For street photographers, New York has always been a city of unparalleled visual excitement, teeming with diverse people and distinctive neighbourhoods. This is an examination of how photographers chronicled New York throughout the 20th century, how the city changed their vision, and how their work affected ideas about New York throughout the ...
Cultivated Impasses Writings on Modern Art Max Kozloff Max Kozloff identifies a dialectic in the field of modern art: a struggle between the romantic conception of the artist, i.e. Turner, and an ethical imperative that art participate in social struggle, i.ee Orozco, Rivera and the muralist movement. Artist production oscillates between these two ...
"The face is where we are. We kiss, eat, breathe and speak through it. It's where we look, listen and smell. It is where we think of ourselves as being finally and conclusively on show. It's the part we hide when we are ashamed and the bit we think we lose when we are in disgrace" - Jonathon Green. Though portrait photography is one of the most ...
"New Yorkers: As Seen by Magnum Photographers is a tour-de-force through the city that never sleeps, documenting its denizens as they go about their lives in typically idiosyncratic New York style, edited by famed art critic Max Kozloff.
A collection of photographs by John Gutmann which serve to show that, despite the dust bowls and the breadlines of the 1930s, throughout the United States life went on in all its passionate diversity. There is also an essay on the German-born photographer, who arrived in America in 1933.
Philip Perkis is one of the most widely respected American photographers, yet his work is little known outside of professional circles. In this fifty-year retrospective, and first published collection, his inimitable vision is brought to the public. With a gift for capturing moments of heartbreaking honesty and unparalleled beauty, he presents a ...
Twin Palms is pleased to be distributing "Frank Paulin: Out of the Limelight," published by Silverstein Photography. Born in 1926, Paulin came of age as a photographer in the 1940s studying with the likes of Harry Callahan and art director Alexey Brodovitch. By the 1950s, the streets of New York City had established themselves as Paulin's primary ...
Toda, one of Japan's leading art directors, is also a fine artist. This remarkable series of photographs, shot with X-rays, depicts wooden constructions housing the remains of living creatures, revealing what the constructions hide, in images of mysterious, almost metaphysical beauty.
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