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On Site: “Equiscapes” Juliet Harrison, Red Filter Gallery, Lambertville, NJ

In Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on June 1, 2011 at 1:46 pm

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Juliet Harrison, “All That Glitters”

Equine photography is a long honored tradition in fine art image making. Juliet Harrison takes this platform as a starting point for exploration and drills down with a razor focus on the form and beauty of these elegant beasts. With an approach not unlike that of human figure studies, she creates an impactful vision of where these creatures “fit” in the universe.

To me the horse is a piece of art. It is the structure of muscle and bone beneath the skin. It is the texture and warmth of the coat. It is the pattern of that coat. The images are what the horse person sees and works with. Not the whole, but the piece. The piece you are grooming. The part under your hand. The movement of one muscle group that will tell you if the whole is working right when you are training. This is what I am trying to tell my viewers about. Through the structure of modernist fine art photography, I am trying to talk about the horse, the icon of myth and history in its most elemental relationship to us, the viewer.

Now through July 26.

Opening reception Friday, June 10.

For more information: Red Filter Gallery

For an interview with Ms. Harrison: Juliet Harrison

Note: Red Filter Gallery is affiliated with BWGallerist.

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Preview: John Mack, “Revealing Mexico” Robert Mann Gallery, NYC

In Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Black and White Photography, Photographer on May 23, 2011 at 1:23 pm

John Mack, “Tijuana, Baja, California”

In his first exhibition at the Robert Mann Gallery, John Mack provides the viewer his acute observations from his Mexico travels.

In this land of extremes, Mack’s photographs assess the legacy of indigenous, mestizo and Spanish cultural heritages and identities. An urban view foregrounds a centuries-old colonial church, flanked by International Style high rises. While such subjects point to the network of global economies and information that modern Mexico is a part of, elsewhere Mack’s lens focuses on the particularly local context, seemingly unaffected by the wider world. The ongoing importance of religion is conspicuous, manifest in the many icons of the Virgin of Guadalupe and the appreciation for devotional ceremonies. Such images are constructively opposed to the economic importance of an ongoing tourist presence or the enduring archeological sites of the Toltec, Aztec and Mayas. A striking image of a makeshift basketball hoop in front of a dilapidated church, a wispy cloud floating by, seems to speak of earthly immanence, spiritual transcendence and spectral ephemerality as modes of being which we as humans must somehow strive to negotiate.

Now through July 1

For more information: Robert Mann

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Preview: Ganbare Japan! Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco

In Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector on May 14, 2011 at 9:26 am

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Rolfe Horn, Coastline Study 3, Chiba, Japan, 2008

Just a quick note. It has never been so pleasurable to view art and help those in need. This new exhibit “Ganbare Japan!” donates a portion of its proceeds to aid the earthquake victims in Japan.

Photographs by Kiichi Asano, Horace Bristol, Shirley Burden, Paul Caponigro, Rolfe Horn, Eikoh Hosoe, Hiroshi Osaka, Marc Riboud, Yoshiro Soga, Brett Weston and Don Worth

May 5th – June 25th, 2011

For more in formation:Scott Nichols Gallery

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Preview: Alisandra Wederich, “New Works”, Red Filter Gallery, Lambertville, NJ

In Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on May 5, 2011 at 4:11 pm

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Alisandra Wederich, “Depart”

A new gallery, Red Filter Fine Art Photography has opened equidistant from New York City and Philadelphia in Lambertville, New Jersey. The gallery is focused on Black and White contemporary photography and is associated with this website.

The inaugural exhibit is by Alisandra Wederich, a multi-media artist bringing her “outside the box” vision in the form of striking photos contemplating nature and decay combined with “bone art” images involving a unique photo transfer process.

Photography captures fleeting moments, and as soon as you’ve hit the shutter release, that moment is both captured and gone forever. Every photograph contains a little bit of life that we cannot ever relive. And as artists, we spend our lives taking these photographs and then we place a price on them as though their purchase will buy that time back.

Opening reception May 6 at 6pm

Exhibit through May 28

For more information: Red Filter Gallery

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On Site: “Night” Photographs by Brassai, Ilse Bing, Robert Doisneau and Andre Kertesz, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, NYC

In Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on May 3, 2011 at 8:25 pm

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Andre Kertesz, Untitled, (Budapest)

The atmosphere of “Night” is thick with passion and somber recollection. Four artists, Brassai, Ilse Bing, Robert Doisneau and Andre Kertesz explore the European nights of decades lost but dramatic and sometimes mundane moments are captured in an impressive array of images.

Photographic images made at night were new, bold, mysterious and brave, the ability to photograph at night being a recent technical capability that had yet to be mastered or even considered by the majority of photographers working in the 20s and 30s. Night was an artistic frontier and the making of images at night implied a certain creative seriousness that helped bring photographers into dialogue with the larger art world during these decades. At this moment in art and in photography in particular, night and all its connotations provided the perfect backdrop for realizing the artist’s creative intent.

The four artists selected for this exhibition had an affinity for working at night and the images on view extend the first half of the 20th century. The works featured include Brassai’s well-known Paris de Nuit images, Ilse Bing’s early formalist compositions, Doisneau’s free-spirited and engaging photographs of Parisian nightlife, and Andre Kertesz’s early night photographs from Hungary-the purported inspiration for Brassai’s Paris series-as well as remarkable New York images that reveal the artist’s consistently innovative vision further inspired by the night.

Now through June 4.

