Photographic exhibition titled “Garden of Eden”, by Andrzej Maciejewski, will be presented in The Camerawork Gallery in Portland Oregon, from August 20th to September 23rd, 2011. Andrzej Maciejewski – Garden of Eden: Still Life with 4024(USA), 4025(USA), 4049(Honduras), 4410(USA) and 4026(USA).
Irving Penn, John F. Kennedy, Washington, D.C., 1960, gelatin silver print, printed 1984, 15 x 15in. Estimate: $25,000 – 35,000. © 1961 (renewed 1979) Condé Nast Publications Inc. Over the past two days, three important auctions of photographs were held at Christie’s New York, including two significant single-owner sales with dedicated individual catalogues, Three Decades [...]
Margaret Bourke-White’s 1930 photograph of the Statue of Liberty. Last winter, when the art economy was looking especially dark, a group of Manhattan photography dealers got together and decided to put on a spirit-lifting show: “New York Photographs,” a summertime tribute to the greatest city on earth. Thirteen galleries agreed to mount exhibitions — some [...]
Annie Leibovitz sued by Art Capital Group. American photographer Annie Leibovitz, one of the most respected in the world, will have to return a $24 million loan she received in 2008 as a result of a lawsuit filed after she did not comply with the terms of an agreement. Art Capital Group has filed a [...]
Big names and new talent come together at the FORMAT09 international photography festival in Derby. Jonas Bendiksen at the FORMAT09 international photography festival in Derby Photo: Jonas Bendiksen/Magnum Photos Two men mucking about on a hulk of spaceship detritus while a cloud of white butterflies swarms around them – not the kind of thing one [...]
Inspired by the possibilities of painting in nature, rather than in the studio, artists traveled to the rugged Forest of Fontainebleau near Paris from the early 1820s to the mid-1870s forging innovations in art that would resonate for generations to follow. There, among the rural villages and the vast and varied wilderness, they laid the [...]
Edward Steichen is one of the key figures in the history of photography. Beginning as a leading exponent of the 19th-century romantic movement called Pictorialism, Steichen metamorphosed rapidly into one of the leading lights of modernism. For more than half a century he occupied centre stage as the most famous living photographer, the medium’s first [...]