Winners Announced: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin win the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013
Howard Greenberg's Selection
Reported by La Journal de la Photographie
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29th Annual ICP Infinity Awards: Young Photographer Recipient Kitra Cahana
Photojournalist Benoît Gysembergh Dies at 58
Gentleman Photographer passes of complications from cancer.
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MOCA Independence
Endowment Campaign Hopes to Keep the LA Museum Whole
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Community Standard
Facebook Sensors the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume
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Oklahoma Arts Council Funding Cut
State Representative Josh Cockroft calls for $4-million to be Cut
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Public Call for US Secretary of Culture
Music Critic Mark Swed Makes the Case in the LA Times
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Liaison: Centre Pompidou Appoints New York-based Curator
Sylvia Chivaratanond becomes the Pompidou's window to New York and beyond.
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Simply Phillips
Phillips de Pury & Company Sees Departure of Simon de Pury
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Henri Loyrette Takes Leave of the Louvre
After 12 years at his post, Louvre Director wishes not to seek renewal of his mandate.
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473 Photographs Promised to SFMOMA
Three separate collectors contribute
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A Question of Admission: Museum Entry
A Tale of Two Policies - Dallas Museum of Art & the Metropolitan
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Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013: Shortlist Announced
Mishka Henner, Chris Killip, Cristina De Middel and the artist duo Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
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National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Steps Down
Rocco Landesman Announced He will Retire
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MoMA and Columbia Business School Map Abstraction
Foreshadowing of MoMA's Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925
& Mapping a Movement- in today's terms.
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Wounds: Art & the Syrian Revolution
Jaber Al Azmeh
Syrian Photographer's View
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The Met Announces Shifts in Photography Department
Curatorial shifts should promise greater depth of study
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Tobia Bezzola: New Director of the Museum Folkwang
Essen, Germany
Progressive Museum Matched with Innovative Director
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Halt: Artnet
In a memo from the Editor we learn that Artnet.com shall cease publication.
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Jessica S. McDonald: New Chief Curator of Photography
Ransom Center
Austin, TX
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Mitch Dobrowner Awarded 2012 Sony World Photographer of the Year
Dobrowner's work was selected from 112,000 submissions and artists in 171 different countries
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Multiplying Factor: Art Prices Rise with Income Inequity
Study conducted by Yale School of Management and Tilburg University Discover Trends in Art Prices
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Museum of Fine Arts Boston Receives Substantial Gift
Print-heavy Donation Broadens Collection
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Up in Smoke
Italian Museum Director Sets Fire to Artworks in Protest of Budget Cuts
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Anthony Bannon of George Eastman House Leaves for New Role at Buffalo State College
Bannon's announcement of retirement last year allowed a number of institutions time to offer the celebrated George Eastman House Director new positions. Bannon accepted a post at Buffalo State College.
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Photographer's Gallery Gets a New Home
Public Opening May 19, 2012
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Fashion Photographer Lillian Bassman Dies at 94
Fashion photography icon, Lillian Bassman worked up until the end. She died Monday at her Manhattan home.
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Auction Sales on the Rise Despite Royalty Charges
A healthy market even with trimming
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto Dies at 90
A Legend in His Own Time
The Japanese-American photographer, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, enjoyed a long and fruitful career as a photographer on both sides of the Pacific.
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Prado Museum Extends Hours to Offset Government Cutbacks
Record attendance means little when balanced against the international economic crisis.
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Leading Lens Closes: Eve Arnold
Legend in Photojournalism Passes at 99
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Google Goggles & the Met
New technology allows for greater access to Met's collection
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Royalties to Artists
Proposed 7% Royalty Payment in Droit de Suite Bill Introduced to Congress
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The Getty's Man Ray Archive Expands
New Acquisitions Broaden the Getty Research Institue's Collection
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2012 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize Shortlist Announced
Awarding the most significant contributors to photography in the past year
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Mike Smith Named USA Lowe Fellow
Selective Process Names Smith Among Fellows
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Lawsuit Between LaChapelle and Rihanna Settled
Rihanna Settles in Out of Court Decision for Undisclosed Sum
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Behind the Curtain: Larry Fink and Celebrity Starletes
The Vanities: Hollywood Parties, 2000 - 2009
New text reveals telling human drama and honest moments
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The Photographer's Gallery Names Outstanding Contributors to Year Long Project: Street Photography Now
Jo Paul Wallace and Jack Simon Named & Awarded
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Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Appoints New Director
Philip Tinari Named to Post
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Tate Debate
Is photography is more expressive than other art forms?
