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Biography: Pioneer 19th Century photographer Carleton Watkins

Biography: Pioneer 19th Century photographer Carleton Watkins

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Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) was an American photographer of the 19th century. Carleton Watkins was born in Oneonta, New York on November 11, 1829, the eldest of eight children. Lured by the opportunities of the California gold rush, he traveled to California with fellow Oneontan Collis Huntington (later to become one of the “Big Four” owners of the Central Pacific Railroad).…
Alex Majoli: SKĒNĒ

Alex Majoli: SKĒNĒ

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Alex Majoli documents the thin line between reality and theatre in a series of photographs, which will be on view from February 16 – April 1, 2017 at Howard Greenberg Gallery. The photographs, made in Congo, Egypt, Greece, Germany, India, China, and Brazil between 2010 and 2016, explore the human condition and call into question darker elements of society. The…
Interview: with Street/Travel photographer Oly Steel

Interview: with Street/Travel photographer Oly Steel

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Growing up on the North Coast of NSW, I was surrounded by a surf culture. This was the at the forefront of my social networks that drove the transition from school to adulthood. Never really entrenching myself into a certain craft when it came to surfing I started to develop an interest in the ocean and the land that surrounds…
Melissa Shook: Daily Self-Portraits

Melissa Shook: Daily Self-Portraits

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In 1972, curious about the problem of identity, Melissa Shook began an ambitious project of photographing herself everyday for a year. The sum of this impressive undertaking resulted in a compelling set of intimately scaled black and white photographs that range from the artist performing for the camera, to the camera describing the physicality of her being. These early influential…
Biography: Architecture photographer Charles Marville

Biography: Architecture photographer Charles Marville

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Charles Marville (1813 – 1879), was a French photographer, who mainly photographed architecture, landscapes and the urban environment. Sometime in the1850s Charles Marville was asked to document the old quarters of the French capital by the government’s Commission for Monumental Historical Monuments. Marville purposely took the photographs of Paris’s architecture and streets scenes when it was raining, so that the…
Diane Arbus: In the beginning

Diane Arbus: In the beginning

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Diane Arbus: In the beginning considers the first seven years of the photographer’s career, from 1956 to 1962. A lifelong New Yorker, Arbus found the city and its citizens an endlessly rich subject for her art. Working in Times Square, the Lower East Side, and Coney Island, she made some of the most powerful portraits of the twentieth century, training…
Lee Friedlander The Nudes: A Second Look

Lee Friedlander The Nudes: A Second Look

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Lee Friedlander’s exploration of one of photography’s most enduring genres began almost by chance, in the late 1970s, when a teacher colleague at Rice University in Houston lined up a regular schedule of nude models for his students. Almost immediately, Friedlander found that he preferred to photograph the models at their homes, and ingeniously deployed household objects such as bedside…
An-My Lê: 29 Palms

An-My Lê: 29 Palms

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Photographer An-My Lê’s 29 Palms is a series of black-and-white photographs made in the California desert where US marines train for battle prior to deployment. Evoking familiar images of war-afflicted sites in Iraq and Afghanistan, Lê’s photographs instead depict American soldiers on domestic soil acting out the theatre of conflict in fabricated villages and against “enemies” portrayed by fellow marines.…
Truman Capote’s Brooklyn: The Lost Photographs of David Attie

Truman Capote’s Brooklyn: The Lost Photographs of David Attie

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David Attie studied with Alexey Brodovitch, who also trained Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, and who first acquainted the artist with Truman Capote. Introducing this lost work to the public now, reveals an intriguing set of relationships and illuminates a particular moment in Brooklyn’s history. Decades after the photographer’s passing, his son, Eli Attie, came across a manila envelope simply…
Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath

Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath

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The photographs of Dave Heath (1931-2016) evoke an intense, bittersweet vision of modern life. Abandoned by his parents at the age of four, he grew up in Philadelphia foster homes and an orphanage. This sense of physical and emotional homelessness shaped his artistic vision. Through the camera, Heath channeled his personal feelings into a deeper and larger statement about loss,…
Mitch Epstein: New York Arbor

Mitch Epstein: New York Arbor

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Mitch Epstein’s new work is a series of photographs of the idiosyncratic trees that inhabit New York City. These pictures underscore the importance of trees to urban life and their complex relationship to their human counterparts. Rooted in New York’s sidewalks, parks, and cemeteries, some trees grow wild, some are contortionists adapting to constrictive surroundings, while others are pruned into…
NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN: Carlo Mollino & Helmut Newton

NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN: Carlo Mollino & Helmut Newton

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What connects the lascivious intimacy in the pictures made during the 1940’s by Carlo Mollino, baroque genius and free spirit, and the modern amazons glorified by Helmut Newton in their provocative eroticism during the 1980’s? The woman, muse in all the splendour of the naked body she offers to the world. Through eighteen vintage prints, SAGE Paris proposes a quick…
Vintage: Havana (early 20th Century)

Vintage: Havana (early 20th Century)

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As trade between Caribbean and North American states increased in the early 19th century, Havana became a flourishing and fashionable city. Havana’s theaters featured the most distinguished actors of the age, and prosperity among the burgeoning middle-class led to expensive new classical mansions being erected. During this period Havana became known as the Paris of the Antilles. The 20th century…
Henri Cartier-Bresson at Leica Gallery San Francisco

Henri Cartier-Bresson at Leica Gallery San Francisco

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The Gallery at Leica Store San Francisco, in collaboration with Peter Fetterman Gallery, is excited to announce its upcoming exhibition, Henri Cartier-Bresson from January 18, 2017 through March 31, 2017. The exhibition will feature over fifty gelatin silver hand signed prints by the iconic photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004). Born in Chanteloup, France in 1908, Cartier-Bresson grew up in a well-to…
Interview with photographer of Nudes: Kristian Liebrand

Interview with photographer of Nudes: Kristian Liebrand

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– How and when did you become interested in photography? I started photography in 2005 with wedding photography. Since 2008 I have specialised on fine nude art photography of women. A bride asked me to shoot fine nude art with her. So this was the beginning of my profession and passion: NUDE ART PHOTOGRAPHY. – Is there any artist/photographer who…
Beuford Smith: Black Lives

Beuford Smith: Black Lives

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Beuford Smith (American, b. 1941) is one of the great social documentary photographers that emerged from the 1960s. Founder of Cesaire Photo Agency and cofounder of the Black Photographer’s Annual, Smith has enjoyed a diverse and celebrated career in image-making. Smith was a founding member, and later served as president, of the group Kamoinge. In explaining this unprecedented organization, Smith…
Richard Gordon: Loved Photography Too Much

Richard Gordon: Loved Photography Too Much

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With the ubiquity of the photographic medium today, Richard Gordon’s work reminds us just how compelling an informed and creative perspective can be. Often his images are witty and quirky and evoke his dry sense of humor. The work in this exhibition was taken primarily in the 1970’s in New York City and along the West Coast. Gordon frequently examined…
Richard Mosse: Heat Maps

Richard Mosse: Heat Maps

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Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Heat Maps, a new body of work by Richard Mosse. In the chaotic and polarizing new era of Brexit, Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump and other signs of a radical shift to the extreme right, this project charts the refugee crisis unfolding across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Mosse has documented…
Biography: French pioneer photographer Charles Nègre

Biography: French pioneer photographer Charles Nègre

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Charles Nègre (1820–1880) was a pioneering photographer born in Grasse, France. He studied painting under Ingres and Delaroche, another of whose pupils, Gustave Le Gray, introduced him to photography. After a short period of making daguerreotypes, he embraced the calotype process, becoming adept at retouching negatives and printing. He used his pictures as aids to painting and developed his skills…