Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
NEW YORK.- NEW YORK.- Christie's announced three important sales during its Photographs Week at Rockefeller Center this October. With viewings for all sales open to the public from October 9 -13, the three distinct sales will present collectors with the finest photographs from many of the 20th and 21st century's most important and influential artists. The combined total for all
A Different Stripe (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
The Caustic Cover Critic has outdone himself with his recent post aggregating what seems thousands of covers of the works of John Wyndham. Given the sci-fi genre treatment (not always the most aesthetically pleasing) that his books could have been...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
"Photography on Photography," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York until Oct. 19, presents a variety of works (by artists male and female, young and old, American and European, famous and fledgling) from the 1960s to the present.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Artists male and female, young and old, famous and fledgling are all represented in the Met’s “Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium Since 1960.”
Dohiyi Mir (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
NYTimes: As it sifts through the riches of the extraordinary Gilman Collection of photographs, acquired three years ago, the Met is slowly bringing its holdings of contemporary photography up to speed. In the fall the museum dedicated a new gallery,...
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
At a time when museums, galleries, and collectors’ homes are full of massive color prints by Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman, and Thomas Ruff, the idea that color photographs were once not just unfashionable but unsalable seems impossibly quaint. “When Color Was New,” a smart, compact show at the Julie Saul . . .
Material Interest (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Coming to the state where everything's bigger: the guy who made jeans skinnier. Hedi Slimane is among the notables with work in Sehnsucht (Aspiration), a gallery show opening tonight at Dallas gallery Light & Sie. (That's his untitled Plexiglas print...
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
By Madhusree Chatterjee New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Can a photograph simultaneously convey a sense of distance and proximity? If it’s been taken by a student of prominent German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, it most certainly can - as is evident at an exhibition underway here. For Indians, who are viewing the works of the Becher [...]
The Herald (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
REVIEW: There’s something a little out of focus about the Tate Modern’s sprawling new photography exhibition.
Blabber, Etcetera (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
What happens in Miami doesn't have to stay in Miami. In fact, if all goes well, visitors should leave there with something to take home and put on the wall -- or on the floor or in the closet. At least that's the message of the city's newest tourism campaign , which replaces bikini-clad lovelies lounging poolside at boutique hotels (not that there's anything wrong with that) with the work of local...
Junk for Code (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
I know little about contemporary German photography apart from the work of Andreas Gursky and the landscape work of Michael Reisch. My impression is that photography in Germany is booming. What I do know that in the 1920s and early ‘30s German photography was dominated by two distinct approaches to...
greg.org: the making of (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
From around 1989-92, the German photographer Thomas Ruff created a body of work using astronomical survey photos from the European Southern Observatory in Chile. There is very little discussion online of this series, even though I believe it's the...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Wallspace Gallery 619 West 27th Street, ground floor, 212-594-9478 Chelsea April 4 - May 10, 2008 Opening: Friday, April 4, 6 - 8PM Web Site Christopher Williams / Nan Goldin Sherrie Levine / Walker Evans / Thomas Ruff Martha Rosler / Jan Groover Gillian Wearing Paul Outerbridge / Eliot Porter Robert Bechtle / Jeff Wall Thomas Struth / Rodney Graham Sharon Lockhart / Charlie White Bruce Nauman / Barbara...
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
German photography has had an enormous impact in America in the past two decades, but the success of Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, and Thomas Ruff has eluded Michael Schmidt, who is having his first solo show in a New York gallery, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, at the age of sixty-two . . .
Conscientious (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
Thomas Ruff is one of the most well-known and influential German photographers alive, pupil of the Bechers and then teacher at the art academy in Düsseldorf. I have always been extremely impressed by his willingness to extend the boundaries of photography to see where things might be going. Late last year, I met him at the opening of his last show at Zwirner gallery , and of course I had to ask him...
