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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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On site: Best of Show, AIPAD 2011 Photography Exhibition

In Art Fair, Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on March 21, 2011 at 6:36 pm

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Lauren E. Simonutti, “Admission”, 2011

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After viewing the hundreds of quality images throughout this year’s AIPAD photography show, it is a fool’s task to pick the one artist that stands out. However, the impact of the images produced by Lauren E. Simonutti leave no doubt as to the importance of her work:

The problem with madness is that you can feel it coming but when you tell people you think you are going crazy they do not believe you.  It is too distant a concept.  Too melodramatic.  You don’t believe it yourself until you have fallen so quickly and so far that your fingernails are the only thing holding you up, balanced with your feet dangling on either side of a narrow fence with your heart and mind directly over center, so that when you do fall it will split you in two.  And split equally.  So there’s not even a stronger side left to win.

Over three and one half years I have spent alone amidst these 8 rooms, 7 mirrors, 6 clocks, 2 minds and 199 panes of glass.  And this is what I saw here.  This is what I learned.

As shared by Simonutti’s gallerist, Catherine Edelman, the viewer learns  the work is an essential tool for the artist in managing a very challenging life. That being said, all viewers are rewarded in a very special way by these intricate creations and the emotions they evoke.

For more information and images: Catherine Edelman Gallery

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On Site: Best of 2011 AIPAD Show, Armory, NYC, Part 2

In Art Fair, Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on March 20, 2011 at 8:18 am

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Gilbert Garcin, “La tour d’ivoire – Ivory tower”, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto

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Yesterday, we highlighted the “must see stops” on your U.S. gallery tour of the AIPAD photography show. Today, the choices were that much more difficult, as the international representation was broader this year and the quality of exhibits very good.

Best AIPAD Show International Gallery Displays:

  • Stephen Bulger Gallery, (Toronto)  The Garcin series is provocative and so well executed.
  • Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, (Paris) The “touch of Europe” complete with display call outs is quite enjoyable.
  • Michael Hoppen Gallery, (London) A great selection from a deep inventory of work.
  • Galeria Vasari, (Buenos Aires) The Grete Stern images are eye catching as are a number of the other images on display.
  • Picture Photo Space, (Osaka) A reminder that amidst the tragedy in Japan there is a history of beauty and excellence upon which to build a future.

Sunday is the last day of the show … so enjoy!

For more information: AIPAD

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On Site: Best of 2011 AIPAD Show, Armory, NYC, Part 1

In Art Fair, Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on March 19, 2011 at 8:52 am

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O. Winston Link, “Birmingham Special, Rural Retreat, VA, 1957”,  Robert Mann Gallery

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Our visit yesterday to the AIPAD show in NYC was most rewarding with a plethora of fine images on display throughout the Armory exhibition center. With over 70 dealers showing examples from their inventory there was much to take in and take notice of …

This is the first of several articles with our impressions and subjective comments on the best of AIPAD.

Today -  Best AIPAD Show U.S. Gallery Displays (alpha order):

Visit this Saturday and Sunday …

For more on the AIPAD show: AIPAD

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Preview: London Street Photography, Museum of London, UK

In Art Museum, Article, Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Photographer on March 13, 2011 at 4:21 pm

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Liebling’s ‘Outside Claridge’s Hotel, Mayfair’

In an article today, in the Financial Times, Claire Holland gives not only a nice review of a new “street photography” exhibit in London but also gives some nice historical context to the genre:

As if to assert street photography’s worth, a flurry of exhibitions exploring the genre is opening in the UK this year: Daniel Meadows will present Fieldwork: Photographs of Britain 1971-1988 at the National Media Museum in Bradford in September; at London Whitechapel Gallery, This is Whitechapel opens today and includes works by Ian Berry, followed by an exhibition of work by Paul Graham next month; and street photography is currently the theme at Format Photography Festival in Derby.

“It is very human to watch one another, and to photograph one another,” says Polly Braden, whose work is featured in London Street Photography at the Museum of London. Part of Braden’s ongoing project, London Square Mile, playful vignettes of life in the City of London, hang in the contemporary section of this generous show, which has been drawn from the museum’s archives.

