Photographers

Gordon Parks

Subscribe Gordon Parks, Margaret Burroughs, Untitled, ca. 1946.*©Gordon Parks/The Gordon Parks Foundation* Howard University and The Gordon Parks Foundation have announced a historic acquisition of 252 photographs representing the arc of Gordon Parks’s career over five decades. The breadth of the collection--which spans Parks’s earliest photographs in the 1940s through the 1990s--makes it one of the most comprehensive resources for the study of Parks’s life and work anywhere in the world. The Gordon Parks Legacy Collection, a combined gift and purchase, will be housed in the Mo... read more

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson July 1 to September 25, 2022, come and discover the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation’s “L’Expérience du Paysage” exhibition. Selected by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) towards the end of his life, the photographs in L’expérience du paysage show the artist approaching an element that is not just simple background for observing human beings, but a subject in its own right. Each image, taken between the 1930s-1990s in Europe, Asia and America, illustrates the photographer's construction of landscape, natural or urban. Le Rhin, Allemagne, 1956 © Fond... read more
Fine Photographs: April 14, 2022 Auction Highlights

------------------------------ View Lots Browse Catalogue ------------------------------ *Lot 186:* Horst P. Horst, *Carmen Face Massage,* platinum-palladium print, 1946, printed 1980s. Estimate $12,000 to $18,000. ------------------------------ Edward S. Curtis — *The North American Indian* The April 14 auction will be headlined by the seminal Portfolio I from Edward S. Curtis’ *The North American Indian, *featuring many of his most important and iconic images, including his portrait of Geronimo, *Cañon de Chelly, A Chief of the Desert – Navaho, Son of the Desert—Navaho, The* *Vani... read more
Photographers5 months ago
Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams and the American West [image: ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)] ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984) Half Dome, Thunder Cloud, Yosemite National Park, California, c. 1956 EstimateUSD 6,000 - USD 8,000 Current BidUSD 4,200 LOT 6Closing: 13 days [image: ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)] ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984) Sand Dunes, Sunrise, Death Valley National Monument, California, c. 1948 EstimateUSD 15,000 - USD 25,000 Starting BidUSD 12,000 LOT 7Closing: 13 days [image: ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)] ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984) Frozen Lake and Cliffs, Sierra Nevada, California, 1932 EstimateUSD 10,000 - USD 15,000 Starting ... read more
Photographers5 months ago
Swann Fine Photographs: Celebrating 70 Years of Photographs

70 years ago, Swann Galleries held the first auction dedicated to photography in the United States. The 1952 auction was astonishingly early for a sale devoted to a medium just 113 years old and still finding its artistic footing in the marketplace. Seven decades later, however, the landscape for this diverse and innovative medium has grown dramatically. On *Thursday, February 10*, Swann will hold a sale of *Fine Photographs* marking this achievement. The specially curated sale will celebrate the history of the market for photography at auction while exploring the medium’s future. ... read more
Photographers5 months ago
Gift Of More Than 600 Photographs To The Portland Museum of Art

Photographers5 months ago
American Photographers

Albertina24 August – 28 November 2021-format camera. Through their rituals and attitudes, Barney portrays their social milieu and its representational codes, at the same time leaving open, however, to what extent the social role-play was deliberately directed at the camera. *Images* Gregory Crewdson Untitled, 1998–2002 C-print The Albertina Museum, Vienna – The ESSL Collection, Photo: Mischa Nawrata, Vienna © Gregory Crewdson. Courtesy Gagosian Stephen Shore West 9th Avenue, Amarillo, Texas, October 2, 1974 Silver-dye bleach print ALBERTINA, Wien © Stephen Shore. Courtesy 303 G... read more
Photographers1 year ago
Phillips to Offer Iconic Works by Masters of Photography, Including William Eggleston, Richard Avedon, André Kertész, Robert Frank, and Diane Arbus

On 8 April, Phillips’ Photographs auction will bring together over 250 lots by some of the most influential photographers of the past century. The sale, which will be livestreamed from the New York saleroom, will offer collectors the chance to acquire rare-to-market photographs from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Richard Avedon Dovima with elephants, Evening dress by Dior, Cirque d’Hiver, Paris, August, 1955 Estimate $150,000 – 250,000 William Eggleston’s Graceland, the dynamic suite of eleven photographs of Elvis Presley’s famous mansion in Memphis, Tennesse... read more
Photographers1 year ago
Walker Evans

Also see: https://arthistorynewsreport.blogspot.com/2020/09/book-walker-evans-starting-from-scratch.html Walker Evans was a preeminent American photographer who shaped the history of twentieth-century photography with photographs from the 1920s to the 1970s, including the iconic images Evans made in the American South during the Great Depression—work that played a major role in solidifying the term we now refer to as documentary photography. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Evans initially aspired to become a writer. He studied literature for a year at Williams College in Massachusett... read more
Photographers1 year ago
Dorothea Lange

[image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg/788px-Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg] Dorothea Lange’s well-known 1936 photograph *Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California,* photographed when Lange was employed by the Farm Security Administration, is included and documents the conditions of the West in rural areas during the Great Depression. Her photographs had a humanist purpose and resulted in putting a face on the hardships of that era. Recently named the most downloaded photograph in the Library of Congress' archive, it is also one of the m... read more
Photographers1 year ago
Paul Strand

Paul Strand (American, 1890–1976) was one of the greatest photographers in the history of the medium. It will explore the remarkable evolution of Strand’s work, from the breakthrough moment in the second decade of the twentieth century when he brought his art to the brink of abstraction to his broader vision of the place of photography in the modern world, which he would develop over the course of a career that spanned six decades. Born in New York City, Strand first studied with the social documentary photographer Lewis Hine at New York’s Ethical Culture School from 1907–09, an... read more
Photographers1 year ago
Helen Levitt

