February 2012
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January 2012
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“As the whole world and his dog descend on London for the Olympics, Tate Britain...”
– 100 reasons to be glad it’s 2012 - Telegraph
September 2011
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Jonathan Good, on photographs →
Every 2 minutes today we snap as many photos as the whole of humanity took in the 1800s. In fact, ten percent of all the photos we have were taken in the past 12 months.
August 2011
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Photography - is the Decisive Moment DEAD? →
Hope so!
April 2011
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Photobook Tournament
Photobook Tournament’s second round
As some of you know, Photobook holds a light hearted tournament which pitches various photographers off against each other in a football style tournament. The current one is about the ‘Best’ photo book. Bill Brandt is in the ‘sweet sixteen’ and looking for your vote!
Vote Now for The English at Home
March 2011
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The Russian artists who crossed the line →
February 2011
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Snap Judgement
Collectors have learned to love it, but others continue to argue about whether or not photography can ever really be considered an art. Smile, says Anthony Haden-Guest
Cindy Sherman: Untitled film still number 14, 1978. Courtesy Sprüth Magers Berlin London and Metro Pictures © Cindy Sherman
July 2010
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Proposition: John Szarkowski Was The Most...
An insightful critic as well as a visionary curator, Szarkowski filled New York’s Museum of Modern Art with the colour photography of William Eggleston, and championed the transgressive work of Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander. Everyone who cares about photography is in his debt, including Bill Brandt who he championed at the MoMA.
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What's Wrong With Turner's Record-Breaking Sale
“Apparently, it is a triumph for Turner that an art market bloated beyond sanity has decided his painting is worth something, and a marvellous day for Britain that a painting on view for decades at one of our free public museums will now be spirited away to LA.”
May 2010
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PDNPulse: Producers of New Instant Film for... →
The Impossible Project, which in March announced the success of their effort re-engineer analog instant film packs for Polaroid cameras, will open a New York store and gallery on April 30 2010.
April 2010
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In Atmospheric Light. Pictorialism in Dutch...
Until 20 June 2010 the museum is staging an exhibition on Pictorialism, one of the earliest movements in photography. More than a hundred photographs by well-known Dutch photographers from around 1900, among them Henri Berssenbrugge, Adriaan Boer, Bernard Eilers and Berend Zweers, show how photography developed from a technical accomplishment into an art form.
DateFrom 01 Apr ‘10 till 20...
March 2010
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The photograph that defined the class divide
The photograph that defined the class divide In 1937, five boys were famously snapped standing outside Lord’s. But who were they, what were they doing there – and what happened to them? The answer is surprising …
via The Guardian
February 2010
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British Journal of Photography - Jail for... →
The relationship between photographers and police could worsen next month when new laws are introduced that allow for the arrest - and imprisonment - of anyone who takes pictures of officers ‘likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism’.
Set to become law on 16 February, the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 amends the Terrorism Act 2000 regarding offences...
67 Irving Penn Prints To Be Sold
67 Irving Penn Prints To Be Sold at Auction
by Holly Hughes
For more than 30 years, Patricia McCabe worked as personal assistant to master photographer Irving Penn, who died last year at the age of 92. Over the years, Penn gave McCabe numerous prints he inscribed to her. Now McCabe is putting 67 of those prints up for sale at an auction to be held April 14 at Christie’s auction house in New...
Billionaire Michael Dell Buys Magnum Photos Print...
“While no price was disclosed, the collection has been insured for more than $100 million” and includes about 185,000 prints.
Shadow of Light
January 2010
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Seeing Beauty: New show at MoPA
Seeing Beauty explores the aesthetics of beauty, expressed through the eyes of various photographers throughout the history of the medium, including Bill Brandt, Walker Evans, Mary Ellen Mark, Edward Weston, Minor White, and Aaron Siskind. The exhibition presents a range of genres in photography, such as portraiture, abstraction, landscape, and still life.
Leila, Bretagne 1948 by Edouard...
