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Ilse Bing: An Avant-Garde Vision

Ilse Bing: An Avant-Garde Vision

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Galerie Edwynn Houk is pleased to present a selection of rare vintage prints by the photographer Ilse Bing (U.S., born Germany, 1899-1998). The exhibition “Ilse Bing: An Avant-Garde Vision”, which opens in the Zurich gallery on September the 9th, 2015, features some of her most iconic works from a renowned ten year period in Paris. Other important images from her…
John Leuba: Welles Garage

John Leuba: Welles Garage

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I was five years old when I first encountered Peter and Welles garage. My grandfather brought his lawn mower there to be fixed. This was an old lawn mower. The kind which arguably should have been laid to rest and there were no longer parts readily available for it. Welles garage was one of few the places you could take…
Vintage: Mug Shots of Al Capone (1930s)

Vintage: Mug Shots of Al Capone (1930s)

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On March 27, 1929, as Al Capone left a Chicago courtroom after testifying to a grand jury investigating violations of federal prohibition laws, Capone was arrested by FBI agents on charges of having committed contempt of court by feigning illness to avoid an earlier appearance. In May 1929, Capone was sentenced to a prison term in Philadelphia, having been convicted…
René Groebli: Early Works

René Groebli: Early Works

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The exhibition will present a unique selection of vintage prints and a recent edition of these two series, showcased this Fall by the publication of the book René Groebli, Early Works by Sturm & Drang editions. The Galerie Esther Woerdehoff is pleased to present two emblematic series of early works by the Swiss photographer René Groebli, born in 1927: Magie…
Interview with Nude/Portrait photographer Gregory Prescott

Interview with Nude/Portrait photographer Gregory Prescott

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How and when did you become interested in photography? I have always been interested in all forms of art and I use to draw and was interested in illustration but with the interest in fashion, I tried out photography and discovered its a much faster process and I enjoy working and creating with other people. Is there any artist/photographer who…
Vintage French Erotic Postcards (1920s)

Vintage French Erotic Postcards (1920s)

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A French postcard is a small, postcard-sized piece of cardstock featuring a photograph of a nude or semi-nude woman. Such erotic cards were produced in great volume, primarily in France, in the late 19th and early 20th century. The term was adopted in the USA, where such cards were not legally made.
Danny Lyon: Conversations with the Dead

Danny Lyon: Conversations with the Dead

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Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of rare, vintage photographs by Danny Lyon from his groundbreaking series, Conversations with the Dead. In 1967-68 Lyon spent over fourteen months inside Texas prisons, photographing and befriending inmates. Drawn from his own archive, many of the works on view are the first prints made and used to edit and lay…
Claudio Menna: There’s no place like home

Claudio Menna: There’s no place like home

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Naples, Montesanto district. In the heart of inner city, (actually heritage of UNESCO ) cohabit many different realities. Montesanto is a popular district in the center of the city full of life and activities: there’s a metro station, an Hospital, a college of architecture and a big open air popular market. Walking through it you can smell all the passion…
Biography: Nude photographer Ruth Bernhard

Biography: Nude photographer Ruth Bernhard

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Ruth Bernhard (October 14, 1905 – December 18, 2006) was a German-born American photographer. In 1927, after two years at the Berlin Academy of Art, Ruth moved to New York where she began to seriously pursue a career in photography. Eight years later she met Edward Weston in California and was deeply moved by his work. He revealed to her…
Paolo Pellegrin: As I was Dying

Paolo Pellegrin: As I was Dying

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“When I do my work and I’m exposed to the suffering of others –their loss or, at times, their death – I feel I am surviving as a witness; my role and responsibility is to create a record for our collective memory. Part of this, I believe, has to do with notions of accountability. Perhaps it is only in their…
Sanne Sannes: The Enduring Legend

Sanne Sannes: The Enduring Legend

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Sannes remains one of the most captivating photographers of the 1960’s, having produced an outstanding body of work in the mere eight years he worked as a photographer, until his untimely death at the age of 30. His oeuvre is mostly built up of countless photographs of female nudes. Women were his favourite subject and an endless source of inspiration.…
Glass-Plate Family Portraits from Romania (1940s)

Glass-Plate Family Portraits from Romania (1940s)

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Amazing collection of family portraits by Romanian photographer Costică Acsinte. Costică Acsinte was born 4th of July, 1897 in a small village called Perieți, Ialomița County, Costică Acsinte fought in WWI. Despite his formation as a pilot, he was a official war photographer till 15th of June, 1920. As soon as the war was over he opened a studio —…
Interview with Fine Art photographer David Johndrow

Interview with Fine Art photographer David Johndrow

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David Johndrow is a fine art photographer living in Austin, Texas. After studying photography the University of Texas, he began shooting commercial work as well as pursuing his more personal fine art photography. David’s continuing series, Terrestrials, combines his passion for gardening and photography and features macro nature photographs of animals and plants that inhabit his Hill Country, Texas garden.…
Ron Galella 55 Years a Paparazzi

Ron Galella 55 Years a Paparazzi

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Ron Galella brought the work of the paparazzi, that step child of photojournalism, into the public eye, and with it the celebrity culture. With this exhibition “That’s Great!” we enter the world of Andy Warhol and his circle which encompassed the celebrity, fashion, art, and social world of New York in the 1970’s and 80’s. With time, the Warhol circle…
Historic B&W photos of St. Petersburg, Russia in the 19th Century

Historic B&W photos of St. Petersburg, Russia in the 19th Century

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With the emancipation of the peasants undertaken by Alexander II in 1861 and an industrial revolution, the influx of former peasants into the capital increased greatly. Poor boroughs spontaneously emerged on the outskirts of the city. Saint Petersburg surpassed Moscow in population and industrial growth; it developed as one of the largest industrial cities in Europe, with a major naval…