Dmitry Baltermants was born in 1912 in Warsaw, Poland, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire. Baltermants spent his childhood amidst civic dissolution, revolution, civil war, and…
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Dmitry Baltermants was born in 1912 in Warsaw, Poland, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire. Baltermants spent his childhood amidst civic dissolution, revolution, civil war, and…
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In Earth Laughs In Flowers David LaChapelle appropriates the traditional Baroque still life painting in order to explore contemporary vanity, vice, the transience of earthly possessions and, ultimately, the fragility…
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It was the photographic event of the year in NewYork. The openning of Cindy Sherman's exhibition at the MoMA yesterday evening. The sumptuous restrospective spreads over 11 rooms. Abe Frajndlich…
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Worldwide, prisons are ʻhomeʼ to more than 9 million people, and their numbers will only increase over the coming decades. But what do our various societies seek to accomplish by…
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Duane just turned 80, and our gift is an entire edition of La Lettre dedicated to him. One day in January, 1971, some remarkable photographs arrived at the offices of…
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Last January, on a snowy Sunday afternoon, I chanced to find my orphaned correspondence abandoned appropriately in the back of a closet. I began to read the words I had…
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Always inspired by things Japanese, Sonny produced fan shape photographs in color in the manner of Hokusai and Hiroshige with Haiku poetry. Duane Michals now has returned to his early…
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Born February 18, 1932 in McKeesport Pennsylvania, Duane Michals called Margaret and John, Mum and Dad. Everyone called him Sonny. Attending Holy Trinity School, he was a good Catholic, who…
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At McKeesport High School, Sonny was the news editor of The Red and Blue. During his fifteenth summer, Duane Michals found his way to Amarillo, Texas with Jimmy Connelly on…
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