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Vintage: Glass Plate Negatives of Norfolk, Virginia (1919)

Vintage: Glass Plate Negatives of Norfolk, Virginia (1919)

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In the 1980’s 46 glass plate negatives were found in the attic of a Norfolk home. The plates measured 8.5” x 6.5”. Through the generous support of the Norfolk Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Old Dominion University, and Colorcraft Corporation, ten portfolios were created. The contact prints were archivally processed. The photographer remains anonymous. It is assumed that he…
Frances Benjamin Johnston: The Hampton Album

Frances Benjamin Johnston: The Hampton Album

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Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952), credited as the first female photojournalist in the United States, was commissioned in 1899 to photograph the Hampton Institute, then a 30-year-old institution dedicated to the education of young African American and Native American men and women. What became known as the Hampton Album―comprised of 159 luxurious platinum plates that offer insight into the daily life…
Brian Griffin: Work and other stories

Brian Griffin: Work and other stories

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MMX Gallery is delighted to be showing a selection of Brian Griffin’s early work from the 1970s and 1980s. Exhibited prints will include images from his books Moscow, 1974; Copyright, 1978; Power, 1981and Work, 1988. Inspired by fine art movements; from Renaissance to Symbolism, Expressionism and Surrealism film and literature, Griffin began his career taking corporate portraits for Management Today…
Katerina Kouzmitcheva: Dreamy world

Katerina Kouzmitcheva: Dreamy world

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Dreamy world is a project of Katerina Kouzmitcheva, a Belarusian photographer from Minsk. Dream has always been constant source of inspiration for her. She is fascinated by its nature. How all the images – real, remembered and invented – come together into one piece? Illusory way of reshaping life captures her and she is often looking for that state of…
Letizia Battaglia: Fotografia come scelta di vita

Letizia Battaglia: Fotografia come scelta di vita

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From 20 March to 18 August 2019, the Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice will be hosting a large-scale anthological show of the work by Letizia Battaglia (Palermo 1935), one of the most significant protagonists of Italian photography, and it will range over her whole career. The show, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti, organised by Civita Tre Venezie, promoted by…
Vintage: Greece (late 19th Ccentury)

Vintage: Greece (late 19th Ccentury)

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Greece remained a very poor country throughout the 19th century. The country lacked raw materials, infrastructure and capital. Agriculture was mostly at the subsistence level, and the only important export commodities were currants, raisins and tobacco. Some Greeks grew rich as merchants and shipowners, and Piraeus became a major port, but little of this wealth found its way to the…
Chris Simpson: Carnets de Voyage

Chris Simpson: Carnets de Voyage

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Atlas Gallery is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition of photographs by Chris Simpson in London. Simpson’s Carnets de Voyage series of images taken during his years travelling the world capture the beauty of the places he went ­­- including Madagascar, Namibia, Cuba, the UK and the people he met there. The clean lines and pared-back compositions of the…
Vintage: Portraits of Geraldine Farrar (1910s)

Vintage: Portraits of Geraldine Farrar (1910s)

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Geraldine Farrar (1882- 1967) was an American soprano opera singer and film actress. Farrar was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, the daughter of baseball player Sidney Farrar, and his wife Henrietta Barnes. At age 5, she began studying music in Boston and by 14 was giving recitals. Later she studied voice with the American soprano Emma Thursby in New York City,…
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes

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This edition of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s popular photography series is expanded and updated from the out-of-print first edition, including five previously unpublished photographs. For more than 30 years, Sugimoto has traveled the world photographing its seas, producing an extended meditation on the passage of time and the natural history of the earth reduced to its most basic, primordial substances: water and…
Sunil Gupta: Christopher Street

Sunil Gupta: Christopher Street

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Hales is delighted to announce Sunil Gupta’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Christopher Street. Over a career spanning four decades, Gupta has remained dedicated to advocating the visibility of queer identity, cultivating a compelling practice which is simultaneously political and deeply personal. The artist lives and works in London. Sunil Gupta was born in India in 1953 and moved…
Mimi Plumb: Landfall

