LIVERPOOL.- An exhibition featuring 58 photographs of children playing on the streets of 1970s Liverpool opened at the Walker Art Gallery this Friday. Like you’ve never been away: photographs by Paul Trevor runs until 25 September 2011. Paul Trev…
The Heckscher Museum of Art Presents Edward Weston: Life Work
NEW YORK, NY.- The Heckscher Museum of Art presents Edward Weston: Life Work. This extraordinary exhibition, on view from May 7, 2011 through July 24, 2011, surveys the 50-year career of a giant of 20th-century photography. The photographs of Edward We…
Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea
HOUSTON, TX.- European navigators began traveling to coastal areas of New Guinea in the sixteenth century, but it was not until 1858 that the Dutch Etna Expedition reached Humboldt Bay and Lake Sentani (in the present-day Indonesian province of Papua, …
South Africa Photographer Sam Nzima Honored for Soweto Photo by President Jacob Zuma
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA (AP).- A South African photographer is being honored for helping expose apartheid’s brutality to the world with a picture that ended his career. On Wednesday, celebrated as Freedom Day in South Africa because it is the anniversar…
South Africa Photographer Sam Nzima Honored for Soweto Photo by President Jacob Zuma
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA (AP).- A South African photographer is being honored for helping expose apartheid’s brutality to the world with a picture that ended his career. On Wednesday, celebrated as Freedom Day in South Africa because it is the anniversar…
Photographers Igor Kostin, Valery Zufarov and Volodymyr Repik Recall Chernobyl’s First Days
KIEV (AP).- Wearing a lead protective suit and placing his cameras in lead boxes, photographer Igor Kostin made a terrifying and unauthorized trip to the Chernobyl danger zone just a few days after a nuclear power plant reactor exploded in the world’s…
Photographs from the Heinz Hajek-Halke Estate to Be Sold at Sotheby’s in Paris
LONDON.- On 10 May 2011, Sotheby’s European Photographs department will hold two Photographs sales: L’Essentiel Heinz Hajek-Halke an auction which comprises the most compelling vintage prints from the 1920s to the 1950s of this German avant-g…
Photographs from the Heinz Hajek-Halke Estate to Be Sold at Sotheby’s in Paris
LONDON.- On 10 May 2011, Sotheby’s European Photographs department will hold two Photographs sales: L’Essentiel Heinz Hajek-Halke an auction which comprises the most compelling vintage prints from the 1920s to the 1950s of this German avant-g…
Catherine Opie: Empty and Full Opens at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
BOSTON, MA.- This spring, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston opened Catherine Opie: Empty and Full, an exhibition of new and recent work by photographer Catherine Opie. One of the defining artists of her generation, Opie is known for her portrait…
Strong Prices for Swann Gallerys’ March 24 Auction of Fine Photographs
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Swann Galleries’ March 24 auction of Fine Photographs saw active bidding from dealers and collectors alike, resulting in a successful sale of material from the 19th through 21st centuries. Daile Kaplan, Vice President and Director …