Imes’ photographs take viewers inside juke joints and dilapidated restaurants scattered across that landscape. There he introduces the
- [Santu Mofokeng: Stories](https://monovisions.com/santu-mofokeng-stories/) - This year marks the 25th anniversary of South Africa’s first democratic elections, followed by the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president in 1994. This historic event marked the end of apartheid: a regime of institutionalised racial segregation that was in effect from 1948 to 1991. South African photographer Santu Mofokeng (b. 1956) documented the everyday
- [Mapplethorpe: Photography and Performance](https://monovisions.com/mapplethorpe-photography-and-performance/) - Choreography for an Exhibition organized by the museum of contemporary art Madre, in collaboration with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation in New York, brings a body of work to Naples in an innovative show and a performative program starring international choreographers. The exhibition features over 160 works, displayed alongside archaeological, ancient and modern pieces, in addition
- [Vintage: Old Hamburg (1910s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-old-hamburg-1910s/) - After periodic political unrest, particularly in 1848, Hamburg adopted in 1860 a semidemocratic constitution that provided for the election of the Senate, the governing body of the city-state, by adult taxpaying males. Other innovations included the separation of powers, the separation of Church and State, freedom of the press, of assembly and association. Hamburg became
- [Vintage: American Beauty Queens (1920s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-american-beauty-queens-1920s/) - Beauty contests became more popular in the 1880s. In 1888, the title of 'beauty queen' was awarded to an 18-year-old Creole contestant at a pageant in Spa, Belgium. All participants had to supply a photograph and a short description of themselves to be eligible to enter and a final selection of 21 was judged by
- [Vintage: Carnival Costumes in Berlin (1928)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-carnival-costumes-in-berlin-1928/) - While Germany's carnival traditions are mostly celebrated in the predominantly Roman Catholic southern and western parts of the country, the Protestant North traditionally knows a festival under the Low Saxon names Fastelavend, Fastelabend and Fastlaam. This name has been imported to Denmark as Fastelavn and is related to Vastenoavond in the Low-Saxon-speaking parts of the
- [Lee Friedlander: Workers: The Human Clay](https://monovisions.com/lee-friedlander-workers-the-human-clay/) - In the capstone volume of his epic series “The Human Clay,” Lee Friedlander has created an ode to people who work. Drawn from his incomparable archive are photographs of individuals laboring on the street and on stage, as well as in the fi eld, in factories and in fl uorescent-lit offi ces. Performers, salespeople and
- [Stephan Vanfleteren: Surf Tribe](https://monovisions.com/stephan-vanfleteren-surf-tribe/) - Kahmann Gallery is proud to present the most recent project of Stephan Vanfleteren: Surf Tribe. This sales exhibition follows the successful showing of the series at the Kunsthal Rotterdam. For Surf Tribe, Vanfleteren travelled the globe for over 18 months to document various troops of surfers, immersing himself in the international surf community. Instead of
- [Elliott Erwitt: Sequentially Yours](https://monovisions.com/elliott-erwitt-sequentially-yours/) - What happens next? This irksome little question is key to story-telling. Whether ancient bards or trendy filmmakers, narrators have to keep us guessing. Yet, we often forget that life itself is a chain of unpredictable instants - each with its unique character. Even when seconds apart, experiences can be distinctly different. You never know what's
- [Elliott Erwitt's New York](https://monovisions.com/elliott-erwitts-new-york/) - Elliott Erwitt's masterpiece is now available in a handy format and an unbeatable price - an ideal gift for lovers of New York and its spirit. Elliott Erwitt s glimpses of New York City are sometimes gritty, sometimes elegant, yet always true to life. His monochromatic tribute to the Big Apple contains all the shadings
- [Elliott Erwitt's Scotland](https://monovisions.com/elliott-erwitts-scotland/) - Elliott Erwitt turns his trained eye on Scotland, going well beyond its picturesque glens and lochs to reveal a unique culture and national heritage. In 2013, Elliott Erwitt was asked to be a part of the distinguished Macallan Masters of Photography series. Armed with his trusty Leica camera, he embarked on an exploration of Scotland
- [Lee Friedlander: Pickup](https://monovisions.com/lee-friedlander-pickup/) - In this compendium Lee Friedlander examines the ordinary pickup truck, a quintessentially American mode of transportation. Unadorned in form as well as function, pickups have long been the vehicle of choice for farmers and tradespeople. Their well-worn beds―usually open to the elements, laid bare for all to see―have held and hauled all manner of things,
- [Vintage: Bugatti Cars (1920s and 1930s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-bugatti-cars-1920s-and-1930s/) - Founder Ettore Bugatti was born in Milan, Italy, and the automobile company that bears his name was founded in 1909 in Molsheim located in the Alsace region which was part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1919. The company was known both for the level of detail of its engineering in its automobiles, and
- [Vintage: Marlene Dietrich, Leni Riefenstahl and Anna May Wong at the Pierre Ball in Berlin, 1928](https://monovisions.com/vintage-marlene-dietrich-leni-riefenstahl-and-anna-may-wong-at-the-pierre-ball-in-berlin-1928/) - Two beautiful and ambitious Berliners, born just eight months apart—Marie Magdalene Dietrich, on December 27, 1901; Bertha Helene Amalie Riefenstahl, on August 22, 1902—both bound to shape the fantasies and touch the histories of their time. Two girls growing up amid the fear and chaos of the Great War, two artists committed to impossible ideals
- [Pentti Sammallahti’s: Birds](https://monovisions.com/pentti-sammallahtis-birds/) - Pentti Sammallahti’s Birds is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at Nailya Alexander Gallery, and the first to focus exclusively on one of his most consistent and compelling subjects: birds. Despite his frequent attention to dogs, cats, and other animals during his many travels, Sammallahti’s work finds its true apotheosis in birds. Residents of the land,
- [1947, Simone de Beauvoir in America](https://monovisions.com/1947-simone-de-beauvoir-in-america/) - Sous Les Etoiles Gallery is pleased to present «1947, Simone de Beauvoir in America» a photographic journey inspired by her diary «America Day by Day» published in France in 1948. This book was released in the United States in 1999 after its first translation to English in Great Britain in 1952. This exhibition curated by
- [Michael Kenna: Rafu](https://monovisions.com/michael-kenna-rafu/) - After decades of traveling the world, exploring wild and natural locations, from Europe to Asia, as well as industrial zones, abandoned buildings and religious shrines, Michael Kenna debuts an unprecedented series of female nudes made in Japan. Robert Mann Gallery presents, Rafu (裸婦), the Japanese word for unclothed female, a woman in the nude. ”I
- [Christopher Thomas: Lost in L.A.](https://monovisions.com/christopher-thomas-lost-in-l-a-exhibition/) - When Christopher Thomas set out to make a “city-portrait” of Los Angeles, the fifth metropolis to be the focus of his signature series over the past two decades, he did not intend to produce a comprehensive record of its sprawling contents or dramatic characters. Rather, he hoped to discover and capture a personal view of
- [Michael Kenna at Catherine Edelman Gallery](https://monovisions.com/michael-kenna-at-catherine-edelman-gallery/) - After 31 years in River North, Catherine Edelman Gallery is relocating to 1637 W. Chicago Avenue in April 2019. CEG opened in 1987, shortly after Catherine Edelman graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA in photography. CEG quickly gained attention for its risk-taking shows, opening the gallery with “The
- [Michael Kenna: HOLGA and Recent Prints](https://monovisions.com/michael-kenna-holga-and-recent-prints/) - Kenna, who is now in his fifth decade of photographing, works on multiple long-term projects simultaneously. Although the prints on display are all recent, this exhibition acts as a cross section of his work as the negatives span various decades. As a result, HOLGA and Recent Prints offers a fascinating look at Kenna’s methods and
- [Vintage: Titanic before Its Sinking in 1912](https://monovisions.com/vintage-titanic-before-its-sinking-in-1912/) - The passenger facilities aboard Titanic aimed to meet the highest standards of luxury. According to Titanic's general arrangement plans, the ship could accommodate 833 First Class Passengers, 614 in Second Class and 1,006 in Third Class, for a total passenger capacity of 2,453. In addition, her capacity for crew members exceeded 900, as most documents
- [Kyiv Photo Book International Festival 2019](https://monovisions.com/kyiv-photo-book-international-festival-2019/) - On February 9, 2019 in Kyiv, Ukraine a festival of photo books from publishers and photographers Kyiv Photo Book will be held, first and only festival in Ukraine dedicated to photo books. The goal of the Festival is developing a communication between authors-photographers and publishers, from one side, and broad circles of art lovers, and,
- [Don McCullin at Tate Britain](https://monovisions.com/don-mccullin-at-tate-britain/) - This exhibition showcases some of the most impactful photographs captured over the last 60 years. It includes many of his iconic war photographs – including images from Vietnam, Northern Ireland and more recently Syria. But it also focuses on the work he did at home in England, recording scenes of poverty and working class life
- [Don McCullin: PROXIMITY](https://monovisions.com/don-mccullin-proximity/) - To coincide with the major retrospective at Tate Britain, Hamiltons will be celebrating Sir Don McCullin’s lifetime achievement by exhibiting rare and unseen vintage prints dating back to the 1950s. Selected from the photographer’s personal archive, they were made shortly after the photographs were first taken on assignments around the world. Intimate and physically modest,
- [Vintage: Portraits of Fay Wray (1920s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-fay-wray-1920s/) - Fay Wray (1907 - 2004) was a Canadian-American actress most noted for starring as Ann Darrow in the 1933 film King Kong. In 1923, Wray appeared in her first film at the age of 16, when she landed a role in a short historical film sponsored by a local newspaper. In the 1920s, Wray landed
- [Biography: 19th Century inventor of photography Nicéphore Niépce](https://monovisions.com/nicephore-niepce-biography-19th-century-inventor-of-photography/) - Nicéphore Niépce (1765 - 1833) was a French inventor of photography and a pioneer in that field. The date of Niépce's first photographic experiments is uncertain. He was led to them by his interest in the new art of lithography, for which he realized he lacked the necessary skill and artistic ability, and by his
- [László Moholy-Nagy: Moholy Album](https://monovisions.com/laszlo-moholy-nagy-moholy-album/) - It is largely thanks to László Moholy-Nagy’s artistic and journalistic efforts that photography became an integral part of modern artistic creation, starting in the 1920s. His photograms are icons of the medium, and yet his photographic oeuvre has never been comprehensively published. For the first time, Moholy-Nagy’s daughter Hattula has now granted full access to
- [Marco Sadori: A Face Without a Name](https://monovisions.com/marco-sadori-a-face-without-a-name/) - Telling the story of the Caucasus means telling a rich and at the same time cruel story. A story that has carved the face of the people and has painted their horizons with strong hues with ineffable shades. As I walk through these mountains, I lose myself in the face of an old lady who
- [Emilio Barrionuevo: THE SOUL OF THE IMMIGRANT](https://monovisions.com/emilio-barrionuevo-the-soul-of-the-immigrant/) - When you are far from your home your life becomes something unknown to you, they remember those happy and sad moments at the same time, bring to light the true essence of what they are. A hard life and sometimes not so easy to follow. In these portraits they give you their love and how
- [Wei Tan: Life after being shot by over 100 pellets](https://monovisions.com/wei-tan-life-after-being-shot-by-over-100-pellets/) - In the summer of 2016, after popular Hizbul Mujahideen leader Burhan Wani was killed by Indian security forces, Kashmir experienced months of violent protests during which Indian officers used pellet guns - a form of a shotgun that indiscriminately shoot up to 500 small, round iron pellets - to subdue protestors. The guns were first
- [Ian Pettigrew: Living Heroes](https://monovisions.com/ian-pettigrew-living-heroes/) - Portrait series of aging veterans from WW2 to Viet Nam. Website: http://www.ianpettigrew.com 'Living Heroes' was the Black & White People Series of the Year 3rd place Winner in the MonoVisions Photography Awards 2018. 'Living Heroes' was the Black & White People Series of the Year 3rd place Winner in the MonoVisions Photography Awards 2018.
