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Ernesto Bazan: Cuban Trilogy

Ernesto Bazan: Cuban Trilogy

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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.

Lucía Peluffo: Somos uno. Somos dos.

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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)

Vintage Postcards of actress Miss Maude Fealy (1900s)

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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: Life and Labor

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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

Koichiro Kurita: From The Smallest Leaf

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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)

Vintage: Laura (1944)

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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

Interview with photographer Angelo Zzaven

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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. –…
Elliott Erwitt: Home Around the World

Elliott Erwitt: Home Around the World

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Elliott Erwitt (b. 1928) has created some of the most celebrated photographs of the past century. Erwitt’s photographs have been published in countless international magazines and newspapers, and, more recently, in delightful books presenting his persistent interests and recurring subjects, such as museums and beaches, women and children, and, of course, dogs. Elliott Erwitt: Home Around the World presents more…
Vintage: Women at work during World War I

Vintage: Women at work during World War I

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With men recruited for the armed forces, the industrial workforce changed. Women took on previously male-dominated roles in industry during the war, working alongside men in reserved occupations. Women made an increasingly varied contribution, working in labs, mills and factories, sometimes in hazardous circumstances.
Teenie Harris Photographs: Elections

Teenie Harris Photographs: Elections

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Charles “Teenie” Harris’s work brought him into frequent contact with the political process. As a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, Harris shot candidates and rallies, activists and polling places. He documented those organizing around the Voting Rights Act, which went into effect August 6, 1965, prohibiting racial discrimination in the nation’s voting process. Opening August 13, Teenie Harris Photographs: Elections brings…
Vintage: Swedish churches from 1100-1900 AD

Vintage: Swedish churches from 1100-1900 AD

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This set shows photos of Swedish churches from 1100-1900 AD – a mix of stone and wooden churches, cathedrals and chapels – country churches as well as city churches. We think that these pictures well describe the wide range of churches to be found all over the country in the 1800s. They also show the surrounding landscape or environment, often…
Interview – Nudes – photographer Michael Kelly-DeWitt

Interview – Nudes – photographer Michael Kelly-DeWitt

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Michael Kelly-DeWitt is a native of Sacramento, CA, and has been working with photography for many years. His photography covers a broad range of subjects: from landscapes and photos of the natural world, to architectural and industrial photography, to style photography, portraiture, and figure study. He’s also shot event photography and music photography, and has had work appear in several…
Vintage: First Atomic Bomb Tested (July 16, 1945)

Vintage: First Atomic Bomb Tested (July 16, 1945)

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Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project. The exact origin of the code name “Trinity” for the test is unknown, but it is often attributed to Oppenheimer as a reference to the poetry of John Donne, which in…
Vintage: postcards of People from Britain (early XX century)

Vintage: postcards of People from Britain (early XX century)

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Millions of postcards were produced in Britain between 1903 and the 1914-1918 war, providing some of the most vivid documents in social history available. The majority here are by anonymous photographers. Among other themes, they depict work, leisure, amateur theatre, transport from a century ago. Postcards from the collection of John Toohey @ flickr.
Vintage: Russian Peasants and Their Craft Jobs (early 20th century)

Vintage: Russian Peasants and Their Craft Jobs (early 20th century)

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Sometimes now you might hear the word “artisan” which often said to make things look skillfully  made and good. However hundred something years ago all over the world things mainly were “artisan” – made by local craftsman. If we know some traditional craftsmen of the West and their craft survived till our days (this is what they sell as “artisan” now) the…
Ray Stevenson: PUNK

Ray Stevenson: PUNK

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The Michael Hoppen Gallery in conjunction with REX SHUTTERSTOCK is delighted to present PUNK, an exhibition of vintage press prints that document the rise of punk culture in 1970s Britain. Many of the prints included are suitably distressed, with an object quality and intensity that encapsulates the movement. The gallery was established twenty-four years ago on the Kings Road in…
Interview with Photographer of Nudes – Nofar Horovitz

Interview with Photographer of Nudes – Nofar Horovitz

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– How and when did you become interested in photography? For as long as I can remember, I have always been interested in art in general, monochromatic art in particular, and in following the entire art making process myself. Photography for me is a means of expressing myself and the way in which I see things by reflecting reality in…
Historic B&W photos of Kiev, Russia (Ukraine) in the 19th Century

Historic B&W photos of Kiev, Russia (Ukraine) in the 19th Century

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During the Russian industrial revolution in the late 19th century, Kiev became an important trade and transportation centre of the Russian Empire, specialising in sugar and grain export by railway and on the Dnieper river. By 1900, the city had also become a significant industrial centre, having a population of 250,000. Landmarks of that period include the railway infrastructure, the…
Joan Liftin: Marseille

Joan Liftin: Marseille

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Marseille is a love letter from an American to France’s oldest and second largest city. Joan Liftin’s photographs of Marseille, one of Europe’s most ethnically diverse cities, show us a place where much of life still unfolds on the street. The city’s spirit and raffish glamour resides in its people rather than in its monuments, and Liftin captures day and…