The AIPAD Photography Show returns to New York's Park Avenue Armory

The AIPAD Photography Show returns to New York's Park Avenue Armory Posted: 28 Mar 2012 02:09 AM PDT New York City.- The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) will hold the 32nd edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York, one of the world’s most important annual photography events, March 29th through April 1st, at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street in New York City. Seventy-five of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work, including contemporary, modern, and 19th century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video, and new media. The AIPAD Photography Show New York is the longest running and foremost exhibition of fine art photography. The Show will commence with an opening night gala on March 28th, to benefit inMotion, which provides free legal services to low-income women. AIPAD 2012 will present four new member exhibitors: David Zwirner, New York; Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York; Paul Cava Fine Art Photographs, Bala Cynwyd, PA; and 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing. A wide range of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will exhibit at The AIPAD Photography Show New York. In addition to galleries from New York City and across the country, a number of international galleries will be featured from France, Germany, Great Britain, Argentina, Japan, and China. Among the highlights at The AIPAD Photography Show New York will be a solo exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, of new work by Philip-Lorca diCorcia, and a specially curated exhibition of early French photography at James Hyman Photography, London. A number of extraordinary portraits will be on view. Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, will show Linda McCartney’s photographs of Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix. Bert Stern’s prints of Marilyn Monroe from her last sitting in 1962, which she famously crossed off, will be on view at Staley-Wise Gallery, New York. Hans P. Kraus Jr. Inc., New York, will exhibit portraits by the 19th century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. Flip Schulke’s mural-sized silver gelatin print of Muhammad Ali jumping out of a hotel pool in Miami Beach from1961 will be exhibited at Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York. Portraits of pioneer photographers will be shown at Charles Schwartz Ltd., New York. Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, will exhibit new portraits of Occupy Wall Street protestors by Accra Schepp, along with work by Weegee and the posthumously discovered Vivian Maier. Tam Tran is known for self-portraits with provocative titles such as My Call to Arms, Retro Bitch, I Forgot Pants, Strip Tease, and When Are We Leaving? Her image entitled Youniverse, 2010, will be shown by Gary Edwards Gallery, Washington, DC. At the forefront of digital technologies for the past decade, Kelli Connell addresses complex issues of identity and visual rhetoric. Her work will be exhibited at Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago. Unique portraits of dolls by Fausta Facciponte will be on view at Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto. A collection of personal holiday cards by Lee Friedlander, Jerry Uelsmann, and John Szarkowski, among others, will be on view at Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd., Santa Fe. Karen Knorr’s series India Song, 2008-2010, depicts tigers and other wild animals lounging in exotic palaces, mansions, and mausoleums. Prints from India Song will be on view at Danziger Gallery, New York, along with work by Andy Warhol, Evelyn Hofer, and Hendrik Kerstens. Robert Burge/20th Century Photos, Ltd, New York, will show John Woolf’s new color panoramas of classical theater interiors. Work from Laura Letinsky’s new series Ill Form and Void Full, will be the highlight at Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York. Compelling landscape photography will be on view at AIPAD. Mariana Cook spent eight years traveling to Peru, Great Britain, Ireland, the Mediterranean, New England, and Kentucky in pursuit of photographing dry stone walls. Her acclaimed book Stone Walls: Personal Boundaries was published last fall, and Lee Marks Fine Art, Shelbyville, IN, will exhibit a number Cook’s gelatin silver prints. Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, will show striking seascapes from Alejandro Chaskielberg’s series The High Tide, 2010. The first picture ever made of the earth from lunar orbit in 1966 will be on view at Charles Isaacs Photographs, New York. Galerie f5,6, Munich, will exhibit cityscapes by Max Regenberg from his series Come to Where, which documents advertising for Marlboro in the U.S. and Canada in the 1970s. 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing, will show work by artists Song Chao, Wang Shilong, Xiao Zhuang, and Yang Yankang. Julie Saul Gallery, New York, will show the panorama Flatiron Building, Manhattan, 2011, by Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao. Sherril Schell’s Skylights, Penn Station, a silver print from 1929, will be on view at Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco, CA. A study of trees, c. 1910-1920, by Maxfield Parrish will be on view at Paul Cava Fine Art Photographs, Bala Cynwyd, PA. Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, will offer the diaristic photography of Elinor Carucci. Gitterman Gallery, New York, will show the landscapes of Adam Bartos, whose interest in 19th century travel photography has taken him to Egypt, Kenya, and Mexico with a large-format camera. Robert Mann Gallery, New York, will exhibit landscapes and interiors ranging from 1940s work by Ansel Adams and Fred Stein to new work from Julie Blackmon and Jeff Brouws. Bill Eppridge's touching portrait Mrs. Chaney and young Ben, James Chaney Funeral, Mississippi, 1964 will be on view at Monroe Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe. Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Rue Mouffetard, 1948/1956, which depicts a young schoolboy triumphantly carrying two bottles of wine, will be on view at John Cleary Gallery, Houston. Paul Strand’s Central Park, New York, a platinum print from 1915-1916, will be shown at Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA. André Kertész’s silver print, Distortion #40, from 1933/1940s will be exhibited by Contemporary Works/Vintage Works, Chalfont, PA. Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, will show Robert Heinecken’s Recto/Verso #2, 1988. Hyperion Press Ltd., New York, will show several celebrated photographs by Man Ray. Etherton Gallery, Tucson, is bringing an exquisite print of Ansel Adams’s Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, c. 1926. As Adams said, "This photograph represents my first conscious visualization; in my mind's eye I saw (with reasonable completeness) the final image as made with the red filter… The red filter did what I expected it to do." In addition to the gallery's exhibiting at the fair, a series of five panel discussions featuring leading curators, artists, dealers, and collectors will be held on Saturday at a spacious auditorium at Hunter College in the Hunter West Building. Founded in 1979, The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) represents more than 120 of the world’s leading galleries in fine art photography. The organization is dedicated to creating and maintaining the highest standards of scholarship and ethical practice in the business of exhibiting, buying, and selling fine art photography. Visit the fair's website at ... http://www.aipad.com

Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928–1939

Harvard Art Museums to show "Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928–1939"

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 12:43 AM PDT

Cambridge, Massachusetts.- Harvard Art Museums are proud to present "Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928–1939", on view at the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum from March 30th through June 2nd. A selection of the artist’s drawings and watercolors from the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s permanent collection complements the exhibition. One of the most versatile talents of the modern art movement in Germany, the American-born Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) is celebrated as a master of caricature, figurative painting, and a distinctive brand of cubism, but he also created a fascinating body of photographic work that is virtually unknown. 

Drawn primarily from the collections at Harvard University’s Houghton Library, the exhibition offers the first opportunity to consider his achievement within the medium. Around 60 of Feininger’s photographs, as well as related works on paper and two of his early cameras, are on display. The photographs are complemented by an installation of around 25 of the artist’s drawings and watercolors, plus a major painting from the collection of the BuschReisinger Museum.

The works on paper are all drawn from the recent bequest of William S. Lieberman to the Busch-Reisinger. The painting, "Gross Kromsdorf III (1921)", was a gift from Feininger’s wife, Julia, in 1964. The exhibition focuses on the rich and productive period between 1928 (when Feininger first took up the camera) and the late 1930s, when he was exploring an array of avant-garde photographic techniques and making his own prints. Despite his early skepticism about this “mechanical” medium, the painter was inspired by the enthusiasm of his sons Andreas and T. Lux as well as the innovative work of his fellow Bauhaus master and Dessau neighbor László MoholyNagy. In the fall of 1928 the 57-year-old Feininger began to conduct his own experiments, discovering in photography a new means of energizing and advancing his artistic program. Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928–1939 was curated by Laura Muir, Assistant Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums. Muir also authored the accompanying catalogue. The exhibition and catalogue are based on new research on the collection of the artist’s negatives and slides in the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s Lyonel Feininger Archive, which has only recently been catalogued and digitized, making it fully accessible for the first time. Muir’s research also draws on Feininger’s extensive correspondence housed at Houghton Library and her interviews with the artist’s recently deceased son T. Lux. The majority of Feininger’s photographs, which he shared with only a few close friends and family, remained in his private collection until his death in 1956. In 1987 his son T. Lux donated them to Houghton Library.