Edward Weston's muse remembered
Charis Wilson: Model and writer who became muse and collaborator for the photographer Edward Weston.
[via The Independent]
Art market rebound?
The London art auctions are upon us, and a year has made a hell of a difference. The auctions at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips de Pury are expected to fetch at least $104 million, which would be an increase of 68 percent over the same season in 2009. If the houses can pull this off, the art market will probably breathe a collective sigh of relief after more than a year...
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In Search of an Archive of Warhol’s Era
Photo archive of Warhol’s Era is lost.
The disappearance of the negatives has alarmed not just Mr. Name and his circle of friends and supporters but also scholars, who describe the images as an important historical record of a pivotal time in art history.
Billy Name’s Warhol History May Be Lost
Peter Marlow: Influenced by the night photography...
‘London at Night’ by Peter Marlow
In 1981, The Photographers’ Gallery commissioned Magnum photographer Peter Marlow to produce an exhibition on the theme of London at Night, which was subsequently exhibited at the gallery in 1983. Influenced by the night photography of Bill Brandt (1904-1983), Marlow chose to document the area around Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs in East London, an area in which...
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Leibovitz Portfolio : $3.5 million
Annie Leibovitz Tries to Regain Financial Footing by selling limited editions and weighing book deals in an effort to regain control of her homes and the copyrights to her work.
Since then Ms. Leibovitz has been trying to leverage her photographic archive to pay off the debt. Through James Danziger, a gallery owner who had represented Ms. Leibovitz from 1990 to 2000, she has begun selling a...
November 2009
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Top things to see in Sheffield 2009
A Picture of Us? Identity in British Art
Bill Brandt and Tacita Dean
Graves Gallery, Surrey Street Mondays-Fridays, 10am-4pm
Saturdays, 10am-5pm until December 5.
Ten Top things to do - Sheffield Telegraph
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Do you really need an expensive camera?
Harking back to an era when cameras were a little simpler, this Japanese photographer once again proves that it is the eye that sees and the limitations perceived by equipment are only in one’s imagination.
All these images are taken with an iphone. Superb.
s a s u r a u - iPhonegrapher
October 2009
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Photo Books: Worth a shot
The market for fine photographic prints has exploded over the past decade, yet the photobook (as it has come to be known) was, until recently, relegated to the sidelines by dealers and collectors alike. But as photography has become more valued and collected, photobooks have slowly come to be recognised as desirable (and collectable) in their own right and the market is burgeoning, according to...
Modern Light: Selections from the Jim and Nan...
In the late 1970s, some of the world’s top photographers made their way to a small art gallery in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Luminaries in this field, such as Bill Brandt and Bruce Barnbaum, displayed their work at the Fifth Avenue Gallery of Photography, located in the heart of the city’s art district. Sometimes, they left a few prints behind as a gift to gallery owner Jim Robertson.
“Modern...
The lost art of portraits
The great British photographer Bill Brandt’s 1952 portrait of Sir Alec Guinness – showing the actor in a smartly tailored dark suit against an interior background of modernist architecture – is pure formal composition. Guinness’s face, with the smooth, well-lit curvature of his left cheek, could well have been carved by Brancusi.
“The Presence of Portraits” is at Corkin...
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“I was acutely aware that there had been a long and rich history of documentary...”
– BBC - Viewfinder: The English at leisure
September 2009
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“Private bankers appear to be putting art in the frame again, following the...”
– FT.com / Personal Finance - Bankers bone up on Banksy
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Stephen Daiter Gallery "There'll Always be an... →
Vintage works by Bert Hardy with works by Bill Brandt, Martin Parr, Brian Seed and others.
London-born Bert Hardy, still largely unknown in America, was one of the great documentary photographers of the 20th century. For decades his works dominated the pages of the Picture Post, England’s answer to Life magazine. He photographed children, war, sports and most other human endeavors with an...
August 2009
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Faked Photographs: Look, and Then Look Again
Robert Capa/Magnum Photos Old debates about the authenticity of war photographer Robert Capa’s iconic photo - commonly known as “Falling Soldier” - have been re-ignited by research that challenges the location of the image.