For more on this subject: Financial Times

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Notable: The Fine Art Photography of Juliet Harrison

In Black and White Photography, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on March 2, 2011 at 12:20 pm

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Juliet Harrison, “All That Glitters”

We are struck by the “eye” exhibited in the work of Juliet Harrison, who photographs horses in original and creative ways. Shooting in upstate New York, she takes advantage of light and form to draw the viewer in to a new world she obviously is passionate about …

1. Your photography centers on horses, what led you to specialize?
I have always loved horses. Obsessed since childhood. But I started out my career in photography, photographing structures. I focused on form, light, texture and shadow. At one point in my adulthood I returned to riding horses. When I did, it was a natural progression for me to begin to photograph them.

2.  What are the challenges in this type of photography?
I do not set up my shots. I go out and find horses. I use natural light and simple shooting techniques. So I am frequently in settings that I cannot control. I photograph in backyard pastures, at horse shows and racetracks. You have to be comfortable around them and know them well enough to be able to anticipate what they might do next. I am out shooting in all weather. Hot and cold. Wet and dry. I get muddy and covered in stuff that most photographers would turn their noses up at. It is not a pristine environment to photograph in.

3. How do you take animal photography “to the next level” beyond what has already been done?
 The biggest challenge in using the horse as subject is to not photograph the cliché. It is easy to fall into the trap of photographing pretty pictures of pretty horses. Commercial equine  photography is very formulaic. So to use the horse as subject one has to be willing to step way  outside the box or risk creating images that are easily dismissed as “animal art”.  By moving closer and closer in to the body of the horse I can create images that can be read as massing, structure, light, texture and shadow. For the horse person, they are actually a visual depiction of what is felt under the hand or seen by the eye when working with a horse. For the non-horse person they can be read as landscape, as nude, as space and sound. Because the horse is a large bodied animal, it is possible to do this. So I can photographically isolate muscle, bone and coat.

4. What role does Black and White have in your art?
For me, using Black&White is essential. When I look through a viewfinder, I see in B&W. It goes hand-in-hand with the imagery that I shoot. Color is a distraction. The eye is drawn to color before anything else. By taking color out of the equation, for me, I get to bring form, light and texture to primary importance. B&W reduces everything down to the most important information. There is a greater challenge in using B&W. It is harder to do successfully because you don’t have the crutch of a likeable color to draw the eye. But it taps into the elemental for both myself as image maker and for the viewer. I strive to create simple but powerful imagery in line, form and in B&W.

For more of Juliet’s work: Juliet Harrison

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Preview: “Descendants” by Norman Mauskopf, Verve Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

In Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector on February 23, 2011 at 10:02 am

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Norman Mauskopf

A different view of the Southwest U.S. with a personal touch is on view at Verve Gallery with the exhibit entitled “Descendants” by award winning photographer Norman Mauskopf. From a new book by the same title, the images are striking while combining the mundane with the essense of a sub-culture’s identifying uniqueness.

The images come out of Mauskopf’s most recent book, Descendants, which focuses
on the Hispanic culture of northern New Mexico.  The book is published by Santa Fe-based Twin Palms/Twelve Trees Press.

“Northern New Mexico is a complex weave of pride and history. In this region of ancient traditions and striking environmental and ethnic diversity, Norman Mauskopf has spent the last decade photographing the Hispanic people and their culture. The photographs that emerged depict the intersection of religion, injustice, community, and transcendence.”

For more: Verve Gallery

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Fine Art Photographer Profile: Kelly Fitzgerald

In Black and White Photography, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on February 14, 2011 at 8:23 pm

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Kelly Fitzgerald, “Buffalo, CO”

There is a long tradition of landscape photography in Black and White that predates the last century. A modern practitioner of note is Kelly Fitzgerald. Her canvas is the American West (including Hawaii) and she brings a powerful new dimension to this photographic legacy.

1. As an artist in the photographic medium, what are you trying to accomplish with your audience/viewer?
I strive to create works that capture and preserve the beauty in nature and in vanishing places; images that will inform the viewer and convey the deep belief I have in the value of these amazing locations.

2. You have expertise with landscapes, why that subject matter?
The big influence for me was growing up in the early 1960′s in Pomona, California.  The home I lived in was situated near a huge field that was filled with hundreds of acres of tall mustard plants and walnut trees.  Beyond the fields were beautiful green rolling hills and creeks, and beyond those, the San Gabriel Mountains.

