 Aaron Siskind
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Aaron Siskind (1903-1991) was born in New York City. After graduating from the College of the City of New York in 1926, he taught high school English for over twenty years at New York City public schools. Although music and poetry were his first passions, he became interested in photography in 1930 while on his honeymoon in Bermuda. He began his photography career as a documentary photographer after joining the New York Photo League in 1932. He worked on the notable photo-essays Harlem Document,...
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At the Water's edge, at Robert Mann Gallery
From baptisms to beach getaways, the water's edge is a site for transformations. With this threshold as its inspiration, Robert Mann Gallery's summer exhibition At the Water's Edge includes both historical and contemporary images engaged with those recurrent summer traditions of flocking to the water, either manmade or natural, for a much nee...
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LA COLLECTION S'EXPOSE - Polaroïd en péril !
Ansel Adams | Manuel Alvarez-Bravo | Nancy Burson | Walker Evans | Joan Fontcuberta | Gisèle Freund | Luigi Ghirri | Ralph Gibson | Yousuf Karsh | David Levinthal | Sally Mann | Robert Mapplethorpe | Arno Minkkinen | Sarah Moon | Arnold Newman | Helmut Newton | Bill Owens | Bernard Plossu | Bettina Rheims | Lucas Samaras | Stephen Shore | Aaron Siskind | Oliviero Toscani | An...
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A social documentary photographer and an Abstract Expressionist - Aaron Sisking
Aaron Siskind led two lives, one as a seriously committed social documentary photographer and one as an Abstract Expressionist. He did well in both lives, but it is in the latter involvement alongside artists such as Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and other American Abstract Expressionists, that his greatest impact is felt. He did with light and a camera what the o...
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Fine 19th, 20th and Contemporary Photography
For 30 years this show has been a magnet for all photography fans, from novices buying their first photograph to some of America's top museum curators looking for something really unusual. There are over 400 photographs for sale by such masters as Ansel Adams, Eugene Atget, Edward Curtis, Frantisek Dritikol, Robert Frank, Lewis Hine, E.O. Hoppe, Edwin Hale Lincoln, Eliot Porter, Eadweard ...
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Right Through the Very Heart of It
Right Through the Very Heart of It contrasts the icons and idiosyncrasies of New York, from the "vagabond shoes" to the "top of the heap," captured by some of the greatest photographers to roam these concrete streets.
Many of the medium's greatest innovators have made their name photographing the denizens and architecture that define our dear city. But such a ...
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Cosa Nostra : (Our Thing)
Reception:
Thursday April 23rd, 6 - 8 PM
A selection of work by the gallery's artists, plus some invited guests.
This show explores relationships between images which would be described as more visual than thematic. It is freewheeling and experimental.
Come see it quickly, as it is only up for 3 weeks. ...
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Aaron Siskind - The egan Gallery years 1947 - 1954
Robert Mann Gallery presents a selection of photographs by Aaron Siskind that draw upon the four seminal exhibitions the artist had at the Egan Gallery between April 1947 and June 1954. Included are a selection of prints believed to have been presented in the original exhibitions.
At the recommendation of his friend Barnett Newman, photographer Aaron Siskind paid a visit to art d...
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Photographs auction
A mid-season Photographs sale composed of high-quality 20th and 21st Century works on January 31, 2008.
Viewing 25 - 30 January
25-26 January, 10am - 5pm
27 January, 12pm - 5pm
28-30 January, 10am - 5pm
Reception 24 January 6-8pm
Please view our Photographs catalogue online and read more about the sale on our website www.phillips...
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