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Historic B&W photos of Riga, Russia (Latvia) late 19th Century

Historic B&W photos of Riga, Russia (Latvia) late 19th Century

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During many centuries of war and changes of power in the Baltic, and despite demographic changes, the Baltic Germans in Riga had maintained a dominant position. By 1867 Riga’s population was 42.9% German. Riga employed German as its official language of administration until the installation of Russian in 1891 as the official language in the Baltic provinces, as part of…
Biography: Documentary photographer Arnold Genthe

Biography: Documentary photographer Arnold Genthe

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Arnold Genthe (January 8, 1869 – August 9, 1942) was a German photographer, best known for his photos of San Francisco’s Chinatown, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and his portraits of noted people, from politicians and socialites to literary figures and entertainment celebrities.
Eikoh Hosoe: Revisitations to a Vacuum’s Nest

Eikoh Hosoe: Revisitations to a Vacuum’s Nest

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The exhibition will include an iteration of Hosoe’s earliest series Man and Woman, featuring famed dancer and performance artist Tatsumi Hijikata, creator of the Butoh school of dance. Also on view will be selections from the series Kamaitachi (also featuring Hijikata), as well as selections from the series Killed By Roses — a collaboration with revered Japanese author and polymath…
Tim Gao: Invisible Theatre

Tim Gao: Invisible Theatre

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Street photography is not just a sharp triggering of shutter to shape the outside world in the form of light and shadow. It is simultaneously a curious observation and emotional perception of what’s happening in the ordinary streets at any moment when unpredictable dramas and realities are actually taking place. I have lived in Shanghai for over 9 years and…
Interview with Nude/Portrait photographer Rafał Kaźmierczak

Interview with Nude/Portrait photographer Rafał Kaźmierczak

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– How and when did you become interested in photography? When I was a child, I received my first camera, which was Zenit M for a 135 film. With that very first camera I photographed everything around me -my family, nature,architecture. I used to spend long hours in a traditional darkroom developing hundreds of photos. Then, when I was a…
Bruce Davidson: Los Angeles 1964

Bruce Davidson: Los Angeles 1964

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Bruce Davidson describes the genesis of this project thus: “Esquire’s editors sent me to Los Angeles, and when I landed at LA International Airport I noticed giant palm trees growing in the parking lot. I ordered a hamburger through a microphone speaker in a drive-in called Tiny Naylor’s. The freeways were blank and brilliant, chromium-plated bumpers reflected the Pacific Ocean,…
Joseph Bellows Gallery: The Teen Years

Joseph Bellows Gallery: The Teen Years

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Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, The Teen Years. This group exhibition will open on July 9th and continue through August 26th, 2016. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, July 9th, from 6-8 pm. The Teen Years will feature a selection of both vintage and contemporary photographs that address the physical, social, and emotional…
Vintage: The Gold Rush (1925)

Vintage: The Gold Rush (1925)

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The Gold Rush is a 1925 American silent comedy film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin. Though it was a silent film, it received Academy Award nominations for Best Music and Best Sound Recording upon its re-release in 1942.
Michael Kenna: New Work

Michael Kenna: New Work

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Michael Kenna returns to the Catherine Edelman Gallery in his 19th solo exhibition featuring work from his recent book on Japan, as well as work from Europe and Asia. The exhibition opens July 8 and runs through September 2, 2016. There will be an opening reception on Friday, July 8, from 5:00 – 7:30 p.m. The artist will be in…
David Plowden: An American Master

David Plowden: An American Master

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David Plowden: An American Master celebrates the photographer’s recent gift to the museum of a selection of his key images made over the course of his more than 60 year career. Plowden’s hopeful and elegiac images express a personal vision infused with a sense of wonder and reverence for the American landscape and the ingenuity of man. Including more than…
Roberto Donetta: Photographer and Seed Salesman from Bleniotal

Roberto Donetta: Photographer and Seed Salesman from Bleniotal

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Roberto Donetta (1865-1932) from Ti­cino is one of Swiss pho­tog­ra­phy’s great out­siders. He man­aged to make a liv­ing as a trav­el­ling pho­tog­ra­pher and seed sales­man, and upon his death left al­most 5,000 glass plates which were pre­served merely by chance. These cap­ture the ar­chaic life of his com­pa­tri­ots in the Valle di Ble­nio, which at the time was to­tally iso­lated,…
Nigel Maudsley: Beauty in Death

Nigel Maudsley: Beauty in Death

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A dead plant is very beautiful, it’s fragility reminds us of our own mortality. Nigel Maudsley’s series was created after he lost his father. In therapy he learnt how to live in the moment, the ‘now’. The series was taken on a medium format camera using natural light in his studio. Each image was printed tradtionaly. Nigel Maudsley is a…
Elisabeth Sunday: Grace

Elisabeth Sunday: Grace

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Elisabeth Sunday has found her muse in Africa: a place of origins, devastating beauty, great troubles and unyielding expressions of life. She has traveled alone and lived among various original peoples who amidst a changing world, have clung tenaciously to traditional ways of life. From the hunter-gatherers dwelling in the primeval forests of the Congo Basin, to the nomadic tribes…
Behind the Scenes: Zulu (1964)

Behind the Scenes: Zulu (1964)

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Zulu is a 1964 epic war film depicting the Battle of Rorke’s Drift between the British Army and the Zulus in January 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War. It depicts 150 British soldiers, many of whom were sick and wounded patients in a field hospital, who successfully held off a force of 4,000 Zulu warriors.  
Historic B&W photos of Paris, France, late 19th Century

Historic B&W photos of Paris, France, late 19th Century

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Late in the 19th century, Paris hosted two major international expositions: the 1889 Universal Exposition, was held to mark the centennial of the French Revolution and featured the new Eiffel Tower; and the 1900 Universal Exposition, which gave Paris the Pont Alexandre III, the Grand Palais, the Petit Palais and the first Paris Métro line. Paris became the laboratory of…
Interview with photographer Lillith Leda

Interview with photographer Lillith Leda

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My career was birthed through sheer desire and will. The entirety of my business is self-taught, from photography to Photoshop and Dreamweaver, through which I actively run my website, shooting and creating professionally for going on 8 years now. My career in aesthetics started as a pin-up model, after years of telling stories with styling and make-up (also self-taught) the…
Biography: Architecture photographer Frederick H. Evans

Biography: Architecture photographer Frederick H. Evans

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Frederick H. Evans (26 June 1853, London – 24 June 1943, London) was a British photographer best known for his platinum prints of architectural interiors of English and French cathedrals. Before devoting his time solely to the art of photography, Evans owned a small bookshop in London where many artists and writers, including George Bernard Shaw and Aubrey Beardsley, came…
Stephen Shames: Bronx Boys

Stephen Shames: Bronx Boys

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“The Bronx has a terrible beauty, stark and harsh, like the desert. At first glance you imagine nothing can survive. Then you notice life going on all around. People adapt, survive, and even prosper in this urban moonscape of quick pleasures and false hopes. Often I am terrified of the Bronx. Other times it feels like home. My images reflect…
Historic B&W photos of Rome, Italy (19th Century)

Historic B&W photos of Rome, Italy (19th Century)

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In 1861 Rome was declared capital of Italy even though it was still under the Pope’s control. During the 1860s, the last vestiges of the Papal States were under French protection, thanks to the foreign policy of Napoleon III. It was only when this was lifted in 1870, owing to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, that Italian troops were…