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…
Diane Arbus, Irving Penn & Christer Strömholm in See the World! at Moderna Museet
STOCKHOLM.- Moderna Museet is presenting the history of photography with this year’s radical rehanging of its permanent collection. 16 April was the opening day for the second instalment of Another Story: See the World!, including works by iconic …
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…
Photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros Killed While Covering Battles in Libya
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- Tim Hetherington, the daring war photographer and Oscar-nominated co-director of the documentary “Restrepo” about a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, died Wednesday while covering battles between rebels and Libyan government…
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…
Four Legends of Texas Photography Exhibit at Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery
DALLAS, TX.- Four Legends of Texas who have greatly impacted the photography scene in Texas are featured together in one show. Peter Brown • Keith Carter • Earlie Hudnall • George Krause This show also celebrates the gallery’s 16th anniversary s…
Victoria & Albert Museum Presents Figures and Fictions: South African Photography
LONDON.- The first UK exhibition of contemporary South African photography from the last ten years is shown at the V&A from April 12 through July 17, 2011. Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography features over 150 works by some of …
Photographers Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk and Ann Pettersson Exhibit at Seelevel Gallery
AMSTERDAM.- Photographers Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk and Ann Pettersson are fascinated by nature landscapes. It seems however that the search for nature plays a more important role than the nature itself. With archetypal nature as their source of …
Bruce Silverstein Gallery Shows Works by Artists Who Found the Night to Be an Inspiring Subject
NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery presents NIGHT, an exhibition of the work of Brassaï, Ilse Bing, Robert Doisneau and André Kertész. The leading artists working with photography in Europe during the 1920s and 30s found the night to be an ins…
Photographers Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk and Ann Pettersson Exhibit at Seelevel Gallery
AMSTERDAM.- Photographers Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk and Ann Pettersson are fascinated by nature landscapes. It seems however that the search for nature plays a more important role than the nature itself. With archetypal nature as their source of …