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...
Broché: 550 pages
Editeur : Phaidon Press Ltd. (7 février 2008)
Collection : PHOTOGRAPHIE
Langue : Français...
New York—Swann Galleries’ auction of Fine Photographs on Thursday, February 19 offers a premium selection of important photographs, ranging from mid-19th-century albumen and salt paper prints and daguerreotypes to luminous 20th-century silver prints and contemporary fine art photographs in both traditional and experimental mediums.
Among the earliest works offered is Seascape with Clouds by Gustave Le Grey, an albumen print from 1856 (estimate: $12,000 to $18,000). Also from the 1800s is a lyrical image by Julia Margaret Cameron, Young Woman with Flowers in Her Hair, circa 1865 ($4,000 to $6,000) and a run of Eadweard Muybridge prints, including two Horse and Rider studies from 1881 (each $10,000 to $15,000). An image by Muybridge of El Capitan, the cliff face at Yosemite also famously photographed by Anse...
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art's press release
Collecting is a curious vice, it changes your whole life—your whole way of looking at the world. – Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr. 1978
Hartford, Conn. (Sept. 9, 2016) – In the first major photography survey displayed at the museum in 27 years, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art will present, “The Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum,” Sept. 10 through Dec. 11. The exhibition offers a selection of nearly 100 photographs from the personal collection of Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr. (American, 1921–1987), and spans the history of photography over 150 years, tracing the artistic and technical development of this art form through the eye of an influential collector. “The Wagstaff Collectio...
Maastricht, The Netherlands— A group of portraits from the 1840s to the 1870s will be featured along with other 19th century photographs at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs at TEFAF Maastricht, 13-22 March 2015, Stand 452. Work by Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Duchenne de Boulogne with Adrien Tournachon, Gustave Le Gray, Charges Nègre, and William Henry Fox Talbot will be on view.
As a tribute to the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice in Wonderland, an exquisite albumen print of Alice and her sister will be on view: Lorina and Alice Liddell in Chinese costume, c.1860, by Lewis Carroll (English, 1832-1898). Carroll was a mathematics tutor at Christ Church, Oxford, who became a remarkably gifted photographer. Made with his characteristic care and attention to detail, this compelling port...
The exhibition “Photography of the Victorian Age” comprises the art pieces from the ROSPHOTO’s collection and the collection “Pre-Raphaelitism in Photography”, which has been donated by the British Council to the Tomsk Regional Art Museum.
The exhibition spans 1850–1870s and is dedicated to the important period in the history of the British photography as well as in the history of the British art in general. That period has been named the “Victorian Age” and is characterized by the growing interest of the photographers to the classic art and by the photography’s aspiration to join the circle of fine arts. As a result, a certain school of art photography was established, the school that searched for the combination of real and artificial subjects.
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One of the greatest portraitists in the history of photography, Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) blended an unorthodox technique, a deeply spiritual sensibility, and a Pre- Raphaelite–inflected aesthetic to create a gallery of vivid portraits and a mirror of the Victorian soul. This will be the first New York City museum exhibition devoted to Cameron's work in nearly a generation, and the first ever at the Met. The showing of thirty-five works is drawn entirely from the Metropolitan's rich collection, including major works from the Rubel Collection acquired in 1997 and the Gilman Collection acquired in 2005.
When she received her first camera in December 1863 as a gift from her daughter and son-in-law, Cameron was forty-eight, a mother of six, and a deeply religious, well-read, somewhat eccen...
La photographie en cent chefs-d’œuvre
Explorer la notion de chef-d’œuvre appliquée à un médium aussi foisonnant et divers que la photographie, tel est le propos de cette exposition qui dévoile cent images issues des collections de la BnF. Choisies pour leur beauté, la perfection de leur tirage ou leur provenance, ces pièces, toutes d’auteurs différents, composent un parcours où les grands noms de la photographie des XIXe et XXe siècles côtoient des anonymes.
« Choisir parmi les trésors photographiques que conserve la Bibliothèque est un exercice difficile auquel notre collection se prête avec bonheur. Photographies d’art, documentaires, scientifiques, images issu...
“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 ...
Since the invention of photography more than 170 years ago it has been largely women who have used this technical medium to project themselves through role playing and masquerading. As well as the experimental urge to constantly recreate ones ego, the camera has also served as a means of calling into question clichés of female representation. Playing with the image of the eternally feminine was and remains a discourse with gender identity, its social and political definitions and reaching beyond them.
The exhibition focuses on contemporary women artists such as Cindy Sherman, Sarah Lucas, Monica Bonvicini and Pipilotti Rist, who with the aid of photography and video art investigate the female image. The artists explore the question of what image patterns the media age employs for portraying femininity and how t...
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall starts this year’s exhibition program with an encounter between a recently “discovered” contemporary artist, Miroslav Tichy, and an early star in the writing of photographic history, Julia Margaret Cameron.
Working independent of his contemporaries from the 1960’s up to the 90’s, Miroslav Tichy (b. 1926, Czech Republic) created an idiosyncratic style, fascinating in its imperfection and reminiscent of photography’s early experimental years. Using homemade cameras Tichy took blurry, mottled photographs in his Moravian home town Kyjov. His anonymous portraits depict mothers, waitresses, students, sitting on park benches, waiting for the bus or in conversation with a friend – moments from everyday life and often framed by elaborate mounts.
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