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Biography: French pioneer photographer Charles Nègre

Biography: French pioneer photographer Charles Nègre

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Charles Nègre (1820–1880) was a pioneering photographer born in Grasse, France. He studied painting under Ingres and Delaroche, another of whose pupils, Gustave Le Gray, introduced him to photography. After a short period of making daguerreotypes, he embraced the calotype process, becoming adept at retouching negatives and printing. He used his pictures as aids to painting and developed his skills…
Lillian Bassman at CAMERA WORK

Lillian Bassman at CAMERA WORK

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Gallery CAMERA WORK is pleased to present an exhibition with works of Lillian Bassman from January 21, 2017. The show will include more than 50 main works and will be the first gallery exhibition held in Berlin after Lillian Bassman had passed away in 2012. Born in 1917 in Brooklyn, Lillian Bassman worked as an artist’s model, a textile designer,…
Werner Bischof: Point of View

Werner Bischof: Point of View

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Swiss Magnum photographer Werner Bischof (1916-1954) worked as a photojournalist for legendary magazines like Life and Picture Post. Over the two decades prior to his premature death in 1954, he produced a memorable and multifaceted oeuvre. To mark the centenary of his birth, the Hague Museum of Photography is mounting a major retrospective of his work. The exhibition will include…
Biography: pioneer Antarctic photographer Herbert G. Ponting

Biography: pioneer Antarctic photographer Herbert G. Ponting

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Herbert George Ponting (1870 – 1935) was a Brisitsh photographer. He is best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910–1913). In this role, he captured some of the most enduring images of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. After winning several photographic contests he was…
Herb Ritts: Super

Herb Ritts: Super

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Ritts was largely self-taught with no formal training in photography, yet by the late 1980s he had become a celebrity, just like the people he photographed, “a testament to his natural talents and likeability… Some people are born visually sophisticated – they don’t have to be taught composition.” (David Fahey) Ritts played an important role in ushering the era of…
Vintage: Historic views of Melbourne (1800s)

Vintage: Historic views of Melbourne (1800s)

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The decade of the 1880s was one of extraordinary growth, when consumer confidence, easy access to credit, and steep increases in the price of land, led to an enormous amount of construction. This ‘land boom’ was followed by a severe economic crash in the early 1890s which lasted until the end of the century. During the boom, Melbourne had reputedly…
Enrique Metinides: Exhibition

Enrique Metinides: Exhibition

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From 1948 until his forced retirement in 1979, the Mexican photographer Enrique Metinides took thousands of images and followed hundreds of stories in and around Mexico City. And what images and stories they were: car wrecks and train derailments, a bi-plane crashed on to a roof, street stabbings and shootings in the park, apartments and petrol stations set alight, earthquakes,…
Miklós Vörös: Lost and Found

Miklós Vörös: Lost and Found

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Though at first glance they seem like random junk stacked next to each other, in reality, the compositions of lost and found objects are well-thought, revealing us fascinating stories. The photos of Miklós Vörös are exhibited at the Faur Zsófi Gallery until 28th of February. A cracked safety helmet, half a pair of gloves, a measuring tape, a radio cassette…
Forgotten Cincinnati: Photographs from the 1880s

Forgotten Cincinnati: Photographs from the 1880s

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In 2013, a private collector rediscovered a trove of large glass-plate negatives. These fragile documents by unidentified photographers constitute a time capsule of late-19th-century Cincinnati. Group portraits reveal the faces of former residents. Street scenes show life in a bustling city and record buildings that no longer exist. Construction views and industrial interiors portray Cincinnati as a developing modern metropolis.…
Vinatge: The Great Baltimore Fire in 1904

Vinatge: The Great Baltimore Fire in 1904

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The Great Baltimore Fire raged in Baltimore exactly 113 years ago (February 7, 1904). 1,231 firefighters helped bring the blaze under control, both professional paid Truck and Engine companies from the city’s B.C.F.D. and volunteers from the surrounding counties and outlying towns of Maryland, as well as out-of-state units that arrived on the major railroads. It destroyed much of central…
Anton Corbijn at Zeno X Gallery

Anton Corbijn at Zeno X Gallery

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Zeno X Gallery is pleased to present #5, the new exhibition by Anton Corbijn (1955). It is the third time that work of this renowned photographer is presented in the gallery. The exhibition is a continuation of sorts of his recent retrospective entitled 1-2-3-4, which was recently on view in the Hague Museum of Photography, Fotografiska in Stockholm and C/O…
Lisa Elmaleh: Everglades

Lisa Elmaleh: Everglades

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In the 1800s, the Everglades were viewed as a landscape to develop and conquer, to alter permanently. To date, more than half of the Everglades have been repurposed for urban and agricultural use. “Freshwater flowing into the park is engineered,” reads the brochure given to all visitors of Everglades National Park. “With the help of pumps, floodgates, and retention ponds…
The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel

The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel

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The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel presents an engaging survey of The Museum of Modern Art’s multifaceted collection of photography. Borrowing its title from the eponymous work by Carrie Mae Weems, the exhibition is drawn entirely from works acquired over the past 40 years with the support of Robert B. Menschel, telling the story of photography from…
Sy Kattelson at Howard Greenberg Gallery

Sy Kattelson at Howard Greenberg Gallery

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The first solo exhibition in nearly 20 years of work by Sy Kattelson will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from January 12 – February 11, 2017. The show of 45 photographs focuses on street photography made in New York from the 1940s and 1950s and includes work from the 1980s through 1990 that has never been on public…
Biography: pioneer Aerial photographer Eduard Spelterini

Biography: pioneer Aerial photographer Eduard Spelterini

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Eduard Spelterini (1852 – 1931) was a Swiss pioneer of ballooning and of aerial photography. Spelterini was very talented musically and had such a beautiful voice that he enrolled at the Paris Conservatorium for three years of singing tuition, where he was one of the top students. Then he fell ill with Tuberculosis and the young man was forced into…
Vintage: Soldiers during World War I (1914-1918)

Vintage: Soldiers during World War I (1914-1918)

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Life for soldiers in World War I followed a specific routine that involved waking up at around 5 a.m., performing military drills when not engaged in direct combat, eating breakfast, having an early dinner, sleeping briefly, performing more military exercises and then doing physical labor before retiring for the evening. Soldiers in World War I spent most of the time…
Real American Places: Edward Weston and Leaves of Grass

Real American Places: Edward Weston and Leaves of Grass

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The 25 photographs included in the exhibition illuminate an understudied chapter of Weston’s career. In 1941, the Limited Editions Book Club approached Weston to collaborate on a deluxe edition of Whitman’s poetry collection, Leaves of Grass. The publisher’s ambitious plan was to capture “the real American faces and the real American places” that defined Whitman’s epic work. Weston eagerly accepted…
Interview: Human Rights photographer Josh McDonald

Interview: Human Rights photographer Josh McDonald

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I grew up in rural Australia and so was overwhelmed with the wealth of photographic opportunities when I arrived in Europe in 2013. Populism was on the rise. The refugee crisis was arriving on the shores of Greece and Italy. UKIP had begun convincing Brits they’d be better off alone. I grew up with a fascination of history and politics…
Viktor Kolar: Canada, 1968-1973

Viktor Kolar: Canada, 1968-1973

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Born in 1941 and raised in Ostrava, Kolář fled to Austria soon after the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Shortly after relocating, he discovered that Canada was seeking “young and healthy people” to immigrate, so he and a friend accepted plane tickets to Vancouver. Living in a cheap Chinatown hotel, they attended a six-month English language course and Kolář…