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Historic B&W photos of Antwerp, Belgium (19th century)

Historic B&W photos of Antwerp, Belgium (19th century)

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In 1830, the city was captured by the Belgian insurgents, but the citadel continued to be held by a Dutch garrison under General David Hendrik Chassé. For a time Chassé subjected the town to periodic bombardment which inflicted much damage, and at the end of 1832 the citadel itself was besieged by the French Northern Army commanded by Marechal Gerard.…
Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half

Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half

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Danish-born Jacob A. Riis (1849–1914) found success in America as a reporter for the New York Tribune, first documenting crime and later turning his eye to housing reform. As tenement living conditions became unbearable in the wake of massive immigration, Riis and his camera captured some of the earliest, most powerful images of American urban poverty. This important publication is…
Black and White Close-Up Nudes by Igor Amelkovich

Black and White Close-Up Nudes by Igor Amelkovich

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Igor Amelkovich live in Chelyabinsk, which is in southern Ural mountains in Russia. He studied radio engineering at the South Ural State University. From 1985 to 1987 he served in the Soviet army, near Vladivostok on the Pacific coast by the Chinese border. Photography has been his focus since 1999. He didn’t held a camera in his hands before and…
Behind the Scenes: Forbidden Planet (1956)

Behind the Scenes: Forbidden Planet (1956)

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Forbidden Planet (aka Fatal Planet) is a 1956 American science fiction film from MGM. Starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly, and Robby the Robot. Forbidden Planet is the first science fiction film in which humans are depicted traveling in a starship of their own creation. It was also the first science fiction film set entirely…
Christopher Thomas – Paris: City of Light

Christopher Thomas – Paris: City of Light

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Imagine an entirely empty Champs-Elysees, or the Eiffel Tower minus the lines of tourists waiting to ascend. By taking advantage of the late night and early morning hours of a notoriously busy city, Christopher Thomas is able to capture familiar sights devoid of people. Using a large format camera, long exposures, and the last of his remaining duotone Polaroid film,…
Vintage Photos of Rural Romania in 1940s

Vintage Photos of Rural Romania in 1940s

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During the Second World War, Romania tried to remain neutral, but on 28 June 1940, it received a Soviet ultimatum with an implied threat of invasion in the event of non-compliance. Under pressure from Moscow and Berlin, the Romanian administration and the army were forced to retreat from Bessarabia as well from Northern Bukovina to avoid war. This, in combination…
Biography: Conceptual / Portrait photographer Hisaji Hara

Biography: Conceptual / Portrait photographer Hisaji Hara

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Hisaji Hara was born in Tokyo in 1964 and graduated from the Musahino Art University in 1986. In 1993 he emigrated to the United States and worked as a director of photography for television and documentary film before returning to Japan in 2001. The work in “After Balthus” was made over a period of five years beginning in 2006. Using…
Tim Rudman – Iceland, an Uneasy Calm

Tim Rudman – Iceland, an Uneasy Calm

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‘Iceland, an Uneasy Calm’ is a series of photographs taken in Iceland over the last eight years by Tim Rudman who is acknowledged as one of the very finest landscape photographers working today. This stunning collection will be exhibited at the Fox Talbot Museum in Lacock, Britain’s birthplace of photography, from 9 January to 10 July. Tim Rudman is well…
Christian Cravo: Twenty Five Years

Christian Cravo: Twenty Five Years

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Throckmorton Fine Art is pleased to present TWENTY FIVE YEARS by Christian Cravo, the fifth exhibition at the gallery by the Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. Spencer Throckmorton is proud to have represented Christian Cravo for the past twenty years, saying that working with the third-generation artist is a unique privilege: “Christian grew up the son and grandson of legendary Brazilian artists,…
Monochrome Photography Awards 2015 – Winners Gallery

Monochrome Photography Awards 2015 – Winners Gallery

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Monochrome Photography Awards is proud to announce the winners of their photography contest! Australian photographer Luke Tscharke has been announced as the overall winner of Professional category with the title: Monochrome Photographer of the Year 2015 and $2000 prize money. His winning image, called ‘Barossa Bolt’ shows large storm and lightning strikes over the Barossa Valley, South Australia. Additionally, in…
Vintage Glass-Plate Portraits from Romania (1940s)

Vintage Glass-Plate Portraits from Romania (1940s)

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Amazing collection of portraits by Romanian photographer Costică Acsinte. Costică Acsinte was born 4th of July, 1897 in a small village called Perieți, Ialomița County, Costică Acsinte fought in WWI. Despite his formation as a pilot, he was a official war photographer till 15th of June, 1920. As soon as the war was over he opened a studio — „Foto…
Peter Hujar: Lost Downtown

Peter Hujar: Lost Downtown

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Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce Lost Downtown, the gallery’s first solo exhibition by acclaimed photographer Peter Hujar which will be on view at 297 Tenth Avenue from January 28 to February 27, 2016. The exhibition, presented in collaboration with Pace/MacGill, will feature over twenty photographs of the late photographer’s portraits which offer a fascinating glimpse of New York…
Interview with Martin Ogolter

Interview with Martin Ogolter

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Martin Ogolter was born in Austria. In 1990 he moved to New York, where he graduated with a BFA from the School of Visual Arts. In New York he worked as an Art Director in publishing and music for companies such as Penguin Books and Atlantic Records. In parallel had his first photograph published in 1994 and his work has…
Dr. Dain L. Tasker: Floral Studies

Dr. Dain L. Tasker: Floral Studies

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Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition of an important collection of vintage x-ray photographs by Dr. Dain L Tasker. This exhibition will open on January 9th and continue through February 19th, 2016. A reception for the exhibition will be on Saturday, January 9th, from 6-8pm. Dr. Tasker was the chief radiologist at Wilshire Hospital in Los…
Giacomo Brunelli: Hamburg

Giacomo Brunelli: Hamburg

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At the invitation of the Hamburg Triennial of Photography, Italian photographer Giacomo Brunelli spent a residency in Hamburg in spring 2015. Brunelli had achieved international recognition for his series “The Animals”, published in 2008 by Dewi Lewis, and for the series “Eternal London” that the Photographer’s Gallery presented in London in 2014. Giacomo Brunelli has developed an individual, authentic visual…
Robert Adams: The New West

Robert Adams: The New West

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The open American West is nearly gone. A longstanding classic of photobook publishing, The New West is a photographic essay about what came to fill it-freeways, tract homes, low-rise business buildings and signs. In five sequences of pictures taken along the front wall of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, Robert Adams has documented a representative sampling of the whole suburban Southwest.…
Marc Krüger: Animato

Marc Krüger: Animato

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Animato evokes movement, flow, especially in the city, inert mineral structure contrasting with the organic and alive side of men crossing from side to side, like an arrow. The passage of man from one place to another, and all life and existence that can be part of this change of state. The crowd scenes disputing the quieter beaches where the…
Vintage: City Life in Denmark (1933)

Vintage: City Life in Denmark (1933)

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Berit Wallenberg (1902–1995) was a Swedish archaeologist and art historian. She began photographing as a teenager and she always brought her camera on the many travels she made in Sweden and abroad, sometimes with her family or with other students, sometimes on her own and under modest conditions. The main purpose of her travels was to study art, architecture and…
The World of Fred Stein

The World of Fred Stein

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Rosenberg & Co. is honored to represent the estate of Fred Stein, and opens the exhibition, The World of Fred Stein, on Thursday, November 19. The solo show features approximately fifty vintage, gelatin silver photographic prints taken by Stein during his time in Paris preceding World War II, his subsequent life in New York City, and post-war journeys back to…