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Preview: Alma Lavenson, Gitterman Gallery, NYC

In Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on March 11, 2013 at 2:26 pm

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Calaveras Dam, 1932

Some classic photography on exhibit at the end of March.

Gitterman Gallery is honored to present the first solo exhibition of vintage black and white photographs by Alma Lavenson (1897-1989) in New York. The exhibition will open with a reception on Thursday, March 28th from 6 to 8 p.m. and continue through Saturday, June 1st. This exhibition includes rare vintage gelatin silver prints from the 1920’s through the 1940’s that reveal Lavenson’s evolution from pictorialism into modernism and features many prints never before available for sale. Lavenson distinguished herself from other West Coast modernists by focusing her camera primarily on architectural and industrial subjects. Lavenson’s photographs pay tribute to her subjects: she emphasized their inherent form and pattern with the structure of her compositions and focus on light and shadow.

MARCH 29 – JUNE 1, 2013

For more information: Gitterman Gallery

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Preview: Wendy Paton & Stephen Perloff, “Two For The Road”, Red Filter Gallery, Lambertville, NJ

In Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallerist, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on March 4, 2013 at 2:38 pm

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Two internationally known artists are in exhibition at Red Filter Gallery.

"Two for the Road," featuring the work of Wendy Paton and Stephen Perloff, is an intriguing collaboration of two artists interacting through visual dialogue in an exhibition they created out of their personal work. The exhibition will begin at the Gallery March 7.

Wendy Paton is an American photographer, widely exhibited and best known for her dramatic, black and white night portraits. Paton’s work has been widely exhibited in gallery and museum venues internationally and is included in notable private and public collections. Her work has been published in the U.S., Europe and Russia, in CNN WORLD, Prime Time Russia Today, Schwarzweiss Magazine, Moscow News, Le Journal de la Photographie, and The Photo Review, among others. In September 2012 a retrospective of her series of candid night portraits,“Visages de Nuit” opened at the museum at The Lumiere Center for Photography in Moscow.

Stephen Perloff, founder and editor of The Photo Review, and editor of The Photograph Collector, leading sources of international information, critique and the fine art photography market, is a recognized photographer as well. His work has been included in collections at the James A. Michener Art Museum, The Print Center of Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Photo West Gallery of Philadelphia, and the Germantown Academy.  Exhibition participation in 2012 included, "Unseen Color, Part I," at the Light Room Gallery in Philadelphia, "Making Magic: Beauty in Word and Image," at the James A. Michener Art Museum, and InVision Photography Festival in Bethlehem, PA.

March 7 – April 28

For more information: Red Filter Gallery

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Preview: “The Artist Photographed” Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco

In Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallerist, Gallery, Photo Print Collector on February 26, 2013 at 5:03 pm

Sanford Roth, Joan Miro With Painting

With the long history of painters painting other painters, it is always interesting seeing photographs of artists.

For more information: Scott Nichols Gallery

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Notable: ”Photography and China” by Claire Roberts

In Article, Black and White Photography on February 18, 2013 at 4:19 pm

‘Princess Su in Robes of State’ (early 1900s)

‘Princess Su in Robes of State’ (early 1900s) Courtesy MFA Boston

For those of us that make the photography fairs part of our travels, it has to be noted that China based galleries and photographers are making themselves known.

Claire Roberts has a new book that documents this rising tide of imagery …

Roberts’ span is the whole history of photography following its arrival in China soon after its declared invention in 1839. Such early photography of China is hardly a clichéd field. Odd pieces appear from time to time in salesrooms, and a few European pioneers (John Thomson, Felice Beato) are well known. But the real history is not yet familiar. As European founders of photographic establishments moved away, their businesses were often taken over by Chinese owners and curious blends of style and presentation began to appear. Portraits, for example, had to show no shadow to succeed in China, since shadow was not a part of the human face and therefore should not appear.

For more of this review: Financial Times

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Preview: Ezra Stoller, “Beyond Architecture” Yossi Milo Gallery, NYC

In Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallerist, Gallery, Photo Print Collector on February 18, 2013 at 2:30 pm

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Ezra Stoller

“The business of America is business” or so the saying goes. And how do we house these businesses and what poetry is to be found in the mundane of the modern day to day working existence?

The exhibition covers the full range of Stoller’s work, including images commissioned by Fortune, Architectural Forum, and House Beautiful magazines in the 1940s and for commercial projects for IBM, Upjohn Pharmaceuticals and CBS in the 1940s and 1950s. Included are photographs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s John Hancock Building, Chicago, and the United Nations Headquarters, designed by an international team of architects led by Wallace K. Harrison and including Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier.

