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Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840 - 1860 2008-02-24 03:31:00 Linnaeus Tripe, English (1822 - 1902), The Monster Gun of Tanjore, March - April 1858, albumen silver print , image: 11 5/16 x 15, framed: 24 x 28, Thomas Walther Collection The first exhibition to explore photographs made from paper negatives—calotypes—in Great Britain in the 1840s and 1850s, Impressed by Light: British
Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860, will be on view from February 3 through May 4, 2008, in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. in the West Building photography galleries. The exhibition features 120 calotypes, many of which have never before been exhibited or published in the United States, made by about forty artists. Included are works by such masters as the process' inventor, William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877), Roger Fenton (1819–1869), an
Lindsay Lohan as Marilyn Monroe in "The Last Sitting" 2008-02-21 10:02:00 Bert Stern, LindsayLohan
as Marily Monroe
in "The Last Sitting
" for New York MagazineBy Amanda FortiniIn 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot a series of photos of Marilyn
Monroe that have collectively come to be known as “The Last Sitting.” Taken during several boozy sessions at the Hotel Bel-Air, the photographs are arguably the most famous images ever captured of America’s most famous actress: Monroe, sleepy-eyed and naked, sips from a Champagne glass, enacts a fan dance of sorts with various diaphanous scarves, romps with erotic playfulness on a bed of white linens. Six weeks after she had posed, Monroe was found dead of an apparent barbiturate overdose. The photos endure partly as artifacts—as the last visible evidence of the living woman (a legacy reinforced by Stern’s decis Read more:Lindsay Lohan
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The life and work of George Rodger 2008-02-21 09:07:00 Celebrating the centenary of George
Rodger’s birth, an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester looks at the life and work of an important war photographer. Although largely self taught, George Rodger (1908 – 1995) was a pioneering photojournalist who never lost his concern and sympathy for the victims of conflict. As a photographer for Life Magazine during the Second World War, George Rodger travelled to most major war zones, photographing what he saw for a distant audience in America. Starting in wartime London, George Rodger’s photographs record his personal journey and growing horror of war as much as the course of the war itself. After his experiences, especially at Belsen concentration camp, George Rodger sought to abandon war photography. However he could
Notes on Dating Photographic Paper 2008-02-21 00:50:00 By Paul MessierAbstract This paper presents an overview of techniques and resources for dating fiber-based, gelatin silver photographic paper. This review encompasses some well known practices based on optical brightening agents, manufacturer back printing, and paper fiber identification as well as techniques currently being developed such as the XRF analysis of the baryta layer and identifying paper fiber species and ratios. The paper is intended primarily for conservators and collectors that already possess a basic understanding of the existing literature on the subject, underlying principles of conservation research and the problems inherent in dating 20th century photographs. Within the strict context of the author's perspective, the paper is a general guide to the current state of res Read more:Notes
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How to preserve photographs - Handling, Storage and Display 2008-02-21 00:43:00 By Paul MessierIntroduction Questions regarding the preservation of photographs
date back to the very birth of the medium in the early 19th century. The early inventors were initially plagued by the inability to fix images recorded by a camera and suffered intense frustration as their experiments were destroyed upon exposure to light. While these obstacles were eventually resolved, the photographic literature has remained filled with research and commentary on other permanence issues such as the yellowing of highlights and the importance of clearing residual fix.Today the physical and chemical properties of photographs are better understood and there are numerous tools and resources available to collectors to insure that the photographs in their possession remain in good condition. Unders Read more:Handling
