Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
WASHINGTON, DC.- Photographers Katy Grannan, Jocelyn Lee, Ryan McGinley, Steve Pyke, Martin Schoeller and Alec Soth are featured in the National Portrait Gallery 's fourth installation of Portraiture Now. This series presents some of the most creative 21st-century portrait artists. The current installation, titled Feature
The Cwtch (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
*Norma Shearer (1935)* These gorgeous photographs were taken by Edward Steichen (1879-1973). Born in Luxembourg Eduard Jean Steichen became a naturalised American citizen after migrating to the US with his family as a child. Steichen was first and foremost a fine art painter until he realised how his skills in fine art could translate into photography to create a new kind of pictoralist art photography....
Richard's Notes (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has two excellent photography shows up right now that are well worth seeing. Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008 which includes work for the magazine by Cecil Beaton, Harry Benson, Julian Broad, Imogen Cunningham, Annie Leibovitz, Man Ray, Mary Ellen Mark, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Edward Steichen, Mario [...]
Racked (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
[Images from "This Is Not a Fashion Photograph" and "Weird Beauty" via the ICP] MIDTOWN WEST—The International Center of Photography (ICP) has declared that 2009 is the Year of Fashion. They'll celebrate with six exhibits over the next year,...
Yanko Design (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Magnum Photos is issuing a new edition of its book New York. This book is giant, at 20X14 inches, and comes with its own little case that makes it look like one of the buildings at Rockefeller Center. In this super-limited edition of 25 (no I am not missing a zero), they also [...]
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
WASHINGTON, DC.- Photographers Katy Grannan, Jocelyn Lee, Ryan McGinley, Steve Pyke, Martin Schoeller and Alec Soth are featured in the National Portrait Gallery's fourth installation of Portraiture Now. This series presents some of the most creative 21st-century portrait artists. The current installation, titled Feature Photography, identifies six critically acclaimed fine-art
SHOWstudio (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Fashion, it seems, is getting nicer by the minute. After Alber Elbaz's politely deferential explanation of the lateness of the Lanvin show , today Rick Owens sent a handwritten note of apology for the problems experienced at the door to his Paris show . Unexpected but more than welcome as Rick's note... [ more ]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
The British supermodel, Kate Moss, will play a starring role at the head of an unprecedented cast of a century of models at the next Costume Institute Gala Benefit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Shop Diary (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008 is the first major exhibition to bring together the magazine’s historic archive of rare vintage prints with its contemporary photographs. The exhibition explores the ways in which photography and celebrity have interacted and changed, with portraits from the magazine’s early period (1913–1936) displayed in conjunction with works from the contemporary [...]...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
BARCELONA.- The survey or photographic mission came into existence with a specific goal: to build the image of the emerging city in a time of huge but difficult to visualise transformation. It was the writer Prosper Merimée who, in 1851, sponsored the first major photographic campaign in history: the Mission Héliographique, intended to create a public photographic archive of French
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
Press Preview: Wednesday, October 22, 10am-12noon LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- LACMA presents Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008, the first major exhibition to bring together the magazine's historic archive of rare vintage prints with its contemporary photographs, on view from October 26, 2008 through March 1, 2009. The exhibition explores the ways in which photography and celebrity have...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
WOLFSBURG, GERMANY - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg presents Edward Steichen ..'In High Fashion', on view through January 4, 2009. In the fourteen years since it opened, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg has regularly presented the medium of photography in exhibitions devoted to the work of individual artists. To date these have included Lee Miller, Cecil Beaton, Brassaï, Richard Avedon, Man Ray, Pietro Donzelli and...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
WEST PALM BEACH.- Opening to the public tomorrow, October 11, 2008, Coming Into Focus: Jeane von Oppenheim and Photography at the Norton, 19982008, celebrates the 10th anniversary of Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim's significant donation of over 650 photographs. Her generous contribution propelled the Norton Museum into collecting photography seriously, and therefore, as having
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Portrait Gallery presents Women of Our Time: Twentieth Century Photographs, on view through February 1, 2009. In the exhibition "Women of Our Time: Twentieth Century Photographs," the National Portrait Gallery celebrates women who have challenged and changed America. Drawn exclusively from the Portrait Gallery's collection, these revealing portraits
Gatochy's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
(Clickable Thumbnails) Botticelli , "The Birth of Venus," (detail) 1485 Osamu Watanabe Leonardo da Vinci , "Mona Lisa," 1506 Anjiresu, "The Real Goth Mona Lisa" Edward Steichen , Greta Garbo Nerot, "Greta's Tear" Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Jessica Parker (found in Fabulon ) Man Ray Niagara
