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Mary Ellen Mark: Tiny: Streetwise Revisited

Mary Ellen Mark: Tiny: Streetwise Revisited

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In 1983, Mary Ellen Mark began a project called Streetwise. Five years later, it became a poignant document of a fiercely independent group of homeless and troubled youth who made their way on the streets of Seattle as pimps, prostitutes, panhandlers, and small-time drug dealers. Streetwise introduced several unforgettable children, including Tiny, who dreamed of a horse farm, diamonds and…
Vintage: New York’s Bohemian Greenwich Village (1910s – 1920s)

Vintage: New York’s Bohemian Greenwich Village (1910s – 1920s)

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Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870 – 1942) was an American photographer, the first published female photojournalist in the United States mostly known for her portraits of places such as Bohemian Greenwich Village. Greenwich Village became widely identified as America’s bohemia by the mid-1910s. The radicals who lived in Greenwich Village in the early 20th century rejected traditional structured socialization, preferring instead…
Interview with Street photographer Alex Coghe

Interview with Street photographer Alex Coghe

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– How and when did you become interested in photography? I was 10 years old when I received my first camera, a cheap point & shoot called Fujica. I had this great Kodak’s encyclopedia of photography. I still remember a photo of girls with umbrella under the rain and running around a fountain. I can not remember the author but…
Biography: Nude photographer Julien Vallou de Villeneuve

Biography: Nude photographer Julien Vallou de Villeneuve

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Julien Vallou de Villeneuve (1795 – 1866) was a French photographer. He started his career at the Salon of 1814, exhibiting images depicting daily life, fashion, regional costumes and nude photographs. In the 1820s and 30s he developed an international following for his folio-sized lithographic erotic series Les Jeunes Femmes, depicting racy episodes in the life of young women and…
Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light

Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light

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Bill Brandt was the preeminent British photographer of the twentieth century, a founding father of photography’s modernist tradition whose half-century-long career defies neat categorization. This publication presents the photographer’s entire oeuvre, with special emphasis on his investigation of English life in the 1930s and his innovative late nudes. The Museum of Modern Art has been exhibiting and collecting Brandt’s photographs…
George Dureau: The Photographs

George Dureau: The Photographs

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George Dureau: The Photographs is an album of the great photographic portraits made throughout the 40 years of Dureau’s artistic career-a New Orleans romance between the photographer and his subjects. All of Dureau’s exquisite photographs, many of them nudes of black and disabled men, were made in his studio in the French Quarter of New Orleans, or on the city’s…
LUO Dan: When to Leave

LUO Dan: When to Leave

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M97 Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of our newest exhibition space in downtown Shanghai. After 10 years in the Moganshan Road arts district, we have moved closer to Shanghai’s city center in a converted 1940’s factory space in Jing’an district designed and developed by the Anken Group. The new exhibition space gives M97 a platform with our artists…
Historic B&W photos of Bosnia in 19th Century

Historic B&W photos of Bosnia in 19th Century

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Bosnia and Herzegovina fell under Austro-Hungarian rule in 1878 when the Congress of Berlin approved the occupation of the Bosnia Vilayet, which officially remained part of the Ottoman Empire. Three decades later, in 1908, Austria-Hungary provoked the Bosnian crisis by formally annexing the occupied zone, establishing the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the joint control of Austria and Hungary.
Interview with Fashion photographer Lisa Jureczko

Interview with Fashion photographer Lisa Jureczko

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How and when did you become interested in photography? I’ve always been interested in photography, above all in early photography of the late 19th and early 20th century. What first has been a theoretical process, became my greatest passion when I started to take pictures in 2012. Is there any artist/photographer who inspired your art? Fashion photography in general has…
The Wizard of Oz (1939)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the most well-known and commercially successful adaptation based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.
Rutger ten Broeke: The Age of Innocence

Rutger ten Broeke: The Age of Innocence

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Kahmann Gallery is proud to present the solo exhibition The Age of Innocence of Rutger ten Broeke (1944). In this exhibition highlights from the almost fifty year long career of Ten Broeke will be combined with his latest works. Ten Broeke is a key figure for the development of photography in the Netherlands, both artistically and commercially. While he was…
Biography: Mountain photographer Vittorio Sella

Biography: Mountain photographer Vittorio Sella

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Vittorio Sella (1859 – 1943) was an Italian photographer and mountaineer, who took photographs of mountains which are regarded as some of the finest ever made. Born in Biella in the foothills of the Alps, Sella made a number of significant climbs from a young age. He was the first person to make a winter ascent opf the Matterhorn and…
Interview with Landscape photographer Roger Hansson

Interview with Landscape photographer Roger Hansson

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– How and when did you become interested in photography? My interest in photography started pretty early, my dad photographed pretty much and had his own darkroom. I was often there, fascinated to see the pictures appear on the photo paper. But I was not that interested that I began to shoot immediately. It took a while… film was expensive…
Christopher Thomas: ENGADIN

Christopher Thomas: ENGADIN

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Anyone familiar with Engadin’s landscape would immediately recognise that Christopher Thomas’ works talk about its hills, mountains, lakes and meadows. His works illustrate the peace and monumentally of the mountainscapes as well as the contrasts of the shiny, reflecting lakes and the clam rock masses. In 2012 Christopher Thomas approached for the first time Engadin’s landscape. With an open mind…
Colin Jones: Retrospective

Colin Jones: Retrospective

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The Michael Hoppen Gallery’s very first exhibition, in 1992, was of Colin Jones. Twenty-four years later Jones’s work continues to delight audiences with its breadth and humanity and the gallery is pleased to present a retrospective exhibition of his vintage prints. Born in 1936 Jones’s early life started with a father away at the war, evacuations and numerous different schools.…
Biography: Pictorial photographer Robert Demachy

Biography: Pictorial photographer Robert Demachy

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Robert Demachy (1859–1936) was a French Pictorial photographer of the late 19th and early 20th century. He is best known for his intensely manipulated prints that display a distinct painterly quality. He was influenced by the Impressionist painters and spent most of his time making photographs and developing his theories on photography, both technical and aesthetic. He wrote thousands of…
Louise Dahl-Wolfe by Aperture

Louise Dahl-Wolfe by Aperture

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Louise Dahl-Wolfe opens a window onto the work of one of the most influential fashion photographers of the 20th century. After being discovered by Edward Steichen and having her work exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1937, Dahl-Wolfe went on to revitalize the Hollywood portrait and invigorate the fashion photography of the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s.…