La solidarité a été mise à l'épreuve ces derniers temps en France à l'occasion du téléthon qui a glané 82,353,996 euros. Un record !
Loin de nos préoccupations françaises, un autre record s'est établi outre-atlantique. Il s'agit du record lors d'une vente aux enchères de photographies.
La vente des 11 et 12 décembre derniers au Sotheby de New-York a été exceptionnelle !
Il faut dire que tous les ingrédients étaient réunis. Une des plus importantes collections privées de photographies, celle d'Howard Stein. Elle rassemble 175 chefs-d'oeuvres pour célébrer les 175 ans de la photographie. Des travaux du XIXème siècle aux ima...
Le récent "montant astronomique" de la vente d'une photo d'Eward Weston, adjugée à plus d'un million de dollars (http://www.actuphoto.com/15202-nouveau-record-de-vente-edward-weston-1-082-500-.html), nous donne l'occasion de revenir sur le classement des 10 photos les plus chères du monde.
1. Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent II Diptychon (2001) vendu 3 346 456$ en février 2007 lors d’une vente aux enchères chez Sotheby’s à Londres.
2. Edward Steichen, The Pond-Moonlight (1904) vendue 2 928 000$ en février 2006 lors d’une vente aux enchères chez Sotheby’s à New York.
3. Edward Weston, ...
Qu'est-ce qui définit le photographe si ce n'est son oeil ? Les 75 artistes du livre « Visionnaire : les plus grands photographes » ont en commun le fait d'avoir réussi à capter un monde en train de changer radicalement. Et si ce n'était pas un mais différents regards croisés sur leur environnement ? Regarder dans plusieurs directions à la fois. C'est ce qui fît leur talent.
« Qui est capable d'anticipation, qui a l'intuition de l'avenir » : c'est en ces termes que le dictionnaire Larousse définit le terme « visionnaire ». Effectivement, visionnaires, ces 75 photographes l'étaient tous. Il faut être extrêmement lucide, ...
Non, les selfies ne datent pas d'aujourd'hui ! Depuis les premiers jours de la photographie, amateurs et professionnels se sont pris en photo, perpétuant la tradition de l'autoportrait. Publié aux éditions Mare et Martin, le dernier ouvrage de Marie Cordié Levy, L'autoportrait photographique américain (1839 – 1939), se penche sur cette pratique trop longtemps ignorée et tente d'en comprendre les enjeux.
Spécialiste de la question de l'autoportrait, Marie Cordié Levy avait participé en 2009 à la publication de Autoportraits de Photographes aux éditions Photo Poche. Grâce aux éditions Mare & Martin, elle continue son travail en se concentrant sur l'autoportrait américain, sujet de ...
Auction: Tuesday, 31 March, 2PM
With over 140 lots, this sale is comprised of an extensive selection of classic works by artists such as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Richard Avedon and William Eggleston among others. The sale will follow on the single-owner sale of "Leaves Of Light And Shadow: Photographs Gathered By William T. Hillman". Leading the sale is Alfred Stieglitz’s Georgia O'Keeffe, 1918 (pictured above). Over a period of roughly twenty years, Stieglitz produced a group of over 300 portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe. Relatively early in their relationship, Stieglitz made this stunning image, printed in platinum. There is an obvious sensuousness as O’Keeffe poses in front of one of her charcoal drawings—evidence of the shared passion between the two artists. The present l...
La Maison Skinner organisera le 23 janvier 2015 une vente aux enchères de photographies intitulé American & European Prints & Photography. On y retrouvera des clichés d'Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, RObert Frank, Steve McCurry, Andy Warhol, etc.
© Andy Warhol
© Robert Frank
© Ansel Adams
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WORKS BY WILLIAM EGGLESTON, HIROSHI SUGIMOTO, THOMAS DEMAND, ANDREAS GURKSY, NOBUYOSHI ARAKI, CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI, IRVING PENN, RICHARD AVEDON, CINDY SHERMAN, PETER BEARD AND DIANE ARBUS LEAD SALE OF IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPHS
AUCTION : 1 APRIL 2014, 10AM & 2PM
GENERAL VIEWING : 22– 31 March 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New York – 6 March 2014 – Phillips is delighted to launch its Spring Photographs sale with an excellent array of photographs by many of the leading figures in the field.
« This season’s sale illustrates the continuous evolution of the field over the twentieth-century with a strong emphasis on contemporary culture. Major works by William Eggleston, Hiroshi Sugimoto and several alumni of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf outline some of the most t...
