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Object Lessons: Photography at Cornell, 1869-2018

Object Lessons: Photography at Cornell, 1869-2018

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Photographs have been collected at Cornell since at least 1869, when the university accepted an unusual gift presented by President A. D. White: a photograph of the moon. For White, photographs were part of the arsenal of study tools required by a modern university. They accumulated on campus under his leadership, alongside books, manuscripts, models, and plaster casts. The moon…
Biography: 19th Century photographer Heinrich Kühn

Biography: 19th Century photographer Heinrich Kühn

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Heinrich Kühn (1866 – 1944) was an Austrian–German photographer and photography pioneer. Kühn is regarded one of the forefathers of fine art photography, the movement that helped photography to establish itself as an art on its own. His photographs closely resemble impressionist paintings, with their frequent use of soft lighting and focus. Kühn was part of the pictorialist photographic movement.…
Marc Riboud & Willy Ronis: France 1935 – 1985

Marc Riboud & Willy Ronis: France 1935 – 1985

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In this exhibition the two internationally famous French photographers Willy Ronis and Marc Riboud guide the viewer through the everyday life in Paris from 1935 to 1985. Willy Ronis, a representative of the French school of humanism, showed in his works the “normal life on the street”. His photographs focused on people and showed mainly simple workers, women and children,…
Interview with photographer Florin Firimita

Interview with photographer Florin Firimita

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– How and when did you become interested in photography? My father allowed me to use one of his cameras when I was three years old. By the time I was six I was helping him develop film and print photographs in his improvised lab in one of our bathrooms in Bucharest. He took pictures of our family first, but…
Maria Austria: An Amsterdam Neo-Realist Photographer

Maria Austria: An Amsterdam Neo-Realist Photographer

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Born in Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary) in 1915, Maria Austria (Marie Karoline Oestreicher) completed her photography training at the “Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt” in Vienna in 1936. She briefly worked freelance but in 1937, with the persecution of Jews on the rise in Austria, she decided to move to Amsterdam. When German troops occupied the Netherlands, she again faced persecution as…
Cristina García Rodero: Lalibela

Cristina García Rodero: Lalibela

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In this volume, the award-winning photographer Cristina García Rodero presents the images she took in Lalibela, an Ethiopian World-Heritage city of the eleventh century, which is a holy city and an important pilgrimage site for the Coptic Christians of Ethiopia. They are black-and-white images that bear García Rodero’s unmistakable mark. The viewer is captivated by the intense spirituality and the…
NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960

NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960

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NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960 poignantly portrays life in Italy through the lens of photography before, during, and after World War II. As both a formal approach and a mindset, neorealism reached the height of its popularity in the 1950s. While the movement is primarily associated with cinematic and literary depictions of dire postwar conditions, this exhibition draws…
Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Calcutta, India (1890s)

Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Calcutta, India (1890s)

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Throughout the late 18th and 19th century, the city was a centre of the East India Company’s opium trade. By the 1850s, Calcutta had two areas: White Town, which was primarily British and centred on Chowringhee and Dalhousie Square; and Black Town, mainly Indian and centred on North Calcutta. The city underwent rapid industrial growth starting in the early 1850s,…
Biography: 19th Century photographer Hugues Krafft

Biography: 19th Century photographer Hugues Krafft

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Hugues Krafft (1853 – 1935) was a born in Paris. He travelled around the world, and visited Japan in 1882–1883. He left numerous quality photographs of the period. He was among the first to use instantaneous photography in Japan (he used a Zeiss camera with gelatine-silver bromide plates, a process which became widely available in 1880), which allowed him to…
Jose Picayo: 25 Years of Polaroids

Jose Picayo: 25 Years of Polaroids

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In this exhibition, Picayo seeks to revive the concept of unadulterated beauty captured as a single moment in time. An unapologetic user of film, Picayo prides himself on his avoidance of digital processing for personal work. When asked why it remains his preferred medium, Picayo answers, “Digital is so overpoweringly real; photography is more magical to me.” For Picayo, Polaroid…
Interview with photographer Allen Schill

