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Disfarmer: The Vintage Prints

Disfarmer: The Vintage Prints

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Disfarmer: The Vintage Prints is the first exhibition in Switzerland of the vintage prints of Mike Disfarmer (1884-1959), one of America’s greatest portraitists. Posthumous prints, created from a cache of glass-plate negatives salvaged from his studio after his death, have been the subject of several books and numerous museum and gallery exhibitions since 1976, but original prints have been unknown…
Interview with Portrait photographer Davide Rizzo

Interview with Portrait photographer Davide Rizzo

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– How and when did you become interested in photography? I started as most of the people these days with digital cameras (my computer engineering thesis on imaging algorithms helped here!) and experienced the usual DSLR buying acquisition until I discovered film and medium format. Today I still use both media but I’ve been slowly (but constanlty) been collecting street…
Valentin Khukhlaev: IN MOTION

Valentin Khukhlaev: IN MOTION

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The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents an exhibition of a famous Soviet photographer Valentin Khukhlaev IN MOTION. The exhibition is based on the family archive, collection of The Lumiere Center and marks the centenary of the photographer’s birth. Valentin Khukhlaev (1916-2010) was a photo correspondent of the major Soviet news agency TASS for over 50 years. He made around…
Robert Mapplethorpe – On the Edge

Robert Mapplethorpe – On the Edge

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Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs have provoked debate. They have been the target of criticism and censorship. They have also been praised around the world with celebrated exhibitions in some of the most prestigious art institutions. ARoS Aarhus Art Museum now presents more than 180 photographs by one of the greatest masters of the art of photography. The exhibition ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE –…
Jon Savage – Uninhabited London

Jon Savage – Uninhabited London

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In the late 1970s, the streets that gave birth to Punk were a bleak and desolate playground for the imagination. These photos were taken on an old Pentax during January 1977. Their purpose was to serve as an image bank for the second issue of the fanzine London’s Outrage. The location was the square of North Kensington that lies between…
Biography: 19th Century photographer of Nudes – Bruno Braquehais

Biography: 19th Century photographer of Nudes – Bruno Braquehais

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Auguste Bruno Braquehais (1823-1875) was a French photographer active primarily in Paris in the mid-19th century. His photographic work documenting the 1871 Paris Commune is considered an important early example of photojournalism. While largely forgotten after his death, his work was rediscovered during preparations for the Commune’s centennial in 1971, and his photographs have since been the exhibited at numerous…
Vintage: Panama Canal Construction (1904-1914)

Vintage: Panama Canal Construction (1904-1914)

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By the late nineteenth century, technological advances and commercial pressure allowed construction to begin in earnest. An initial attempt by France to build a sea-level canal failed after a great deal of excavation. This enabled the United States to complete the present canal in 1913 and open it to shipping the following year. The state of Panama was created with…
Roger Ballen and Asger Carlsen: NO JOKE

Roger Ballen and Asger Carlsen: NO JOKE

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Lars Dittrich and André Schlechtriem are pleased to present NO JOKE, the revolutionary collaborative series by Roger Ballen and Asger Carlsen. The self-contained series of 37 black-and-white photographs premieres in its entirety during Berlin Art Week, opening September 16 and running through October 22, 2016. A significant follow-up presentation has been selected to be featured at Paris Photo 2016 in…
Biography: Conceptual photographers Schilte & Portielje

Biography: Conceptual photographers Schilte & Portielje

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Schilte & Portielje, who live and work in Rotterdam, are primarily known for their photography of series of unusual and very recognizable figurines. They display an intricate way of playing with and relating to each other: fantastic poetic, dreamlike figures who abduct the spectator into the artists world of wonders and miracles. The figures approach in the middle of a…
Dan Winters: The Grey Ghost

Dan Winters: The Grey Ghost

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The Fahey/Klein Gallery is pleased to present The Grey Ghost, an exhibition of work by contemporary photographer Dan Winters. The exhibition coincides with the release of Winters’s latest publication, The Grey Ghost (Rocky Nook, 2016). This body of work is a highly personal collection of images that serves as a visual diary of the time Winters spent living and working…
Vintage Daguerreotype portraits from XIX Century (1844-1860)

Vintage Daguerreotype portraits from XIX Century (1844-1860)

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Mathew B. Brady (1822 – 1896) was one of the first American photographers, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. Brady opened his own studio in New York in 1844, and photographed Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, among other celebrities. Here is a collection of mid 19th century Daguerreotypes produced by Mathew Brady’s studio (1844 – 1860). From the…
Yousuf Karsh at Beetles+Huxley

Yousuf Karsh at Beetles+Huxley

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The first major London exhibition in 30 years of portraits by renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh (1908 – 2002) will go on display at Beetles+Huxley. The exhibition will include signed lifetime prints of twentieth century sitters from the realms of politics, film, royalty and art including Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Georgia O’Keefe, Joan Miró, Audrey Hepburn,…
Vintage: Greta Garbo Portraits (1920s-1930s)

Vintage: Greta Garbo Portraits (1920s-1930s)

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Greta Garbo was a Swedish-born American film actress and an international star and icon during the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Stockholm, Sweden, she was the youngest of three children of a working class family. In 1920, she took a job as a salesperson at the leading Swedish department store, PUB, a job which led to her appearance in two…
Historic B&W photos of Vienna, Austro-Hungary (19th Century)

Historic B&W photos of Vienna, Austro-Hungary (19th Century)

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In 1804, during the Napoleonic Wars, Vienna became the capital of the Austrian Empire and continued to play a major role in European and world politics, including hosting the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, Vienna remained the capital of what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city was a centre of classical music, for…
Interview with photographer Lewis Bush

Interview with photographer Lewis Bush

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– How and when did you become interested in photography? When I was about 14 or 15 my father gave me his old film camera, the technician at school showed me how to develop and print the films and I was basically hooked from there. Like many others I discovered that photography made it possible to access places I might…
Graciela Iturbide: A Lens to See

Graciela Iturbide: A Lens to See

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Graciela Iturbide‘s photographs combine the story of a culture in transition with issues of identity, diversity, and selfhood. Iturbide has studied the indigenous society of Mexico in different states offering photos of sublime magic realism. Graciela Iturbide A Lens to See Sep 8th – Oct 15th, 2016 Ruiz-Healy Art 201-A East Olmos Drive San Antonio, Texas 78212 www.ruizhealyart.com
Bowie by O’Neill

Bowie by O’Neill

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An exceptional photography exhibition that opens on Wednesday 21 September and combines an exclusive collection of classics together with a selection of unseen prints of David Bowie by Terry O’Neill. The launch and the signing of the new Limited edition book “Bowie by O’Neill” on Wednesday 5 October. This retrospective showcases a collection of the best photographs taken by Terry…
Vintage: The Golden Twenties in Berlin (1920s)

Vintage: The Golden Twenties in Berlin (1920s)

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1920s Berlin was a city of many social contrasts. While a large part of the population continued to struggle with high unemployment and deprivations in the aftermath of World War I, the upper class of society, and a growing middle class, gradually rediscovered prosperity and turned Berlin into a cosmopolitan city.
Photography and America’s National Parks

Photography and America’s National Parks

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To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the formation of the National Park Service, the George Eastman Museum presents Photography and America’s National Parks, an exhibition exploring the role of photography in the development of the agency and in shaping our perception and understanding of these landscapes. From Yosemite being set aside as publicly held land in 1864 to Pinnacles National…