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Ansel Adams: Early Works

Ansel Adams: Early Works

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Ansel Adams: Early Works focuses on the masterful small-scale prints made by Adams from the 1920s into the 1950s. In this time period Adams’ technique evolved from the soft-focus, warm-toned, painterly “Parmelian prints” of the 1920s; through the f/64 school of sharp-focused photography that he co-founded with Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham in the 1930s; and, after the War, towards…
Vintage: 12 Angry Men (1957)

Vintage: 12 Angry Men (1957)

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12 Angry Men is a 1957 American drama film adapted from a teleplay of the same name by Reginald Rose. Written and co-produced by Rose himself and directed by Sidney Lumet, this trial film tells the story of a jury made up of 12 men as they deliberate the guilt or acquittal of a defendant on the basis of reasonable…
Interview with photographer Alicja Brodowicz

Interview with photographer Alicja Brodowicz

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How and when did you become interested in photography? I became interested in photography a few years ago. I started photographing my daughter. Later, I completed a course in a local cultural centre. A friend of mine convinced me that I should apply to the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava in Czech Republic. I did that and now I…
Glass Plate Female Mugshots from Australia

Glass Plate Female Mugshots from Australia

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In 1990 the Historic Houses Trust rescued a remarkable collection of NSW Police forensic photographs from a flooded warehouse in Lidcombe. Created between 1912 and 1964, the archive contains approximately 130,000 glass plate negatives depicting crime scenes, police activities, forensic evidence and mug shots and may be the biggest police photography collection in the southern hemisphere. The Historic Houses Trust…
Vintage images of Statue of Liberty under construction (1880s)

Vintage images of Statue of Liberty under construction (1880s)

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The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female…
Biography: Pictorial Portrait photographer Rudolph Eickemeyer Jr

Biography: Pictorial Portrait photographer Rudolph Eickemeyer Jr

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Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. (August 7, 1862 – April 25, 1932) was an American pictorialist photographer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Rudolf Eickemeyer’s photography combined the technological calculation of his engineer father and the aestheticism of the amateur photography clubs that nurtured his art in the 1880s. Purchasing his first camera in 1884, Eickemeyer devoured the ample…
Interview with Landscape photographer Souvik Maitra

Interview with Landscape photographer Souvik Maitra

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Souvik Maitra was born in 1984 in Kharagpur, a small town in West Bengal, India. He was graduated in medicine in 2008 from Medical College, Kolkata, the oldest medical school in India. He was interested to photography during his graduation. After that he moved to New Delhi in 2012. Since then he is active in searching the hidden treasure of…
Behind the scenes: Some Like It Hot (1959)

Behind the scenes: Some Like It Hot (1959)

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Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American comedy film set in 1929, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. The film is about two musicians who dress in drag in order to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed commit the Valentines Day Massacre.
Mike Disfarmer: The Vintage Prints

Mike Disfarmer: The Vintage Prints

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Between 1915 and 1959, American studio photographer Mike Disfarmer (1884-1959) made portraits of the residents of Heber Springs, a small town in rural Arkansas. Only after his death did his work become known internationally and regarded as a typical example of classic American portrait photography. Foam is staging a major retrospective, with 182 vintage photographs, including a number of 8…
René Groebli: Early Work

René Groebli: Early Work

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Who is René Groebli? He is a blind spot. Perhaps he is the proverbial blind spot, the “Missing Link” in the history of modern Swiss photography. The first to notice him was the American photographer and curator Edward Steichen, the visionary Steichen who had towards the end of the 1940s established at the New York Museum of Modern Art the…
Nigel Maudsley: Dogs and their Owners

Nigel Maudsley: Dogs and their Owners

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I have wanted a dog all my life and my 4 year old Cockpoo has certainly changed my life for the better. I have made many new dog walking friends and this series questions the notion that dogs look like their owners. This was put to the test by a psychologist at the University of California by photographing dogs and…
Interview with City Life photographer Cyrille Druart

Interview with City Life photographer Cyrille Druart

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1. How and when did you become interested in photography? I got into Photography in 2001, at my Design school (ESAG-Penninghen in Paris), where i had access to a darkroom. My father then gave me a Nikon FM2, film camera, and I fell in love with making images. 2. Is there any artist/photographer who inspired your art? When you start…
Roman Vishniac: Rediscovered

Roman Vishniac: Rediscovered

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Emphasizing Roman Vishniac’s prodigious talents as one of the great documentary photographers of the 20th century, this volume presents the full range of his artistic genius. Drawn from the International Center of Photography’s vast holdings of work by Roman Vishniac (1897-1990), this generously illustrated and expansive volume offers a new and profound consideration of this key modernist photographer. In addition…
Lucien Clergue: Les Gitanes

Lucien Clergue: Les Gitanes

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Beck & Eggeling is presenting Lucien Clergue’s series Les Gitanes. A selection of vintage prints will be on display alongside signed modern prints in different formats. In the 1950s and 60s, Lucien Clergue took photographs of the Gitanes on their annual pilgrimage to Sarah Kalyi, the Gypsies’ patron saint. The aim of the trip was the small coastal village of…