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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 shown in Los Angeles. Alongside scenes from cities in which Maier lived and visited, each image reveals ...

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 Condé Nast April 29, 2021 In a city whose news kiosks have become glorified chewing gum emporiums, whe...

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 what I wanted to do. Just walk around New York City with a camera shooting pictures. Walk around Ameri...

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 cruel takedowns ruled the day. We may associate those tactics with tabloids, but they were also on disp...