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Aspen Art Museum Names New Curator
Jacob Proctor to Become Progressive Partner
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Big Impact: Reflecting on the Scale of Contemporary Works
Intimate or Grandiose, Size is Important
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Extra Large View
Photographer John Chiara Uses 18th Century Technology To Get It All In
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In the Mix: Melting-Pot Museum
Congressman James P. Moran Backs the Concept
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Poignant Donation by Richard Misrach
33 prints of the devastating 1991 firestorm were donated to the Oakland Museum of California and the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
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Sole Patron's Monumental Plan to Bring American Art to Middle America
Alice L. Walton and the Crystal Bridges Museum
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Into the Wild: New York Times Interview with Sebastiano Salgado
John Bowe sits down with Salgado.
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A Sad State: Kansas Arts Funding is Eliminated
Governor Pulls the Plug
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Miami Art Museum Receives $1 Million Donation
Bank of America Supports MAM and Culture in South Florida
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Will Cultural Loans Between the US and Russia Grind to a Halt?
Dispute over ownership of religious texts between Orthodox Jewish group and Russia has US Department of Justice involved
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Polaroid Film: Rebirth of an Old Favorite
The Photographers' Gallery in London to sell PX 680
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No Free Museum Days for Out-of-Staters in Chicago
Illinois legislature voted unanimously to approve proposal by Chicago museum giants to eliminate free days for tourists.
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Bigger Box: International Center of Photography
Three years remain on present lease, but the ICP is keeping its eyes open.
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Robert Capa Medal Awarded to Agnes Dherbeys
The Oversees Press Club Anual Award
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New Director for Victoria and Albert Museum
Martin Roth to replace Mark Jones as Director
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Easy Does It: Pinhole Photography
Worldwide Celebration of Photography's Most Basic Form
April 24, 2011
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Behind the Curve: L.A. Museums
Numbers Speek Poorly For an International Art Scene of Prominence
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Is Collapse of Arts Education Culprit for Arts Attendance Decline?
New studies show decline in arts attendance in young generations, but who or what is to blame remains a debate.
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Shut: Blind Photographer's Story
Pete Eckert works with sound, memory, and touch to generate visual imagery for the rest of us.
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Trimming the Fat: Arts & Culture on the Block
Museum professionals gather at nation's capitol to make the case for their importance.
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SFMOMA's Great Expansion
195 promised gifts and plans for 2016 building expansion
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Egypt's Antiques Minister Announces Looting
Archeological sites suffered looting amidst antigovernment protest in Egypt.
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"The Day Nobody Died"
War photographers Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg turn documentary photography on its head.
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World Press Photo of the Year Goes to Jodi Bieber
South African photographer wins 45th annual contest.
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On the Defensive: Museums Deaccessioning from the Permanent Collection
Unnoticed taboo now raises controversy.
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Slashing the Budget- Republican Plan to End Federal Arts, Humanities, and Public Broadcasting
The Republican Study Committee announces plans to eliminate nations leading arts grants.
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Harry Philbrick Named Director of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Vacant since 2009, Philbrick was named head of the museum and the school.
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Photographer Milton Rogovin Dies
Social Documentary Photographer Dies at 101
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Iraq National Museum Set to Reopen
Though security is tight and tension remains high, reopening is sign of a return to normalcy.
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Critique of the Patron
Response to unveiled plans for LA Contemporary Museum don't meet high hopes.
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After the Big One
Wolfgang Tillmans Photographs of Haiti a year after the quake.
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Gregor Muir Named ICA Director
London cultural center trustees make announcement.
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Interview with Eli Broad
Plans and obstacles for private contemporary museum planned for Los Angeles' Grand Avenue.
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400 Strong- Works by Women Artists Donated to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Artist and collector Linda Lee Atler makes generous contribution.
