Portrait photographer Michael Gilbert, who now splits his time between his home in Maui and his studio in Paris, France, seems to have photography in his blood. Both his father and grandfather were successful portrait photographers. Gilbert is known for his innovative and offbeat portrait commissions. He also spends a lot of time exploring the hidden jungles and canyons of Maui. In the latest … Read the full Story >>
David Cowles is a Rochester, New York-based illustrator, master caricaturist, animator, and teacher. His distinctive, colorful, graphic portraits have graced the pages of countless consumer magazines and newspapers. A former newspaper art director, Cowles brings a consistently smart graphic and editorial focus to his work, whether it's his many caricatures or more conceptual illustrations. In addition to his print work, Cowles has created a … Read the full Story >>
This week the spotlight shone on several photographers from the past. We learned more about the life of Vivian Maier, the Chicago nanny and now acclaimed street photographer, thanks to the detective work of Ann Marks, a retired business executive with no background in photography. After seeing the documentary "Finding Vivian Maier," Marks became intrigued and began filling in the gaps in her biography. … Read the full Story >>
Editor’s note: With ICON9 The Illustration Conference just three weeks away—four days of art, discussion, performance, and plenty of talk in Austin, TX—the current roster for the Q&A is peopled with many of the exceptional artists making presentations during this biannual artfest. Work by Brooklyn-based artist/illustrator Lauren Simkin Berke will be included in the one-night pop-up Roadshow marketplace on Thursday, July 7th. Info Q: Originally from Manhattan what … Read the full Story >>
Today we feature the conclusion of photographer Richard Alden Peterson's memoir about the years he spent as the friend and collaborator of the artist Bruce Conner. With the exhibition "Bruce Conner: It's All True" currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Peterson decided to record the experiences he had with Conner over three decades. Yesterday he described meeting Conner amid … Read the full Story >>
Martha Rich is an illustrator and artist whose work is a delightful and exuberant explosion of color, styles, and techniques. She creates art and illustration for a wide-range of formats, including product design, fine art, T-shirts, animation, book covers, editorial illustration, and an ongoing series of engaging personal projects. Rich has also created the 100 for $100 project, making 100 paintings and selling them … Read the full Story >>
The more Hiroshi Sugimoto expands his repertoire and experiments with new ideas and forms, the more he progresses toward becoming a quintessentially Japanese artist. His most recent show "Nature of Light" opened this week as the inaugural exhibition of the new Izu Photo Museum located on the green hills of the Izu peninsula, about an hour-and-a-half's drive south of Tokyo. This exhibition features just … Read the full Story >>
The second month of submissions for the American Photography Open 2018 drew in hundreds of creative images from around the world, and today we are featuring five of them. Our contest is open to images taken with all types of cameras -- from your smartphone to your DSLR or mirrorless camera. (One of today's selects was taken with a DJI Mavic Pro drone.) Images … Read the full Story >>
WHEN W. EUGENE SMITH WALKED OUT ON HIS CONTRACT WITH LIFE magazine in 1954, he left behind not only a big paycheck but also some great perks, including first class travel to just about anywhere he wanted to go. When he jettisoned the corporate world, which irked his streetwise sensibilities, the photographer turned to a life in one of New York's hidden subcultures. Smith … Read the full Story >>
We often report on how technology is changing the art of photography, and this week was no different. We spotlighted a new action camera called the Graava that not only records video but also edits it for you and serves up social media-friendly clips at whatever length you desire. A game changer? Very possibly. Likewise, we reported on an algorithm developed by Google and … Read the full Story >>
Yamamoto Masao, Itteki, at Yancey Richardson Gallery through February 8 Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, February 5 Nancy Spero | Active Histories, in conversation with Christopher Lyon, 6:30 pm. New York Studio School, 8 West 8th Street, NY, NY Info Yonia Fain’s Map of Refugee Modernism, gallery tour, bilingual Yiddish-English poetry reading, film screening and conversation, 6:30 pm. The James … Read the full Story >>
Photographer Ernesto Bazan is best known for his trilogy of hauntingly beautiful books about Cuba, his home for 14 years. He says it was destiny that led him there. But when the Cuban government barred him from teaching workshops, he and his family left. "I loved being there and photographing there, so it was a big blow," he says. Now with normalization in relations … Read the full Story >>
For all the typophiles and hand lettering freaks out there, Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History is a must not miss. Edited by Briar Levit, a graphic designer who produced the documentary film Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production, the book includes fifteen essays by experts in the fields of Publishing, Activism & Patriotism, Press & Production, … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Protestb / Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, July 19-Sunday, July 23 Comic-Com International San Diego. San Diego Convention Center, CA Info Wednesday, July 19 Exhibition as Image | Art Through the Camera’s Eye, 7 pm. Mini/Goethe-Institut Curatorial, 38 Ludlow Street, NY, NY Info Christian Marclay and Okkyung Lee | Small Sphere and Heavy Sphere, 8 pm. Whitney Museum of … Read the full Story >>
The seventh annual NY Art Book Fair runs from Friday through Sunday at MoMA PS 1. Organized by Printed Matter, the event will bring together 283 exhibitors from 26 countries in high-ceilinged galleries that would otherwise sit empty, awaiting installation of PS 1’s fall exhibitions. Last year over 15,000 artists, book buyers, collectors, dealers, curators, independent publishers, DIY book-makers and other enthusiasts came to the … Read the full Story >>
We noted this week that ICE agents recently assaulted several journalists as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of people attending immigration court proceedings at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan. L. Vural Elibol, chief videographer of the Anadolu news agency, was the most severely injured.and was taken to a hospital on a stretcher. The National Press Photographers Association later condemned "in the strongest … Read the full Story >>
Luc Tuymans, Me, 2011; talk at The Morgan Library & Museum Thursday Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, January 22 Xiao Quan | In China When It all Began; moderator: Michael Halsband, 6:30 pm. China Institute in America, 40 Rector Street, NY, NY Info January Town Hall | Photograph, with Arian Allensworth and Jehan Jillani, 6:30 pm. Asian American … Read the full Story >>
It has been just a little over 20 years since Carcucci left her home in Israel and found a new one in New York City. In that time she has established herself as an influential and widely admired artist. With a retrospective due to open in her old school in Jerusalem, Carucci looks back at her self-revealing work - a visual biography probing her … Read the full Story >>
Five years ago, legendary photojournalist David Burnett moved from Washington, D.C. to Newburgh, New York, a Hudson Valley city that earned the reputation at the state's murder capital. About the same time, he also became involved with a group of professional and amateur photographers from around the globe who get together for intensive weeklong projects to work with local organizations on promotional and education … Read the full Story >>
Francisco Goya (1746–1828), who served as court painter to a king he despised, was an artist for whom drawing was the equivalent of breathing. He worked at a time when Spain was locked in deadly combat with the armies of three countries, and bands of roving guerrillas, in the Peninsular War of 1807-14. His prolific activity as a draftsman and printmaker is spectacular, if known mainly to scholars; … Read the full Story >>
