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Visions of Viktor Kolář. Czech Photo

Visions of Viktor Kolář. Czech Photo

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The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography along with the Czech center in Moscow are pleased to present an exhibition of Viktor Kolář – one of the most important Czech photographers of the second half of the 20th century. The exhibition includes around 60 silver gelatin prints from his Ostrava and Canada series. Viktor Kolář was born in 1941 in Ostrava.…
Black and White Fifties: Jurden Schadeberg’s South Africa

Black and White Fifties: Jurden Schadeberg’s South Africa

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During apartheid, Jurgen Schadeberg worked for the leading “black” publications of the time. This way he had access to the likes of a young activists, like the lawyer, named Nelson Mandela. Iconic pictures of many future South African leaders followed. Judge Albie Sachs, an ANC operative who lost an arm in an attack by the security police, says of this…
Herb Ritts: The Rock Portraits

Herb Ritts: The Rock Portraits

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Meet the royalty of rock and roll. Photographer Herb Ritts introduces you to David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Janet Jackson, Elton John, Madonna, Prince, Rod Stewart, Justin Timberlake, Tina Turner, and more of the world’s biggest musical stars of the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s. His startlingly intimate portraits for Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and other leading magazines presented these artists…
Interview with Wildlife photographer François Pringuet

Interview with Wildlife photographer François Pringuet

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I am a French professional photographer based in Normandy, France. My first trip to Africa was in Kruger National Park in 2009. I have also been to Kenya and Tanzania : Masai Mara, Serengeti and Ngorongoro are some of the parks and reserves I have visited. I have decided to develop my images in black and white exclusively. This allows…
Ansel Adams: A Southwest Legacy

Ansel Adams: A Southwest Legacy

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Ansel Adams: A Southwest Legacy highlights 21 photographs Ansel Adams made in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. The exhibition includes dramatic vistas of Big Bend National Park, intimate close-ups of nature in New Mexico, and a variety of portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe and others. Also included are several well-known masterpieces such as Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico and White House Ruin,…
Sebastião Salgado: Other Americas

Sebastião Salgado: Other Americas

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The first edition of Sebastião Salgado: Other Americas was published in 1985 by the French publisher Contrejour, and included photographs from Salgado’s numerous trips through Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala and Mexico. The Brazil-born, Paris-based photographer traveled extensively in Latin America between 1977 and 1984 to document the shifting religious and political climate in the region, especially as reflected in…
Gregor Törzs: Fragile Worlds

Gregor Törzs: Fragile Worlds

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Bernheimer Fine Art Switzerland is pleased to announce the exhibition Fragile Welten (Fragile Worlds) by German photographer Gregor Törzs. The show is curated by Dr. Martina Kral, curator of world renowned Collection Rosengart in Lucerne since 2002. It is like responding to a reflex, when Gregor Törzs finds something he feels the inner longing to hold it against the light.…
Vintage: The Third Man (1949)

Vintage: The Third Man (1949)

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The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. It is considered one of the greatest films of all time, celebrated for its atmospheric cinematography, performances, and musical score.
Doug and Mike Starn: Absorption of Light

Doug and Mike Starn: Absorption of Light

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Starn Brothers: Absorption of Light, presented by 516 ARTS, is a series of large elemental photographs from the series Absorption of Light by twin brothers Doug and Mike Starn, who for more than 20 years have been known for working conceptually with photography, and are concerned largely with chaos, interconnection and interdependence. The ill-fated moths of the Attracted to Light…
Jacques-Henri Lartigue: The Blink of an Eye

Jacques-Henri Lartigue: The Blink of an Eye

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The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce a new show exploring the ‘snapshot’ world of Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), as seen through the eyes of author William Boyd – a life long devotee of Lartigue’s luminous views on life. Lartigue took his first photograph in 1900 at the age of six. Born into privilege, Lartigue’s father was a banker, and…
Interview with photographers Deb Young and Francisco Diaz

Interview with photographers Deb Young and Francisco Diaz

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“While a photo montage isn’t a new concept, most modern artists use the form to create surreal or fantastic images. What is different about this collaboration is an eerie sense of reality, which itself is an ironic refutation of photography as truth.” – Writer Teresa Politano – Inside Jersey Magazine The idea that two artist photographers — one male, the…
Ken Schles: Invisible City

Ken Schles: Invisible City

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For a decade, Ken Schles watched the passing of time from his Lower East Side neighborhood. His camera fixed the instances of his observations, and these moments became the foundation of his “invisible city.” Friends and architecture come under the scrutiny of his lens and, when sorted and viewed in the pages of this book, a remarkable achievement of personal…
Vintage: Photos of West African Villages and its People (1910-1913)

Vintage: Photos of West African Villages and its People (1910-1913)

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Photos in this set were taken by H. Hunting of the Paterson Zochonis trading company between approximately 1910 and 1913.  The company began as a trading post in 1879, and began shipping African products to the United Kindom and importing English goods.  The company grew and expanded to Nigeria in 1899, and these photographs are of company employees and their…
Neil Latham: American Thoroughbred

Neil Latham: American Thoroughbred

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Steven Kasher Gallery is pleased to present the debut exhibition of Neil Latham: American Thoroughbred. The show will feature over 25 large-scale black and white photographs of America’s greatest race horses including Triple Crown winner American Pharaoh. The show is held in conjunction with the publication of Latham’s monograph American Thoroughbred (Twin Palms, 2016) and on the occasion of the…
Marjorie Salvaterra: Sheila With Red Hair

Marjorie Salvaterra: Sheila With Red Hair

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Marjorie Salvaterra’s work is surreal. It is humorous; it is dark, and it unfolds like stills in a series on women under the stress of “supposed to be.” The work is about the pressure women put on their selves and each other; it is about the emotional toll of maintaining the straight-seamed, buttoned-up life in a “traditional American household.” More…
Walker Evans: Depth of Field

Walker Evans: Depth of Field

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The High Museum of Art in Atlanta will present a major touring retrospective of the work of Walker Evans, one of the most pioneering and influential documentary photographers of the twentieth century. The show is among the most thorough examinations ever presented of the full arc of Evans’s career and the most comprehensive Evans retrospective to be mounted in Europe,…