HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents over 100 photographs in this first major retrospective in the United States devoted to Austrian photographer and scientist Heinrich Kühn (1866-1944), an important figure in the international Pic…
A Floating World: Photographs by Jacques Henri Lartigue at CaixaForum Madrid
MADRID.- Lluís Reverter, secretary general of ”la Caixa” Foundation, opened A Floating World. Photographs by Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), accompanied by the exhibition curators, Florian Rodari, Martine d’Astier de la Vigerie. The exhi…
Esther Woerdehoff Gallery Presents Spanish Photographer Chema Madoz
PARIS.- Esther Woerdehoff gallery presents Spanish photographer Chema Madoz’s recent work. The exhibition comes with the publication of his last monograph Obras Maestras by the edition “La Fabrica”. Like a poet assembles words, Chema Madoz re…
Fotomuseum Winterthur Presents Retrospective of One of the Founders of Photojournalism
WINTERTHUR.- André Kertész is possibly the most photographic of all photographers: he sought out the play of light and shadow; he liked the concentration and overlapping of forms, of moments; and in the everyday, in banality, he recognized poetry, be…
Fotomuseum Winterthur Presents Retrospective of One of the Founders of Photojournalism
WINTERTHUR.- André Kertész is possibly the most photographic of all photographers: he sought out the play of light and shadow; he liked the concentration and overlapping of forms, of moments; and in the everyday, in banality, he recognized poetry, be…
Photographer Simen Johan Explores Uneasy Connections Between Humans and Animals
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Center’s Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery will feature Simen Johan: Until the Kingdom Comes, comprising nine large-scale digital photographs and three sculptures. The exhibition opens Feb. 20, 2011, and will …
Photographs by O. Winston Link Bring the Romance of Trains to Reynolda House Museum of American Art
WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- As steam engines were about to fade from railroading in the late 1950s, photographer O. Winston Link sought to capture the nostalgia, mystery and symbolism they evoked of a rapidly changing post-war America. This spring, Reynolda …
Kunsthalle Mannheim Presents Ré Soupault: Rediscovery of a Companion of the Avant-Garde
MANNHEIM.- The Kunsthalle Mannheim is the first museum in the world to be honoring the oeuvre of one of the key female figures in the European avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s with the extensive retrospective Ré Soupault—Künstlerin im Zentrum …
Time Magazine’s Image of Disfigured Afghan Woman Wins World Press Photo Prize for 2010
AMSTERDAM (AP).- A South African photographer’s portrait of an Afghan woman whose husband sliced off her nose and ears in a case of Taliban-administered justice won the World Press Photo award for 2010 Friday, one of photojournalism’s most coveted priz…
Time Magazine’s Image of Disfigured Afghan Woman Wins World Press Photo Prize for 2010
AMSTERDAM (AP).- A South African photographer’s portrait of an Afghan woman whose husband sliced off her nose and ears in a case of Taliban-administered justice won the World Press Photo award for 2010 Friday, one of photojournalism’s most coveted priz…