Vintage Daguerreotypes of widows in mourning (Victorian era, 1800s)
Amazing collection of Victorian Era Daguerreotype portraits of women in mourning and widows from Lisby @ Flickr.
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George Tice: Urban Landscapes
The exhibition will present a remarkable selection of forty exceptionally rare vintage 8 x 10 inch gelatin silver contact prints from the early period (1973-74), of Tice’s ongoing epic visual poem of his native state of New Jersey. These unique vintage prints will be punctuated with larger photographs of some of artist’s most revered and significant images, as well as…
Behind the Scenes: Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic adventure drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. The film stars Peter O’Toole in the title role. It is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential films in the history of cinema.
Interview with Fine Art/Landscape photographer Zoltan Bekefy
Zoltan Bekefy is fascinated by the constant spectacle offered by nature. He has travelled the world with his camera in hand, striving to sublimate the landscapes that he discovers in the course of his unusual journeys. Capturing the essential, his work constitutes a silent report on the beauty of the world, in which simplicity, purity, and minimalism set the tone.…
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Remains To Be Seen
Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present the first exhibition of new, large-format photographs of abandoned theaters by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Sugimoto began his artistic exploration of movie theaters in the late 1970s and continued throughout the 1990s, creating each photograph in a working theater while a film was being projected on a screen. In Remains to be Seen, on view at…
Vanessa Marsh: Everything All at Once
Foley Gallery is very pleased to present Everywhere All at Once, an exhibition of photographs featuring the drawing/photogram hybrid process of Vanessa Marsh. Her practice explores the dialogue between man-made and natural landscapes; the world as we have made it and the natural cosmological power of the universe. Marsh combines layers of drawings on acetate with varying depths of opacity,…
Jock Sturges: Absence of Shame
“One of the most important elements in my work is an absence: the absence of shame”. Jock Sturges The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents an exhibition of one of the more celebrated and controversial photographers of the last decades, Jock Sturges. Jock Sturges is famous for his series of families taken at communes in Northern California and in naturist…
Jerry Uelsmann: Undiscovered Self
Undiscovered Self serves as a retrospective exhibition of Jerry Uelsmann’s work spanning over the last 50 years. He remains the forerunner of photomontage in America for the 20th century as he employs multiple negatives to create intricate darkroom works of art. The process involves the combination of his ever growing negatives collection and numerous enlargers to produce the final, dream-like…
Wendel White: Schools for the Colored
Fordham University is pleased to present Wendel White’s Schools for the Colored, a series of black-and- white photographs depicting structures—extant, transformed, demolished, or replaced—that once housed segregated schools along the northern border of the Mason-Dixon Line. Segregated schools served as symbols of exclusion by the white community—but they also were places where black self-determination and agency were nurtured. Although desegregation…
David Yarrow: Wild Encounters
La Photographie Galerie is pleased to announce the new show of internationally acclaimed wildlife photographer David Yarrow. “Wild Encounters” features iconic as well as previously unseen photographs taken during David Yarrow’s recent trips to Africa, China and Antarctica. Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1966, David Yarrow has built an unrivalled reputation for capturing the beauty of the planet’s remote landscapes,…
Historic B&W photos of Venice, Italy (19th century)
Venice became Austrian territory when Napoleon signed the Treaty of Campo Formio on 12 October 1797. The Austrians took control of the city on 18 January 1798. It was taken from Austria by the Treaty of Pressburg in 1805 and became part of Napoleon’s Kingdom of Italy, but was returned to Austria following Napoleon’s defeat in 1814, when it became…
Interview with photographer Tytia Habing
Tytia Habing lives and works in Watson, Illinois very near where she grew up on a working farm. Having spent most of her adult life living in the Cayman Islands, she moved back to her roots a few short years ago. She holds degrees in both horticulture and landscape architecture and is a self-taught photographer. Tytia’s work has been exhibited…
Christophe Gin: Carmignac photojournalism Award
Fondation Carmignac and Collection Lambert are delighted to announce the exhibition of Christophe Gin, 6th laureate of the Carmignac photojournalism Award, at the Montfaucon Hotel, Avignon. Fondation Carmignac launched the Carmignac photojournalism Award in 2009 with the purpose to support a photographer to question areas of the world at the centre of geostrategic conflicts, where human rights and freedom of…
Ernesto Bazan: Cuban Trilogy
The exhibition will feature the three bodies of work that Ernesto Bazan has taken during his fourteen years living in Cuba, between 1992 and 2006, during the unique historical time referred to as “The Special Period”. All the images have been self-published in three books by BazanPhotos Publishing. “Bazan Cuba” was launched in 2008; “Al Campo” in 2011 and “Isla”…
Lucía Peluffo: Somos uno. Somos dos.
The book explores the relationship between two people. One of them, the author. It shows us different aspects of a “love story”. How the way we perceive things does not always reflect the truth. We do not always know where we are standing, so we need to explore. How loneliness appears after a choice we make, why not a journey,…
Vintage Postcards of actress Miss Maude Fealy (1900s)
Photo collection of early XX century Vintage Postcards of actress Miss Maude Fealy (1900s). Maude Fealy (1883 – 1971) was an American stage and silent film actress who survived into the talkie era. At the age of three, she performed on stage with her mother and went on to make her Broadway debut in the 1900 production of Quo Vadis,…
Milton Rogovin: Life and Labor
Milton Rogovin (1901–2011) was proud to call himself a “social-documentary photographer.” For more than four decades, he photographed those whom he referred to as “the forgotten ones.” He was working as an optometrist in Manhattan in the early 1930s when he became increasingly involved in leftist causes. Distressed by the rampant social upheaval and widespread poverty caused by the Great…
Koichiro Kurita: From The Smallest Leaf
Born in Manchuria in 1943 and educated in Japan, Koichiro Kurita worked as a young man for a Tokyo advertising agency before becoming an independent commercial photographer. At forty years old, moved by his reading of Thoreau’s Walden, Koichiro Kurita directed his photography away from commercial work and toward meditative expressions of his connection to nature. Kurita now focuses upon…
Vintage: Laura (1944)
Laura is a 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, and Clifton Webb along with Vincent Price and Judith Anderson. The screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Betty Reinhardt is based on the 1943 novel of the same title by Vera Caspary.
Interview with photographer Angelo Zzaven
Angelo Zzaven, italian artist was born in 1961. Became interested in photography consciously in the early ‘80s. Always attracted by art, he appreciate the creative aspect rather than the documentary aspect, advocate of modern technologies and digital elaboration, completes and conditions his photograph to a personal feel, autobiographical and referential, aimed to research himself , his emotions, his sensations. –…
