Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham Exhibit Opens at the National Portrait Gallery

WASHINGTON, DC.- Born into privilege, newspaper publisher Katharine Graham (1917–2001) was catapulted onto the international stage as publisher of The Washington Post during the Watergate scandal in the 1970s. From her entrée to the world of journalism to her formidable attainment of power, the National Portrait Gallery’s “One Life: Katharine Graham” exhibition presents a multifaceted view of the woman whose personal tenacity had the ability to shape the nation. The one-room exhibition of the National Portrait Gallery’s continuing “One Life” [...]

20th-Century Photographs of Louisiana on View at the New Orleans Museum of Art

NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The Historic New Orleans Collection (HNOC) and the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) present the exhibition Residents and Visitors: 20th-Century Photographs of Louisiana, featuring photographers who lived or worked in Louisiana in the 20th century. The exhibition will be displayed from September 29, 2010–March 27, 2011 at NOMA. The exhibition offers not only glimpses of Louisiana and its people throughout the 20th century, but it also displays the evolution of photographic technology Residents and Visitors: 20th-Century [...]

Museum of Modern Art’s Annual Photography Series Highlights 4 Artists

NEW YORK, NY.- For New Photography 2010, The Museum of Modern Art highlights four artists in its annual showcase of significant recent work in contemporary photography, with the 2010 edition marking the 25th anniversary of the series. The exhibition is on view from September 29, 2010, through January 10, 2011, and features the work of Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, and Amanda Ross-Ho, all of whom engage photography as a medium with fluid borders between editorial work, film, and [...]

Photos of Gandhi on Momentous Day in Indian History for Sale at Bonhams

LONDON.- Photographs of Mahatma Gandhi taken on 7 August 1942, one of the most momentous days for Indian Independence, are for sale at Bonhams India and Beyond sale in London on 5 October 2010. It was on 7 August that Gandhi addressed the opening day of the historic All India Congress Committee at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Mumbai (then known as Bombay) and launched his call for non violent protest against British rule. “I stick to the principle of [...]

Sotheby’s Photography Auction to Benefit George Eastman House

ROCHESTER, NY.- George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film is organizing a benefit auction of more than 300 items exceeding $1 million in value – fine photographic prints, books, and equipment — to take place at Sotheby’s New York on Oct. 4, 2010. For more than two years Eastman House representatives have been gathering donations from collectors, photographers, gallerists, and dealers worldwide. None of the auction items are from the Eastman House collections. Among the featured photographs donated [...]

American Pioneers of Color at Galerie Edwynn Houk Zur Stockeregg

ZURICH.- For its inaugural exhibition, Galerie Edwynn Houk Zur Stockeregg presents AMERICAN PIONEERS OF COLOR, a collection of modern and vintage prints by Stephen Shore, Joel Meyerowitz, and William Eggleston, widely acknowledged as the early masters of color photography in the United States. Their pioneering use of color in the 1970s was a bold departure from the long established tradition of black and white photography, which had dominated the medium from its inception, and laid the foundations for contemporary photography [...]

On Street by German Photographer Peter Linderbergh at C/O Berlin

BERLIN.- C/O Berlin, International Forum For Visual Dialogues, presents the exhibition On Street by German photographer Peter Linderbergh from 25 September 2010 to 9 January. Powerful and fragile, straightforward and playful, emancipated and sensual—Peter Lindbergh’s photographs are far more than artistic, coolly remote fashion photographs. His melancholy, unembellished photographs of mostly female models reveal, behind the artificial styling and makeup, an intimate glimpse of their inner essence. With subjects including Sharon Stone, Madonna, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Naomi Campbell, Jeanne [...]

Cuba in Revolution at the International Center of Photography

NEW YORK, NY.- Cuba in Revolution, at the International Center of Photography through January 9, 2011, covers one of the most spectacular political events of the twentieth century, the Cuban Revolution of 1959. The improbable overthrow of the dictator Fulgencio Batista by a band of young communist guerrillas and intellectuals was a momentous occasion not only politically but also creatively, changing the way we think about the power of reportage photography and the role of photojournalism in our modern society. [...]

Exhibition of Works from the Collection of the MMK Opens

FRANKFURT.- MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt possesses one of the largest collections of international contemporary photography world-wide. Since its foundation in 1991, MMK has collected photography, according it an equal status to painting, sculpture, drawing, film and video installations. The Collection strategy has always focused on the image itself, not only in connection with the respective artist’s oeuvre as a whole, but also in regards to the specific image’s exemplary qualities and photographic expression. The presentation from the [...]

Works by “New Topographics” Pioneer on View at the Art Institute

CHICAGO, IL.- Lewis Baltz (b.1945) is one of the most prominent representatives of the “New Topographics” movement, which changed the direction of American photography in the 1970s and has had a formative impact on every generation since. However, Baltz’s innovations began already in the 1960s. The Art Institute of Chicago has organized the first survey ever of Lewis Baltz’s inaugural body of work, the Prototypes (c. 1967-1973). The exhibition also puts on view for the first time in 12 years [...]

First Retrospective in Germany of Paul Graham at Deichtorhallen

HAMBURG.- The House of Photography at Deichtorhallen Hamburg is presenting in cooperation with the Museum Folkwang the first retrospective in Germany of the British photographer Paul Graham (b. 1956) with 11 major work complexes produced since 1981. With about 145 images, the exhibition shows a representative selection of his work. Graham’s work belongs to the tradition of social documentary photography, which was founded by Bill Brandt in England after the second world war and continued by photographers such as Chris [...]

New Photographic Series by Taryn Simon at Gagosian

NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents “Contraband,” a new photographic series by Taryn Simon. Simon’s photographs chronicle contradictory aspects of American identity while exposing the veiled mechanisms of society. Contraband expands on the earlier series An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (2007), which explored the covert intersection between private and public domains. For five days in November 2009, Simon lived at John F Kennedy International Airport, which processes more international passengers than any other airport in the United [...]

Exhibition at Kahmann Gallery Highlights 10 Years of Martien Mulder’s Work

AMSTERDAM.- The work of New York based fine art photographer Martien Mulder (1971, NL) will be represented by Kahmann Gallery from September 2010. The exhibition “From Blue To Blue” highlights 10 years of personal work. Martien Mulder, Trees (Mist), 2005. Photo: Martien Mulder courtesy Kahmann Gallery Mulder’s colorpalette is very specific, and some of her photographs could be considered monotones. This gives them a quiet strength. She is a minimalist, but her images are sober in a warm and accessible [...]

Exhibition on Fashion and Photography of the 1990s at MMK

FRANKFURT.- Not in Fashion. Fashion and Photography of the 90s is the title of the new special exhibition at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst. As the title already indicates the focus here is not on the glamorous fashion world of the rich and the beautiful. On the contrary, the show at MMK presents an anti-movement that in the 1990s consciously ran counter to the images of prêt-àporter, haute couture and the mainstream fashion magazines. Especially in the first half of [...]

New Book Shows More than 100 Unpublished Marilyn Monroe Photos

NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A collection of more than 100 previously unpublished photos of Marilyn Monroe can be seen for the first time in a new book “Marilyn: August 1953.” The book, published this week by Calla Editions, features digitally restored black and white images taken during the summer of 1953 of a then 27-year-old Monroe. The photos were shot by John Vachon, on assignment for LOOK magazine in Alberta, Canada, where Monroe was filming “River of No Return” with Robert [...]