When I first came to New York as a country bumpkin Art Kane was the enfant terrible art director and later the wunderkind commercial photographer of his generation. The Art…
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There are so many iconic images that Art did. I only mention one of them. It’s the one of the crumpled telegram and a black mother’s hand informing her of…
Art Kane was one of a handful of photographers who, from the late 1950’s onward, made fashion and music photography fun. His imagination was the territory he found most intoxicating,…
I first knew of Art Kane as an art director and later met him as a photographer. When he decided to become a photographer he applied his design skills to…
I have always been a fan of cinema and jazz. Twenty years ago, I saw ‘A Great Day in Harlem’, the Oscar-nominated documentary that tells the story of Art Kane’s…
I had the privilege of working with Art Kane at the time he switched from art direction to photography. From 1960 to 1965 he was my boss, mentor, teacher, and…
In the early 1970s, I joined Photo magazine, right when we were discovering the major American color photographers like Pete Turner, Hiro, Jay Maisel, Ernst Haas and Art Kane... Art…
Gallery FIFTY ONE is presenting its homage exhibition showing the oeuvre of the late Saul Leiter (1923-2013), a long-term artist-friend of the gallery. This tribute will be conducted in both…
In 2008, the journalist, critic and publisher Rémi Coignet launched Des Livres et des photos, a blog specializing in photography books, hosted by the online edition of the French newspaper Le…
The MoCP, in partnership with the Goethe Institutes of Chicago and Sarajevo, has commissioned German artist team Oliver Sieber and Katja Stuke to produce a new body of work titled…