- [HIROO FUJITANI: THE LYRIC POETRY - A CAT](https://monovisions.com/hiroo-fujitani-the-lyric-poetry-a-cat/) - I think that a cat is a philosopher or poet though I do not know a great occidental philosopher sometimes. Their behavior passes our understanding. I am interested in their saintly, venal, capricious behavior and cuteness. That’s way, I explore shooting a cat for capturing a moment like with lyric, emotional or an arresting sight
- [Stefano Ciol: Rural Graphysms](https://monovisions.com/stefano-ciol-rural-graphysms/) - Lines that cut the landscape of the countryside narrating new perspectives of light and unexpected glimpses. Website: https://www.behance.net/fotociol 'Grafismi Rurali - Rural Graphysms' was the Black & White Series of the Year 3rd place Winner in the MonoVisions Photography Awards 2018. 'Grafismi Rurali - Rural Graphysms' was the Black & White Series of the Year
- [Patrick Ems: Dancing lights](https://monovisions.com/patrick-ems-dancing-lights/) - There are no words to describe how I felt the first time I saw the magical polar lights dancing across the deep black night sky. Humbled and overwhelmed by emotion, I also felt honoured that the elusive hidden beauty had revealed. ”The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As
- [Marzena Kolarz: ABOUT YOURSELF. HYBRIDS.](https://monovisions.com/marzena-kolarz-about-yourself-hybrids/) - "About Yourself. Hybrids" is a self-portrait series that combines two themes into each single image: past and present, fears and expectations, childhood with adulthood, the me with others and the me with herself, me with my love... etc. Series made in wet plate collodion, exactly in ambrotype. Website: www.marzenakolarz.com 'ABOUT YOURSELF. HYBRIDS.' was the Black
- [Yoshihiko Wada: The City of Juncture](https://monovisions.com/yoshihiko-wada-the-city-of-juncture/) - “The city of juncture” is focusing on the unique Japanese junctions’ scenery in urban area especially in Tokyo and Osaka. Since those huge structures were built a lot in urban areas with limited space in order to organizing traffic, we have an advantage to see them at very close distance; some of them have very
- [Romain Tornay: Ice Design](https://monovisions.com/romain-tornay-ice-design/) - Macro photography of icelandic ice structure. My goal was to make the ice alive. Geometric forms, curves, bubbles and crystals move hours after hours, days after days. Website: www.borealphoto.net 'Ice Design' was the Black & White Abstract Series of the Year 3rd place Winner in the MonoVisions Photography Awards 2018. 'Ice Design' was the Black
- [Biography: 19th Century Portrait photographer Stanisław Julian Ostroróg](https://monovisions.com/stanislaw-julian-ostrorog-biography-19th-century-portrait-photographer/) - Count Stanisław Julian Ostroróg (1830 – 1890) was an early Polish professional portrait photographer. As a nine-year-old boy in Paris, Ostroróg is said to have met the distinguished physicist, astronomer and politician, François Arago (1786-1853), of the French Academie des Sciences who not only fired up his interest in optics and the new possibilities of
- [Look Again: 45 Years of Collecting Photography](https://monovisions.com/look-again-45-years-of-collecting-photography/) - Photography is a uniquely elastic medium. It can fulfill numerous utilitarian purposes—recording personal memories, chronicling collective histories, or furnishing documentary evidence—yet it also offers dynamic potential for creative expression. The High Museum of Art began collecting photographs in the early 1970s, and the collection now includes more than 7,000 photographs from around the world made
- [Walter Schels: Animals](https://monovisions.com/walter-schels-animals/) - For the first time in decades, Walter Schels, one of the most important German photographers of his generation, is showing a selection of rare vintage prints of his famous animal portraits. A cabinet exhibition will also feature some of his dog photographs from the seventies. Walter Schels, born 1936, worked as a window dresser in
- [Interview with photographer Michael Chaiken](https://monovisions.com/michael-chaiken-interview-with-photographer/) - - How and when did you become interested in photography? Photography wasn’t supposed to be my thing. My younger brother was the photographer. He took some high school classes. He had his own darkroom to develop film and make prints. And he was given a scholarship to attend art school and perfect his photography. Along
- [Richard Avedon: Relationships](https://monovisions.com/richard-avedon-relationships/) - Drawn from the Richard Avedon collection at the Center for Creative Photography, Richard Avedon: Relationships presents eighty portrait and fashion photographs – ranging from the 1950s to the early 2000s – including examples of Avedon’s large-scale prints. The exhibition will explore three kinds of “relationships” in Avedon’s life and work: the interactions between the figures
- [Sigmar Polke and the 1970s](https://monovisions.com/sigmar-polke-and-the-1970s/) - Some time ago, the Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection acquired a group of photographs by Rubens Prize winner Sigmar Polke (1941-2010). The 85 photos from the period 1973-78 were in the possession of Katharina Steffen, one of the artist's former partners. He gave the images to her during their relationship, and she often appears as a protagonist in
- [Ted Witek: North South, East West](https://monovisions.com/ted-witek-north-south-east-west/) - Ted Witek (*1957) was born and raised in Connecticut. He left the United States for Germany in 2001, moving to Portugal in 2004. He immediately fell in love with the country and its people. Having the artistic good fortune to travel many times to the North and South of Portugal as well as to Madeira
- [Vintage: Coney Island, New York City (1900s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-coney-island-new-york-city-1900s/) - In 1824, the Gravesend and Coney Island Road and Bridge Company built the first bridge across Jamaica Ditch (by now known as Coney Island Creek), connecting the island with the mainland. The company also built a shell road across the island to the beaches. In 1829, the company also built the first hotel on the
- [Vintage: Christmas Shopping in the past](https://monovisions.com/vintage-christmas-shopping-in-the-past/) - "Christmas creep" refers to a merchandising phenomenon in which merchants and retailers exploit the commercialized status of Christmas by moving up the start of the holiday shopping season. The term was first used in the mid-1980s, and is associated with a desire of merchants to take advantage of particularly heavy Christmas-related shopping well before Black
- [Vintage: American Actresses Greeting New Year's Eve](https://monovisions.com/vintage-american-actresses-greeting-new-years-eve/) - Most nations of Western Europe officially adopted 1 January as New Year's Day somewhat before they adopted the Gregorian Calendar. In Tudor England, New Year's Day, along with Christmas Day and Twelfth Night, was celebrated as one of three main festivities among the twelve days of Christmastide. There, until the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar
- [Vintage: The Bishop's Wife (1947)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-the-bishops-wife-1947/) - The Bishop's Wife is a Samuel Goldwyn romantic comedy feature film from 1947, starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven in a story about an angel who helps a bishop with his problems. The film was adapted by Leonardo Bercovici and Robert E. Sherwood from the 1928 novel of the same name by Robert
- [Vintage: Tight Corset (Victorian era)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-tight-corset-victorian-era/) - The corset has been attributed to Catherine de' Medici, wife of King Henry II of France. She enforced a ban on thick waists at court attendance during the 1550s. For nearly 350 years, women's primary means of support was the corset, with laces and stays made of whalebone or metal. Other researchers have found evidence
- [Vintage: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-its-a-wonderful-life-1946/) - It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy comedy-drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and booklet The Greatest Gift, which Philip Van Doren Stern wrote in 1939 and published privately in 1945. On Christmas Eve 1945, in Bedford Falls, New York, George Bailey contemplates suicide. Prayers
- [Vintage: A Christmas Carol (1938)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-a-christmas-carol-1938/) - A Christmas Carol is a 1938 American film adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella of the same name, starring Reginald Owen as Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve after visitations by three spirits. On Christmas Eve in 19th-century London, Fred is sliding on ice on a
- [Vintage: Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh - Persian princess](https://monovisions.com/vintage-zahra-khanom-tadj-es-saltaneh-persian-princess/) - Taj Saltaneh (1883 - 1936‎) was a Persian princess and memoirist of the Qajar Dynasty, a daughter of Naser al-Din Shah, the King of Persia from 1843 to May 1896 by his wife Turan es-Saltaneh. She was married to Amir Hussein Khan Shoja'-al Saltaneh and had four children, two daughters and two sons. They later
- [Vintage: A journey with the Orient Express from Vienna to Constantinople (1903)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-a-journey-with-the-orient-express-from-vienna-to-constantinople-1903/) - A journey with the Orient Express from Vienna to Constantinople in the year 1903. From a set of originally more than 200 negatives. Unfortunately many of them were exposed to moisture during the last 114 years and are irretrievable lost. I have not scanned and edited all the negatives yet, but I will upload the
- [Vintage: Clémentine Delait - French bearded lady](https://monovisions.com/vintage-clementine-delait-french-bearded-lady/) - Clémentine Delait (1865 – 1939) was a French bearded lady who kept a café. Delait and her husband kept a café in Thaon-les-Vosges, in Lorraine, France. According to later accounts, Clémentine Delait visited a carnival, saw a bearded woman with some stubble and boasted that she could grow a better beard herself. Her husband bet
- [Andrew Joseph Russell and Alfred A. Hart: The Race to Promontory: The Transcontinental Railroad and the American West](https://monovisions.com/andrew-joseph-russell-and-alfred-a-hart-the-race-to-promontory-the-transcontinental-railroad-and-the-american-west/) - The completion of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869, was as celebrated a national event as the first moon landing, exactly a century later. The first major news event carried “live” from coast-to-coast, telegraph wires were attached to the final spike, and as it was gently tapped with a silver maul,
- [Builder Levy: Appalachia USA](https://monovisions.com/builder-levy-appalachia-usa/) - Appalachia USA is a unique documentary project by the New York-based photographer Builder Levy (b. 1942) that explores life and labor in coal mining communities in Kentucky and West Virginia during the span of 40 years. Levy’s arresting black-and-white photographs connect us to the very heart of coal mining. He traces the indelible legacy of
- [Larry Fink: Primal Empathy](https://monovisions.com/larry-fink-primal-empathy/) - Photographer Larry Fink (b. 1941) creates intimate, nuanced images of human interaction. Caught in the light of his camera’s flash, his subjects are absorbed in sensual connection, unspoken familiarity, and comic revelry. Drawn from deCordova’s permanent collection with loans from the artist, this exhibition focuses on empathy in Fink’s work. Whether photographing members of elite
- [Deck the Walls at Catherine Couturier Gallery](https://monovisions.com/deck-the-walls-at-catherine-couturier-gallery/) - Deck the Walls is an annual group exhibition of vintage and contemporary pieces that allows Catherine Couturier Gallery to showcase a variety of artists, prices ranges, styles, and photographic mediums. Deck the Walls is expected to feature works by Elliott Erwitt, Maggie Taylor, and Stanko Abadzic. Other exhibited artists will include Renate Aller, Manuel Alvarez
- [Louis Stettner: Traveling Light](https://monovisions.com/louis-stettner-traveling-light/) - Over the course of his eight-decade career, Louis Stettner created a singular approach to photographing everyday life. Born in Brooklyn in 1922, Stettner began working as a photographer in the 1930s and served in the U.S. Army in World War II before moving to Paris in 1947. There, he studied at the Institut des Hautes
- [Martin Ogolter: Citizens, 110 Portraits](https://monovisions.com/martin-ogolter-citizens-110-portraits/) - The famous ocean sides neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone are known the world over and are the picture postcards of the city if not the country as a whole. About 35 kilometers inland, in the North Zone of the city, far from the famous beaches these are the suburbs and the hottest neighborhoods
- [Rosalind Solomon: Carnival 1980](https://monovisions.com/rosalind-solomon-carnival-1980/) - The gallery Julian Sander is very pleased to show the series Carnival 1980 of American photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon. These works are a compelling example of her humanistic-documentary work as well as a visual manifestation of her seen reality with all its consequences. Rosalind Fox Solomon was born in 1930 in Highland Park, Illinois and
- [Rhondal McKinney: Midwest Horizons](https://monovisions.com/rhondal-mckinney-midwest-horizons/) - Rhondal McKinney’s photographs transport the viewer within the vast and quiet landscape of rural Illinois, reminding them of the importance of stillness, time and memory. The artist affirms, “When I was a kid I used to ride around in my father's pickup truck. He was a bird hunter and a fisherman and we might be
- [Lee Friedlander: Maria](https://monovisions.com/lee-friedlander-maria/) - Deborah Bell Photographs is honored to present MARIA, an exhibition of photographs by Lee Friedlander featuring his wife, Maria. Dating from 1958 to 2008, the pictures were taken during Maria and Lee's early marriage, and throughout their family life as parents and grandparents. The 32 prints in the exhibition were selected by Friedlander for this
- [Ezra Stoller: Pioneers of American Modernism](https://monovisions.com/ezra-stoller-pioneers-of-american-modernism/) - The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography is presenting to the Russian public, for the first time, the work oftheoutstanding American architectural photographer of the 20th century—Ezra Stoller. The Guggenheim Museum, the former Whitney Museum of American Art building, Manhattan skyscrapers, the TWA Terminal at Kennedy International Airport, the famous Fallingwater house, the iconic building of
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Peking, China (19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/peking-china-19th-century-vintage-historic-bw-photos/) - During the Second Opium War, Anglo-French forces captured the outskirts of the city, looting and burning the Old Summer Palace in 1860. Under the Convention of Peking ending that war, Western powers for the first time secured the right to establish permanent diplomatic presences within the city. In 1900, the attempt by the "Boxers" to
- [Galina Kurlat: Shadow Play](https://monovisions.com/galina-kurlat-shadow-play/) - Galina Kurlat was born in Moscow, Russia, and emigrated to the US in 1989. She graduated from Pratt Institute and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in a number of public and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX and the Harry Ransom
- [Vintage: The Balkans (1900s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-the-balkans-1900s/) - From the album of a prussian revenue man who was stationed in Sofia (about 1900-1918). The photographs could have been taken in any other Balkan countries, because he undertook many journeys. via Wolfgang Wiggers
- [Vintage: Lumberjacks of North America (1900s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-lumberjacks-of-north-america-1900s/) - The term lumberjack is of Canadian derivation. The first attested use of the word comes from an 1831 letter to the Cobourg Star and General Advertiser in the following passage: "my misfortunes have been brought upon me chiefly by an incorrigible, though perhaps useful, race of mortals called LUMBERJACKS, whom, however, I would name the
- [Vintage: Street Views of Sweden (1900s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-street-views-of-sweden-1900s/) - Despite the slow rate of industrialisation into the 19th century, many important changes were taking place in the agrarian economy due to constant innovations and a rapid population growth. These innovations included government-sponsored programmes of enclosure, aggressive exploitation of agricultural lands, and the introduction of new crops such as the potato. Because the Swedish peasantry
- [Cristina García Rodero: Lalibela](https://monovisions.com/cristina-garcia-rodero-lalibela/) - In this volume, the award-winning photographer Cristina García Rodero presents the images she took in Lalibela, an Ethiopian World-Heritage city of the eleventh century, which is a holy city and an important pilgrimage site for the Coptic Christians of Ethiopia. They are black-and-white images that bear García Rodero's unmistakable mark. The viewer is captivated by
- [Ansel Adams at Robert Mann Gallery](https://monovisions.com/ansel-adams-at-robert-mann-gallery/) - Robert Mann Gallery presents work by Ansel Adams, ranging from vintage prints dating back to the artist’s very early career in the 1920’s, to extraordinary and unique masterpieces of his most iconic images such as Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico and Aspens, Northern New Mexico. Since 1977, Robert Mann has been a preeminent source for Adam’s
- [Helen Levitt: Five Decades](https://monovisions.com/helen-levitt-five-decades/) - Laurence Miller Gallery is pleased to present HELEN LEVITT: FIVE DECADES, featuring vintage prints gifted by Levitt to James Agee and his family between 1940 and ca. 2000. These include several of Levitt’s most famous New York images, pictures from Mexico City, and never before exhibited portraits of James Agee. Helen first met James Agee
- [Eugene Richards: The Run-On Of Time](https://monovisions.com/eugene-richards-the-run-on-of-time-2018/) - One of the most respected photographers of his generation, Eugene Richards has devoted his career to exploring profound aspects of human experience. Birth, death, family, and the grinding effects of poverty and prejudice, as well as the mental and physical health of individuals and communities, are recurring themes of his work. This exhibition—organized thematically, rather
- [Berlin in the 1918/19 Revolution](https://monovisions.com/berlin-in-the-1918-19-revolution/) - The revolution in winter and spring 1918/19 was decided in the streets of the imperial capital, Berlin. Berliners celebrated the abdication of the German Emperor with demonstrations in front of the Reichstag and the palace on November 9th, 1918, in the newspaper quarter in January 1919 rolls of printing paper were used by the Spartacists
