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James Herbert at Gitterman Gallery

9 October 2017 0

James Herbert’s photographs of nude young adults, seemingly lost in the intimacy of a moment, combine conceptions of film and photography with elements of art history to create images that hover between the worlds of fact and fiction, between the…

Betsy Karel: Times Square

8 October 2017 0

In America’s Stage: Times Square, street photographer Betsy Karel uses five New York City blocks as a metaphor for urban America today. Her premise is that many of the major trends of our society are present in Times Square: globalism,…

Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895-1925

7 October 2017 0

This exhibition spotlights the work of Clarence White (1871-1925), a founding member of the Photo-Secession, a gifted photographer celebrated for his beautiful scenes of quiet domesticity and outdoor idylls, and an influential teacher and photographic mentor. The first retrospective devoted…

Alex Manchev: The Freedom Project (Indiegogo Campaign)

6 October 2017 0

Kids have dreams. Dreams that somehow keep them believing in wonders. Wonders that help them get through the tough race with maturity. Maturity that is inevitable and it is a matter of time. Time well spent until the moment of…

Pietro Baroni: J’ai plus de souvenirs que si j’avais mille ans

6 October 2017 0

“I have more memories than if I’d lived a thousand years” wrote Baudelaire. We all have unmentionable, unspeakable thoughts that we ourselves fear. We all have worries and anxieties we want to hide from the others’ sight. Or that we…

Adolphe Braun: A European Photography Business and the 19th-Century Visual Arts

5 October 2017 0

The Münchner Stadtmuseum is holding the first-ever retrospective of French photographer Adolphe Braun (1812-1877) to be hosted by a German-speaking country. The exhibition draws on the Museum’s own extensive collection complemented by loans from around the world, and presents some…

Alvin Booth: Nocturnes

3 October 2017 0

Alvin Booth’s art unveils the intrinsic beauty and possible mutations of the human body. His photographs highlight the human form in the totality of its photographic malleability and use the elaborately staged nude as the point of departure. His bodies…

Emil Gataullin: Towards the Horizon

1 October 2017 0

This project developed as I visited small suburban towns and villages of Russia. It shows the lives of people, their relationships with each other and the places they live. I take photographs of province places during the several years now.…

The Faraway Nearby: Photographs of Canada from The New York Times Photo Archive

27 September 2017 0

Featuring photographs of Canadian subject matter from The New York Times Photo Archive, The Faraway Nearby examines a century of Canada’s history and its representation in the leading American “newspaper of record.” Taking an expansive view of the many stories…

Randal Levenson: In Search of the Monkey Girl, and other work

26 September 2017 0

This exhibition marks the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition will feature photographs selected from three bodies of work: Americana, Mexico, and In Search of the Monkey Girl. The three distinct groupings range from the artist’s vintage…

Sadegh Souri: Waiting Girls

25 September 2017 0

In Iran, death penalty is given to the children for the crimes such as murder, drug trafficking, and armed robbery. According to the Islamic Penal Law, the age when girls are held accountable for their crimes is 9 years old,…

Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao: Central Park New York: 24 Solar Terms

25 September 2017 0

The title of the show takes its name from the ancient Chinese lunar calendar, which divides the year into 24 segments, each segment given a specific solar term. This system provided a time frame for agriculture, everyday life and festivals.…

Trevor and Faye Yerbury: Yerbury Nudes (Kickstarter)

24 September 2017 0

Trevor & Faye have waited a long time to see this project come to fruition, and are delighted that they now have complete control of the production. The book will contain many of their favourite and well known images, dating…

Our Strength Is Our People: The Humanist Photographs of Lewis Hine

24 September 2017 0

Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940) was considered the father of American documentary photography. This exhibition consists of rare vintage prints, and covers the three overarching themes of Hine’s three-decade career: the immigrant experience; child labor; and the American worker, culminating in…

Dmitri Baltermants: Documenting and Staging a Soviet Reality

23 September 2017 0

Dmitri Baltermants (1912–1990) was one of the most important Soviet photojournalists at mid-century. His humanizing, often dramatic compositions of World War II and its aftermath affected viewers in the USSR and around the world. Baltermants graduated from the Math and…

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes

22 September 2017 0

For more than 30 years, Hiroshi 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 basic, primordial substances: water and air.…

Melissa Amber and Ashley Nicole: Woman + Wolf

21 September 2017 0

Reclaiming her power within, Woman + Wolf is the exploration into the wild woman archetype, a deep-rooted connection to self, spirit, nature and a woman’s innate wildness: the female psyche mirrored within the wolf. Unfolding, is the unshaken, empowered origins…