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Vintage: General Motors streetcar conspiracy

Vintage: General Motors streetcar conspiracy

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Between 1938 and 1950, National City Lines and its subsidiaries, American City Lines and Pacific City Lines—with investment from GM, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California (through a subsidiary), Federal Engineering, Phillips Petroleum, and Mack Trucks—gained control of additional transit systems in about 25 cities. Systems included St. Louis, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and Oakland. NCL often converted streetcars to bus…
Susan Meiselas: Carnival Strippers

Susan Meiselas: Carnival Strippers

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From 1972 to 1975, Susan Meiselas spent her summers photographing women who performed striptease for small-town carnivals in New England, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. As she followed the shows from town to town, she captured the dancers on stage and off, their public performances as well as their private lives, creating a portrait both documentary and empathetic: “The recognition of…
Paul Hart: Reclaimed

Paul Hart: Reclaimed

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Paul Hart s new book ‘Reclaimed’ concludes his three-part series on The Fens in the UK. The first two books ‘Farmed’ (2016) and ‘Drained’ (2018) have received several international awards and considerable critical acclaim. In 2018 work from the series was awarded the inaugural Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize (Austria/UK) and in 2019 it was shortlisted for the Hariban Award (Japan).…
Mario Giacomelli – Figure/Ground

Mario Giacomelli – Figure/Ground

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Mario Giacomelli (1925-2000) was born into poverty and lived his entire life in Senigallia, a seaside town along the Adriatic coast in Italy’s Marche region. He purchased his first camera in 1953 and quickly gained recognition for the raw expressiveness of his images. His preference for grainy, high-contrast film and paper produced bold, geometric compositions with glowing whites and deep…
Maxime Crozet: Iraq, beyond the shores

Maxime Crozet: Iraq, beyond the shores

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From the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates, from the Chatt-el-Arab (“The Arabian shore”) to the mountains of Kurdistan, Iraq, after 30 years of disaster, is today facing many social, economic and political issues, the continuing security threats and growing ecological challenges. From beyond the shores … these are the murmurs of hope and uncertainty, sometimes of spite, of…
Vintage: Downtown Christmas Decorations

Vintage: Downtown Christmas Decorations

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Once reliant upon Germany for its ornaments, toys, and even its Christmas customs, America became self-sufficient in the post-War years with Christmas ornaments and toys being manufactured in the United States that were considerably less expensive than their German counterparts. American Christmas customs and traditions such as visits to department store Santas and letter writing to Santa at the North…
HELMUT NEWTON. LEGACY

HELMUT NEWTON. LEGACY

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31 October 2021 marks the opening of the expansive retrospective exhibition “HELMUT NEWTON. LEGACY” at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin. Originally scheduled to coincide with the photographer’s 100th birthday, it was postponed for a year due to the pandemic. Visitors can now look forward to seeing not only Helmut Newton’s many iconic images, but also a number of surprises.…
Vintage: Christmas in New York City (1910s)

Vintage: Christmas in New York City (1910s)

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The date of Christmas and some American traditions have pagan roots. In the Roman Empire, December 25th was the day of “natalis solis invict” (the Roman birth of the unconquered sun), and the birthday of Mithras, the Iranian “Sun of Righteousness.” Saturnalia, a Roman festival that honored the sun, lasted from December 17th to December 23rd. The winter solstice, the…
Interview with Madhur Dhingra

Interview with Madhur Dhingra

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– How and when did you become interested in photography? Photography came to me as a fulfillment of a void that has plagued me since childhood because of certain family insecurities and turmoil. It started as a hobby in 1996, later to become an acute passion and profession. I studied photography at the prestigious art institute “Triveni Kala Sangam” situated…
Oliver Stegmann: CIRCUS NOIR

Oliver Stegmann: CIRCUS NOIR

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Extract from the essay «Behind the scenes» by Thomas Wiegand Circus – isn’t that a tent full of stereotypes about freedom, adventure and romance? A spellbound, excited, guffawing audience, bright-eyed children staring in wonder, the roll of drums and a brass band playing lively music, intrepid acrobats in colourful costumes performing aerial feats high above the ring and garishly made-up…
Paolo Gasparini

