Tag: Photography

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  How do you see the world without a mirror? | Film meets photography

  30 Mar 2017Astronauts of National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  New York Upper East Side’s Yoshii Gallery has devoted its pristine gallery to an independent filmmaker. His name is Benny Safdie.

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  Hiroshi Sugimoto’s camera simulates landscapes of lost time

  9 Nov 2016Randy Gener

  Inspired by Dada and Surrealism, Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, b. 1948) aims to convey and preserve a point in time through his highly technical photographs, an intention to which he consistently refers.

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  Tokyo’s sex shops are a blurry, er, mesh in Daido Moriyama’s pics

  8 Nov 2016Randy Gener

  In 1969, Daido Moriyama was an active contributor in Provoke, a magazine founded in 1968 that — if only briefly — became a melting pot for the most radical of Japanese.

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  PHOTOGRAPHY | José Picayo snaps striking portraits for Sept. 16 exhibit

  13 Sep 2015Randy Gener

  Cuban-born Jose delves into paired portraits, one photograph of the back of a model’s head and another of the front.

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  ON PHOTOGRAPHY (NSFW) | Andy Warhol’s gay male archives on auction at Christie’s online

  23 Jun 2013Randy Gener

  The Andy Warhol @ Christie’s sale has grouped some of Warhol’s sexy artworks with doodles with male porn and then slapped the entire incriminating evidence with the tony title “Eyes of the Guise.”

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  Bacall, Dietrich, Bardot & vintage Hollywood portraits scintillate

  4 Jan 2013Randy Gener

  Glamour portrait photographer Cornel Lucas also made publicity photos for David Niven, Stewart Granger, Joan Collins, Leslie Caron, Dirk Bogarde, Cyd Charisse, and Katharine Hepburn.

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  Rivka Katvan’s candid portraiture captures Broadway luminaries backstage (on view Sept. 6 to 29 in Soho gallery)

  6 Sep 2012Randy Gener

  Katvan’s photography fulfills a documentary function while veering and edging toward a form of poetic realism. Her portraits are most eloquent when they capture a fleeting look or a spontaneous gesture — when amid the continuous forward motion of the theatrical life, grit of the evanescent is seized

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  Iranian photographer zooms toward staged narrative in Dubai gallery

  1 Sep 2012Randy Gener

  In a new exhibition in a Dubai gallery, entitled “Collage Tales,” Iranian photographer Arman Stephanian invokes the tradition of story telling by using photographic images to tell stories of past and present.