"Breakfast in Tehran~Contemporary Iranian Women"

Janet Rady Fine Art Presents "Breakfast in Tehran~Contemporary Iranian Women" Posted: 07 Jun 2011 09:52 PM PDT London.- Janet Rady Fine Arts are pleased to present "Breakfast in Tehran: Contemporary Iranian Women" on exhibit from June 13th through June 26th. Breakfast in Tehran will be a chance to see a selection of drawings, collage, photography, video and printmaking from a group of new and established Iranian artists living in Iran and exhibiting in London together for the first time. Artists featured include, Azadeh Akhlaghi, Navid Azimi, Majid Koorang Beheshti, Taha Heydari, Khosro Khosravi, Azadeh Madani, Saba Masoumian, Kourosh Salehi, Atefe Samaei and Rozita Sharafjahan.

New Digital Magazine "Adore Noir" Showcases the Work of Photographers

New Digital Magazine "Adore Noir" Showcases the Work of Photographers Posted: 07 Jun 2011 11:00 PM PDT VANCOUVER.- This Spring saw the launch of a highly anticipated digital magazine titled "Adore Noir". The PDF based magazine is dedicated to fine art black and white photography. Editor and publisher Chris Kovacs describes the magazine as “An amalgamation of classic and modern styles with everything in between.” Chris then goes on to say “I created this magazine out of necessity to fill a much needed niche. I wanted to provide a stage on which to showcase the works of amazing artists that may have otherwise gone unnoticed”

Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make the car an actual "form" for making photographs

Photographer Lee Friedlander's New Book ~ "America by Car"

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:11 PM PDT

NEW YORK, NY.- Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain vital as auguries of adventure and discovery, and a means by which to take in the country's vast scale. Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make the car an actual "form" for making photographs. Driving across most of the country's 50 states in an ordinary rental car, Friedlander applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield and the side windows as a picture frame within which to record the country's eccentricities and obsessions at the turn of the century. This method allows for fascinating effects in foreshortening, and wonderfully telling juxtapositions in which steering wheels, dashboards and leatherette bump up against roadside bars, motels, churches, monuments, suspension bridges, landscapes and often Friedlander's own image, via sideview mirror shots. 

Fernand Fonssagrives

Michael Hoppen Gallery Announces Exhibition by Fernand Fonssagrives

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:17 PM PDT

LONDON.- The Michael Hoppen gallery announced an exhibition of work by one of America’s foremost fashion photographers Fernand Fonssagrives. Once the highest paid photographers in the world, he was ambivalent about the acclaim he received in his chosen field, preferring to remain anonymous. Little was written about him, even at the peak of his success. He was linked to the early ‘Design Laboratory’ classes of Alexey Brodovitch, and was a key member of the close knit group of photographers now celebrated as ‘The New York School'.

"The Lives of the Great Photographers"

The National Media Museum Shows "The Lives of the Great Photographers"

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 09:50 PM PDT

Bradford, England.- The National Media Museum is pleased to present 'The Lives of Great Photographers', on exhibition until September 4th. This exhibition highlights some of the most famous and memorable images ever produced. It illuminates the extraordinary and sometimes exceptional lives these photographers led.From photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron and Eadweard Muybridge to Tony Ray-Jones and Weegee, this exhibition highlights some of the most famous and memorable images ever produced. 

Classic Photographs Sold

Classic Photographs Sold at Swann Galleries' Auction in New York

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 08:04 PM PDT

NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries’ May 19 auction of Important Photobooks and Photographs featured classic 20th-century images by celebrated photographers as well as desirable portfolios of their work. The sale’s top lot was the André Kertész portfolio A Hungarian Memory, which contained 15 silver print photographs of the artist’s homeland, from 1914 to 1923, printed in 1980. It was one of 100 numbered copies and seven artist’s proofs and sold for an auction record of $48,000. 

Fotomuseum Winterthur Hosts Alexander Rodchenko ~ Revolution in Photography Posted: 30 May 2011 10:56 PM PDT WINTERTHUR, ZURICH.- Fotomuseum Winterthur presents Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in Photography, on view from May 28th until 14 August. Modernism made photography what it is. It gave it self-confidence and made it trust itself. Self-confident because photography in the 1920s recognized and developed its own possibilities and qualities: a probing vision of the world, an investigation of the visible reality from various perspectives, direct, clear, from above, below, behind, from the front, but without references to the pool of art history.