Greta Zimmer Friedman est décédée des suites d'une pneumonie, ce jeudi 8 septembre, à l'âge de 92 ans. Cette ancienne infirmière américaine s'est fait connaître grâce au cliché pris par Alfred Eisenstaedt à Times Square, après la Libération. Sur l'image, on peut voir un marin l'embrasser fougueusement.
Nous sommes le 14 août 1945, en plein cœur de New-York. Voilà déjà près de six ans que la guerre dure. Quatre ans que des familles américaines sont déchirées par le coût élevé du conflit qui leur prend leurs hommes et leurs vies. L'Amérique est fatiguée, mais la fin semble proche. Des rumeurs de paix circulent &agra...
On Wednesday 26 November over 250 lots of modern and contemporary photography will be auctioned at Villa Grisebach in Berlin.
The modern photography selection is lead by two vintage pigment prints by the Czech photographer Frantisek Drtikol, dating from the mid-1920s. Depicting scenes typical of Drtikol’s output, "The Movement" and "Akt" work with elements of art deco, the theatre and of abstraction; only very rarely do works of this quality appear on the market (each €15,000/25,000). Two outstanding examples of early twentieth century pictorial photography are provided in the form of works by Rudolf Koppitz ("Esche", bromoil transfer print, c. 1912, €15,000/20,000) and Heinrich Kühn ("Pustertalerinnen", bromoil transfer print on Japan paper, 1913-1914, &eur...
Eugène Atget ouvre la vente de photographies avec quatre très beaux tirages albuminés dont un rare Nu de la série « Paris Pittoresque III » de 1921 (3 000-4 000 €). Un autre tirage de ce « Nu » figurait dans la Collection de Man Ray. Il est actuellement conservé à la George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y.
La sculpture très renommée de « Léda » de Constantin Brancusi, 1921, photographiée par l’auteur, est représentée par un tirage d’époque exceptionnel (15 000-20 000 €).
MAN RAY : Très rare ouvrage « Résurrection des mannequins » avec les mannequins réalisés par Salvador Dali, Oscar Dominguez, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Andr...
SAMEDI 21 NOVEMBRE 2009 - MAITRE LE MOUEL - HOTEL DROUOT SALLE 16, 14H
Expositions publiques : vendredi 20 novembre 11h-18h et samedi 21 novembre 11h-12h
Catalogue : 15 euros
Le catalogue est consultable en ligne :
http://www.viviane-esders.com/prochaine_vente.htm
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Now online:
Catalogue No. 159: Modern and Contemporary Photographs
www.villa-grisebach.de/en/catalogues/
Auction on Thursday, 27 November 2008, at 3 p.m.
Viewing from 22 to 26 November in Berlin, Fasanenstrasse 73.
Saturday - Tuesday, 10 a.m. - 6.30 p.m.
Wednesday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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A celebration of recent major gifts to the museum, American Moments: Photographs from The Phillips Collection will feature over 130 photographs by more than 30 of the 20th century’s greatest photographers, including Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Esther Bubley, Bruce Davidson, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Walker Evans and Paul Strand.
The exhibition will present a selection of mid-20th-century images of American subjects that evoke a sense of time, place, and experience. It will include Modernist work and street photography, documentary expression, and photojournalism, showcasing the strength and variety of The Phillips Collection’s fast-growing photography collection.
"These new additions by seminal American artists greatly enhance the Phillips’s photography collection," says exhibition...
To look upon someone extraordinary, who has achieved greatness against great odds. To be moved by an image of one who has touched upon the lives of thousands. To seek knowledge and understanding. To find inspiration.
These are the experiences we seek when confronted by a great portrait. The figures captured in this exhibition were extraordinary, exuding character and living lives of triumph and disaster. The photographers who captured their essence, by necessity required a technical prowess but more importantly possess depth, empathy and pursue a true understanding of the human condition.
Portraits are certainly the great power in photography. They are the great confluence of documentary and artistry. Our natural voyeuristic condition draws us in and the medium allows us to feel an element of intimacy. A great...
SWANN GALLERIES TO AUCTION COMPLETE SET OF EDWARD S. CURTIS’S THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN ON OCTOBER 4 IN SALE OF FINE PHOTOGRAPHS & PHOTOBOOKS
Auction Also Offers Outstanding Selection of Vintage Photographs, Photojournalism Images, Contemporary Art.
Swann Galleries’ Thursday, October 4 auction of Fine Photographs & Photobooks is Edward S. Curtis’s magnum opus The North American Indian, a documentation of the customs, manners and rituals of more than 80 Native American tribes west of the Mississippi. This complete set, with 20 folios on Japan tissue (featuring 722 large-format photogravures), and 20 text volumes (with more than 1500 small-format photogravures on vellum), is one of the most stunning and ambitious photographically illustrated books ever produced. Ink numbered 113/500, ...
En août 1962, disparaissait tragiquement Marilyn Monroe...
Nous profitons sans scrupule, de ce triste anniversaire, 50 ans après sa mort pour avoir une nouvelle fois le plaisir de monter une exposition autour de cette icône immortelle !
Le propos de cette exposition est de montrer les multiples visages, et l’évolution de Marilyn : depuis les débuts de Norma Jean Baker, posant pour son coiffeur, Franck & Joseph, blonde pour la première fois, ébauche en devenir, en passant par ses premiers pas de modèle pour André de Diènes sur la plage de Malibu en 1946, le visage nu, interprétant les injonctions du photographe...
Puis se tranformant en sa création la plus complexe et la plus aboutie : Marilyn Monroe, à la sen...
Yossi Milo Gallery is pleased to announce Sexy and the City, a summer group show on view from Thursday, July 9, through Friday, August 28, 2009.
Sexy and the City shows the alluring, romantic and sometimes scandalous side of New York's people and places. Capturing private, intimate moments and blatant displays of sexuality, these photographs span the decades from the 1940s to the present day, taken in landmark locations like the Brooklyn Bridge and in the quiet, out-of-the-way corners of the city.
From Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic image of a kissing couple in Times Square on V-J Day, 1945, to Nan Goldin's drag queen on an anonymous New York street in the 1990s, from Garry Winogrand's topless woman surrounded by a crowd in Central Park to the homosexual couples photographed by Alvin Baltr...
Streetlife - Photographs from our collections 1930-1975
In addition to the Soulas exhibition 50 original photographs from our collections, titled "Streetlife" are on show. The selection documents a forty-year development of reportage photography.
During the Weimar Republic the first photo shots in public areas -on the streets- documenting focal pointsand events were done by Alfred Eisenstaedt or Tim Gidal. Outstanding photographers working for the illustrated magazines "Life" and "Stern", such as Jerry Cooke, Robert Lebeck, Stefan Moses and Thomas Hoepker continued in this tradition.
Again and again public streets became a stage for crucial contemporary historical happenings: so for example in the photo series, shot by Roman Vishniac of the Schtetln of Polish Jews, before their exp...
“It's more important to click with people than click the shutter” - Alfred Eisenstaedt We are delighted to announce an exhibition of vintage photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt - “the father of photojournalism”. In a photographic career spanning sixty years Eisenstaedt was the first photographer to consistently practice candid photography, and in his own words, “photographed more people than any other photographer.” His photographs have featured on the front cover of LIFE magazine 92 times and he travelled the world on more than 2500 assignments. Most importantly, his photographs are a testimony to seminal events and key people who in turn shaped the contemporary world.
Born in 1898 in West Prussia, Alfred Eisenstaedt was given his first camera at the age of 14 and sold his first photograph in 1927 to the news...