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Joe Moller Named Executive Director of LA Art Walk
Moller to refine vision of the ever growing monthly event in downtown LA.
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Debate Continues over Ansel Adams Glass-Plate Negatives
Countersuit claims slander
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Music Photographer, George Pickow Passes Away at 88
Pickow will be remembered for his iconic images of rock, jazz, and folk musicians.
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Critics' Pick: Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography at MoMA
NYT Critics' Pick
Exhibition runs through April 4, 2011
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Critics' Pick: The Mexican Suitcase Once "lost" photographs of Robert Capa, David Seymour, and Gerda Taro on view at the International Center of Photography.
NYT Critics' Pick
The story of these rediscovered works is as interesting as the images themselves.
Through May 8, 2011
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Pierre Huyghe 2010 Winner of Smithsonian Contemporary Artist Award
Praised by judges as an artist who "looks beyond national boundaries to create an art that speaks to universal themes."
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Pacific Standard Time Southern California's Cultural Institutions Unite
October - April 2011 will celebrate the birth of the L.A. area art scene. An initiative of the Getty this multi-site series of events bands together with the slogan- "One era. A million moments of impact."
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Peter C. Marzio Passes away
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Director for nearly 30 years looses battle with cancer.
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$100,000 to New Media Artist from Brazil
Brazillian artist Cinthia Marcelle who specializes in film, photo, and installation is named winner of the Future Generation Art Prize.
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Music to Her Ears: Susan Philipsz Wins Turner Prize
This year's winner sculpted with sound, becoming the first Turner Prize recipient to make a work that could not be seen.
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Eadweard Muybridge Exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in DC
Technology moves fast, art slower. You could say that art is still catching up to Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), a pioneer of stop-motion photography and early filmmaking.
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A Lost Film of Times Square by Louis Faurer Rediscovered
On a recent Sunday afternoon, Mark Faurer, a New York City cab driver, led a museum curator and a reporter on a tour of historic Times Square. Strolling down Broadway, Mr. Faurer pointed out the sites of onetime attractions like the Planters store near 47th Street.
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Judith Keller Appointed Head of Getty's Department of Photography
Judith Keller, the new head of the J. Paul Getty Museum's department of photographs, is looking toward Asia -- and beyond. She's been increasing the representation of images from Japan, China and Korea as the first step in expanding the scope of the Getty's collection, which has been focused on pre-1950 photography from Europe and America.
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Review: Frederick Evans Exhibit at the Getty
Frederick Evans had an impeccable instinct for form. His platinum prints -- whether portraits, landscapes or studies of architecture -- are pristine, tonally rich and consistently beautiful.
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Victorian Photocollage Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The rejiggering of history is fundamental to "Playing With Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage," a seemingly modest, almost scattered, yet strangely reverberant exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Magnum Photo Archive Moves to Harry Ransom Center
In the middle of December two trailer trucks left New York City bound for Austin, Tex., packed with a precious and unusual cargo: the entire collection of pictures amassed over more than half a century by the Magnum photo cooperative, whose members have been among the world's most distinguished photojournalists.
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Review: Soviet Photography of 1970s-80s at the Zimmerli Museum
American visitors to "Four Perspectives Through the Lens: Soviet Art Photography in the 1970s-1980s," an exhibition at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, may be surprised to discover that photography was not officially considered art in the former Soviet Union. It was regarded as a documentary tool at the service of Communist Party propaganda.
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Magnum Photographer Dennis Stock is Dead at 81
Dennis Stock, 81, a celebrated photographer who helped immortalize Hollywood stars such as James Dean, captured the tension and mood of jazz musicians in their smoky habitat and catalogued the rebellious 1960s counterculture of bikers and hippies, died Jan. 11 at his home in Sarasota, Fla.
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A Lost Archive? Billy Name's Negatives of Warhol's Factory Are Missing
For seven years, beginning in late 1963, when Warhol gave him a 35-millimeter Honeywell Pentax camera, Billy Name was the resident photographer of the Factory, capturing the perpetual swirl of superstars, celebrities and hangers-on.