- [Marc Riboud & Willy Ronis: France 1935 - 1985](https://monovisions.com/marc-riboud-willy-ronis-france-1935-1985/) - In this exhibition the two internationally famous French photographers Willy Ronis and Marc Riboud guide the viewer through the everyday life in Paris from 1935 to 1985. Willy Ronis, a representative of the French school of humanism, showed in his works the "normal life on the street". His photographs focused on people and showed mainly
- [Interview with photographer Florin Firimita](https://monovisions.com/interview-with-photographer-florin-firimita/) - - How and when did you become interested in photography? My father allowed me to use one of his cameras when I was three years old. By the time I was six I was helping him develop film and print photographs in his improvised lab in one of our bathrooms in Bucharest. He took pictures
- [Jose Picayo: 25 Years of Polaroids](https://monovisions.com/jose-picayo-25-years-of-polaroids/) - In this exhibition, Picayo seeks to revive the concept of unadulterated beauty captured as a single moment in time. An unapologetic user of film, Picayo prides himself on his avoidance of digital processing for personal work. When asked why it remains his preferred medium, Picayo answers, “Digital is so overpoweringly real; photography is more magical
- [Maria Austria: An Amsterdam Neo-Realist Photographer](https://monovisions.com/maria-austria-an-amsterdam-neo-realist-photographer/) - Born in Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary) in 1915, Maria Austria (Marie Karoline Oestreicher) completed her photography training at the "Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt" in Vienna in 1936. She briefly worked freelance but in 1937, with the persecution of Jews on the rise in Austria, she decided to move to Amsterdam. When German troops occupied the Netherlands,
- [Object Lessons: Photography at Cornell, 1869-2018](https://monovisions.com/object-lessons-photography-at-cornell-1869-2018/) - Photographs have been collected at Cornell since at least 1869, when the university accepted an unusual gift presented by President A. D. White: a photograph of the moon. For White, photographs were part of the arsenal of study tools required by a modern university. They accumulated on campus under his leadership, alongside books, manuscripts, models,
- [Jungjin Lee: Opening](https://monovisions.com/jungjin-lee-opening/) - The exhibition, which marks Lee’s second solo show with the gallery, is entitled Opening. A book of the same name with work from 2015 to 2016 was published by Nazraeli Press last year. Traveling to Arizona, New Mexico, and Canada, Lee captured abstract expanses of desert and mountain. Robert Frank has described her images as
- [The New Beginning for Italian Photography: 1945-1965](https://monovisions.com/the-new-beginning-for-italian-photography-1945-1965/) - Through the lens of neorealism, The New Beginning for Italian Photography: 1945-1965 explores how photographers documented daily realities during the two decades after World War II. The exhibition at Howard Greenberg, a collaboration with Admira Photography Studio, is presented in conjunction with NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960, which opens in September in two
- [NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960](https://monovisions.com/neorealismo-the-new-image-in-italy-1932-1960/) - NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960 poignantly portrays life in Italy through the lens of photography before, during, and after World War II. As both a formal approach and a mindset, neorealism reached the height of its popularity in the 1950s. While the movement is primarily associated with cinematic and literary depictions of dire
- [Permanence and Change: Architectural Views](https://monovisions.com/permanence-and-change-architectural-views/) - The exhibition presents works of photography’s early masters, focusing on 19th century architectural views beginning in 1842 by William Henry Fox Talbot, Henri Le Secq, Gustave Le Gray, Felix Teynard, and Auguste Salzmann, among others. Felix Teynard (1817-1892) completed an extensive photographic survey of Egypt during the course of a voyage along the Nile in
- [Klea McKenna: Generation](https://monovisions.com/klea-mckenna-generation/) - This exhibition marks her first solo show in New York and the beginning of her representation by Gitterman Gallery. It is presented in association with Von Lintel Gallery in Los Angeles where McKenna will have a concurrent exhibition from September 7th through October 20th. The exhibition presents McKenna's most recent work Generation alongside work from
- [Heiko Sievers: 1980. In Berlin.](https://monovisions.com/heiko-sievers-1980-in-berlin/) - The West Berlin of the early 1980s is the subject of the photographs by Heiko Sievers, which show three things: unknown people on the way, something of the atmosphere of Berlin and the attitude of the author in this city. A limited world, marked by recent history, close and wide at the same time, and
- [Biography: 19th Century daguerreotypist Jules Itier](https://monovisions.com/jules-itier-biography-19th-century-daguerreotypist/) - Jules Alphonse Eugène Itier (1802–1877) French customs inspector and amateur daguerreotypist. Between 1842 and 1843 he traveled to Senegal, Guadeloupe and India, where he took a number of early daguerreotypes. In December 1843, Itier was sent to accompany Théodore de Lagrené on his journey to China, where he been dispatched by Louis Philippe to conclude
- [Interview with photographer Allen Schill](https://monovisions.com/interview-with-photographer-allen-schill/) - - How and when did you become interested in photography? I became fascinated with photography while still a child, when I procured a simple plastic camera for 50 cents and 30 Bazooka Joe bubble gum comics. On my first roll of B&W film, I photographed the grass at my feet, filling the frame with a
- [Toujours Paris at Peter Fetterman Gallery](https://monovisions.com/toujours-paris-at-peter-fetterman-gallery/) - Using the French Humanist movement of the 1930s as its inspiration, Peter Fetterman Gallery is excited to announce its Toujours Paris exhibition featuring a curated collection of artists including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Louis Stettner, and Martine Franck, among others. French humanist photographers produced a new vision of the world that lived between realism and poetry, creating
- [Vintage: Portraits of Rudolph Valentino (1920s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-rudolph-valentino-1920s/) - Rudolph Valentino, byname of Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antonguolla, Alfonso also spelled Alfonzo, Raffaello also spelled Raffaelo, Pierre also spelled Pietro, and Filibert also spelled Filiberto (1895 - 1926), Italian-born American actor who was idolized as the “Great Lover” of the 1920s. When Guglielmi was 11, his father, a veterinarian, died
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer Henry Peach Robinson](https://monovisions.com/henry-peach-robinson-biography-19th-century-photographer/) - Henry Peach Robinson (1830 - 1901) was an English pictorialist photographer best known for his pioneering combination printing - joining multiple negatives or prints to form a single image; an early example of photomontage. In 1852 he exhibited an oil painting, On the Teme Near Ludlow, at the Royal Academy. That same year he began
- [Biography: 19th Century Portrait photographer Ernest Pogorelc](https://monovisions.com/ernest-pogorelc-biography-19th-century-portrait-photographer/) - Ernest Pogorelc (1838 – 1892) was the first professional photographer from Ljubljana and of Gottschee German descent from the Lower Carniola Region, now recognized as parts of Slovenia and Italy. He was a prolific studio photographer during the 19th century. His work appears in the trade registry in 1859. Expanding in 1864, he acquired an
- [Olivier Robert : Snow Fences](https://monovisions.com/olivier-robert-snow-fences/) - This series of photographs is part of my ongoing project about the winter in Japan. These snow fences are very typical elements of the Japanese landscapes in the snowy regions. I’ve always been attracted to their presence on the pristine snow and the way they organize the landscapes, playing elegantly with trees like notes on
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Holy Land, Syria (19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/holy-land-syria-19th-century-vintage-historic-bw-photos/) - In 1516, the Ottoman Empire invaded the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, conquering Syria, and incorporating it into its empire. The Ottoman system was not burdensome to Syrians because the Turks respected Arabic as the language of the Quran, and accepted the mantle of defenders of the faith. Damascus was made the major entrepot for Mecca,
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Middle East (19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/middle-east-19th-century-vintage-historic-bw-photos/) - Large parts of the Middle East became a warground between the Ottomans and Iranian Safavids for centuries starting in the early 16th century. By 1700, the Ottomans had been driven out of Hungary and the balance of power along the frontier had shifted decisively in favor of the West. The British also established effective control
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of India (19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/india-19th-century-vintage-historic-bw-photos/) - The rush of technology and the commercialisation of agriculture in the second half of the 19th century was marked by economic setbacks—many small farmers became dependent on the whims of far-away markets. There was an increase in the number of large-scale famines, and, despite the risks of infrastructure development borne by Indian taxpayers, little industrial
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Calcutta, India (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/calcutta-india-1890s-vintage-historic-bw-photos/) - Throughout the late 18th and 19th century, the city was a centre of the East India Company's opium trade. By the 1850s, Calcutta had two areas: White Town, which was primarily British and centred on Chowringhee and Dalhousie Square; and Black Town, mainly Indian and centred on North Calcutta. The city underwent rapid industrial growth
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Benares (Varanasi), India (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/benares-varanasi-india-1890s-vintage-historic-bw-photos/) - The Kingdom of Benares was given official status by the Mughals in 1737, and continued as a dynasty-governed area until Indian independence in 1947, during the reign of Dr. Vibhuti Narayan Singh. In the 18th century, Muhammad Shah ordered the construction of an observatory on the Ganges, attached to Man Mandir Ghat, designed to discover
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Bombay, India (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/bombay-india-1890s-vintage-historic-bw-photos/) - From 1782 onwards, the city was reshaped with large-scale civil engineering projects aimed at merging all the seven islands of Bombay into a single amalgamated mass by way of a causeway called the Hornby Vellard, which was completed by 1784. In 1817, the British East India Company under Mountstuart Elphinstone defeated Baji Rao II, the
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Delhi, India (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/delhi-india-1890s-vintage-historic-bw-photos/) - In 1757, the Afghan ruler, Ahmad Shah Durrani, sacked Delhi. He returned to Afghanistan leaving a Mughal puppet ruler in nominal control. The Marathas again occupied Delhi in 1758, and were in control until their defeat in 1761 at the third battle of Panipat when the city was captured again by Ahmad Shah. However, in
- [Vintage: South of India (19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-south-of-india-19th-century/) - The appointment in 1848 of Lord Dalhousie as Governor General of the East India Company set the stage for changes essential to a modern state. These included the consolidation and demarcation of sovereignty, the surveillance of the population, and the education of citizens. Technological changes—among them, railways, canals, and the telegraph—were introduced not long after
- [Vintage: Portraits of Abraham Lincoln (19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-abraham-lincoln-19th-century/) - Abraham Lincoln’s personal secretary John Nicolay believed that no photograph could capture Honest Abe’s essence: “There are many pictures of Lincoln,” he said, “[but] there is no portrait of him.” Over 130 photographs of Lincoln exist—here are a few you may not have come across before.
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Singapore (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-singapore-1890s/) - Raffles arrived in Singapore on 28 January 1819 and soon recognised the island as a natural choice for the new port. The island was then nominally ruled by the Sultan of Johor, who was controlled by the Dutch and the Bugis. However, the Sultanate was weakened by factional division and Tengku Abdu'r Rahman and his
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Madrid, Spain (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-madrid-spain-1890s/) - On 27 October 1807, Charles IV and Napoleon I signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau, which allowed the passage of French troops through Spanish territory to join the Spanish troops and invade Portugal, which had refused to obey the order of international blockade against England. As this was happening, there was the Mutiny of Aranjuez (17
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Lisboa, Portugal (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-lisboa-portugal-1890s/) - In the first years of the 19th century, Portugal was invaded by the troops of Napoléon Bonaparte, forcing Queen Maria I and Prince-Regent John (future John VI) to flee temporarily to Brazil. By the time the new King returned to Lisbon, many of the buildings and properties were pillaged, sacked or destroyed by the invaders.
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Barcelona, Spain (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-barcelona-spain-1890s/) - While Cerdà’s Extension was being built and filled out, the city began to plan how it could host the 1888 Great Exhibition. This event was seen as an opportunity to put Barcelona on the world stage, to show all the other countries of the world that Barcelona could be in the same class as London
- [Vintage: Scotland's Landscapes (19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-scotlands-landscapes-19th-century/) - The whole of Scotland was covered by ice sheets during the Pleistocene ice ages and the landscape is much affected by glaciation. From a geological perspective, the country has three main sub-divisions. The Highlands and Islands lie to the north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, which runs from Arran to Stonehaven. This part
- [Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Monaco (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-historic-bw-photos-of-monaco-1890s/) - Designated as a protectorate of the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna after Napoleon's defeat, Monaco's sovereignty was confirmed by the Franco-Monegasque Treaty of 1861. France accepted the existence of the Principality of Monaco, but annexed 95% of its former territory (the areas of Menton and Roquebrune). Monaco's military defense since
- [Vintage: Portraits of Betty Compson - Silent Movie Star](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-betty-compson-silent-movie-star/) - Betty Compson (1897 - 1974) was an American actress most famous in silent films and early talkies. Playing in vaudeville sketches with touring circuits, Compson got noticed by Hollywood producers. While touring, she was discovered by comedic producer Al Christie and signed a contract with him. Her first silent film, Wanted, a Leading Lady, was
- [Vintage: Portraits of Blanche Sweet - Silent Movie Star](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-blanche-sweet-silent-movie-star/) - Blanche Sweet (1896 - 1986) was an American silent film actress who began her career in the earliest days of the Hollywood motion picture film industry. Sweet was known for her energetic, independent roles, at variance with the 'ideal' Griffith type of vulnerable, often fragile, femininity. After many starring roles, her first real landmark film
- [Vintage: Portraits of Colleen Moore - Silent Movie Star](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-colleen-moore-silent-movie-star/) - Colleen Moore (1899 - 1988) was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era. At age 15 she was taking her first step in Hollywood. Her uncle arranged a screen test with director D.W. Griffith. She wanted to be a second Lillian Gish but instead, she found herself playing heroines
- [Vintage: Portraits of Bebe Daniels - Silent Movie Star](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-bebe-daniels-silent-movie-star/) - Bebe Daniels (1901 - 1971) was an American actress. In the 1920s, Daniels was under contract with Paramount Pictures. She made the transition from child star to adult in Hollywood by 1922 and by 1924 was playing opposite Rudolph Valentino in Monsieur Beaucaire. Following this she was cast in a number of light popular films,
- [Vintage: Portraits of Dorothy Gish - Silent Movie Star](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-dorothy-gish-silent-movie-star/) - Dorothy Gish (1898 - 1968) was an American actress. In Hearts of the World (1918), a film about World War I and the devastation of France, Dorothy found her first foothold, striking a personal hit in a comedy role that captured the essence of her sense of humor. As the “little disturber”, a street singer,
- [Vintage: Portraits of Marion Davies - Silent Movie Star](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-marion-davies-silent-movie-star/) - Marion Davies (1897 - 1961) was an American film actress. By the mid-1920s, however, Davies' career was often overshadowed by her relationship with William Randolph Hearst and their social life at San Simeon and Ocean House in Santa Monica. The latter was dubbed by Colleen Moore "the biggest house on the beach—the beach between San
- [Vintage: Portraits of Gloria Swanson - Silent Movie Star](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-gloria-swanson-silent-movie-star/) - Gloria Swanson (1899 - 1983) was a star in the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille. Throughout the 1920s, Swanson was Hollywood's top box office magnet. Swanson starred in dozens of silent films and was nominated for the first Academy Award in
- [Vintage: Portraits of Mary Pickford - Silent Movie Star](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-mary-pickford-silent-movie-star/) - Mary Pickford (1892 - 1979) was known in her prime as "America's Sweetheart" and the "girl with the curls". She was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and a significant figure in the development of film acting. Pickford was one of the earliest stars to be billed under her own name, and was
- [Vintage: Portraits of Clara Bow - Silent Movie Star](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-clara-bow-silent-movie-star/) - Clara Bow (1905 - 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom in silent film during the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" after 1927. Bow appeared in 46 silent films and 11 talkies.
