As we noted this summer, the landmark work of music photographer Janette Beckman was on view this sumer at the FOAM Amsterdam museum. Beckman's photography was also included in the exhibition "Face the Music" at the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles. Together, the two shows shined a spotlight on a notable photographic career. Beckman,as one website put it, captured "an era of cultural change … Read the full Story >>
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being fashionable or successful.In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.My favorite smell is the first smell of spring in New York. Soon after graduating from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), Andy Warhol (1928–1987) moved to New York City and immediately found assignments for the fashion magazines. His work debuted in Glamour … Read the full Story >>
A few years ago I ran out of shelf space. It was critical mass crisis: what could possibly be discarded from my photo-and-art-book library? I had to make room along the tallest shelves, a 5.5-foot run of which was filled with issues of Aperture magazine. I bit the bullet. I still feel the pain. But now the loss has been remedied through the recently … Read the full Story >>
The big showdown this Saturday between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao has been something of a sports throwback. Long gone are the days when the world came to a standstill to watch a so-called "fight of the century"--those of a certain age can remember exactly where they were when they watched Ali vs. Frazier III or Holyfield vs. Bowe I. But the hype … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: When did you know for sure that art and design would be your métier? Fernand van Alphen: I have been drawing since I was very young, but it wasn’t until high school when I started to get the idea that this was a direction I should go in. I had a very passionate art teacher and by the time I had to … Read the full Story >>
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders's to-do list is filled with lists. The noted photographer and filmmaker, whom we profiled in 2015, has created a series of remarkable documentary films and photo projects probing American society and personal identity, from "The Black List" to "The Out List " and "The Women's List." The films are accompanied by portraits captured in Greenfield-Sanders's distinctive visual style with an 11 x … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Costa Rica, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in New York City? A: I was born and raised in San Jose, Costa Rica. I lived among trees and mountains my whole life so moving to a big city like New York six years ago was a big shock at first. But I’ve learned to enjoy the … Read the full Story >>
Fashion has lost two of its great photographers. This week we learned that British photographer and art director Steve Hiett, known for vivid color and eclectic fashion imagery created over a 50-year career, died in Montpellier, France, at age 79. Hiett died on August 28 after a long battle with cancer. Only days later, on Sept. 3, photographer Peter Lindbergh died in Paris at … Read the full Story >>
Jon Burgerman says his pictures are about fun. That, and a lot of "googlie eyes." The New York cit-based "illustrator and doodler" is the subject of short film by photographer and filmmaker Bas Berkhout, but it's not your typical artist profile. "In this film I focused less on 'the artist creative process,'" says Berkhout, whose 2015 short film about photographer Jessica Lehrman was previously … Read the full Story >>
Dissident artist Ai Weiwei posted on-site video on Instagram of the destruction of his Beijing Studio, which began last Friday, with many of his large-scale works still inside. His studio manager fed video to the artist, who resides in Berlin. aiww Today,they started to demolish my studio zuo you[left/right] in Beijing with no precaution .which I have as my main studio since … Read the full Story >>
Artist and educator Charles Traub is known best for his wry color street photography. Traub, who founded photography department at Columbia College in Chicago and is the chair of the MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York, says that he sees himself as a "real world witness" image maker. "That is, I am interested in … Read the full Story >>
Editor's note: To celebrate the release of his new graphic novel, the normally reclusive Peter Kuper agreed to take a few questions about his book, Stop Forgetting To Remember. When we looked to find an appropriate interviewer the obvious choice was cartoonist Walter Kurtz. After all, Kuper's new book is the autobiography of Mr. Kurtz. -PR Walter Kurtz: Let me start by asking-where … Read the full Story >>
Francoise Bornet, the young lover immortalized in French photographer Robert Doisneau's iconic 1950 image "The Kiss by the Hotel de Ville" has died at age 93. Bornet was a 20-year-old drama student when she and her fellow acting student boyfriend, Jacques Carteaud, were spotted in a cafe by Doisneau, who had been commissioned by Life magazine to shoot a photo story about love in … Read the full Story >>
Diana Horowitz, a painter who speaks the language of landscape, opened a show of new works on Saturday at Lori Bookstein Projects. The festive event included a sidewalk opening reception as visitors were invited in four at a time to the townhouse gallery that has just the right ambiance for this collection, titled “Small Works.” Above: Ragusa Ibia, 2017 The artist has always … Read the full Story >>
When I first paged through Paul Fusco's RFK Funeral Train—the trade edition published by Umbrage in 2000—I felt a dreadful sense of deja vu for how wrong things had gone in 1968. The optimism of an age in which so many were committed to making the world a better place had been wiped out by the assassination of yet another charismatic … Read the full Story >>
In the Foreword to a new book of Mario Aglaze's photographs from Latin America, A Respect for Light, critic and author Vince Aletti writes, “Algaze has a marvelous sense of place. He’s not just passing through a city, he’s inhabiting, tasting, and smelling it. He records a streetscape or a café interior with a breadth, specificity and grace that’s more literary than reportorial. There are stories unfolding here: history … Read the full Story >>
Matthieu Nicol isn't especially interested in the military. "Actually, I'm a food photography collector and a picture editor," he noted recently. Nonetheless, his new book "Fashion Army" examines the "evolution of military attire into iconic fashion." The book resulted from Nicol's discovery a few years ago of a vast archive of declassified pictures at the US Army's Natick Soldier Systems Center, a military installation … Read the full Story >>
"A lot of times my best images come from seemingly dry topics, because they force me to think more abstractly and symbolically. I always do my best work with very general, rather than specific, art direction," says illustrator and motion-design artist Richard Borge. Much of Borge's work features fanciful, complicated mechanical contraptions, so when a friend at the strategic marketing company White Rhino mentioned … Read the full Story >>
We previously spotlighted Brooklyn-based illustrator Richard Borge's International Motion Art Awards 3-winning animation featuring a robot-like character that devours an apple--a symbol of both knowledge and nourishment. Another Borge video, which also features a mechanical character and deals with knowledge, or lack of it, was also named a winner of the competition, and we look at it today. Titled "The Things We Know," the … Read the full Story >>
How do some of the most talented and successful photographers today view their careers and their work? Lewis Blackwell, a photography editor, writer, and curator who was formerly creative head of Getty Images, has plenty of experience dealing with their artistic and business concerns. His new book, Photo-Wisdom (Chronicle 2009), brings together the art and the thinking of 50 of the best. On … Read the full Story >>
