An Inside Look at Ansel Adams’ Photography In Yosemite

13 May 2013

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TED Talk – Sebastião Salgado: The silent Drama of Photography

02 May 2013

Sebastião Salgado only took up photography in his 30s, but the discipline became an obsession. His years-long projects capture the human side of a global story that all too often involves death, destruction or decay. Here, he tells a deeply personal story of the craft that nearly killed him, and shows images from his latest [...]

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Auction of Photographs and Photobooks at Swann Galleries

05 April 2013

Swann Galleries, New York will conduct an auction of Fine Photographs &  Photobooks with examples from photography’s earliest days up to the work of artists employing the medium in the 21st century. Among the earliest photographs in the sale is a circa 1850 hand-tinted oversized daguerreotype by Southworth and Hawes of a blue-eyed woman in an elegant [...]

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War/Photography: A Discussion at Annenberg Space for Photography, LA

19 March 2013

Carolyn Cole is a multiple award-winning photographer and a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times. She has covered conflicts in Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Haiti and Liberia, where she earned the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the siege of Monrovia. David Hume Kennerly won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Vietnam War. [...]

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Thinking in Color: A Conversation with Bill Armstrong and W. M. Hunt

18 March 2013

There is a conversation on color photography with Bill Armstrong and W. M. Hunt at Aperture Gallery, New York.  Taking inspiration from the book I Send You This Cadmium Red, which features correspondence between critic John Berger and artist John Christie, Hunt and Armstrong have initiated a dialogue about color in photography. Starting with Armstrong’s [...]

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Rivkin Photography grabbed by U.S. Attorney

18 March 2013

The New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s Office recently filed a civil asset forfeiture complaint seeking a collection of artwork containing more than 2,200 pieces and valued at more than $15-3/4 million, which Philip J. Rivkin amassed over several years, starting in 2010. The complaint alleges that the artwork–bought with money from what the U.S. Attorney’s office [...]

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War Photography

18 March 2013

The era of war photography is over. Newspapers and magazines are not interested anymore in depicting the suffering of civilians and soldiers as they were during the Vietnam war. At that time war photography had a political impact. Today news photography is more about celebrities, aesthetic people and objects and even drones or fighter jets [...]

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The Concepts of Photography: Jack Kerouac about Robert Frank’s Photobook The Americans

12 March 2013

“I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love. It is important to see what is invisible to others. [...]

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William Klein: Fashion and Street Photography in New York

23 February 2013

An exhibition photographs and paintings by artist William Klein, a photographer and painter of the postwar era, will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York from March 1 – April 27, 2013. The artist will be present at a reception at the Gallery on Thursday, March 14, from 6-8 p.m. WILLIAM KLEIN: PAINTINGS, [...]

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Swann Galleries auctions Photographs in New York

12 February 2013

  Swann Galleries’ auction of Fine Photographs offers a selection of images that range from mid 19th century travel albums to contemporary art from the late 20th century. There is a variety of early travel albums filled with images of Asia from the estate of Fong Chow, a ceramicist who was Chinese ceramics curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a lifelong collector of photographs. [...]

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Howard Greenberg Gallery to exclusively represent Estates of Berenice Abbott and Arnold Newman

12 February 2013

Howard Greenberg Gallery has announced that the Gallery will be the exclusive representative for the estates of the photographers Berenice Abbott and Arnold Newman. Until now, the Berenice Abbott estate was handled by Commerce Graphics and the Arnold Newman Estate was handled by KG Fine Arts, a partnership between Commerce Graphics and Howard Greenberg Gallery. Ronald [...]

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Photograph the Brutality instead of hyperartificial New Vision Photography

06 February 2013

What makes a photograph a work of art? Today, this question is pointless, because the only thing that still counts is the freedom of “anything goes”. Everything is art: documentation, empty walls, pale colours. These days, it’s more about trends, New Vision imagery and selling your work. So the market decides what is art? That [...]

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AIPAD Photography Show 2013

25 January 2013

The AIPAD Photography Show New York, will be held April 4-7, 2013, at the Park Avenue Armory. Presented by The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), more than 70 of the fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work including contemporary, modern, and 19th-century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video, [...]

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Auction House Lempertz: Appraisal of Photographs by Experts

24 January 2013

Experts of the German auction house Lempertz (Cologne)  appraise photographs that are going to be sold without obligation at the following dates: Baden-Baden, Los Angeles and Vienna on appointment January 30: Dusseldorf February 6: Frankfurt February 13 – 16: New York February 14: Bruxelles February 13 – 15: San Francisco February 19: Hamburg February 21.: Berlin [...]

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Vogue/ Leibovitz/ Storm Troupers

Vogue celebrates Storm Troupers with controversial Photos by Annie Leibovitz

23 January 2013

  The firefighters look splendid in full gear as they walk down the street. They were in service during the storm “Sandy“, which caused severe destruction in the Caribbean and on the East Coast of the United States three months ago, and even New York was hit. However, the storm troopers in the picture are [...]

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Photographer Aaron Huey talks about the Life of Indians in the Pine Ridge Reservation at Annenberg Space for Photography

22 January 2013

Aaron Huey started photographing on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 2005 as part of a story about poverty in America. In the beginning it was all just statistics: a 90% unemployment rate, a 70% school dropout rate and a male life expectancy of 47 years (roughly the same as Afghanistan and Somalia). Over time [...]

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Plat(t)form 2013 at Fotomuseum Winterthur

21 January 2013

The seventh curated international portfolio viewing at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, featuring young emerging European photographers will be held on the weekend of 25 to 27 January 2013. As in the previous year, the jury has invited 42 photographers to present their work for two hours to the public and a selected team of experts. The [...]

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Fritz Winter and Abstract Photography

20 January 2013

  This exhibition of the painted »light pictures« (Licht-Bilder) by Fritz Winter (1905–1976) in the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, is devoted to the artist’s early work which has seldom been shown up until now. For the first time ever, his paintings are being presented in juxtaposition with the pioneering photograms of the Bauhaus professor László [...]

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What Majestic Word Ansel Adams Portfolio Four

18 January 2013

  G2 Gallery, Venice, premieres What Majestic Word Ansel Adams Portfolio Four. The exhibit features famous pieces as well as some of Adams’s lesser-known works. What Majestic Word was created in the memory of Adams’s longtime friend, Russell Varian, a fellow conservationist who died just four years before the release of this portfolio in 1963. [...]

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A Short History of Photograph Collecting

18 January 2013

By Penelope Dixon The collecting of photographs was practically simultaneous with the invention of photography. P & D Colnaghi, a well-established art gallery in London, sold photographs as early as the 1850s, representing both the work of Roger Fenton and Julia Margaret Cameron. People became obsessed with capturing their own likenesses. A popular past-time in [...]

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