- [Benita Suchodrev: 48 Hours Blackpool](https://monovisions.com/benita-suchodrev-48-hours-blackpool/) - From sunrise to sunset, on the famous promenade and surrounding alleys in the resort town on the Irish Sea, the Russian-American-Berliner Benita Suchodrev lets life unfold before her camera. Relying on her intuition, during a couple of summer days the photographer documents her encounters with strangers. Her manner is daring and swift, always capturing the
- [Sasha Gusov: The Bolshoi](https://monovisions.com/sasha-gusov-the-bolshoi/) - This beautiful and remarkable behind-the-scenes study of dancers, musicians and onlookers offers a social and narrative dimension to the everyday life at the legendary Bolshoi Ballet, through the lens of the acclaimed Russian photographer Sasha Gusov. In the words of Andrei Navrozov, Gusov's photographs are lightning fissures, apertures, openings. They are neat as the bullet
- [Vintage: Christmas Trees in the past](https://monovisions.com/vintage-christmas-trees-in-the-past/) - The relevance of ancient pre-Christian customs to the 16th-century German initiation of the Christmas tree custom is disputed. Resistance to the custom was often because of its supposed Lutheran origins. Other sources have offered a connection between the first documented Christmas trees in Alsace around 1600 and pre-Christian traditions. For example, according to the Encyclopædia
- [Vintage: Santa Claus in the past](https://monovisions.com/vintage-santa-claus-in-the-past/) - In 1821, the book A New-year's present, to the little ones from five to twelve was published in New York. It contained Old Santeclaus with Much Delight, an anonymous poem describing Santeclaus on a reindeer sleigh, bringing presents to children. Some modern ideas of Santa Claus seemingly became canon after the anonymous publication of the
- [Vintage: Street Scenes of the Munster Region, Ireland (late XIX Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-street-scenes-of-the-munster-region-ireland-late-xix-century/) - Munster is one of the provinces of Ireland situated in the south of Ireland. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings". Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into counties for administrative and judicial purposes. In later
- [Ute Mahler & Werner Mahler: ESSENCES - Photographs from four decades](https://monovisions.com/ute-mahler-werner-mahler-essences-photographs-from-four-decades/) - As part of EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2018, Galerie Springer Berlin is showing works by the photographers Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler for the first time and in doing so enriching the gallery’s programme. The comprehensive exhibition "Essences – Photography from four decades" includes works by Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler from
- [Resonance of Exile / Resonanz von Exil](https://monovisions.com/resonance-of-exile-resonanz-von-exil/) - After the successful launch in 2017, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg’s exhibition series exploring the history of artists who experienced life in exile now continues with Resonance of Exile. Last year, the first presentation in the series shed light on the sharp discontinuities in the biographies and oeuvres of four women artists who were forced
- [Yannig Hedel: Quarter past twelve](https://monovisions.com/yannig-hedel-quarter-past-twelve/) - Relentless street walker, Yannig Hedel (born in fRance, 1948) has been tracking the race of time on the urban architecture for 50 years, day after day, season after seasons, and offers us an extensive and coherent lifetime body of work. While everything around him is accelerating, Yannig Hedel takes his time. And more precisely, he
- [Vintage: Portraits of Lucette Desmoulins by Biederer Brothers (1920s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-lucette-desmoulins-by-biederer-brothers-1920s/) - Lucette Desmoulins was a French actress known for a few movies: Le bossu (1934), Un soir de réveillon (1933) and 77 rue Chalgrin (1931). She also appeared in muscials: Ma Femme (1927), Flossie (1929), Arsène Lupin, banquier (1930), Un soir de réveillon (1932), Loulou et ses boys (1933). Below her photos when she posed for
- [Jakob Tuggener: Maschinenzeit](https://monovisions.com/jakob-tuggener-maschinenzeit/) - Jakob Tuggener (1904-1988) is one of those exceptions in Swiss photography. His personal and highly expressive photographs of the boisterous parties in better social circles are legendary, and his book "Fabrik" of 1943 is regarded as a milestone in the history of the photobook. The exhibition "Machine Age" focuses on his photographs and films from
- [Masao Yamamoto: Microcosm Macrocosm](https://monovisions.com/masao-yamamoto-microcosm-macrocosm/) - The Japanese artist Yamamoto Masao first studied oil painting, before he discovered photography as his ideal medium due to its particular capacity to evoke memory. Yamamoto is known for his small-format silver gelatin prints, which he reworks through tinting, painting over them, or other manual interventions to the point that they take on the character
- [Susan Ressler - Executive Order: Images of 1970s Corporate America](https://monovisions.com/susan-ressler-executive-order-images-of-1970s-corporate-america/) - The photographs that form the exhibition depict corporate America between 1977-80, mostly in Los Angeles and the Mountain West. Unlike many of the other photographers of the 1970s who primarily photographed outdoors, Ressler brought the "New Topographics" aesthetic inside, to survey the environments that lay within. There, she found signifiers of the new American economy
- [Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary](https://monovisions.com/tina-modotti-photographer-and-revolutionary/) - This definitive portrayal of Tina Modotti brings to life the iconic artist who throughout her life vacillated between the purity of inspired creativity and the struggle for social justice. Incorporating extensive archival material, interviews with Modotti's contemporaries and many rare photographs, this illustrated biography magnificently portrays Tina Modotti, her contemporaries and their tumultous times. Shortlisted
- [Zhang Hai'er: Les filles](https://monovisions.com/zhang-haier-les-filles/) - Since the rise of modern feminism, and with increased urgency in the last half century as women have become familiar in new social roles, ‘the male gaze’ has been the subject of polemic debate. How should women be looked at? How should they be portrayed? How do they want to be seen? Why does the
- [Michael Köster: Monochrome City](https://monovisions.com/michael-koster-monochrome-city/) - Architecture and lines are the key elements of Michael Koester´s photography. The artist was born in Berlin, as a photographer he takes his time focussing on details putting them in the centre of his works. He creates new perception through unusual perspectives. It is a challenge to see what is special within the urban every
- [Interview with photographer Agata Cardoso](https://monovisions.com/agata-cardoso-interview-with-photographer/) - - How and when did you become interested in photography? I have always been a visual person, but I was finishing my gcse’s at the age of 16 when I really became interested in photography and my parents bought me a 1962 pentax ashai completely manual camera.After my exams, I took a 10 week starter
- [Radoslaw Pujan: Women](https://monovisions.com/radoslaw-pujan-women/) - In the book, different levels and nuances of the feminity are being explored. From fragile, emotional, through demonstrative and strong, to seducing and erotic. The images are telling a story of depicted women, sometimes in a graphical way, the other time in a sensual and deep form. Each composition is complex, blending a light narration
- [Steve Banks: Nitro](https://monovisions.com/steve-banks-nitro/) - 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
- [Ron Jude: 12 Hz](https://monovisions.com/ron-jude-12-hz/) - Gallery Luisotti is pleased to present Ron Jude: 12 Hz. The title of the exhibition references the limits of human perception—12 Hz is the lowest sound threshold of human hearing. It suggests imperceptible forces, from plate tectonics to the ocean tides, from cycles of growth and decay in the forest, to the incomprehensibility of geological
- [Robert Adams: 27 Roads](https://monovisions.com/robert-adams-27-roads/) - Robert Adams: 27 Roads, a tightly-focused group of photographs spanning almost five decades, will be on view at Fraenkel Gallery from September 6 through October 20, 2018. The road has been a central motif in the work of Robert Adams since the beginning of his life as a photographer, and 27 Roads is the first
- [Paris by Night: Vintage Prints from the Collection of Madame Brassaï](https://monovisions.com/paris-by-night-vintage-prints-from-the-collection-of-madame-brassai/) - Twenty-three vintage photographs by Brassaï from the collection of Madame Brassaï will be exhibited at Edwynn Houk Gallery from 13 September - 27 October 2018. Of Madame Brassaï, Edwynn Houk wrote in Houk Friedman’s 1993 catalog Brassaï - The Eye of Paris, “For me, one of the greatest opportunities and privileges of the past decade
- [Jerry Uelsmann: NOW](https://monovisions.com/jerry-uelsmann-now/) - NOW (RECENT WORK), features a selection of new images from one of the most innovative photographers of the last half-century, Jerry Uelsmann. Renowned for his revolutionary multiple exposure printing technique, where multiple negatives and enlargers are employed in the darkroom and several images are fused to create a single photograph, Uelsmann’s images blend the familiar
- [Dave Heath: Dialogues with Solitudes](https://monovisions.com/dave-heath-dialogues-with-solitudes/) - Dave Heath occupies a unique place in the history of American photography. Influenced by W. Eugene Smith and the photographers of the Chicago School, including Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan, he cannot, however, be considered as either a documentary or an experimental photographer. His photography is above all a way of bearing witness to his
- [Vintage: Edinburgh, Scotland in Calotype (1840s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-edinburgh-scotland-in-calotype-1840s/) - David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson were a pair of Scottish photographers working in the 1840s. They are best known for their wonderful portraits, but over the course of their sadly short partnership (Adamson died only five years in, aged 27) they also created quite a few city views. This blog has previously featured a
- [Romain Tornay: White Road](https://monovisions.com/romain-tornay-white-road/) - I made this serie while crossing Iceland from north to south. I did it in April 2008 and April 2009. Is was not possible to cross in 2008 due to the bad weather so I walked the end of the trip the following year. I want to represent whith this serie of pictures how small
- [Mouhamed Moustapha: The Existence](https://monovisions.com/mouhamed-moustapha-the-existence/) - My works are instinctive with an interesting mix of grit and finesse. Borne out of the stress of a corporate life that he formerly led, he tries to capture the hidden beauties and joys of quotidian daily life. Different elements and facets in his pictures convey the obvious, reveal the subtle and on other occasions
- [Arun Nangla: The elephant in the room](https://monovisions.com/arun-nangla-the-elephant-in-the-room/) - Asian Elephant is endangered. There are 350.000 African Elephants in the wild. Asian elephants in the wild is less than 50.000. The deadly threat for Asian Elephants is habitat loss. Forests are shrinking due to human activities like intensive plantation, logging and overgrowing human population. This conflict between human and elephant is a no-win situation.
- [François Kiéné: Afro Mecanique](https://monovisions.com/francois-kiene-afro-mecanique/) - It is an aesthetic work that creates a link between different universes. Mechanical tools and traditional African art. Beyond formal similarity, there is no free gesture in this two universes . The wet collodion process give the pictures an old-fashioned look , as if they are divorced from a specific sense of time. 'Afro Mecanique'
- [Max Moldau: Moony](https://monovisions.com/max-moldau-moony/) - "Moony" is a series of self-portraits illustrating my fascination by the Moon. It is an homage to Femininity, to passing Time and to all the moons.In the times when new companies emerge, telling us that their mission is to conquer the Moon, unlock its mysteries and resources, i want the Moon being protected from such
- [Cosimo Manlio De Pasquale: The Well of Souls](https://monovisions.com/cosimo-manlio-de-pasquale-the-well-of-souls/) - Wat Rong Khun, better known as "White Temple" is located in the city of Chiang Rai, in the Northern Thailand. It is a bizarre and particular Buddhist and Hindu temple, a real work of contemporary art designed by the artist Chalermchai Kositpipat. The main building at the the Temple is reached by crossing a little
- [George Tice: 80th Anniversary](https://monovisions.com/george-tice-80th-anniversary/) - 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.
- [Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting](https://monovisions.com/winslow-homer-winslow-homer-and-the-camera-photography-and-the-art-of-painting/) - 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
- [Vintage: Decayed Daguerreotype Portraits by Mathew Brady (19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-decayed-daguerreotype-portraits-by-mathew-brady-19th-century/) - Mathew Brady is one of the most celebrated 19th-century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and his documentation of the American Civil War which earned him the title of “father of photojournalism”. The Library of Congress received the majority of the Brady daguerreotypes as a gift from the Army War College in
- [Vintage: Decayed Daguerreotype Portraits by Mathew Brady Studio (19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-decayed-daguerreotype-portraits-by-mathew-brady-studio-19th-century/) - Mathew Brady is one of the most celebrated 19th-century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and his documentation of the American Civil War which earned him the title of “father of photojournalism”. The Library of Congress received the majority of the Brady daguerreotypes as a gift from the Army War College in
- [Vinatge: Flooding in the Thames Valley, December 1915](https://monovisions.com/vinatge-flooding-in-the-thames-valley-december-1915/) - During a House of Commons sitting in February 1915, the prime minister, Herbert Asquith, replying to a question about the damage caused by flooding, said: “The attention of the Government has been called from time to time to the serious injury caused by floods in the Upper Thames Valley and to the desirability of a
- [Vintage: The Globe Kittens (1902)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-the-globe-kittens-1902/) - In 1895, an amendment to Canadian law allowed the British Museum to receive one copy of all Canadian intellectual property deposted for copyright registration. This situation persisted until 1924, when - as part of a general reworking of Canadian copyright law - the right of receipt was removed. During these thirty years, the Department of
- [Vintage: Smith and Telfer Studio in Cooperstown, New York (1865-1885)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-smith-and-telfer-studio-in-cooperstown-new-york-1865-1885/) - Washington G. Smith (1828-1893) and Arthur J. Telfer (1859-1954) spent almost one hundred years photographing people, events, and scenes in and around Cooperstown. At the time of his gift Telfer was 93 years old and was widely thought to be the oldest working photographer in the United States. Washington Smith worked with partners while he
- [Wei Tan: Waiting in Limbo: Kashmir’s Half-widows](https://monovisions.com/wei-tan-waiting-in-limbo-kashmirs-half-widows/) - 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
- [Rolfe Horn: Explorations](https://monovisions.com/rolfe-horn-explorations/) - 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
- [Keith Carter: Fifty Years](https://monovisions.com/keith-carter-fifty-years/) - 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
- [Renato D'Agostin: METROPOLIS](https://monovisions.com/renato-dagostin-metropolis/) - 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
- [A City Transformed: Photographs of Paris, 1850–1900](https://monovisions.com/a-city-transformed-photographs-of-paris-1850-1900/) - 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.
- [August Sander: Masterworks - Photographs from "People of the 20th Century"](https://monovisions.com/august-sander-masterworks-photographs-from-people-of-the-20th-century/) - 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
- [Hugo Erfurth: A Look at the Collection](https://monovisions.com/hugo-erfurth-a-look-at-the-collection/) - Most of the portraits that survive from the studio of Hugo Erfurth (1874–1948) hark back in style to the era of art photography. This artistically motivated photographic approach, also known as Pictorialism, flourished at the end of the 19th century until around 1914. The photographers aimed to create exquisitely designed compositions, which were further refined
- [Interview with Architecture photographer Naoki Fujihara](https://monovisions.com/naoki-fujihara-interview-with-architecture-photographer/) - - How and when did you become interested in photography? The cause of me becoming interested in photography was lots of beautiful landscape photographs all over the world. I started photography in 2016, but I had lots of chance to appreciate photography before 2016. I wanted to shoot landscapes and express the beauty of the
- [Vintage: Frances Louisa Clayton (19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-frances-louisa-clayton-19th-century/) - Several hundred women disguised themselves as men and took the bold step of leaving the comforts of home to serve their country during the Civil War. Frances Clalin Clayton disguised herself as a man and took the name Jack Williams in order to fight in the army. For several months, she served in Missouri artillery
- [Vintage: Portraits of People in Their Traditional Costumes (1893 Chicago World's Fair)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-people-in-their-traditional-costumes-1893-chicago-worlds-fair/) - The World Columbian Exposition was held from May to October 1893 in Chicago in honor of the 400th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the new world. In competition with many other cities, Chicago was finally designated the official site and the Exposition was built on 630 acres in and around Jackson Park. It was a
- [Vintage: Everyday Life in China (1921)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-everyday-life-in-china-1921/) - These found photos from motohakone who bought at a flea market in Cannes, France in 1982. Photos were taken by a French speaking person when he made a trip to China (Shanghai, Suzhou, and Beijing) in October 1921. via motohakone
- [Vintage: Everyday Life of China (1921)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-everyday-life-of-china-1921/) - These found photos from motohakone who bought at a flea market in Cannes, France in 1982. Photos were taken by a French speaking person when he made a trip to China (Shanghai, Suzhou, and Beijing) in October 1921. via motohakone
- [Vintage: Portrait Photos of Cambridge University Men (late 19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portrait-photos-of-cambridge-university-men-late-19th-century/) - The colleges at the University of Cambridge were originally an incidental feature of the system. No college is as old as the university itself. The colleges were endowed fellowships of scholars. There were also institutions without endowments, called hostels. The hostels were gradually absorbed by the colleges over the centuries, but they have left some
- [Arnold Newman: One Hundred](https://monovisions.com/arnold-newman-one-hundred-book/) - 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
- [Arthur Griffin: The Divers](https://monovisions.com/arthur-griffin-the-divers/) - 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
- [Steam & Steel: Photographs by O. Winston Link](https://monovisions.com/steam-steel-photographs-by-o-winston-link/) - 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
- [Clive Arrowsmith: Amazement and Amusement](https://monovisions.com/clive-arrowsmith-amazement-and-amusement/) - For decades, Clive Arrowsmith’s fashion studies and portraiture have been celebrated for their creative vision and jubilant, expressive style; emphatic photographs of Bowie, McCartney, Sammy Davis Jr. or Jagger are created from a mixture of the photographer’s alluring brand and his traditional art school training. The Welsh photographer from Mancot gained recognition as one of
- [Daniel Garay Arango: GRVTY2](https://monovisions.com/daniel-garay-arango-grvty2/) - 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'
- [Nathalie Daoust: Korean Dreams](https://monovisions.com/nathalie-daoust-korean-dreams/) - Photographer Nathalie Daoust’s newest project, Korean Dreams, is a complex series that probes the unsettling vacuity of North Korea. Piercing its veil with her lens, these images reveal a country that seems to exist outside of time, as a carefully choreographed mirage. Daoust has spent much of her career exploring the chimeric world of fantasy:
- [Sevil Alkan: Stray with me](https://monovisions.com/sevil-alkan-stray-with-me/) - Taking photography by mobile phones created a new trend by changing the border and direction of the photography, mobile photography turns out to be a global movement which develops quickly and is fed by continuous impressive production. It achieves to be one of the photographic movements which creates the means for new approaches and experimental
- [Benjamin Decoin: Atomic commuters](https://monovisions.com/benjamin-decoin-atomic-commuters/) - 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
- [Rui Caria: The refugrants](https://monovisions.com/rui-caria-the-refugrants/) - 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
- [Luisa Lynch: Conversations](https://monovisions.com/luisa-lynch-conversations/) - 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
- [Oriano Nicolau: Projections](https://monovisions.com/oriano-nicolau-projections/) - 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
- [Hironori Nakamura: Rhythm](https://monovisions.com/hironori-nakamura-rhythm/) - Six images of parking lots selected from my on going project ".Rhythm" which is focused on the visual minimalistic rhythm brought by both of sequential pattern of white line and elegant contrast between asphalt and white line. 'Rhythm' was the Black & White Abstract Series of the Year 2018 Winner in the MonoVisions Photography Awards.