Mimi Plumb: Landfall

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Landfall offers an uneasy view into a world seemingly under threat and on the brink of nuclear war. Plumb’s dystopian images provide the viewer with a narrative that is as much ominous as it is seductively mesmerizing and compassionately human. Landfall exquisitely interweaves its storyline through strangely alluringly peculiar landscapes, video arcades, dioramas, and mysterious charred house fire remnants, to…
Francesco Bosso: WATERHEAVEN

Francesco Bosso: WATERHEAVEN

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Water, with its constant flow and its strength, models, transforms and creates, in this continual and eternal act of becoming, where everything stems from water and everything returns to it. “WATERHEAVEN” is a journey across the captivating creative power of Water, between vision and reality, a sequence of evocations and fragments of memories. Bosso with his photographs creates particular suggestions…
Dawoud Bey: Birmingham, Alabama, 1963: Dawoud Bey/Black Star

Dawoud Bey: Birmingham, Alabama, 1963: Dawoud Bey/Black Star

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The exhibition Birmingham, Alabama, 1963: Dawoud Bey/Black Star responds to the September 15, 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama—an event that resulted in six deaths of black children by white supremacists. Organized by Dr. Gaëlle Morel, exhibitions curator at the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto, the exhibition pairs Dawoud Bey’s (American, b. 1953) The Birmingham…
Vintage: Vietnamese Lunar New Year – Tet Holiday (1920s)

Vintage: Vietnamese Lunar New Year – Tet Holiday (1920s)

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Vietnamese Lunar New Year or Tet Holiday, is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture. Vietnamese people usually return to their families during Tết. Some return to worship at the family altar or visit the graves of their ancestors in their homeland. They also clean the graves of their family as a sign of respect. Although Tết is a national…
Bob Gomel at Monroe Gallery of Photography

Bob Gomel at Monroe Gallery of Photography

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Bob Gomel was born in New York City in 1933 and honed his photography at NY University. After 4 years with the US Navy during the Korean War, he was offered a photo job with the Associated Press, but turned it down and waited a full year before joining LIFE magazine. In addition to LIFE, his photographs have appeared on…
Berenice Abbott: Portraits of Modernity

Berenice Abbott: Portraits of Modernity

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This handsome publication presents legendary American photographer Berenice Abbott’s work in three categories: her portraits, photographs of the city and scientific photographs. The opening section presents Abbott’s portraits of mold-breaking individuals who changed the world from the mid-1920s onward such as Djuna Barnes, the New Yorker’s Janet Flanner, Jean Cocteau and James Joyce. The second part offers a dazzling portrait…
Bruce Davidson: Subject: Contact

Bruce Davidson: Subject: Contact

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BRUCE DAVIDSON, SUBJECT: CONTACT will present contact sheets in context with vintage prints from four seminal projects from the 1950s and ‘60s – Circus, Brooklyn Gang, Time of Change, and East 100th Street – illustrating Davidson’s connection to some of the 20th century’s most important social, cultural, and political moments. Poetic and profound, powerful and tender, Davidson’s work derives its…
Vintage: Douglas County, Colorado (19th Century)

Vintage: Douglas County, Colorado (19th Century)

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Douglas County was one of the original 17 counties created in the Colorado Territory by the Colorado Territorial Legislature on November 1, 1861. The county was named in honor of U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, who died five months before the county was created. The county seat was originally Franktown, but was moved to California Ranch in 1863,…
Biography: 19th Century photographer George Shadbolt

Biography: 19th Century photographer George Shadbolt

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George Shadbolt (1817–1901) was a British writer, editor, student of optics and photographer with a strong interest in innovative techniques, who was active during the 1850s-1860s. Reported to have made the first microphotograph, he was also an early advocate of photographic enlargement, as well as compound and combination printing. Shadbolt’s dislike of the glare of albumen printing paper led him…
Vintage: Nazi Propaganda Film Director Leni Riefenstahl (1930s)

Vintage: Nazi Propaganda Film Director Leni Riefenstahl (1930s)

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Leni Riefenstahl (1902 – 2003) was a German film director. Riefenstahl heard Nazi Party (NSDAP) leader Adolf Hitler speak at a rally in 1932 and was mesmerized by his talent as a public speaker. Describing the experience in her memoir, Riefenstahl wrote, “I had an almost apocalyptic vision that I was never able to forget. It seemed as if the…