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Photographs from Look Magazine at the Museum of the City of New York
In the Museum of the City of New York's smartly packaged book and exhibition "Only in New York: Photographs From Look Magazine," you can see how one publication catered to voracious consumers of images.
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California Photographer Larry Sultan Dies at 63
Larry Sultan, a highly influential California photographer whose 1977 collaboration, "Evidence" — a book made up solely of pictures culled from vast industrial and government archives — became a watershed in the history of art photography, died on Sunday at his home in Greenbrae, Calif. He was 63.
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Photographer Evelyn Hofer Dies at 87
Evelyn Hofer, a photographer whose searching, exactingly composed portraits imparted a grave serenity to her human and architectural subjects and who collaborated on a renowned series of travel books with eminent writers in the 1950s and 1960s, died on Nov. 2 in Mexico City. She was 87 and lived in Mexico City.
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Review of "New Photography" Exhibits at the Met, MoMA, and Hunter College
Back when Andreas Gursky was on the rise, the art world buzzed about the supposedly unfair advantages of digital photography. Photoshop and other computer manipulations were seen as performance-enhancing drugs, an impression fostered by Mr. Gursky's gargantuan, hyperdetailed prints.
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Boston Exhibit Commemorates Fall of the Berlin Wall
When the Berlin Wall fell it was as if a John le Carré novel had suddenly been turned inside out and staged as a giant party. One could almost imagine Smiley actually smiling.
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Brett Weston Exhibition at the Currier Museum of Art
"Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow'' is a title with two meanings.
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Roy DeCarava Dies at 89
Roy DeCarava, the child of a single mother in Harlem who turned that neighborhood into his canvas, becoming one of the most important photographers of his generation by chronicling the lives of its ordinary people and its jazz giants, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 89 and lived in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.
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Photography and Rock n' Roll at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
Rock 'n' roll and photography need each other — or, at least, rock musicians need photographers. You can't be a star if you don't have an image.
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Man Ray and African Art at the Phillips Collection
"Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens" is a fascinating new exhibition at the Phillips Collection.
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Irving Penn Dies at 92
Irving Penn, one of the 20th century's most prolific and influential photographers of fashion and the famous, whose signature blend of classical elegance and cool minimalism was recognizable to magazine readers and museumgoers worldwide, died Wednesday morning at his home in Manhattan. He was 92.
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Controversy Over Pending Auction of Polaroid Collection Photographs
In the late 1960s, the Polaroid Corp. had an interesting idea. The company recruited the world's best-known photographers, such as Ansel Adams, William Wegman, and Andy Warhol, provided them with free film and studio space, and said: Have a ball. When you are finished, please give us a few prints, which we will include in our corporate collection.
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Dog Days of Bogotá by Alec Soth at MassArt
A revolver sits on a desk. Its presence there takes a moment to register, since the room has such a high ceiling and the wall behind the desk (which dominates the photograph you're looking at) is bare but for a clock and a small image of a saint.
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170 Years After Its Birth, Photography Must Refocus on Its Identity for the Future
The current media obsession with the financial troubles of the celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz leads the Washington Post's Blake Gopnik to consider the dynamic between commerce and photography.
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Robert Frank's "The Americans" Opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
"America, Captured in a Flash" Like probably a zillion other school kids, "My country tears of thee" was the way I understood the first line of "America." Maybe that's the way the Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank heard it too when he came to the United States from Europe in 1947, at 22, with English his second, third or fourth language.
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Rock Musician Designs Stereoscopic Viewer for Book on Early Photography
Guitarist Brian May, formerly of Queen, helped design a new plastic stereoscopic viewer for an upcoming publication on the nineteenth-century photographer T.R. Williams.
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Photojournalist Lynsey Addario Awarded MacArthur Genius Grant
Istanbul-based photojournalist Lynsey Addario is among the winners of the 2009 MacArthur Fellowships.
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Guatemalan Photographer Luis González Palma at Art Institute of Boston
There's no question that Luis González Palma's photographs are beautiful. Many of the images in his two shows at the Art Institute of Boston (one at the school's Main Gallery, the other in Porter Square) float over grounds of red paper covered in gold leaf. They are lush, imagistic, and brooding.
