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Interview with Andrzej Pilichowski-Ragno

Interview with Andrzej Pilichowski-Ragno

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Andrzej Pilichowski-Ragno was born in Rome in 1967, lives and works in Krakow. He earned a liberal arts degree at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, where he later lectured on literary theory for several years. Pilichowski–Ragno studied photography at the Academy of Fine Art in Krakow. For 20 years he has been working as a photographer and an active member…
Marina Kazakova: The poetics of childhood

Marina Kazakova: The poetics of childhood

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The concept of the series is expressed in a mental journey through intimate visions of private life showing how often stories that worth to be told are very close to us. The poetics of childhood: boundless sensuality, confidence and a huge need for love, perhaps more than in any other period of life. Marina Kazakova was born in Soviet Union…
Deck the Walls 2019

Deck the Walls 2019

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Deck the Walls is an annual group exhibition of vintage and contemporary pieces that allows Catherine Couturier Gallery to showcase a variety of artists, prices, styles, and photographic mediums. Deck the Walls is expected to feature works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Horst P. Horst, and Robert Doisneau. Other exhibited artists will include Maggie Taylor, Joyce Tenneson, Kate Breakey, Kenny Braun, Susan…
Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation

Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation

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Francesca Woodman took her first photograph at the age of the thirteen. From the time she was a teenager until her death at twenty-two, she produced a fascinating body of work exploring gender, representation, and sexuality by photographing her own body and those of her friends. Featuring approximately forty unique vintage prints, as well as notes, letters, postcards, and other…
Vintage: Young Winston Churchill (1884-1904)

Vintage: Young Winston Churchill (1884-1904)

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Churchill was born at the family’s ancestral home, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, on 30 November 1874, at which time the United Kingdom was the dominant world power. Direct descendants of the Dukes of Marlborough, his family were among the highest levels of the British aristocracy, and thus he was born into the country’s governing elite. His paternal grandfather, John Spencer-Churchill,…
Mohammad Rakibul Hasan: Salt

Mohammad Rakibul Hasan: Salt

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Global warming seems to have more severe impact on certain countries than others because of the way it affects the world climate. An immediate effect of global warming is the increased natural disasters like storm surge and flood, while sea level rise is a slow, yet inevitable process. Bangladesh, the largest delta of the world is an obvious victim of…
Exhibition: LIFE

Exhibition: LIFE

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Atlas Gallery is pleased to present LIFE, an exhibition of photographs celebrating the golden age of the first American all-photographic magazine. LIFE’s photographers documented the most important events, memorable people and places in modern history. The exhibition will showcase the work of stellar names associated with the magazine, such as Andreas Feininger, Joe Rosenthal, Margaret Bourke-White, Alfred Eisenstaedt, John Dominis,…
Vintage: The Forth Bridge Construction (1890s)

Vintage: The Forth Bridge Construction (1890s)

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Construction of the bridge began in 1882 and it was opened on 4 March 1890 by the Duke of Rothesay, the future Edward VII. The bridge spans the Forth between the villages of South Queensferry and North Queensferry and has a total length of 8,094 feet (2,467 m). When it opened it had the longest single cantilever bridge span in…
Anja Niemi: THE BLOW

Anja Niemi: THE BLOW

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Anja Niemi’s new, all black/white series shows an unaccompanied woman, dressed in black with a face that is turned away from the lens, driving to a solitary house in the desert. Here she trades her clothes for that of a boxer. The boxing paraphernalia builds upon the idea that each photograph and setting is a site of mental training and…
Vinatge: Portraits by Will Burgdorf (1920s)

Vinatge: Portraits by Will Burgdorf (1920s)

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Will Burgdorf (1905 – 1944) was a German photographer. Went to Dresden at the beginning of the 1920s, where he completed his training in the studio of Bruno Wiehr, back to his hometown in the late 1920s still a teenager. Burgdorf had specialized in portrait photography. Before his camera, which he also used for photographic self-study and portraits of his…
Murat Yazar: Shadows of Kurdistan

Murat Yazar: Shadows of Kurdistan

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I was born and raised in a village near the city of Urfa. For us, Kurdish was the language used for communicating, until I went to school. The beginning of my education marked a point that changed my primary language from the language we spoke at home and in my community to the language we spoke in school. It was…
Vinatge: Portraits of Gloria Grahame (1940s-1950s)

Vinatge: Portraits of Gloria Grahame (1940s-1950s)

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Gloria Grahame (1923 – 1981), known professionally as Gloria Grahame, was an American stage, film, and television actress and singer. She began her acting career in theatre and in 1944 made her first film for MGM. Despite a featured role in It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), MGM did not believe she had the potential for major success, and sold her…
Bastiaan Woudt: HIDDEN

Bastiaan Woudt: HIDDEN

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Bastiaan Woudt has enjoyed a meteoric rise to success within the world of contemporary photography. After starting his own photography practice from scratch a mere five years ago, with no experience or formal training, he has developed into a photographer with his own distinct signature style – abstract yet sharp, with a strong focus on detail. As a student of…
Birgit Neiser: Oman desert

Birgit Neiser: Oman desert

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The Sultanate of Oman is one of the driest countries in the world. These may be very harsh conditions, but at the same time it therefore is host to some of the most spectacular deserts in the world. The Empty Quarter and the Wahiba Sands deserts are the best known. Travelling in the desert when you sometimes don´t see any…
Vintage: El Helicoide Construction (1950s)

Vintage: El Helicoide Construction (1950s)

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El Helicoide is built on a hill in Roca Tarpeya between the parishes of San Pedro and San Agustín, in the extension of the avenues Armed Forces, President Medina Angarita, and Nueva Granada. It has the shape of a three-sided pyramid with curved points formed by elevated paved roads intended for vehicle traffic and parking around an enclosed central area.…
Sally Mann: Remembered Light & Landscapes

Sally Mann: Remembered Light & Landscapes

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Jackson Fine Art is honored to celebrate the final stop of Sally Mann’s celebrated retrospective, A Thousand Crossings, at the High Museum with a concurrent exhibition of Mann’s 2016 series Remembered Light, as well as select southern landscapes spanning the artist’s remarkable career. It is fitting that A Thousand Crossings, which was curated for the National Gallery by Sarah Greenough…
Vintage: Portraits of Dolores Costello – Silent Movie Star

Vintage: Portraits of Dolores Costello – Silent Movie Star

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Dolores Costello (1903 – 1979) was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies. She had a younger sister, Helene, and the two made their first film appearances in the years 1909–1915 as child actresses for the Vitagraph Film Company. The two sisters appeared on Broadway together as chorines and their success resulted…
Manuela Thames: Trauma

Manuela Thames: Trauma

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This self-portrait series aims to explore the themes of brokenness, the struggles of loss and grief, the regrets of past decisions and my personal experiences with generational trauma and mental health struggles. I was raised in Germany by parents who were born in the 1930s and both experienced significant trauma as children and young adults due to World War II.…
Vintage: Portraits of James Cagney

Vintage: Portraits of James Cagney

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James Cagney (1899 – 1986) was an American actor and dancer, both on stage and in film. Known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing, he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances. He is remembered by some for playing multifaceted tough guys in films such as The Public Enemy (1931),…
Frank Loddenkemper: Rheinkniebrücke

Frank Loddenkemper: Rheinkniebrücke

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The Rhine bridges in Düsseldorf are an integral part of the skyline. One of them is the “Kniebrücke” from the 60s. It is a steel cable-stayed bridge whose access ramps were built of concrete. I photographed the bridge laterally in its entirety, as well as from below with its curved driveways. In this way of viewing the lines are particularly…