Five Pioneers of Photography: Mathew Brady,Martin Chambi, Fadweard Muybridge, Daido Moriyama, James VanDerZee (Phaidon 55's S.)
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
For a city that votes solidly for the Democratic Party (except, of course, when it comes to mayor), New York City's connection to Abraham Lincoln--Republican...
International Metropolis (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
One day going through the microfilm, I came across this ad for the Ryancrete Model Home. I did a pass along Mathew Brady and found the house still standing at 415 Matthew Brady. The address listed in the ad as 205, was for the old numbering system of the Town of Riverside. The house appears to [...]
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Union Gallery 359 Broadway, 646-613-0434 Tribeca / Downtown October 16 - November 7, 2009 Opening: Friday, October 16, 6 - 10 AM Web Site The Union Gallery is pleased to present the inaugural group exhibition of gallery artists at our new 4,000 square foot space located at 359 Broadway. Still in Tribeca, we have moved a couple of blocks south of our original space at 62 Walker Street. Artists include:...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- Abraham Lincoln visited New York City only five times in his life, and only once as president, yet the growing 19th-century metropolis played a central role in burnishing his enduring public image. That's the point of a new exhibition, "Lincoln and New York," that opened Friday at the New-York Historical Society on Manhattan's Upper West Side to celebrate the bicentennial...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Abraham Lincoln visited New York City five times in his life, and only once as president, yet the growing 19th-century metropolis played a central role in burnishing his enduring public image.
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
His rise to the presidency was transformed by the city, a bicentennial exhibit aims to show. Abraham Lincoln visited New York City only five times in his life, and only once as president, yet the growing 19th century metropolis played a central role in burnishing his enduring public image.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
NEW YORK -- Abraham Lincoln visited New York City only five times in his life, and only once as president, yet the growing 19th-century metropolis played a central role in burnishing his enduring public image.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Abraham Lincoln came to New York City only five times in his life, yet the growing 19th century metropolis played a central role in burnishing his enduring public image.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
PITTSBURGH, PA.- On October 3, 2009, Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art opens at The Frick Art Museum . This exhibition is composed of fifty-nine photographs from Cleveland's extraordinary collection that chronicle the evolution of photography in America from a scientific curiosity in the 1850s to one of the most potent forms of artistic expression...
Screen Savour (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
d. Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton / USA / 75 mins. "It's got to be so authentic it hurts," Buster Keaton is to have said to his staff before they began production on The General , his late-era silent comedy about a powerful locomotive and its hapless conductor who manages to deliver a strategic victory in the throes of the U.S. Civil War. The authenticity abounds: the mise-en-scene is...
Liberalguy (Free subscription) | 30/08/2009
...Three captured Confederate soldiers, likely from Louisiana, pose for Mathew Brady on Seminary Ridge following the Battle of Gettysburg." via
Old Picture of the Day (Free subscription) | 02/08/2009
OK, today we feature a picture by Mathew Brady of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln. So, I officially won the mystery person contest yesterday. This was the first time I was able to win by stumping everyone for 24 hours. From the git go, everyone was on the wrong track, guessing people associated with Laundry or cleaning products. The mistake that you all made is that you thought...
Lens (Free subscription) | 23/07/2009
Photographic icons, like Robert Capa's picture of a falling soldier in the Spanish Civil War, are not always as straightforward as they seem, Philip Gefter says.
Click World News (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
An old friend of mine, photographer Billy Baque, once told me of a rumor about gardeners in the early 20th century reusing unwanted glass plate negatives to build greenhouses. This idea--a sunlit glass room full of growing plants, dappled with the accidental shadows of unwanted memories--is to me almost too beautiful to explain. So I tried to track it down in the tubes, and discovered that the story...
Autumn's Meadow (Free subscription) | 15/06/2009
Ok, now I know I've lost my mind. I have no where to store things in my apartment, but I keep coming up with these bright ideas. The latest being a wall dedicated to the battle of Gettysburg. I want to take some of my favorite photos along with Union and Confederate leaders and put them on a wall. Don't ask me what wall since mine are full, but I am going to at lest gather some things I want for display...
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