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In Treno Verso l’Europa. Gabriele Basilico

In Treno Verso l’Europa. Gabriele Basilico

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The exhibition presents, for the first time, the Gabierle Basilico’s work, achieved in 1993 and commissioned by the Italian State Railway. Following train stations itineraries, he created a geographic journey, but also a journey across time and the most recent european history. Gabriele Basilico In Treno Verso l’Europa April 20th – July 20th, 2017 TAG – TheArtGallery Via Frasca 3…
The Champ – My Year With Muhammad Ali

The Champ – My Year With Muhammad Ali

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Award winning photojournalist Michael Gaffney captured a rare insider’s view of Ali’s world as his personal photographer in 1977-1978. On Saturday, June 17th, we will open our doors to share with you the life and legacy of Ali through the lens of Michael Gaffney honoring the 1-year anniversary of his passing. Gaffney’s collection of work entitled, “The Champ” showcases intimate…
Lucien Clergue: Poésie en noir et blanc

Lucien Clergue: Poésie en noir et blanc

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The exhibition shows a selection of photographs from 50 years work.Born in Arles in 1934, Lucien Clergue referred to himself throughout his entire life as an artist in photography, unlike his photo reporter colleagues. From his early twenties on he adamantly insisted on keeping his artistic liberty, declining repeated offers of the media, however tempting they might have been. His…
Tom Arndt: Where I Live

Tom Arndt: Where I Live

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Tom Arndt: Where I Live features more than 35 photographs from 2015 to 2016, which capture the character of Arndt’s native Minnesota (as well as North Dakota and Montana). He portrays everyday citizens — in their coffee shops and soda fountains, their streets, their parks, and at state fairs. A consistently resourceful street photographer, Arndt captures fleeting gestures and momentary…
PHOTO-EYE FRITZ BLOCK. New Photography – Modern Color Slides

PHOTO-EYE FRITZ BLOCK. New Photography – Modern Color Slides

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The German-Jewish photographer Fritz Block (1889–1955) was a highly versatile figure in modern photography. His work spans the period from the so-called “Neue Fotografie” (New Photography) of the late 1920s in Germany to the color photography of the 1940s in the US. Having fallen into a long period of oblivion due to his biography of exile, he is currently being…
Steve Schapiro: The Fire Next Time

Steve Schapiro: The Fire Next Time

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First published by The New Yorker in 1963, The Fire Next Time, considered to be one the most eloquent and powerful explorations of race in America, catapulted James Baldwin into literary fame. After reading Baldwin’s essays, Steve Schapiro convinced Life Magazine, where he had freelanced as a photographer, to let him travel with Baldwin from New York to Mississippi, documenting…
Elaine Mayes: Summer of Love

Elaine Mayes: Summer of Love

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Elaine Mayes: Summer of Love coincides with the 50th anniversary of the summer of love; a period of great social, cultural, and political change that brought together over 100,000 like-minded young people to San Francisco to usher in a new era. The exhibition will feature Mayes’ intimate vintage black and white portraits of youth counterculture in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district…
Sebastiao Salgado: Genesis

Sebastiao Salgado: Genesis

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Genesis is a quest for the world as it was, as it was formed, as it evolved, as it existed for millennia before modern life accelerated and began distancing us from the very essence of our being. It is a journey to the landscapes, seascapes, animals and peoples that have so far escaped the long reach of today’s world. And…
Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama

Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama

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Zanele Muholi sees her artistic practice as “visual activism”, thereby ascribing to her images explicit and causal power to effect change. She has become known worldwide with Faces and Phases, her portrait photography of South Africa’s LGBTI scene. Faces and Phases has been prominently featured in venues such as the last documenta (2012). WNTRP now shows Muholi’s current series Somnyama…
Eric Overton: Wild America | Process & Preservation

