“One side is a great exuberant warmth, a love of the plebeian energy of American life, and the other side is a persistent despair, that it’s all out of control and that it will end up badly. The two are so welded to each other that in any one of the best photos, you don’t know whether to feel elated or horrified, and you … Read the full Story >>
There are only a few weeks left to submit your entries to the American Photography Open 2022 competition. In the meantime, we're spotlighting two more of this year's judges--New York-based photographer and Rolling Stone photo editor Sacha Lecca, and Elizabeth Krist, a photo editor at National Geographic for 20 year who also curated the "Women of Vision" exhibition and book and, taught at the … Read the full Story >>
"I never thought of myself as a great photographer," Dirck Halstead said. Instead, Halsted considered himself a storyteller. "My job as a photographer was never about what I saw, but about how I fulfill my responsibility as a photojournalist to report history," he said. And he saw a great deal of history. Over a career working for United Press International, Time magazine and other … Read the full Story >>
This interview is extracted from the one he did with curator Sarah Howgate in September 2019 when David Hockney: Drawing from Life was showing at the National portrait Gallery, London. The exhibition opens at The Morgan Library & Museum on Thursday, October 2, and continues through January 17, 2017. Info. Above: David Hockney. My Parents and Myself, 1976. Copyright David Hockney The artist and … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday, February 4 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: The 2014 Benjamin Menschel Fellowship Exhibition. The Cooper Union, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. 7 East 7th Street, 5th & 6th Floor Galleries, NY, NY. Information. Wednesday, February 5 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Tom McGrath, Santi Moix, Jackie Saccoccio. 143 Reade Street| Lucien Terras. 143 Reade Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Marta Jovanovi Republika. BOSI Contemporary 48 Orchard Street, NY, NY. In Connecticut Opening reception, 5:30-7 … Read the full Story >>
A graphic novel, The Women Who Changed Art Forever, just out from Laurence King Publishing, offers a fresh perspective on four trailblazers of feminist art: Judy Chicago, Faith Ringgold, Ana Mendieta and the Guerilla Girls. Written by Valentina Grande, an art historian, and illustrated by Eva Rossetti, the book tells the story of how each of these artists have drawn from the strengths … Read the full Story >>
Addie Herder, Fronto, 1979, from an exhibition opening Thursday at Pavel Zoubok Gallery. Special | New York Photography Festival is Extended through May 31. Tickets $20, or in person at the powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY. Exhibitions are open daily; hours vary; please visit website for information. Special | Three Exhibiitons on the Viennese Photo-Secession Movement on View: Opening day: Heinrich Kuehn … Read the full Story >>
Q: Born in Germany, what are some of your favorite things about living and working near the Rockies? A: My family was an Air Force family—and I was the youngest of four children. All of my formative years, after leaving Germany, were spent ship-wrecked in a small desert town in Nevada. In contrast to my siblings who experienced traveling the world, I grew up … Read the full Story >>
Last year Michelle Dunn Marsh launched Minor Matters to provide a new platform for publishing high quality art books through pre-sales to a collaborative audience. She also was appointed Executive Director of Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW), Seattle’s lively hub for photographic education and presentation. With that in mind, I asked Michelle, a longtime friend and colleague, to speak about the world that awaits young photographic artists finishing up … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the pen or the brush? Jason Holley: It has to be drawing, right? When you’re a kid and you pick up your mom's lipstick and draw all over the cat, well… that is as primal as it gets. Painting for me is more socialized and cerebral, and it requires so many more steps, extra gear etc. Drawing is as … Read the full Story >>
Instagram has been introducing new features. No news there: The platform seems to roll out new things every week. Recently, for instance, Instagram let users share other people's photos in their own stories -- though it decided not to alert people if you screenshot their stories. There's also an "All Caught Up" feature that lets you know if you've seen everything "new" from people … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the pen or the brush? Jonathan Twingley: Probably the pencil. An Ebony pencil, in fact, because my Dad seemed to stock those in his studio. My Dad was a high school art instructor and kept a studio in the basement of every house our family ever lived in. Me and my Dad were drawing together on the floor of … Read the full Story >>
When is a giraffe not a giraffe? The legendary photographer Pete Turner was a master of color who could turn everyday reality into vivid, abstract art. In 1964, explained The New York Times recently, Turner photographed a lone giraffe galloping across the empty plain in Amboseli National Park in Kenya. The resulting transparency was overexposed, but he saved it by rephotographing it and using … Read the full Story >>
Over the years, Marshall Arisman's name has become synonymous with the Illustration as Visual Essay program at the School of Visual Arts. The celebrated artist and illustrator organized the MFA program in 1984 and today remains its chair. Among the artists of the day who found their voice through this intense two-year program are Nathan Fox, Douglas Fraser, Eddie Guy, John Hendrix, Paul Hoppe, … Read the full Story >>
The hottest name in photography today? William Henry Fox Talbot, the pioneering photographer who died in 1877. At a recent auction at Sotheby's devoted to masters of photography, a set of nearly 200 images by Talbot sold for a staggering $1,956,000, well beyond its estimate of $300,000 to 500,000 and setting a new auction record for Talbot. The sale also realized two other artist … Read the full Story >>
Should you go to London or Madrid this spring? Why not both? Britain's biggest photography photo art fair, Photo London, runs from May 18 to 21, and this year's edition is pushing boundaries, notes the British Journal of Photography, which has a preview. Meanwhile, BJP also looks at what's coming up in the 20th edition of PHotoEspana, which gets underway on May 31 and … Read the full Story >>
Left, Lorna Simpson: Momentum, at Salon 94. Right, Martin Kippenberger: I Had a Vision, at Luhring Augustine. Ongoing The third annual Creative Week continues with a blizzard of events celebrating creativity in design, advertising, new media, and the arts in general. Every day through Sunday, May 15th, there will be numerous events to choose from. Many of the programs are free and all information … Read the full Story >>
Over the course of his acclaimed career, Eugene Richards has covered topics as diverse as the American family, drug abuse, the meatpacking industry, and AIDS, working always in the borderland where objective documentary photography lives side by side with subjective self-expression, sometimes uneasily. "As you get older you realize that you get away from the pomposity of being objectively original, and that you've always … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: As President of the upcoming ICON11Illustration Conference, would you tell the readers—many of whom are creatives and artists who are hoping to attend—what will set this edition apart from its predecessors? Bri Hermanson: ICON is such a unique conference. Historically, ICON has been committed to providing a diverse forum for an ongoing dialogue that serves the illustration, design, publishing, advertising, and academic … Read the full Story >>