For more information: Bruce Silverstein Gallery

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Preview: Yelena Yemchuk Gidropark, Gitterman Gallery, NYC

In Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on April 28, 2011 at 5:44 pm

 

Yelena Yemchuk,  Gidropark (#67)

Russia as a subject for photography along with Eastern Europe has long been a favorite of photographers working in Black and White. Yelena Yemchuk , has a contemporary series of photos worthy of your attention …

Best known for her fashion and portrait photography, this series is very personal to Yemchuk, who was born in the Ukraine in 1970 and spent her summers as a child visiting this park.  Her images made on the beaches, sports grounds and woodlands that populate the park capture characters and an atmosphere that is Felliniesque.  There is a timeless quality about this place; it is both caught in the past, while at the same time, full of the life of today. 

She became interested in photography when her father gave her a 35 mm Minolta camera for her fourteenth birthday.  Yemchuk has studied at Parsons and the Art Center in Pasadena.  Her photographs have appeared in the New Yorker, Another Magazine, ID,Dazed & Confused, and Italian, British and Japanese Vogue and her paintings and photographs have been exhibited around the world.  Gidropark is her first book.

MAY 6 – JULY 16, 2011

For more information: Gitterman Gallery

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On Site: Takeshi Shikama, Alan Klotz Gallery, NYC

In Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on April 26, 2011 at 8:57 pm

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Takeshi Shikama, “Komogatake 5”

With the ongoing increased interest in Asian and particularly Japanese photography, it is worth a quick visit to catch the end of this exhibit run at Alan Klotz Gallery. The array of artistic work printed on gampi paper using the platinum palladium process is beautiful but at times unsettling … the focus being on “quietness”.

Takeshi is a classicist. His pictures are to some extent informed by other masters of the forest’s detail, such as Eliot Porter and Paul Caponigro, both of whom eschewed the monumental single object, in favor
of the thousands of tiny details that define the space, as well as describing the place. Takeshi follows this pattern. He would rather let the forest announce itself than to impose some previously developed external
esthetic notion upon it. This is where discovery lies, and that is what is at the core of this work, and what makes these pictures so startling and yet so quiet.

Now through April 30.

For more information: Alan Klotz Gallery

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On Site: Susan Paulsen, Deborah Bell Photographs, NYC

In Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on April 23, 2011 at 7:01 pm

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Susan Paulsen, “Pawnal”

While we picked this particular shot, the exhibit is predominantly color with some nice portrait work. The overall positive impression is derived from the honesty of the artist in trying to connect with the viewer.

Vicki Goldberg writes:

Life’s major moments and cataclysms generally arrive with fanfare, but existence tends to be daily, and days fill up with insignificant matters that mean more than they say. Paulsen’s life is replete with family, a house, a kitchen, a laundry line, a bed, several dogs, the sea, fruit, sunlight that steals a march on expectations, colors that reverberate, shadows that venture into the avant-garde, and a model who is perfectly comfortable doffing her clothes – Sarah, whose name rhymes with Paulsen’s grandmother’s and who stands in for the photographer.

Now through April 30.

Preview:

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Ana Barrado/Rockets, Starting May 6

For more information: Deborah Bell

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Preview: The Rolling Stones in Pictures, Zebra One Gallery, London

In Article, Black and White Photography, Photo Print Collector on April 18, 2011 at 8:05 am

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Keith Richards, Anita Pallenberg and their son, Marlon, in Cannes, 1971. Photograph by Dominique Tarlé

Black and White photography and the Rolling Stones seem to go together. The collection of Raj Prem contains a terrific visual record of an era now past but remaining a legend of rock and roll history.

Well, walk through the door of Prem’s Regent’s Park flat-cum-studio and one thing is clear: this man loves the Rolling Stones, and photography. Exile on Main Street is rocking out of the speakers, and on a wall in front of me is a beautiful sepia-toned print by Michael Joseph of the debauched Beggars Banquet set-up, vestigially different from the one that appeared on the 1968 album’s inner sleeves. To the right is a clutch of black-and-white photographs of the Stones by Michael Cooper, including one of Cecil Beaton in teensy shorts snapping Keith Richards by a pool in Marrakesh in 1967, and another, by Dominique Tarlé, of Keith, Anita Pallenberg, Gram and Gretchen Parsons lolling in front of an ornate mirror at Nellcôte, the villa on the Côte d’Azur where the Stones recorded Exile on Main Street in 1972. At Richards’ feet is “the Telecaster Eric Clapton had sent Keith that morning”, Prem tells me in his public school accent; his thick black hair, skinny jeans and cool cardigan belying his mid-fiftyish years. Prem knows his guitars: in a corner of his cluttered room is an original Epiphone Casino, from 1962 – “it’s the same model played by Keith Richards and John Lennon. Exactly the same. I bought it for a song when I lived in Cirencester in the early 1980s. I think it used to belong to Steve Winwood – he lives near there.”

An exhibition of photographs, ‘The Rolling Stones Come to NW3′ is at the Zebra One Gallery, 1 Perrins Court, London NW3, May 1-14

For more : Financial  Times

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Preview: Richard C. Miller, Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe

In Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on April 11, 2011 at 12:12 am

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Richard C. Miller , ”James Dean at Juke Box during the filming of ‘Giant’”

One of the best galleries to find a combination of Black and White masterworks and photographs with a human focus is The Monroe Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Currently they are featuring the work of Richard C. Miller :

From 1955 to 1962, Miller was on retainer at Globe Photos, covering the entertainment industry and more than seventy films. After this stint he returned to freelance and became friends with celebrities such as James Dean. Never one for self-promotion, Miller rarely exhibited his work; the work, he figured, should speak for itself. In the spring of 2009, Richard C. Miller’s photographic career was given long overdue recognition with an exhibition at the Getty Museum.

Feb 11 through April 24, 2011

For more information: Monroe Gallery

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