Eric Overton: Wild America | Process & Preservation

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Modern West Fine Art will premier Wild America : Process & Preservation by Eric Overton for May gallery stroll. Overton aims to capture the West while forming a deeper appreciation for his ancestry and the complexity surrounding myth of the Great American Frontier. This important body of work presents a historical photographic process in a contemporary way. The original ambroytype…
Jean Pigozzi: Pool Party

Jean Pigozzi: Pool Party

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Upon establishing his foundation in Berlin in 2003, Helmut Newton expressed his wish to provide a forum not only for his own works, but for that of other photographers as well. His wish continues to be fulfilled posthumously, now with two unique projects by two of Helmut Newton’s friends and colleagues. “Undressed” by Mario Testino is a site-specific installation comprising…
Mike Mandel: Good 70s

Mike Mandel: Good 70s

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Mike Mandel was greatly influenced by his childhood in the San Fernando Valley, which at the time was undergoing a major transformation into a commercial landscape. Living in a place that seemingly produced a new strip mall, billboard or stretch of freeway every week, Mandel was immersed in a society that was bombarded with imagery. Thus, Mandel’s work is largely…
Sid Kaplan: Deconstruction Of The Third Avenue El

Sid Kaplan: Deconstruction Of The Third Avenue El

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In 1955, a 17-year-old Sid Kaplan witnessed the dismantling of New York City’s Third Avenue Elevated line, and launched a 60-year photography career. Featuring over forty of Kaplan’s photographs taken between June 1955 and May 1956, alongside selected artifacts from the Transit Museum’s collections, Deconstruction of the Third Avenue El: Photographs by Sid Kaplan, captures a unique perspective of the…
Kåre Kivijärvi: PHOTOGRAPHS 1959 – 1966

Kåre Kivijärvi: PHOTOGRAPHS 1959 – 1966

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Michael Janssen is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Germany by the Norwegian photographer and artist Kåre Kivijärvi (1938-1991). On view will be a selection of his early iconic black and white vintage prints. Additionally we screen a documentary film about him by the known Norwegian filmmaker Knut Erik Jensen. Photographer Kåre Kivijärvi was at his most productive…
Diane Arbus: In the Park

Diane Arbus: In the Park

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“… I remember one summer I worked a lot in Washington Square Park. It must have been about 1966. The park was divided. It has these walks, sort of like a sunburst, and there were these territories staked out. There were young hippie junkies down one row. There were lesbians down another, really tough amazingly hard-core lesbians. And in the…
Frank Hamrick: 2017 HCP Fellowship Recipient

Frank Hamrick: 2017 HCP Fellowship Recipient

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“Harder than Writing a Good Haiku” For the steadfast hills of Whites Creek, Tennessee and the fight to save them The phrase “Harder than writing a good haiku” was an analogy I spoke of while guiding my senior photography students as they struggled to edit their BFA portfolios to a slim number of prints that would fit into their allotted…
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Machiel Botman

Debbie Fleming Caffery and Machiel Botman

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This exhibition brings together two artists, Debbie Fleming Caffery and Machiel Botman, both masters of the gelatin silver print as a medium of self expression. The exhibition will open with a reception on Thursday April, 6th from 6 to 8 p.m. and run through Saturday June 3rd. Debbie Fleming Caffery grew up along the Bayou Teche in southwest Louisiana and still lives in the…
Ulrich Wüst: Stadtbilder | Nachlass

Ulrich Wüst: Stadtbilder | Nachlass

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Trained as an urban planner, Wüst came to photography in the 1970s as a rhetorical tool for studying the development of cities. This work quickly developed into a critique of the East German approach to city building and led ultimately to a conceptual approach to portraiture of the Socialist state. In the Stadtbilder series, Wüst photographed East German cities that…
Nancy Borowick: A Life In Death

Nancy Borowick: A Life In Death

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“As a child, I simply couldn’t imagine life without my parents. I assumed that they would be there for every important milestone in my life, and that they would grow old together. I never thought that I would lose them both by the time I was twenty-nine.” (Nancy Borowick) Nancy Borowick (b. 1985) is a humanitarian photographer currently based on…