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Swann Gallery - Results of Winter Auction 2008-02-20 14:06:00 Swann Galleries’ annual winter auction of Fine Photographs on February 7 reflected the interrelationship between photographic literature, vernacular imagery, and fine art photography. The backbone of the sale was an unusual American private collection. The auction’s top lot, William Bradford’s landmark example of photographic literature, The Arctic Regions, Illustrated with Photographs Taken on an Art Expedition to Greenland, London, 1873, a large and sumptuous volume with 141 mounted albumen prints, in an elaborate morocco gilt binding, brought $144,000*.Among diverse 19th-century albums were William Notman’s 56 topographic views of Canada, albumen prints, 1860s-70, $15,600; 66 albumen prints of Japanese figures by Felix Beato, most hand-colored, circa 1871, $66,000; Gaudenzio Mar Read more:Gallery
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Fotofest 2008 - Houston 2008-02-19 05:15:00 FOTOFEST2008 focuses on one of the most compelling cultural, political, and economic phenomena of the contemporary world - China and its transformation.Politically and culturally, photography has been a key element in creating the public face of China since the late 19th century. From 1870 to 1920, photography helped explain and justify European economic exploitation and occupation of China. From 1938 - 1980, photography became a major tool in Communist Party campaigns to win internal public support for its philosophy and programs - and the message it wanted to send to the outside world. From 1980 - 2008, photography has become one of the major mediums of communication, public and private, about contemporary Chinese society. Departing from most contemporary art programs on China, the FOTO Read more:Houston
AIPAD Photography Show New York 2008-02-19 00:29:00 Lilian Bassman, Dress by Thierry Mugler for German VOGUE, 1998, Gelatin Silver Print, 20 x 24 inches, Courtesy Peter Fetterman GalleryThe AIPAD Photography Show New York, will be presented by the Association of International PhotographyArt Dealers (AIPAD) from April 10 through 13, 2008. More than 75 of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum quality work by contemporary, modern and 19th century masters at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. The 28th edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York will open with a Gala Preview on April 9 to benefit the John Szarkowski Fund, an endowment for photography acquisitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The Photography Show New York is the longest running and foremost exhibition of
Vanity Fairs Portraits 1913 - 2008 at National Portrait Gallery 2008-02-14 03:01:00 Gloria Swanson by Edward Steichen, 1924The NationalPortraitGallery
, London, presents portraits that have been published in Vanity
Fair on view through May 26, 2008. This selection of 150 classic images features works from the magazine's first period (19131936), displayed for the first time with works from the contemporary Vanity Fair (1983-present). In the first period, celebrated subjects such as Albert Einstein, Charlie Chaplin and Jean Harlow are shown in portraits by photographers, among them Edward Steichen, Cecil Beaton, Baron De Meyer, Man Ray and George Hurrell. From the magazine's re-launch in 1983, the works of photographers including Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, Bruce Weber and Mario Testino are featured, depicting a w Read more:Fairs
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The World from my Front Porch 2008-02-10 17:00:00 Larry Towell, The Pear, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada, 1983, Gelatin Silver PrintBy Murray WhiteIn the past 25 years, Larry Towell has slept on the hard concrete floor in a refugee camp in Jenin, crawled through the jungles of El Salvador with rebel forces, been the sole occupant of an abandoned resort complex on the Gaza Strip, and fled tanks during Israeli raids on the occupied West Bank. The image above is none of these. But in the catalogue of work that Towell – a member of the esteemed Magnum photo agency and perhaps our country's most celebrated documentary photographer – has produced, it is no less significant to him. In it, Towell's wife Ann holds a wild pear to the mouth of the couple's son, Moses. It is 1983, though the '51 Ford pickup suggests a different epoch. As, perhap Read more:World
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World Press Photo 2007 2008-02-09 13:13:00 World PressPhoto
