January 2009
17 posts
“If an artist makes an item (such as a shark cut in half or a bunny made out of...”
– Art Biz Blog: Deep Thought Thursday
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The Bush years - in photos
A quite amazing analysis of some of the most important photographs summing up the Bush years.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall - Errol Morris Blog - NYTimes.com
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Man Ray exhibition opens in The Hague
Man Ray (1890-1976) used his camera to turn photography into an art – no mean feat for a man who tried almost all his life to avoid being described as a ‘photographer’. He preferred to be identified with his work in other media: drawings, paintings and Dadaist ready-mades.
The exhibition, ‘Unconcerned, but not indifferent’ at the Hague Museum of Photography is a large-scale...
When Art Doesn't Age Well
When Art Doesn’t Age Well, Does The Artist Owe The Buyer? “Art is long and life is short, according to the old Roman saying, but sometimes art doesn’t hold up its end of the bargain. The canvas warps, the metal bends, the paper turns brown…. [I]t’s not fully clear what responsibility artists bear to their completed work, especially after it has been sold.”
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“Whatever the period or medium, the photography market enjoyed the strongest...”
– via ArtPrice
BURBERRY - Milan Fall Winter 09/10 →
The collection features long shapes and oversized elements, and the garments play with black and white contrasts like Bill Brandt´s photography. There are greys, carbons, prunes, bottle greens and midnight blues too.
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From Milan: Sobering up after dress to excess -... →
Burberry Prorsum Menswear Fall 2009: Masculine...
MILAN, Jan 19, 2009 — Trust Christopher Bailey to grasp the current zeitgeist of austerity and turn it into a very powerful statement of male masculinity without being overbearing. Inspired by the work of Bill Brandt, one of the pre-eminent photographers of the 20th century, Bailey went back to the post World War II era where devastation was everywhere but there was also an air of hope.
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Roll your own art sales!
ArtCycle.. A new Website to Buy and Sell Contemporary Art
Have you got a nice picture to sell? Or do you need some cash in this difficult economic environment? Usually the gallery you originally bought your art from is pretty reluctant to buy it back - so that gives you the option of going to an auction house - and wait for the auction or visiting a brand new service from ArtCycle. Check it out.
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“These old categories that used to segregate the different areas of photography...”
– Daile Kaplan of Swann Galleries via Collector’s Weekly
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Gravure Fraud!
I am completely surprised at the appearance of a so called ‘Gravure Print’ by Bill Brandt on Ebay. Not least, because Bill Brandt did not actually authorize any such prints. Looking into the matter more closely, it is apparent that the article offered for sale is merely a page from his early edition of Perspective of Nudes or Shadow of Light - which were both originally produced in...
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Art market avoids crash ... Phew! →
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Berenice Abbott on Flickr
The New York Public Library has added 160 photos from Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York, 1935-1938″ to Flickr.
[via galleryhopper]
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Martin Parr's favourite photography books of 2007 →
Masters of 20th Century Photography
The Museum of Modern Art in Lugano, Switzerland is hosting a show titled ‘Masters of 20th Century Photography’. Pretty good by the looks of it and worth stopping by in the last few days if you are nearby.
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First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern...
All the photographs are straight. There is no technical trickery involved — no darkroom magic, no multiple exposures and no digital manipulation. Every picture is the result of what the photographer saw through a lens. Nor do any of the pictures belong in the genre of the accidental, anonymous snapshot. Almost all are by professional artists, including many famous ones, like Bill Brandt, Larry...