Ezra Stoller is known as one of the most influential photographers of Modern architecture. He created iconic images of mid-Century buildings that help define the cultural memory of structures such as the Saarinen’s TWA Terminal, Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum. Of Stoller’s work, architecture critic Paul Goldberger once noted, “…his work has made him perhaps the most celebrated architectural photographer of the 20th Century; his pictures…have in and of themselves played a major role in shaping the public’s perception of what modern architecture is about.”

Now through March 2, 2013.

For more information: Yossi Milo

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On Site: New Locations for Robert Mann and Gitterman Galleries, NYC

In Exhibits, Gallerist, Gallery, Photo Print Collector on February 14, 2013 at 3:03 pm

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Kenneth Josephson, Gitterman Gallery

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Courtesy Robert Mann Gallery

In the past month, we had the opportunity to visit the new locations for Robert Mann Gallery and the Gitterman Gallery (well, last spring RM moved).

Tom Gitterman has a great location in the Fuller building on 57th along side some other notable photography and art galleries. Robert Mann has very nice “rustic modern”  new digs a block from his former location in Chelsea.

Take time to visit soon …

For more information:

Gitterman Gallery

Robert Mann Gallery

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Preview: Adam Magyar at Light Work, Syracuse, NY

In Black and White Photography, Gallery, Photographer on January 28, 2013 at 12:50 pm

Adam Magyar

03621, Tokyo, 2010 (Detail), from the series Stainless

While in Houston for FotoFest last year we were introduced to the impressive work of Adam Magyar. His prints of subway trains are lovely, dynamic and work on a number of levels conceptually.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, such as an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The resulting photographs break with traditional Renaissance-defined perspective. The images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art.

For more information: Light Work

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Notable: Balthazar Korab, Architectural Photographer Dies at 86

In Article, Black and White Photography, Photographer on January 27, 2013 at 8:29 am

Balthazar Korab, TWA Flight Center at Kennedy Airport

For lovers of architectural photography with soul, sad news about the passing of  Balthazar Korab.

Mr. Korab did not hesitate to place people front and center when warranted, like a skinny teenage student with an ice cream cone hastening to class at the Northside Middle School in Columbus, by Harry Weese. Neither rain nor snow stopped Mr. Korab. He was not afraid to let a couple of flowering magnolia trees share the spotlight with Mr. Saarinen’s home for Mr. Miller, nor to let a pair of naked trees rebuke the soulless environment around Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago, which have since been demolished.

For more information: NY Times

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Notable: “Hodgson’s Choice”, Photography critic’s dream collection

In Article, Black and White Photography, Photo Print Collector on January 26, 2013 at 7:30 am

 

Great writing, good choices.

We all dream of the collection we could make if we had limitless time and resources. In this series, FT photography critic Francis Hodgson selects the must-have images that would comprise his ideal collection.

For more information: Financial Times

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Notable: New Gallery, Santa Bannon Fine Art, Bethlehem, Pa

In Black and White Photography, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on January 17, 2013 at 3:32 pm

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A new gallery recently opened in the Lehigh Valley, Pa, featuring the work of :

PAULA CHAMLEE
LARRY FINK
BRUCE KATSIFF
THOMAS SHILLEA

Santa Bannon is representing these veteran artists in a space now featuring an exhibit by the renowned Larry Fink.

Bannon needed a venue to show her clients’ work, and when a space became available at the Banana Factory, she made it her own, concreting the floor, painting the walls, choosing the furniture. Although she has a strong background in photography – she describes herself as a "recovering photographer" – she offers consulting in all the visual arts. "I not only exhibit art work, I also build collections for individuals and corporate collectors in photography, mixed media, painting and sculpture," she says.

Bannon regularly attends the most important art fairs in the world, such as Art Basel, Art Miami, Photo LA, AIPAD, Scope, among others, to keep abreast of art trends. Her current show, "Portraits: Classic to Conceptual," is a case in point.

"I wanted to do a portrait show because photographic portraiture is hot right now for big collectors and museums. This really isn’t a show for the everyday collector; it is for people who are savvy about photography," Bannon says. "But even people who think they are familiar with the work of these photographers might really not be, after seeing this exhibit."

Morning Call interview

For more information: Santa Bannon

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