2007: Tim Hetherington, UK, for Vanity Fair. US soldier resting at a bunker, Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, 16 September.The international jury of the 51st annual World Press Photo Contest selected a color image of the UK photographer Tim Hetherington as World Press Photo of the Year 2007. The picture was taken 16 September 2007 and shows a US soldier resting at “Restrepo” bunker, named after a soldier from his platoon who was recently killed by insurgents. The 2nd Battalion Airborne of the 503rd US infantry was undergoing a deployment in the Korengal Valley in the Eastern province of Afghanistan. The valley was infamous as the site of downing of a US helicopter and has seen some of the most intense fighting in the country.Hetherington’s photograph is part of a p Read more:World
André Kertész - First and Last 2008-02-07 02:46:00 "The moment always dictates in my work. What I feel, I do. This is the most important thing for me. Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see. I never calculate or consider; I see a situation and I know that it's right, even if I have to go back to get the proper lighting."André KertészAndré Kertész - First
and Last, an exhibition of the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, brings together the rarely-seen early work from his native Hungary - the famed “Hungarian contacts” with a comprehensive survey of late, great Polaroid work, produced near the end of his life. This exhibition, drawn mostly from the archives of the Kertész Foundation, will be the first comprehensive presentation of many of the late Polaroids.Southeast Museum of PhotographyOpening hours:Tues
An unusual trove for sale at Sotheby's 2008-02-06 12:09:00 Edward Weston, Charis on the Dunes, Platinum Print, 1936An unusual stash of about 40 black- and-white photographs by Edward Weston and Brett Weston are on sale at a Sotheby
's auction in New York on April 8. The more than 40 photographs by Edward Weston and the nine photographs by his son Brett were given originally to Mary Weston Seaman, Edward Weston’s sister, beginning in the 1910s and continuing through the 1940s. Mary Weston Seaman stored them on the closet floor of her bungalow bedroom in Glendale, California. "They were dusty and dirty and wrapped in brown paper and string,'' remembered grandson John W. Longstreth, who acquired them after her death. The photographs include representatives of all of the photographic styles that Weston embraced in his long and influential career: th
The Mexican Suitcase 2008-02-04 13:20:00 Photo: Tony CenicolaBy Randy KennedyTo the small group of photography experts aware of its existence, it was known simply as “the Mexican
suitcase.” And in the pantheon of lost modern cultural treasures, it was surrounded by the same mythical aura as Hemingway’s early manuscripts, which vanished from a train station in 1922. The suitcase — actually three flimsy cardboard valises — contained thousands of negatives of pictures that Robert Capa, one of the pioneers of modern war photography, took during the Spanish Civil War before he fled Europe for America in 1939, leaving behind the contents of his Paris darkroom.Capa assumed that the work had been lost during the Nazi invasion, and he died in 1954 on assignment in Vietnam still thinking so. But in 1995 word began to spread that
A Short History of Photograph Collecting 2008-01-22 05:33:00 By Penelope DixonThe 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 the mid-19th Century was the exchange of carte-de-visites. People collected cartes of their friends and family and put them into albums, much like children exchanging school pictures today. Much like our present fascination with Hollywood personalities, they were also avid collectors of celebrity images. A recent exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, The Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in Ninet Read more:Short
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The Ten Most Expensive Photographs 2007 2008-01-13 07:29:00 Photographs of Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto have been in great demand at auctions last year and the prices for artworks created by the elite of photography have risen again since in the top ten of the most expensive photographs seven come from the year 2007. The boom of contemporary art seems to be closely connected with a rising interest in contemporary photography at auctions last year.The ten most expensive photographs in 2007:1. Andreas Gursky, 99 cent, Sotheby's London, $ 3,346,4572. Richard Prince, Cowboy, Christie's, New York, $ 2,850,0003. Cindy Sherman Untitled Christie's, New York, $2,112,0004. Hiroshi Sugimoto Black Sea, Yellow Sea, Red Sea, Christie’s New York, $1,888,0005. Edward Weston Nautilus Sotheby’s New York, $1,105,0006. Thomas Struth, Pantheon, R
Ansel Adams: Celebration of Genius 2007-12-30 01:43:00 You shouldn't miss this exhibition of 150 photographs of Ansel Adams