The exhibition also includes key loans from other US and German lenders, including the Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin. “When he took up the camera at the Bauhaus in 1928, Lyonel Feininger was at the height of his fame as a painter. While he remained committed to that practice, he saw photography as a new means of exploring his interests in reflections, transparency, and the effects of light and shadow,” said Muir. “Experimenting with night imagery, negative printing, multiple exposures, and radical enlarging and cropping, he created a strikingly modern yet surprisingly personal body of work that has remained virtually unknown.” Feininger’s first photographs were atmospheric night views of the Bauhaus Building and the nearby neighborhood, including Untitled (Night View of Trees and Streetlamp, Burgkühnauer Allee, Dessau) (1928) and Bauhaus (Mar. 26, 1929). In Halle, while working on a painting commission from the city, Feininger recorded architectural sites in works such as Halle Market with the Church of St. Mary and the Red Tower (1929–30), and experimented with multiple exposures in photographs such as Untitled (Street Scene, Double Exposure, Halle) (1929–30), a hallucinatory image that merges two views of pedestrians and moving vehicles. One of his Halle paintings, Bölbergasse (1931), makes an appearance in Untitled (Unfinished Painting in Studio, Halle) (1931), an image that explores the relationship between the canvas and the space in which it was created.  In the months after the Nazis closed the Bauhaus and prior to Feininger’s departure from Dessau in March 1933, he made a series of unsettling views of mannequins and reflections in shop windows such as Drunk with Beauty(1932). In 1937 the American-born Feininger permanently settled in New York City after a nearly 50-year absence, and photography served as an important means of reacquainting himself with the city. The off-kilter bird’s-eye view he made from his studio Untitled (Second Avenue El from Window of 235 East 22nd Street, New York) (1939) is a dizzying image of an American subject in the style of European avant-garde photography, and mirrors the artist’s own precarious and disorienting position between two worlds and the past and present.

The Harvard Art Museums, among the world’s leading art institutions, comprise three museums (Fogg, BuschReisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler) and four research centers (Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, the Harvard Art Museums Archives, and the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis). The Harvard Art Museums are distinguished by the range and depth of their collections, their groundbreaking exhibitions, and the original research of their staff. The collections include approximately 250,000 objects in all media, ranging in date from antiquity to the present and originating in Europe, North America, North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. Integral to Harvard University and the wider community, the art museums and research centers serve as resources for students, scholars, and other visitors. For more than a century they have been the nation’s premier training ground for museum professionals and are renowned for their seminal role in developing the discipline of art history in this country. In June 2008 the building at 32 Quincy Street, formerly the home of the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger museums, closed for a major renovation. During this renovation, the Sackler Museum at 485 Broadway remains open and has been reinstalled with some of the finest works representing the collections of all three museums. When complete, the renovated historic building on Quincy Street will unite the three museums in a single state-of-the-art facility designed by architect Renzo Piano. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.harvardartmuseums.org

The Grand Palais brings together more than 200 photographs by Helmut Newton

The Grand Palais brings together more than 200 photographs by Helmut Newton

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 10:49 PM PDT

PARIS.- Since Helmut Newton’s death (1920 – 2004), there has been no retrospective of his work in France, although he did much of his work there, particularly for the French edition of Vogue. Provocative, sometimes shocking, Newton’s work tried to capture the beauty, eroticism, humour – and sometimes violence – that he sensed in the social interaction within the familiar worlds of fashion, luxury, money and power. The exhibition bring together more than two hundred photographs, mostly original or vintage prints made under Helmut Newton’s supervision: Polaroid, working prints in various sizes, monumental works. It will be supported by a film made by his wife of sixty years, the photographer June Newton: Helmut by June. This show on view until June 17th at the Grand Palais.

UK's Longest Running Photography Festival Celebrates 20 Years

UK's Longest Running Photography Festival Celebrates 20 Years

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:14 PM PDT

HEREFORDSHIRE.- 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of Hereford Photography Festival. The longest running annual photography festival in the UK, Hereford Photography Festival has presented a broad range of international photography since 1990. This year, the Festival builds on its strong history of showing work by groundbreaking and leading photographers such as Martin Parr, Rankin and Wang Qingsong, with a major retrospective, new commissions, a series of exhibitions and more. Starting on Friday 29th October with a launch weekend of exhibitions, talks, workshops and a conference, this year’s festival will be bigger than ever and encompass the city and local area. Entry to all exhibitions is free. 

Art Sensus in London celebrates the Life and Work of Eve Arnold

Art Sensus in London celebrates the Life and Work of Eve Arnold

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 09:16 PM PDT

London.- Art Sensus is proud to present "All About Eve: The Photography of Eve Arnold", on view at the gallery through April 27th. In celebration of her life and work as a pioneering photographer, Art Sensus will present over 100 unique photographs and a new book  of the work of American photographer Eve Arnold (1912-2012).  The book "All About Eve" will be launched at Art Sensus on 22 March in conjunction with the exhibition. Published as a limited edition hardback book with a silk cover, "All About Eve" contains 170 of Arnold’s photographs. Curated by Brigitte Lardinois (editor of ‘Eve Arnold’s People’ and  worked on Arnold’s former ‘In Retrospect’ exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery),  All About Eve will offer a spectrum of incredible works, both vintage and modern, all drawn from Arnold’s personal archive. The only solo exhibition to feature Arnold’s work in the UK this year thus far All About Eve has been selected from a private collection, which also loaned some of the prints for the book. 

