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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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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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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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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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Preview: Vivian Maier, Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC

In Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photographer on January 6, 2012 at 1:56 pm

 


Vivian Maier

It is amazing the amount of domestic and international press that has been generated for a previously unknown street photographer: Vivian Maier. When you see the quality of the images from a large repository of her work, you begin to see what the excitement is about …

An eccentric nanny from Chicago, who often used a pseudonym, Vivian Maier’s street and travel photographs were recently discovered in an auction of her possessions from an abandoned storage locker. Always with a Rolleiflex around her neck, she managed to amass more than 2,000 rolls of film, 3,000 prints, and 100,000 negatives which she shared with virtually no-one during her lifetime. Maier’s black and white photographs – mostly from the 50′s and 60′s – are indelible images of the architecture and street life of Chicago. She rarely took more than one frame of an image and seemed to concentrate on children, women, the elderly, and indigent. The breadth and depth of Maier’s work also reveals a series of striking self-portraits as well as prints from her travels to Egypt, Bangkok, Italy, and the American Southwest.

December 15, 2011 – January 28, 2012

For more information: Howard Greenberg

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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: “Moments de Curiosite”, Kisa Kavass, Red Filter Gallery, Lambertville, NJ

In Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on December 1, 2011 at 12:28 pm

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Kisa Kavass, “Nesting”

A portrait photographer from a different world, Kisa Kavass has a singular sensibility when it comes to places and people.

As a girl, I grew up hearing and reading stories that created a mood and an inquisitiveness about the natural world. It was not until a few years ago that I began to understand the importance of these stories, folklore and fairy tales and their purpose in the processes of human histories. These stories that we were enchanted with and still exist deep within our souls reveal a relationship with forces not understood, the shadows of intuition. Through my photography I return to the imagination and curiosity I experienced as a child. I was a creator as a child and I needed to become a creator again. We have all had stories told to us in childhood that are pushed back into the recesses of our mind. My images are meant to remind the memory of those stories and to ignite new stories. I encounter spaces filled with shadows and light filtering through natural surroundings and old structures that carry their own history. This is the journey, beginning with the concept and ending with the viewer becoming a creative participant. We walk the forest path and feel the rush of the wind with the same sharpened sight and awareness as the wild creatures do. This series is a compilation of work from various stages of my studies into the world of stories and the importance of curiosity and creativity in all that we act upon.

Dec. 1 – Jan. 22

For more information: Red Filter Gallery

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