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Biography: 19th Century photographer Adolphe Braun

Biography: 19th Century photographer Adolphe Braun

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Adolphe Braun (1812 – 1877) was a French photographer, best known for his floral still lifes, Parisian street scenes, and grand Alpine landscapes. Braun was born in Besançon in 1812, the eldest child of Samuel Braun, a police officer, and Antoinette Regard. When he was about 10, his family relocated to Mulhouse, a textile manufacturing center in the Alsace region…
Vintage: Panama Canal (1914-1915)

Vintage: Panama Canal (1914-1915)

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The Canal was begun working on by France in 1881, but after that was taken over by the United States in 1904, and opened on August 15, 1914. It is considered as one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken. These are photos of an early crossing of the Panama Canal. The ship is the S. S.…
Alvin Booth: Nocturnes

Alvin Booth: Nocturnes

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Alvin Booth’s art unveils the intrinsic beauty and possible mutations of the human body. His photographs highlight the human form in the totality of its photographic malleability and use the elaborately staged nude as the point of departure. His bodies are then folded, wrapped, cloaked, pulled and multiplied, in order to create images that prove the body capable of being…
Vintage: Shipwrecks from Isles of Scilly (Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries)

Vintage: Shipwrecks from Isles of Scilly (Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries)

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From 1869 onwards, members of the family systematically recorded most of the great shipwreck disasters that occurred around the Isles of Scilly — a small group of islands off the coast of Cornwall in southern England. Patriarch, seaman, and pioneering shipwreck photojournalist John Gibson established his first photographic studio in Penzance in 1860 before returning to the Scillies and bringing…
Emil Gataullin: Towards the Horizon

Emil Gataullin: Towards the Horizon

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This project developed as I visited small suburban towns and villages of Russia. It shows the lives of people, their relationships with each other and the places they live. I take photographs of province places during the several years now. This is my main topic, I would say. I live close to Moscow, but take every single opportunity to go…
Vintage: Early 20th Century B&W Nudes

Vintage: Early 20th Century B&W Nudes

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Since the first days of photography, the nude was a source of inspiration for those that adopted the new medium. Most of the early images were closely guarded or surreptitiously circulated as violations of the social norms of the time, since the photograph captures real nudity. Many cultures, while accepting nudity in art, shun actual nudity. For example, even an…
Biography: Broadway photographer Joseph Byron

Biography: Broadway photographer Joseph Byron

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Joseph Byron (January 1847 – May 28, 1923) was an English photographer who founded the Byron Company in Manhattan. He was born in England. His father, grandfather, and greatgrandfather were photographers. He received a commission from the British government to photograph the conditions in English coal mines. He emigrated to the United States in 1888 with his children, Percy Claude…
The Faraway Nearby: Photographs of Canada from The New York Times Photo Archive

The Faraway Nearby: Photographs of Canada from The New York Times Photo Archive

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Featuring photographs of Canadian subject matter from The New York Times Photo Archive, The Faraway Nearby examines a century of Canada’s history and its representation in the leading American “newspaper of record.” Taking an expansive view of the many stories that have shaped our national experience, the exhibition highlights images of major political events and conflicts, iconic landscapes across the…
Vintage B&W photos of Paris, France (late 19th Century)

Vintage B&W photos of Paris, France (late 19th Century)

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After the fall of the Commune, the city was governed under the strict surveillance of the conservative national government. The French government and parliament did not return to the city from Versaillles until 1879, though the Senate returned earlier to its home in the Luxembourg Palace. On 23 July 1873, the National Assembly endorsed the project of building a basilica…
Randal Levenson: In Search of the Monkey Girl, and other work

Randal Levenson: In Search of the Monkey Girl, and other work

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This exhibition marks the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition will feature photographs selected from three bodies of work: Americana, Mexico, and In Search of the Monkey Girl. The three distinct groupings range from the artist’s vintage black and white photographs from the 1970’s to large-scale color prints from this decade. In Search of the Monkey Girl…
Sadegh Souri: Waiting Girls

Sadegh Souri: Waiting Girls

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In Iran, death penalty is given to the children for the crimes such as murder, drug trafficking, and armed robbery. According to the Islamic Penal Law, the age when girls are held accountable for their crimes is 9 years old, while the international conventions have banned the death penalty for individuals under 18. Pursuant to the passing of new laws…
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao: Central Park New York: 24 Solar Terms

Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao: Central Park New York: 24 Solar Terms

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The title of the show takes its name from the ancient Chinese lunar calendar, which divides the year into 24 segments, each segment given a specific solar term. This system provided a time frame for agriculture, everyday life and festivals. Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao was born in Taiwan in 1977, and immigrated in 1999 to the United States, residing in the…
Trevor and Faye Yerbury: Yerbury Nudes (Kickstarter)

Trevor and Faye Yerbury: Yerbury Nudes (Kickstarter)

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Trevor & Faye have waited a long time to see this project come to fruition, and are delighted that they now have complete control of the production. The book will contain many of their favourite and well known images, dating back to the 80s and coming up to date with more recent work, many of which have not been published…
Our Strength Is Our People: The Humanist Photographs of Lewis Hine

Our Strength Is Our People: The Humanist Photographs of Lewis Hine

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Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940) was considered the father of American documentary photography. This exhibition consists of rare vintage prints, and covers the three overarching themes of Hine’s three-decade career: the immigrant experience; child labor; and the American worker, culminating in his magnificent studies of the construction of the Empire State Building. All works are from the collection of Michael Mattis…
Dmitri Baltermants: Documenting and Staging a Soviet Reality

Dmitri Baltermants: Documenting and Staging a Soviet Reality

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Dmitri Baltermants (1912–1990) was one of the most important Soviet photojournalists at mid-century. His humanizing, often dramatic compositions of World War II and its aftermath affected viewers in the USSR and around the world. Baltermants graduated from the Math and Mechanics School at Moscow State University, with plans of teaching mathematics at the Higher Military Academy. Life drastically changed in…
Biography: photographer Ilse Bing

Biography: photographer Ilse Bing

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Ilse Bing (1899 – 1998) was a German avant-garde and commercial photographer who produced pioneering monochrome images during the inter-war era. Ilse Bing was born into a comfortable Jewish family in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, in 1899. As a child, her education was rich in music and art and her intellectual development was encouraged. In 1920 she enrolled at the University of…