UK Artists and Their Families Welcome Artist's Resale Right

UK Artists and Their Families Welcome Artist's Resale Right

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 07:01 PM PDT

LONDON.- The families and beneficiaries of UK artists stand to benefit from millions in royalties from 1 January 2012 with the full implementation of the Artist’s Resale Right. This important Right pays artists royalties each time their work is resold by an auction house or art dealer. The Right has applied to living artists since 2006, and DACS (the Design and Artists Copyright Society) has paid artists nearly £14 million in royalties in the last six years. Artist Damien Hirst explains why he thinks the Artist Resale Right is so important: ‘I’m pleased that the Artist’s Resale Right is finally be extended to heirs and beneficiaries as in most other EU states. We need to recognize financially their role in preserving art. They spend a lot of time and energy on this and they should have some support.’ 

Pure Sixties, Pure Bailey, a Selling Exhibition at Bonhams in London

Pure Sixties, Pure Bailey, a Selling Exhibition at Bonhams in London

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 07:07 PM PDT

LONDON.- A selling exhibition of David Bailey's iconic images of the 1960s - the 50th anniversary of a decade that changed our cultural history - will be hosted by Bonhams in New Bond Street. The 'Pure Sixties. Pure Bailey.' exhibition will be on view at Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, from 7th March – 7th April, 2010. David Bailey's name is an integral part of the 1960s, that dynamic period which created a melting pot of talent drawn from music, fashion, literature, design and cinema. He captured images which remain a pictorial reminder of all that was best about it – new, edgy, exciting, & beautiful. 

"Nick Brandt ~ On This Earth, A Shadow Falls"

Hasted Kraeutler to present "Nick Brandt ~ On This Earth, A Shadow Falls"

Posted: 19 Mar 2012 09:15 PM PDT

New York City.- Hasted Kraeutler is pleased to announce the gallery's inaugural exhibition of work by Nick Brandt, "On This Earth, A Shadow Falls", beginning March 29th and running through May 19th. The prints in this exhibition span nearly a decade of the photographer's work and will feature the most famous and sought after images of his career. Nick Brandt photographs endangered animals in Africa and was first drawn there In 1995 when he went to Tanzania to direct Michael Jackson's "Earth Song". Deeply moved by the experience he searched for a way to capture and preserve what he saw. Hasted Kraeutler is a contemporary art gallery that specializes in photography and is committed to the representation of emerging and established artists from around the world. 

A History of Jerry Uelsmann's Photography

The Peabody Essex Museum of Art shows A History of Jerry Uelsmann's Photography

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 10:50 PM PDT

Salem, Massachusetts.- Beautiful and surreal, funny and provocative, the photographs of Jerry Uelsmann are icons of American photo history. The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents the first retrospective of Uelsmann's work in over 30 years. "The Mind's Eye: 50 Years of Photography by Jerry Uelsmann" features 90 works spanning the artist's celebrated and wide-ranging career, with well-known works shown alongside never-before-seen recent images. As a pioneer of contemporary photography and master of experimental darkroom technique, Uelsmann has continuously pushed the creative and technical boundaries of photography, revealing new visual possibilities and critical considerations for the medium. In the late 1950s, Uelsmann began experimenting with multiple enlargers and advanced masking, diffusing, burning and dodging techniques, to create imaginary images in the darkroom decades before the advent of Photoshop. "The Mind's Eye" is on view at the museum through May 13th.

The Jewish Museum Shows Works by New York's Photo League From 1936-1951

The Jewish Museum Shows Works by New York's Photo League From 1936-1951

Posted: 14 Mar 2012 10:46 PM PDT

New York City.- Drawing on the depth of two great Photo League museum collections, The Jewish Museum in New York City and the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio are collaborating on an exhibition of over 140 vintage photographs. "The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951", a formidable survey of the group's history, its artistic significance, and its cultural, social and political milieu, will premiere at The Jewish Museum through March 25th. The Radical Camera exhibition will then travel to the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (April 19 - September 9, 2012); the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA (October 11, 2012 - January 21, 2013); and Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (February 9 - April 21, 2013).