in Savannah. It's a good idea to visit the Jepson Art Center because the exhibition ends at 6th of January.Admired as both a master photographer and a dedicated conservationist, Adams is most closely associated with stunning images of the American West, and California’s Yosemite Valley in particular. During the course of his influential career, Adams developed new techniques to enhance contrast in black-and-white photography, founded the influential f/64 Group, and earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his efforts in photography and conservation, all while creating some of the m
Stolen Photos of Riefenstahl Discovered in Cologne 2007-12-27 01:08:00 The Cologne
(Germany) police has seized stolen photos of Leni Riefenstahl and other photographers to the value of up to four million euros. Three suspects were arrested, the police is still searching for a fourth one. The photographs had been stolen at the beginning of November in the cellar of the Photo Estate GmbH in the centre of Cologne at the Theodor-Heuss-Ring. As the police informed, they discovered the photos already shortly after the theft in a hiding place disguised with bulky refuse in a cellar shed not far from the site of crime.From “procedural reasons“ the finding has been kept secret. 250 photographs by Leni Riefenstahl had been stolen and 300 images of the US photographer Elliott Erwitt as well as artworks of Peter Lindbergh and Helmut Newton. Because the photos had bee
How to Collect Photography Books 2007-12-25 02:33:00 There is a lack of information about how to collect photography books, although it became more and more popular during the last ten years. O.K., there are groups of experts who meet at art fairs like the Art Basel but there are very seldom articles in photography journals for instance. Fortunately there are exceptions like the very interesting blog Bint Photobooks on Internet which presents new editions and hints on how to start collecting photography books. It's a blog published by a private book collector, so he is very experienced!
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Photographer Noor Ali Honoured 2007-12-23 23:52:00 Michel Nieto, Chief Executive Officer of Baume & Mercier and Mohammed Siddiqi, Chief Operating Officer of Ahmed Siddiqi and Sonshave honoured Noor Ali Rashid, the royal photographer of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates for his contributions to photography. With the ceremony ended a six day exhibition of photographers of the Magnum Photo Agency.Noor Ali Rashid, one of the most famous and prolific photographers the United Arab Emirates has ever known, was born in December 1929. Hailing from the Gwadar province in what was then the Sultanate of Oman, but is now Pakistan, he moved to Dubai in 1958. He started shooting professionally in 1947 for a weekly magazine in Karachi, Pakistan named “Vision” and hasn’t stopped shooting since. 83 plaques and trophies, including one naming him th Read more:Photographer
All-Inclusive - A Tourist World 2007-12-23 10:21:00 Reiner Riedler, Unter Palmen, 2005 (from the series: Fake holidays, 2004-07), 65 x 80 cm. C-Print in a frame.Tourism has long since become a crucial phenomenon of today’s mobile world society. The traces left by travelers all over the Earth give evidence of a continually growing tourist industry and mark the beginning of a global movement that drastically transforms presentday man and the spaces he passes through. The exhibition “All-Inclusive. A Tourist World
,” on show at the Schirn from 30 January to 4 May 2008, presents numerous works depicting and critically questioning various tourist phenomena. Documentations, parodies and defamiliarizations of traditional tourist motifs, and dream images interlink with subjects like migration, tourist industry, and global communication. The pr
Lola Alvarez Bravo 2007-12-22 22:49:00 Lola Alvarez Bravo
, "El ensueño (Isabel Villasenor) (The Dream [Isabel Villaseñor])", Tenacatita, Jalisco, 1941, gelatin silver print, 9 x 10 inches. Courtesy Galería Juan Martin, Mexico City.Lola Alvarez Bravo (1903-1993), a pioneering figure in the rise of modernist photography in Mexico, is widely recognized as Mexico's first woman photographer. Alvarez Bravo was a profound humanist who used the camera to chronicle the people and places of her beloved country over a remarkable six-decade career. On view Jan. 5 through March 16, the Portland Museum of Art will feature 55 vintage photographs spanning Alvarez Bravo's entire career.The first major representation of her work in over a decade, the exhibition will include several rarely seen and unpublished photographs and an excerpt from a