Comme chaque année, Christie’s France organise une vente de photographies dans le cadre de Paris Photo. Une sélection de tirages de grande qualité sera proposée aux enchères le 16 novembre prochain. Composé de près de cent photographies, l’ensemble est estimé entre 2 et 3 millions d’euros. Cette année encore, les grands noms de la photographie seront à l’honneur à l’instar de Lee Friedlander, Alfred Stieglitz, Gustave Le Gray, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Claude Cahun ou encore Man Ray dont huit photographies seront proposées aux amateurs. Moï Ver sera également présent dans cette vente avec une importante maquette de livre réalisée en 1937 et un ensemble de 19 photographies provenant de la collection personnelle de Bernard Lamarche-Vadel sera également place...
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.phillipsdepury.com.
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Communiqué presse
En écho au Festival de l’histoire de l’art 2017, qui a mis cette année à l’honneur les États-Unis, le musée d’Orsay présente dans son accrochage estival de photographies une cinquantaine de pièces américaines sélectionnées dans ses collections.
La création en 1978 du musée d’Orsay, premier musée d’art en France à avoir mené une politique d’acquisition et d’exposition dans le domaine de la photographie ancienne, s’inscrit dans les prémices de l’ouverture à la photographie du champ culturel et artistique hexagonal. Quarante ans plus tôt, celle-ci avait commencé à pénétrer les mus&eac...
Communiqué de presse MEP - La famille se retrouve souvent au centre de l’œuvre de beaucoup d’artistes américains, tout comme la photographie est au cœur de leur vie. La tradition photographique américaine est ainsi riche d’un grand nombre de muses qui ont inspiré leur compagnon (Georgia O’Keefe et Alfred Stiegiltz, Charis Wilson et Edward Weston, Eleanor et Harry Callahan, Maria et Lee Friedlander, Bebe et Nicholas Nixon, Edith et Emmet Gowin). Les séries présentées ici, toutes issues de la collection de la MEP, ne relèvent pas de photos de famille au sens commun du terme, c’est-à-dire de récits imagés de la vie familiale. Il s’agit de projets esthétiques qui font partie intégrante de...
Communiqué de presse
Azzedine Alaïa est heureux de présenter l’exposition « Entre l’art et la mode: la collection Carla Sozzani », une sélection de Fabrice Hergott, directeur du Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, dans le remarquable ensemble entrepris depuis près de quarante années par cette figure éminente de l’élégance contemporaine. Très proche amie d’Azzedine Alaïa, elle accompagne la création du couturier, et c’est dans la Galerie de celui-ci, créée en dialogue avec la Galleria Carla Sozzani de Milan, qu’aura lieu pour la première fois une telle présentation de cette collection de référence réunie avec science et passio...
Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to present « Songs and the Sky », an exhibition of art and music.
© Barbara Morgan
Artworks by Lisette Model, Barbara Morgan, Aaron Siskind, Frederick Sommer, and Alfred Stieglitz will be paired with musical compositions by Ernest Bloch, John Cage, Arnold Schoenberg, Henry Cowell, and Christopher Washburne. Historically and conceptually relevant musical compositions were chosen to provoke, compliment, enhance, and challenge a reading of the visual artworks. Music served as literal or ideological inspiration for these artists, who sought to create work with the equivalent potential to communicate or translate abstract concepts directly.
© Lisette Model
The exhibition title derives from Alfred Stieglitz’s historic series, Songs of ...
Première monographie en France consacrée à Georgia O’Keeffe, icône de la peinture américaine du XXe siècle, l'exposition mettra également en perspectives les œuvres de ses amis photographes : Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, Todd Webb ou encore, son mari, Alfred Stieglitz ; sept photographes qui ont marqué son œuvre et qu’elle a elle-même influencée. Insensiblement, dans ces allers-retours entre images en noir et blanc et tableaux de O’Keeffe aux couleurs suaves, apparaît en filigrane tout un pan de l’imaginaire nord-américain.
L’ensemble d’environ 90 œuvres est issu de quinze prestigieux musées américains mais également...
In the second decade of the 20th century, as the population of New York surpassed that of London, images of street life became an increasingly appealing form of documentary and artistic interpretation among American photographers. This new subject matter was most certainly influenced by contemporary painters like John Sloan and Robert Henri, who found excitement in the physically teeming and visually cacophonous streets of New York. In addition, while photographers had been drawn to urban spaces since the medium’s beginnings, new technological advances encouraged spontaneity and easier movement through congested spaces and rushing crowds. Offering a wide cast of characters and vast variety of experiences on which to focus, the city street took firm hold of photographers’ imaginations, giving birth to a rich g...
Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection, 1909–1949 presents more than 300 photographs acquired by MoMA from a remarkable private collection in 2001. Exhibited together for the first time, these images capture the richness and variety of the photographic medium between the First and Second World Wars.
The creative possibilities explored through photography were never richer or more varied than in the years between the First and Second World Wars, when photographers approached figuration, abstraction, and architecture with unmatched imaginative fervor. This vital moment is dramatically captured in the more than 300 photographs that constitute the Thomas Walther Collection at The Museum of Modern Art. This remarkable group of objects is presented together for the first time to coincide with the culmin...
