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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…
Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!

Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!

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“Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!” is a collection of spectacular snapshots of a turbulent and legendary age in the history of art, music, fashion and film – the 1960s and ’70s. These decades were known for upheaval, provocation and creative energy. The Nicola Erni Collection, based in Zug, Switzerland, of which some 200 photographs are displayed here, takes visitors right into the…
Erwin Blumenfeld: From Dada to Vogue

Erwin Blumenfeld: From Dada to Vogue

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Osborne Samuel Gallery is delighted to announce Erwin Blumenfeld: From Dada to Vogue, highlighting rare works from one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century, Erwin Blumenfeld. This exhibition, curated by Lou Proud, brings together a collection of Blumenfeld’s early photographs, some of which have never been exhibited in the UK before. Shedding light on his seldom explored…
Andrew Savulich: The City

Andrew Savulich: The City

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Social and cultural transition is often hard to gauge. New York in the 1980s and the first half of the 90s was clearly a different place than it is now: the city was more violent, the streets stranger, and Times Square still wonderfully sleazy. Andrew Savulich’s (born 1959) subject is this perpetually changing metropolis, and his images are a unique…
Vintage: Texan Portraits by Julius Born (Early 20th Century)

Vintage: Texan Portraits by Julius Born (Early 20th Century)

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Photographer Julius Born (1879-1962) took thousands of photographs of the people, land and community in Hemphill county located in the Texas panhandle. In thousands of portrait photographs taken during the first half of the twentieth century, Born forever documented Texas’ past, heritage, and humanity. In his images of cowboys and businessmen, well-composed ladies, and fidgety children, Born shows us the…
Lewis Hine: The National Research Project 1936–1937

Lewis Hine: The National Research Project 1936–1937

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Hine revealed America’s working conditions in both old and new industries throughout the Northeast In 1936, science teacher turned photographer Lewis Hine was commissioned by the National Research Project, a division of the Works Project Administration, to produce a visual document of the industries that the US government hoped would provide the jobs that would lift the country out of…
Vintage: It Happened One Night (1934)

Vintage: It Happened One Night (1934)

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It Happened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father’s thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable).
Biography: Pictorial photographer Jozef Emiel Borrenbergen

Biography: Pictorial photographer Jozef Emiel Borrenbergen

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Jozef Emiel Borrenbergen (Antwerp, 1884-1965), was one of the leading early amateur photographers in Belgium. He saw all important periods in photography since the turn of the century and marvelously adapted to new styles and techniques. He was the editor of the magazine “Fotokunst” (1924-1939) and presided the Photographic Cercle “Iris” in Antwerp for many years. His work was found…
Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century

Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century

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Cheating Death presents more than 50 portraits from the medium’s first 50 years, almost all drawn from the museum’s extraordinarily rich holdings of 19th-century photography. In our selfie-besotted age, it is hard to believe that until 1839 only the upper-class could own a likeness of themselves or of their families or friends. That year brought the announcement of the invention…
Antoine Le Grand: Portraits

Antoine Le Grand: Portraits

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French photographer Antoine Le Grand (born 1956) is widely known for his striking portraits of celebrities–filmmakers, actors, actresses, musicians and architects. He has photographed countless major stars of stage and screen, from Iggy Pop to David Lynch, from Charlotte Rampling to Al Pacino. Le Grand started out working for dailies such as Libération and Le Monde, and went on to…
Vintage: City Life in Poland (1959) by Gerald Howson

Vintage: City Life in Poland (1959) by Gerald Howson

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In 1959, Gerald Howson was sent to Poland by The Queen magazine. He was supposed to come back to England with photographs depicting the Cold War reality. This inconspicuous Englishman who did not speak any Polish packed two Leica cameras in his backpack along with a portable darkroom. His journey began in Lublin, continued to Krakow, and ended in Warsaw.…
Edward Steichen: Twentieth-Century Photographer

Edward Steichen: Twentieth-Century Photographer

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DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is pleased to present the upcoming exhibition Edward Steichen: Twentieth-Century Photographer. Edward Steichen (1879-1973) is known for his role in expanding the breadth of twentieth-century photography through his memorable images and his work as a gallery director and museum curator. Steichen was a painter, horticulturalist, museum curator, graphic designer, publisher, and film director. He also…
Biography: Documentary photographer Ernö Vadas

Biography: Documentary photographer Ernö Vadas

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Ernö Vadas (Nagykanizsa, 17 December 1899 – Budapest, 30 May 1962) studied photography with Rudolf Balogh. He became one of the most successful photographers of the interbellum. His photos are characterized by the bold use of light and shadow. In 1934, readers of the magazine Die Galerie awarded Vadas first prize, and the Royal Photographic Society awarded him its Emerson…
Disco: The Bill Bernstein Photographs

Disco: The Bill Bernstein Photographs

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Containing many previously unpublished photographs, Disco takes the viewer on an access-all-areas tour of late-’70s New York nightlife. “Who were these people of the night … ? It was the Posers. The Watchers. The Posers watching other Posers watching the Watchers, watching the Dancers, watching themselves.” Bill Bernstein’s eye was drawn to the characters that lived for the night, rather…
Interview with photographer of Nudes: Eric McCollum

Interview with photographer of Nudes: Eric McCollum

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How and when did you become interested in photography? My parents gave me a Kodak twin-lens-reflex when I was about 5 and my father and I learned to develop film and make prints.  However, the craft seemed always elusive to me and my prints never really matched the vision I had in mind.  I never gave up, however.  I always…