Broken Line 2007-12-21 00:42:00 Olaf Otto Becker, Ilulissat Icefjord 3, 07/2003, 69°11’59’’ N, 51°14’02’’ WWhen Olaf Otto Becker takes photos of Greenland's sceneries, glaciers and coastal elevations with icebergs, the pictures almost strike as surreal originate. Baker is a master of large format photography and a photo book like Broken
Line (Hatje Cantz) cannot catch of course the impression of one of his gigantic prints. But it mediates at least a little bit of it. Baker is a master of the light, these fine nuances which place the blue-white of an iceberg in a fine contrast to the simple background of the water line and the grey sky. When I have seen for the first time photos of Becker which he has taken in Iceland in a Munich gallery, I was paralyzed. I have never again seen something like
Spencer Tunick: No Dress Code 2008-03-29 05:48:00 Spencer Tunick, Four Seasons Restaurant, New YorkSpencer Tunick and a crowd of volunteer naked people brazenly defied the dress code at the Four Seasons restaurant for Tunick’s 75th installation documenting the human form in unexpected places. Other New York locations where Tunick's models have gone au naturale include Grand Central Station and Times Square.Tunick’s Saturday shoot coincided with the day the Pool Room at the Four Seasons changes its seasonal décor to a Spring theme. This 20X24 photograph was taken with a large scale Polaroid and will be sold at an auction to benefit Free Arts NYC, which for ten years has been bringing art and creative activities to under-served children and families in New York City.
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Christie's Auction: The Collection of Gert Elfering 2008-03-29 05:15:00 Irving Penn, Kate Moss, New York, 1996, platin-palladium printThe nude photograph of Carla Bruni by Michel Comte is part of 135 photos of the Collection of Gert Elfering which are going to be sold at Christie
's, New York, on 10 April. Among them are some important nude photographs by Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, Man Ray, Herb Ritts, Jeanloup Sieff and other renowned artists. While the estimate of the photograph by Michel Comte is $3000 - 4000 other pictures are much more valuable. The estimate of the platin-palladium print of Kate Moss by Irvin Penn is $30.000 - 40.000. Most of the photographs which are offered at the auction are black and white.Irving Penn, Gisèle Bundchen, New York, 1999, gelatin silver printMichel Comte, Untitled (Nudes), 1999, gelatin silver print
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Michel Comte and his muse 2008-03-29 04:56:00 Carla Bruni by Michel Comte, 1993, gelatin silver print, 13 x 10 1/8 in.Swiss photographer Michel Comte, author of the image of Carla Bruni in the nude says he has more explicit pictures but that he will not sell them. In an interview published in Le Matin, Comte, who now resides in New York, says that he does not know how the picture got to Christie’s where it will be auctioned on April 10, "I must have made a gift to someone. I make very few copies, three to five at the most, he points out. In fact, the photographer assures that he got word of the auction when a reporter from Le Matin called him on the phone. He remembers that he took the picture at the end of a photo shoot for Vogue in Paris or New York.I worked with Carla for approximately 10 years. We have shot thousands of pictures
Private View - The Quillian Collection 2008-04-04 04:26:00 Photographs from the Quillian Collection of nineteenth and twentieth century artworks will be on sale on monday, 7 April, at Sotheby's New York. Experts of Sotheby's present the collection and some of the photographs in a video.
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AIPAD Photography Show 2008 2008-04-03 09:18:00 Lilian Bassman, Dress by Thierry Mugler, for German VOGUE, 1998, Gelatin Silver Print, 20 x 24 inches, Courtesy Peter Fetterman GalleryOne of the most important international photography events, The AIPAD Photography ShowNew York, will be presented by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers(AIPAD) from April 10 through 13, 2008. More than 75 of the world’s leading fine artphotography galleries will present a wide range of museum quality work by contemporary, modern and 19th century masters at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street and Park Avenue in New York City. The 28th edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York will open with aGala Preview on April 9 to benefit the John Szarkowski Fund, an endowment for photography acquisitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New Y
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