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Exhibit on Lisette Model and Her Students at Mt. Holyoke
What made Lisette Model's reputation was a series of photographs she took on the French Riviera in the 1930s. They offered an unsparing view of well-fed self-indulgence - the good life as grotesquerie.
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Parisian Photographer, Willy Ronis, Dies at 99
Willy Ronis, whose lyric black-and-white photographs of courting couples, busy street scenes and children at play lent a gentle but enduring mystique to postwar, working-class Paris, died in Paris on Saturday. He was 99.
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Irving Penn's Photographs of the Working Class at the Getty
A 1950 photograph by Irving Penn shows a London seamstress with the tools of her trade — thread, pins, tape measure, fabric — her right hand casually tucked inside one pocket, her other shrouded inside a partially sewn sleeve.
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Robert Frank's Elevator Girl Sees Herself Years Later
One of photographer Robert Frank's most famous images aroused a particular interest from his friend, beat writer Jack Kerouac.
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New Doubts Raised Over Capa's War Photo
After nearly three-quarters of a century Robert Capa's "Falling Soldier" picture from the Spanish Civil War remains one of the most famous images of combat ever. It is also one of the most debated, with a long string of critics claiming that the photo, of a soldier seemingly at the moment of death, was faked.
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Mapplethorpe's Polaroids at Modern Art Oxford
In January 1973 the American artist Robert Mapplethorpe sent out the invitations to his first New York exhibition. Inside each black Tiffany envelope the 26-year-old enclosed a note giving details of the show together with a Polaroid photograph of himself.
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Summer in the City: Galleries Mount New York-themed Shows
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."
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The Guardian Pays Tribute to Billy Jay
Bill Jay, who has died aged 68, started out as a photographer but made his reputation as a writer on and advocate of photography.
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Thomas Ruff Exhibit at Vienna's Kunsthalle
The closer you get to Thomas Ruff's blown-up prints, the less they seem to say. Mr. Ruff's lens hovers only on the surfaces of things, and to our consternation, no deeper.
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Review: Gay Icons at the National Portrait Gallery, London
We knew, after the initial flurry of controversy, that there was going to be no Judy, no Dusty, no Barbra, no Liza. Gay Icons, the exhibition, would recast the notion of what a gay icon was, and those who expected divas with fabulous voices, frocks, pill addictions and capacities to suffer were in for disappointment.
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Marcey Jacobson, a Photographer Inspired by Mexico, Dies at 97
Marcey Jacobson, a self-taught photographer from New York City who spent decades in the southern Mexican highlands documenting the lives of the indigenous Indian peoples, died on July 26 in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico, in the state of Chiapas. She was 97.
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Milton Rogovin, "Voices Silenced, Faces Preserved"
On the wall above the kitchen table in Milton Rogovin's modest home here hangs a handwritten sign listing some of the notable events of 1909: Geronimo's death in prison; the first full year of production for Ford's Model T; the founding of what was to become the N.A.A.C.P.; the birth in New York City of Milton Rogovin, who, approaching 100, is one of the country's most revered social-documentary photographers.
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Downturn in Print Media Hurting Photojournalists
When photojournalists and their admirers gather in southern France at the end of August for Visa pour l'Image, the annual celebration of their craft, many practitioners may well be wondering how much longer they can scrape by.
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Susan Hiller's J. Street Project at San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum
Susan Hiller's "The J. Street Project" demonstrates the capacity of a good idea to draw alarming cumulative power from ostensibly matter-of-fact material.
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Vince Aletti reviews David Goldblatt at the New Museum, NYC
The South African photographer David Goldblatt calls himself "an unlicensed, self-appointed social critic" of his country and compatriots, "sometimes harsh, but not without love."
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Fight Escalates over Licensing Rights between Wikipedia and London's National Portrait Gallery
There's a battle of he said-she said brewing between Britain's National Portrait Gallery and Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia whom the museum has accused of theivery.
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Bennington Photo Exhibit Focuses on Concepts of Time and Space
The relationship between vision and location underlies "The Quality of Place: Photography, Space and Specificity,'' which runs at the Bennington Museum through Aug. 30.
