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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…
Vintage: Circus Performers in Strabane (1910-1911)

Vintage: Circus Performers in Strabane (1910-1911)

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The three main circus shows photographed by Herbert Cooper were Duffy’s Circus, Buff Bill’s American Circus and Hanneford’s Canadian Circus. A few circuses toured Ireland in the years before 1914 and it was the heyday for these travelling shows. Big Tops were then lit by flares and it wasn’t until well into the 1920s that electric lighting became common, so most…
Vintage: Texan Portraits by Julius Born (Early XX Century)

Vintage: Texan Portraits by Julius Born (Early XX 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…
Interview with photographer Jean-Marc Caracci

Interview with photographer Jean-Marc Caracci

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– How and when did you become interested in photography? I was around 15, my big brother made me watch into the viewfinder of his camera (a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye)… and it was just magic. Then he lend it to me, and I photographed my great family (mom & dad + 3 brothers and 2 sisters). Since this time, shooting…
Florin Ion Firimiţã: The Bookstore Project

Florin Ion Firimiţã: The Bookstore Project

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“The Bookstore Project” started in 2012 with a visit to my friend G. J. Askins who has amassed an enormous amount of volumes in a well-lit space carved out of an old mill in Northern Massachusetts. The space has fascinated me for years. A strange, striking mess, it lacks the structure of a typical store where everything is usually carefully…
Vintage: Modern Times (1936)

Vintage: Modern Times (1936)

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Modern Times is a 1936 comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin in which his iconic Little Tramp character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during the Great Depression, conditions created, in Chaplin’s view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization.
Nuno Moreira: ZONA

Nuno Moreira: ZONA

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The inward space is the stage for ZONA, the new photobook by Portuguese artist Nuno Moreira. ZONA plunges deeply into the unconscious by visually giving form to recurrent dreams and explorations on interior landscapes. Similar to theatre, or even cinema, the narrative of the book follows a live-performance shot in Japan and is somewhat similar to a dream experience –…
Nadezda Nikolova-Kratzer: Solvitur Ambulando

Nadezda Nikolova-Kratzer: Solvitur Ambulando

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Solvitur Ambulando (it is solved by walking) consists of wet plate collodion photograms of plant matter found on long walks – weeds, ferns, grasses, seeds, roots… I started walking the trails near my new home to process recent life changes: a new marriage, a new state, a new life, and most of all, to grieve some difficult losses. The use of…