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LIFE in Pictures

31 May 2018 0

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,…

Through a Different Lens Stanley Kubrick Photographs

24 May 2018 0

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 In his photographs, many unpublished, Kubrick trained the camera on his native city, drawing inspiration from the nightclubs, street scenes, and sporting…

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings

20 May 2018 0

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…

Inge Morath: From a photographic cosmos

18 May 2018 0

When Inge Morath met the war photographer Robert Capa at the photo agency Magnum in Paris in July 1949, the life of the 26-year-old Austrian journalist took a new turn. It would still take a few years before Inge Morath…

August Sander: People of the 20th Century

16 May 2018 0

“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…

Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903-93)

12 May 2018 0

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…

Erwin Blumenfeld at Edwynn Houk Gallery

9 May 2018 0

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…

Sigrid Neubert – Photographs: Architecture and Nature

8 May 2018 0

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…

Kim Yeong-Jea: Whispering Tranquility

6 May 2018 0

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…

Meryl Meisler: LES YES! Photographs of the Lower East Side in the ’70s & ’80s

4 May 2018 0

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…

Tereza Zelenkova: A Snake That Disappeared Through A Hole In The Wall

3 May 2018 0

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…

George Tice: George Tice at 80: A Retrospective

30 April 2018 0

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…

Garry Winogrand: Women are Beautiful

30 April 2018 0

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…

Alex Manchev: La sensualità femminile

22 April 2018 0

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…

Seydou Keïta: Bamako Portraits

19 April 2018 0

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…

Tereza Zelenkova: The Essential Solitude

17 April 2018 0

‘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…

Gert Weigelt: Autopsy in Black and White

24 March 2018 0

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…

Michael Abramson: Tales from the South Side. 1970’s Chicago Clubs

22 March 2018 0

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…

Michael Dannenmann: PORTRAIT SITTINGS

18 March 2018 0

David Lynch, Katharina Grosse, Jörg Immendorff, Dennis Hopper, Ringo Starr – stars from the worlds of film, fashion, music, and art – Michael Dannenmann has portrayed them all. The power of his expressive portraits lies in the photographer’s sense of…

The Shadow Archive An Investigation Into Vernacular Portrait Photography

2 March 2018 0

The Walther Collection is pleased to present The Shadow Archive: An Investigation into Vernacular Portrait Photography, an exhibition that examines the uses of photography to document, record, and identify individuals from the 1850s to the present. The Shadow Archive inaugurates…

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