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Review: André Kertész at the Photographers Gallery, London
The Guardian reviews exhibition that focuses on André Kertész's photographic celebration of the joy of the written word.
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Yousuf Karsh's Portraits of Artists at Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC
Caught in the light, Yousuf Karsh placed his subjects on their rightful pedestals.
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Iran's Historical Photo Archive in Jeopardy
Lack of equipment is threatening Iran's historical photo archive, which is one of the most important in the world.
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Review: Dash Snow Memorial at Deitch Projects
Images of a Camera-Toting Artist Turn a Gallery Into a Chapel
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Julius Shulman, Photographer of Modernist Architecture, Dies at 98
Julius Shulman, whose luminous photographs of homes and buildings brought fame to a number of mid-20th century Modernist architects and made him a household name in the architectural world, died Wednesday night. He was 98.
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LACMA photo curator Charlotte Cotton returns to England
Charlotte Cotton, a British curator who has led the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's photography department for the last two years, is joining the staff of the National Media Museum in Bradford, England.
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Kenneth Baker reviews Richard Avedon at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Why do I think of MTV when I see the work of Richard Avedon? Because in his early fashion photographs, Avedon invented pictorial-style-as-branding. It envisions all demeanor as performance and uses movement that meets the camera more than halfway. These qualities reached an unanticipated apex in music videos but made their appearance first in Avedon's innovative magazine pictures of the late 1940s.
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William Eggleston Exhibition at Corcoran Gallery of Art, DC
Like Al Gore and the Internet, William Eggleston is sometimes credited with having "invented" color photography.
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Vince Aletti Reviews Dutch Photography Exhibit at Museum of City of New York
The Museum of the City of New York celebrates the four-hundredth anniversary of the settlement of the original Dutch colonies in New York with "Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered," an exhibition of works by twelve Dutch photographers, most residents of the city, who explore our shared history.
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Photography by Iranian Artists in "Iran Inside Out" at Chelsea Museum of Art, NYC
It takes very little time to get a sense of the spirit animating an ambitious show of Iranian and Iranian-American artists that opened on Friday at the Chelsea Art Museum.
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Cambodian Photographers Take Back the Lens
New galleries and agencies have opened in Cambodia to promote work of native photographers. Local photographers, long unsung or sidelined by foreign journalists, are honing their skills and mounting shows.
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Review of "Viva Mexico!" Edward Weston at Boston's MFA
Maybe the best way to understand "Viva Mexico! Edward Weston and His Contemporaries" is as three interlocking hinges.
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Photography Exhibit by Blind Artists at UC Riverside's California Museum of Photography
"International Photography by Blind Artists" is a notion that, at first, seems like an oxymoron. How can a non-sighted artist make photographs?
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Robert Frank's "The Americans" Celebrated at San Francisco MoMA
Numberless photographers take memorable pictures now and then, but few can claim, as Robert Frank can, to have rerouted their art form. "Looking In: Robert Frank's 'The Americans' " at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication in the United States of his most influential book.
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Kenneth Baker reviews Ansel Adams & Georgia O'Keefe Exhibit at SFMoMA
I have never seen an exhibition unmake its own argument as openly as "Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities" does. The show, organized by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, N.M., stakes everything on resemblances between some of her paintings, or compositional decisions, and some of his photographs.
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Ken Russell Reviews First European Show by Colombian Photo Collective
London is privileged to be hosting the first European show by the Colombian photography collective with the jazzy name Click por los barrios ("Click for the neighbourhoods"). I haven't been this excited by a group of photographs since my own fledgeling professional output in the 1950s of photographic social essays of Portobello street scenes and Teddy girls.
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Michael Kimmelman Reviews "Controversies" Exhibit in Paris
New York Times Art Critic reviews "Controversies: A Legal and Ethical History of Photography," recently on view at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris
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Camilo José Vergara's Time-lapse Photography of Harlem at The New York Historical Society
From the time he arrived in the United States from Chile as a college student in 1965, the photographer Camilo José Vergara has been haunting, and haunted by, American cities.
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Roberta Smith reviews Avedon's Fashion Photography at ICP
Five years after Richard Avedon's death at 81 the International Center of Photography is setting the record straight. Avedon was indeed a great artist, and his fashion photographs are his greatest work.