A lifelong New Yorker, Helen Levitt frequented the Lower East Side, Spanish Harlem, and other working-class neighborhoods of the city where life played out on the stoops and sidewalks. Using a handheld Leica camera outfitted with a right-angle viewfinder that allowed her to look in one direction but snap photographs in another, Levitt often passed unnoticed by her subjects, capturing unguarded instants of joyful play and meditative melancholy that constitute the mystery and poetry of everyday lives. Showcasing the honest, humorous and inventive works of prolific documentary photo... read more
Photographers1 year ago
Weegee
Weegee Summer, *Lower East Side,* ca. 1937 Laurence Miller Gallery is pleased to present WEEGEE: Mayhem, an exhibition of eight select images from this artist’s New York City street scenes from the 1930s and 40s. The portrays NYC in all it's range: from stark and gritty urban crime to the sponanteous humor and lyricism of it's street life. http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/exhibitions/weegee/selected-works?view=thumbnails Crowd with Mannequin, ca. 1940 Weegee was the pseudonym adopted by Arthur Fellig, born in 1899 in what is now part of the Ukraine. He and his family emi... read more
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Garry Winogrand

Working in the tumultuous postwar decades, Winogrand captured moments of everyday American life, producing an expansive picture of a nation rich with possibility yet threatening to spin out of control. He did much of his best-known work in New York City in the 1960s, but he also traveled widely around the United States, from California and Texas to Miami and Chicago. Combining hope and buoyancy with anxiety and instability, his photographs trace the mood of the country itself, from the ebullience of the postwar optimism to the chaos of the 1960s and the gloom and depression of the... read more
Photographers1 year ago
Carleton E. Watkins
Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829-1916) captured the grand depictions of an American paradise in his photographs of Yosemite Valley in California. Arguably the world’s first renowned landscape photographer, Watkins made his first photographs there in 1861—large sized prints made with an 18-by-22-inch mammoth plate camera, well suited to the grandeur of the land. Included were the three contiguous photographs that make up his extraordinarily detailed *View from the Sentinel Dome* (1865-66). The exhibition balanced the early work of landscape photographers with the twentieth ... read more
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William Eggleston

The American photographer William Eggleston (born 1939) emerged in the early 1960s as a pioneer of modern color photography. Now, 50 years later, he is widely considered its greatest exemplar. Opening February 14 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition *William Eggleston: Los Alamos* features a landmark gift to the Museum from Jade Lau of the artist's most extraordinary portfolio, *Los Alamos*, comprising 75 dye-transfer prints from color negatives made between 1965 and 1974. The exhibition marks the first time the series will be presented in its entirety in New York City... read more
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Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), the great American impresario of photography at the turn of the 20th century. Featuring 36 photographs, the exhibition showcases fine examples of his New York views, portraits and photographs that Stieglitz took at his family’s country home at Lake George. Alfred Stieglitz's “The Terminal”1893 Alfred Stieglitz “The Steerage” 1907 Alfred Stieglitz “From the Shelton, Looking West,” 1934 The New York views reveal the artist’s lifelong interest in the urban city, from his early explorations of the picturesque effects of rain, snow and nightfall to ... read more
Photographers1 year ago
Berenice Abbott

Remembered as one of the most independent, determined and respected photographers of the 20th century, Berenice Abbott chronicled the evolution of New York City for decades beginning with the Great Depression. Images of iconic New York City landmarks such as the New York Stock Exchange (est. $3,000-5,000), the construction of Rockefeller Center (est. $1,500-2,500) and Broadway to the Battery ($1,000-2,000) (below)highlight this collection of original prints. "Berenice Abbott spent years chronicling the evolution of New York City. She captured the architecture, the people a... read more
Photographers1 year ago
Robert Frank

Robert Frank, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century’s postwar years, revolutionized classic reportage and street photography. Over a period spanning six decades, this Swiss - American artist created photographs, experimental montages, books, and films. The Albertina is showing selected works and series that trace Robert Frank’s development: from his early photojournalistic images created on trips through Europe to the pioneering work group The Americans and on to his later, more introspective projects, over 100 works will serve to illuminate central aspe... read more
Photographers1 year ago
Diame Arbus

Never-before-seen early work of Diane Arbus (1923–71), focusing on the first seven years of her career, from 1956 to 1962—the period in which she developed the idiosyncratic style and approach for which she has been recognized, praised, criticized, and copied the world over. *diane arbus: in the beginning* [image: diane arbus: in the beginning] *diane arbus: in the beginning *focuses on seven key years that represent a crucial period of the artist’s genesis, showing Arbus as she developed her style and honed her practice. Arbus was fascinated by photography even before she received... read more
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Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), Louisville Flood, 1937, gelatin silver print (printed no later than 1971), 7 x 9 3/8 inches, Shogren-Meyer Collection Margaret Bourke-White (1906–1971), (Iron Mountain, Tennessee), 1937. Gelatin silver print. © Estate of Margaret Bourke-White/ Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Margaret Bourke-White Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library. Margaret Bourke-White (1906-1971). Delman Shoes, 1933. Gelatin silver print. Margaret Bourke-White Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse Universit... read more
Photographers1 year ago
Irving Penn

*Artist’s Biography* Irving Penn was born in 1917 in Plainfield, New Jersey. In 1934 he enrolled at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, where he studied design with Alexey Brodovitch. In 1938 he began a career in New York as a graphic artist. Then, after a year painting in Mexico, he returned to New York City and began work at Vogue magazine, where Alexander Liberman was art director. Liberman encouraged Penn to take his first color photograph, a still life that became the October 1, 1943, cover of Vogue, beginning a fruitful collaboration with the magazine that cont... read more