- [The Fashion Show](https://monovisions.com/the-fashion-show/) - Fashion, by definition, is the predominant style of a particular time and place, an entity that provides posterity with a window into cultural values both past and present. Thanks to the pioneering works of fashion photographers such as George Hoyningen-Huene, Lillian Bassman, and William Klein, fashion has been preserved through the ages and continues to
- [Interview with Alicja Brodowicz](https://monovisions.com/interview-with-alicja-brodowicz/) - I combine the two images, looking for converging lines, textures, similarities in layout and analogies in composition between the microcosm and the macrocosm. I look for unity between the human body and the nature. The series of photos is the visual re-enactment of my ever-increasing desire of being close to nature. The older I grow,
- [Zhou HanShun: Frenetic City](https://monovisions.com/zhou-hanshun-frenetic-city/) - With a population of over 7 million but less than 25% of its land developed, it is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. When I first landed, I was immediately confronted by a society that is in fierce competition for physical and mental space. I decided to capture and re-create the
- [Interview with Leanne Surfleet](https://monovisions.com/interview-with-leanne-surfleet/) - - How and when did you become interested in photography? When I was around 18 I was gifted a little digital camera and started to shoot anything and everything. After some time I received a 35mm SLR and encouraged to experiment with different films & processes, my obsession and passion grew from there. I studied
- [Amy Arbus: Self – Exposures](https://monovisions.com/amy-arbus-self-exposures/) - We are pleased to present Tub Pictures, a series of previously unknown, nude self-portraits from acclaimed photographer AMY ARBUS created during a 1992 master class with Richard Avedon. This riveting and important photographic document consists of eight black and white photographs of the artist in stark light without clothing, undefended as she confronts and considers
- [Sasha Gusov: Bolshoi Ballet](https://monovisions.com/sasha-gusov-bolshoi-ballet/) - The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents an exhibition from photographer Sasha Gusov, which will display a cycle of photographs of the Bolshoi Ballet Company. The exposition will include about 50 unique shots made during the period between 1992 to 2016, from behind the scenes of the "big ballet", the brand that emerged during the
- [From the Archive: Masters of 20th Century American Photography](https://monovisions.com/from-the-archive-masters-of-20th-century-american-photography/) - From the Archive: Masters of 20th Century American Photography demonstrates the gallery’s expertise in American modernist photography from the post World War II era, and draws from the gallery’s vast and ever-changing inventory. Some of the artists featured are: Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Margaret Bourke-White, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, Frank Gohlke, Kenneth Josephson, Annie Leibovitz,
- [Biography: 19th Century Portrait photographer Robert Jefferson Bingham](https://monovisions.com/robert-jefferson-bingham-biography-19th-century-portrait-photographer/) - Robert Jefferson Bingham (1824 – 1870) was an English pioneer photographer, mainly active in France, making portraits and reproductions of paintings. He is one of the first photographers to use and write about the collodion process, which he claimed to have invented. In 1847, he published a new edition of Photogenic manipulation, containing the theory
- [Aaron Siskind: I Love Aaron Siskind](https://monovisions.com/aaron-siskind-i-love-aaron-siskind/) - By 1930, the Modernist aesthetic had prevailed over Pictorialism as the benchmark of the new photographic art. Long gone were the rites of obscuring its mechanical apparatus in the romanticism of painterly softness. Sharp focus and formal emphasis, qualities inherent in the camera, had come to define the medium. Aaron Siskind would redefine it. That
- [Daidō Moriyama: SCENE](https://monovisions.com/daido-moriyama-scene/) - Daido Moriyama is recognised as one of the few living modern masters of photography from Japan and is certainly the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement of the 1960s. Hamiltons presents Daido Moriyama: SCENE, an exhibition of photographs selected by gallery owner Tim Jefferies from Moriyama’s extensive oeuvre and produced exclusively
- [Hommage à Willy Ronis](https://monovisions.com/hommage-a-willy-ronis/) - This exhibition presents a selection of Willy Ronis’s work. For Ronis photography is not an end in itself but a means of expressing his experience of the social realities around him. Hommage à Willy Ronis June 6th – July 13th, 2018 Galerie ARGENTIC 43 Rue Daubenton, 75005 Paris, France www.argentic.fr
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer of Snowflakes - Wilson Bentley](https://monovisions.com/wilson-bentley-biography-19th-century-photographer-of-snowflakes/) - Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley (1865 - 1931) is one of the first known photographers of snowflakes. He perfected a process of catching flakes on black velvet in such a way that their images could be captured before they either melted or sublimated. He first became interested in snow crystals as a teenager on his family farm.
- [Arbus Friedlander Winogrand: New Documents, 1967](https://monovisions.com/arbus-friedlander-winogrand-new-documents-1967/) - n the past decade a new generation of photographers has directed the documentary approach toward more personal ends. Their aim has been not to reform life, but to know it. ―John Szarkowski In 1967, The Museum of Modern Art presented New Documents, a landmark exhibition organized by John Szarkowski that brought together a selection of
- [Unearthing Ancient Nubia](https://monovisions.com/unearthing-ancient-nubia/) - Specially trained Egyptian photographers were an integral part of the pioneering Harvard-MFA expedition during the first half of the 20th century. Over the course of some 40 years, their photographs documented the excavations with thousands of images as the riches of a great ancient civilization in northern Sudan were uncovered. George A. Reisner, the leader
- [So Beautiful at In Focus Galerie](https://monovisions.com/so-beautiful-at-in-focus-galerie/) - In focus Gallery presents a thematically exhibition from the Gallery’s collection, as a tribute to the beauty of women. "so beautiful" will take the viewer on a journey from 1940 up to today to discover exceptional works of art photography that focus on the beauty of women. The exhibition "so beautiful" takes the liberty to
- [Vintage: Sydney during the 1900 Bubonic Plague](https://monovisions.com/vintage-sydney-during-the-1900-bubonic-plague/) - When bubonic plague struck Sydney in 1900, George McCredie was appointed by the Government to take charge of all quarantine activities in the Sydney area, beginning work on March 23, 1900. At the time of his appointment, McCredie was an architect and consulting engineer with offices in the Mutual Life of New York Building in
- [HackelBury: Twenty](https://monovisions.com/hackelbury-twenty/) - HackelBury Fine Art is pleased to present Twenty, an exhibition celebrating two decades of the gallery, 14th June – 10th August 2018. This is the first in a series of exhibitions that will explore the gallery’s history of collecting and exhibiting work by photographers at the forefront of their practise. Works by Berenice Abbott, Henri
- [Changes: From the Staley-Wise Archive](https://monovisions.com/changes-from-the-staley-wise-archive/) - Changes: From the Staley-Wise Archive June 1st – August 31st, 2018 Staley-Wise Gallery 100 Crosby Street, New York, NY 10012 www.staleywise.com
- [Vintage: Street Scenes of the Munster Region, Ireland (late 19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-street-scenes-of-the-munster-region-ireland-late-19th-century/) - Munster is one of the provinces of Ireland situated in the south of Ireland. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings". Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into counties for administrative and judicial purposes. In later
- [Vintage: Clubs at North Carolina Women's Colleges (early 20th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-clubs-at-north-carolina-womens-colleges-early-20th-century/) - Not all clubs at women's colleges in North Carolina were highly formal organizations. Many were formed to connect students with similar interests, to connect students from the same state, or purely in pursuit of fun. via North Carolina Digital Heritage Center
- [Steven Arnold: Revelations](https://monovisions.com/steven-arnold-revelations/) - Espacio Mínimo gallery, as it did with other past exhibitions such as Tom of Finland or James Bidgood in previous seasons, puts its attention on this occasion in another of the most important, and at the same time most forgotten, references of the queer culture of the last decades of the last century, STEVEN ARNOLD.
- [Vintage: Portraits of Icelandic People by Daniel Bruun (late 19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-icelandic-people-by-daniel-bruun-late-19th-century/) - Collection of portrait photos by Daniel Bruun (1856-1931), a member of the Danish Army, archaeologist and writer.
- [Vintage: Views of San Francisco by G. R. Fardon (1856)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-views-of-san-francisco-by-g-r-fardon-1856/) - Originally published in 1856, George Robinson Fardon's San Francisco Album is the earliest existing photographic record of an American city. An unmatched historical document of San Francisco during its years of rapid growth and burgeoning prosperity in the wake of the Gold Rush, the album is aesthetically compelling as well. Fardon (1806-1886), arrived in San
- [Vintage: First Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-first-australasian-antarctic-expedition-1911-1914/) - In 1911 a group of scientists and adventurers left Hobart under the leadership of Dr Douglas Mawson. They were bound for Macquarie Island and the then unknown parts of Antarctica. The scientists of the expedition produced information that later made an major contribution to knowledge of the region. The exploration of new lands established precedence
- [Vintage: Montparnasse Train Derailment in Paris (1895)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-montparnasse-train-derailment-in-paris-1895/) - At first glance, the photos look like stills from an old disaster movie or a spectacular example of theme park scenery welcoming visitors to some wild new ride. However, these extraordinary images are actually testament to a real-life tragedy, the derailment of the Granville-Paris Express that on October 22, 1895 tore through the façade of
- [The Early Years, Ansel Adams and Edward Weston](https://monovisions.com/the-early-years-ansel-adams-and-edward-weston/) - Scott Nichols Gallery is pleased to present some expected and some unexpected photographs by Ansel Adams and Edward Weston “from the vault.” We’ve dug deep into the archive to find some great surprises to accompany such classics as Clearing Winter Storm and the Dunes at Oceano. Ansel Adams and Edward Weston The Early Years May
- [Daniel Coburn: Becoming a Specter](https://monovisions.com/daniel-coburn-becoming-a-specter/) - Some photographs faithfully record the world in front of them. Others bend the objects presented to the camera through the mind’s lens, transforming them beyond surface appearances. This latter approach reveals the surrealism already present within the real, confronting us directly with the ambiguities we too often deny. Daniel Coburn’s Becoming a Specter, on view
- [Judy Dater: Only Human](https://monovisions.com/judy-dater-only-human/) - Spanning five decades of the artist’s work, Judy Dater: Only Human is the first exhibition in over twenty years to explore the career of Bay Area photographer Judy Dater. This exhibition will provide a survey of Dater’s work, celebrating her achievement as a pioneering figure in 1970s feminist art and her subsequent creative evolution. Living
- [Alice Springs (June Newton): Portraits](https://monovisions.com/alice-springs-june-newton-portraits/) - In June’s Room, on the occasion of the 95th birthday of June Newton, who worked under the name Alice Springs, are around 30 portraits, some previously unseen, from the foundation’s collection. In the context of the Sozzani collection, they are mainly of artists, photographers, and fashion designers. Alice Springs started working in the 1970s on
- [Stefan Moses: Artists / Künstler](https://monovisions.com/stefan-moses-artists-kunstler/) - A man disappears. He turns his face to the camera, holding a mask in front of his mouth, thus removing his person from reality. Only the dark eyes remain, a high forehead with grey hair, wrinkled hands showing traces of age. The rest has evolved – at least for the short moment of a photograph;
- [Jacques-Henri Lartigue: C'est chic!](https://monovisions.com/jacques-henri-lartigue-cest-chic/) - "In 1998, I asked Paul Smith, to write a small introduction to our very first exhibition of Jacques Henri Lartigue. He very kindly agreed. It was a seminal moment for the gallery as we were showing my favorite 20th century artist and his work was affirmed by a man who I had such huge respect
- [Vintage: Russian Beauties in Traditional Costumes (19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-russian-beauties-in-traditional-costumes-19th-century/) - These photos were taken in the end of 19th century and now are kept in the collection of the Russian Museum of Ethnography. The women in the photos are wearing traditional costumes of different regions of Russia. And though you can see many regional differences in the outfits there are two similar basic elements -
- [Vintage: Russian Beauties in Traditional Costumes (late 19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-russian-beauties-in-traditional-costumes-late-19th-century/) - These photos were taken in the end of 19th century and now are kept in the collection of the Russian Museum of Ethnography. The women in the photos are wearing traditional costumes of different regions of Russia. And though you can see many regional differences in the outfits there are two similar basic elements -
- [Vintage: Hamburg, Germany (1910s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-hamburg-germany-1910s/) - When Jan van Valckenborgh introduced a second layer to the fortifications to protect against the Thirty Years War in the seventeenth century, he extended Hamburg and created a "New Town" (Neustadt) whose street names still date from the grid system of roads he introduced. In 1842, about a quarter of the inner city was destroyed
- [Vintage: Native Americans Dressed in European Attire (early 20th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-native-americans-dressed-in-european-attire-early-20th-century/) - Forced assimilation is a process of forced cultural assimilation of religious or ethnic minority groups, into an established and generally larger community. This presumes a loss of many characteristics which make the minority different. The Native Americans suffered both ethnic and religious assimilation. The assimilation process took place between the years 1790 and 1920. George
- [Vintage: Portraits of Children Who Lived in Spitalfields, London by Horace Warner (1900s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-children-who-lived-in-spitalfields-london-by-horace-warner-1900s/) - Around 1900, photographer Horace Warner took a series of portraits of some of the poorest people in London - creating relaxed, intimate images that gave dignity to his subjects and producing great photography that is without comparison in his era. Previously, only a handful of Warner’s sympathetic portraits of the children who lived in the
- [Vintage: Mug-shots of Prisoners (1900s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-mug-shots-of-prisoners-1900s/) - “Some years ago I discovered a cache of glass negative mug shots taken in the early 20th century; each negative was inscribed with the man’s name and alleged crime. In order to research the life of each man pictured in the 500 negatives, I spent the next three years traveling back and forth from New
- [Vintage: Mugshots of Prisoners (1900s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-mugshots-of-prisoners-1900s/) - “Some years ago I discovered a cache of glass negative mug shots taken in the early 20th century; each negative was inscribed with the man’s name and alleged crime. In order to research the life of each man pictured in the 500 negatives, I spent the next three years traveling back and forth from New
- [Margaret Bourke-White: Different World](https://monovisions.com/margaret-bourke-white-different-world/) - This exhibition examines the work that trailblazing photographer, Margaret Bourke-White, produced abroad. Drawing on the Cornell Fine Arts Museum's collection of Bourke-White's photographs taken in Russia and augmented by loans of her photojournalism conducted during World War II and beyond, the exhibition explores Bourke-White’s groundbreaking subject matter. Beyond her work in Europe, this exhibition will
- [Black Resistance: Ernest C. Withers and the Civil Rights Movement](https://monovisions.com/black-resistance-ernest-c-withers-and-the-civil-rights-movement/) - Beginning in the 1950s, Ernest Withers (1922-2007) photographed Black resistance in Memphis - from pickets and sit-ins to court room scenes. Among his most famous images are those documenting the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Although earlier protests are included, this exhibition focuses on and commemorates the
- [Vivian Maier: Revealed: Selections from the Archives](https://monovisions.com/vivian-maier-revealed-selections-from-the-archives/) - The exhibition features a selection of over 30 black and white photographs by American street photographer Vivian Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009). It is the first exhibition of Maier’s photography in Westchester County. Unknown during her lifetime, Maier worked as a full-time nanny while pursuing her photography consistently over five decades. Her
- [Michael Kenna: Abruzzo + New Photographs](https://monovisions.com/michael-kenna-abruzzo-new-photographs/) - Photographs by Michael Kenna from Abruzzo, Italy + New Works. Michael Kenna Abruzzo + New Photographs June 8 – July 14, 2018 G. Gibson Gallery 104 West Roy Street Seattle, WA 98119 www.ggibsongallery.com
- [Vintage Daguerreotype portraits from XIX Century (1844 - 1860)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-daguerreotype-portraits-from-xix-century-1844-1860/) - Mathew B. Brady (1822 – 1896) was one of the first American photographers, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. Brady opened his own studio in New York in 1844, and photographed Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, among other celebrities. Here is a collection of mid 19th century Daguerreotypes produced by Mathew Brady's studio
- [Vintage: Daguerreotype Portraits of People born in the late 18th Century (1700s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-daguerreotype-portraits-of-people-born-in-the-late-18th-century-1700s/) - Photo collection of mid XIX century Victorian Era Daguerreotype Portraits of People born in the late 18th century (1700s). From the collection of Jesse Cress at flickr
- [Victorian Era Tintype Portraits of Children (1870s and 1880s)](https://monovisions.com/victorian-era-tintype-portraits-of-children-1870s-and-1880s/) - Photo collection of Vintage Victorian Era Tintype Portraits of Children (1870s and 1880s). From the collection of Lisby @ Flickr.
