WASHINGTON, D.C.- You don’t have to be a rocket scientist or an astronaut to work for NASA. Engineers, pilots, physicists, astrobiologists, and, yes, artists, too, have helped further the mission of the space agency. In 1962, NASA administrator James E…
Irving Penn, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams and Annie Leibovitz Originals Highlight Photography Event at Heritage Auctions
NEW YORK, NY.- Irving Penn’s Harlequin Dress, Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, 1950, a Platinum-Palladium print from 1979, an acknowledged masterpiece from one of the greatest fashion photographers to ever pick up a camera, is expected to bring $150,000+ to lea…
Annie Leibovitz Exhibition Breaks Museum of Contemporary Art Attendence Records
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) announce that its exhibition of works by internationally renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz is now the most popular ticketed exhibition ever presented at the MCA. Just twelve weeks since its opening on 1…
Smithsonian Stands Firmly Behind "Hide/Seek" Exhibition
WASHINGTON, DC.- The exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” which opened Oct. 30, recently sparked a great deal of controversy. One of the exhibition’s …
Ansel Adams and Cartier-Bresson Among Famous Names in New York Photography Auction
NEW YORK, NY.- Fresh-to-market finds from the holdings of an important Fortune 500 company – including photographs from such luminous names as Harold Edgerton, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Sandy Skoglund, Eliot Porter, Ernst Haas, Annie Leibovitz,…
Ansel Adams, Herb Ritts and Cartier-Bresson Among Famous Names in New York Photography Auction
NEW YORK, NY.- Fresh-to-market finds from the holdings of an important Fortune 500 company – including photographs from such luminous names as Harold Edgerton, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Sandy Skoglund, Eliot Porter, Ernst Haas, Annie Leibovitz,…
Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney Presents Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life 1990-2005
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art and Events NSW present the exhibition Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life 1990–2005. The exhibition opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art on 19 November following a record-breaking tour in the US …
Christie’s New York Announces Highlights of Dennis Hopper Sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s presents The Dennis Hopper Collection. A veritable master within a range of categories, Dennis Hopper was at once an artist, a filmmaker, an actor, and a passionate art collector. Amassing more than 250 works of art throu…
Copy of Annie Leibovitz’s ‘John and Yoko’ Up for Auction
NEW YORK (AP).- A copy of Annie Leibovitz’s famous photo of a nude John Lennon with a clothed Yoko Ono is going up for auction in New York City. The photo was taken just hours before Lennon was shot in December 1980 and appeared on the cover of Rollin…
Copy of Annie Leibovitz’s ‘John and Yoko’ Up for Auction
NEW YORK (AP).- A copy of Annie Leibovitz’s famous photo of a nude John Lennon with a clothed Yoko Ono is going up for auction in New York City. The photo was taken just hours before Lennon was shot in December 1980 and appeared on the cover of Rollin…