13 April 2012
Currently, the Getty Center, Los Angeles, is showing an exhibition with photographs by Herb Ritts and a catalogue that celebrates his work. Herb Ritts produced portraits and editorial fashion for the likes of Vogue, Vanity Fair, Interview and Rolling Stone. He also created advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein, Chanel, Donna Karan, Gap, Gianfranco Ferré, Gianni [...]
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07 April 2012
Pictures taken by photographers for themselves are often more exciting than those they are commissioned to do. theprintspace, London will be a home to DayFour Magazine’s exhibition, “Modern Love”, showcasing non-commissioned work from all around the world. DayFour is a magazine of personal work, mainly by photographers. Like any magazine, it has a variety of contributors, runs [...]
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07 April 2012
Preliminary results of sale 2274, April 4 2012, Swann Galleries, New York: Property from the Estate of Filmmaker Gary Winick; and 19th & 20th Century Photographs & Photobooks Sale total: $1,202,122 with Buyer’s Premium Hammer total: $1,001,230 Estimates for sale as a whole: $1,245,350 – $1,834,950 Swann Galleries offered 435 lots; 304 sold (30% buy-in rate by lot) Top [...]
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02 April 2012
According to artprice.com the prices of artworks by Thomas Ruff have gone up by five times during the last 14 years. They reached a peak in 2008 and dropped until now. The number of artworks sold per year at auctions has dropped dramatically during the last five years. 40 percent of the artworks have been [...]
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02 April 2012
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02 April 2012
Bernd and Hilla Becher have influenced an entire host of Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie photographers that shine in today’s market; Candida Höfer, Thomas Struth and Thomas Ruff to name only three of them. All of them embody the sober vision of the new objectivity. Thomas Ruff explicitly names Eugene Atget and August Sander as his role models [...]
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27 March 2012
There is nothing like freedom and images created by people traveling are the stongest symbols of this desire. How to forget about everyday sorrows? Get away from them. Even when people just look at images of friends who have been in Mauritius or Baja California. And this world is overloaded with these kind of photographs [...]
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27 March 2012
William Klein will receive the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award at the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards. He will be honoured at the annual gala award ceremony on 26 April taking place at London’s Park Lane Hilton Hotel, together with Eve Arnold, Marc Riboud and Phil Stern. An exhibition of his work will be shown [...]
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26 March 2012
PHotoEspaña 2012 hits the social media with an activity that will shape its whole communication campaign. The 15th International Festival of Photography and the Visual Arts is asking Twitter and Facebook users to play an active, leading role in events. It has therefore issued a mass invitation to social media users, whose joint input will [...]
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24 March 2012
The Israel Museum, in Jerusalem, has announced the acquisition of 200 photographs by the pioneering French documentary photographer Eugène Atget (1857 – 1927), gifted by Pamela and George Rohr, New York, and an anonymous donor from New York. The Museum’s photography holdings are encompassing over 55,000 works from the earliest days of photography to contemporary [...]
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24 March 2012
Research shakes the international photo market due to French forgers, as one learns now only that a large collection of unknown artist photographs from the early days of photography came under the Hammer on 29 March 2011 at the auction house Artcurial Deauville (Normandy). The auction catalogue presented photos as works of the painter and [...]
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23 March 2012
Pace/MacGill Gallery presents August Sander/Boris Mikhailov: German Portraits through May 5. The exhibition juxtaposes 20 20th-century portraits by German cultural documentarian August Sander with 10 photographs from Boris Mikhailov’s German Portraits series (2008) to examine how two seminal photographers approached the subject of portraiture in Germany, nearly a century apart. August Sander (1876-1964) is known as the [...]
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20 March 2012
Alex Prager was chosen as the winner of the Foam Paul Huf Award 2012 by an international jury. This annual prize given to a photography talent under 35 years consists of € 20.000 and an exhibition in Foam Amsterdam. Prager’s work will be on show in Foam from August 31st to October 14th, 2012. The [...]
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20 March 2012
Photographer Richard Ehrlich’s art comes from a desire to express internal feelings rather than to depict simply what is seen and, as such, provides an avenue for heightened awareness and self expression. Rather than viewing digital optimization as less meaningful than traditional techniques, Ehrlich has embraced advancing technology with enthusiasm. For example, his Anatomia Digitale [...]
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19 March 2012
Swann Galleries, New York will offer a two-part sale of Property from the Estate of Filmmaker Gary Winick and 19th & 20th Century Photographs & Photobooks. When film producer and director Gary Winick died last year at the age of 49, he left behind collections of photographs, fine art prints and drawings, movie posters, books and [...]
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17 March 2012
Phillips de Pury starts its Spring Photographs various owners sale with a number of works across the photographic spectrum. The classical side of the spectrum will be led by Irving Penn’s “Woman with Roses on Her Arm (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), 1950,” estimated at $200,000-300,000. The image depicts Penn’s wife and muse posing regally and peering back [...]
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17 March 2012
Phillips de Pury & Company launches its Spring Photographs season with a single-owner sale titled The Face of Modernism: A Private West Coast Collection. Comprised of 28 lots, this single-owner collection provides a glimpse into a pivotal moment in the evolution of photography: when the soft-focus images of Pictorialism gave way to the more sharply-focused [...]
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17 March 2012
Sotheby’s is going to sell a part of the Gunter Sachs Collection in London. The auction house will present nearly 300 artworks and objects from the collection of the former photographer, among them photographs by Andy Warhol and Richard Avedon. Avedon’s photograph portrayed Brigitte Bardot in 1959. The reduced facial features and the focus on [...]
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17 March 2012
La Fábrica Galería features Selected Early Works by Marina Abramovic in Madrid, a selection of images and films of early performances. The show will coincide with the play Life and Death of Marina Abramovic at Teatro Real in the city. A play where theater, music, and word go together to portray the awesome biography of the Serbian artist who performs as herself. The play will gather on the stage Marina Abramovic, the actor and writer Willem [...]
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15 March 2012
Herb Ritts is much to market-oriented, to be a real artist. He has produced goods for fashion magazines and tried the subject body images, that sometimes recalls Edward Weston. The art has a characteristic rationality to them, which has made him a celebrated photographer of the rich and beautiful and a creator of fashion sense. Ritt’s [...]
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