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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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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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Favorites: “Best of the Best” Emerging Fine Art Photographers of 2011

In Art Museum, Article, Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on January 2, 2012 at 2:15 pm

Lauren E. Simonutti

The most popular article in our 2011 fine art photography coverage was the list of photographers we chose as the “Best of the Best” for 2010. The interest in this group of evolving artists at different stages in their careers exceeded our expectations many times over … but provides us encouragement to put together “the list” yet again for 2011.

The contributors to this website viewed thousands of fine art prints, attended dozens of galleries, museums and fairs throughout the year. To boil all that activity into a single brief list is obviously a difficult (but enjoyable) task and should foster days of discussion by visitors to BWGallerist.

So with that, here is the the 2011 “Best of the Best” list in no particular order:

1. Rita Bernstein

2. Hiroyasu Matsui

3. Mariana Cook

4. Michael Kirchoff

5. Tami Bone

6. Juliet Harrison

7. John Mack

8. Kelly Fitzgerald

9. Gary Salazar

10. Lauren E. Simonutti

We thank these artists for their continued progress and integrity of their work.

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Preview: Francesca Woodman, San Francisco Museum of Art

In Art Museum, Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Photographer on December 6, 2011 at 3:45 pm

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Francesca Woodman, Polka Dots

The pained, brief photographic odyssey of Francesca Woodman is currently on display with the blessing of her parents for the first time.

Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) was an artist decisively of her time, yet her photographs retain an undeniable immediacy. Thirty years after her death, they continue to inspire audiences with their dazzling ambiguities and their remarkably rich explorations of self-portraiture and the body in architectural space. This retrospective, the first in the United States in more than two decades, explores the complex body of work produced by the young artist until her suicide at age 22. Together with Woodman’s artist books and videos, the photographs on view form a portrait of an artist engaged with major concerns of her era – femininity and female subjectivity, the nature of photography – but devoted to a distinctive, deeply personal vision.

November 05, 2011 – February 20, 2012

For more information: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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On site: ArtsQuest InVision Photo Festival, Bethlehem, Pa

In Art Museum, Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on November 11, 2011 at 4:13 pm

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Judy Linn, “Patti Smith”

There is a new photo festival in the Northeast. InVision has already had its seminars but the exhibits go on all month. Shoot up from Philly or out from NYC and check it out:

41 different exhibits on display throughout the region.

Exhibitions including:
Mark Cohen – Grim Street Series
Theo Anderson – "Cowboy" selections from the ongoing project Cadillac
Vicki DaSilva – Light Painting Projections
David Rehrig and Frank Smith – "Allentown State Hospital: A Different View"
Rick Holt, Olaf Starorypinski and Bruce Ward of the Banana Factory

For more information: InVision Photo Festival

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Preview: Check Out All That Is Going On At Paris Photo This Year

In Art Museum, Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on November 10, 2011 at 3:07 pm

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117 Galleries from around the world are here to show the best in vintage and contemporary photography:

Paris Photo will celebrate its 15th anniversary at the Grand Palais – a major step ahead for the renowned international event.

Galleries from some 23 countries will present the best of 19th century, modern and contemporary photography in the heart of the French capital. To complete this panorama of worldwide photography, a selection of 18 publishers will have a dedicated space in the fair.

Paris Photo will celebrate African photography from Bamako to Cape Town, unveiling the creative wealth of historic and contemporary African artists.
These exciting developments put forward the new energy that Paris Photo is displaying by reinventing itself. Four programmes will articulate Paris Photo’s new identity: Institutions’ recent photography acquisitions, the platform, Private Collection from Artur Walther, focus on the Photography Book and launching of the Paris Photo – Photo Book Prize.

For more in formation: Paris Photo (slow link)

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On Site: Photographic Treasures from the Collection of Alfred Stieglitz, The Met, NYC

In Exhibits, Art Museum, Black and White Photography on October 28, 2011 at 2:46 pm

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Clarence H. White , “Nude”

Along with an exhibition of paintings from the Stieglitz personal collection, The Met currently has a wonderful turn of the century survey of photography, also from his personal collection. The exhibit  presents some forty-eight photographic treasures by Anne Brigman, Alvin Langdon Coburn, F. Holland Day, Gertrude Käsebier, Joseph Keiley, Heinrich Kühn, Edward Steichen, Clarence White, and others.

A towering figure in early twentieth-century photography, Alfred Stieglitz was not only a master of the medium, but also a powerful tastemaker and tireless advocate for photography as a fine art in the early 1900s. Through his sumptuous and influential journal Camera Work (1902-1917) and his "Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession" (1905-1917), known to insiders simply as "291" for its address on Fifth Avenue, Stieglitz introduced the public to the best of artistic photography and, eventually, modern art. He was also his gallery’s best client, supporting the artists he most admired by purchasing their work. Stieglitz’s photography collection, donated to the Metropolitan by gift in 1933 and bequest following his death in 1946, constitutes the finest gathering of Photo-Secession works anywhere.

October 11, 2011-February 26, 2012

For more information: The Met

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Preview: Patti Smith – Camera Solo, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT

In Art Museum, Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Photographer on October 14, 2011 at 12:16 pm

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Patti Smith

Years ago we bumped into Patti in Bloomingdales. With a shy smile that would become her hallmark for 4 decades, she quietly said “Hi!” and went about her business. And for those ensuing decades she has continued to impress us. Her Mapplethorpe connection is well known, but her own photography has only recently been highlighted in Europe. Now with a significant exhibit at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, viewers can sample another side of this unique American talent.

The pioneering artist, musician, and poet, Patti Smith has made her mark on the American cultural landscape throughout her 40-year career, from her earliest explorations of artistic expression with friend and vanguard photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the 1960s and 70s to her profound influence on the nascent punk rock scene in the late 1970s and 80s. Patti Smith: Camera Solo will be the first exhibition of her photography in the United States. The exhibition will include seventy photographs, one multi-media installation and one video work.

October 21, 2011 – February 19, 2012

For more information: Patti Smith

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