Villa Grisebach offers Sale of Modern and Contemporary Photographs

Villa Grisebach offers Sale of Modern and Contemporary Photographs

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 06:46 PM PST

BERLIN.- This year's fall auctions at Villa Grisebach Auktionen in Berlin start off on 26 November 2009 with over 180 lots for sale in Modern and Contemporary photography. The top lot in the Contemporary photography section is Hiroshi Sugimotos's "Sea of Galilee, Golan" (estimate of 24,000-26,000 EUR) followed by a multi-part photo work by the Austrian artist Friederike Pezold entitled "Mundwerk" (estimate of 12,000-15,000 EUR) and Bettina Rheims' "Elizabeth Berkley" (estimate of 10,000-15,000 EUR).

MOCA Receives Gift from Photographer Max Yavno's Estate

MOCA Receives Gift from Photographer Max Yavno's Estate

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 06:37 PM PST

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), announced a generous gift of $435,000 from the estate of renowned Los Angeles photographer Max Yavno, nearly 25 years after his death. Yavno, who died in 1985, was an accomplished fine art and commercial photographer known for his social documentation and sensitive depiction of urban realism. Said Stephen McAvoy, successor executor of the estate of Max Yavno and retired controller of City National Bank, “I am amazed and pleased that 25 years after Max’s death, these funds are still able to benefit the museum, and are eligible to be matched by the generous grant given to the museum by The Broad Foundation.” 

Krannert Art Museum’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Begins

Krannert Art Museum’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Begins

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 06:38 PM PST

CHAMPAIGN, IL.- New exhibitions kick off Krannert Art Museum’s 50th Anniversary celebration, two of which highlight the breadth of KAM’s permanent collection. At Fifty: Krannert Art Museum, 1961–2011 (August 26 through October 23, 2011) celebrates the extraordinary range of KAM’s collection. In a unique, interactive architectural space, sculpture, painting, video, photography, decorative objects, and drawings co-mingle. Objects from ancient Greece and Latin America are featured in dialogue with nineteenth century European paintings and twentieth century video; realism sits astride abstraction; photography and drawings illustrate how artists have represented humanity for more than a century. Traditional hierarchies are removed, allowing the works to speak to each other and to viewers across time. A selection of artists includes: John Singleton Copley, Gustave Courbet, Walker Evans, Hans Hofmann, Jasper Johns, Isoda Koryūsai, Barbara Kruger, Edouard Manet, Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Carrie Mae Weems, Edward Weston, and Frank Lloyd Wright. 

David Lynch

David Lynch's solo exhibition in New York opens at Tilton Gallery

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 08:56 PM PST

NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Tilton Gallery presents David Lynch’s first solo exhibition in New York since 1989. The show will run March 6th – April 14th, and the reception with artist in attendance will take place Friday, March 16th, 6 – 8 pm. An icon among American filmmakers, David Lynch is equally committed as a visual artist. He began his career as a painter and started making short films while a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia to find a way to make his paintings move. Lynch works across many different media to create paintings, sculpture, works on paper and photographs. Recent paintings combine primitively drawn figures and text with thick textured areas of paint and, often, inserted lit colored light bulbs. Framed in thick gold frames under glass (inspired by Francis Bacon’s frames), they become box-like, objects in their own right. Narrative subjects exhibit Lynch’s trademark whimsy, wit and humor along with his recognizable penchant for the ambiguous, yet precisely depicted, frozen moment that unveils an instinctual, often violent or tragic human emotion, almost verging on the absurd. 

Thomas Barbèy's Surreal Photographs

The Emmanuel Fremin Gallery to Show Thomas Barbèy's Surreal Photographs

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 09:56 PM PST

New York City.- The Emmanuel Fremin Gallery is pleased to announce its second exhibition for renowned photographer Thomas Barbèy. "Dreams from the dark room" will be an exhibition of black and white photo compositions that give evidence to the artist’s ability to capture the impossible and fantasied through the manual process of developing film negatives and the assemblage of various imagery. "Dreams from the dark room" will run from March 15th to April 21st, with an opening reception to be held on Thursday, March 15th from 6 to 8 PM. Thomas Barbèy was born in Greenwich, Connecticut and spent his childhood in Geneva, Switzerland. He began drawing seriously at an early age, using black “encre de Chine” and gouaches for color. Some early influences for his surrealistic images have been Philippe Druillet, Roger Dean, René Magritte, M.C. Escher and H.R. Giger. He has been interviewed and featured on the cover of “Inked” Magazine and featured in the New Britain Herald. Barbèy lives in Las Vegas, Nevada and travels 2-3 times for inspiration as he continues to capture new fantasies with his lens. Thomas exhibits in galleries throughout the world and is included in many private collections.