- [Vintage Daguerreotype portraits from XIX Century (1844 - 1860)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-daguerreotype-portraits-xix-century-1844-1860/) - Mathew B. Brady (1822 – 1896) was one of the first American photographers, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. Brady opened his own studio in New York in 1844, and photographed Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, among other celebrities. Here is a collection of mid 19th century Daguerreotypes produced by Mathew Brady's studio
- [Victorian Era Ambrotype Portraits of Children (1850s and 1860s)](https://monovisions.com/victorian-era-ambrotype-portraits-of-children-1850s-and-1860s/) - Photo collection of mid XIX century Victorian Era Ambrotype Portraits of Children (1850s and 1860s). From the collection of Lisby @ Flickr.
- [Vintage Daguerreotypes of widows in mourning (Victorian era, 1800s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-daguerreotypes-of-widows-in-mourning-victorian-era-1800s/) - Amazing collection of Victorian Era Daguerreotype portraits of women in mourning and widows. Lisby @ Flickr.
- [Daguerreotype Portraits of Ladies born in the late 18th century (1700s)](https://monovisions.com/daguerreotype-portraits-of-ladies-born-in-the-late-18th-century-1700s/) - Photo collection of mid XIX century Victorian Era Daguerreotype Portraits of Ladies born in the late 18th century (1700s). via jessecollectorfreak @ Flickr
- [Vintage: 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin](https://monovisions.com/vintage-1916-easter-rising-in-dublin/) - On the morning of Monday 24 April, about 1,200 members of the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army mustered at several locations in central Dublin. Among them were members of the all-female Cumann na mBan. Some wore Irish Volunteer and Citizen Army uniforms, while others wore civilian clothes with a yellow Irish Volunteer armband, military
- [Vintage: Glass negatives by Frederick Danvers Power (1898 - 1926)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-glass-negatives-by-frederick-danvers-power-1898-1926/) - Frederick Danvers Power (1861-1955 ) was born in England and educated at Malvern College, the Royal School of Mines, London, and the Mining Academy, Clausthal in Germany. In 1884 he migrated to Australia where he settled, initially in Melbourne, pursuing his mining engineering career. He worked as an analyst at Bethanga and was General Manager
- [Vintage: London by Rex Hazlewood (1918-1919)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-london-by-rex-hazlewood-1918-1919/) - David ‘Rex’ Hazlewood (1886 – 1968) was born in Dulwich Hill in Sydney’s Inner West and grew up in the suburban areas around Homebush, Chatswood and Epping. He first trained as a tailor in a city clothing warehouse but it was Rex’s father, David, who was himself a keen amateur photographer who fostered the same
- [Vintage: Portraits of American Ladies by Mathew Brady (1863)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-american-ladies-by-mathew-brady-1863/) - During the Civil War, Mathew Brady and his associates traveled throughout the eastern part of the country, capturing the effects of the War through photographs of people, towns, and battlefields. Additionally, Brady kept studios in Washington, DC and New York City, where many influential politicians and war heroes sat for portraits. Brady photographed many subjects
- [Vintage: Portraits of American Ladies by Mathew Brady (1863)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portrait-of-american-young-ladies-by-mathew-brady-1863/) - During the Civil War, Mathew Brady and his associates traveled throughout the eastern part of the country, capturing the effects of the War through photographs of people, towns, and battlefields. Additionally, Brady kept studios in Washington, DC and New York City, where many influential politicians and war heroes sat for portraits. Brady photographed many subjects
- [Vintage: Everyday Life of Ontario, Canada by Reuben R. Sallows (late 19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-everyday-life-of-ontario-canada-by-reuben-r-sallows-late-19th-century/) - At the turn of the 20th century, when most cameras and photographers operated out of a studio, Ontario-based photographer Reuben R. Sallows (1855-1937) took his heavy, cumbersome equipment outside. He photographed people at work and play in the small towns, farmlands and in the expansive Canadian wilderness of Ontario, the western rovinces and northern Quebec.
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer Geraldine Moodie](https://monovisions.com/geraldine-moodie-biography-19th-century-photographer/) - Geraldine Moodie (1854 – 1945) was a pioneering Canadian photographer. She married John Douglas Moodie in England in 1878 and they had six children. They returned to Canada and briefly farmed in Manitoba, then moved to Ottawa, and in 1885 her husband received a commission with the North-West Mounted Police. She is best known for
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer Farnham Maxwell-Lyte](https://monovisions.com/farnham-maxwell-lyte-biography-19th-century-photographer/) - Farnham Maxwell-Lyte (1828 - 1906) was an English chemist and the pioneer of a number of techniques in photographic processing. As a photographer he is known for his views of the French Pyrenees. In 1853, he travelled to Luz-Saint-Sauveur in the Pyrenees on account of his bad health and in 1856 his family joined him.
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer John Dillwyn Llewelyn](https://monovisions.com/john-dillwyn-llewelyn-biography-19th-century-photographer/) - John Dillwyn Llewelyn (1810 - 1882) was a botanist and pioneer photographer. In January 1839, following the announcements of photographic processes by both William Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, Llewelyn, with the encouragement of Henry Talbot, began to experiment himself. He tried all the processes available. His earliest daguerreotype is dated 1840.
- [Biography: 19th Century Architecture photographer Albert Lévy](https://monovisions.com/albert-levy-biography-19th-century-architecture-photographer/) - Albert Levy (1844 - 1907) was a French photographer active in Europe and the United States. Most active in the 1880s and 1890s, he was a pioneer of architectural photography. There are indications that Albert Levy was a photographer who also worked variously as bookseller, editor and manufacturer. He was also working in France in
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer Sergey Lvovich Levitsky](https://monovisions.com/sergey-lvovich-levitsky-biography-19th-century-photographer/) - Sergei Lvovich Levitsky (1819 - 1898), is considered one of the patriarchs of Russian photography and one of Europe's most important early photographic pioneers, inventors and innovators. His ability to speak several languages allowed him to participate in a government commission to study the composition and therapeutic properties of mineral waters in the Caucasus. On
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer Gustave Le Gray](https://monovisions.com/gustave-le-gray-biography-19th-century-photographer/) - Gustave Le Gray (1820 - 1884) has been called "the most important French photographer of the nineteenth century" because of his technical innovations in the still new medium of photography, his role as the teacher of other noted photographers, and "the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture making." He was an early pioneer of High-Dynamic
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer Heinrich Kühn](https://monovisions.com/heinrich-kuhn-biography-19th-century-photographer/) - Heinrich Kühn (1866 - 1944) was an Austrian–German photographer and photography pioneer. Kühn is regarded one of the forefathers of fine art photography, the movement that helped photography to establish itself as an art on its own. His photographs closely resemble impressionist paintings, with their frequent use of soft lighting and focus. Kühn was part
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer Hugues Krafft](https://monovisions.com/hugues-krafft-biography-19th-century-photographer/) - Hugues Krafft (1853 – 1935) was a born in Paris. He travelled around the world, and visited Japan in 1882–1883. He left numerous quality photographs of the period. He was among the first to use instantaneous photography in Japan (he used a Zeiss camera with gelatine-silver bromide plates, a process which became widely available in
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer Benjamin W. Kilburn](https://monovisions.com/benjamin-w-kilburn-biography-19th-century-photographer/) - Benjamin Kilburn (1827 - 1909) was an American photographer and stereoscopic view publisher famous for his landscape images of the nascent American and Canadian state, provincial, and national parks and his visual record of the great migrations at the end of the nineteenth century. Kilburn Brothers stereoviews date from about 1865. Published sources attribute their
- [Saul Leiter: In My Room](https://monovisions.com/saul-leiter-in-my-room-exibition/) - Saul Leiter’s intimate photographs of his muses over three decades will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery. Deeply personal and contemplative, many of the images in Saul Leiter: In My Room share tender moments underscored by the subjects’ trust in the photographer. The exhibition, which includes work from the mid-1940s through the early 1960s,
- [Arnold Newman: One Hundred](https://monovisions.com/arnold-newman-one-hundred/) - Photographs by Arnold Newman, one of the most influential portraitists of the 20th century, will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from May 10 through June 30, 2018. Celebrating the centennial of Newman’s birth, the exhibition of 45 works from the 1930s through the 1990s will present the finest, most nuanced prints yet to
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer Lai Afong](https://monovisions.com/lai-afong-biography-19th-century-photographer/) - Lai Afong (1839 - 1890) was a Chinese photographer who established Afong Studio, one of the early photographic studios in Hong Kong. His studio was active from 1859 to around the 1940s. The business was probably taken over by his son in the 1890s. Subject matters ranged from portraits and social life pictures to cityscapes
- [Biography: 19th Century Portrait photographer Alexander Hesler](https://monovisions.com/alexander-hesler-biography-19th-century-portrait-photographer/) - Alexander Hesler (1823–1895) was an American photographer active in the U.S. state of Illinois. He is best known for photographing, in 1858 and 1860, definitive iconic images of the beardless Abraham Lincoln. He was active in the 1850s and early 1860s, learned daguerrotype and ambrotype photography; however, in company with many of his fellow craftspeople,
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer Frank Jay Haynes](https://monovisions.com/frank-jay-haynes-biography-19th-century-photographer/) - Frank Jay Haynes (1853 - 1921), known as F. Jay, was a professional photographer who played a major role in documenting through photographs the settlement and early history of the great Northwest. Shortly after his move to Moorhead, Minnesota in 1876 F. Jay began doing photographic work for elements of the Northern Pacific Railway as
- [Ray Demski: A different kind of family](https://monovisions.com/ray-demski-a-different-kind-of-family/) - Located on the outskirts of Ghanas’ capital, Bukom is another slum not known to Google-Maps. It smells of burning waste and dirt, but unlike similar places this odor here mixes with sweat that arises from the boxing rings. „You learn to fight before you learn to walk“ is the maxim. In Bukom, boxing is more
- [Biography: 19th Century Portrait photographer Georg Emil Hansen](https://monovisions.com/georg-emil-hansen-biography-19th-century-portrait-photographer/) - Georg Emil Hansen (1833–1891) was one of Denmark's pioneering photographers in the second half of the 19th century. He had his own studio in Copenhagen and later became a successful court photographer. Hansen learnt the art of daguerreotyping from his father C.C. Hansen who had begun to produce daguerreotypes in 1849. After studying photography in
- [Biography: 19th Century Portrait photographer Jeremiah Gurney](https://monovisions.com/jeremiah-gurney-biography-19th-century-portrait-photographer/) - Jeremiah Gurney (1812 - 1895), was an American daguerreotype photographer operating in New York. Gurney worked in the jewelry trade in Little Falls, New York, but soon moved his business to New York City and shortly after turned to photography, having been instructed and inspired by Samuel Morse. He was one of the pioneering practitioners
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey](https://monovisions.com/joseph-philibert-girault-de-prangey-biography-19th-century-photographer/) - Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804 - 1892) was a French photographer and draughtsman who was active in the Middle East. His daguerreotypes are the earliest surviving photographs of Greece, Palestine, Egypt, Syria and Turkey. Remarkably, his photographs were only discovered in the 1920s in a storeroom of his estate and then only became known eighty
- [Biography: 19th Century Portrait photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri](https://monovisions.com/andre-adolphe-eugene-disderi-biography-19th-century-portrait-photographer/) - André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819 - 1889) was a French photographer who started his photographic career as a daguerreotypist but gained greater fame for patenting his version of the carte de visite, a small photographic image which was mounted on a card. Disdéri, a brilliant showman, made this system of mass-production portraiture world famous. Photographs had previously
- [Biography: 19th Century Portrait photographer Robert Cornelius](https://monovisions.com/robert-cornelius-biography-19th-century-portrait-photographer/) - Robert Cornelius (1809 - 1893) was an American pioneer of photography and a lamp manufacturer. Cornelius attended private school as a youth, taking a particular interest in chemistry. In 1831, he began working for his father, specializing in silver plating and metal polishing. He became so well renowned for his work that shortly after the
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer John Carbutt](https://monovisions.com/john-carbutt-biography-19th-century-photographer/) - John Carbutt (1832-1905) was the first person to use celluloid for photographic film. Carbutt founded the Keystone Dry Plate Works in 1879 and was the first to develop sheets of celluloid coated with photographic emulsion for making celluloid film in 1888. Carbutt sliced thin plates from a rigid celluloid block, and then coated them with
- [Summertime Salon 2018 at Robin Rice Gallery](https://monovisions.com/summertime-salon-2018-at-robin-rice-gallery/) - The Robin Rice Gallery has brought together the works of 56 gallery artists and nearly a hundred photographs for this salon-style exhibition. From floor to ceiling, the walls of the gallery are a mosaic of various size photographs in sepia, color and black & white, expertly hung to fit together like pieces of a puzzle.