Paolo Gasparini

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The exhibition Paolo Gasparini. Field of Images provides a comprehensive overview of the artist’s career, focusing not only on his photography but also another of his main expressive supports, the photobook, a crucial narrative mechanism for defining the history of photography in Latin America. His six decades as a photographer offer a broad itinerary through several mutating cityscapes: Caracas, Havana,…
Interview with Thomas Pohlig

Interview with Thomas Pohlig

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– How and when did you become interested in photography? My first memory of photography came at a young age, I think I was around 13 or 14. My parents bought me a cheap one time use camera – film in a box. I was so excited that I went outside and snapped all the photos at once, not even…
Anja Niemi: The Rider Vol. 1

Anja Niemi: The Rider Vol. 1

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A woman stands turned away from us, dressed in classic black dressage pants – hair gently gathered under her helmet by a hairnet. The sleeves of her white blouse are rolled up, torso slightly arched, shoulders together. Her leather riding boots are securely grounded beneath her, preparing to confront the dark void ahead. The Rider Vol. 1 is an ideological…
Gordon Parks: Pittsburgh Grease Plant, 1944/46

Gordon Parks: Pittsburgh Grease Plant, 1944/46

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By 1944, Gordon Parks had established himself as a photographer who freely navigated the fields of press and commercial photography, with an unparalleled humanist perspective. That year, Roy Stryker–the former Farm Security Administration official who was now heading the public relations department for the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey)–commissioned Parks to travel to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to document the Penola, Inc.…
Barbara Niggl Radloff: Intimate Distance

Barbara Niggl Radloff: Intimate Distance

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Artist Barbara Niggl Radloff (1936–2010), after spending her youth surrounded by the ruins of the Second World War, discovered photography, seeing in it the ideal medium to document the story of the people of post-war Munich and the stark reality of their lives. Niggl Radloff left behind an impressive body of work from her early career as a photojournalist and…
Female Perspectives from Vivian Maier to Barbara Klemm

Female Perspectives from Vivian Maier to Barbara Klemm

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“Female perspectives from Vivian Maier to Barbara Klemm” showcases works by nine female artists from the Art Collection Deutsche Börse. The presented contemporaries of Evelyn Hofer are Diane Arbus, Sibylle Bergemann, Barbara Klemm, Ute Mahler, Vivian Maier, Susan Meiselas, Helga Paris, Mimi Plumb and Christine Spengler. Their photographs from the second half of the 20th century are documenting people in…
Chris Killip: Skinningrove

Chris Killip: Skinningrove

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Of all Chris Killip’s bodies of work, the photographs he made between 1982 and 1984 in the village of Skinningrove on the north-east coast of England are perhaps his most intimate and encompassing―of the community he photographed and of himself. “Like a lot of tight-knit fishing communities, it could be hostile to strangers, especially one with a camera,” Killip recalled,…
Three Magnum Women Cristina Garcia Rodero, Eve Arnold, Inge Morath

Three Magnum Women Cristina Garcia Rodero, Eve Arnold, Inge Morath

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Eve Arnold was the first woman to enter the Magnum agency in 1951 and became a full member in 1957, Inge Morath would later join in 1953, gaining full membership in 1955, and Cristina García Rodero would join in 2005 and become a full member in 2009. This exhibition is a tribute to these three photographers who’s individual practices have…
Ian Berry: The English and Beyond

Ian Berry: The English and Beyond

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Aperture Gallery is delighted to present Ian Berry: The English and Beyond as the second exhibition in the gallery. Ian Berry is one of the most celebrated photo journalists in the UK, and has been a member of the international photographers’ agency Magnum since 1962. In this exhibition, we revisit The English, one of his most famous works from the…
Henry Leutwyler: Misty Copeland

Henry Leutwyler: Misty Copeland

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Henry Leutwyler is certainly no stranger to the art of ballet―for many years he photographed on stage and behind the scenes at the New York City Ballet, culminating in his book Ballet, since published by Steidl in two editions. Yet Misty Copeland pushes Leutwyler’s vision into a new direction: neither a strict portrait of the renowned ballerina nor a mere…