[via NYT]
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Don't miss the new selection at The MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art announces two major photography acquisitions: nearly 60 examples of nineteenth-century photography from the Suzanne Winsberg Collection and 39 photographs by Richard Avedon.
The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries on the third floor will present photos from these two acquisitions from August 7, 2009, to March 22, 2010.
Selections include FSA (Farm Security...
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Tribute to Bill Jay
The Guardian newspaper has published an obituary for photography historian and critic Bill Jay, a longtime Arizona State University faculty member and a prolific writer. Jay, 68, died May 10 in Costa Rica, where he had moved after his 2008 retirement. One of Jay’s later themes was that photography as he knew it—a distinct art form whose standards were set from within by its own master...
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Collectible books
What should a recession collector choose: books or art? How about both. For under $300. Shen Wei’s is a portfolio of his best “Almost Naked” images (suitable for framing), while Juliana Beasley’s knock-out “Lap Dancer” book comes with a spectacular color print. If you’ve been itching to treat yourself, here’s where to start.
Almost Naked
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Don McCullin at the National Media Museum
Don McCullin, born in 1935, is part of a lost generation of British social photographers whose work remains insufficiently published and understood. In this, he takes his place alongside the likes of Ray Moore, 15 years his senior, Tony Ray Jones, born in 1941, Graham Smith, born in 1947, or Chris Killip, born in 1946. None of them are unknown, but nor do they have a tenth of the recognition they...
July 2009
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“I’ve seen the Polaroids scattered all over your studio, and I know you enjoy...”
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Moises de la Renta: Fashion Scion Gone Solo - BlackBook
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Staged? Faked? The ambiguities of the photograph →
Many of Bill Brandt’s photographs of English upper and working-class lives were staged, but that staging doesn’t make them bogus. Rather Brandt was using artifice to get his subjects to enact a role more general than any particular haphazard moment.
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Houses in Detroit Photography →
Website 100abandonedhouses.com, provides a beautiful and heartbreaking record of what were once some of the city’s grandest properties.
via Bint photoBooks
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“He traveled all over the goddamned world, and you never felt that he was moved...”
– Evidently Robert Frank was just as harsh a critic of Cartier-Bresson as Bill Brandt, although Brandt was much more softly spoken!
Eye on Image-Making: Robert Frank Redux | Black Star Rising
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Reality and illusion in photography
Probably most will have read about the “student hoax” that won Paris Match’s annual contest for student photojournalism, a set of black and white images on how students at the French university of Strasbourg were making ends meet - if you’ve not seen the pictures, they are on the Paris Match site.
Although the pictures are described as “entirely faked” this is arguable. Obviously they were...
June 2009
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Street Portrait Photo How To - Video - Wired →
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Bill Brandt - art of an era - EDP24
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Bill Brandt - art of an era
So often when I think of an image of pre-war urban England it turns out to be a photograph by Bill Brandt - the brilliant snapper who now has a big retrospective exhibition in London just after what would have been his 105th birthday.
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Influenced by Bill Brandt
‘I needed a nude and a 20-year-old called Madonna showed up. She got $30’
Madonna Nudes 19 Earlham Street London WC2 2 July - 19 July 2009
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Bill Brandt Show opens in London
24 June - 18 July 2009
The Bill Brandt Archive in association with the Chris Beetles Gallery is proud to open the largest Bill Brandt non museum show since 2003.
In the newly renovated Chris Beetles Gallery, over 60 images are available for sale in two limited editions of platinum and silver gelatin. The images are drawn from some of Brandt’s best work but also includes images which are...
May 2009
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Bill Jay passes away
Sad news today that photo historian, publisher, author and photographer Bill Jay passed away in his sleep on Sunday in his recently adopted hometown of Samara in Costa Rica.
Bill was kind enough to provide an extremely well constructed and researched foreword to the book I published in 1999 ‘BRANDT The Photography of Bill Brandt’ (Thames & Hudson)
I visited him at his office at...