Vintage: historic photos of Calcutta in Colonial India (1903)
Collection of early XX century historic photos of city life of Calcutta in Colonial India (1903).
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Interview: with photographer Michael Jolliffe
Photography is a part of my daily life, I’m always carrying a camera for “visual note-taking”. I shoot for my own satisfaction, to create and capture memories with my family and friends, expressing thoughts, feelings and concepts. As photography is not my primary source of income it allows me the freedom to try whatever I want, having the pleasure of…
Jady Bates: You As Angel
This series depicts the process we all go through in learning to love oneself. It is an awkward, joyful, illuminating, exhausting, humorous and messy affair. Rapprochement is a word I believe approaches this state. We each live with conflict inside due to a lifetime of internal struggle, even with the softening of the intensity. Through the journey to love oneself,…
Peter Lindbergh: Images of Women II: 2005-2014
Internationally-revered German fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh revolutionized his metier with iconic images of the 1980s supermodels. From his beginnings, he has sought to capture the personality, character, and identity of fashion models, not just the glitter and glamour. In 1997 he presented his seminal book Images of Women comprising his work of the 1980s and 1990s. As a sequel, Lindbergh…
Best Black & White photos from the ND Awards 2016
ND Awards (Neutral Density Awards) has announced the winners of their international photography contest! The judges reviewed 6422 entires submitted from 85 countries. Brooke Shaden (United States) has been announced as the overall winner of Professional category with the title: ND Photographer Of The Year 2016 and $2500 prize money. In Non-Professional category Rosario Civello (Italy) won the title ND…
Francesca Woodman at Andréhn-Schiptjenko
Francesca Woodman was an American photographer known for her large and singular œuvre. Her photography exhibits many influences, ranging from symbolism to surrealism to fashion photography and to a great extent explores issues of gender and self. Using herself as the prime subject of her photographs these are not self-portraits in a conventional sense but rather dialogues with the self…
Vintage: Behind the Scenes from Return Of The Jedi (1983)
The Galactic Empire, under the direction of the ruthless Emperor, is constructing a second Death Star in order to crush the Rebel Alliance once and for all. Since the Emperor plans to personally oversee the final stages of its construction, the Rebel Fleet launches a full-scale attack on the Death Star in order to prevent its completion and kill the…
Michael Zagaris: Total Excess
Michael Zagaris’ photographic oeuvre is the one of the last great unseen rock archives. After a short career working under Senator Robert Kennedy, Zagaris dove into the rock music scene of 1970’s San Francisco, where he was responsible for shooting the most influential musicians of the decade including The Clash, Grateful Dead, Blondie, The Sex Pistols, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton,…
Historic B&W photos of Bruges, Belgium (19th Century)
In the last half of the 19th century, Bruges became one of the world’s first tourist destinations attracting wealthy British and French tourists. Bruges has most of its medieval architecture intact. The historic centre of Bruges has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000.
Russell James: Angels
Russell James’s photographs of the female form have become iconic representations of beauty and sensuality that are unparalleled in popular culture. The list of his subjects includes many of the world’s most beautiful woman, such as headline names Gisele Bündchen, Adriana Lima, Rihanna, and Alessandra Ambrosio, to name a few. This ample volume offers an unprecedented and personal view into…
Bernard Larsson: Leaving is Entering
The photographer Bernard Larsson (born in Hamburg, 1939) was working from 1959 to 1961 as William Klein’s assistant in a France marked by its recent defeats in Indochina and Algeria. It was from here that he embarked on travels through Fascist Spain and Morocco. Moved by the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961, he left Paris so that…
Vintage: Glass Plate negatives of Snow in Australia (1900s)
The alpine region of Australia stretches through New South Wales and into Victoria. In NSW the Snowy Mountains region is home to good snowfalls from June through to September and to Australia’s highest mountain – Mount Kosciuszko – which at 2228 metres is about 1/4 of the height of Mount Everest.
Biography: Nudes/Portrait photographer Andre de Dienes
Andre de Dienes (1913 – 1985) was a Romanian American photographer, noted for his work with Marilyn Monroe and his nude photography. Born in Romania, André De Dienes arrived in Paris in 1933, making a living of selling photographs to publishing houses. He worked for The Associated Press until 1936 when the famous Parisian couturier, Edward Molyneux, encouraged De Dienes…
Susan Burnstine: Absence of Being
Los Angeles–based photographer Susan Burnstine’s (born 1966) Absence of Being is a haunting, intensely personal and yet extremely universal exploration of the subconscious world, which began with her highly praised first monograph, Within Shadows. Burnstine captures images that purge her dreams. Finding no existing camera that could create what her mind envisioned, she began to experiment with building her own…
American Classics
Pace London is pleased to announce American Classics, an exhibition of key works by photographers who emerged in postwar America. On a continuum between artistic vision and documentary investigation, these artists photographed North American people, culture and landscape. Works by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Irving Penn, Henry Wessel and Garry Winogrand will be on…
Vintage: London in the 1860s and 1870s by James Hedderly
James Hedderly (1815 – 1885) was a painter and signwriter until the mid-1860s, when he became a photographer. He lived in Duke Street, only a short distance from Whistler’s house at 7 Lindsey Row, from 1841 until the 1870s, when the street was demolished for the Embankment. He then moved to 21 Riley Street, where The Chelsea, Pimlico and Belgravia…
Interview with Nudes/Abstract photographer Emel Karakozak
Woman is a being through which man feel connected to nature as woman is very similar to nature in birth-giving and life-blooming characteristics. That is why many languages use the term of ‘mother nature’ while referring to nature. Since she is the bridge between life and man, and the forgiving despite all. She is able to recreate herself and that…
Vintage: Awkward and Hilarious Band photos
Collection of forgotten black and white band photos that will make you smile 🙂
Vintage: Behind the Scenes of Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 political satire black comedy film that satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the USSR and the USA. The film was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, stars Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and features Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, and Slim Pickens. Production took place in the United Kingdom. The…
Vintage: Bedouins in Egypt, the Sinai, Palestine and Jerusalem from 1898
Photo collection of black and white glass-plate photographs of Bedouins in Egypt, the Sinai, Palestine and Jerusalem from 1898 taken by American Colony Photo Department. The American Colony Photo Department began in 1898, under the eye of its founder Elijah Meyers, a Jewish convert to Christianity who emigrated from India.
