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Preview: Police Work: Photographs by Leonard Freed, 1972-1979, Museum of the City of New York, NYC

In Art Museum, Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Photographer on February 22, 2012 at 1:23 pm

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Leonard Freed

Like Wee Gee, Leonard Freed has a grand portfolio taken from slices of the street’s underbelly in New York City.

Police Work: Photographs by Leonard Freed, 1972-1979 features a selection of vintage prints by the Brooklyn-born photographer who documented "life on the beat" with NYPD officers during the tumultuous 1970s. During a time when New York City faced near bankruptcy and was internationally notorious for its high crime rates and social disorder, Freed’s photographs reveal the complexity, the harshness, and the camaraderie of the city’s public safety servants and the people they protected. Highlighting a recent gift to the Museum of the City of New York by his widow Bridgette Freed, the exhibition is a gritty, realistic portrait of ordinary people doing a "sometimes boring, sometimes corrupting, sometimes dangerous and ugly and unhealthy job."
 

Through May 6

For more information: MCNY

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Preview: Weegee “Murder Is My Business”, ICP, NYC

In Art Museum, Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Photographer on February 20, 2012 at 1:35 pm

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Weegee

Crime does pay … at least it pays off in striking imagery time and again. Weegee is the acknowledged master of crime street photography, flash blazing with everyone “caught in the act”. An interview done near the time of his death, in his seedy apartment surrounded by photographic memorabilia, gave testament to the fact crime often pays … but only after death.

For an intense decade between 1935 and 1946, Weegee (1899-1968) was one of the most relentlessly inventive figures in American photography. His graphically dramatic and often lurid photographs of New York crimes and news events set the standard for what has become known as tabloid journalism. Freelancing for a variety of New York newspapers and photo agencies, and later working as a stringer for the short-lived liberal daily PM (1940-48), Weegee established a way of combining photographs and texts that was distinctly different from that promoted by other picture magazines, such as LIFE. Utilizing other distribution venues, Weegee also wrote extensively (including his autobiographical Naked City, published in 1945) and organized his own exhibitions at the Photo League. This exhibition draws upon the extensive Weegee Archive at ICP and includes environmental recreations of Weegee’s apartment and exhibitions. The exhibition is organized by ICP Chief Curator Brian Wallis.

Thorough September 2

For more information: International Center Photography

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Preview: Cindy Sherman Retrospective at MOMA, NYC

In Art Museum, Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Photographer on February 16, 2012 at 4:56 pm

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Cindy Sherman and Cindy Sherman Untitled #466.

The eagerly awaited Cindy Sherman exhibition arrives Feb. 26 at the Museum of Modern Art. Best known for her Black and White self portrayed “Movie Star” photos, an array of other work will be available for the viewer.

Bringing together more than 170 photographs, this retrospective survey traces the artist’s career from the mid 1970s to the present. Highlighted in the exhibition are in-depth presentations of her key series, including the groundbreaking series "Untitled Film Stills" (1977-80), the black-and-white pictures that feature the artist in stereotypical female roles inspired by 1950s and 1960s Hollywood, film noir, and European art-house films; her ornate history portraits (1989-90), in which the artist poses as aristocrats, clergymen, and milkmaids in the manner of old master paintings; and her larger-than-life society portraits (2008) that address the experience and representation of aging in the context of contemporary obsessions with youth and status. The exhibition will explore dominant themes throughout Sherman’s career, including artifice and fiction; cinema and performance; horror and the grotesque; myth, carnival, and fairy tale; and gender and class identity. Also included are Sherman’s recent photographic murals (2010), which will have their American premiere at MoMA.

Feb. 26 through June 11, 2012

For more information: MOMA

NY Times Preview: NY Times

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Notable: “What happened when leading photographers including Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall and Josef Koudelka came together to discuss art, Israel and bear costumes?” Financial Times

In Article, Photographer on February 9, 2012 at 12:45 pm

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Photographer Jeff Wall on location in Israel

You don’t often see collaborations among the great contemporary fine art photography set. See how one determined man pulled it off:

Slim, tanned and dressed in a flapping white shirt and the kind of tight swimming trunks only Frenchmen can wear with confidence, Brenner has spent three decades attempting to create what he describes as “the most extensive record of Jewish life ever”. The project, mostly in a black and white documentary style, has taken in 40 countries and formed the basis for numerous exhibitions and photobooks, most notably 2003’s two-volume Diaspora: Homelands in Exile. But what Brenner initially thought of as a personal quest has become a group endeavour. “Israel is both place and metaphor, a land of radical otherness,” he explains as we walk by the pools. “And to explore that, I needed others.”

Find out who joined in on the project: Documenting Israel

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Preview: "Snapshot: Painters and Photography," Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

In Art Museum, Black and White Photography, Exhibits on February 6, 2012 at 12:20 pm

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George Hendrik Breitner

What happens when painters discover photography for the first time? Check out this exhibit at the Phillips Collection in Washington DC:

"Snapshot: Painters and Photography," looks at what seven late-19th-century artists did with their new Kodak hand-held cameras. The exhibition-at the Phillips Collection through May 6-presents more than 200 photographs and about 70 related paintings, prints and drawings by such prominent post-Impressionist artists as Édouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard and Maurice Denis. Many of the photos have never been shown before.

