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Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 4, 2013
Miami’s new modern and contemporary art museum, renamed the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), opens today with exhibitions that reflect its growing strengths as a
collecting institution. Contemporary art, in the form of a 20-year survey of works by Ai Wei Wei and new monumental sculptures by Jedd Novatt, are surrounded by smaller shows of
art, video, sculpture and installations by Yael Bartana, Bouchra Kahlil, Hew Locke, and Monika Sosnowska. The modernist … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday October 24, 2013
The 2013 Beijing International Photography Week opens today at the China Millennium Monument in Beijing's Xicheng District. With the theme "Photography: World in Focus," the
photo week will present a series of exhibitions, lectures, forums and themed activities at the main venue, as well as at the 798 Art Zone, Caochangdi Art
Zone, Wangfujing Pedestrian Street and Cable 8 Creative Culture Zone. The centerpiece of the program is the First … Read the full Story >>
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Wonderful Machine Wednesday July 1, 2020
Not only can a blog increase your online presence, it's also the perfect opportunity to give your audience more background on you as a professional photographer and a person. Behind-the-scenes shots
and fun stories help clients get a better sense of who you are and what it would be like to work with you. To some photographers, blogging comes naturally: The content flows like … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 18, 2019
Peggy Roalf: Which came
first, the pen or the brush? Daniel Baxter: I've always gravitated towards working with lines, and still do today. When painting, I am in currently in love with dry-brush
technique. PR: How did you decide on art as your métier? DB: As a teenager, I was a dreamer by nature, and felt comfortable with the idea of being an artist. But this
was a … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday May 5, 2022
If you’re a fan of TV superseries Parks & Recreation, Silver Linings Playbook or Boardwalk Empire—and one with a discerning eye for period detail—you probably have an appreciation for set property. Elements like old newspapers, books, a lottery ticket from Havana, and even a wallet or passport case can create an aura of authenticity that makes you a believer in the characters and … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday January 27, 2021
Time lapse has come a long way. The filmmaking technique has become a central piece of the visual universe online, and the availability of ever-more-sophisticated gear - from cameras and sliders to
gimbal and drones - has made it possible to more and more people to create cinematic-quality work. In today's roundup of filmmaking tutorials from around the web we feature videos about creating … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday May 3, 2017
It wasn't as easy as he thought. We now know that during his first 100 days as president, Donald Trump learned that the job was even tougher than being a real-estate mogul and reality-TV star. The
president also told interviewers that he felt it was unfair for the media to judge his performance using the arbitrary 100-day measure. But the media, which Trump has … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday January 20, 2022
While many around the globe were losing loved ones as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the people of Milwaukee were burying young men due to a rise in gun violence. Residents of the city's north
side have seen a 93-percent increase in the rate of violent crimes over the last year. Milwaukee-based photographer Sara Stathas joined Los Angeles Times reporter Kurtis Lee for … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday May 2, 2019
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the brush or the pen? Giovanni Alberti: First of all, the pen. That’s how I instinctively give shape to my first thoughts or
feelings. Drawing with the pen allows me to highlight the most important aspects of the image, then I can use a brush to give greater depth, or to better convey the idea of substance. PR: How did … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday November 24, 2015
They were pictures that shook the world - photos of a young Syrian boy who lay drowned on a Turkish beach. Three-year-old Aylan Kurdi died when the rubber dinghy that was to carry him and his Syrian
family to safety in Greece capsized. As we noted in September, the pictures, printed in newspapers around the world, "drove home the terrible human cost of Europe's … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday October 21, 2021
Clifford Coffin has been called Vogue's "lost photographer." Though not as widely known as some of the fashion magazine's other photographers, Coffin's 1949 image "Models Sitting on Sand Dunes" has
since become a popular classic (critic Vince Aletti has compared it to the surrealist paintings of Rene Magritte and cast it as a precursor to the soon-to-be Pop Art movement). Now Australian aerial
photographer … Read the full Story >>
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Fernanda Cohen Thursday June 17, 2010
ICON, the biannual conference that brings media people and artists together to discuss signal issues and trends in publishing, launches in just a month, in sunny
LA. One of the keynote speakers who will be talking about the future of publishing, on a panel moderated by the legendary Roger Black, is Kelly Doe, Art
Director at the New York Times. I … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday November 30, 2012
Friday, November 30 Artist talk, reception, and film screening, 6:30
pm: Kumi Korf | Red Paper from Tosa. The Center for Book Arts, 28 West
27th Street, Third Floor, NY, NY. In New Orleans Through Sunday, December 2Photonola 2012 | The
7th Annual Festival of Photography in New Orleans. Information. Today is the deadline for early registration and 10%
discount: Texas Photo Roundup | Austin. The … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday August 1, 2024
"Depression is sneaky and sometimes we only really see its depths once we climb out," writes climber and photographer Cory Richards in his new memoir, "The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the
Chaos Within." Richards has experienced highs as few others ever will- He has climbed the world's tallest mountains and had his photos published in important adventure magazines. But he's also … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday July 7, 2016
A number of years ago, Toronto-based photographer and PPD reader Dermot Cleary was assigned to travel to Detroit to shoot a portrait of Elmore Leonard, the acclaimed writer of crime novels including
"Get Shorty," "Rum Punch," and "Out of Sight." The two struck up a relationship -- Leonard named a character in his book Mr. Paradise after Cleary -- that lasted until Leonard's death … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 19, 2015
Herb Ritts (1952-2002), explores the career of one of the top photographers to emerge from the 1980s. Herb Ritts (1952–2002) formed an aesthetic that
incorporated facets of life in and around Los Angeles in his distinctive photographs of fashion models, nudes, and celebrities. From the late 1970s until his untimely death from AIDS in
2002, Ritts's ability to create photographs that successfully bridged the gap between art and commerce was not … Read the full Story >>
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Fernanda Cohen Thursday June 18, 2009
The new exhibition opening at Sloan Fine Art this Saturday, called +2, is a summer gift of fun and value: The title for this group show is
inspired by its logistics: Alix Sloan, the gallery's owner, contacted 24 of her artists and asked each one to invite two artists of their choice to participate. Although there is no collective
theme, the 70-plus pieces on … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday January 28, 2025
"The Brutalist," a low-budget ($10 million) movie from indy producer A24 about immigrant trauma and antisemitism, has emerged as a Hollywood heavyweight with 10 Oscar nominations, including nods for
Best Picture, Best Director and Best Cinematography. However, among many filmgoers the movie has, as video-tech publication Red Shark News noted recently, "catalyzed a massive debate about the role
of AI" that questions whether the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 23, 2008
John Chiara's landscape photographs put a new twist on the sublime in art. In his first solo show in New York, opening tomorrow night at the Von Lintel Gallery, these large-scale images, mostly
dark and moody, create in the viewer a sense of recognition that's completely fictional and awe-inspiring - two of the hallmarks of the 19th-century Romantic style in painting. At once monumental … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday September 1, 2021
"Covid-19 came. Life changed. Probably irrevocably." So writes photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten at the Kickstarter page for her newest book, "Looking Out from Within." The book features her
portraits of people in self-isolation during the pandemic lockdown in London. "I couldn't stand around helpless," notes Fullerton-Batten, who advertised her idea on social media and through her local
newsletter. "The response was enormous," she notes. "We … Read the full Story >>
