Photo Carraol Images of Mexico City (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Tina Modotti 's house in Mexico City. Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti was a beautiful woman, a minor star of the theater and silent film, and a political radical. She was born in Italy in 1896 and lived in San Francisco and Hollywood, then in Mexico City of the 1920s and in Berlin of the early 1930s. For a brief seven years, Tina Modotti, as she is known, also was a fine-art photographer. She made...
Art (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
[ October 10, 2009 to January 3, 2010. ] Eyes to Fly With (Ojos Para Volar): Photographs by Graciela Iturbide Art Museum of Southeast Texas Oct. 10, 2009 - Jan. 3, 2010 [ad#lb] Eyes to Fly With features the compelling photographic work of Mexican, female photographer Graciela Iturbide. This 58-photograph retrospective is organized by the Wittliff Collections, Texas State University, San Marcos and...
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 17/08/2009
Tom Arndt... Young man doing a rope trick (1987, Gelatin silver print, Signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso). From the exhibition Faces: Vintage and Contemporary Photographic Portraits at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art. "...For this exhibition, the gallery draws upon its specialized access to 19th and 20th century photographic masterworks, and thematically merges those selections with images...
PORT (Free subscription) | 04/08/2009
Garry Winogrand, "Centennial Ball, Metropolitan Museum of New York, 1969" c.1975 Charles Hartman presents Faces: Vintage and Contemporary Photographic Portraits . Combining 19th and 20th century photographic masterworks and contemporary images, the exhibition explores "the fundamental tension in photography between point of view and composition." Artists include Ansel Adams, Manuel...
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
Desert Light at Throckmorton Fine Art in New York. "...The exhibit includes the work of a number of photographers who have been attracted to deserts: Edward, Brett, and Cole Weston, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Martin Chambi, Lucien Clergue, Elisabeth Sunday, Dirk McDonnell, and Marilyn Bridges. Photographs in the exhibit range from the early part of the twentieth century to the beginning of the...
From Laurel Street (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
(Susan Toomey Frost) Around 1905 a young German photographer named Hugo Brehme (1882-1954) made his way to Mexico to photograph this fascinating and complex country. Although in his twenties, he already had mastered his expensive photographic equipment and had developed an artistic eye trained by photographic studies in Germany. Taking pictures of the people and places [...]
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 26/03/2009
BOSTON, MA.- In the decades following the Revolution of 1910, foreign artists and intellectuals flocked to Mexico in order to experience its warm climate and lively cultural scene. They were inspired by Mexico‘s exotic tropical landscape, its ancient monuments and colonial architecture, the work of its modern muralists, and the country‘s indigenous arts and crafts. During two
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 25/01/2009
SOUTH BEND, IN.- The Snite Museum of Art opens the photography exhibition Lola Alvarez Bravo that will be on display in the O'Shaughnessy West Gallery from January 25 until March 15, 2009. Aperture, a not-for-profit organization devoted to photography and the visual arts, has organized this traveling exhibition and
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 21/01/2009
NEW YORK, NY.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the generous gifts in 2008 of three outstanding 19th-century paintings and nearly 500 objects to the Department of Photographs. The more than 25 individual donors who enhanced the Getty's collection this year represent collectors from across the country, and include
http://artforprofits.wordpress.com/ (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
Awesome Online Photo Auction - artmarketblog.com Daniel Cooney Fine Art are auctioning a fantastic collection of photographs by masters such as Steichen, Steiglitz, W.Eugene Smith as well as works by more contemporary photographers such as Kate Breakey and Herb Ritts. The most important piece of information is that the auction ends in a few hours [...]
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Flor Garduño: Mujeres fantásticas - fantastic women at Throckmorton Fine Art in New York. "...Garduño was born in Mexico City in 1957. She began her career as an assistant to Manuel Álvarez Bravo, and has since labored steadily, becoming a master photographer who proudly prints all of her own images. Garduño works exclusively in black and white, with an exquisite...
Notebooks - Los Cuadernos de Julia (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
The question of art is not a question of spontaneous feelings. It is not a question of emotionality, but of the knowledge of how to make things, how to realise something consciously. Everything functions in the brain. Even art. And, since one keeps developing and gaining an understanding of a work of art, the question of art is always a question of culture. The photographer receives what he is given....
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
SAN JOSE, CA.- The San Jose Museum of Art presents today Frida Kahlo: Portraits of an Icon, on view through March 22, 2009. Shedding light on the life and art of Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954), this exhibition features approximately fifty photographic portraits of the legendary Mexican artist. Drawn from the collection of Spencer Throckmorton, a specialist in Latin American photography, the
The Herald (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
REVIEW: There’s something a little out of focus about the Tate Modern’s sprawling new photography exhibition.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Stockholm - Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide cited as one of the most influential photographers in Latin America was Thursday named winner of the 2008 Hasselblad Award. The international jury said Iturbide had during the past four decades bee...
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