This display of ten, rare large-format photogravures by Alfred Stieglitz showcases the creative process of an artist. These exquisite versions of some of Stieglitz’s most important photographs were in his private collection at the time of his death. They reveal how the artist tested inks and papers in his efforts to best relay the beauty of the world and his vision. The exhibition is drawn from a generous gift of Doris Bry, who worked for many years as the assistant and exclusive art dealer for Georgia O’Keeffe
The Art of Photogravure
Lecture
Artist Jon Goodman explores the process of photogravure, how the process fits into the history of photography and printmaking, and discusses the artwork in the exhibition Alfred Stieglitz: The Art of Photogravure.
Reservations are required. Registration for thi...
« Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography » will be among the first major exhibitions treating astrophotography as an art genre and, together with its attendant catalogue, will present new scholarship in this rapidly-evolving field. The exhibition, organized by the Museum’s Curator of Education, Anthony Shostak, features 106 images by thirty-five artists from around the world. Nine artists are included by invitation: Michael Benson, Linda Connor, Robert Gendler, Sharon Harper, David Malin, Thomas Ruff, Hans-Christian Schink, Alfred Stieglitz, and Jacqueline Woods. The remaining artists were selected through a juried format, and include five from Maine–James Cormier (Ellsworth), Jacob Gerritsen (Camden), Jim Nickelson (Camden), Kirk Rogers (Portland), and John Stetson (Falmouth)...
It is a great pleasure and honour for us to present such a unique collection of artists that have shaped the development of photography as an art form, says Jens R Jenssen, senior vice president of human resources and leader of the Statoil art programme. And he continues: This exhibition will make a difference.
The exhibition consists of approximately 180 works of photography, spanning from the 1842 to 2002. With a unique collection of original Irving Penns as a basis, the diversity of the collection is presented in a wide number of small exhibitions within the main concept, says Arnt N Fredheim, curator, the Statoil art programme. It’s like a dream has come trough, he continues, as the possibility to make an exhibition of legendary photographers like William Henry Fox Talbot, Edward Weston, Karl Blossfeldt...
“La Bohème”. The Staging of Artists in photography of the 19th and 20th century In his 1851 novel Scènes de la Vie de Bohème, the French author Henri Murger created the image of the artist as an outsider who, in the midst of the middle class era, lived in romantic poverty. Bohemian life, viewed through rose-tinted glasses and elevated to undying popularity by Puccini’s opera, constituted in Murger’s view a transitional stage: “Bohemia is the first stage in artistic life; it is the preface to the Academy, the hospital, or the Morgue.” The term became synonymous with the 19th century artist who was dependent on an anonymous market and, while free of constraints, had to sell the fruits of his labours without the patronage of the courts. In the middle of ...
… much has happened in photography that is sensational, but very little that is comparable with what Stieglitz did. The body of his work, the key set – I think – is the most beautiful photographic document of our time.’ Georgia O’Keeffe 1978
The photographs Alfred Stieglitz [1864–1946] took around his summer house at Lake George, New York state, USA after 1915 are considered a major departure and dramatically influenced the course of photography. The desire to build a specifically ‘American’ art led Stieglitz to explore the essential nature of photography, released from contrivances and from intervention in print and negative.
‘Photography is my passion. The search for truth
my obsession,’ he would write in 1921.
This major exhibition is the fir...
The oldest known image of the camera obscura principle (1545), the original camera belonging to painter George Hendrik Breitner, daguerreotypes over 150 years old: Leiden University's photographic collection is unique in many ways. It is both the oldest and the largest museological photography collection in the country, telling the whole story of the emergence and development of photography. It also includes work by contemporary photographers, and 'classic' works by photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Diane Arbus. The largest ever exhibition of pieces from this unique collection can be seen at The Hague Museum of Photography from 23 January.
Despite resistance from both artists and academics - who felt it was 'beneath them' - in 1953 Hans van de Waal, professor of art history at the Leiden University, began the un...
TOKYO PHOTO 2009 endeavors to be the foremost art fair of photography in Japan. The venue is located in the heart of international business and culture in Tokyo. To be held from September 4 to 6, Tokyo Photo 2009 will provide visitors with a unique opportunity to see and buy a wide range of photographic works from vintage prints to cutting-edge digitally enhanced images.
With the support of the US Embassy and in collaboration with the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, Tokyo Photo will mount a special exhibition entitled Photo America. Featuring over 50 historical works spanning the 19th century to the present, Photo America will present a panoramic overview of American photographic expression. Virtually all of the works will be displayed for the first time in Japan.
PROGRAMMING
Lectures and seminars will...
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 diverse environment necessitates representing the grit as much as the glamour. In particular the exhibition will highlight sweeping vistas, architectural studies, street photography and street portraiture....