Preview: Photo Historica Photography Sale, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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by forrestold3
5y ago
It’s time for one of the more unique annual photography sales to take center stage – Photo Historica, in Santa Fe. Every year the event is put on by the Daguerreian Society. The Photo Historica 2019 Photography Sale  is a unique opportunity to purchase handmade photographs from contemporary photographers. Only photographs created with historic and alternative process techniques will be for sale. The photographers will be there in person to display their photographs and answer questions.  There will also be a kid’s photo corner for making cyanotype photograms, large format cameras on display ..read more
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Preview: Eye of The Century, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Leica Gallery LA/ Peter Fetterman Gallery, Los Angeles
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by forrestold3
5y ago
Siphnos, Greece, 1961, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Image via Peter Fetterman Gallery Peter Fetterman Gallery has been particularly excited to announce a collaboration with Leica Gallery LA. The gallery will be displaying rare and iconic works by the world famous Henri Cartier-Bresson. To tell Henri Cartier-Bresson’s story and to unravel his work is essentially to tell the story of a look. Throughout the 20th century, this roaming, lucid eye has captured the fascination of Africa in the 1920’s, crossed the tragic fortunes of Spanish republicans, accompanied the liberation of Paris, caught a weary Ga ..read more
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Notable: International Center of Photography is Moving
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by forrestold3
5y ago
The International Center of Photography has been doings this year that will make major impacts moving forward. It will be joining a fully integrated center at Essex Crossing on the Lower East Side of New York. We have sold our space at 250 Bowery (though Your Mirror and For Freedoms remain on view through June 16!) and have finalized the purchase of the Essex property. We are continuing construction and plan to open our new permanent home in January 2020! With this move, our unified School and Museum—our center—will become the cultural anchor of Essex Crossing and reinforce our ties with the ..read more
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Preview: Ellis Island Revealed, Honky-Tonk Explored, Various Artists, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC
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by forrestold3
5y ago
Soho Photo Gallery has a particularly enticing show now on display, featuring works from several extremely talented photographers. Lee Backer – Detained at the Golden Door: The Unseen Side of Ellis Island The hospital complex on the south side of Ellis Island stands in a state of decay that began when Ellis Island closed its doors in 1954. Despite the crackled walls, bare floors, and painted surfaces dulled by time, the deserted rooms and corridors of the Contagious and Infectious Diseases section still speak of the immigrants detained there to await their fate. Some recovered sufficie ..read more
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Preview: Nude Compositions, Han Nguyen, Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA
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by forrestold3
5y ago
Image by Han Nguyen, via Joseph Bellows Gallery Han Nguyen’s intricately layered nude compositions are now on display at Joseph Bellows Gallery. The exhibition will present a selection of Nguyen’s small-scale black and white photographs, which are comprised of varying layers of imagery that present the nude figure within a field of relating forms and tones, while referencing art history.  Included in the exhibition will also be a large-scale color piece from the series. Nguyen’s delicate and transformative imagery investigates beauty, perception, and the medium itself through modest working me ..read more
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Preview: Subject: Contact, Bruce Davidson, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY
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by forrestold3
5y ago
Brooklyn Gang, Bruce Davidson Straight from one of the most idyllic eras of American history, Bruce Davidson’s unfiltered works from the 50s and 60s are on display at Howard Greenberg Gallery. BRUCE DAVIDSON, SUBJECT: CONTACT will present contact sheets in context with vintage prints from four seminal projects from the 1950s and ‘60s—Circus, Brooklyn Gang, Time of Change, and East 100th Street —illustrating Davidson’s connection to some of the 20th century’s most important social, cultural, and political moments. The exhibition will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from May 2 through Jun ..read more
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Notable: Peter Fetterman Gallery Celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month
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by forrestold3
5y ago
Duke Ellington, Olympia Theater, Paris, 1958, by Herman Leonard. Image via Peter Fetterman Gallery Few things are as pure cool as the classic lounge with dim lights, a smoky haze, and the sounds of jazz playing in your ears. Peter Fetterman Gallery agrees, celebrating with some classic photos taken from jazz’s heyday. Jazz holds a special place in our hearts here at the gallery. Early on, the genre reinvigorated the American sound of the time, bringing forth a grand rhythm that thrived on improvisation and syncopation. Through the keys of the piano, the reed of the saxophone, or the harmony o ..read more
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Notable: Participate in The Photo Review’s 35th Annual Competition
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by forrestold3
5y ago
image via the Photo Review, First Prize Winner 2018, B. Proud, Owen and Blue Transgender Men It’s officially time. The Photo Review is now taking applicants for its 35th annual International Photography Competition. Noted critic, curator, and writer Lyle Rexer will be the juror for the 2019 Photo Review Photography Competition. He is the author of several books on art and photography, including The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography (2009) and Photography’s Antiquarian Avant Garde: the New Wave in Old Processes (2002). In addition, he has published numerous catalogue essays ..read more
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Notable: Sarah Greenough Wins The AIPAD Award
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by forrestold3
5y ago
Back in 2017, AIPAD established the AIPAD award to honor visionaries and those most dedicated to the field of photography. This year, during the associations annual Photography Show lead up, the award was presented to Sarah Greenough. Sarah Greenough is senior curator and head of the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and has been responsible for establishing and growing the National Gallery’s collection of photographs, which now numbers more than 17,000 works made between 1839 and the present. She also established the program for photography at the National ..read more
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Notable: Call For Entries, 2019 National Juried Competition, Soho Photo Gallery
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by forrestold3
5y ago
2018 Winning Photo by Geralyn Shukwit, via Soho Photo Gallery It’s time for the nation’s photographers to get their competitive juices flowing once more. Soho Photo Gallery, with the help of Archival Methods, has announced that it is now accepting entrances to its long running National Juried Competition. The deadline is May 1st, 2019. About the competition: Soho Photo Gallery, New York City’s longest running cooperative photography gallery, is pleased to announce its 24th National Juried Competition. All photo-based works are eligible for this competition with no limitation as to subject m ..read more
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