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Exhibition presents modern silver gelatin prints and chromogenic color prints by Vivian Maier Vivian Maier, Chicago, 1971. Modern Chromogenic color print. Image size: 12 x 12 inches. LOS ANGELES, CA .-KP Projects Gallery is presenting a new exhibition of modern silver gelatin prints and chromogenic color prints by Vivian Maier entitled “Self & Street.” The exhibition begins with 23 thoughtfully poised self portraits which are innovative in technique, the majority of which have never been show...

In midcentury America, visionary art directors at Bazaar and Vogue published radical images by groundbreaking photographers such as Robert Frank and Lisette Model. An exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York shows the accomplishments - and the compromises - of avant-garde artists working in fashion.

The Vanished Glamour of Midcentury Print Media Great examples of photography and editorial design abound at the Jewish Museum. (Catch the catalog, too.) The Vogue cover of March 15, 1945, features a blurred model behind a frosted glass panel emblazoned with a red cross, photographed by Erwin Blumenfeld and art-directed by Alexander Liberman. It is “scary and sad to think that no mainstream fashion title would now publish a cover this bold,” our critic says.Credit...Erwin Blumenfeld, via Con...

I am a street photographer. I walk the streets and take pictures. Sometimes I do it for a particular reason. And sometimes I just do it. My fingers are itching to trip the shutter while I’m having my first cup of morning coffee. My camera is the perfect modern contraption. With it I can pluck pictures out of thin air. When I first saw the pictures of Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander – the list goes on and on of talented street photographers – I knew that’s wh...

I arrived at “Modern Look,” the Jewish Museum’s newest exhibit, ready for what it promised: a bird’s-eye view of midcentury magazine photography. But I was preoccupied, as I have been for weeks, with a very different media moment. The recent documentary “Framing Britney Spears,” which showed how exploitative coverage eroded the singer’s mental health, has prompted a collective double-take at the media culture of the 2000s, when body-shaming, hypersexualization, and pointlessly cru...

Two Hairy Young Women, New York, 1995Photography by Irving Penn, Courtesy of Pace Gallery As a new exhibition explores Irving Penn’s innovative aesthetic principles, the deputy director of the Irving Penn Foundation, Vasilios Zatse, discusses working with the photographer and his enduring influence January 15, 2021 In 1996, Vasilios Zatse began his journey with Irving Penn, starting as an apprentice to the master photographer and rising to become the deputy director of the Irving Penn Founda...

Adál Maldonado, Provocative ‘Nuyorican’ Photographer, Dies at 72 Adál, who moved from Puerto Rico to New York as a teenager, created art that was often bitingly satirical and politically subversive. Adál Maldonado in 1988, in one of his post-surrealist self-portraits.Credit...Adál, via Roberto Paradise Jan. 2, 2021 Adál Maldonado, an influential Puerto Rican photographer and artistic provocateur who explored the psychological and cultural fallout of the Puerto Rican diaspor...

Toggle Sidebar Adál Maldonado, Provocative ‘Nuyorican’ Photographer, Dies at 72 So grateful (and sad) to read a comprehensive obituary of the late Adál Maldonado. [Many thanks to Veerle Poupeye for bringing this item to our attention.]  Katharine Q. Seelye ( Adál, who moved from Puerto Rico to New York as a teenager, created art that was often bitingly satirical and politically subversive. Adál Maldonado, an influential Puerto Rican photographer and artistic provocateur who explored th...

Capturing the Street Street. Life. Photography, a new exhibition at the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, celebrates seven decades of street photography – from the pioneering 1950s-1960s work of Diane Arbus and William Klein to contemporary images by an international cast of artists including Romanian Loredana Nemes and Algerian-born French photographer Mohamed Bourouissa. The exhibition probes the formal parameters and cultural and political possibilities of the genre, turning the urb...

Toggle Sidebar Behind the Devastating, Prize-Winning Image ‘Muerto Rico’ [Many thanks to Teo Freytes for bringing this item to our attention.] This article by Roger Catlin ( Smithsonian Magazine) from June 1, 2020, examines ADÁL’s  “Muerto Rico,” which won the People’s Choice award in The figure lies beneath the water in a bathtub. A red bandana obscures the individual’s face. As one eye looks out warily; the other is concealed by a murky air bubble. The stark message “Muerto ...