In Chicago, 1950, Simone de Beauvoir had a torrid affair with the American writer Nelson Algren, with whom she experienced a kind of sexual awakening. Art Shay, a photographer for…
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In Chicago, 1950, Simone de Beauvoir had a torrid affair with the American writer Nelson Algren, with whom she experienced a kind of sexual awakening. Art Shay, a photographer for…
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After a turbulent year spent covering uprisings in the Middle East, Mathias Depardon traveled to the Black Sea to reconnect with a more lyrical strain of photography. The poetry…
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My latest work is inspired by paintings of old masters from the 15th to 17th Century (Titian to Rubens). Over a period of three centuries, these masters showed that female and male beauty…
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We all have at least one attribute about ourselves that causes us to be self conscious; something that causes us to feel as if we are not “normal.” For myself…
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Take time, calm down, observe… Take time to lie down and dream, take time to make use of slow photography, take time out of time. This work, as well as…
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William Helburn photographed Dovima, Barbara Mullen, Jean Patchett, Simone D’Aillencourt, Suzy Parker, Anne Saint-Marie, Linda Harper, Jean Shrimpton, and many other supermodels of the 1950s and 60s. He worked for…
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Alfred Cheney Jonston (1885–1971) began his artistic career as an illustrator. He studied painting at the National Academy of Design in New York, working under the direction of his mentor,…
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Anne Brigman (1869-1950) was a member of the Photo-Secession movement in America. Her most famous photographs were taken between 1900 and 1920, depicting nude women in naturalistic settings. In 1894,…
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The artist and his muse... an inseparable pair in the arts, embodied in painting, sculpture and music by the myth of Pygmalion. A tour of this relationship.…
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