Gangland murders, gruesome car crashes, and perilous tenement fires were for the photographer Weegee (1899—1968) the staples of his flashlit black-and-white work as a freelance photojournalist in the mid-1930s. Such…
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Gangland murders, gruesome car crashes, and perilous tenement fires were for the photographer Weegee (1899—1968) the staples of his flashlit black-and-white work as a freelance photojournalist in the mid-1930s. Such…
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Some 300 guests each paid 250 dollars to be at the lunch of the Spotlights of the ICP to finance the institution. During the dinner, on a stage, Mary Ellen…
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Steven Kasher Gallery presents Weegee: Naked City in conjunction with two major specifically-focused Weegee exhibitions, Weegee: Naked Hollywood at MoCA and Weegee: Murder is My Business at the ICP.…
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He was six-feet-four inches tall, gangly and awkward, all knees and elbows. He wore a suit that was so wrinkled he might have slept in it the night before. As…
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Respecting My Elders is a collection of color portraits of creative persons over the age of eighty, photographed in their homes and studios. They are the artists and intellectuals of…
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The Austin-based artist William Hundley, 35, has the peculiar habit of tossing up cloths, sheets, drapes, blankets, scarves, tarps, etc., and photographing the ephemeral airborne sculpture (which last some hundredths…
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From the twilight of the Belle Époque (which was really anything but) to the humiliation of the Occupation, Paris was a beacon of creativity that outshone even the preceding century:…
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Often compared to an artist’s sketchbook, a contact sheet is the photographer’s first look at what he or she has captured on film, and provides a uniquely intimate glimpse into…
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Philippe Calandre started out as a cabin boy at age sixteen, roaming the seas for years before anchoring in France for medical reasons. Stuck on land, he founds the means…
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