Archive for the 'Photograhy' Category

MOAD – Museum of the African Diaspora

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

“Double Exposure: African
Americans Before & Behind the Camera”
Photographic works from the 19th and 20th century will be shown at MOAD in San Francisco starting June 18. “The exhibition will present two predominant subject threads—popular culture and historical images of African Americans and the reality of black life as depicted by African Americans themselves.”
MOAD [...]

100 Years of Photography at the Met

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

“Framing a Century: Master Photographers, 1840–1940”

The work of 13 men and women are presented here as examples of photography’s first 100 years – some are names that you know: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray and some you may not know:
Eugène Atget, Julia Margaret Cameron - how they contributed, shaped, impacted.

Image: “Devils Canyon, Geysers, Looking Down” [...]

International Center of Photography – ICP

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

“Arbus/Avedon/Model: Selections From The LaSalle Collection”

This exhibit, 5/16/08 thru 9/7/08, brings together 3 of the important photographers of the 1960s – portraitists, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, and Lisette Model.
Arbus : (1923 – 1971) took pictures of people outside the “norm” – dwarves, giants, street [...]

Ruscha

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

“Ed Ruscha and Photography” * Thru June 1, 2008

Called a “pop artist”, the 70 year old and still very popular Ruscha (pronounced “rew-shay”), will have his prints, some not seen before, and photo books displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago, thru June 1,2008.
BTW: “In 1962 Ruscha’s work was included, along with Roy [...]

Annie Leibovitz * 3/1 - 5/ 25/08

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

                                      

                “Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990 – 2005”

Award winning photographer Annie Leibovitz will have 200 examples of her work on view at the San Francisco Legion of Honor, March 1 - May 25, 2008.   Included in the exhibit will be some of her famous/infamous celebrity portraits from Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone - [...]

Friedlander * 2/23/08 – 5/16/08

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

            
Retrospective, from 1950’s, includes over 400 photographs of everyday American life that are examples of Lee Friedlander’s successful career. His favorite subjects were ordinary things - billboards, cars, people in the street, etc.
(Image – New York City, 1966 – Gelatin silver print)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sat., Feb. 23, 2008 - Sun., May 18, [...]

“Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits” * Thru Sept.9

Friday, June 1st, 2007

International Center for Photography, NYC - portraits of men and women of achievement from 1850 to the present:
Earth Kitt, Paul Robeson, Louis Armstrong Marian Anderson, Langston Hughes, Judith Jamison.
The exhibition includes portraits produced by photographers such as Berenice Abbott, James VanDerZee, Edward Weston, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Carl Van Vechten.
It’s called the history of black achievement, [...]

The Photography of Dee Dee Woods

Friday, March 30th, 2007

There is old school grittiness in Dee Dee’s photographs. I am reminded of Brassaï, and possibly Gordon Parks, a blunt truthfulness about the way that things are. It’s genuinely real and beautiful. Her work will be featured in two exhibits in Phoenix Arizona. April 6 to June 27 at the Herberger Theater Center and the [...]