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Journalist Ann Curry Exhibits Photographs of Darfur's "Forgotten People" in Washington DC
Ann Curry, a 30-year veteran journalist and NBC News anchor, returns to dangerous corners of Africa so often that she's lost count. Even though she travels with the latest video technology, she always takes along a simple still camera to create her favorite and most powerful images.
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Florence Show Compares Mapplethorpe and Michelangelo
An unusual new exhibition in Florence contrasts the art of controversial 20th-century photographer Robert Mapplethorpe with that of Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti in a celebration of the human form.
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Joni Sternbach Revives the Tintype Process at The Peabody Essex Museum
Joni Sternbach has perfected a form of time travel. To get from present to past she uses nothing more complicated than surfboards and tintypes.
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San Francisco Photographer Benjamen Chinn dies at 87
Benjamen Chinn, a Chinese-American photographer who won acclaim for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, died April 25 at age 87.
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Review: Jaromír Funke and Avant-Garde Photography at the National Gallery
The Washington Post's Blake Gopnik reviews "Jaromír Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde" at the National Gallery of Art.
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Two London Exhibits Examine Gerhard Richter's Relationship to Photography
The Photographers' Gallery asks us to consider the photograph as object. We are asked to appreciate that some artists do things like expose photographs under water, or purposely damage their prints and negatives or even (as in one of Andy Warhol's less exciting interventions) literally stitch pictures together in a hopeless attempt to make them less dull.
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Photograms by Walead Beshty at the Hirshhorn
The art of Walead Beshty attempts to find a way between the anti-aesthetic and the emptily aesthetic -- without simply filling a mediocre middle. A new show at the Hirshhorn features 36 works by the British-born, Yale-trained, Los Angeles-based 32-year-old.
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Hubert Van Es, a Dutch photojournalist who covered the Vietnam War, Dies at 67
Hubert Van Es, a Dutch photojournalist who covered the Vietnam War and took one of the best-known images of the American evacuation of Saigon in 1975 — people scaling a ladder to a helicopter on a rooftop — died here on Friday. He was 67.
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Holland Carter reviews "The Pictures Generation" at the Met
Apart from a few years in the 1960s when the New York culture czar Henry Geldzahler tossed some stardust around, the Metropolitan Museum was a fusty backwater for contemporary art, and an object of scorn in the art world. New work seemed to arrive only in bland job-lot batches. Exhibitions kept being awarded to angsty British painters who had peaked before World War II.
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Review: Walead Beshty at LAXART
Among the earliest work Walead Beshty produced after completing his MFA at Yale in 2002 was a series of photographs depicting his own body in various consumer settings — shopping malls, department stores, supermarkets — communing unceremoniously with the merchandise.
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Review: Sean McFarland, winner of 2009 Baum Award, at SFCamerawork
Photographer Sean McFarland isn't trying to fool you, but to look at his pictures on display at SF Camerawork is to not know exactly what you are looking at.
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Getty's New Focus on Asian Photography
When the J. Paul Getty Museum plunged into the field of photography 25 years ago with a stunning purchase of 18,000 photographs, one of the least-remarked facts was that the bonanza of mostly European and American images included a few Japanese works.
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Richard Prince Claims Fair Use in Cariou Infringement Case
Attorneys for artist Richard Prince say his use of photographs by Patrick Cariou in a series of collage paintings is protected by the fair use provision of copyright law.
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Robert Adams Wins Hasselbad Prize
Robert Adams, whose images of the American West have made him an internationally celebrated photographer, just got $61,000 richer.
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Vince Aletti reviews MoMA's "Into the Sunset"
If the idea for MoMA's "Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West" isn't particularly original, its execution is.
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First Published Photos of War Dead Under Pentagon's New Policy
Photojournalists gathered at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware Sunday and recorded the ceremonial unloading of a flag-draped casket from a transport plane.
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Review: Syntax Exhibit at the 2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival
The Photographic Resource Center at Boston University is commonly referred to as the PRC. For the next six weeks, an apter acronym might be VSRC - as in Visualization Sciences Resource Center.
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