Through May 6

Wall Street Journal Review: WSJ

More information: Phillips Collection

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Preview: Machiel Botman, “One Tree”, Gitterman Gallery, NYC

In Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on January 31, 2012 at 12:22 pm

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Tree House, 2008

Mysterious and moving, the images of Machiel Botman are worth your attention …

This exhibition of Machiel Botman’s black and white photographs from the past ten years is concurrent with the release of his third monograph, One Tree (Nazraeli Press, 2011). A key figure in Dutch photography, Botman has always photographed as a way to understand life. He is not restrained by photographic conventions; rather, Botman utilizes a variety of exposures, depths of field and focal distances, resulting in a style that is uniquely his own. His books are equally singular. They are autobiographical and chronicle the stages in his life, but they do not follow a linear narrative.

Through February 18

More information: Gitterman Gallery

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Notable: Juliet Harrison Silver Gelatin Print Online Auction

In Auction, Black and White Photography, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on January 27, 2012 at 11:58 am

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Juliet Harrison

One of our 2011 Emerging Artists, Juliet Harrison is “cleaning house” providing collectors a nice opportunity.

I have run out of room in my attic for framed work. Before I go through the tedious effort of taking these Silver Prints out of frames to store them more efficiently, I am offering some for sale in a special auction format.

All pieces that I post will start at an opening bid price of $100.00 + Shipping. Bid increments will be set at $10.00 per bid. To bid on a piece all you need to do is to post your bid amount in the comments for that piece. You can post any amount as long as it is more then $100. or the previous bid posted and in increments of $10.

For more information:

Auction Site

 

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Preview: “A Monochrome Winter”, Soho Photo Gallery Artists, Red Filter Gallery, Lambertville, NJ

In Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on January 24, 2012 at 8:56 am

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Courtesy Red Filter Gallery

A new exhibition at the Red Filter Gallery includes work by 17 artists from the well known artists’ co-operative: Soho Photo Gallery in New York.

The Soho Photo Gallery was established in 1971 by a group of New York Times photographers striving to break away from the commercial art gallery experience and offer something new. It is now the only non-profit cooperative photography gallery in New York City. The gallery is run entirely by members – over one hundred of them who direct, operate, and financially support the gallery. Well-known photographers have shared in exhibiting at the Soho Photo Gallery as well, including Ansel Adams, Andre Kertesz, Jill Enfield, Jill Freedman, and Joel Sternfeld. Regularly featured in local newspapers, trade and national publications, their website, www.sohophoto.com, offers regular updates with announcements of new exhibitions and other exciting gallery events.

Exhibit will run: January 26 –February 26

At the same time that A Monochrome Winter exhibits, the Red Filter Gallery offers an extended viewing of Kisa Kavass’ Moments de Curiosité, and John Andrulis’ Retrospective in Upstairs Gallery II.

For more information: Red Filter Gallery

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In Passing: Jan Groover, Postmodern Photographer, Dies at 68

In Article, Black and White Photography, Photographer on January 16, 2012 at 12:14 am

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Jan Groover, an untitled platinum-palladium print from 1978

A photographer that was instrumental in putting photography on the postmodern art map …. Jan Groover has died.

Instead of feast tables or objects in the rooms of the wealthy, the still-life tableaus that first brought Ms. Groover to prominence in the late 1970s focused on the everyday implements of the kitchen, arranged in the sink: fork tines, spatulas, butter-knife blades, whorled and scalloped cake pans, shot in such a way as to confound perspective and to transform light into a kind of object itself in the reflective surfaces.

The pictures resonated not only as subtle documents of feminism but also as unusually beautiful investigations of the fictions that are inseparable from facts in the conventions of photography – inquiries being similarly undertaken by other artists of the time, like Tina Barney, Laurie Simmons, Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince

For more information: NY Times Obit

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Notable: Photo La Exhibition

In Art Fair, Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallerist, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on January 12, 2012 at 12:02 pm

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 Anthony Friedkin, Woman by the Pool, Beverly Hills Hotel

Its that time again. Stop by and see top gallery offerings at Photo La:

Photo l.a. returns to the historic Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for its 21st edition January 12 – 16, 2012. Continuing the discourse on photography’s place in the fine arts, photo l.a. provides galleries from around the globe a platform for the exhibition of vintage masterworks and contemporary photography, as well as video and multimedia installations. This exciting juxtaposition creates the unique environment that characterizes photo l.a.

Over the past twenty-one years, photo l.a. has exhibited more than three hundred galleries, private dealers and publishers and has presented more than one hundred and fifty lectures and collecting seminars to the public. Our continued efforts to create a dynamic experience for our patrons has not only increased our loyal fan base, but has attracted over eleven thousand interested collectors, curators and dealers of photography each year.

JANUARY 12 – 16, 2012

For more information: Photo La

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