3. Tell us something about your technical approach to Black and White photography.
In 2004, I began the 5-year project called “A New Discovery”. It consisted of black and white landscapes of the Hawaiian Islands.  I took on the challenge of documenting these islands using Kodak HIE Professional High-Speed Infrared Film.  I wanted to reach beyond what the color photograph conveys, so I chose to create my work in black and white infrared film to reveal the ethereal and magical quality each island holds. I found the infrared light spectrum to be extremely fascinating and I loved the results I achieved.  Unfortunately, Kodak discontinued this film in December of 2007.  I did not know at the time, but not only was I documenting the vanishing landscape of Hawaii, I was also using a film medium that was soon to disappear.

4. What new project are you working on in 2011?
I have a couple of projects I am working on this year.  I will be offering affordable black and white, limited edition, fiber-based prints for the new collector.  The collection will feature never-before-seen works I have created over the past 25 plus years.

The other project I am working on is entitled “The Wilderness Trails”.  This concept will consist of a series of landscapes I have taken along through-hikes, such as the John Muir Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail and the West Coast Trail in Canada, among others.  My goal is to create a book of “The Wilderness Trails” and donate part of the proceeds from the sales to conservation organizations.

For a visit to her site: Kelly Fitzgerald

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Preview: The Photography of Allen Ginsberg, Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC

In Black and White Photography, Exhibits, Gallery, Photo Print Collector, Photographer on February 1, 2011 at 5:14 pm

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Neal Cassady and his love of that year Natalie Jackson conscious of  their roles in Eternity, Market Street San Francisco.  Cassady had been prototype for Kerouac’s late 1940′s ON THE ROAD saga hero, Dean Moriarity, as in later 1960′s he would take the wheel of Ken Kesey’s psychedelic-era Crosscountry bus “”Further.”" His illuminated American Automobile mania and erotic energy had already written his name in bright-lit signs  …  That’s why we stopped under the marquee to fix the passing hand on the watch, 1955.

The new exhibit at Howard Greenberg’s Gallery is featuring the accomplished photography of noted poet and “beat”, Allen Ginsberg:

Ginsberg started photographing in the 1940s, taking snapshots of his friends and making impromptu pictures in photo booths which were widely popular at the time. (Ginsberg had his film developed at local drugstores and referred to his snapshots as “drugstore” prints.) His experience at Columbia University, surrounded by Kerouac and Burroughs, ignited his creative drive, believing that he and his friends would create “the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art.” Few of these photographs are well-known and were never meant to be shown outside of his group. Yet, they compel the viewer to re-examine the ingrained images we have of the Beats – Ginsberg, the balding, bearded guru or the melancholic Williams Burroughs ravaged by years of heroin use.

For no defined reason, by 1963 Ginsberg stopped photographing, ultimately returning to it in the early 80s. By this time he was a well-known poet who was concerned with preserving his legacy.

Now through March 12.

For more information: Howard Greenberg

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Notable: Photographer Gita Lenz Dies

In Black and White Photography, Gallery, Photographer on January 26, 2011 at 12:34 pm

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Gita Lenz, “Untitled”

This just in from the Gitterman Gallery … Gita Lenz has died at age 100:

Gita Lenz lived most of her life in Greenwich Village on the corner of Carmine and 7th Avenue.  From the 1940s to the early 1960s, Gita Lenz created a body of work that withstands comparison to many of the better-known photographers.  She spent much of her time making images of the people and the city around her. Yet Lenz also explored abstraction, both in nature and in the urban environment, frequently making complex and beautiful images of mundane and dilapidated subjects. Some images are tender, demonstrating a sense of empathy and respect, and others are dynamic, suggesting a modernist and sometimes surreal perspective.

In 1951 at the Museum of Modern Art Edward Steichen curated the exhibition Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America and included Lenz’s work alongside notable photographers of the period.  The first major exhibition of Lenz’s work was in a three-person show, The Third Eye with John Reed and Don Normark, at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1952. Soon after, in 1955, Edward Steichen included her work in another exhibition at the MoMA, this time in the landmark exhibition, The Family of Man.  Her work appeared in periodicals of the time, including The American Annual of Photography, American Photography, Photo Arts and US Camera.

For more : Gitterman Gallery

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