- [Florin Firimita: Sculpting with Light](https://monovisions.com/florin-firimit-sculpting-with-light/) - It is not my purpose to present you my resume or to teach you anything. You could learn the technical aspects of photography from YouTube videos. Don’t ask me what tools I use. Don’t ask me about aperture, lenses, camera bags. I would like to talk about silence, passion and beauty, about poetry and its
- [LIFE in Pictures](https://monovisions.com/life-in-pictures/) - Founded by Henry Luce, publisher of Time, it was long one of the most popular and widely imitated of American magazines, selling more than 13.5 million copies a week at one point. From its start, Life emphasized photography, with gripping, superbly chosen news photographs, amplified by photo features and photo-essays on an international range of
- [Maxime Crozet: Xinjiang, suspended identities](https://monovisions.com/maxime-crozet-xinjiang-suspended-identities/) - In the northwestern corner of China lies the huge province of Xinjiang (literally: "new frontier"), more rarely called East Turkestan. Until recently, this region was predominantly populated by Uyghurs, a Turkish-speaking and Muslim Sunni people; but also by Kazakhs, Hui, Kyrgyz, Mongolians, Tajiks and other minorities from Central Asia. The Hans (majority of Chinese ethnic
- [Matthieu Colnat: Dream Flows](https://monovisions.com/matthieu-colnat-dream-flows/) - It was a nice and fresh summer morning when she came back from her trip from the other part of the world. The journey had changed and enlighten her in ways she could have never hoped for. Before going back to the reality of her daily life, she wanted to get lost. There. At this
- [Renze Dijkema: Panorama Pieterburen Pietersberg](https://monovisions.com/renze-dijkema-panorama-pieterburen-pietersberg/) - The Pieterpad (Pieter Path) is annually walked by tens of thousands of hikers and takes you right across the Netherlands from the coastal village of Pieterburen in the North to the hill Sint-Pietersberg in the far south. The hiking trail, devised by Bertje Jens and Toos Goorhuis, was launched in 1981 and has since been
- [Vintage: Ivyhurst (early 20th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-ivyhurst-early-20th-century/) - Ivyhurst' was the home of Robinson Franklin Downey (1849-1923) and his wife, Ella Jean 'Jennie' (Wilson) (Lindsey) Downey (1860-1934), prominent citizens with influential political ties. 'Ivyhurst' played host to such celebrities as President William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson's Vice President Thomas Marshall, William Jennings Bryan, and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. After the death of Mrs. Downey,
- [Biography: 19th Century Pioneer of Underwater photography - Louis Boutan](https://monovisions.com/louis-boutan-biography-19th-century-pioneer-of-underwater-photography/) - Louis Boutan (1859 – 1934) was a French pioneer in the field of underwater photography. In 1880, he was named deputy head assigned to organize the French exhibit at the Melbourne International Exhibition (1880). He stayed in Australia for 18 months, travelling the continent and identifying new animal species. In 1886, Boutan was named maître
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer of Middle East - Félix Bonfils](https://monovisions.com/felix-bonfils-biography-19th-century-photographer-of-middle-east/) - Félix Bonfils (1831 – 1885) was a French photographer and writer who was active in the Middle East. He was one of the first commercial photographers to produce images of the Middle East on a large scale and amongst the first to employ a new method of colour photography, developed in 1880. Félix worked as
- [Vintage: Swedish churches from 1100-1900 AD](https://monovisions.com/vintage-swedish-churches/) - This set shows photos of Swedish churches from 1100-1900 AD - a mix of stone and wooden churches, cathedrals and chapels - country churches as well as city churches. We think that these pictures well describe the wide range of churches to be found all over the country in the 1800s. They also show the
- [Biography: 19th Century Pioneer German Women photographer Emilie Bieber](https://monovisions.com/emilie-bieber-biography-19th-century-pioneer-german-women-photographer/) - Emilie Bieber (1810–1884) was a pioneering German photographer who opened a studio in Hamburg as early as 1852. On 16 September 1852, Bieber opened a daguerrotype studio at 26, Großen Bäckerstraße in Hamburg at a time when photography was practiced almost exclusively by men. As a result, she was one of the very first women
- [Biography: 19th Century Landscape photographer William Bell](https://monovisions.com/william-bell-biography-19th-century-landscape-photographer/) - William H. Bell (1830 – 1910) was an English-born American photographer known for his photographs of western landscapes taken as part of the Wheeler expedition in 1872. In his later years, he wrote articles on the dry plate process and other techniques for various photography journals. His career spanning six decades, Bell worked in nearly
- [Through a Different Lens Stanley Kubrick Photographs](https://monovisions.com/through-a-different-lens-stanley-kubrick-photographs/) - Stanley Kubrick was just 17 when he sold his first photograph to the pictorial magazine Look in 1945. In his photographs, many unpublished, Kubrick trained the camera on his native city, drawing inspiration from the nightclubs, street scenes, and sporting events that made up his first assignments, and capturing the pathos of ordinary life with
- [Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings](https://monovisions.com/sally-mann-a-thousand-crossings/) - For more than forty years, Sally Mann (American, born 1951) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature’s magisterial indifference to human endeavor. What unites this broad body of work is that it is all bred of a place,
- [Biography: 19th Century photographer Deloss Barnum](https://monovisions.com/deloss-barnum-biography-19th-century-photographer/) - Deloss Barnum (1825–1873) was a photographer in New York and Boston, Massachusetts in the mid-19th century. Around 1857 he kept a daguerreotype studio on Winter Street in Boston; by 1858 he had moved to Commercial Street. In 1856-1860 he lived in Roxbury. He participated in the 1860 exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. He
- [Vintage: Everyday Life of France by Amélie Galup (late 19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-everyday-life-of-france-by-amelie-galup-late-19th-century/) - Amélie Galup (1856-1943) taught herself photography in 1895 at the family home in Saint-Antonin-Nobleval, where she spent her vacations, turning the basement into a darkroom. She developed and printed the pictures she took of her husband, their two children and her family. Galup constructed a set in one room of the house, recreating the conditions
- [Vintage: Chinese People from Qing Dynasty (1860s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-chinese-people-from-qing-dynasty-1860s/) - When the Tongzhi Emperor came to the throne at the age of five in 1861, these officials rallied around him in what was called the Tongzhi Restoration. Their aim was to adopt Western military technology in order to preserve Confucian values. Zeng Guofan, in alliance with Prince Gong, sponsored the rise of younger officials such
- [Vintage: Everyday Life of New York by Wallace G. Levison (19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-everyday-life-of-new-york-by-wallace-g-levison-19th-century/) - Wallace G. Levison was a chemist, inventor, and lecturer who founded the Departments of Mineralogy and Astronomy at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in the latter half of the 19th century. As the dawn of the 20th century approached, newer, more sensitive film emulsions were developed that allowed pictures to be taken with
- [Vintage: Victorian Fashion (19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-victorian-fashion-19th-century/) - During the Victorian Era, a woman's place was at home. Unlike in the earlier centuries when women could help their husbands and brothers in family businesses, in the nineteenth century, the gender roles became more defined than ever. Their dress styles reflected their lifestyle. Victorian fashion was not intended to be utilitarian. Clothes were seen
- [Vintage: American Indian Girls (1900s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-american-indian-girls-1900s/) - Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States. A vast variety of peoples, societies and cultures subsequently developed. Native Americans were greatly affected by the European colonization of the Americas, which began in 1492, and their population declined precipitously due to introduced
- [Vintage: Volcanoes and Avalanches by Tempest Anderson (1900s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-volcanoes-and-avalanches-by-tempest-anderson-1900s/) - Tempest Anderson (1846 - 1913) was an expert amateur photographer and vulcanologist. He was the world's first volcano-chaser, scaling the world's most dangerous slopes in his quest to photograph volcanoes as they erupted. He was a member of the Royal Society Commission which was appointed to investigate the aftermath of the eruptions of Soufriere volcano,
- [Vintage: Battle of Antietam (1862)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-battle-of-antietam-1862/) - he Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, was fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign. It was the first field army–level engagement in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War to take place on
- [Vintage: Railroad Bridges With Timber Trestles](https://monovisions.com/vintage-railroad-bridges-with-timber-trestles/) - In the 1830s, the railroad boom started a new era in the building of railroad bridges pushing engineers to build towering wooden bridges that have become synonymous with the era. Timber trestles were one of the few railroad bridge forms that did not develop in Europe. The reason was that in the United States and
- [Vintage: Photography by Jack London (1900s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-photography-by-jack-london-1900s/) - In his photography, London showed his powers of perception and revealed his compassion, respect and love for humanity. Most of his photographs remained unpublished until 2010 when authors Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Sara S. Hodson and Philip Adam published Jack London Photographer with 200 images. London lived during the first true mass-media era, when the use
- [Vintage: Harriet Quimby, the First Licensed U.S. Woman Pilot (1910s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-harriet-quimby-the-first-licensed-u-s-woman-pilot-1910s/) - Harriet Quimby became interested in aviation in 1910, when she attended the Belmont Park International Aviation Tournament in Elmont, New York. There she met John Moisant, a well-known aviator and operator of a flight school, and his sister Matilde. On August 1, 1911, she took her pilot's test and became the first U.S. woman to
- [Vintage: Amsterdam Streets by George Hendrik Breitner (1890s-1900s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-amsterdam-streets-by-george-hendrik-breitner-1890s-1900s/) - George Hendrik Breitner (1857 - 1923) was a Dutch painter and photographer. An important figure in Amsterdam Impressionism, he is noted especially for his paintings of street scenes and harbours in a realistic style. He painted en plein air, and became interested in photography as a means of documenting street life and atmospheric effects –
- [Meryl Meisler: LES YES! Photographs of the Lower East Side in the '70s & '80s](https://monovisions.com/meryl-meisler-les-yes-photographs-of-the-lower-east-side-in-the-70s-80s/) - The Storefront Project is proud to present LES YES! an exhibition of Meryl Meisler’s photographs of the Lower East Side during the 1970’s & ‘80s. Meryl’s photos capture the LES when it was predominantly a tight knit immigrant and working-class neighborhood during difficult times in NYC history. In the spring of 1976 while walking to
- [Interview with Lucie Nechanicka](https://monovisions.com/interview-with-lucie-nechanicka/) - - How and when did you become interested in photography? I have been admiring human bodies as far as I can remember. I used to express my visions by painting. Then I realized that I can do a better job with a camera. It happened in 2015 when I started photographing nude. - Is there
- [Erwin Blumenfeld at Edwynn Houk Gallery](https://monovisions.com/erwin-blumenfeld-at-edwynn-houk-gallery/) - Erwin Blumenfeld is regarded as one of the early pioneers of fashion photography alongside George Hoyningen-Heune, Cecil Beaton, and Horst P. Horst. He was known not only for his employment of experimental techniques in the darkroom, and Dada and Surrealist influences, but also for groundbreaking street work. Many of the featured works have since become
- [Kim Yeong-Jea: Whispering Tranquility](https://monovisions.com/kim-yeong-jea-whispering-tranquility/) - Kim Yeong-Jea’s minimalist photographs capture the airy, serene moments of sea. Kim investigates themes of time, empiricism, and metaphysics at the interface of evolving humanity and eternal nature. The seashore in Kim's photographs has been turned into an intimate shrine where the artist meditates tranquility by compressing numerous busy, ephemeral life moments into one large-format
- [George Tice: George Tice at 80: A Retrospective](https://monovisions.com/george-tice-george-tice-at-80-a-retrospective/) - George Tice is one of the best known fine-art photographers in the nation and has authored over 20 books. He has been making photographs for more than 60 years. His prints are in over 100 museum collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum, where
- [Helen Levitt: One, Two, Three, More](https://monovisions.com/helen-levitt-one-two-three-more/) - Helen Levitt's earliest pictures are a unique and irreplaceable look at street life in New York City from the mid-1930s to the end of the 1940s. There are children at play, lovers flirting, husbands and wives, young mothers with their babies, women gossiping, and lonely old men. A majority of these photographs have never been
- [Kolkata Calcutta: Some Kind of Beauty by Fionn Reilly](https://monovisions.com/kolkata-calcutta-some-kind-of-beauty-by-fionn-reilly/) - Kolkata Calcutta is a superb collection of classic black-and-white, and colour photographs of one the world's most enthralling and mysterious cities as revealed through the lens of photographer Fionn Reilly. Inspired by the films of Kolkata's celebrated director Satyajit Ray and the great Indian photographer Raghubir Singh, Reilly's images capture an intense city that exudes
- [Joseph Szabo: Lifeguard](https://monovisions.com/joseph-szabo-lifeguard/) - This series of photographs represents Joseph Szabo interest, encounter and friendship with lifeguards from 1990-2015. Actually his first connection with them started in the late 1960s when he first discovered Jones Beach. So this work is an exploration using photography as an art form and documentary tool. The purpose is to express more fully the
- [Levon and Kennedy , Mississippi Innocence Project](https://monovisions.com/levon-and-kennedy-mississippi-innocence-project/) - In 2012, photographer Isabelle Armand came across an article about two men who were wrongfully convicted. The men had spent almost 20 years behind bars for a crime they didn't commit. They were exonerated after an investigation from the Innocence Project led authorities to the real perpetrator. In Levon and Kennedy, Armand presents an intimate
- [Jill Freedman: Resurrection City, 1968](https://monovisions.com/jill-freedman-resurrection-city-1968/) - In May of 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. announced the Poor People’s Campaign to demanded economic and human rights for poor Americans of diverse backgrounds. The Campaign was organized by King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and carried out under the leadership of Ralph Abernathy in the wake of Dr. King’s assassination. After presenting
- [Hiroshi Sugimoto: Portraits](https://monovisions.com/hiroshi-sugimoto-portraits/) - At first glance, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s photographic portrait of King Henry VIII of England is arresting: his camera has captured the tactility of Henry’s luxurious furs and silks, the elaborate embroidery of his doublet, and the light reflecting off of each shimmering jewel. The contours of the king’s face are so lifelike that he appears to
- [Cuba Then: Revised and Expanded by Ramiro Fernandez](https://monovisions.com/cuba-then-revised-and-expanded-by-ramiro-fernandez/) - Since the first edition of Cuba Then was published in 2014, there have been several seismic shifts: President Obama moved to normalize relations, a US embassy was opened, Fidel Castro died, and the current administration announced plans to freeze relations again. This intensified interest in Cuba has seen record numbers of Americans traveling there. It
- [Frank Gohlke: Speeding Trucks and other Follies](https://monovisions.com/frank-gohlke-speeding-trucks-and-other-follies/) - In the summer of 1971 Frank Gohlke moved with his wife and young daughter from Middlebury, Vermont to Minneapolis, Minnesota. His vocation as a photographer had begun four years prior, but he had yet to define the subject that would occupy him for the next 45 years: the landscapes of ordinary life. The three bodies
- [Cowboys Don't Do Lunch: The Photographs of Herb Cohen](https://monovisions.com/cowboys-dont-do-lunch-the-photographs-of-herb-cohen/) - This book features skillfully detailed photographs of the last of the real cowboys of Cave Creek, Arizona from when the area was in transition from a full-time cattle ranching community to an incorporated town. Despite the rapid modernization of life in the 20th Century, through the 1970s the inhabitants of this community remained relatively unchanged
