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Lee Friedlander: Western Landscapes

Lee Friedlander: Western Landscapes

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Lee Friedlander: Western Landscapes focuses on the photographs the artist made during a series of road trips through the 1990s and 2000s. Working with a large negative, a wide-angle lens, and photographing from unconventional vantage points, Friedlander’s square-format photographs draw the viewer into idiosyncratic qualities of the terrain while skewing expectations of beatific grandeur. Though Friedlander’s subjects include some of…
Martino Di Silvestro: Behind Somebody’s shoulders

Martino Di Silvestro: Behind Somebody’s shoulders

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Behind Somebody’s shoulders perhaps is the most ancient body of work from Martino Di Silvestro’s portfolios. He believe that in photography human face gives precise connotations to the pictures because of the immediate interaction with the subject, even if his eyes are turned elsewhere. A person seen from behind enables various interpretations and multiplies the perspectives: his presence in the…
Robert Adams: From the Missouri West

Robert Adams: From the Missouri West

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The views of the American West collected in Robert Adams: From the Missouri West evoke a wide range of memories, myths and regrets associated with America’s frontier. In the 19th century, that frontier began at the Missouri River, beyond which lay a landscape of natural grandeur and purity. When Robert Adams (born 1937) shot that landscape, between 1975 and 1983,…
Biography: photojournalist George Rodger

Biography: photojournalist George Rodger

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George Rodger (19 March 1908 – 24 July 1995) was a British photojournalist noted for his work in Africa and for taking photographs of the death camps at Bergen-Belsen at the end of the Second World War. His pictures of the London blitz brought him to the attention of Life magazine, and he became a war correspondent. He won eighteen…
Robert Mapplethorpe: Icon

Robert Mapplethorpe: Icon

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Robert Mapplethorpe is a cultural icon. He began his career taking Polaroids in the 1970s and went on to become one of the twentieth century’s most important artists. Well known for his provocative nudes, Mapplethorpe also took sensual photographs of artists, celebrities, friends, lovers, and flowers. The artist’s first commercial exhibition in Sweden features a diverse selection of portraits, landscapes,…
Women in Trees

Women in Trees

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“You know, I don’t know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it?” writes Fyodor Dostoyevsky in The Idiot. Perhaps this sentence might explain the subject of women in trees that was so popular between the 1920s and ‘50s and has until now never before been assembled in a book. The enthusiastic…
Historic B&W photos of Moscow, Russia in the 19th Century

Historic B&W photos of Moscow, Russia in the 19th Century

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In the 1830s, general Alexander Bashilov planned the first regular grid of city streets north from Petrovsky Palace. Khodynka field south of the highway was used for military training. Smolensky Rail station (forerunner of present-day Belorussky Rail Terminal) was inaugurated in 1870. Sokolniki Park, in the 18th century the home of the tsar’s falconers well outside of Moscow, became contiguous…
Fred Mortagne: Attraper au vol: Catch in the Air

Fred Mortagne: Attraper au vol: Catch in the Air

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Fred Mortagne is a self-taught French director and photographer who is internationally acclaimed for his images of skateboarding and street photography. Attraper au vol (Catch in the Air) is the culmination of Mortagne’s photographic career, from 2000 to 2015. A feast of lines and angles, his black-and-white compositions blend his subjects into their environments, offering an abstract perspective on architecture,…
Biography: Pictorial Portrait photographer William Mortensen

Biography: Pictorial Portrait photographer William Mortensen

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William Mortensen (1897-1965) was an American art photographer, primarily known for his Hollywood portraits in the 1920s-1940s in the pictorialist style. Mortensen began his photographic career taking portraits of Hollywood actors and film stills. In 1931 he moved to the artist community of Laguna Beach, California, where he opened a studio and the William Mortensen School of Photography. He preferred…
Historic B&W photos of Chicago (19th century)

Historic B&W photos of Chicago (19th century)

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In the 19th century, Chicago became the nation’s railroad center, by 1910 over 20 railroads operated passenger service out of 6 different downtown terminals. In 1883, the standardized system of North American time zones was adopted by the general time convention of railway managers in Chicago. This gave the continent its uniform system for telling time.
Gregory Rusmana: After N

Gregory Rusmana: After N

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he house was on rain, and there was dead inside. The last child of the deceased before. Canine distemper virus has ripped him off. Like a homeless drifter suicide, leave with no message. Two weeks earlier they were entrusted to a veterinarian together with other strange dogs. Out of the city, attended the funeral of a shepherd. Thousands of tears…
Vincent Peters: Personal

Vincent Peters: Personal

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For more than 20 years, Vincent Peters has been among the best photographers internationally. The artist, a native of Bremen, Germany, lives in Paris and Ibiza and sees the world as his playground. His unmistakable signature style—sensitive, classic photos—is in equally high demand for celebrity, fashion, and advertising photography. With minimal resources, he is able to create dramatic images that…
Interview with Landscape photographer Ludovico Poggioli

Interview with Landscape photographer Ludovico Poggioli

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Ludovico Poggioli, born in 1973 in Umbria, where I still live and work, always distracted and deeply in love. I often walk with a camera around my neck and my two dogs on leash and every now and then I take a photo that I still like the day after. I choose analog photography because leaves me free to forget…
Juan Manuel Castro Prieto – The inner voice

Juan Manuel Castro Prieto – The inner voice

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Blanca Berlín opens its season introducing Luz de cuarto oscuro (Dark room light) by Juan Manuel Castro Prieto in the context of Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend. As the 2016 National Award of Photography, Castro Prieto displays a selection of silver gelatin prints personally developed in his own dark room from the original negatives of his first years as a photographer.…
A Vision Shared: A Portrait of America 1935–1943

A Vision Shared: A Portrait of America 1935–1943

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Featuring the work of the 11 photographers who worked for the Farm Security Administration–perhaps the finest photographic team assembled in the 20th century–A Vision Shared: A Classic Portrait of America and Its People 1935–1943 was first published in 1976 to great acclaim, and was named one of the 100 most important books of the decade by the Association of American…
Joni Sternbach: Her Wave

Joni Sternbach: Her Wave

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Von Lintel Gallery is pleased to announce a solo show of unique tintype photographs by Joni Sternbach culled from the artist’s ongoing series: Surfland. The exhibition, the artist’s first with the gallery, focuses on portraits of female wave-riders on the coasts of the United States, France, Australia and the UK. Sternbach is a self-described “water woman” and meets her subjects…
Drew Doggett – Band of Rebels: White Horses of Camargue

Drew Doggett – Band of Rebels: White Horses of Camargue

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The horses in Camargue, France have a prehistoric lineage dating back to the 1500s, and their pronounced musculature and signature white coats gives them an otherworldly appearance. They are a fitting subject for Drew; his practice focuses on documenting unfrequented locations while still utilizing the tools, sympathies and the attention to detail learned in fashion photography. “For the Camargue Horses…