NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
It’s Friday, October 10 and here’s today’s calendar for NYC: Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. the Blackhawks at 7 p.m. Big Brooklyn Pig Roast and Harvest Hoedown at The Yard from 6 to 10 p.m. Governors Island...
NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
It’s a jam-packed weekend in New York and some great weather as well. Highlights include OpenHouse New York, the New Yorker Festival and Sunday’s Atlantic Antic street fair. For ongoing events and shows, click to NewYorkology’s Now in NYC list....
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
In a culture that seemingly suffers from attention deficit disorder, photographer Susan Meiselas stands out for her insistent desire to go back and revisit the people and places she has shot. Meiselas, 60, is best known for the work she did documenting the...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
ROCHESTER, NY.- A collaborative retrospective celebrating the work of John Wood will be launched this fall in Rochester, N.Y. and then travel to New York City, before embarking on a national tour. The exhibition titled John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning considers Wood's career as photographer, artist, and educator. The exhibition is a collaboration among five institutions: Rochester's
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
NEW YORK.- The tintype is one of the most intriguing and little-studied forms of nineteenth-century photography. Introduced as a low-cost alternative to the daguerreotype and the albumen print, the tintype was widely marketed from the 1860s through the first decades of the twentieth century, and quickly became the most popular photographic medium. It was the picture making preference of
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
The stark black-and-white image of a Spanish Civil War soldier tumbling backwards in the moment of death is one of the best-known – and most controversial – war photographs ever taken.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
NEW YORK.- Best known for her work covering the political upheavals in Central America in the 1970s and '80s, Susan Meiselas's process has evolved in radical and challenging ways as she has grappled with pivotal questions about her relationship to her subjects, the use and circulation of her images in the media, and the relationship of images to history and memory. Her insistent engagement
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
The tintypes at the International Center of Photography form a group portrait of Americans struggling to adapt to the rapidly shifting social and economic conditions during the four decades after the Civil War.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
NEW YORK.- Cornell Capa (19182008) chose the phrase concerned photographer to describe those photographers who demonstrated in their work a humanitarian impulse to use pictures to educate and change the world, not just to record it. He was a champion of many photographers, and Cornell Capa: Concerned Photographer will present his own work as part of this tradition and
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
NEW YORK.- Among the most extraordinary photographs produced during World War II are those made by W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978), who served with active combat troops in the Pacific Theater from 1943 to 1945. The International Center of Photography is pleased to present Living with the Dead: W. Eugene Smith and World War II, an exhibition of work by one of the foremost
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
The International Center of Photography had an exhibition about Bill Wood, a commercial photographer in Fort Worth, Texas, whose negatives were bought by Diane Keaton
Photography Blog (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
The Life of a Photograph is a new National Geographic book by photographer Sam Abell.
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
13 Japanese artists explore themes such as the tension between individual expression and collective identity in contemporary Japan, the relationship of the adult to the child and the fight between human culture and nature
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
International Center of Photography 1133 Avenue of the Americas, 212-857-0000 Midtown September 6 - September 12, 2008 Opening: Friday, September 12, 7 - 9PM Web Site Curated by ICP Full-Time Programs alumni Tom White, Deidre Schoo, and Nicolas Silberfaden, and coordinated by Lucy Helton, this exhibition explores intriguing concepts born out of the unique American experience. RICHARD ASHE | FRANCESCA...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
International Center of Photography 1133 Avenue of the Americas, 212-857-0000 Midtown September 19, 2008 - January 4, 2009 Web Site Susan Meiselas Since the 1970s, questions of ethics raised by documentary practice have been central to debates in photography. Perhaps no other photographer has so closely and consistently represented and participated in these debates than Susan Meiselas. An American...