- [Camilla Jensen: Quantum](https://monovisions.com/camilla-jensen-quantum/) - Camilla Jensen has explored herself as a photographic territory over a period of two years. The material gathered consists of multiple series of self -portraits, all captured as reflections in old mirrors. During the process of facing and examining herself through the lens, considerations and thoughts on inheritance and legacy has taken form as an
- [Alex Manchev: La sensualità femminile](https://monovisions.com/alex-manchev-la-sensualita-femminile/) - The photographer explores feminine beauty standing before the perpetual challenge and inspiration for artists - the naked female body. Great artists recreate and explore it on canvases and stone. Nowadays this topic is explored in both cinema and photography, giving birth to many masterpieces, putting on pedestal female emotionality and beauty with the help of
- [Sebastião Salgado: Exodus](https://monovisions.com/sebastiao-salgado-exodus/) - It has been almost a generation since Sebastião Salgado first published Exodus but the story it tells, of fraught human movement around the globe, has changed little in 16 years. The push and pull factors may shift, the nexus of conflict relocates from Rwanda to Syria, but the people who leave their homes tell the
- [Seydou Keïta: Bamako Portraits](https://monovisions.com/seydou-keita-bamako-portraits/) - In the 1950s and 60s, a colourful collection of inhabitants of Bamako, capital of Mali, posed for the camera belonging to Seydou Keïta (1921-2001, Mali). People came to Keïta’s studio to have their picture taken in the best and most beautiful way: wearing extravagant dresses made of wonderful textiles with splendid forms of head dress,
- [Tereza Zelenkova: A Snake That Disappeared Through A Hole In The Wall](https://monovisions.com/tereza-zelenkova-a-snake-that-disappeared-through-a-hole-in-the-wall/) - According to an old Slavic legend, a snake inhabits people’s homes and brings happiness and prosperity to the household. This ‘snake housekeeper’ was traditionally welcomed with a bowl of milk on the threshold. The story is one of the many folk tales from the Czech Republic which Tereza Zelenkova (1985, Ostrava) seeks to revive. Over
- [Tereza Zelenkova: The Essential Solitude](https://monovisions.com/tereza-zelenkova-the-essential-solitude/) - ‘The Essential Solitude’ is Czech photographer Tereza Zelenkova’s first exhibition at the Ravestijn Gallery. In her preferred black and white images Zelenkova presents a room and its curious inhabitant, evoking the n de siècle movements of symbolism and decadence, to which the photographer pays homage, with references to the literature of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and JK
- [Vintage: The Earliest Known Photographs of White House (1846)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-the-earliest-known-photographs-of-white-house-1846/) - A Welsh immigrant named John Plumbe, Jr., who was one of the country’s first prominent professional photographers, took the daguerreotype in January 1846. The White House as it stands today is a very different building than when it was first constructed. While its essential features—the classically inspired columns, large, airy windows, and rooftop railings—have stayed
- [Harf Zimmermann: Hufelandstraße: 1055 Berlin](https://monovisions.com/harf-zimmermann-hufelandstrase-1055-berlin/) - Hufelandstrasse, 1055 Berlin is Harf Zimmermann’s 1986–87 portrait of the people and places of Hufelandstrasse, a bustling neighborhood street in the heart of communist East Germany. Inspired by Bruce Davidson’s East 100th Street (1970), his radical depiction of life on a block in East Harlem, Zimmermann set about documenting Hufelandstrasse where he also lived at
- [Vintage: Paris in the Belle Époque (1871 to 1914)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-paris-in-the-belle-epoque-1871-to-1914/) - The population of Paris was 1,851,792 in 1872, at the beginning the Belle Époque. By 1911, it reached 2,888,107, higher than the population today. Three major new French industries were born in and around Paris at about the turn of the 20th century, taking advantage of the abundance of skilled engineers and technicians and financing
- [Vintage: American West During the American Frontier Days](https://monovisions.com/vintage-american-west-during-the-american-frontier-days/) - By 1848 the United States had acquired official title to the contiguous land stretching westward to the Pacific, south to the Rio Grande, and north to the 49th parallel. Americans had long since explored and settled in many of these areas, but legitimate possession created an impetus for development that began to crystallize as other
- [Gert Weigelt: Autopsy in Black and White](https://monovisions.com/gert-weigelt-autopsy-in-black-and-white/) - Human sculptures fill the room. Sculptures in movement, staged by the photographer Gert Weigelt. Created in cooperation with dancers in the studio, his black-and-white photographs exceed the limits of conventional dance photography. They are an expression of an aesthetic aspiration to use the camera to see and to show physicality and dance from an analytical
- [August Sander: People of the 20th Century](https://monovisions.com/august-sander-people-of-the-20th-century/) - “We can tell from a facial expression the work someone does or does not do, if they are happy or troubled, for life leaves its trail there unavoidably. A well-known poem says that every person’s story is written plainly on their face, although not everyone can read it.”* – August Sander From March 8 to
- [Garry Winogrand: Women are Beautiful](https://monovisions.com/garry-winogrand-women-are-beautiful/) - In 1975, Garry Winogrand (1928-1984), considered one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, published the photobook Women are Beautiful. A documentary photographer who notably worked for Fortune and LIFE magazines, Winogrand was a keen observer of American life throughout his entire career. His favorite site was New York, his hometown. The cacophony of
- [Sigrid Neubert - Photographs: Architecture and Nature](https://monovisions.com/sigrid-neubert-photographs-architecture-and-nature/) - For 30 years Sigrid Neubert (b. 1927) worked as a photographer for many leading architectural firms. In the process she developed a style characterized by images that present the structure and surface of the buildings through stark contrast and in clear detail, making Neubert one of the best-known photographers of architecture in Germany. In the
- [Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903-93)](https://monovisions.com/lola-alvarez-bravo-1903-93/) - Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903-1993) belongs to the generation of female photographers who took advantage of a wind of artistic freedom to unfold after the revolution in 1910 to 20 in Mexico. Along with her husband Manuel Álvarez Bravo belonged to her circle around Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Edward Weston. Lola Alvarez Bravo (1903-1993) is
- [Nuno Moreira: She Looks into Me](https://monovisions.com/nuno-moreira-she-looks-into-me/) - “She looks into me” is a series of intimate images that hold a deep reverence for a time when the mystery of life and the mystery of death were closely related. Conceived in a manner close to theater this book is divided in 3 chapters that explore the idea of human representation and how looking
- [Matthieu Colnat: The 30 second Project](https://monovisions.com/matthieu-colnat-the-30-second-project/) - It has been a decade I am working in the dubbing industry, sharing my daily life with actors I periodically see. So when I went back to my work with photography after a lull of several years, my hunger for pictures naturally drained me to this idea. At first, I just had a handful of
- [Michael Abramson: Tales from the South Side. 1970’s Chicago Clubs](https://monovisions.com/michael-abramson-tales-from-the-south-side-1970s-chicago-clubs/) - The exhibition will focus on his best known photographs from the 1970s, documenting the nightlife of Black clubs on Chicago’s South Side and the underground funk/blues and early disco scene. It’s a celebration of the style and culture of a bygone era. As a white photographer working in black nightclubs, which was taboo at the
- [Vintage: 19th Century Royal Palace of Jaipur, India by Maharaja Ram Singh III](https://monovisions.com/vintage-19th-century-royal-palace-of-jaipur-india-by-maharaja-ram-singh-iii/) - The pictures were taken between 1857 and 1865, and the collection of glass negatives were to remain untouched for more than a century. Under the watchful eye of British photographer T. Murray, the Maharaja - who became known as the country's first Photographer Prince and who often used his four wives as subjects - developed
- [Vintage: Everyday Life in Saskatchewan, Canada (early 20th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-everyday-life-in-saskatchewan-canada-early-20th-century/) - On September 1, 1905, Saskatchewan became a province, with inauguration day held September 4. The Dominion Lands Act permitted settlers to acquire one quarter of a square mile of land to homestead and offered an additional quarter upon establishing a homestead. Immigration peaked in 1910, and in spite of the initial difficulties of frontier life
- [Vintage: Portrait of Confederate States Army's Generals by Mathew Brady (1860s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portrait-of-confederate-states-armys-generals-by-mathew-brady-1860s/) - Mathew Brady efforts to document the American Civil War on a grand scale by bringing his photographic studio onto the battlefields earned Brady his place in history. Despite the dangers, financial risk, and discouragement by his friends, Brady was later quoted as saying "I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'Go,' and
- [Vintage: Irish War of Independence (1919-1921)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-irish-war-of-independence-1919-1921/) - Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the British security forces in Ireland. It was an escalation of the Irish revolutionary period into warfare. via National Library of Ireland
- [Vintage: Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada (1900s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-spruce-grove-alberta-canada-1900s/) - Robert McKay Brebner was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on October 18, 1855 to Alan Ramsey Brebner and Francis Ann (McKay) Brebner. He moved to Alberta in 1882 and secured a homestead in Spruce Grove. In 1890, he visited Scotland and returned to Spruce Grove with a camera with which he would document his life. In
- [Vintage: Everyday Life of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in the 1880s](https://monovisions.com/vintage-everyday-life-of-ceylon-sri-lanka-in-the-1880s/) - Sri Lanka was known from the beginning of British colonial rule until 1972 as Ceylon. At first the area it covered did not include the Kingdom of Kandy, which was a protectorate from 1815, but from 1817 to 1948 the British possessions included the whole island of Ceylon, now the nation of Sri Lanka. via
- [Vintage: Everyday Life of Guatemala (1910s and 1920s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-everyday-life-of-guatemala-1910s-and-1920s/) - After the assassination of general José María Reina Barrios on 8 February 1898, the Guatemalan cabinet called an emergency meeting to appoint a new successor, but declined to invite Estrada Cabrera to the meeting, even though he was the designated successor to the Presidency. There are two different descriptions of how Cabrera was able to
- [Vintage: Roskilde in Denmark (1900s and 1910s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-roskilde-in-denmark-1900s-and-1910s/) - Roskilde has a long history, dating from the pre-Christian Viking Age. Its UNESCO-listed Gothic cathedral, now housing 39 tombs of the Danish monarchs, was completed in 1275, becoming a focus of religious influence until the Reformation. With the development of the rail network in the 19th century, Roskilde became an important hub for traffic with
- [Vintage: Everyday Life of Norwegians (late 19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-everyday-life-of-norwegians-late-19th-century/) - In 1886 20-year-old Ellisif R. Müller (1866-1949) married her cousin, regional doctor Andreas Wessel. The marriage led her to Kirkenes, where they lived out their lives. It was there, in her new home, that she made her debut as a photographer. In Finnmark Wessel encountered a reality which stood in stark contrast to that of
- [Vintage: Street Shots of Oslo by Carl Størmer (1890s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-street-shots-of-oslo-by-carl-stormer-1890s/) - Carl Størmer (1874-1957) is one of Norway's pioneer photographers. He is known as an astronomer and mathematician. In history books Størmer is referred to as "The Northern Lights photographer”: he will go down in history as the first person to construct a camera that could capture the Northern Lights. From 1893 to 1897 he took
- [Vintage: Ottoman Clothing (19th Century)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-ottoman-clothing-19th-century/) - Ottoman clothing is the style and design of clothing worn by the Ottoman Turks. While the Palace and its court dressed lavishly, the common people were only concerned with covering themselves. Starting in the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, administrators enacted sumptuary laws upon clothing. The clothing of Muslims, Christians, Jewish communities, clergy, tradesmen, and
- [Vintage: Portraits of Girls in Their First Communion (Edwardian era)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-girls-in-their-first-communion-1900s/) - The sacrament of First Communion is an important tradition for Catholic families and individuals. For Catholics, Holy Communion is the third of seven sacraments received. It occurs only after receiving Baptism, and once the person has reached the age of reason (usually, around the second grade). First confession (the first sacrament of penance) must precede
- [Monochrome Photography Awards 2016 - Winners Gallery](https://monovisions.com/monochrome-photography-awards-2017-winners-gallery/) - 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
- [Vintage: Wall Street bombing in 1920](https://monovisions.com/vintage-wall-street-bombing-in-1920/) - At 12:01pm on Thursday, September 16th, 1920, a blast shook the Financial District of New York City immediately killing 30 people, with another 8 to die later of wounds sustained in the blast. On top of the dead, there were 143 people seriously injured with the total number injured measuring in the hundreds. This event
- [Vintage: Elisabeth Bridge in Budapest](https://monovisions.com/vintage-elisabeth-bridge-in-budapest/) - The original permanent crossing, a decorative suspension bridge of chains, was built between 1897 and 1903, amid a corruption scandal. The Buda end of Erzsébet bridge runs directly into the massive foot of Gellért Hill, necessitating a complicated arrangement of roads to connect to the bridge. The bridge was designed in such a way because
- [Vintage: Street Scenes of São Paulo, Brazil (1862 -1887)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-street-scenes-of-sao-paulo-brazil-1862-1887/) - After Brazil became independent from Portugal in 1822, as declared by Emperor Pedro I where the Monument of Ipiranga is located, he named São Paulo as an Imperial City. In 1827, a law school was founded at the Convent of São Francisco, these days a part of the University of São Paulo. The influx of
- [Vintage: Everyday Life of People during Edwardian Era](https://monovisions.com/vintage-everyday-life-of-people-during-edwardian-era/) - The upper-classes embraced leisure sports, which resulted in rapid developments in fashion, as more mobile and flexible clothing styles were needed. During the Edwardian era, women wore a very tight corset, or bodice, and dressed in long skirts. The Edwardian era was the last time women wore corsets in everyday life. According to Arthur Marwick,
- [Vintage: Portraits of Auschwitz Guards During World War II (1940s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-portraits-of-auschwitz-guards-during-world-war-ii-1940s/) - In January 2017, Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance published a massive online record of the Auschwitz staff. The searchable database of the 8,502 overwhelmingly German personnel was created in part to dispel claims that the camp was staffed by many Polish guards. The list shows that most names are predominantly German. Guards and SS Commanders’
- [Vintage: Boston Showgirls in the 1940s](https://monovisions.com/vintage-boston-showgirls-in-the-1940s/) - A showgirl is a female dancer or performer in a stage entertainment show intended to showcase the performer's physical attributes, typically by way of revealing clothing or even toplessness or nudity. Showgirls are often associated with Latin music and dance, particularly samba. via Boston Public Library
- [Vintage: Glass Plate Negatives of Carole Lombard (1930s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-glass-plate-negatives-of-carole-lombard-1930s/) - Carole Lombard (1908 - 1942) was born into a wealthy family in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but was raised in Los Angeles by her single mother. At 12, she was recruited by the film director Allan Dwan and made her screen debut in A Perfect Crime (1921). Eager to become an actress, she signed a contract
- [Vintage: Antique Automobiles And Their Owners (1900s-1910s)](https://monovisions.com/vintage-antique-automobiles-and-their-owners-1900s-1910s/) - Antique automobile photos from William Creswell's collection from the 1900s to 1910s.

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