Interview with photographer Allen Schill

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– How and when did you become interested in photography? I became fascinated with photography while still a child, when I procured a simple plastic camera for 50 cents and 30 Bazooka Joe bubble gum comics. On my first roll of B&W film, I photographed the grass at my feet, filling the frame with a homogeneous texture, which I continued…
Jungjin Lee: Opening

Jungjin Lee: Opening

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The exhibition, which marks Lee’s second solo show with the gallery, is entitled Opening. A book of the same name with work from 2015 to 2016 was published by Nazraeli Press last year. Traveling to Arizona, New Mexico, and Canada, Lee captured abstract expanses of desert and mountain. Robert Frank has described her images as “landscapes without the human beast.”…
The New Beginning for Italian Photography: 1945-1965

The New Beginning for Italian Photography: 1945-1965

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Through the lens of neorealism, The New Beginning for Italian Photography: 1945-1965 explores how photographers documented daily realities during the two decades after World War II. The exhibition at Howard Greenberg, a collaboration with Admira Photography Studio, is presented in conjunction with NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960, which opens in September in two exhibitions at New York University.…
Permanence and Change: Architectural Views

Permanence and Change: Architectural Views

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The exhibition presents works of photography’s early masters, focusing on 19th century architectural views beginning in 1842 by William Henry Fox Talbot, Henri Le Secq, Gustave Le Gray, Felix Teynard, and Auguste Salzmann, among others. Felix Teynard (1817-1892) completed an extensive photographic survey of Egypt during the course of a voyage along the Nile in 1851-52. The exhibition features three…
Vintage: South of India (19th Century)

Vintage: South of India (19th Century)

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The appointment in 1848 of Lord Dalhousie as Governor General of the East India Company set the stage for changes essential to a modern state. These included the consolidation and demarcation of sovereignty, the surveillance of the population, and the education of citizens. Technological changes—among them, railways, canals, and the telegraph—were introduced not long after their introduction in Europe. However,…
Klea McKenna: Generation

Klea McKenna: Generation

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This exhibition marks her first solo show in New York and the beginning of her representation by Gitterman Gallery. It is presented in association with Von Lintel Gallery in Los Angeles where McKenna will have a concurrent exhibition from September 7th through October 20th. The exhibition presents McKenna’s most recent work Generation alongside work from two of her previous series…
Heiko Sievers: 1980. In Berlin.

Heiko Sievers: 1980. In Berlin.

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The West Berlin of the early 1980s is the subject of the photographs by Heiko Sievers, which show three things: unknown people on the way, something of the atmosphere of Berlin and the attitude of the author in this city. A limited world, marked by recent history, close and wide at the same time, and therefore a place of departure.…
Romain Tornay: White Road

Romain Tornay: White Road

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I made this serie while crossing Iceland from north to south. I did it in April 2008 and April 2009. Is was not possible to cross in 2008 due to the bad weather so I walked the end of the trip the following year. I want to represent whith this serie of pictures how small is the man in this…
Biography: 19th Century photographer Benjamin W. Kilburn

Biography: 19th Century photographer Benjamin W. Kilburn

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Benjamin Kilburn (1827 – 1909) was an American photographer and stereoscopic view publisher famous for his landscape images of the nascent American and Canadian state, provincial, and national parks and his visual record of the great migrations at the end of the nineteenth century. Kilburn Brothers stereoviews date from about 1865. Published sources attribute their stereographs before 1876 solely to…
Sasha Gusov: The Bolshoi

Sasha Gusov: The Bolshoi

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This beautiful and remarkable behind-the-scenes study of dancers, musicians and onlookers offers a social and narrative dimension to the everyday life at the legendary Bolshoi Ballet, through the lens of the acclaimed Russian photographer Sasha Gusov. In the words of Andrei Navrozov, Gusov’s photographs are lightning fissures, apertures, openings. They are neat as the bullet marks made in the moving…