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gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Helen Levitt - Side by Side at Laurence Miller Gallery. "... Many wonderful juxtapositions of photographs by each will be shown: Cartier-Bresson’s children playing among the ruins in Seville share the energy and formal complexity found in Levitt’s boys playing with branches in a vacant lot in Spanish Harlem. A near perfect pairing juxtaposes Cartier-Bresson’s boy carrying a...
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Joe Reifer - Words (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
I’ve been thinking about putting together a self published night photography book to use as a portfolio and to sell in conjunction with a print offer. One important question that I’ve struggled with is how many images are ideal for a fine art photography book? 20 to 30 prints seems right for a portfolio, and [...]
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Nerd Litter (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Photo by Helen Levitt (via Lens Culture) * Jeff Weiss calls out Lil Wayne with a pretty incisive counterpoint. ("Wayne is neither savior nor Satan. What he is a talented rapper with absolutely no concept of quality control.") Lil' Boosie and Lil Mama, consider yourselves put on notice. [ Idolator ] * Shane talks to both My Brightest Diamond and Bell in a single month. Lucky bastard. [ The Torture Garden...
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D'log :: blogging no (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
To follow Helen Levitt’s major retrospective in Paris four months ago, there’s now a new book simply titled Helen Levitt. It’s a substantial retrospective volume of the life work of New York’s “visual poet laureate”, and features… “a collection of her most iconic works, intermixed with never-before-seen photographs” It’s already shipping in the U.S., and Amazon U.K. [...]
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008
By Baker, R C Best in Show 'Post War Perspectives' La urence Miller Gallery 20 West 57th Street Through March 29 Take Your Pic Someone had a blast putting together this show of photographs taken between 1945 and 1960.
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UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Photo Credit:NYC.GOV Today, the proposed re-zoning plan for 125th street went for a vote by city officials. [NYT] [NY1] This Daily News editorial tries to make the case for the proposed re-zoning. [NYDailyNews] Infamous numbers king “Spanish Raymond” is suing the city for $15M. [NYDailyNews] The Harlem Children's Zone is looking to hire a new VP of Finance [...]
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Daddy Types (Free subscription) | 02/13/2008
Lifelong New Yorker Helen Levitt is one of the masters of street photography, the kind of candid, revelatory imagemaking that, as a NYT reviewer once wrote, "combine[s] intuition and intellect to forge sophisticated, lyrical compositions from commonplace events." If...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 01/14/2008
Pop Culture Imagery Captures Pulse of an Era With 'Paparazzi As An Art
Form'
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- In one of the first shows of its
kind, Buzz Foto, LLC, a Los Angeles-based paparazzi agency, is hosting a
retrospective of contemporary celebrity photos in "Paparazzi As An Art
Form." An opening night celebrity reception will be held Friday, February
15, 2008 at the Maryam Seyhoun Gallery...
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Shake Your Fist (Free subscription) | 12/03/2007
Image: Helen Levitt I See Who You Are - Björk From Volta ( Amazon ), Myspace Image: Irving Penn Trust - Gravenhurst From The Western Lands ( Amazon ), Myspace Image: Pamela Klaffke The Catch - Emmy the Great From The Mules Present Pick Your Own ( eMusic ) , Myspace Image: Noa Baak Dark Eyes - Iron & Wine & Calexico From I'm Not There soundtrack ( Amazon ) Image: Roger Ballen (cropped) Hyenas - Tulsa...
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Veer: The Skinny (Free subscription) | 11/22/2007
A remarkable collection of Helen Levitt's street photography is showing at Fondation HBC in Paris. Made over seven decades , Levitt documents a time before LCD screens and fear scrubbed the kids from the streets….
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The Greenbelt (Free subscription) | 11/03/2007
Let us now praise Walker Evans, portaitmaker of America, who was born today in 1903. Of his work, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art says Evans' elegant crystal-clear photographs and articulate publications inspired artists of several generations, from Helen Levitt to William Eggleston. The progenitor of the documentary tradition in American photography, Evans had the extraordinary ability to see...
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Kelly Mullen's site (Free subscription) | 10/21/2007
Helen Levitt's street photography. Detail. “Levitt was a pioneer of color photography, starting seriously in 1959, when she received a Guggenheim grant to explore her familiar territory, but shifting from black-and-white to color. Her grant was renewed for a second year in 1960, and she recorded hundreds of color images in these intense two years. Unfortunately, [...]
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Dumbo NYC (Free subscription) | 08/20/2007
From our friends at PowerHouse Arena: Summer Sale: Up to 90% off on select items! August 17–September 9, 2007 Stock up your stacks and decorate your palace with a fabulous selection of fine art, documentary, pop culture, fashion, and celebrity books, limited editions, a fine selection of children's and novelty Chronicle Books, and select stationary from Chicago-based designers [...]
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About The Image (Free subscription) | 08/13/2007
Redux Pictures has announced a deal with powerHouse Books, a specialty publisher focused on conceptual art photography and illustrated books from the world's top photographers, art directors, writers, and cultural icons. According to the press release Redux pictures will handle international serial rights to select powerHouse Book titles including upcoming releases from Jamel Shabazz, Janette Beckman,...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/15/2007
John Szarkowski, who created a fresh vision of the art of photography during his long tenure as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, died...
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Explore : Diane Arbus, Edward Weston, Fine Arts, Garry Winogrand, John Szarkowski, Lee Friedlander, Museum of Modern Art, Museums, New York, Photographers, Walker Evans, William Eggleston
