ARTnews Monday May 16, 2022
Man Ray’s “Le Violon d’Ingres” (1924), a famed photograph depicting a nude woman’s back overlaid with a violin’s f-holes, sold for $12.4 million Saturday, setting a record as the most expensive photograph ever to be sold at auction. The sale came after a drawn-out bidding period that lasted nearly 10 minutes during Christie’s New York’s auction dedicated to Surrealist art, notes Art News. The print of the iconic Man Ray photograph, which depicts his muse Kiki de Montparnasse, is a rare one in that it is considered an original photographic copy. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Monday May 16, 2022
PetaPixel features an in-depth guide filled with wedding photography tips for aspiring wedding photographers from Brenda Bergreen, a wedding photographer based in Colorado. “I have learned the complexity and importance of a genre of photography that terrifies some, bores others, and entrances the rest. Do I have some stories I could tell! For the wedding photographers that survive the learning curve of their first few wedding seasons, weddings provide a deep well of creativity,” notes Bergreen. Read the full Story >>
HYPERALLERGIC Monday May 16, 2022
The Museum of the City of New York will launch the only New York-based triennial focused on photography, video, and other lens-based media in 2023, notes Hyperallergic. Titled New York Now, the triennial is slated to open in March next year. The inaugural edition will be organized around the all-encompassing theme of “Home,” and each successive show will continue to “engage themes and issues of the contemporary city.” Read the full Story >>
The Washington Post Monday May 16, 2022
During the communist era, people would parade through the Maidan, Kyiv’s central square, on the first of May to show support for the Soviet government. Then, in 2004, Ukraine’s road to democracy began in the same square, with hundreds of thousands protesting the presidential election results they viewed as rigged. Today, during a brutal war with Russian, tulips blanket a part of the square, attracting residents once again, notes photographer Wojciech Grzedzinski at the Washington Post. Read the full Story >>
