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Henri Cartier-Bresson: Landscapes

28 August 2015 0

In over 100 landscapes taken throughout Europe, Asia and the U.S., each image represents one of Cartier-Bresson’s “decisive moments”. Although some photographs contain people, the focus is on outdoor surroundings, the landscapes of Nature and the landscapes of Man. Henri Cartier-Bresson Landscapes Jun 12 – Sep 30 2015 Abbaye de Jumièges 24, rue Guillaume le Conquérant Jumièges, 76480 France

Vintage Daguerreotype portraits from XIX Century (1844 – 1860)

28 August 2015 0

Mathew B. Brady (1822 – 1896) was one of the first American photographers, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. Brady opened his own studio in New York in 1844, and photographed Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, among other celebrities. Here is a collection of mid 19th century Daguerreotypes produced by Mathew Brady’s studio (1844 – 1860). From the…

Biography: Documentary photographer Emil Otto Hoppé

27 August 2015 0

Emil Otto Hoppé (1878-1972) was one of the most important art and documentary photographers of the modern era whose artistic success rivaled those of his peers, Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), Edward Steichen (1879-1973) and Walker Evans (1903-1975). Hoppé was one of the most renowned portrait photographers of his day, as well as a brilliant landscape and travel photographer. His strikingly modernist…

The 1934 floods in Los Angeles

26 August 2015 0

The Montrose flood, as the calamity soon came to be called, took at least 45 lives, destroyed about 100 homes and turned the little community into a mud-filled, barren landscape, said local historian Art Cobery, who has become an expert on the catastrophe and its aftermath. via LA Times

Michael Najjar: Netropolis

26 August 2015 0

The work series entitled netropolis is an exploration of the way global cities will develop in the future. Of similar magnitude to the impact of the industrial revolution in the late 19th century, it is now computer networks and the information society based on them which are the main vehicles for change, the key elements transforming the face of our…

Madiha Abdo: exhibition in Agora Gallery

25 August 2015 0

NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of juror-selected London photographer Madiha Abdo in The Chelsea International Fine Art Competition Exhibition. The exhibition opens August 25th and will run until September 8th, 2015. The opening reception will take place Thursday, August 27th, from 6-8 PM. Any art lover who enjoys thought-provoking artworks and meeting talented…

Interview with Architecture photographer Wolfgang Mothes

25 August 2015 0

Wolfgang Mothes is a self-taught photographer living in Frankfurt/Germany. Architecture photography has always been his favorite subject, but he is much interested in other genres of photography as well, especially panorama, technology and infrared. Wolfgang Mothes work has been exhibited in Germany, GB, Netherlands, Switzerland, Hungary and Russia. He works for magazines, published three books and many calendars. He still…

Behind the Scenes: The Birds (1963)

24 August 2015 0

The Birds is a 1963 suspense/horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the 1952 story “The Birds” by Daphne du Maurier. It depicts Bodega Bay, California, which is, suddenly and for unexplained reasons, the subject of a series of widespread and violent bird attacks over the course of a few days.

Biography: Polish pioneer photographer Maksymilian Fajans

24 August 2015 0

Maksymilian Fajans (1825–1890) was educated in the Academy of Fine Arts and Parisian studios of local artists and was initially interested in drawing and lithography. In 1862, he became intrigued by the more and more trendy invention of photography. He was a portraitist and a documentarian. As a photoreporter he captured the – often now destroyed – developments of Warsaw:…

Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin: Congo

23 August 2015 0

In this sumptuously printed, large-format publication, distinguished Magnum photographers Paolo Pellegrin and Alex Majoli present a collaborative document of the Congo and its people. Bringing together the best of each photographer’s personal styles as well as experimental forays into abstraction and collage, this volume captures what Alain Mabanckou describes as a full range of the landscape, “from urban scenes to…

Wet Plate collodion Nudes by Andreas Reh

21 August 2015 0

Andreas Reh, born in 1965, grown up and still living in Germany nearby Frankfurt am Main. He works as a photography artist for conceptual art, portrait and nude, working in digital and also in the old technique of wetplate collodion photography and cyanotypes. His work has appeared in european exhibitions and magazines, like ART Magazine, Fine Art Photo etc. More…

Interview with Fine Art Landscape photographer David Fokos

20 August 2015 0

David Fokos was born in 1960 in Baltimore, MD and currently lives in San Diego, CA. Using an 85-year old 8×10 view camera, world-renowned artist David Fokos has been photographing the landscape for over 30 years. Often working 100 hours or more to craft a single image, his elegant black and white images have been lauded as masterpieces of minimalism.…

Bruce Gilden Urban Mobility Exhibition: Paris Metro Stations

19 August 2015 0

Bruce Gilden has been invited by the Groupe RATP, the Paris transportation network, to give his personal interpretation of “Urban Mobility” in five cities around the world where the company is established: Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Johannesburg and Manchester. The result of this carte blanche assignment is a series of portraits on the street bearing Gilden’s signature style and…

Sebastião Salgado: GENESIS

19 August 2015 0

On a very fortuitous day in 1970, 26-year-old Sebastião Salgado held a camera for the first time. When he looked through the viewfinder, he experienced a revelation: suddenly life made sense. From that day onward though it took years of hard work before he had the experience to earn his living as a photographer the camera became his tool for…

Vintage: King Kong (1933)

18 August 2015 0

Merian C Cooper, the visionary behind the chest-thumping giant gorilla atop the Empire State, was a remarkable man. An old school adventurer, he could list World War I flying ace, POW, journalist, explorer, airline owner and Oscar-nominated documentary-maker on his resume before he came to make King Kong, and he continued his adventuresome ways until his death in 1973. He…

Josef Koudelka. Vestiges 1991–2015

16 August 2015 0

Between 1991 and 2015, Josef Koudelka visited twenty countries bordering the Mediterranean, stopping at over two hundred Greek and Roman archaeological sites. This was an unprecedented exploration which has not yet been completed – Koudelka keeps visiting archaeological sites in Greece, Turkey, Tunisia, Algeria, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and other Mediterranean countries – searching not for the documents of the…

Vintage: The Civil War

16 August 2015 0

Here is a collection of photographs covering the places of the Civil War: the battleships, prisons, hospitals, urban centers, and rural pastures where history was made. via The Atlantic

Vintage: Police archives in Sydney (1930s and 40s)

15 August 2015 0

The Historic Houses Trust in Australia has a forensic photography archive at the Justice & Police Museum which contains an estimated 130,000 images created by the New South Wales Police between 1910 and 1960. Images uncovered in Justice & Police Museum’s Forensic Photography Archive, capture the spaces left behind: a moody catalogue of vacant lots, empty roads, desolate interiors, crime…

Tomasz Gudzowaty: Pole Dancers

15 August 2015 0

Pole dancing is no longer the preserve of gentlemen’s clubs, and became – at least in Western countries – just one of many physical activities that everyone can enjoy, but the connections between pole dance and its sensual roots are still obvious and can create tension and negativity. Especially in families, a person’s decision to enter the career of a professional pole…