ROCHESTER, NY.- When Kodak announced in 2009 it would no longer produce Kodachrome film, company officials announced two ways the famed film would be celebrated: 1) National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry would be given the last roll off the …
Home Movie of President Kennedy in Houston Donated to Sixth Floor Museum
DALLAS, TX.- The Rice Hotel in Houston was the second stop of a planned five-city Texas visit that was to have finished at a fund-raiser dinner in Austin. The Kennedy assassination happened in Dallas the next day. Shortly before 9 p.m. in the hotel’s g…
Film, Two-Dimensional Images and the Structural Use of Color by Liz Larner at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents the gallery’s first exhibition of work by Liz Larner. Bringing film, two-dimensional images and the structural use of color to bear on sculptural expression, Larner’s work demonstrates an innovat…
Photographer Steve McCurry Shoots De Niro, Brooklyn, India on Last Kodachrome Roll
ROCHESTER, NY (AP).- What should a photographer shoot when he’s entrusted with the very last roll of Kodachrome? Steve McCurry took aim at the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Terminal and a few human icons, too. Paul Simon, the crooner synonymous with t…
Jackson and Lee, August 1953: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- In August 1953, on assignment for Look magazine, the photographer Tony Vaccaro visited Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner at their home in Springs. He photographed the two artists in the house and the barn studio, where the couple chatt…
Jackson and Lee, August 1953: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- In August 1953, on assignment for Look magazine, the photographer Tony Vaccaro visited Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner at their home in Springs. He photographed the two artists in the house and the barn studio, where the couple chatt…